2026 Badge Summit

2026 Badge Summit

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

1:30pm MDT

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

Beyond the Badge: How Arizona Is Aligning Micro and Milestone Credentials for Learner Mobility UMC 415+417David Borofsky • Elisabeth Fellowes • Dr. Lisa Young

Designing for Skills Visibility Across Learning Pathways UMC 285+287 (Aspen)Meghan Raferty • Colin Reynolds

How Do We Center Learner Voice and Experience in Designing Credentialing Ecosystems? UMC 382+384Tania 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

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 Add Decision Education to Your Badge Stack? CASE CTL (E390)Bruce Umpstead

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

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

Mobility by Design: Turning Credentials into Real Opportunity for STARs UMC 382+384Tara Laughlin • Rebecka Ramos

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

3:15pm MDT

Build Your Own Badge UMC 247Tomás Mindlin • Jim Vernon

Designing Badges for Democracy: A Civic Participation Design Challenge CASE CTL (E390)Chris Newlon

From Pitcher to Catcher: Designing SIS Workflows for Digital Credential Ingestion UMC 382+384Mike Simmons

Testing Mobility: Can a Simple Ladder Help Us Measure What Actually Moves the Needle? CASE E422Nishita Chheda

When Credentials Cause Harm: Unpacking the Risks of Verifiable Learning and Work Records CASE E351Dr. Kelly Page