Registration day shouldn’t feel like crisis management. Yet countless event organizers find themselves sorting through hundreds of pre-printed badges, anxiously watching lines snake across the lobby ...

We’ve regularly written about conferences and ways to improve one’s experience at them, but, as far as I can tell, we’ve never written about their most common feature: name tags or badges, the little ...

Making an event badge is hard work. Making a single prototype badge is hard enough, but the whole process of sourcing components and coordinating manufacture for hundreds of badges on a shoestring ...

This week I attended the excellent Reimagine Education Conference. Like other conferences, each attendee to this gathering received a conference badge. The Reimagine Education badge had the usual info ...

There may not be a lot of business cards swapped today at at Future Stack, a conference in San Francisco organized by analytics company New Relic. Instead, attendees will be bumping together little ...

[Daniel Valuch] shared a fun and record-setting conference badge story (Slovak, translated) with us. He was one of the organizers for the “ZENIT in electronics” event, which is an annual Slovak ...

Three days before the 24th annual Def Con hacker event, badge designer and builder 1o57 (aka Ryan Clarke) had a problem. "The lion's share of the 20,000 badges showed up this year not programmed," he ...

When it comes to tracking people’s every movement—or “location-aware applications” if you’re trying to sound less creepy—nothing beats the badges at hacker conferences. This year, HOPE’s Attendee Meta ...