Announcing the Keycon 2026 City! (Updated on 08/30/25)


Many thanks to nearly 380 people who voted for the Keycon 2026 location and shared their preferences! This is really helpful data to help planning future events.

The community selected city of choice for Keycon 2026 is: Chicago!!

We would sincerely like to thank PRIME and the rest of the Chicago Mechanical Keyboard Meetup organizing team for volunteering to host the second community-driven Keycon event.

Thank you very much to Lamp and Bassett from NEKB for their Boston submission. And to resistancefrequencies from NYC mechanical keyboard meetups for their NYC submission.

The survey results can be found here.

As a reminder, in the future if you would like to see different cities or a city near you, please reach out to your local meetup organizers to submit an entry for Keycon! This is a community driven event and we're relying on you the enthusiast to help bring this event to life. That includes picking the location!

Thanks and stay tuned for more updates, including a Keycon 2026 logo design contest!


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KeyCon 2026: Vote for Host Location (Updated on 08/12/25)

Here we go! We are pleased to announce the Keycon 2026 Location Vote and Survey!

The 2026 host location options and local lead volunteers are:
Boston area led by Bassett and l.amp
Chicago area led by tzdanows (PRIME)
New York area led by resistancefrequencies

Please vote and share your preferences:  https://bit.ly/keycon2026-location-survey

Voting will be open for 2 weeks, closing Aug 25th

Thank you! 🙏🏽

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KeyCon 2026: Call for Host City Nominations (Updated on 6/27/25)

Thanks to District Keyboards and the Washington DC mk community for hosting a great KeyCon 2025!

Following the KeyCon Framework, we are now open for other host cities to submit their applications for consideration to host KeyCon 2026.

The planning committee will choose up to two additional qualifying cities (see criteria in form) along with Chicago (the runner up for 2025), for the community to vote on for 2026. If no additional proposals are received by the deadline or are selected by the committee, Chicago will be the default location for 2026. If there is a runner up city for 2026, they will automatically be included as a 2027 host city for voting.

DEADLINE TO SUBMIT: JULY 25, 2025

KeyCon 2026 Host City Nomination Form:
https://forms.gle/mKp2RLw51bHCkbNJA

I would think that the list of future cities on page 2 should be consistently listed by metropolitan statistical area (MSA), and not city population. For two quick examples, Atlanta and Miami only rank at a paltry 36th and 42nd by population as cities, despite being the 8th and 6th biggest metro areas in the US. Ranking strictly by city limits cuts out some obvious hubs for conferences and travel (e.g. Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Pittsburgh), essentially lists some areas more than once (e.g. Phoenix-Mesa, the San Francisco Bay), and includes some extremely small metro areas that aren't even near easy travel hubs (nothing against these places, of course, but it just feels odd when more convenient/larger places are excluded: e.g. Colorado Springs, Omaha, Tucson, all out of the top 50 MSAs by population). It's a bit confusing as it is because there are some metro areas listed (Dallas-Fort Worth) but not others, and it's unclear how this list was created between the list of cities by population vs MSA by population. Just a thought.

Congrats to Chicago for winning the community vote for Keycon 2026! See the OP for more info