Jon Peddie has plotted the attendance number of the last 36 years of SIGGRAPH conventions and compiled the little chart you see above along with some other interesting statistics for this year’s premiere graphics conference.
If measured by attendance, this year’s event had the poorest showing since my first Siggraph in Seattle in 1980. However, since the first New Orleans event in 1996, the ratio of exhibitors to attendees was higher this year (1.7% compared to 1.1% then.) Now, that may not be what an exhibitor wants to hear. They want the ratio to be smaller, and the lowest it ever hit was 0.79% at the glory year of peak attendance (49k) in Los Angles in 1997. This year it was just 11K, although it really felt like more.
via So many pixels and so much Andouille – Jon Peddie Research—The Back Pages.
