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Wednesday
, October 21
502 Cowlitz
3:15pm •
First-Timers Meetup & SIG Welcome
Level 5 Foyer
11:00am •
Registration and Badge Pickup
1:00pm •
Community Partners Drop-Off / Setup
TBD
1:00pm •
Pre-Conference Tours
7:30pm •
SIG Meetup
The Point at Pier 70
4:45pm •
Registration and Badge Pickup
5:00pm •
Ignite! Reception
Thursday
, October 22
501 Chiwawa
10:15am •
Sustaining Voice: Digital Media, Indigenous Representation, and Institutional Trust
10:40am •
A Collection of Relationships
11:15am •
Going Beyond the Exhibition: Harnessing Virtual Tours for Preservation and Community Care
11:40am •
From Novelty to Necessity: A Pressure Test for Museum XR
1:15pm •
Sponsor Session
2:15pm •
Designing Trust: Art, Voice, and Difficult Histories
2:40pm •
Digital Governance at Getty
3:15pm •
Magical, Tactile Media Devices: Creating Digital Experiences that Feel Anything But
3:40pm •
Mondrian at MoMA: Crafting interactive narratives from scientific research
502 Cowlitz
10:15am •
Speed Networking
11:15am •
Digital Strategy Case Studies from Three Museums: Aligning Plans, People, and Practice
1:15pm •
F***,Marry,Kill: Guidelines for Determining the Lifespan of a Digital Project
2:15pm •
Art in 3D: A multi-institutional perspective on 3D in museums
3:15pm •
Neither Here Nor There: Musetech as Ecotone
512 Willapa
10:15am •
The Museum as Experimental Space: Testing AI Interpretation in a Public Setting
11:15am •
Trust, Built Locally: A Library's Archive AI
11:40am •
Assessing and implementing new AI workflows in the identification and description of artworks.
1:15pm •
The Art of Conversation: Designing an AI Companion Visitors Trust — and Enjoy
1:40pm •
AI with Intention: The Kelp Desk Story
2:15pm •
Collections Online in 3.5 Months: An Honest Look
3:15pm •
Why Is This Even Here? Power, Interpretation, and Shared Authority in the Museum
Elwah Ballroom
9:00am •
Opening Remarks
10:15am •
From Audience to Author: Remaking Museum Storytelling from the Outside In
11:15am •
Reclaiming Your Digital Infrastructure
1:15pm •
From Metadata to Meaning: AI and the Future of Online Collections
2:15pm •
The Enduring Practice of Participatory Engagement
3:15pm •
Will GenAI kill the website as we know it?
Gallery
8:30am •
Registration and Badge Pickup
Level 5 Foyer
8:30am •
Community Partner Showcase
11:00am •
Refreshment Break
3:00pm •
Refreshment Break
Pacific Science Center
6:00pm •
Evening Reception
Quinault Ballroom
8:30am •
Continental Breakfast
Friday
, October 23
501 Chiwawa
9:45am •
How do you do, fellow kids? Transforming the Smithsonian’s social media video strategy
10:10am •
Museum Rizzler: More than just a trend
10:45am •
Design for the Visit! A Jobs to Be Done Approach to Making Your Website Work, Work, Work
11:45am •
Sponsor Session
1:45pm •
Collections Out of Context: An Experiment in Inter-institutional Collaboration
2:10pm •
Back on the RAILs: Rebuilding trust one track at a time
2:45pm •
Modernizing Digital Exhibits: Legacy Codebases and Shifting Technology Landscapes
3:10pm •
Multimodal by Design: Exhibit Software Architecture at the Obama Presidential Center
502 Cowlitz
9:45am •
Speed Networking
10:45am •
Artists’ Tools, Museum Stories: Creative Coding in the Age of AI
11:45am •
Insight at the Museum: How Smithsonian's UX Lab Builds User Trust in Digital Products
1:45pm •
Before the Last Witness: Digital Storytelling for History That Can No Longer Speak for Itself
2:45pm •
Building Trust That Lasts: 10 Years of Design
512 Willapa
9:45am •
Rebuilding Search at The Met: From Infrastructure to Interface
10:10am •
Shared vector embeddings - tilting towards action
10:45am •
Sketching with AI: 15 Prototypes in 15 minutes
11:10am •
Trust, Transparency, and the Human-in-the-Loop: Scaling Museum Accessibility with Generative AI
11:45am •
Designing Trustworthy Generative Search Experiences for Museums
12:10pm •
Robots, Fever Dreams, and Escape Fantasies: Trusting AI with Our Art
1:45pm •
From Literacy to Agency: A Framework for Museums in Public Engagement with AI
2:10pm •
Museums and AI: Findings from a National Convening
2:45pm •
AI-Powered Access to Collections and the Future of Audience Trust
Elwah Ballroom
8:45am •
SIG Breakfast + Birds of a Feather
9:45am •
Designed to Draft, Not Author: What Museum Partners Revealed About AI, Accessibility, and Trust
10:45am •
My Huntington: Integrating Trust, Teams, and Tech
11:45am •
Accessibility at Scale: Two Case Studies in Using AI to Write and Publish Visual Descriptions
1:45pm •
How Many Multidisciplinary Project Mangers Does It Take to Reimagine ArtLens?
2:45pm •
Cultivating Awe with Art Online
3:45pm •
Closing Remarks
Gallery
8:30am •
Registration and Badge Pickup
Level 5 Foyer
8:30am •
Community Partner Showcase
10:30am •
Refreshment Break
2:30pm •
Refreshment Break
Quinault Ballroom
8:30am •
Continental Breakfast
12:30pm •
Lunch
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