Hacker Con Badges

Hackers On Planet Earth

HOPE 26

The completed seventeenth Hackers On Planet Earth conference, held August 14-16, 2026 at the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan. Official sources document a digital In-Person Pass admission ticket but do not identify a physical or electronic conference badge.

New Yorker Hotel, Manhattan, New York City · United States · 2026

HOPE 26 Digital In-Person Admission Ticket

HOPE On Planet Earth's official 2600 store listing sold a $250 HOPE 26 In-Person Pass and said digital admission tickets would be generated asynchronously and emailed before the event; it also says they are non-refundable but transferable. The official HOPE home now says the August 14-16 New Yorker Hotel conference is history, but the reviewed event, wiki, schedule, and ticket pages do not identify a 2026 physical or electronic conference badge. This record therefore models the known digital admission-ticket identity artifact only, not a recurrence of the 2024 HOPE XV electronic badge, an issued event badge, a final attendee credential implementation, or a rights-cleared image.

Lifecycle

Add-ons & Upgrades

HOPE 26 Digital In-Person Admission Ticket completed-event pages reviewed; no badge identified

current official-source badge audit

No public HOPE 26 badge announcement recovered

The reviewed official event home, HOPE Wiki main page, schedule, and ticket listing do not identify a HOPE 26 physical or electronic conference badge. The known digital admission ticket is retained as an identity artifact rather than upgraded into hardware.

Compatibility: A bounded 2026-08-25 source review only; it is not proof that no badge existed, was issued privately, or appears in another public source.

HOPE 26 Digital In-Person Admission Ticket historical pre-event sale; asynchronous email delivery stated

official admission-ticket identity artifact

Official $250 In-Person Pass and digital ticket terms

The official 2600 listing offered a $250 HOPE 26 In-Person Pass and said digital admission tickets would be generated asynchronously and emailed before the event. It describes the tickets as non-refundable but transferable.

Compatibility: HOPE 26 In-Person Pass listing only; this does not establish a generated ticket, successful email delivery, admission outcome, account workflow, access-control implementation, physical credential, or electronic badge.

Operational history

Issues & Camp Impact

HOPE 26 Digital In-Person Admission Ticket note

missing rights-cleared image · official ticket and event pages reviewed · no rights-cleared factual ticket or badge image recovered

The official event and ticket pages contain event/ticket graphics, but no selected factual HOPE 26 ticket or badge image is paired with a reusable licence or explicit permission basis, attribution, and processing provenance.

The record intentionally publishes no image rather than copying ticketing artwork, event graphics, screenshots, social media, a placeholder, or a generated approximation.

HOPE 26 Digital In-Person Admission Ticket note

physical or electronic badge disclosure gap · official completed-event page audit · no physical or electronic conference badge disclosed by reviewed sources

The reviewed official HOPE 26 home, wiki, schedule, and ticket page identify the completed conference and its digital admission-ticket sale, but none identifies a physical badge, PCB, electronic badge, lanyard, wristband, ticket format, or technical badge specification. Historic HOPE X and HOPE XV records are not evidence for a 2026 recurrence.

The data model preserves the ticket as an identity artifact and prevents an unsupported claim that HOPE 26 had an electronic or physical conference badge.

HOPE 26 Digital In-Person Admission Ticket note

ticket fulfilment and admission boundary · official ticket listing · historical delivery statement; generated-ticket and entry process unverified

The official listing said tickets would be generated asynchronously and emailed before the event, but reviewed sources do not establish a delivered ticket, recipient, format, email timing, transfer procedure, account process, entry scan, access-control operation, support path, refund exception, replacement, or individual admission outcome.

The catalogue records the advertised digital-ticket identity artifact, not a confirmed credential implementation, completed delivery, or successful event access.

Resources

TICKETS TO HOPE 26 official admission-ticket listing · Official 2600 store listing for the $250 In-Person Pass. It says digital admission tickets will be generated asynchronously and emailed in the weeks before the event and records non-refundable/transferable terms; it is not a physical/electronic badge specification or a grant to reuse its ticket graphic. HOPE 26 schedule official conference schedule · Current official schedule source reviewed for an explicit HOPE 26 badge disclosure. It contains no such identified record in this source pass; that absence is a bounded page review, not proof that no badge may later exist or be announced elsewhere. HOPE 26 official event page · Official HOPE event page identifying HOPE 26 as the seventeenth event and, when reviewed on 2026-08-25, saying it is history. It does not disclose a badge or grant image-reuse permission. HOPE Wiki — Main Page official event wiki · Current HOPE Wiki source for the August 14-16 New Yorker Hotel event context and its under-construction status. The reviewed page does not identify a 2026 badge.

Sources

2600 Magazine: TICKETS TO HOPE 26 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary official ticket-listing source for the $250 In-Person Pass, asynchronous email ticket statement, and non-refundable/transferable terms. It does not specify the actual digital-ticket format or prove delivery, entry scanning, a physical artifact, electronics, or image reuse rights. HOPE: HOPE 26 schedule Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary schedule source reviewed for a current badge announcement. No HOPE 26 physical or electronic conference badge is identified on the reviewed schedule page; this is not an exhaustive claim about future or other sources. HOPE On Planet Earth: HOPE 26 Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event source for HOPE 26's seventeenth-event status, August 14-16, 2026 dates, New Yorker Hotel location, and completed status: the current page says HOPE 26 is history. It does not identify a ticket implementation, physical badge, electronic badge, or rights-cleared image. HOPE Wiki: HOPE Wiki — Main Page Retrieved 2026-05-15 · Primary event-wiki source for current HOPE 26 timing and venue context. It remains under construction and the reviewed page does not identify a badge.