You don't need to know where you belong in technology before you arrive. Pick the Journey that sounds most like you—or choose Explorer and discover your path while you're here.
“Tech sounds interesting, but I don't know where I belong yet.”
“I want to understand the technology changing everything.”
“I want to hack it, defend it, investigate it, or secure it.”
“I want to create apps, scripts, automations, and systems.”
“Everything is connected. I want to know how.”
“I want to keep technology running when everyone depends on it.”
“I'd rather build something with my hands.”
“I want to lead people, projects, organizations, or my own career.”
Pick a Journey, explore every Village, tap your NFC badge, complete challenges, answer trivia, earn XP, unlock achievements, and climb the live TEKCON leaderboard.
No experience needed. Staff-guided and designed to give anyone a successful first experience.
Use what you've learned to complete a hands-on technical mission with some problem-solving.
Advanced troubleshooting, timed challenges, and competitive missions. We give you the problem—not the answer.
Test what you know across networking, cyber, AI, hardware, coding, signals, careers, and general technology.
TEKCON uses NFC badges to track completed activities and XP automatically. Explore more, attempt harder challenges, unlock hidden achievements, and compete throughout the day.
Possible achievements: 📡 OFF THE GRID 🌎 FULL STACK HUMAN 🤖 AI PIONEER 🛡️ DEFENDER 🧠 BIG BRAIN 🤝 NETWORKING — THE OTHER KIND
Journeys tell you where you might be headed. Villages are where you get your hands on the technology. Every Village offers TRY IT, BUILD IT, MASTER IT, and TRIVIA experiences.
Signals & Communications gets a major TEKCON 27 upgrade.
Send a Meshtastic message across the conference. Tune an SDR. Find a hidden transmitter. Explore RF on a live waterfall. Talk with amateur radio operators. Make a supervised radio contact. Track satellites overhead.
TEKCON MESH MISSION: Tap your NFC badge, receive a secret code, route it across the TEKCON Meshtastic network, and earn XP when the destination node verifies delivery.
Whether you're opening your first terminal or you've spent decades keeping production alive, TEKCON gives you something worth trying.
You don't need experience. Start with TRY IT activities and discover what sparks your interest.
Try technology careers before choosing one, meet professionals, and build skills you can talk about later.
Attempt MASTER IT challenges, experiment with emerging technology, compete, and meet vendors and peers.
Explore real technology, meet people doing the work, and build a roadmap toward your next career.
Access activity frameworks, historical information, and the first TEKCON deployment from the Flextech Building.
Access 2026 DatabaseScenes from TEKCON in action. TEKCON 27 is expanding the space, activities, challenges, and technology experiences.
TEKCON partners should give attendees something memorable to do with the technology and the people behind it.
Partner with TEKCON to meet students, IT professionals, career changers, educators, and the next generation of technology talent through hands-on interaction—not just a booth.
Sponsorship tiers and partner packets deploy in Q4 2026.
Acknowledging the organizations that helped power TEKCON 26.