The 2025 Business Meeting Agenda, along with the instructions for the virtual meeting platform, may be downloaded from the “Documents” section of this page.
Accessibility note: As of June 13, the following assistive technology issues in the agenda have been corrected from the original version:
- Footnotes are now tagged and can be read properly.
- Proposed insertions and deletions will now be voiced by screen readers.
- Some tables were corrected.
Several tables in Appendix B’s financial reports are still not well formed and may not work well with assistive technology. This is a limitation of how the documents were provided by the originating conventions.
Please read the full agenda and virtual meeting instructions. Here are a few highlights we want to call out:
Lumi Virtual Meeting Platform
Log in to the Seattle Worldcon registration portal to receive your Lumi virtual meeting platform login credentials and access the virtual meeting platform. Please see the Virtual Meeting Instructions (1 MB pdf) for a detailed step-by-step process.
Test Your Tech
Please make sure to attend one of the Test Your Tech sessions on to test your ability to login to the platform and join the Zoom. There are two time windows, during which you can login at any time: – Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) or – PDT. You will log in to the Test Your Tech session the same way you will log in to the meeting; see the Virtual Meeting Instructions document for details.
Membership Requirements
You must be an attending member or virtual attending member of the Worldcon in order to attend the Business Meeting. You must purchase your membership at least 24 hours prior to the beginning of the session in order to ensure you can access the virtual meeting platform. If you purchase your membership after the 24-hour cutoff, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to access the virtual meeting platform. However, you will be able to attend any following sessions.
Watch Parties
If you are hosting a Business Meeting watch party, please make sure to read the virtual meeting instructions and contact bm-help@seattlein2025.org so that we can assist you in hosting a successful watch party.
Questions Regarding Reports
Due to the large amount of business submitted, we do not plan to take verbal reports from committees or for Worldcon/NASFiC financial reports. Instead, please email any questions to bm-submit@seattlein2025.org by . We will pass those questions along to the committees and publish their answers.
Expected Schedule
The Business Meeting schedule is not fixed; items can be moved if the body chooses, and items may take more or less time than expected. However, here is a brief overview of what we anticipate will come up on each day:
- Preliminary Business Meeting (, online, ): Standing Rule changes, Resolutions, Mark Protection Committee nominations, Agenda Setting for New Constitutional Changes.
- First Main Business Meeting (, online, ): Report from the Investigation Committee on the 2023 Hugo Awards (to be held in executive session, please see full agenda for more information), ratifications of Business Passed On.
- Second Main Business Meeting (, online, ): New Constitutional Changes, Balloting for Committee Elections (with a process that allows the ballot to be open for a sufficient period to accommodate those who are not able to attend this meeting due to time zone, religious, or other constraints).
- Third Main Business Meeting (, online, ): New Constitutional Changes.
- Site Selection Business Meeting (, in person, in the Signature Room of the Seattle Convention Center Summit Building): Results of 2027 Site Selection, Question and Answer Time for Future Seated Worldcons.
After each session, Business Meeting staff will publish a synopsis of what items were handled during the meeting and what is expected to come up at the next meeting.
