The Association of Science and Technology Center's (ASTC) 2025 Annual Conference is a leading event for scientific professionals and immersive leaders specialising in technology centres, museums and similar organisations throughout North America and the rest of the world.
The ASTC Annual Conference has a key focus of interactivity encouraging individuals with a science communications and STEM learning background to showcase their knowledge and skills to improve relationships between science, technology and the wider society.
Following on from the success of the in-person 2024 annual conference, located in Chicago, Illinois the ASTC 2025 will focus on interactive sessions to enhance networking and building relationships with like-minded professionals within the industry. Delegates are encouraged to attend the full program and the conference includes concurrent sessions, plenary sessions, exhibit hall, networking, social events, museum experiences and much more.
The theme for the ASTC 2025 Annual Conference is Connectivity. The conference encourages the science community to work together and inspire others to both connect and learn enhancing science centres and museums to better for the future.
The conference will be held 5 - 8 September 2025 and hosted by a consortium of ASTC members in the San Francisco Bay Area including:
- Bay Area Discovery Museum
- California Academy of Sciences
- Chabot Space & Science Center
- Children’s Creativity Museum
- Computer History Museum
- Exploratorium
- The Lawrence Hall of Science
- The Tech Interactive
Registration is open now. More information can be found here.
