Georgia World Congress Center, Convention center in Downtown Atlanta, United States

The Georgia World Congress Center is a large venue featuring twelve exhibit halls and more than one hundred meeting rooms distributed across its sprawling grounds. The layout allows multiple events to happen at the same time without interfering with each other.

Designed by Atlanta firm tvsdesign, the George L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center opened in 1976 with 350,000 square feet of exhibit space, the first state-owned convention center in the United States. Buildings B and C followed in 1985, 1992 and 2002. During the 1996 Summer Olympics it hosted handball, fencing, judo, table tennis, weightlifting and wrestling, plus the International Broadcast Centre. A 2008 tornado damaged its roof.

This venue serves as a gathering place where professionals from different industries meet and exchange ideas year-round. The range of events here shapes how the city's business and creative communities connect with each other.

The facility sits near several parking areas and connects to major hotels, making arrival and departure straightforward. Visitors can quickly reach downtown restaurants and entertainment from this location.

Freight rail tracks run through the middle of the complex and beneath the parking decks; pedestrian bridges link the exhibit halls on either side of the tracks. The center is officially named the George L. Smith II Georgia World Congress Center, after the Speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives.