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We All Have VICE(s)

Voron Design Announces This Year’s “Voron International Community Event” in Portland

by Shawn Frey
Published Jul 30, 2025

For the second time, the Voron Design team is hosting a convention for 3D printing and Voron enthusiasts and not vendors.

Calling all tinkerers! The Voron Design team announced late last week that it will hold this year’s Voron International Community Event (VICE) in Portland, Oregon, on October 11 and 12.

The Voron team pitches VICE as a true convention, “more like the super early years of MRRF than like any modern RRF or tradeshow, our focus is on community,” it says in the event announcement on the Voron Design Discord channel. In fact, vendors (while welcome) aren’t permitted to promote or sell their products. Attendees can expect tables to display their own projects “to show off or work on”, a hardware swap, space for live builds, antweight robot fights (!!), educational talks, and more.

This is the second of what’s shaping up to be an annual Voron event, last year’s having been held in Reno.

Being a blue-blooded convention, there are pre-planned social outings by event sponsors, with West3d hosting a community gathering at their facility, and loose plans for some hiking. There’s sure to be more groups and plans pop up, so be sure to join the Voron Design Discord channel and let the community know what you’re looking to get up to in Portland.

The Voron Design Team is a phenomenal, generous group dedicated to producing open-source 3D printer designs. Their designs have consistently prodded 3D printing hardware forward, and been adopted by major brands like Sovol for affordable models, or open-source kit-makers that produce truly unique hardware like Makertech 3D’s ProForge 5 or the Vertigo Mk1. They’re also just pretty cool guys. If you can attend this year’s VICE, it’s a great community to be a part of and an organization worthy of support.

Grab your tickets for $75 and get more details on things like hotel group rates from Voron Design’s Ticketspice page.

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