Welcome to the Baird Center!

Milwaukee Tattoo Festival 2025
2025-04-11 - 2025-04-13
The Milwaukee Tattoo Festival offers a selection of over 200 of the best artists from all over the world right here in Milwaukee for three days of tattooing, art making, merch selling, and much more.
Convention Hours

Friday: 12PM – 10PM
Saturday: 11AM – 10PM
Sunday: 11AM – 7PM

9th Annual Fired Up Fundraiser and Charity Ball
2025-04-05 17:00 - 23:00 (America/Chicago)
Champions for burn survivors, fire fighters, and safe communities.

The Oddities & Curiosities 2025
2025-04-05 - 2025-04-06
The Oddities & Curiosities Expo showcases hand selected vendors, dealers, artists and small businesses with all things weird. You’ll find items such as: taxidermy, preserved specimens, original artwork, horror/Halloween inspired pieces, antiques, handcrafted oddities, quack medical devices, creepy clothing, odd jewelry, skulls/bones, funeral collectibles & much more. They truly have something weird for everyone.

Midwest Gaming Classic 2025
2025-04-04 - 2025-04-06
The Midwest Gaming Classic is a 350,000+ square foot trade show featuring over 10,000 games on free play, along with over 200 vendors and over 100 industry guests! We’re the largest and longest running all-encompassing gaming event.
Celebrate gaming, try new things, learn about the gaming hobby, meet others who share the love of gaming, and having fun doing it! We feature retro and modern home video game consoles, pinball machines, arcade video games, tabletop RPGs, computers, tabletop board games, crane games, collectible card games, air hockey, and much more!
No matter if you have one game or thousands of games in every room of your house, you’ll find something to love!

Adepticon 2025
2025-03-26 - 2025-03-30
AdeptiCon has grown consistently over the past twenty years, from the humble 110 person event in 2003, to the amazing 8,000 attendees AdeptiCon hosted in 2024. Over these twenty-two years, AdeptiCon has been held at five different venues. We have expanded from a handful of events to well over 1250 tournaments, event games, and hobby seminars covering all aspects of the miniature war gaming hobby. Despite the continued growth and necessary expansion, we have made every effort to keep consistent focus on one major priority: to present to our attendees the highest quality wargaming event possible. This will remain our priority for 2025 and beyond.

2025 Badger Region Volleyball Championships Week #2
2025-03-22 - 2025-03-23
Check out Badger Region Volleyball’s website for the breakdown of tickets, schedule, age divisions and more.

2025 Badger Region Volleyball Championships Week #1
2025-03-15 - 2025-03-16

Expeditors Business Customer Seminar
2025-03-12 08:30 - 12:00 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.

Archbishop's Catholic Schools Dinner 2025
2025-03-11 16:00 - 20:00
Come be a part of this amazing fundraiser to support Milwaukee’s Catholic Schools!

Anime Milwaukee 2025
2025-03-07 - 2025-03-09
Anime Milwaukee (AMKE) is a three-day anime convention that operates at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center and Baird Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with an estimated economic impact of over $3 million to the downtown area. We celebrate and educate fans about anime, manga, Asian culture, music and gaming.
Anime Milwaukee will return with an in-person convention on March 7-9, 2025.

2025 City of Milwaukee State of the City Address
2025-03-03 09:00 - 10:30 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Join us for a look at the current state of our city! This event will explore key developments, challenges, and exciting opportunities shaping our community’s future. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect! RSVP today.
RSVP here.

Badger Region Qualifier 2025
2025-03-01 - 2025-03-02
Welcome to the Badger Region Qualifier.

Location: Baird Center in downtown Milwaukee
Date: March 1-2 (all ages)Date: March 1-2, 2025
Admission Tickets: Coming soon
Schedule: Coming soon
University Athlete Information: Coming soon
Bid Declaration Document: Coming soon
Teams entered: Coming soon

Jani-King Milwaukee Annual Franchise Awards Banquet
2025-02-22 17:30 - 23:59 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.
For more information about Jani-King, please their website linked here.

20th Annual Daddy/Daughter Dance
2025-02-22 17:00 - 20:00 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Develop unforgettable memories with family and friends at the 20th annual Daddy/Daughter Dance!
As Milwaukee Recreation celebrates two decades of tradition, this Milwaukee winter classic is moving to the revamped Baird Center, Wisconsin’s premier convention center, in downtown Milwaukee! We invite the entire Milwaukee community to join us on the dance floor to strengthen family connections and allow for that critical one-on-one time between daughters and fathers/father-figures. Register Here!
Dinner & Dance: $30 for adults, $10 for the first child, $5 for each additional child.
Dance Only: $20 for adults, $5 for each child
Any father-figure is welcome to attend.
Doors open at 5 p.m. for pre-registered dinner & dance guests only. Dinner will be served from 5:15-6:15 p.m. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for dance guests only. Additional details, including parking information, will be available at a later date.

2025 Milwaukee Auto Show
2025-02-22 - 2025-03-02 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Early bird tickets (13 and over) $13 – Through January 22, 2025
Saturdays: 10 AM – 9 PM
Sundays: 10 AM – 6 PM
Monday- Thursday: 3 PM – 9 PM
Friday: 12 Noon – 9 PM

2025 Dale Rohde Memorial Boys Tournament
2025-02-22 - 2025-02-23 | Baird Center South Building – Main Entrance, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave.
The Dale Rohde Memorial Boys Volleyball Tournament is a tribute to longtime Badger Region member Dale Rohde who was a huge supporter of boys volleyball in the Badger Region. Dale was an active member of our community as a player, parent and official. He lost his fight with cancer on Jan. 15, 2014.
The 2025 event will take place Feb. 22-23 at the Baird Center in downtown Milwauee. All teams are guaranteed two days of competition at this growing event. Club teams from Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa are all encouraged to attend this event before the start of the high school seasons in both Illinois and Minnesota.

2025 Nike President's Cup
2025-02-15 - 2025-02-17 | Baird Center South Building – Main Entrance, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave.
WAVE PLAY SCHEDULE:

AM Wave (8:00a): 17/18 Premier, 15 Girls, 14 Girls
PM Wave (2:30p): 17 Girls, 16 Girls, 13 Girls, 12 Girls

2025 Midwest Twisters Gymnastics Milwaukee Motorcycle Classic
2025-02-14 - 2025-02-16 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.
The Milwaukee Motorcycle Classic is Wisconsin’s largest men’s & women’s gymnastics competition.

2025 Wisconsin State Reading Association (WSRA) Conference
2025-02-06 - 2025-02-07 | Baird Center South Building – Main Entrance, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave.
2025 WSRA Conference will be at Baird Center in Milwaukee from February 6-7, 2025.
The Wisconsin State Reading Association provides leadership, advocacy, and professional learning for implementing effective literacy practices, understanding the complex nature of literacy, honoring the unique needs of our diverse students, and engaging them to apply their literacies in meaningful ways in a changing world.

Wisconsin Endocrine Symposium & Dinner
2025-02-06 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Wisconsin Endocrine Society Dinner “Diabetes in Pregnancy”
Join us for an exciting evening at Baird Center in Milwaukee, WI, as we delve into the topic of Diabetes in Pregnancy presented by Emily Szmuilowicz, MD, MS. This in-person event is a fantastic opportunity to gather and connect with fellow endocrine enthusiasts. This program is open to all providers, APPs, and medical residents/fellows.
Register here.

National Marquette Day Men's Basketball Pregame Celebrations
2025-02-01 16:30 - 19:00
Join Marquette alumni, fans, and friends in Milwaukee to celebrate together before Marquette Men’s Basketball faces UConn on National Marquette Day! Marquette will be taking over the Baird Center’s Rooftop Ballroom and atrium space, with floor-to-ceiling skyline views of Fiserv Forum and downtown Milwaukee.

2025 JVA MKE Jamboree
2025-02-01 - 2025-02-02 | Baird Center
MKE Jamboree is a two-day volleyball tournament hosted by the Junior Volleyball Association (JVA). Teams from around the midwest travel to Milwaukee to compete in the Baird Center. MKE Jamboree provides these athletes a chance to be seen in person by college recruiters.

2025 Marquette University High School Mother and Son Dinner Dance
2025-01-26 16:30 - 21:00
Dinner will be served with dancing to follow. This will be a special night celebrating mothers and sons.

2025 JVA Brew City Battle Boys Volleyball Tournament
2025-01-25 - 2025-01-28 | Baird Center
Brew City Battle is a two-day boys’ volleyball tournament co-hosted by the Junior Volleyball Association (JVA) and AAU. Brew City Battle brings in over 400 teams from 50 clubs and showcases some of the top talent in the country, including many D1-commits.

2025 MENTOR Greater Milwaukee Symposium
2025-01-24 08:00 - 15:00 | Baird Center North Building – Main Entrance, 405 W. Kilbourn Ave.
Champions for Change: Leveraging Mentorship to Drive Youth Success and Community Progress
Symposium – 8:00am – 1:00pm | Awards Lunch 1:30pm-3:00pm
Mentor Greater Milwaukee is celebrating their fifth Annual Mentoring Symposium will bring together the mentoring community who represent the mentoring movement from Greater Milwaukee and surrounding communities. The 2025 Mentoring Symposium is convened by MENTOR Greater Milwaukee and garners support from both the private and public sectors, including a group of national mentoring and youth-serving organizations who serve as Supporting Program Partners. The Mentoring Symposium is an opportunity for the mentoring movement to gather together and advance a collective mentoring agenda, strengthen programs and practices and collaborate to support positive youth development through mentoring. The 2025 Mentoring Symposium will highlight the role of mentorship in fostering youth development and positioning it as a strategic investment in community advancement.

Go Public! Happy Hour
2025-01-23 16:30 - 19:30 | Baird Center North Building – Secondary Entrance, 404 W. Wells St.
A Conversation with Josh Cowen, Professor of Education Policy, Michigan State University and Visiting Center Fellow, Education Law Center. Special event in conjunction with our annual Go Public! Happy Hour at the State Education Convention, Baird Center, Milwaukee. Josh Cowen is author of “How School Voucher Programs Hurt Students” (Time) and The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers (2024, Harvard Education Press).
Connect with public education champions and Network partners from around the state from 4:30-7:30. Conversation with Josh Cowen will take place from 5:30-6:30 with happy hour/s immediately before and after, featuring a welcome from special guest State Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly.
Event is located in the new Baird Center, Milwaukee – space is limited so be sure to register for updates and directions!

2025 Wisconsin State Education Convention
2025-01-22 - 2025-01-24 | Baird Center South Building – Main Entrance, 400 W. Wisconsin Ave.
The annual convention, taking place January 22-24 in Milwaukee, is an opportunity for district leadership to meet individuals who share your passion for education. Attend the convention because you want to make a difference for the students in your district and across the state.

2025 Wisconsin Juniors Winter Classic
2025-01-18 - 2025-01-19
The Winter Classic is the single biggest weekend event in Wisconsin with almost 420 teams traveling to compete. If you are a current 2023-2028 prospect seeking college exposure and want an opportunity to compete with top talent in the Midwest, then this event is something you don’t want to miss! This event will feature elite competition, positional training, and a chance to work directly with college coaches who will be running each court. This provides you an opportunity to meet coaches and the college coaches an opportunity to work directly with you during the evaluation process!

GRAEF Employee Holiday Party
2025-01-18

27th Annual Wisconsin Winter Feis
2025-01-18
Cashel Academy of Irish Dance is happy to announce that Wisconsin WinterFeis will return to the Baird Center in downtown Milwaukee on Saturday, January 18, 2025. They look forward to once again partnering with Kinsella Irish Dance, who will host St. Brigid’s Feis on Sunday, January 19, 2025.
