2026 Badge Summit

2026 Badge Summit

2026 Badge Summit @ CU Boulder
In-person July 13-15 | Online August 4

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1:30pm MDT

The Traitors Among Us: When Digital Credential Initiatives Don’t Add Up UMC 247Elizabeth Robertson Hornsby

How Do We Center Learner Voice and Experience in Designing Credentialing Ecosystems? UMC 384+386Tania Curry

How Do We Create Real Use Cases for Interoperability? UMC 235Madelyn Rahn

How Might We Truly Enable Learner Mobility? CASE CTL (E390)Rob Coyle

Making Contributions Visible: Turning Lived Experience into Mobility CASE E351Dr. Julie Keane

Skills at Scale Roadmap CASE E422Kathryn Green • Mary Gwozdz • Kelly Hoyland

Trust in Digital Credentials: Who Issued This? What Does It Mean? UMC 245Jeanne Kitchens • Deb Everhart

2:40pm MDT

Examining Equity in the Micro-credential Movement CASE E351Cami Cooper • Trevor Cox

From Anyone to Everyone: The Real Economics of Open Recognition CASE E422Duncan Cox • Taylor Kendal

Gaining Employer Buy-In: What’s working, what’s not, and how we'll fill existing gaps UMC 247Greg Watkins

How might we design a “commons” infrastructure to make microcredentials discoverable, adaptable and reusable? UMC 235Başak Büyükçelen • Lisa Young

Let's Talk Decoupling: A Functional Design Challenge UMC 415+417Courtney Lang

Let’s Add Better Decision Making to Your Skill Badge! CASE CTL (E390)Bruce Umpstead

Mobility by Design: Turning Credentials into Real Opportunity for STARs UMC 384+386Tara Laughlin • Rebecka Ramos

Trust in Digital Credentials: Who Issued This? What Does It Mean? UMC 245Jeanne Kitchens • Deb Everhart

What Changes Because This Badge Exists? UMC 285+287 (Aspen)Meghan Raftery