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If you ask me, if they're going to find out about it after they've agreed to interview you, I think it's best to bring it up before they do. This is assuming that you have, indeed, been convicted of a crime and they're going to find out about it during the interview process.
If they know ahead of time (i.e. they know and agreed to interview you anyway), it would be a different situation.
It's better you bring it up on your terms (and showing the qualities I outlined above) than to have them bring it up on theirs (and also there is the issue of their thinking you are trying to avoid or hide this aspect of your past).
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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