Attending IASSIST 2026? Catch the Presentations by ICPSR Staff and Friends!
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Attending IASSIST 2026 “Championing Data: Data Professionals at the Nexus” sponsored by ICPSR? Check out the presentations by ICPSR staff and friends! View the conference program for this virtual conference from June 2 to June 5, 2026, and find the list of presentations that we’d like to highlight below.
Tuesday, 2 June 2026
11:00-12:00 ET Opening & Plenary
Opening remarks and welcome from IASSIST President Bobray Bordelon, followed by a plenary talk from Lynda Kellam, Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data & Digital Scholarship at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries and Director of the Data Rescue Project.
12:00-12:50 ET Concurrent Session A.2 Data Management, Metadata, & Platforms
Olivier Rouchon, Tuomas Alatera, Maja Dolinar, Maaike Verburg, Jared Lyle
14:00-14:50 ET Concurrent Session B.3 Data Management, Metadata, & Platforms
Mike Shallcross, Megan Chenoweth, Jared Lyle
15:00-15:50 ET Concurrent Session C. Block Teaching & Data Literacy
Stephanie Labou; Julie Marcoux; Barbara Esty
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
09:00-10:00 ET Plenary Margaret Levenstein
Speaker: Margaret Levenstein, Director of ICPSR and Professor in the School of Information, Research Professor in the Institute for Social Research, and Adjunct Professor of Business Economics, University of Michigan.
12:00-12:50 ET Concurrent Session E.3 Data Management, Metadata, & Platforms
Julie Lenoir, Jennifer Zeiger
12:00-12:50 ET Concurrent Session E.3 Data Management, Metadata, & Platforms
Kathryn Lavender, Jennifer Zeiger, Seoyoun Kim
Thursday, 4 June 2026
11:00-12:00 ET Plenary Katie Genadek
Speaker: Katie Genadek, economist and the director of the Decennial Census Digitization and Linkage (DCDL) project at the U.S. Census Bureau and faculty research associate at the Institute for Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado – Boulder.
12:00-12:50 ET Concurrent Session G. Block At the Nexus
Lynda Kellam, Halle Burns
15:00-15:50 ET Concurrent Session I.1 Generative AI & Automation
Megan Chenoweth, Jared Lyle
*Names of ICPSR staff have been bolded.
To better accommodate our global membership, each day’s start time is staggered: on Tuesday and Thursday, the conference will begin at 11 A.M. Eastern time, on Wednesday at 9 A.M. Eastern Time, and on Friday at 12 noon Eastern time. Full schedule details forthcoming with registration in April.