CactusCon
The September 28-29, 2018 Arizona hacker and security conference edition whose contemporaneous local meeting notes document a ticketed event with a paid badge option but no recovered badge hardware archive.
Mesa Convention Center, Mesa, Arizona · United States · 2018
CactusCon 2018 is seeded as a conservative paid-badge record because contemporaneous Arizona LoCo Team meeting notes say the September 28-29 Mesa Convention Center event required tickets, offered free admission, and let attendees pay to get a badge.
Lifecycle
The Arizona LoCo notes say CactusCon 2018 required tickets because the event was growing and had moved to Mesa Convention Center.
The same notes say there was no cost to get in but attendees had to pay in order to get a badge.
Operational history
The catalogue keeps the 2018 record as a paid-badge entitlement and avoids unsupported physical or electronic details.
The entry remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event-page, social, wiki, or generated media without explicit reuse rights.
The record is useful as a source trail but should be revisited if official pages, ticket text, badge photos, or hardware archives surface.