InterActivity 2021
2021-05-13 - 2021-05-29
The world changed for everyone in 2020. Our personal and professional lives have been disrupted by everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to environmental disasters to the everyday changes that happen in life. During this time, our global community called on our foundations as a caring, connected community to not just endure, but also to plant seeds for future growth—exemplifying what resilience looks like, both in our field and for our communities.
Our resilience journey is not over, and InterActivity 2021 will be a critical time for continued care and connection. Through carefully curated, skills-based training workshops, we are making investments in rebuilding resilient organizations. Critical networking and social events will feed the connections we know are so necessary for meeting our mental and emotional needs as we continue to navigate these trying times.

19th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference in Beijing, China
2021-05-17 - 2021-05-22
Theme: Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation
In ICOM-CC we are excited and full of enthusiastic expectations for our next Triennial Conference. This will be the first time ICOM-CC goes to “zhōng guó”, 中国 (the Middle Country) for a conference on conservation. The theme of the conference is: “Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation”. The conference will serve as an eye-opener as well as an outstanding forum for dialogue amongst conservation professionals from all over the world. Our aim is to bring together, exchange, and discuss knowledge, traditions, and skills with conservation professionals from both East and West and in this way learn from each other’s practices, philosophies, and materials.

EuropeanaTech x AI Webinar Series: Qurator-ai, Curation Technologies
2021-05-21 - 2021-05-22
How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) help us to enrich and research cultural heritage collections? How can ML models be adapted to the complexities of historical and cultural material it has not been trained for? Which biases can we reveal in historical collections? How can we gain new perspectives by using AI in researching cultural heritage data? Our new webinar series will discuss these questions with you and present projects and people who are reflecting on exactly these matters.
On Friday 21 May we will present Qurator.ai – Curation Technologies, a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This project is developing an innovative technology platform that supports knowledge workers in various industries to address the challenges they face when curating digital content. In this session, Georg Rehm, DFKI, will introduce Qurator, and we will explore three use cases for AI in cultural heritage curation, including Semantic Storytelling (Stefan Grill, 3pc/Xinnovations); Image Garden (Joachim Quantz, ART+COM); and Qurator in the Library (Clemens Neudecker, Berlin State Library). A panel discussion on AI and digital transformation will conclude the session.

2021 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo
2021-05-24 - 2021-05-25, 2021-06-07 - 2021-06-10
The AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo is the only event of its scope and scale. It brings together museums of all types and sizes—from art and history museums to zoos and botanic gardens—to share ideas and make connections that are transformative. It’s a place where all museum professionals learn from one another, create partnerships, and leave inspired to make an impact on their museums, communities, and the world.
The 2021 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo (#AAM2021) is taking place virtually May 24 and June 7-9.

Cultural Enterprises Conference – The Association For Cultural Enterprises
2021-05-24 - 2021-05-28
The Cultural Enterprises Conference 2021 is now open for booking. Bringing the sector together again, this time with our dynamic and intuitive digital platform on 24 – 27 May 2021.
Programme Highlights:
–Connect: A full day to explore the Trade Show, engage with exhibitors and start networking with fellow delegates and speakers.
–Consolidate: A full day of seminars focussed on helping you make the most of your existing business.
–Create: Today’s seminars will look at new and creative ways of generating sustainable income.
–Renew: A final day of seminars designed to help you build a business fit for the future.
We’re working with Swapcard, a world-class conference and exhibition platform bringing you the very best in digital engagement. Watch this video to see how to:

Explore all the sessions and create your own agenda
Use live chat to connect with delegates, exhibitors and speakers from around the world
Set up your own profile to meet like-minded colleagues across the sector

MUŻE.X Shaping Museum Features, Spring Webinar Series: Linda Norris
2021-05-27 - 2021-05-28
We are delighted to bring you the second series of pre-conference webinar events in the run-up to the conference MUŻE.X – Shaping Museum Futures. Three international voices from the museum world shall be in conversation with the conference convenors Prof Carmel Borg and Dr. Sandro Debono. The one-hour conversations shall revolve around participatory practices, creativity in museums, and collections-development practices in response to the new realities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Linda Norris is Senior Specialist, Methodology and Practice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC). As the co-author of Creativity in Museum Practice, Linda is an international thought leader in facilitating conversation and action surrounding the ways creativity can transform museums, shape more compelling narratives and create deeper, more inclusive community connections.

CADAF Paris 2021
2021-06-01 - 2021-07-01
The latest edition of the CADAF fairs created by New Art Group. The Online Paris 2021 edition is supported by Beaux Arts & Cie. Digital Art Month is a celebration of digital and new media art that takes place in various public locations, participating businesses and online.

The Summer Comeback: Recover Fast & Strong with Your Local Visitors
2021-06-02 - 2021-06-03
This high season has high stakes. Make sure Summer 2021 is the start of your epic comeback with Tiqets’ FREE online conference: The Summer Comeback: Recover Fast & Strong with Your Local Visitors.
Join Tiqets on Wednesday 2 June at 16:00 CEST (15:00 GMT, 10:00 EDT) for insights from industry leaders and key tactics to make a strong comeback this summer.
You’ll learn why keynote speaker Tom Hall, VP at Lonely Planet, believes this summer is a unique opportunity to engage a massive audience. Then, in our panel discussion on How to Stand Out to Visitors This Summer, you’ll learn actions to take now for a strong recovery from experts like a travel editor at Thrillist.

Americans for the Arts 2021 Annual Convention: Building an Equitable Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy Together
2021-06-08 - 2021-06-12
As the country reemerges and rebuilds from the pandemic, 2021 can be a moment of hope for everyone and a chance to share our art in all the ways we have missed. For the arts and culture sector, it will also be a year of navigating reopening challenges and continuing momentum in the fight for racial equity. The 2021 Annual Convention is our opportunity to gather and reimagine our creative field and communities.

Join us for a week of inspiring keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities focused on the pressing questions ahead:

Centering Equity in Creative Recovery
Putting Creative Workers and Cultural Organizations to Work
Improving Policies and Practices for the Creative Economy
Envisioning Tomorrow’s Creative Engines

This year, we are thrilled to offer a number of scholarship opportunities for those unable to access resources for a paid registration to attend the 2021 Annual Convention. We strongly encourage those that identify as, reside in, and/or directly serve communities of color, rural populations, audiences with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and/or marginalized audiences to submit a request for a scholarship. Learn more and submit your request here by May 3, 2021.

Axiell Virtual User Conference
2021-06-08 - 2021-06-19
The Virtual User Conference will take learnings from last year to craft a program of value-driven sessions and networking opportunities to help you get the most out of our user community and your partnership with Axiell. The conference will run June 8-18 and feature product roadmaps, tips & tricks, user stories and interactive discussions.

Ecsite Online Conference 2021
2021-06-09 - 2021-06-12
The Ecsite Online Conference will be a unique professional development opportunity, offering an intense mix of intellectual stimulation, purposeful and creative sessions, business opportunities, and unparalleled networking …. all true to the spirit of the Ecsite community – creative, engaging, open and professional.
The virtual conference will be hosted on Hopin, allowing participants to access interactive areas and to easily network with their peers. Attendees can jump into speed meetings, search for other participants and book one-to-one or small group meetings. In addition, participants can enjoy the Business Buzz, the conference’s trade fair, where exhibitors will showcase the latest products and services with live sessions, demonstrations and promotional videos. The Ecsite Online Conference will also feature social events, such as the annual party and a ‘not-so-Nocturne’.
To register for the event and to find more information, please click here. The cheapest rate ends on 29 June 2021. This year, Ecsite is also introducing its new Solidarity scheme, where participants can gift a conference ticket to those who might be new to the event or who might not be able to afford a ticket.
Over 1200 science engagement professionals from 60 countries are expected to attend, alongside more than 60 exhibitors. Last year’s Ecsite virtual conference brought its members together to connect, learn and share knowledge through #EcsiteOnline.

Storytelling with Digital Culture
2021-06-09 - 2021-06-10
Humans have always told, retold, and listened to stories. They allow us to make sense of the world, to learn, and to empathise with and connect with each other. Cultural heritage institutions are increasingly using digital media to share the stories of their collections online.
In this webinar, we hear from members of a Europeana Task Force that has been collecting and analysing examples of online digital storytelling from the cultural heritage sector. Discover some of the examples we loved and find out how we approached the task of analysing our emotional reactions to them.
We are also delighted to welcome some of the people behind the examples the Task Force used as case studies.

MUŻE.X Shaping Museum Features, Spring Webinar Series: Danielle Kuijten
2021-06-11 - 2021-06-12
We are delighted to bring you the second series of pre-conference webinar events in the run-up to the conference MUŻE.X – Shaping Museum Futures. Three international voices from the museum world shall be in conversation with the conference convenors Prof Carmel Borg and Dr. Sandro Debono. The one-hour conversations shall revolve around participatory practices, creativity in museums, and collections-development practices in response to the new realities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Danielle Kuijten is acting director and co-curator at Imagine IC, a pioneer in the field of contemporary heritage practices. Her main focus is on participatory collecting methods, contemporary collecting, action curating and reflective practice. Danielle has been an active member of COMCOL ICOM’s international committee for collecting, and since 2019 in the role of chair.

AIM National Conference 2021
2021-06-16 - 2021-06-19
This virtual conference faces these questions head on, helping delegates build on their organizational and personal strengths to meet the challenges of the future with confidence and creativity. We’ll be looking at the importance of leadership and good governance during hard times, sharing the new ways of working we adopted, and forecasting what next for the sector. From practical sessions to personal reflections, expert plenaries to virtual networking, the conference brings together delegates from across the UK for engaging sessions led by practitioners, professionals, experts, and policymakers. We’ll cover the latest insights and advice and encourage you to make new contacts, catch up and share best practices, too.

Europeana Aggregators' Fair
2021-06-16 - 2021-06-18
On 16 and 17 June 2021 the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum will open their virtual doors to cultural heritage professionals and anyone with an interest in high quality, open cultural heritage content. The draft programme gives participants the opportunity to listen to inspiring speakers, join panel discussions, take in training webinars and ask questions of the people working in aggregation. It will be a great opportunity to find out more about how high quality cultural heritage content is being made accessible to new audiences through Europeana, and how you can get involved.

CM Málaga, Cities & Museums International Trade Fair
2021-06-21 - 2021-06-23
﻿﻿The transformation of tourism. The post-COVID-19 traveler. The new consumer
Spain has gone from trying to limit mass tourism, which was drowning its cities, to start thinking about policies to attract tourists. From almost 85 million visitors in 2019 to practically zero. This is, by far the worst crisis that international tourism has faced since records began. After an unprecedented moment of zero tourism, the recovery of the industry requires the definition of a new model based on highly digitalised management. The new tourist demands much more sustainable services and products than those we knew about until now. It also requires that tourists’ real impact on the environment can be measured and tested. So, how do we rebuild a sector that accounts for 12% of the domestic GDP?

2021 IIIF Online Annual Conference
2021-06-22 - 2021-06-25
The event is intended for a wide range of participants, including digital image repository managers, content curators, software developers, scholars, and administrators at libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions, software firms, and other organizations working with digital images and audio/visual materials.
This event will include sessions that have been traditionally held at IIIF events, such as a newcomer welcome session, the Community Groups update, a roadmapping session, and presentations and lightning talks from the community.
In response to the lingering effects of the pandemic, it will also include the opportunity to host and attend regionally-focused online meetings aimed at networking and knowledge sharing with local attendees.

Europeana Digital Spring Program 2021
2021-07-08 - 2021-07-09
We’re thrilled that you want to join us at a series of events we will host in the coming months.
The programme on 8 July will be related to Digital cultural heritage and social change and Innovation and experimentation:

At 13:45 Dalton Martins will present the Tainacan project: a WordPress solution for digital collections.
At 14:30 we will have 4 Ignite talks: Georgia Manolopoulou will present Shaping the Global Citizen, Lana Pajdas will present Slow travel for a better understanding of heritage, Carola Carlino will present Murals inside and Vania Ramírez Islas will present TBC.

Please keep an eye open for future events because we will have many more to come.

Getting to Know Your Online Audiences — the Data Driven Approach
2021-07-13 - 2021-07-14
This webinar will show you how to define your audience through a variety of research methods.
Audiences are relating to organisations in ever-changing ways. As we navigate the Covid world, it’s important we understand how audiences are engaging with us online.
This session will:

Explore how to develop an audience research strategy
Give you an overview of seven research methods, including user testing and focus groups
Show you how to define research questions
Explore the planning logistics of audience research projects

Museums + Heritage Show: Summer Series 2021
2021-07-14 - 2021-07-16
Lessons have been learned the hard way over the past year but have nevertheless pushed the museums and heritage sector to places previously unimaginable in such a short space of time.
In the 2021 Summer Series, we bring together industry leaders to share their experiences of projects that have demonstrated outstanding agility, creativity, and guile to push boundaries amid the harshest crisis in living memory.

Christie's Art and Tech Summit: NFTs and Beyond
2021-07-15 - 2021-07-16
The Art+Tech Summit is a one-day conference that continues Christie’s ongoing initiative to spark dialogue about the role and impact of emerging technologies in the art world. This year, in a combined live and virtual format, we will bring together innovators, artists, thought leaders, collectors and more, for a series of panel discussions around NFTs in the morning session, followed by afternoon conversations on the way technology is impacting the way we create, experience, buy and sell art.
Panel discussions:

• NFTs @ Christie’s: Finding Value in the Unknown
• The New World: Creating, Collecting and Curating NFTs
• Expanding the Conversation: NFTs in Fashion, Music and Collectibles
• Brand Strategy in the Metaverse: How to Drive Strategy and Engagement
• NFTs with Novo: A Fireside Chat with CEO of Galaxy Digital and Crypto-Evangelist, Mike Novogratz
• The Ecstacy of NFTs: The Blank Wall Conundrum
• Hybrid World: The Bridge Between Physical and Digital
• The Innovation Cycle

ASVA/BVA BDRC Webinar – An Analysis of Quality of Experience and COVID Safety Measures at Scottish Visitor Attractions
2021-08-04 - 2021-08-05
Over the last couple of months, ASVA has partnered with research consultancy BVA BDRC to conduct mystery visits across 20 of Scotland’s visitor attractions, with the express aim of assessing quality of experience and the delivery of COVID safety measures in the new landscape that attractions are now operating in.
Over the course of the last two months, trained auditors have assessed a carefully chosen and diverse range of attractions on the full visitor journey. On Wednesday 4th August at 10.30am, Jon Young and Diana Meterna, Director and Senior Research Executive from BVA BDRC will present the headline findings from this exercise. The presentation will illustrate how well Scottish attractions are currently performing on: pre-booking, staff engagement, visitor experience, COVID safety, toilets, and retail and catering.

Association of Nature Center Administrators - 2021 Summit
2021-08-23 - 2021-08-27
NATURE CENTERS, OUTDOOR SCHOOLS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS are in a new phase of challenges, and we need new solutions. Join us for the 2021 ANCA Summit, where we will LOOK AHEAD to the future and RECHARGE & RESET our work as a profession. If you want fresh tools and inspiration for your organization, don’t miss this empowering event.
The Summit is a three-and-a-half-day virtual event for you to learn and connect with your peers. With a wide variety of programming topics and session formats, you can pick what works best for you — whether you are new in the field, mid-career, or a veteran leader.

Virtual Licensing Expo 2021
2021-08-24 - 2021-08-27
For more than 40 years, Licensing Expo has connected the world’s most influential entertainment, character, art, and corporate brand owners and agents with consumer goods manufacturers, licensees, and retailers.
Whether you are looking to spot trends, build partnerships, or secure brand rights for your products, Licensing Expo Virtual has your answer.

ICOM Prague International Symposium 2021
2021-08-26 - 2021-08-27
Every year preceding an ICOM General Conference, an International Symposium is held in the host city to introduce the main themes. For the first time, this pre-conference will be hybrid, opening the doors for wider, international participation. ICOM Prague International Symposium 2021 will provide an overview of the upcoming ICOM Prague 2022 General Conference, from the axis of the scientific programme to the new hybrid infrastructure.
The themes of ICOM Prague 2022:
• Purpose: Museums and the Civil Society
• Sustainability: Museums and Resilience
• Vision: Museum and Leadership
• Delivery: Museums and new technologies
The milestones of ICOM Prague 2022
The afternoon sessions will tackle the innovative hybrid format of the 26th ICOM General Conference and other institutional milestones.

The Inclusive Museum Conference: What Museums Post Pandemic?
2021-09-08 - 2021-09-11
What Museums Post Pandemic?
Visitors
No longer the universal individual citizen of our recent modern aspirations, visitors of today are recognizably diverse.
Forms of Engagement
What is the role today of the reader, the viewer, the audience, the citizen, the customer, the patron?
Modalities of Representation
The emerging communications environment—in which image, sound, and word are all made of the same digital stuff—affords new openings for museums and new challenges.
Reimagining the Scholarly Conference
To support the range of options, and flexibility needed in our current climate, we will offer a blended conference experience. You do not need to commit either to a place-based or virtual presentation at the time of submission. You can present both ways, or change your mode of the presentation if your preferences change. The choice to participate virtually could also be a moral decision – for the planet, for security, or when the financial burden of travel is too great. We aim to foster spaces that align with principles of social justice and community development.

Deutsche National Bibliothek (DNB) Conference: Digital Material
2021-09-15 - 2021-09-17
To mark the completion of the digitisation project of Jan Tschichold’s estate, the German Museum of Books and Writing is organising an international conference on 15 and 16 September, titled “Digital material. Digitized collections in cultural heritage institutions. Conference on the curating and analyzing of digitized collections using the example of Jan Tschichold’s estate”. You can take part either on site or virtually.
Conference Day 1: Jan Tschichold’s Legacy in European Cultural Heritage Institutions
Conference Day 2: Digitized Collections in Cultural Heritage Institutions – Methods of Curating and Analyzing

DCN Tech Platform Demo: Siteimprove - Accessibility Solutions for your Website
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-24
The Digital Culture Network is pleased to present this 30-min live demo and Q&A by Siteimprove. This event is part of a series of Tech Demos, presented with the purpose of sharing opportunities and ideas about what new technologies can offer the arts and cultural sector.
The Siteimprove platform offers a whole suite of website management tools, that covers Accessibility, Content Quality Assurance, SEO, Analytics, as well as Data Privacy and GDPR. They also helped write the accessibility legislation for the Government. They will be walking us through their accessibility tool and sharing best practice examples.

2021 ICEE Annual Conference
2021-09-27 - 2021-10-02
From September 27 to October 1, 2021, the 2021 ICOM ICEE Annual Conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in collaboration with the Museum of Art and History of the City of Geneva (MAH), and ICOM Switzerland. The preliminary plan features four days of keynote speeches, panel sessions, networking opportunities, private visits to exhibitions and museum collections in Geneva, and a one-day excursion to Lausanne.
The safety of our members, participants, partners, and collaborators is our top priority. As we write this message, it is our hope that we will be able to meet face to face in Geneva at the end of September. However, with the ongoing uncertainties of the global pandemic, along with travel restrictions, we are aware that there is a chance face to face activities might not happen. Therefore, the conference plan can be easily switched from an in-person event to a digital platform for a virtual conference, just as we successfully did for the 2020 ICEE Virtual Conference. We will keep you informed.
The conference theme, along with the call for papers and more exciting news about the 2021 conference will be announced in our April newsletter. Please save the date for the conference. We hope everyone will join us in for the 2021 ICEE Conference in Geneva, face to face or digitally!
A few sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please contact the ICEE team at programs.icee.icom@gmail.com.
