Octocon could not have happened without:
- Our Guests of Honour Adrian Tchaikovsky, C.E. (Catie) Murphy and Premee Mohamed, and our other guests Gareth Hanrahan, Ryan Cahill, Ruth Ennis, S.M. Hallow, Jean Bürlesk, and the Octothorpe podcast trio of Alison Scott, Liz Batty and John Coxon. They all gave generously of their time and energy (and prizes for our charity raffle and volunteer giveaway) and you should all go watch some of their recorded programme items!
- Our other programme participants. Whether you appeared on a panel, led a workshop or discussion or Meet the Creator session, interviewed a GoH, gave a talk or a reading, or ran a game… THANK YOU. Octocon is nothing without its programme, and your contributions are deeply appreciated.
- Our volunteers over the convention weekend, in-person and online – we can’t run this thing without you! Big big thanks especially to Daire, who ran our streaming from Cork, and Sakura, who produced our online streamed panels. You two are the best at what you do, and our online programme is amazing because of it.
- The Octocon committee and year-round staff including the programme team, who not only spend hours and hours throughout the year making this convention happen, but spend most (if not all) of the convention weekend doing that too. Huge appreciation for all their hard work especially goes to the members of the team who are stepping down imminently: Faranae for Virtual Operations, and David Green for trade and fan tables.
Special thanks go to:
- The staff of the Clayton Hotel Cork City who looked after us very well over the weekend.
- Jog Brogzin for his 3D map of our venue.
- Paul Carroll for the artwork used on our badges and recent publications and social media. And also, along with Faranae and Colm, for providing specialist assistance to the programme team.
- James Shields for all the software and technical support to keep our website, registration, Member Portal, and programming systems running.
- Kate and Gareth for their local-to-Cork knowledge and assistance.
- The Dublin 2029 Worldcon bid for sponsoring our Saturday night karaoke.
- Everyone who donated to the Octocon Community Fund – we were able to give out 2 bursaries to assist members to come to Cork.
- Everyone who donated something for our charity raffle and volunteer giveaways.
And everyone who bought a raffle ticket or braved the quiz! We raised over €600 for Cork Penny Dinners.
And finally, thank you to all our Friend members who pay a little extra for their memberships to ensure Octocon can afford to keep going:
Alan Stuart, Alex McKenzie, BrenG, Colm Dodd, Dave Lally, Helvick, Ink Cryptwood, Jack-John Kirwan, Janet, Jonny Nexus, Kat Dodd, Marguerite Smith, Noelle, Oisin, Pat F, Paul Carroll, Paul Mara, Roderick O Hanlon & Seán Byrne.