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BSides Porto 2026 · Portugal · 2026

BSides Porto 2026 Electronic Badge Experience

Portuguese BSides electronic badge experience

A conservative post-date record for BSides Porto 2026's advertised electronic badge experience, anchored to the official site, agenda, and ticketing page rather than component-level badge documentation.

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EventBSides Porto 2026
SeriesBSides Porto
LocationISEP, Porto
CountryPortugal

People

Authors & Credits

event and official page publisher

BSides Porto

Official publisher of the 2026 Porto event and electronic badge experience source trail.

Source

ticketing page publisher

Eventbrite

Ticketing platform preserving BSides Porto's structured event metadata, venue, dates, and event description.

Source

Why It Mattered

It adds Porto to the Portuguese badge map while preserving source boundaries: the public event material proves an electronic badge experience and badge-holder-only workshop access, but not yet a shipped PCB, bill of materials, firmware release, challenge protocol, or rights-cleared badge image.

Hardware

The official public material recovered in this pass does not publish a component list, schematic, PCB, enclosure, processor, display, radio, power system, or production file for the BSides Porto 2026 badge. The record therefore treats the badge as a source-backed electronic badge experience while keeping final artifact details open.

Software & Apps

The source trail does not yet expose firmware, challenge binaries, repository links, flashing workflow, app API, or badge-to-badge behavior. Software claims are limited to the event's public framing of the badge experience alongside the CTF and workshops.

Lore

BSides Porto 2026 was advertised for June 26-27, 2026 at ISEP in Porto, with the official site framing the conference as a Portuguese community-driven BSides event with talks, workshops, an electronic badge experience, a CTF, and networking. The agenda says workshops were exclusive to BSides Porto 2026 badge holders and required a valid conference badge.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

badge programme source-backed event programme

Electronic badge experience

The official about and ticketing text advertises an electronic badge experience as part of the BSides Porto 2026 conference programme.

Compatibility: BSides Porto 2026 Electronic Badge Experience

Source
conference-badge access control source-backed

Workshop badge-holder access

The official agenda says workshops are exclusive to BSides Porto 2026 badge holders and that registration alone does not grant entry.

Compatibility: BSides Porto 2026 Electronic Badge Experience

Source
event challenge context source-backed

CTF-adjacent conference context

The same official sources place the badge experience alongside a Capture The Flag competition, technical talks, hands-on workshops, and networking, but do not yet expose badge-specific challenge mechanics.

Compatibility: BSides Porto 2026 Electronic Badge Experience

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

missing rights-cleared image note

No BSides Porto 2026 Electronic Badge Experience image is published because the current public source trail has not been paired with a reusable original badge or artifact photo or official upstream raster render with source URL, license or permission basis, attribution, and processing notes.

The Portugal record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying source-page media, documentation screenshots, event photos, social media, placeholders, or generated approximations.

Confidence
local project policy
Status
needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe
current catalogue build
Source note
badge.gallery image policy and BSides Porto 2026 official site and Eventbrite source trail.
post-event artifact-source gap note

The public source trail advertises an electronic badge experience and the June 26-27, 2026 event date has passed, but this pass did not recover final shipped hardware, distribution scope, production quantity, or attendee handling detail.

The catalogue marks the record as source-backed but artifact-incomplete and should be refreshed if badge-team documentation appears.

Confidence
official source but artifact-incomplete
Status
needs artifact-level archive
Timeframe
post-event recheck on 2026-07-07
Source note
BSides Porto official site and Eventbrite event page.

Resources

BSides Porto 2026 Eventbrite ticketing page · Ticketing page for the June 26-27, 2026 in-person event at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, preserving the same electronic badge experience wording in structured event content. BSides Porto 2026 agenda official agenda page · Official agenda page documenting workshop access as exclusive to badge holders and requiring a valid conference badge for entry. BSides Porto 2026 official site official event page · Official site for the June 26-27, 2026 BSides Porto edition at ISEP, with conference, ticket, CTF, sponsor, and community context. BSides Porto about page official about page · Official about page text documenting BSides Porto's talks, workshops, electronic badge experience, CTF, and networking framing.

Sources

BSides Porto: BSides Porto 2026 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the 2026 Porto event framing, June 26-27 dates, ISEP venue signal, tickets, CTF, and Portuguese Security BSides context. BSides Porto: About BSides Porto Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the advertised electronic badge experience, talks, workshops, CTF, and networking scope. BSides Porto: BSides Porto 2026 agenda Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for workshop access language requiring a valid conference badge for entry. Eventbrite / BSides Porto: BSides Porto Tickets Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Ticketing source for June 26-27, 2026, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto venue details, in-person status, and the event description repeating the electronic badge experience.