We're closing this year's DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage conference the way the best collections are built: by looking at everything we've gathered and asking what it actually means.
For the final 30 minutes, the panel of experts will step back from the day and reflect on the ideas that landed, the tensions that didn't resolve, and the questions that kept resurfacing whether we were talking about metadata standards, digital preservation, or the weight of stewarding centuries of culture on a constrained budget.
Then the floor opens.
A roaming mic will travel the room, inviting you, archivists, curators, technologists, and everyone in between, to add your voice. What did you hear today that changed how you think? What challenge are you carrying back to your institution? What did no one quite say out loud, but everyone was thinking?
No polished conclusions required. No tidy answers expected.
Just the community, the conversation, and the work that continues long after the venue closes.
The real collection is the connections we made along the way.