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9:00am CST

Building Authentic Connections with Visitors through Design ThinkingLIMITED Harriet Cutting-Edge 360 Virtual RealityLIMITED Great Lakes A3 Dabble with Microcontrollers: Part 1, Small-Scale Hacking for BeginnersLIMITED Great Lakes A1 Storytelling in Video: Aspects of an Engaging ProductionLIMITED Great Lakes A2 Transform Your Museum with AgileLIMITED Minnetonka Tour: A Day in St. PaulLIMITED TBA

1:00pm CST

Tour: The Bakken MuseumLIMITED The Bakken Museum Tour: Walker Art CenterLIMITED TBA

1:30pm CST

Computational Photography Techniques for Cultural Heritage: Photogrammetry and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)LIMITED Minneapolis Institute of Arts Create Your Own Audio Guide, Using Free and Open PlatformsLIMITED Great Lakes A3 Dabble with Microcontrollers: Part 2, Coding for BeginnersLIMITED Great Lakes A1 Experiencing the Visitor ExperienceLIMITED Science Museum of Minnesota Introduction to Linked (Open) DataLIMITED Harriet MCN Digital Publishing StudioLIMITED Great Lakes A2

6:00pm CST

Ignite MCN 2015 The PourHouse

8:00am CST

Breakfast / Exhibit Hall Opening Exhibit Hall

9:15am CST

Keynote Great Lakes C

10:45am CST

Speed Networking! Great Lakes A1 Keynote in Conversation Great Lakes C

12:00pm CST

Lunch with the Exhibitors Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

1:15pm CST

One Publisher, Many Platforms Nokomis A Small Museum Goes Global Harriet Making the Invisible Visible: Museums & Cultural Agency Great Lakes A1 Digital Asset Management Systems & Museums: Connecting Experiences to Build Success Minnetonka A Full Spectrum of Leadership: Museums and the Digital Public Library of America Calhoun Using Customer Data Great Lakes A2

1:45pm CST

APIs: Crossing the Boundaries of Distance, Hardware, and Technology Nokomis Life beyond Social Media: Technology and Leadership Harriet

2:15pm CST

Networking Break Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

2:30pm CST

Embracing CollectionSpace with LOVe (Linked Open Vocabularies extensions) Minnetonka Which Came First, the Data Structure or the Website? Lessons Learned in Building a New Collections Website with Existing Collections Data Nokomis "Content" and Its Discontents Great Lakes A1 Enhanced Visualization of Cultural Heritage through Computational Imaging and 3D Modeling Harriet "Digital Learning" in Museums: New or Passing Trend? Great Lakes A2 Money, Money, Money: Turn Great Ideas into Funded Projects Calhoun

3:00pm CST

Report on the American Art Collaborative Project: A Working Partnership to Expose Hidden Meaning across American Art Information Resources via Linked Open Data Minnetonka

3:45pm CST

American Paintings to 1945: The Collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Legacy Catalogs Online Nokomis Museums beyond Meatspace: User Generated Museums in Virtual Worlds (and What We Can Learn from Them) Harriet What’s a National Platform Strategy and Where Do Museums Fit? Minnetonka About That Definition of Insanity: Museum Business Models and New Revenue Streams in the Digital Economy Calhoun The Constant Transformation and Evolution of Information Management and Technology Great Lakes A1 How Did I Become the Ringmaster? The Art of Juggling Digital Projects Great Lakes A2

4:15pm CST

Making Meaning with Online Collections: Ten Top Tips Nokomis Visitor Experience with Augmented Reality in a Museum Exhibit Setting Harriet

4:45pm CST

Help Us Plan MCN's 50th Anniversary! Exhibit Hall

6:00pm CST

Opening Reception at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Institute of Arts

8:00am CST

Breakfast Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

8:15am CST

Annual Business Meeting Great Lakes C

9:00am CST

Accessibility for Digital Products: Tips from the Met App Case Study Great Lakes A1 Don’t Redesign: Realign! The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Website Makeover Harriet Grasping Cultural Heritage: Engaging Museum Visitors with History and Culture through Tangible Interaction Technologies Calhoun HEIR: The Historic Environment Image Resource Project Nokomis Building a Multi-Site Calendar Minnetonka #MobilePhotoNow Instagram Exhibition at Columbus Museum of Art Great Lakes A2

9:15am CST

The Bruegel Box: An Immersive Art Project by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Calhoun Planning an Audience-Centered Digital Collection Minnetonka Simply Mobile: (Working on) Simplifying the Mobile User Experience Nokomis Building a Map for the Met App Great Lakes A1 Instagram as an Interpretive Tool? A Case Study Great Lakes A2 Piloting a Pilot Project: Lessons Learned as the First US Museum to Use Guidio, an Audio Tour App Created for European Museums Harriet

9:30am CST

Digital Accessibility and the Senses Great Lakes A1 When Being There Isn’t Possible: Using Immersive Technologies to Increase Cultural Literacy and Extend Museum Outreach Efforts Calhoun Mn Artists' Relaunch: How Rebuilding a Digital Community Served to Reboot a Real Community Nokomis Spatial Evolution of the State Historical Museum: Bringing the Physical and the Digital Together Minnetonka #ReynoldaBuffalo: How to Convert and Measure Online Buzz to Onsite Attendance Great Lakes A2 Second Canvas: How an Awesome Art Experience Using Gigapixel Images, Storytelling, and Social Participation Can Surpass the Best Games and Sport Apps Harriet

9:45am CST

Museum My Heart Project Calhoun Innovations in Accessibility Great Lakes A1 Student Collaborations and the Museum of the Future Nokomis Watermill Center: Library of Inspiration Minnetonka Doodling the Museum: Using the Pencilicious App to Engage and Inspire a Social Audience Harriet Geneva: Going beyond Museum Walls and Creating Synergy in the City Great Lakes A2

10:00am CST

Networking Break Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

10:15am CST

Service Design: Designing for Visitor Needs at the Interface of the Digital and the Physical Nokomis IIIF: The International Image Interoperability Framework Harriet Mentoring in Museums Great Lakes A1 How Will Museums Change with the Application of Indoor Location Technology? Calhoun Social Media Extravaganza: A Mini Unconference Great Lakes A2 You Aint Heard Nothing Yet! Unleashing the Power of the Audio Tour Minnetonka

10:45am CST

From Scratch: Building a Foundational Digital Ecosystem for Excellent Visitor Experience Nokomis The Architecture of Open Innovation: Inbound and Outbound Paths to Museum Innovation Harriet

11:30am CST

Making Meaning in a Multilingual World Harriet The Art of Listening: Creating Authentic Stories in Sound Minnetonka Experience, Traverse, Inhabit: Bringing a Sense of Place to Digital Navigation Calhoun The Promise and Practice of Digital Storytelling Great Lakes A2 Getting $*IT Done: Implementing Your Digital Strategy Great Lakes A1 Empathy at Play: Social Media Game Jam Nokomis

12:00pm CST

Overcoming the Digital Infrastructure Divide: Open Source Solutions to DAMS Harriet

12:30pm CST

Lunch Exhibit Hall

2:00pm CST

Access for Everyone: Implementing CollectiveAccess in a Museum Setting Harriet Taking Citizen History Seriously Great Lakes A2 Video beyond the Visual: How Captioning and Description-Writing Make Us Better Producers Minnetonka State of the Art: Creative Technology and the Museum Calhoun Museums Are from Mars, Visitors Are from Venus: Three Strategies for Interstellar Communication Great Lakes A1 Going Beyond SETUP.EXE: Strategically Planning for Success! Nokomis

2:30pm CST

Be Excellent to Each Other: The Future of Provenance Research Harriet Scaffolding User-Centered Digital Public History for Small Cultural Heritage Institutions Great Lakes A2

3:00pm CST

Networking Break Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

3:15pm CST

The MediaLab at the Met: Building a Space for Experimental Thinking Calhoun Museum Collections and the Personalization of Education Harriet The Future Is Static: Building Future-Proof Digital Publications at the Getty Minnetonka Libraries, Archives, and Museums: Points of Contact and Divergences in Cultural Heritage Information Great Lakes A2 Critique: Leadership Meet Digital, Digital Meet Leadership Great Lakes A1 Irreverent Storytelling: Ups & Downs of Unorthodoxy in Social Media Nokomis

3:45pm CST

Let's Move All the Museums Out to the Airports (or, at Least Just the Smithsonian) Calhoun Digital Collections in the Classroom: Teachers and Museums Working Together Harriet WordPress as Museum Web CMS: Development and Content Strategy Minnetonka

4:30pm CST

Archives as First Class Digital Citizens Great Lakes A2 Moving on from Flash: How to Use HTML5 to Build Engaging In-gallery Media Experiences Harriet The Agile Museum: 21st-century Leadership Great Lakes A1 Invisible Architectures: Supporting Public-Facing Technologies Minnetonka ANATOMY OF AN INTERACTIVE: An exclusive look at selected mobile projects Nokomis

5:00pm CST

Beyond 2D: Utilizing 3D Scanning for Enhanced Collection Access Great Lakes A2 Follow the Pen: Exhibition Metrics at Cooper Hewitt. Now What? Harriet

8:00am CST

Breakfast Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

9:00am CST

Creating Interactive Media as Dynamic as the Web Great Lakes A2 A Multimedia Guide for When It’s 95 Degrees in the Shade Nokomis Art Doppelgangers Calhoun Making Digital Loss Less Painful: Lessons Learned from the Removal of Historypin’s Mobile Application Minnetonka Conference as Publishing, or Expanding a Digital Arts Journalism Conference Online Harriet #ArtAtoZ: Serial Social Media at the National Gallery of Art Great Lakes A1

9:15am CST

Stories and Song: Using Digital Storytelling to Develop Exhibition Content Nokomis Exploring Cusco Great Lakes A2 One Small Step: Transforming the Exhibition Process and the Digital/Physical Connection Calhoun Rewriting Art History with Art Detective Minnetonka Making Hidden Collections Visible: Artists’ Books Canada Harriet Twitter: From Followers to Co-creators Great Lakes A1

9:30am CST

OMGWTFTGN Nokomis Putting Your Raspberry Pi Project Back on Track Calhoun When You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: Enhancing Discoverability through Wikipedia Minnetonka The Death of the Enhanced Publication Has Been Exaggerated Harriet Internet of Things, Emerging Technology, and “Unconventional” Social Media for Museums Great Lakes A1

9:45am CST

The JFK Challenge Calhoun Transforming Curriculum: Building a Digital Textbook Harriet MuseTech in Space: Building the Giant Astronaut Great Lakes A1

10:00am CST

Networking Break Hyatt Regency Minneapolis

10:15am CST

How a Botanic Gardens Used Technology to Share Its Hidden Scientific Research Harriet Evaluating Storyteller WWI: Love & Sorrow at Melbourne Museum Minnetonka What Can Photogrammetry Do for Your Museum? Practical Information and Case Studies Nokomis The Fourth Platform: The People Part Great Lakes A1 Let's Talk about Open Images and Your Museum Great Lakes A2 Putting the Social in Social Media: The Rise of Social Media Museum Associations Calhoun

10:45am CST

Using Qualitative Methods to Evaluate Digital In-Gallery Experiences Harriet In Next Week’s Episode…: Serializing the Online Exhibit Minnetonka

11:30am CST

More than a Museum: Digital Transformation at The Warhol Great Lakes A1 Lo(o)se Your Structure! Flexibility in Teen Programming Minnetonka Accessible Apps: Two Approaches to Developing Mobile Products That Utilize Principles of Universal Design Calhoun Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts: Panel Discussion Great Lakes A2 Designing Evidence: Planning the Data You Track to Capture Specific Behavior Harriet Digital Publishing: Taking the Plunge and How to Keep Swimming Nokomis

12:00pm CST

No Dollars, All Sense: Digital Adaptation at the Blanton Museum of Art Great Lakes A1

12:30pm CST

BIG SIG Lunch Exhibit Hall

2:00pm CST

Give Those Paper Files Legs! Planning and Prioritizing Curatorial Research for Digitization, Discovery, and Interaction Minnetonka Digital Ambition: iBeacons, Universal Design, and the Visitor Experience at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Calhoun Skyways Bridging Silos: Content and Production Strategy for a Cohesive User Experience Great Lakes A2 Women in Tech Harriet New Museum Technology Leaders Reflect on Their Adventures Great Lakes A1

2:30pm CST

Cloudy with a Chance of Success Minnetonka Indoor Positioning Is not about the Blue Dot, It’s about the Visitor Calhoun

3:00pm CST

Closing Plenary - Looking towards the Future: NMC Horizon Report Great Lakes C