Kiwicon X · New Zealand · 2016

Kiwicon X Badge and Lanyard

Michael Fowler Centre visible identity credential

Kiwicon X's official site required attendees to wear a Kiwicon X badge and lanyard visibly in the venue and tied that credential to the Michael Fowler Centre pickup workflow.

Kiwicon New Zealand Wellington Identity Artifact Lanyard Michael Fowler Centre Oceania

EventKiwicon X

SeriesKiwicon

LocationMichael Fowler Centre, Wellington

CountryNew Zealand

People

Authors & Credits

event and archive publisher

Kiwicon Heavy Industries

Official publisher of the Kiwicon X home/news and about pages used for the badge-and-lanyard identity record.

Source

organizing team

The Kiwicon Crue

The official about page says Kiwicon is brought by The Kiwicon Crue with sponsor assistance.

Source

Why It Mattered

It adds another Kiwicon year to the New Zealand lineage with exact official wording for a badge-and-lanyard artifact, without upgrading it into electronics that the public source does not prove.

Hardware

The recovered source trail proves a physical badge and lanyard used as a visible venue credential. It does not document a programmable PCB, battery, firmware, display, radio, NFC, QR behavior, SAO connector, or electronic challenge surface.

Software & Apps

No badge software is documented for the Kiwicon X badge/lanyard record. The official site mentions lockpicking, Hamiltr0n 3 CTF, Te Kuiti Warrior, and other event activities, but not badge firmware.

Lore

The November 2016 event moved into the 2,000-plus-seat Michael Fowler Centre, survived a Wellington earthquake check days before opening, and described Kiwicon X as 50% bigger than K9 and twice K8 during ticket pickup guidance.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

identity workflow source-backed

Visible badge-and-lanyard requirement

The Kiwicon X ticket-pickup notice said attendees had to wear their Kiwicon X badge and lanyard visibly at all times in the venue.

Compatibility: Kiwicon X Badge and Lanyard

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

hardware-detail caveat note

The recovered official sources do not disclose whether the Kiwicon X credential had electronics, special printing, serial numbers, NFC, QR behavior, or any programmable surface.

The catalogue keeps the record to badge/lanyard identity and pickup evidence until direct badge documentation appears.

Confidence: official source but no technical badge archive
Status: needs primary badge archive
Timeframe: 2016 badge archive pass
Source note: Kiwicon X home/news page.

identity-artifact classification note

The official Kiwicon X source trail proves a visible badge-and-lanyard credential, but not a public electronic attendee badge.

The entry is intentionally modeled as a conference identity artifact so Kiwicon coverage expands without unsupported hardware or firmware claims.

Confidence: official source
Status: documented
Timeframe: 2016 event archive pass
Source note: Kiwicon X home/news and about pages.

missing rights-cleared image note

No Kiwicon X badge/lanyard 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 X source pages.

Resources

Kiwicon X about page about page · Official Kiwicon X about page documenting the New Zealand hacker-conference lineage, previous cons, and Kiwicon Heavy Industries / Crue credits. Kiwicon X home and news event page · Official Kiwicon X page documenting November 17-18, 2016 dates, Michael Fowler Centre venue, early pickup, visible badge-and-lanyard requirement, and earthquake-update context.

Sources

Kiwicon Heavy Industries: Kiwicon X Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event/news source for the November 2016 Wellington edition, Michael Fowler Centre venue, early pickup, visible badge-and-lanyard requirement, and scale context. Kiwicon Heavy Industries: About Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary lineage and credit source for the Kiwicon X about page, previous cons list, Crue attribution, and Kiwicon Heavy Industries copyright.