The KiCad Conference (KiCon) North America conference is the main North American KiCad community meeting. It is a 3-day event featuring two days of workshops and presentations, as well as a pre-conference training day.
KiCon North America 2025 will be an in-person event but we are working hard to make streaming of all presentations a reality in addition to recorded material which will later be published on the KiCad YouTube channel portal.
We invite you to take this opportunity to become a financial partner for the KiCon conference series in San Diego, CA; Bochum, Germany and Shenzhen, China in 2025. By sponsoring KiCon 2025, You are extending your support to the whole open source EDA community, a contribution that is essential in keeping this community growing and vibrant. In return this offers you the possibility to network and showcase your work and solutions to future customers or partners.
Why become our partner?
KiCon conference partners are exposed to a highly engaged international audience of professional engineers, business representatives, and makers. Partnership in the KiCon conferences gives you:
- Opportunity to engage with the KiCad community
- Marketing and brand exposure
- Networking opportunities
- Opportunity to make valuable contacts and increase sales
Audience
Around 150-250 participants attend each conference event on-site from all over the world. Moreover, the whole conference will be streamed and recorded to a even larger audience.
Audience profile:
- Specialists from governmental institutions and private companies looking for effective tools for PCB design
- Developers and users of free and open source PCB software
- Advocates for free and open source software
- Experts involved in design and development of KiCad
- Decision makers and managers of design firms, looking for powerful, fast PCB design software
- Organizations looking to connect with open source communities
- Organizations looking to hire open source experts
Partnership packages
We have prepared a number of preconfigured sponsorship packages summarized in the following table. If for whatever reason you cannot find a package that suits your needs, please feel free to reach out to us so we can work out something that fits your needs.
*Since the expo space is limited please talk to us about your needs
The full sponsorship prospectus can be downloaded as a pdf file here.
If you are interested in becoming a sponsor, please contact us at: [email protected]