Open education advocates are on the frontlines of upholding and uplifting knowledge as a public good. The 2026 OEGlobal Conference invites the open community to cultivate new ways of safeguarding knowledge for the benefit of all. With an ethos of experimentation and innovation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a natural incubator for collaborative initiatives, creative endeavors, and is a place where open innovation is burgeoning and expanding.

We recognize that invention is most powerfully sparked when different perspectives and practices intersect. Therefore, we look forward to a program that integrates the arts and sciences; Indigenous and Western knowledge systems; global and local viewpoints; research-based and lived experiences; and other open movements (open source software, open data, open access, open science) and open education.