[kmort]

It's a "Web 2.0"-style dropped-vowel spelling of "lanyard". (Lanyards being commonly used at conferences to hold ID cards.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanyard

[Tichy]

Thanks - lanyard was a word I didn't know yet.

[tesseract]

Any plans for some kind of barcodes-on-nametags feature that could be called "scanyrd"? ;)