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On May 24 and from June 7-9, Will Lach will exhibit at the 2021 American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting & Museum Expo. Featuring the theme “Resilient, Together,” the virtual conference brings together museum professionals from around the world, to learn from one another, create partnerships, and discuss the issues impacting today’s museum community.

Will Lach will exhibit at the online 2021 American Public Gardens Association Conference, held June 7-10. The virtual event gives Will the opportunity to engage with garden professionals from around the world and explore the ways translation can make botanic gardens, arboreta, zoos, and museums welcoming and accessible to diverse visitors.

On April 5-30, Will Lach attended the online MuseWeb 2021 Conference, where he presented Multilingual Museum Engagement in the COVID Era. Will’s lightning talk examined how museums around the country are responding to the pandemic with multilingual remote programming.

On Friday, March 19, Vigdis Eriksen spoke on a panel hosted by the New York Public Library, 3 Women Entrepreneurs: How They Handled COVID Challenges in Business. In celebration of International Women’s Day and National Women’s History Month, Vigdis and fellow entrepreneurs Helene Godin and Elaine Pofeldt discussed how they met the challenges COVID threw their way.

Open or closed, cultural venues have been forced to significantly change the way they welcome visitors in 2021. On March 11, Eriksen’s Director of Sales Will Lach joined Guide by Cell CEO Dave Asheim to discuss the innovative ways museums and cultural institutions have adapted programming to engage audiences during the pandemic. View the webinar replay here.