Steve Brady

Steve Brady is Deputy Director of Digital Initiatives and CTO at the Barnes Foundation, where he leads technology strategy, digital platforms, and infrastructure across the Barnes, Calder Gardens, and the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. His work focuses on building scalable, mission-driven systems that support revenue growth, educational access, and institutional resilience.

Steve Brady will be speaking at the Digital Learning Summit 2026 :

A Century-Old Method, a Research-Driven Digital Education Roadmap

Beyond its famed collection, the Barnes is an educational institution rooted in our founder’s century-old method: close looking, critical thinking and prolonged engagement with original works of art. When our classes moved online, no online platform could carry that method – so we built our own. Since the Visual Experience Platform launched in February 2023, the Barnes has earned over $1,000,000 in online education revenue and delivered more than $330,000 in scholarships and community access. It now carries our live and on-demand courses. And other institutions have begun licensing it, because the problem we solved was never only ours.