BSides Tampa 2026 · United States · 2026

BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge

Official Tampa badge/lanyard challenge and Uber Badge award trail

BSides Tampa 2026 is represented here by official attendee-badge and badge-challenge sources: the current FAQ says every participant gets a badge and lanyard, the badge-challenge page tells attendees that their badge is part of the puzzle, and the Uber Badge page records the lifetime-admission award path for badge-challenge winners.

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EventBSides Tampa 2026

SeriesBSides Tampa

LocationUSF Marshall Student Center, Tampa, Florida

CountryUnited States

People

Authors & Credits

event, badge-challenge, and Uber Badge publisher

BSides Tampa

Official publisher of the FAQ, badge-challenge page, venue page, and Uber Badge registry used for the 2026 badge-challenge record.

Source

Why It Mattered

It updates the Florida Security BSides lineage with a current source-backed badge challenge without inventing electronics. Public pages prove a real badge/lanyard credential and a puzzle surface tied to neck-worn attendee materials, but do not yet publish component, firmware, repository, or final-artifact details.

Hardware

The official FAQ documents a physical badge and lanyard included with the general admission package. The badge-challenge page tells attendees to inspect the badge and related neck-worn materials, including embedded text, symbols, and fine print. No public source recovered in this pass proves a PCB badge, microcontroller, battery, NFC, LEDs, radio, display, or other electronics.

Software & Apps

No firmware, app, source repository, downloadable badge image, hardware specification, or challenge source is published in the recovered official pages. The documented behavior is an on-site puzzle using the attendee badge and physical badge-adjacent materials.

Lore

BSides Tampa framed the 2026 badge challenge as intentionally vague: attendees were told to look closely at the badge and the other things hanging around their neck, find Joshua Grose through a Krewe member if they believed they had solved it, and remember that AI might hurt more than help. The current venue and FAQ pages place the May 16, 2026 conference at the USF Marshall Student Center.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

award badge source-backed

Uber Badge award path

The official Uber Badge page says badge-challenge victories are one path to a one-of-a-kind Uber Badge with lifetime BSides Tampa admission, but the current registry does not list a 2026 awardee.

Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2026 challenge awards

Source

event puzzle source-backed

Badge-challenge clue surface

The official challenge page tells attendees to inspect the badge and other neck-worn materials for clues, while keeping the 2026 challenge intentionally vague and hint-free.

Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge

Source

event venue source-backed

USF Marshall Student Center context

The current official venue and FAQ pages place BSides Tampa 2026 at the USF Marshall Student Center, 4103 USF Cedar Circle, Tampa, with participant check-in and registration context.

Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2026

Source

identity artifact source-backed

Badge and lanyard admission package

The current official FAQ says every participant gets access to all tracks plus a BSides Tampa shirt, badge, lanyard, and happy-hour access.

Compatibility: BSides Tampa 2026 Badge Challenge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

Uber Badge caveat note

The current Uber Badge page documents the lifetime-admission award model and public registry, but the public registry does not list a 2026 badge-challenge winner as of the current recheck.

The catalogue treats Uber Badges as an award lineage attached to the challenge and avoids naming unverified 2026 winners.

Confidence: official registry
Status: documented; no 2026 awardee claimed
Timeframe: 2026 award record
Source note: BSides Tampa Uber Badge registry page, rechecked 2026-05-21.

challenge-detail caveat note

The badge-challenge page deliberately withholds hints and says it is possible there may not be a winner this year; this pass did not recover an official puzzle solution, final badge artwork, clue inventory, or challenge source archive.

The entry keeps the challenge description narrow until an official or first-hand walkthrough appears.

Confidence: official source but intentionally narrow
Status: needs post-event walkthrough
Timeframe: 2026 event pass
Source note: BSides Tampa 2026 badge-challenge page.

missing rights-cleared image note

No BSides Tampa 2026 badge, lanyard, or Uber Badge image is published because official site images and event media have not been paired with explicit reusable image rights, attribution, source URL, and processing provenance.

The entry remains image-free rather than using event-page graphics, screenshots, social-media photos, generated imagery, or placeholders.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and reviewed BSides Tampa 2026 official pages.

non-electronic scope note

The recovered official sources prove an attendee badge/lanyard and a badge challenge, but do not prove electronics, firmware, batteries, PCB traces, displays, radios, NFC, or a public hardware repository.

The catalogue records the badge challenge and physical identity artifact without inventing hardware.

Confidence: source-backed but incomplete
Status: documented
Timeframe: 2026 event pass
Source note: BSides Tampa attendee FAQ and badge-challenge page.

Resources

BSides Tampa 2026 FAQ attendee FAQ · Current official FAQ source for the USF Marshall Student Center event context, participant badge and lanyard inclusion, check-in expectations, and admission package. BSides Tampa 2026 badge challenge badge challenge · Official badge-challenge page documenting the 2026 puzzle's intentionally vague badge and neck-worn-material clue surface, no-hints posture, Joshua Grose solve path, and Uber Badge award path. BSides Tampa 2026 venue event venue · Official venue page documenting the USF Marshall Student Center location, address, parking, and venue-map context used for BSides Tampa 2026. BSides Tampa Uber Badges award registry · Official Uber Badge page documenting lifetime-admission award context and the public registry model; the current public registry does not list a 2026 badge-challenge winner.

Sources

BSides Tampa: FAQ Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for BSides Tampa 2026 participant-package language identifying badge and lanyard materials as included with admission, plus USF Marshall Student Center event context. BSides Tampa: Badge Challenge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for the 2026 badge challenge, including the instruction to inspect the badge and other neck-worn materials for clues, the no-hints note, and the Joshua Grose solve path. BSides Tampa: Uber Badges Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official source for Uber Badge lifetime-admission award context and public registry model; not treated as reusable image permission and not used to claim a 2026 awardee. BSides Tampa: Venue Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Official event-context source for the USF Marshall Student Center venue, 4103 USF Cedar Circle address, Tampa location, parking, and venue map.