{"id":30171,"date":"2026-06-09T09:28:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=30171"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:28:23","slug":"mtech-connect-theme-announced-innovation-for-the-public-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/mtech-connect-theme-announced-innovation-for-the-public-good\/","title":{"rendered":"MTech Connect Theme Announced: Innovation for the Public Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Charles Severance giving his keynote at the 2025 MTech Connect Symposium.\" class=\"wp-image-29670\" style=\"width:686px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06-665x443.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-MTech-Connect-article-06.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The MTech Connect planning team is excited to announce the theme for the 2026 event will be <strong>Innovation for the Public Good<\/strong>! Our planning team is already hard at work to make this event bigger and better than before. Below you will see the high level schedule for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 20, 2026 at the Central Campus Classroom Building<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>8\u20139 a.m. Registration &amp; Networking Breakfast<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9\u20139:15 a.m. Opening Remarks<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9:15\u201310 a.m. Keynote Address\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10\u201310:30 a.m. Coffee Break &amp; Networking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>10:30\u201311:00 a.m. Morning Breakout 1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11:15-11:45 a.m. Morning Breakout 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>11:45 a.m.\u20131 p.m. Luncheon &amp; Social Lounge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1\u20132:15 p.m. The poster session<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2:15\u20132:45 p.m. Afternoon Breakouts\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2:45\u20133:00 p.m. Coffee Break &amp; Networking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3\u20133:45 p.m. Afternoon combined session OR Afternoon Keynote<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3:45\u20134 p.m. Closing Remarks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Save the date! We can&#8217;t wait to see you there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MTech Connect planning team is excited to announce the theme for the 2026 event will be Innovation for the Public Good! Our planning team is already hard at work to make this event bigger and better than before. Below you will see the high level schedule for the event. October 20, 2026 at the Central Campus Classroom\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2026\/06\/09\/mtech-connect-theme-announced-innovation-for-the-public-good\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"excerpt-thumbnail":false,"themonic-thumbnail":false,"ioslider-thumbnail":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"400x250-crop":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The MTech Connect planning team is excited to announce the theme for the 2026 event will be Innovation for the Public Good! Our planning team is already hard at work to make this event bigger and better than before. Below you will see the high level schedule for the event. 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