When and where is Licensing Expo 2027?

May 25–27, 2027, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas.

Attendee registration for 2027 is not open yet; you can register your interest on the Licensing Expo website. Companies wanting to exhibit can send an exhibiting enquiry.

Brand owners and agents looking for licensees, and manufacturers, licensees and retailers looking for brands to license.

Licensing Expo 2027

Name: Licensing Expo 2027
Start: 2027-05-25T09:00:00+00:00
End: 2027-05-27T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Mandalay Bay Convention Center

About this event

Licensing Expo is the brand licensing industry's biggest trade show, run by Informa Markets' Global Licensing Group with Licensing International as sponsor. Each year entertainment, character, art and corporate brand owners and their agents meet consumer goods manufacturers, licensees and retailers in Las Vegas to find partners and sign deals. The 2027 show returns to the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

Who attends

The show connects both sides of a licensing deal:

Brand owners: entertainment, characters, art, corporate and non-profit
Licensing agents
Consumer goods manufacturers and licensees
Retailers and buyers

On the show floor

The organizer promotes 5,000+ brands available for licensing across genres from entertainment to non-profit, along with hosted networking events. The 2026 exhibitor list is published on the site; the 2027 list had not been released at the time of writing.