GLAMSLAM is a forum for those working in the GLAM sector - galleries, libraries, archives, museums - as well as those who collaborate with them.

GLAMSLAM follows a participant-driven format, to ensure the program reflects the issues and concerns of archivists and curators, digital humanists, collection managers, education officers and librarians, as well as academics and researchers. The two participant-driven formats of the day are:

  • Lightning Talks
  • GLAMJAM sessions

Lightning Talks

Our Lightning Talks at GLAMSLAM are designed to showcase projects and possibilities.

Lightning talks are short, three-to-five minute presentations similar to a Pecha Kucha presentation but without restrictions on time spent on each slide. They give other attendees an insight into your work or your current challenges, enabling follow-up opportunities.

Topics might include:

  • current projects or exhibitions
  • future areas you'd liked to pursue
  • collections that could benefit from further study
  • a call out for expertise, or partners you'd like to find
  • demonstration of a digital tool
  • anything else!

GLAMJAMs

GLAMJAMs will be a facilitated opportunity for participant-driven discussion in sessions of approximately 45 minutes, on topics suggested in advance by attendees. Have a GLAM issue or niggle you want to talk about? A thing you'd like to see happen? A collaboration you'd like to get off the ground, or a problem you are trying to work out? This is your chance to have a discussion with others interested in similar questions.

Submit a GLAMJAM topic when you register and we'll collate your suggestions with others along the same lines.