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2026 Badge Summit
2026 Badge Summit
2026 Badge Summit @ CU Boulder
In-person July 13-15 | Online August 4
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Monday
, July 13
CASE CTL (E390)
1:30pm •
How Might We Truly Enable Learner Mobility?
LIMITED
2:40pm •
How Might We Add Decision Education to Your Badge Stack?
LIMITED
CASE E351
1:30pm •
Making Contributions Visible: Turning Lived Experience into Mobility
LIMITED
2:40pm •
Examining Equity in the Micro-credential Movement
LIMITED
CASE E422
1:30pm •
Skills at Scale Roadmap
LIMITED
2:40pm •
From Anyone to Everyone: The Real Economics of Open Recognition
LIMITED
Glen Miller Ball Room
9:00am •
Registration | Pre-Conference Workshops | Campus Tours
11:30am •
Opening Luncheon + Badgesplaining Talks
UMC 235
1:30pm •
How do we create real use cases for interoperability?
LIMITED
2:40pm •
How might we design a “commons” infrastructure to make microcredentials discoverable, adaptable and reusable?
LIMITED
UMC 247
1:30pm •
The Traitors Among Us: When Digital Credential Initiatives Don’t Add Up
LIMITED
2:40pm •
Gaining Employer Buy-In: What’s working, what’s not, and how we'll fill existing gaps
LIMITED
UMC 285+287 (Aspen)
1:30pm •
Designing for Skills Visibility Across Learning Pathways
LIMITED
2:40pm •
What Changes Because This Badge Exists?
LIMITED
UMC 382+384
1:30pm •
How Do We Center Learner Voice and Experience in Designing Credentialing Ecosystems?
LIMITED
2:40pm •
Mobility by Design: Turning Credentials into Real Opportunity for STARs
LIMITED
UMC 415+417
1:30pm •
Beyond the Badge: How Arizona Is Aligning Micro and Milestone Credentials for Learner Mobility
LIMITED
2:40pm •
Let's Talk Decoupling: A Functional Design Challenge
LIMITED
Tuesday
, July 14
CASE CTL (E390)
10:00am •
Issuing at Scale: How Maricopa, ASU, and DXtera Are Building a Cross-Institution Credentialing Network
11:30am •
Good Badge, Bad Badge: A Hands-On Badge-Making Lab
2:30pm •
Indigenous Recognition Systems (IRS) —Interfacing Knowledge Systems (IKS) with Global Credentialing
3:15pm •
Designing Badges for Democracy: A Civic Participation Design Challenge
LIMITED
CASE E351
2:30pm •
When Skills Become Visible: Veterans' Stories from the Field
3:15pm •
When Credentials Cause Harm: Unpacking the Risks of Verifiable Learning and Work Records
LIMITED
CASE E422
11:30am •
Lessons from a Digital Badge Pilot Implementation
2:30pm •
Making Micro-Credentials Stick: Tools for Faculty Support and Employer Engagement
3:15pm •
Testing Mobility: Can a Simple Ladder Help Us Measure What Actually Moves the Needle?
LIMITED
Glen Miller Ball Room
8:00am •
Breakfast Keynote featuring Keisha Katz
12:00pm •
Tuesday Luncheon | T3 Innovation Network Mid-Year Meeting
UMC 235
10:00am •
Accelerating LER Adoption: Lessons, Models, and Momentum from the LER Accelerator
10:45am •
Exploring Definitions and Implications of Micro-credentials and Digital Badges in Higher Education and Workforce
11:30am •
Designing for Scale: How Public Higher Education Systems Are Embedding Google Microcredentials for Career Mobility
2:30pm •
How Do You Spell L-E-R? Spotlighting Scalable Practices Beyond the Transcript
3:15pm •
Teaching, Research, Service: Building an Academic Ecosystem for Career Readiness Through Digital Credentials at HBCUs
UMC 247
10:00am •
EX-Marks the Spot: What Former Faculty and Former EdTech Get Right (and Wrong) About Digital Credentials
10:45am •
Banking on Skills: A Cross-Sector Model for Workforce-Aligned Microcredential Pathway
11:30am •
Essential Skills - The Key to the Future of Work
2:30pm •
Don’t Be a Free-Badger – Align Criteria and Evidence to Ensure Workforce Value
3:15pm •
Build Your Own Badge
LIMITED
UMC 285+287 (Aspen)
10:00am •
From Completion to Application: Badges as Evidence of Learning Transfer
10:45am •
Making South African qualifications machine readable and transferable
11:30am •
Considerations for Digital Credentialing in Higher Education: Guidance and Emerging Best Practices in Support of Learner Mobility
2:30pm •
I Value Badges! Making the Micro-Credentials Case on Campus
3:15pm •
Early Outcomes Leveraging the Trusted Career Profile to Facilitate Employer Adoption
UMC 382+384
10:00am •
Making Experience Count in K–12: A Common Language for Internships, Capstones, and Career Stories
10:45am •
Self-disclosing allyship: leveraging digital credentials to improve support for neurodivergent learners
11:30am •
Credentialing the Credential Builders: Lessons from managing a national credential portfolio
2:30pm •
Building the Framework- Why building a styleguide is key
3:15pm •
From Pitcher to Catcher: Designing SIS Workflows for Digital Credential Ingestion
LIMITED
UMC 415+417
10:00am •
From Prototype to Practice: Applications of DCC Technology and Tools
Wednesday
, July 15
CASE CTL (E390)
9:30am •
Lessons from Year One: What We Learned Building a Microcredentialing Program (and What We’d Do Differently)
10:15am •
Operationalizing the LER: What We’re Learning About Employer Needs and Credential Transport
11:15am •
Ensuring Trusted and Transparent Credentials in Higher Education
CASE E422
9:30am •
Recently Launched: Quality Assurance Evaluations for Short-term Credential Providers
10:15am •
Where Skills Really Get Assessed: Mapping the Signals That Shape Opportunity
Glen Miller Ball Room
8:00am •
Wednesday Breakfast + Badgesplaining
12:00pm •
Closing Plenary Luncheon
UMC 235
9:30am •
Idea to Badge- A Practical, Human-Centered and AI-Powered Pathway for Microcredential Creation
10:15am •
Achieving Interoperability Through Translation: Advancing State Digital Credentialing Ecosystems
11:15am •
Student Skill Sprints: Accelerating Career-Ready Learning on Campus
UMC 247
9:30am •
Designing Skills Evidence that Employers Trust
10:15am •
Making the STEM Microcredential Landscape Less Bumpy
11:15am •
Understanding Federal and State Requirements for Skill and Credential Portability
UMC 285+287 (Aspen)
9:30am •
Critical Partnerships for STEM Career Pathways via Skills-Based Microcredentials
10:15am •
Evaluating the Technical Foundations of Badge and LER Systems: A Ready-to-Use Self-Assessment Tool
11:15am •
Skills based hiring for employers
UMC 382+384
9:30am •
Making Badges Stick: Practical Steps for Policy, Access, and Lifelong Learning
10:15am •
When Badges Fail and When They Work: Governance, Faculty, and the Power Behind Credentials
11:15am •
The Learning Outcome to Skill to Competency Highway. Why is it one-way?
UMC 415+417
9:30am •
Open-Source Skills Analysis Tools Ready for Action: Two Opportunities to Leverage LAiSER in Higher Education
10:15am •
Microcredentials, Major Shrug: What Are We Really Signaling?
11:15am •
Using the CREDO Process to Launch STEM Microcredentials
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