Michael McConville
Michael McConville is the 27th president of the International Planetarium Society and Director of Customer Outreach for Cosm, Inc. For the past 20 years, has made his career out of a passion for astronomy education and community building. Until 2018, Michael was the coordinator of the Emil Buehler Planetarium at Seminole State College in Sanford, Fla., before moving to Philadelphia the same year to join the team at Spitz, Inc.
Michael has always been keen to bring people together – he is the co-founder of the Dome Dialogues online planetarium community, and hosted a series of more than two dozen online e-conferences after the 2020 COVID-19 shutdowns. He was elected as IPS president-elect in 2020 and received GLPA’s Service Award in 2021.