Keynote
Ethical Digital Stewardship
We are excited to announce that our 2025 Keynote Speakers are Jessica Herczeg-Konecny and Marshall N. Price, PhD, who will be speaking on the topic of Artificial Intelligence in Museums.
The impact of Artificial intelligence (AI) in various industries and fields is still unfolding. As experts, practitioners, and scholars are progressively making sense of AI in their disciplines, there is no doubt that that AI is here to stay, and a human-AI collaboration is the future of work and practices in different settings, including digital library spaces. Join us as we discuss AI, museums, and visual resources.
The SEI 2025 Keynote will be live-streamed over YouTube on Wednesday, June 18, at 1:30 pm EDT.
Your Keynote Speaker
Jessica Herczeg-Konecny
Lead Technical Analyst, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jessica Herczeg-Konecny is the Lead Technical Analyst, Digital Asset Management, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She holds a master’s degree in public history from Indiana University Indianapolis and completed her undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis. Jessica has specialized in Digital Asset Management (DAM) for over a decade. Her previous roles include DAM positions at the Chicago History Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Throughout her twenty-year career in the museum industry, Jessica has worked extensively in archives, collections information, collections management, and rights and permissions. An active participant in professional development, Jessica has presented at the Museum Computer Network (MCN), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and Henry Stewart DAM events. She is the co-editor of the forthcoming book, Digital Asset Management for Museums to be published by AAM and Rowman & Littlefield.
Your Keynote Speaker
Marshall N. Price, PhD
Chief Curator, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
Marshall N. Price is the Chief Curator and Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and serves as adjunct faculty in the university’s Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. He received a Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Before joining the Nasher Museum, Price was Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and from 2003 until 2014 held the position of Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Academy Museum, New York. He has organized numerous exhibitions in addition to Act as if You are a Curator, including Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, 1967-75, Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel, and John Cage: The Sight of Silence, among others.