The Bid Committee
Bid chair:
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Terry Fong. A Montréal native and a veteran of several Worldcon organizing committees. He has had major roles at Worldcons across 6 different countries on 4 continents, including DH (or DH-like) assignments 5 times.
Advisors to the chair:
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Angela Jones. A fan of Montréal with a strong history with several different Worldcons, as well as other conventions.
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Jannie Shea. A fan of Montréal, if not their winters, she has a strong history of working with Worldcons, and Anticipation in 2009.
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Rebecca Downey. A Montréal native and fan of local conventions who doesn't often travel far from the Mountain.
(Relatively) New to the scene:
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Albert Sousa.
- Darin Briskman.
- Guy Fietz.
- Irwin Tan.
- Jill Mitchell (Jillybean). Jillybean has worked on many conventions since 1980, mostly doing publications and ops/security. Always willing to exercise different skills learned while building a robust CV, she's working on volunteer coordination for Montreal.
- John Harold.
- Paul Timmins. Paul's been part of Capricon IT (since 2021), is speaker at regional computer security conferences (since 2003), the administrator of telcodata.us, since 2001, and a lot more. He's also the Council appointed member of the City of Madison Heights' IT advisory committee. Basically, he's this guy for a part of the telephone number assignment industry: https://xkcd.com/2347/
- Scott Peron.
- Steve Staton.
Veterans from earlier campaigns (aka the usual suspects):
- Alexia Hebel. Deputy Division Head for Finance Seattle in 2025, Treasurer for Capricon, Finance Division Head for Chicon 8 and Chicon 2000, Chair Admin and Member Services Dept Head for Buffalo NASFiC, Deputy Area Head for Virtual Glasgow in 2024 and Business Process Facilitator for ConTroll Software. In real life, Accountant and Software Developer, now retired.
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Bruce Farr. Bruce has been Treasurer or Budget Director for 10 past or upcoming Worldcons. He also has headed Facilities, Finance, and Program Divisions and worked in almost all Divisions at various levels. To date, he has worked almost 200 conventions, including chairing 12 conventions: including NASFiC, 2 SMOFCons, 3 World Fantasy Conventions, and Westercon.
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Kevin Standlee. Kevin co-chaired the 2002 Worldcon, ConJosé, in San Jose, CA and Westercon 74 in 2022. He has served on the Board of Directors of San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions Inc.
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Linda Ross Mansfield. Co-creator of Keycon worked as a volunteer, staff or board member of numerous conventions (including Worldcons) in Canada, US, and UK.
- Linda Deneroff. Attending Worldcons since 1971, she began attending WSFS business meetings shortly after that. She has been secretary of the Mark Protection Committee since 2004. She has been secretary of the WSFS Business Meeting on and off for over ten years Linda also served as WSFS Division Head for Sasquan in 2015 and DisCon III in 2021 and will do so again in 2026. In 2021, Linda was thrilled to be awarded the Big Heart Award.
- Robbie Bourget. Involved in Worldcons, Westercons, Loscons, and Gallifrey Ones since 1984, among other things.
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