Keynote: Bronwen Robertson Moderated by Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Graphic design identity Todd Linkner — Northeastern University, Brockett Horne — Boston University

CAMD's Dean Distinguished Lecturer: Lauren Klein and Tanvi Sharma Introduced by Ben Knapp, Dean of the College of Arts, Media and Design; moderated by Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University

Critical Data Visualization Moderated by Catherine D'Ignazio — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Pluriversal Civic Encounters: experimental practices of participatory data visualisation from the local Barbara Urrutia-Badilla — University of Leeds
• Timeline Architectures: Platform Temporalities and the Design of Online Attention Oliver Arellano-Padilla — University of Massachusetts
• Visualizing Salary Inequity: Data as a Catalyst for Institutional Change in Higher Education MiHyun Kim — Texas State University

Invisible to Visible Moderated by Skye Morét — Northeastern University

• The Atlas of Popular Transport: Subverting the Atlas as a Tool of Collective Intelligence Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• In Plain Sight Gauri Bahuguna — SITU Research
• Emotional Geographies of the Mediterranean Marcella Del Signore — New York Institute of Technology

Visualization and Feminism Moderated by Catherine D'Ignazio — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Data feminism in action: mapping Urban Belonging in Copenhagen with experimental visualization and participatory GIS Sofie Burgos-Thorsen — Institute for Wicked Problems
• Soft Sites: Textiles as Feminist Praxis Sophie Chien — University of Colorado Boulder
• Lost in Transliteration: Visualizing the Algorithmic Misreadings of Chinese Names Liuhuaying Yang — Complexity Science Hub, Melinda Sipos

Data Visualization, Collaboration, and Latin America Moderated by Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University

• Distance Unknown: Visualizing the Costs and Risks of Migration in the Americas Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Sparkling conversations with data to empowering communities in Latinoamerica Jose Duarte — Easydataviz
• Mapping Shelter, Modeling Care: Participatory Spatial Data from Migrants in Transit Marcos Escamilla-Guerrero — Cornell AAP

The Philosophy of Data and Design Moderated by Crystal Lee — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Theories of change in visualization Dietmar Offenhuber — Northeastern University
• Books that describe the world through the eyes Paul Kahn
• Echoes of Knowing: Toward an Acoustic Epistemology of Information Paula Martin Rivero — Northeastern University

Data Visualization for Civics Moderated by Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Visualizing Environmental Justice: Shaping Urban Policy Dare Brawley — WXY Studio, Mario Giampieri — WXY architecture + urban design
• Designing While Furious Dana Ragouzeos — San Jose State University
• Overcoming Epistemic Barriers in Data Advocacy: A Framework for Inclusive Information Design Mohsin Yousufi — Georgia Institute of Technology, Yanni Loukissas — Georgia Institute of Technology

Data in Practice Moderated by Arvind Satyanarayan — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Explaining Geopolitics Through Data and Geography: The Financial Times’ Visual Storytelling Approach Irene de la Torre Arenas — Financial Times
• What it takes to design visual stories in local journalism Yuqing Liu
• The Design Work You Don’t See: How Practitioners Frame Problems Before Visualizing Anything Paul Parsons — Purdue University
• "Do This Instead": 4 Powerful (and Empowering) Alternatives to Common Charts Zan Armstrong

Data and the Environment Moderated by Skye Morét — Northeastern University

• Deep Sea Literacy: Cartographic Activations for Planetary Hydro-Commons Gokcen Erkilic
• The Vital Aesthetics of Biodiversity Data: Reconnecting Ecological Relations within Digital Systems Michelle Westerlaken — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Accessibility and Disability Moderated by Arvind Satyanarayan — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Beyond the Visual: Creating multimodal displays for maximizing ocean science engagement Jessica Roberts — Georgia Tech
• Decentering Vision in Accessible Visualization Jonathan Zong — University of Colorado Boulder
• Reimagining Research: Gaming, Data + Research Integration Cary Staples — University of Tennessee

Pedagogy and Experiments Moderated by Crystal Lee — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Microbial Interfaces Katia Zolotovsky — BioInteractive Design Lab, Northeastern University
• Does visualization help AI understand data? Johnathan Sun — Harvard, Victoria Li — Harvard
• Pedagogies of Practice: Teaching Information Design in an Eco-Social Context Alessia Musio — Freelance Information Designer
• Flow States: Designing visually fluid visualisation and interface tools to support humanistic-centred enquiry and discovery. Andrew Richardson — Northumbria University

Politics and Democracy Moderated by Sarah Williams — Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Visualizing Political Infrastructures of Inequality: A Radical Atlas Patty Heyda
• The New Necro-Nominalism Samuel Holleran — RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Data resistance: counter data practices against state-led urban redevelopment in Seoul’s urban manufacturing district Chaewon Ahn — National University of Singapore

Keynote: Kennedy Elliott Moderated by Pedro M. Cruz — Northeastern University