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Friday, October 4, 2019

9:00 am–1:00 pm

• Museums Can Take Themselves So Seriously—Let’s Go Camping!

• Museum Stores—Where the Relationship between Art & Commerce Thrives

9:00 am–4:00 pm

• Our World is Flat: An Introduction to Managing Archival & Photograph Collections

Saturday, October 5, 2019

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

• Language and Learning: How Museums Play a Vital Role in Cultural Preservation

• National Initiatives Build Capacity for Diversity and Inclusion

• Scaling Best Practices to Fit Your Museum

• Museums and Climate Change: Creating a Sustainable Path Forward

• Place Matters: Site-Specific Interpretation

1:30 pm - 2:45 pm

• Planned Giving Opportunities with the Upcoming Transfer of Wealth

• Recycling and Reusing Archival Materials and Museum Furniture

• The Transgender Museum Experience: Creating a Safe Space for Everyone to Work, Learn, and Play

• The Power of Adaptability: Raising Your "AQ" in a Rapidly Changing Industry

• How Education Partnerships Strengthen Your Community: A Case Study on National History Day

3:30 pm - 4:45 pm

• Grants 101 - How to Apply for a Federal Grant

• Welcoming Refugees, Immigrants, and New Americans to Museums

• Idaho-rror stories! True Tales of the Unexpected, Unbelievable, and Unmanageable

• Designing for Impact

• Validating and Sustaining Native Culture and Philosophy

Sunday, October 6, 2019

9:00 am - 10:15 am

• Seeding Authority: A Roundtable Discussion on Decolonizing Initiatives at Four Institutions

• Good Trustee/Bad Trustee: Recruit, Engage, and Empower the Best Leaders for your Museum's Board

• Seeking Advice: Rethinking Community Advisory Committees

• "You Want to Do What?!" The Challenges of Presenting Contemporary Art Installations

• Museums are Places that are Quietly Subversive

11:00 am - 12:15 pm

• Board Engagement in Fundraising

• Not for Sale: Preserving and Sharing a Community Collection

• Slow Down and Reflect: Mindfulness in Museums

• Nailed It/Failed It: Risks and Rewards of Failure

• Undoing Institutional Racism: An Ongoing Project (Year 3)

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm

• A Scientist Walks into an Art Museum...Engaging Audiences across Disciplines

• Engage with Your Post-Capital Project Future: "If you knew now what you'll know then..."

• The Power of Communities: Collaborative Interpretation at Minidoka National Historic Site

• How to Think Like a Chief Digital Officer

• Motherhood and Museum Professionals: Creating Environments Supportive of Work/Life Balance

Monday, October 7, 2019

11:15 am - 12:30 pm

• The Power of the Pen: Creating Fundraising Messages to Engage Your Donors

• Exhibit Critique: Idaho State Museum

• Conservation DIY(ish)

• Indigenous Perspectives on Museum Diversity

2:15 pm - 3:30 pm

• Inclusivity, Difficult History, and the Modern Museum Audience

• Reflecting Our Community: A Case Study in Educator Hiring

• Recalculating, Recalculating...Using the Museum Assessment Program as Your Museum's GPS on the Road to Excellence

• Beyond Storage-Innovative Collection Engagement Models

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

• Crafting a Mutually Beneficial Museum-University Collaboration

• Leading Change Initiatives (It's all about engaging people!)

• Engagement through NAGPRA Practice: Methods, Strategies, and Common Goals for Tribes and Museums

• Stronger Together: Creating Exhibitions Through Museum Partnerships