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Thanks to everyone for joining us at the first ever Emojicon in San Francisco from November 4-6, 2016. Stayed tuned for announcements for the next one.
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CODEX MIT Media Lab's sponsors and partners include Google, The New York Public Library, Harvard Book Store, The New York Times Developers, Mailchimp, Dropbox, The Digital Public Library of America, and The Hawaii Project.
We have travel stipends thanks to the generosity of our sponsors.
Thanks to everyone for joining us at the first ever Emojicon
in San Francisco from November 4-6, 2016.
Stayed tuned for announcements for the next one.
The 2016 program is available online.
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CODEX is a community of folks who want to imagine the future of books and reading. Programmers, designers, writers, librarians, publishers, readers. All are welcome.
Thanks to everyone for joining us at the first ever Emojicon
in San Francisco from November 4–6, 2016.
Stay tuned for announcements about the next one!
The 2016 program is available online.
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Welcome to Emojicon, a boundary-pushing celebration of all things emoji. The conference is the brain child of Emojination, an organization of emoji-lovers who hope to raise awareness about emoji's many possibilities. Our motto is, "Emoji by the People, for the People."
With activities ranging from emoji improv to an emoji film festival, Emojicon is equal parts hackathon, political activism, and whimsical hilarity. More than a thousand emoji enthusiasts attended Emojicon 2016 in San Francisco, and the event received extensive coverage from notable press outlets like Time, CNN, The New York Times, SF Chronicle, the LA Times, Mashable, and Digiday, to name a few. Artists, designers, computer scientists, and some of the greatest thinkers in the online communication space came together for collaboration, inspiration, thoughtful dialogue, and, of course, emoji-themed food.
Even though emoji is a form of communication that touches literally millions of internet users worldwide, the emoji review process is controlled by an entitity called the Unicode Consortium, which is dominated by a handful of American tech corporations. We want to open the conversation up to everybody. Together we can turn emoji into a more diverse, more representative, and more vibrant visual language.
Emojination has led the charge in making the dumpling emoji and the hijab emoji a reality. We also created the emoji proposals for the pretzel, baseball cap, broccoli, and fortune cookie emoji, among others. Emojicon is yet another step toward emoji inclusiveness.
Come see what all the buzz is about. Join us in our mission to shape the future of emoji!
"Secrets of the Emoji World, Now With Its Own Convention."
November 9, 2016
"There was an emoji conference and smiling poop was everywhere." November 6, 2016
"Here’s What We Learned At The First Ever Conference For Emoji." November 7, 2016
"What It's Like Inside the World's First Emoji Convention 😜."
November 6, 2016
Midnight with Chris Hardwick
(final segment)
November 1, 2016
"Take a break from the election and read this story about emoji karaoke." November 6, 2016
"Emojicon brings familiar text-message characters to life."
November 6, 2016
"Emoji diversity: how 'silly little faces' can make a big difference." November 7, 2016
"Emoji fans meet up in San Francisco to celebrate the tiny icons."
November 5, 2016
"*Smiley Face* First-ever Emojicon opens in San Francisco."
November 7, 2016.
"I can haz more science emoji? Host of nerd icons proposed."
November 8, 2016
"Everything You Need to Know About Finland—In Four Emojis."
November 10, 2016





































































































Throughout the conference, hackathon participants designed and tinkered with emoji technology. On the final day of Emojicon, they presented their brilliant creations on the Emojicon Main Stage. One group of hackathoners invented Emoji Salad, an SMS-based emoji pictionary game. And leave it to a group of scientists to create petri dish, fire extinguisher, and safety goggles emoji.
If you have a question about Emojicon, feel free to shoot us an email at hello@emojicon.co. We're always eager to discuss fresh emoji-related ideas, and we happily welcome new sponsors and partners.