MCN 2026

MCN 2026

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8:30am PDT

Continental Breakfast Quinault Ballroom Registration and Badge Pickup Gallery Community Partner Showcase Level 5 Foyer

8:45am PDT

SIG Breakfast + Birds of a Feather Elwah Ballroom

9:45am PDT

How do you do, fellow kids? Transforming the Smithsonian’s social media video strategy 501 ChiwawaEmily Niekrasz • Emily Frost Rebuilding Search at The Met: From Infrastructure to Interface 512 WillapaJulie Turgeon • Derek Au Designed to Draft, Not Author: What Museum Partners Revealed About AI, Accessibility, and Trust Elwah BallroomDasha Pushkareva • Mark Osterman • Brittany Strupp Speed Networking 502 Cowlitz

10:10am PDT

Museum Rizzler: More than just a trend 501 ChiwawaMary King Shared vector embeddings - tilting towards action 512 WillapaAaron Cope

10:30am PDT

Refreshment Break Level 5 Foyer

10:45am PDT

Sketching with AI: 15 Prototypes in 15 minutes 512 WillapaBrett Renfer • Julia Daser Artists’ Tools, Museum Stories: Creative Coding in the Age of AI 502 CowlitzLiz Neely • Miriam Langer • Jonathan Lee Design for the Visit! A Jobs to Be Done Approach to Making Your Website Work, Work, Work 501 ChiwawaKristen Torres Korman • Kate Smith Williamschen • Beth Watson My Huntington: Integrating Trust, Teams, and Tech Elwah BallroomAlyssa Machida • Louise Cole • Bradley Platz

11:10am PDT

Trust, Transparency, and the Human-in-the-Loop: Scaling Museum Accessibility with Generative AI 512 WillapaMiloslava Hruba

11:45am PDT

Designing Trustworthy Generative Search Experiences for Museums 512 WillapaDeanna Wood Accessibility at Scale: Two Case Studies in Using AI to Write and Publish Visual Descriptions Elwah BallroomTara Bobinac • Julia Demarest Insight at the Museum: How Smithsonian's UX Lab Builds User Trust in Digital Products 502 CowlitzSara Snyder • Jordan Grant • John Nicholson Sponsor Session 501 Chiwawa

12:10pm PDT

Robots, Fever Dreams, and Escape Fantasies: Trusting AI with Our Art 512 WillapaJeff Steward

12:30pm PDT

Lunch Quinault Ballroom

1:45pm PDT

Collections Out of Context: An Experiment in Inter-institutional Collaboration 501 ChiwawaNabil Kashyap From Literacy to Agency: A Framework for Museums in Public Engagement with AI 512 WillapaEve Klein Before the Last Witness: Digital Storytelling for History That Can No Longer Speak for Itself 502 CowlitzStephanie Verdin • Brian McCormick • Cassie Pikarsky • Kristina Jenkins How Many Multidisciplinary Project Mangers Does It Take to Reimagine ArtLens? Elwah BallroomSeta Nagbe • Tessa Shlonsky • Haley Kedziora • Sara Mikail • Kelly Farrell

2:10pm PDT

Back on the RAILs: Rebuilding trust one track at a time 501 ChiwawaAlexis Recto • Zachary Rutland Museums and AI: Findings from a National Convening 512 WillapaKate Haley Goldman

2:30pm PDT

Refreshment Break Level 5 Foyer

2:45pm PDT

Modernizing Digital Exhibits: Legacy Codebases and Shifting Technology Landscapes 501 ChiwawaRadha Nagaraja AI-Powered Access to Collections and the Future of Audience Trust 512 WillapaAndrew Cary • Massimo Petrozzi • Paige Bailey • Laura Mann Building Trust That Lasts: 10 Years of Design 502 CowlitzMadlyn Larson • Kirsten Butcher • McKenna Lane Cultivating Awe with Art Online Elwah BallroomIsabella Bulkeley • Paula Lynn

3:10pm PDT

Multimodal by Design: Exhibit Software Architecture at the Obama Presidential Center 501 ChiwawaDiana Steakley-Freeman

3:45pm PDT

Closing Remarks Elwah Ballroom