Tuesday, November 20 • 9:30am - 10:30am

Some of you might remember Michael from NDF2010 where he wowed us with his strategic thinking and ideas about the impact GLAM can make if we open up our content for others to use. We've been keeping an close eye on the great things he has been doing ever since. He is now co-founder of the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live and he is very excited share the work he is doing and, he says, “to learn from Aotearoa New Zealand’s amazing digital cultural sector.”

Michael Edson - co-founder, Associate Director, and Head of Digital for the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live

MICHAEL'S BIO

Michael Edson (@mpedson, usingdata.com) is a strategist and thought leader at the forefront of digital transformation in the cultural sector. He is co-founder and Associate Director of the Museum for the United Nations – UN Live, a new institution currently being envisioned for Copenhagen, Denmark and locations throughout the world.

Michael was formerly the Director of Web and New Media Strategy for the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, based in Washington, DC. Michael is a Salzburg Global Fellow; a Fellow at the Getty Leadership Institute; a Presidential Distinguished Fellow emeritus at the Council for Libraries and Information Resources (USA); and the founder of the Openlab Workshop initiative, a solutions lab, convener, and consultancy designed to accelerate the speed and impact of transformational change in the GLAM sector. Michael is an O'Reilly Foo Camp alumni (and an NDF alumni too!) and he was named a "Tech Titan: person to watch" by Washingtonian magazine.