There will be a three-day free Youtube based conference starting 1pm EST May 1 (Friday), with additional sessions at 1pm EST on May 2 and May 3. Apologies for the late notice but I just found out about it myself. For details see

If the sea destroys Venice, can digital technology rebuild it? - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events

The Art Newspaper is co-hosting a live YouTube discussion on digital innovations and the preservation of cultural heritage on 1-3 May

The speaker lineup is extremely impressive. It's not clear if the session will be recorded for subsequent asynchronous viewing based on the announcement. I've pasted the program below..

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI

Programme Discussion 1: The Future of Museums, Exhibitions and the Objects they Display Rethinking the role and value of culture in the shadow of an uncertain future Friday 1 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair Sir Charles Saumarez Smith, CBE, former Secretary and Chief Executive, Royal Academy of Arts Participants Sir Mark Jones, Chairman of the National Museum Directors’ Conference, former Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum András Szántó, Author and Cultural Strategy Advisor, Founder of Andras Szanto LLC Mari Lending, Professor in Architectural Theory and History and founding member of the Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies Marina Warner, Writer of fiction, criticism, and history and President of the Royal Society of Literature Neil MacGregor, Founding Director of the Humboldt Forum, Berlin and former Director of the British Museum

Discussion 2: The Circulation of Objects: the Politics of Recording, Training, Preserving and Sharing Creating a cultural economy based on sharing skills, technologies and knowledge Saturday 2 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair Simon Schaffer, Professor of History of Science, Cambridge University Participants Anaïs Aguerre, Founder and Managing Director of Culture Connect Ltd, ReACH Project Director Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary University of London Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Distinguished Scholar and Ambassador-at-Large Bonnie Greer, Playwright, author and critic

Discussion 3: An Intimacy with the Physical World: New Technologies Generating New Knowledge Compiling, analysing, presenting information in an age of machine learning Sunday 3 May, 5pm BST/1pm EST

Chair Sir Ian Blatchford, Director and Chief Executive of the Science Museum Group Participants Brian Cantwell Smith, Reid Hoffman Professor of Artificial Intelligence and the Human, Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto Sarah Kenderdine, Professor of Digital Museology, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Frédéric Kaplan, Professor and Digital Humanities Chair, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Carol Mandel, Dean Emerita of New York University (NYU) Libraries William Owen, Founder of Made by Many