Come Invent With Us: The OEGlobal 2026 Program Is Live

173 sessions by presenters from 27 countries – the Open Education community is ready to invent together this October.

The wait is over: the OEGlobal 2026 Conference program is live, showcasing the Open Education community and what it has been building toward.

In March, we asked the Open Education community to submit their proposals for OEGlobal26 — over 260 ideas were shared. After an exhaustive process by our intrepid team of reviewers and an extraordinary juggling act by the Program Committee, we are proud to announce the OEGlobal 2026 program, comprising 173 accepted sessions featuring presenters from 27 countries across six continents. This October’s gathering at MIT’s Samberg Conference Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts — and online — shows a movement that is growing, globalizing, and more necessary than ever.

The OEGlobal 2026 Program Committee put it this way:

“The OEGlobal 2026 program showcases the richness and diversity of our global community. With more than 170 sessions and presenters from 27 countries, it reflects the breadth of Open Education today. Guided by the theme Come Invent With Us!, the program is designed to spark ideas, inspire collaboration, and invite participants to explore emerging technologies, thriving communities, and new approaches to advancing knowledge as a public good. We can’t wait to welcome everyone to the conference this October!”

Across five conference tracks, the program spans the full range of Open Education work — from the deeply practical to the openly provocative:

• 55 sessions will provide insight into Innovating Open Content to Democratize Knowledge
• 38 sessions will explore how Open Educators are Catalyzing Human Connection, Creativity, and Curiosity to Thrive
• 36 sessions scrutinize the benefits of Hacking the Open Ecosystem and Praxis for the Public Good
• 24 sessions will be Exploring Emergent Technologies and the Future of Openness; and
• 20 sessions will focus on (Re)Inventing our Shared Global Vision Together.

Whether your work centers on Open Educational Resources, emerging technology and education, open pedagogy, scholarly communications, social justice, or the long view of where the movement is headed, there is a track and a session where your experiences and questions will find company.

Session formats are as varied as the community itself: 118 presentations, 26 panels, 10 roundtables, 3 workshops, and 16 asynchronous lightning talks — giving every kind of participant a way to engage on their own terms.

As a previous OEGlobal attendee mentioned, “Be ready to learn! This isn’t like most conferences — these speakers are bringing theory and application all at once!”

The program is, as the conference name suggests, truly global and genuinely open, with presenters sharing their perspectives and experiences, and participants from 27 countries across six regions.

Presenters are joining from Australia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay.

Previous attendees were gratified to place their experiences within a wider global context: “It was wonderful to share experiences with people from around the world and realize how similar things are: struggles, successes, and dreams.”

The sessions span an equally wide range of educational settings: higher education, community colleges, primary and secondary education, technical and vocational training, community-based organizations, galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM), publishing, industry, and independent and lifelong learning. Open Education is not one subject — the OEGlobal 2026 program doesn’t pretend otherwise.

Wherever you are in the world, there’s a seat for you at OEGlobal 2026. Of the 173 sessions, 92 will be delivered in-person, 40 in hybrid format, 25 online, and 16 as asynchronous lightning talks — meaning that wherever you are in the world, there is a way to be part of what happens this October.

If you can’t make it to Cambridge, Massachusetts, the majority of the program is accessible online, with hybrid sessions and asynchronous content. If you are keen to gather with your Open Education peers, we encourage community-led satellite events that bring the conference to you. Host a regional meetup, a keynote watch party or a multilingual discussion circle — and register your gathering as an official satellite event, listed on the conference website.

Whichever way you choose to join us, it is the human connections that matter: “Reconnecting with other OER-passionate people has helped renew my passion to continue my own work, which has hit roadblocks.”