BSides Las Vegas 2026 · United States · 2026
Current capacity-managed conference admission badge
BSides Las Vegas's official 2026 registration and ticketing sources call this a Participant Badge required for general conference access. The official registration page documents on-site pickup and separate queues for different badge types, while the ticketing page says a participant badge is required separately for Training Ground classes. It is recorded as a current identity/access artifact, not an electronic badge.
People
The official 2026 site identifies Security BSides Las Vegas, Inc. as the event organization. This credit is limited to event and registration publication and does not assign badge design, manufacture, artwork, allocation, or image-reuse authority.
SourceIt refreshes the established BSides Las Vegas admission-badge lineage with a current event record while preserving source-backed distinctions among participant, donor, volunteer, speaker/mentor, and special conference badge paths. The record deliberately does not turn an access credential into undocumented hardware.
The current official sources establish a conference badge issued through registration and maintained in the holder's possession, but do not identify its material, physical format, dimensions, lanyard, printed information, QR/RFID/NFC feature, PCB, electronics, components, battery, or manufacturing record. The catalogue therefore treats it only as a physical participant/admission identity artifact.
BSidesLV's sources define conference and Training Ground access conditions for the participant badge, not badge firmware or software. No public source reviewed in this pass publishes an electronic interface, app, code, challenge, schematic, repository, provisioning process, or digital credential behavior for the 2026 participant badge.
The official 2026 home page lists the August 3-5 event at The Tuscany in Las Vegas. Its registration guidance says badges are required for entry, no walk-ins are permitted, and people who secured a badge receive on-site registration details; the current volunteer guide separately tells volunteers to retain their badges during the conference and keep them afterward. The CFP distinguishes a special conference badge for accepted speakers and mentors from a participant badge for a designated plus-one, so this record is not a claim about the special badge's design or allocation.
Lifecycle
The official ticketing page calls the Participant ticket general admission to the conference, and the registration page says badges are required for entry. Training Ground listings say a Participant Badge is required separately for those classes. These access descriptions do not establish material construction, electronic behavior, individual handoff, or transfer rules for every badge.
SourceThe official CFP says accepted speakers and mentors receive a special conference badge and a participant badge for a designated plus-one. This record preserves that named distinction without claiming the special badge's design, technology, recipient count, issuance, or relation to the participant-badge artifact beyond the CFP wording.
SourceOfficial registration guidance documents Sunday early registration for pre-registered donor-drive badge holders and Monday-Wednesday main registration with separate queues for different badge types. It establishes a current pickup workflow rather than a complete allocation ledger or a claim that every badge type has the same form or access rights.
SourceOperational history
The record describes the participant badge and its documented access context without treating every 2026 badge label as identical, universally issued, or an interchangeable DEF CON credential.
The United States record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.
The catalogue records the current participant credential as an identity/access artifact without inventing technical behavior or construction.
The catalogue keeps the current entry factual and image-free until a source-backed artifact record and any necessary rights information are available.