Events & Villages

We are thrilled to be able to offer two Friday Workshops this year:

• TBD
• TBD

Pre-registration is required for workshop attendance.

Step into the Hardware Hacking Village and get your hands dirty with electronics! Whether you're a seasoned tinkerer or a curious first-timer, HHV offers hands-on activities like diving into signal analysis straight from the badge itself.

Come learn, build, and break stuff—no experience necessary, just curiosity.

AI Village — hackers, ML engineers and data scientists educating CkC on the use and abuse of artificial intelligence in security and privacy. Get hands on with models, hackbots and more.

EverSec returns once again to host the CkC Capture the Flag! Come test your offensive security skills against live, vulnerable systems to discover vulnerabilities and win points. We've built the challenges to cater to all skill levels. With a wide variety of challenges, there's something for everyone. Play as a team or tackle it solo, but be sure not to miss it!

Oak City Locksport will be running a Lockpick Village. If you've never picked a lock and want to learn this is the place to start. If you're an intermediate or advanced picker and want to try something new, ask the Village staff because not everything we have may be out!

OCL will have:

• Picking contests and games
• OCL Store: Progressive and re-pinnable locks available for sale along with a variety of picks and picking gear, swag, etc.

OCL is the RDU area locksport club, founded in 2010. We meet once a month to pick locks and share our projects. Find us on Meetup to attend a meeting.

GreenHat Solutions (GHS) presents a 802.11 (WiFi) Capture The Flag event.

Unlike many CTF's, the Shoothouse provides an opportunity to conduct wireless penetration testing against various targets. While capturing the keys to access the wireless network will award points, the challenge doesn't end there. Competitors will have the option to find additional flags; these flags will either require accessing the router user interface, the client devices, or the traffic between clients.

Contestants will have the chance to train on or hone their skills with a vast arsenal of tools and techniques including: Hashcat, JtR, Crunch, Cewl, most tools in the aircrack suite, hydra, medusa, mdk-3, pyrit, coWPAtty, nmap, wireshark, macchanger, Metasploit, ettercap…

Looking for a job? Looking for an employee or new colleague? Need someone to take a look at your résumé and offer advice? Looking to network? This is the place.

Hang out with other attendees in what you feel comfortably fancy in. Hacker Swan is optional, but it's a fun excuse to wear those elegant clothes in the back of your closet you don't have other chances to wear.

Ready to break away from the main questline? Want to discover what else the conference has to offer and maybe do it with a friend you made in lobbycon? Step into sidequest mode and compete in off-script (and connected) challenges packed with puzzles, physical feats, and hacker hijinks. Shenanigans encouraged.

Quests and Chaos 2026 : Plague of Limes
Are you ready for a themed task-based scavenger hunt with DnD campaign or Skyrim side quest vibes? Quests and Chaos has roots in last year's BINGO Sidequet, but this version will be themed and will make players, called Questers, feel like they are on an epic and exciting journey. There will be many varied quests that will be fun, wacky, weird, silly, and fun. The quests will include a wide range of various skills people might have. The ultimate goal is that there will be a challenge that anyone can complete, regardless of age, technological prowess, level of intelligence. We want everyone to have the chance to be included if they so wish!

Do you know a lot of random things about hacking or hackers? Let the games begin.

Hodlers unite. Join us to learn about/discuss/buy/sell cryptocurrency. All your apes are belong to us if you bring them up.

We are so happy to be offering ham exams this year! So start studying. 📚

You must register for a spot and apply for a FRN before the exam.

You must have a FCC Registration Number (FRN) before you can take any license examination. If you are already licensed, you already have a FRN; it's on your copy of your license. If you do not have a FRN, you must apply for one on-line, directly from the FCC.