MCN 2026

First-Timers Meetup & SIG Welcome 3:15pm - 4:15pm

Registration and Badge Pickup 11:00am - 4:00pm

Community Partners Drop-Off / Setup 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Pre-Conference Tours 1:00pm - 3:00pm

SIG Meetup 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Registration and Badge Pickup 4:45pm - 7:00pm

Ignite! Reception 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Sustaining Voice:...

A Collection of Re...

Going Beyond the E...

From Novelty to Ne...

Sponsor Session 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Designing Trust: A...

Digital Governance...

Magical, Tactile M...

Mondrian at MoMA:...

Speed Networking 10:15am - 11:00am

Digital Strategy Case Studies from Three Museums... 11:15am - 12:00pm

F***,Marry,Kill: Guidelines for Determining the... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

Art in 3D: A multi-institutional perspective on... 2:15pm - 3:00pm

Neither Here Nor There: Musetech as Ecotone 3:15pm - 4:00pm

The Museum as Experimental Space: Testing AI Int... 10:15am - 11:00am

Trust, Built Local...

Assessing and impl...

The Art of Convers...

AI with Intention:...

Collections Online in 3.5 Months: An Honest Look 2:15pm - 3:00pm

Why Is This Even Here? Power, Interpretation, an... 3:15pm - 4:00pm

Opening Remarks 9:00am - 10:00am

From Audience to Author: Remaking Museum Storyte... 10:15am - 11:00am

Reclaiming Your Digital Infrastructure 11:15am - 12:00pm

From Metadata to Meaning: AI and the Future of O... 1:15pm - 2:00pm

The Enduring Practice of Participatory Engagemen... 2:15pm - 3:00pm

Will GenAI kill the website as we know it? 3:15pm - 4:00pm

Registration and Badge Pickup 8:30am - 4:00pm

Community Partner Showcase 8:30am - 4:00pm

Refreshment Break

Refreshment Break

Evening Reception 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Continental Breakfast 8:30am - 10:15am

How do you do, fel...

Museum Rizzler: Mo...

Design for the Visit! A Jobs to Be Done Approach... 10:45am - 11:30am

Sponsor Session 11:45am - 12:30pm

Collections Out of...

Back on the RAILs:...

Modernizing Digita...

Multimodal by Desi...

Speed Networking 9:45am - 10:30am

Artists’ Tools, Museum Stories: Creative Coding... 10:45am - 11:30am

Insight at the Museum: How Smithsonian's UX Lab... 11:45am - 12:30pm

Before the Last Witness: Digital Storytelling fo... 1:45pm - 2:30pm

Building Trust That Lasts: 10 Years of Design 2:45pm - 3:30pm

Rebuilding Search...

Shared vector embe...

Sketching with AI:...

Trust, Transparenc...

Designing Trustwor...

Robots, Fever Drea...

From Literacy to A...

Museums and AI: Fi...

AI-Powered Access to Collections and the Future... 2:45pm - 3:30pm

SIG Breakfast + Birds of a Feather 8:45am - 9:30am

Designed to Draft, Not Author: What Museum Partn... 9:45am - 10:30am

My Huntington: Integrating Trust, Teams, and Tec... 10:45am - 11:30am

Accessibility at Scale: Two Case Studies in Usin... 11:45am - 12:30pm

How Many Multidisciplinary Project Mangers Does... 1:45pm - 2:30pm

Cultivating Awe with Art Online 2:45pm - 3:30pm

Closing Remarks 3:45pm - 4:30pm

Registration and Badge Pickup 8:30am - 12:30pm

Community Partner Showcase 8:30am - 3:30pm

Refreshment Break

Refreshment Break

Continental Breakfast 8:30am - 9:45am

Lunch 12:30pm - 1:45pm