Hackaday Supercon 2026 tickets are now on sale, and this November’s gathering marks a decade of the annual conference, a bigger venue, a record volume of talk submissions, and a badge that its organisers are already describing as larger than anything before. If you have been meaning to go, the moment to act is now.
Ten Years, Two Halls and a Courtyard Worth Having
The tenth Hackaday Superconference arrives in November, and the scale has grown to match the occasion. The event moves to a larger venue this year, bringing with it expanded courtyard space for open hacking, two proper halls for talks rather than a single cramped stage, and more room generally for attendees to settle in, show off what they have built, or start something entirely new on the spot. For anyone who has squeezed through a packed corridor at a previous Supercon, that last point alone will land well.
Talk selection has just wrapped up, and the volume of submissions was the highest the conference has ever seen. Quality held up alongside quantity, which, if it continues into next year, may force the organisers to consider a third stage. Two tracks of talks are confirmed for 2026, running across the main event days. The badge, as ever, is being kept under wraps beyond a single detail: it is going to be bigger.
Hackaday Supercon 2026 Tickets: Early Bird Pricing and the Kick-Off Party
Here is where the practical information sits. Hackaday has confirmed that early bird tickets are priced at $150, compared to the regular admission of $296 plus fees once that tier closes. For a multi-day event of this density, the early bird rate is a reasonable entry point, and flights and hotels are still, according to the organisers, relatively accessible at this stage.
What that ticket also gets you is worth spelling out. According to Eventbrite, admission covers a kick-off party at Supplyframe HQ on Friday, 6 November, from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. That opening evening has historically been one of the looser, more sociable parts of the weekend, a chance to find your people before the structured programme begins in earnest the following day.
The Supercon format has stayed consistent across its ten years for good reason. Soldering challenges, hardware show-and-tell, the badge hacking that inevitably consumes half the attendees for the duration, the tacos, it all returns. What changes year to year is the calibre and range of the talk lineup, and by the organisers’ own account, 2026’s selection is among the strongest they have assembled.
For a community that spans firmware writers, RF experimenters, retrocomputing restorers, and everyone working in the broad space between analogue and digital, the Supercon serves a function that few other events replicate. It is neither a trade show nor a pure academic conference. The courtyard hacking sessions, in particular, tend to produce things that did not exist when the weekend began, which is a reasonable definition of the point.
The Hackaday newsletter, which has run for more than 200 consecutive weeks, flagged the Supercon announcement to its Friday readership, as it does each year when the conference moves from rumour to reality. The tenth edition is the one to be at. Get the early bird rate while it holds, book the flights before they fill, and clear the diary for November.
