Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4140661-20160508191136/@comment-25259897-20160521102843

In my head canon, the start of the Stark Expo is in 2010, while Pepper officially signed in as CEO and the Manaco incident is a couple months later in 2011.

The "6 months later" refers the time between Vanko finishing his arc reactor and the start of the Stark Expo, rather than starting from "I Am Iron Man) Vanko could've taken close to a year after "I Am Iron Man" to finish his arc reactor.

The way I see it: "I Am Iron Man" 2008 >A Year later> Vanko finishes his arc reactor 2009 >6 months later> Stark Expo 2010/Hearing at the Capitol >a couple months later> Natalie Rushman/Fury's Big Week