Kiwicon Heavy Industries
Official publisher of the Kiwicon 9 home/news and HQ pages used for the visible badge identity record.
SourceKiwicon 9 · New Zealand · 2015
Kiwicon 9 Badge and Lanyard
Cyberwar is Hell visible venue credential
Kiwicon 9's official site told attendees to wear their badge visibly while in the venue and documented early pickup before the December 10-11, 2015 Wellington conference.
EventKiwicon 9
SeriesKiwicon
LocationSt. James Theatre, Wellington
CountryNew Zealand
People
Authors & Credits
The Kiwicon Crue
The official HQ page says Kiwicon is brought by The Kiwicon Crue with sponsor assistance.
SourceWhy It Mattered
It fills an earlier New Zealand Kiwicon year with a source-backed identity credential while avoiding unsupported electronic-badge claims.
Hardware
The official Kiwicon 9 source trail proves a physical badge or credential that attendees had to wear visibly in the St. James Theatre venue. It does not document a PCB, microcontroller, battery, display, RF, NFC, firmware, or badge challenge surface.
Software & Apps
No badge software is documented for the Kiwicon 9 credential. The conference had CTF and event programming, but the recovered source does not tie software behavior to the attendee badge.
Lore
The official site framed the 2015 edition as Kiwicon 9: Cyberwar Is Hell, expected around 1,400 attendees after selling out, and listed early pickup on December 9 before the two conference days.
Lifecycle
Add-ons & Upgrades
identity workflow
source-backed
Visible venue badge requirement
The official Kiwicon 9 page instructed attendees to wear their badge visibly while inside the venue.
SourceOperational history
Issues & Camp Impact
hardware-detail caveat
note
The recovered official sources do not disclose whether the 2015 credential had electronics, special printing, serial numbers, NFC, QR behavior, or any programmable surface.
The catalogue keeps the record to visible badge and pickup evidence until direct badge documentation appears.
- Confidence
- official source but no technical badge archive
- Status
- needs primary badge archive
- Timeframe
- 2015 badge archive pass
- Source note
- Kiwicon 9 home/news page.
identity-artifact classification
note
The official Kiwicon 9 source proves a visible venue badge credential, but not an electronic attendee badge.
The entry is modeled as a Kiwicon identity artifact so New Zealand coverage expands without inventing PCB, firmware, display, radio, NFC, or CTF behavior.
- Confidence
- official source
- Status
- documented
- Timeframe
- 2015 event archive pass
- Source note
- Kiwicon 9 home/news and HQ pages.
missing rights-cleared image
note
No Kiwicon 9 badge image is published because no reusable original photo with source URL, license, attribution, and processing notes has been recovered.
The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event imagery, Flickr photos, social photos, or generated badge art.
- Confidence
- local project policy
- Status
- needs licensed original replacement
- Timeframe
- current catalogue build
- Source note
- badge.gallery image policy and Kiwicon 9 source pages.
Resources
Kiwicon 9 HQ
about page · Official Kiwicon 9 about page documenting the New Zealand hacker-conference lineage, attendance context, previous cons, and Kiwicon Heavy Industries / Crue credits.
Kiwicon 9 home and news
event page · Official Kiwicon 9 page documenting December 10-11, 2015 dates, St. James Theatre venue, early pickup, sold-out context, and the instruction to wear badges visibly in the venue.
Sources
Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Kiwicon 9
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event/news source for the December 2015 Wellington edition, St. James Theatre venue, early pickup date, visible badge instruction, and 1,400-attendee sold-out context.
Kiwicon Heavy Industries: HQ
Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary lineage and credit source for Kiwicon's New Zealand hacker-conference framing, previous editions, Kiwicon Crue, and Kiwicon Heavy Industries attribution.