HackNWA

HackNWA 2026: Holiday in Scambodia

The completed April 17, 2026 HackNWA cybersecurity conference in Bentonville. Official event material advertises a CTF and ASMb1337 hardware-hacking activity. Its organizer-linked Eventbrite registration page now marks sales ended; a contemporaneous ticket-listing capture records a USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category alongside USD 55 General Admission. The source trail establishes a ticket-listed badge offering, not its materials, electronics, contents, production, collection, delivery, or allocation.

Shewmaker Center for Global Business Development, Bentonville, Arkansas · United States · 2026

HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge

HackNWA's official 2026 conference page and organizer-linked Eventbrite registration establish the completed April 17 Bentonville event and its CTF / ASMb1337 hardware-hacking context. The current registration page marks sales ended. A contemporaneous ticket-listing capture records a separate USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category alongside USD 55 General Admission. Together these sources support a real time-specific badge offering, but do not establish whether the item was an electronic device, a PCB kit, a conventional physical credential, or another kind of assembled artifact, nor whether it was produced, collected, or delivered.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge official pre-event announcement and event page

event-programme context

CTF and hardware-hacking activity context

HackNWA promoted a CTF, ASMb1337, Solder Village, and Badge/Hardware Hacking activities for the conference. The sources do not identify the VIP Assembled Badge as their subject, interface, prerequisite, prize, or device platform.

Compatibility: HackNWA 2026 event context only; no badge-to-activity technical link is documented.

registration lifecycle

Post-event registration snapshot

The official organizer-linked Eventbrite page now labels the event completed and sales ended. It preserves event context but not ticket-class details, sales count, purchaser list, pickup terms, receipt data, replacement policy, or fulfillment record.

Compatibility: HackNWA 2026 registration state only; it cannot verify individual ticket redemption or badge delivery.

HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge advertised before the completed event; post-event tier capture retained

ticket-listed identity artifact

VIP Assembled Badge ticket category

The contemporaneous listing names a USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category alongside USD 55 General Admission. It does not say what the badge was assembled from, whether it was electronic, whether it contained a kit or credential, how many were offered, or whether purchases were fulfilled.

Compatibility: HackNWA 2026 ticket-tier wording only; not evidence of a particular badge construction, technical feature, admission entitlement, or completed handoff.

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

hardware and software specification gap · ticket wording and event activity context only · no artifact-level technical release recovered

The phrase VIP Assembled Badge and the event's hardware-hacking activity do not identify an electronic badge, PCB, kit, material, artwork, QR/RFID/NFC function, controller, battery, display, connector, schematic, BOM, firmware, app, challenge linkage, binary, source release, licence, flashing path, or physical credential behavior.

The record remains an explicitly ticket-listed identity artifact rather than inventing electronics, software, CTF integration, or a finished construction from a tier name.

missing rights-cleared image · local project policy · needs selected, attributable, cleared original

No HackNWA 2026 VIP Assembled Badge image is published because the reviewed event and ticket-listing media do not pair a selected artifact image with a reusable license or explicit permission basis, attribution, source URL, and processing notes.

The record remains source-backed and image-free rather than copying event graphics, social media, ticketing images, screenshots, placeholders, or generated approximations.

source preservation and attribution boundary · official registration changed after event; secondary tier capture · official context retained; historical tier details incompletely preserved

HackNWA's official event material and organizer-linked registration page establish the event and completed registration state, but the exact VIP tier wording and price survive only in a contemporaneous third-party listing. No badge-team page, product page, technical archive, first-hand recipient report, or rights-cleared artifact photo was recovered.

The catalogue uses the secondary listing narrowly for its captured ticket wording and price while preserving the absence of a primary artifact specification, maker attribution, delivery record, and reusable image authority.

ticket tier, allocation, and fulfillment boundary · official completed-event context plus contemporaneous tier capture · advertised VIP tier documented; purchase and handoff unverified

The reviewed ticket capture identifies a USD 109 VIP Assembled Badge category, while the official registration page now says sales ended. Neither source publishes the number offered or sold, purchaser identities, purchase terms, contents, pickup location, redemption process, allocation, manufacturing, delivery, receipt, replacement, refund, or post-event handoff outcome.

The catalogue records a concrete advertised ticket tier without treating it as proof of completed production, distribution, inclusion with every attendee, or individual possession.

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