Purplecon 2018 · New Zealand · 2018

Purplecon 2018 Glow Star Badge

Official lanyard and glow-in-the-dark star identity badge

Purplecon's official 2018 diary says attendees received a lanyard with the official purplecon badge, a glow-in-the-dark star, when entering the Kiwicon-adjacent Wellington event.

Purplecon New Zealand Wellington Identity Artifact Lanyard Glow in the Dark Star Badge Oceania

EventPurplecon 2018

SeriesPurplecon

LocationMichael Fowler Centre, Wellington

CountryNew Zealand

People

Authors & Credits

event and diary publisher

Purplecon organizers

The official Purplecon home page names the digital online humans behind the event and the diary publishes the badge/lanyard evidence.

Source

venue and event support

The Kiwicon Crue

The official Purplecon 2018 page credits the Kiwicon Crue for venue, costs, and guidance support.

Source

Why It Mattered

It preserves an explicitly documented New Zealand hacker-conference identity artifact from an inclusive defensive-security event without upgrading a lanyard badge into unsupported electronics.

Hardware

The official diary proves a physical lanyard badge shaped or presented as a glow-in-the-dark star. It does not document PCB electronics, firmware, battery, display, radio, NFC, QR behavior, or a programmable challenge surface.

Software & Apps

No badge software is documented for the Purplecon 2018 badge. The record is limited to the official identity artifact described by the event diary.

Lore

Purplecon 2018 ran in a spare conference room during Kiwicon 2038 week and framed itself around defensive, positive, actionable security talks with a deliberately pastel conference aesthetic.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

identity artifact source-backed

Glow-in-the-dark star badge and lanyard

Purplecon's official diary says attendees received a lanyard with the official purplecon badge, a glow-in-the-dark star.

Compatibility: Purplecon 2018 Glow Star Badge

Source

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

hardware-detail caveat note

The recovered official sources describe the badge as a glow-in-the-dark star, but do not document materials, maker, print method, dimensions, or production run.

The catalogue keeps the record to lanyard and star-badge evidence until direct artifact documentation appears.

Confidence: official source but no technical badge archive
Status: needs primary badge archive
Timeframe: 2018 badge archive pass
Source note: Purplecon 2018 diary.

identity-artifact classification note

The official Purplecon diary proves a lanyard badge, but not an electronic attendee badge.

The entry is modeled as a glow-in-the-dark identity artifact and avoids unsupported PCB, firmware, display, radio, NFC, or CTF claims.

Confidence: official source
Status: documented
Timeframe: 2018 event diary pass
Source note: Purplecon 2018 diary and home page.

missing rights-cleared image note

No Purplecon 2018 badge image is published because the recovered diary images have not been paired with explicit reuse rights, attribution, and processing notes.

The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event photos or publishing generated badge art.

Confidence: local project policy
Status: needs licensed original replacement
Timeframe: current catalogue build
Source note: badge.gallery image policy and Purplecon 2018 diary.

Resources

Purplecon 2018 diary event diary · Official post-event diary documenting attendee entry, lanyard issue, the official purplecon badge, and its glow-in-the-dark star form. Purplecon 2018 home event page · Official Purplecon 2018 event page documenting November 15, 2018 date, Michael Fowler Centre location, sold-out tickets, organizers, Kiwicon Crue support, and defensive-security event framing.

Sources

Purplecon: purplecon 2018 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event source for the November 2018 Wellington date, Michael Fowler Centre location, organizer/contact attribution, and Kiwicon Crue support context. Purplecon: diary entry: purplecon 2018 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary badge source documenting lanyard issue, official purplecon badge wording, and glow-in-the-dark star identity artifact evidence.