Kiwicon 2038AD · New Zealand · 2018

Kiwicon 2038 Badge and Lanyard

Official identity badge and afterparty credential

Kiwicon 2038's official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon2038 badge and lanyard visibly during the conference and to bring the badge to the afterparty.

Kiwicon New Zealand Wellington Identity Artifact Lanyard Badge Hacking Oceania

Kiwicon 2038 Badge and Lanyard badge image

EventKiwicon 2038AD

SeriesKiwicon

LocationMichael Fowler Centre, Wellington

CountryNew Zealand

Image Provenance

Asset: optimized WebP from Flickr documentary photo
Status: licensed original photo
Source: Kiwicon 2038AD name badge
License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
Attribution: Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk, Flickr
Notes: Original 5184x3456 Flickr-hosted documentary photo downloaded from Kristina D.C. Hoeppner's photostream and preserved in Public/images/source. The published WebP delivery asset is auto-oriented, metadata-stripped, resized to 1600x1067, and otherwise kept as the real CC BY-SA 2.0 photo titled Kiwicon 2038AD name badge. The image visibly shows the Kiwicon 2038 lanyard and mirrored badge credential; it is not generated content, a placeholder, or an uncleared event-gallery copy. The published badge.gallery delivery file is an optimized WebP generated from the rights-cleared local derivative/source with metadata stripped, WebP quality 82, and a maximum side cap of 1600 pixels when the source is larger; upstream source URL, license, and attribution remain unchanged.

People

Authors & Credits

CC BY-SA badge photographer

Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk

Flickr identifies Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk as the photographer of `Kiwicon 2038AD name badge`; the page exposes Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic licensing.

Source

event and archive publisher

Kiwicon Heavy Industries

Official publisher of the Kiwicon 2038AD site, FAQ, ticket-pickup notice, and badge-hacking training page.

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organizing team

The Kiwicon Crue

The official site signs event updates from the Kiwicon Crue and credits the conference to Kiwicon Heavy Industries.

Source

Why It Mattered

It expands New Zealand coverage beyond modern PCB badges while keeping the classification honest: this is a source-backed hacker-conference identity artifact, not an inferred electronic badge.

Hardware

The recovered official sources prove a physical badge and lanyard used for conference visibility and afterparty access. A CC BY-SA Flickr documentary photo titled Kiwicon 2038AD name badge shows the physical Kiwicon 2038 lanyard and mirrored name-badge credential. The record does not support a programmable PCB, battery, firmware, radio, display, or electronic challenge claim for this artifact.

Software & Apps

No badge software is documented for the Kiwicon 2038 badge/lanyard record. The official programme did include an Intro to Badge Hacking training item, so badge culture was present around the event without proving that the attendee credential itself was electronic.

Lore

Kiwicon 2038AD returned to Wellington's Michael Fowler Centre on November 16-17, 2018. The ticket-pickup notice emphasized visible badge wear, badge-controlled afterparty access, and the scale problem of moving more attendees than the joke year number through registration.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

identity-artifact classification note

The official Kiwicon 2038 source trail proves a badge and lanyard credential but not a public electronic attendee badge.

The entry is intentionally modeled as a conference identity artifact so New Zealand coverage expands without inventing hardware, firmware, RF, CTF, or PCB claims.

Confidence: official source
Status: documented
Timeframe: 2018 event archive pass
Source note: Kiwicon 2038AD home/news page and FAQ.

image provenance note

The Kiwicon 2038 visual uses Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk's Flickr documentary photo `Kiwicon 2038AD name badge` under CC BY-SA 2.0.

The entry now has a real rights-cleared lanyard/name-badge photo while preserving the rule against generated, placeholder, social-media, conference-gallery, or uncleared event imagery.

Confidence: source-backed
Status: licensed original replacement applied
Timeframe: 2026 image replacement pass
Source note: Flickr photo 30981234147 license metadata and badge.gallery image policy.

Resources

Intro to Badge Hacking training training page · Official training page documenting a one-day badge-hacking course with circuit components, soldering, IC programming, Arduino IDE work, and a conference-badge build. Kiwicon 2038 FAQ faq · Official FAQ corroborating the November 16-17, 2018 Wellington dates and Michael Fowler Centre venue. Kiwicon 2038AD home and news event page · Official event page and news feed documenting the Michael Fowler Centre return, November 16-17 dates, ticket pickup, visible Kiwicon2038 badge-and-lanyard requirement, and afterparty badge requirement. Kiwicon 2038AD name badge photo licensed photo · Flickr source for Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk's CC BY-SA 2.0 documentary photo of the Kiwicon 2038 lanyard and mirrored name-badge credential.

Sources

Flickr: Kiwicon 2038AD name badge Retrieved 2026-05-15 · CC BY-SA 2.0 image-provenance source for Kristina D.C. Hoeppner / 4nitsirk's documentary photo of the Kiwicon 2038 lanyard and mirrored badge credential. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Kiwicon 2038AD Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event/news source for the 2018 Wellington event, visible Kiwicon2038 badge-and-lanyard requirement, afterparty badge requirement, ticket-pickup context, and organizer attribution. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Kiwicon 2038 FAQ Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary FAQ source for November 16-17, 2018 dates and Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington location. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Intro to Badge Hacking Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary training source for badge-hacking course context, soldering, IC programming, Arduino IDE workflow, and conference-badge build language.