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Thursday, June 4
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9:00am IST

Registration
Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am IST
Tea, coffee and refreshments.
Thursday June 4, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am IST
  Other

10:00am IST

Welcome Speeches
Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am IST

Moderators
LG

Lisa Griffith

Director, Digital Repository of Ireland
Thursday June 4, 2026 10:00am - 10:15am IST
  Other

10:15am IST

Working Together to Support Trusted Stewardship of AI-impacted Content and Workflows
Thursday June 4, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am IST
This talk will address the role of the digital preservation repository and its expert knowledge specialists in the trusted stewardship of artificial intelligence (AI) impacted content and workflows. The fast rise of AI and its many unknowns create risks for our shared institutional missions of transparency and documented provenance, but there are also opportunities for collaboration and action for...
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Moderators
LG

Lisa Griffith

Director, Digital Repository of Ireland
Speakers
avatar for Kate Murray

Kate Murray

Digital Projects Coordinator, Library of Congress
Kate Murray is a Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress where she leads the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual Working Group and the Sustainability of Digital Formats website.

A global leader in digital file formats research and audiovisual preservation, Kate has played a key role in major international initiatives across the preservation community, including the Digital Preservation Coalition, AMIA | Assn of Moving Image Archivists, and International A... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 10:15am - 11:10am IST
  Keynote

11:10am IST

Coffee Break
Thursday June 4, 2026 11:10am - 11:35am IST

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:10am - 11:35am IST
  Break
  • about <br>

11:35am IST

Archive Content Migration and Digital Preservation at RTÉ Archives
Thursday June 4, 2026 11:35am - 11:55am IST
Presentation of the programme of projects for the large-scale archive content migration, digital preservation, data modelling, and plans for the use of AI in RTÉ Archives.
Moderators
avatar for Sarah Vandegeerde

Sarah Vandegeerde

Head of Audiovisual Operations, INA

Speakers
avatar for Miroslav Čuljat

Miroslav Čuljat

Manager, Archiving and Preservation, RTÉ
Miroslav Culjat is Manager for Archiving and Preservation at RTÉ. With over 30 years in the Media and Broadcast industry, Miroslav has been leading solution design and service delivery in some of the most demanding and high-profile broadcast environments in Ireland and the UK. Miroslav... Read More →
avatar for Adrienne Warburton

Adrienne Warburton

Media Coordinator Metadata and Archiving, RTÉ
Adrienne Warburton has worked in RTÉ Archives for 12 years as Media Coordinator, Metadata and Archiving.  Her role involves the development and implementation of metadata standards across RTÉ Archives’ audio-visual collections and the review and improvement of related processes... Read More →
avatar for Anja Mahler

Anja Mahler

Senior Archivist, Sound, RTÉ
Anja Mahler is the Senior Archivist for Sound at Radió Teilifis Éireann (RTÉ), Ireland’s national public service broadcaster. She oversees the digitization of RTÉ’s audio archive, which includes quarter-inch tapes and optical disc media, to ensure the preservation of Ireland’s... Read More →
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Gavin Burke

Senior Archivist, RTÉ

Thursday June 4, 2026 11:35am - 11:55am IST
  Presentation

12:00pm IST

From ‘Vote Leave’ to ‘Rave Dad’: unlocking a decade of television advertising in the BFI National Archive
Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm IST
The BFI National Archive has been recording UK broadcast television off-air for 40 years, and for the last 10 years that recording has been automated, achieving 24/7/365 capture of 18 channels. Within those automated recordings we have recorded every advertisement broadcast across the UK’s commercial services – ITV, Channel Four and Channel 5 – creating a comprehensive document of the...
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Moderators
avatar for Sarah Vandegeerde

Sarah Vandegeerde

Head of Audiovisual Operations, INA

Speakers
avatar for Stephen McConnachie

Stephen McConnachie

Head of Data and Digital Preservation, BFI
Stephen has worked at the BFI since 2009. In his current role he leads the Data and Digital Preservation department, with strategic and operational responsibility for the BFI National Archive’s data and digital preservation policies, standards, practices and infrastructure.

The department defines and implements documentation and data standards for the BFI’s collections, creates the BFI Filmography (the national database of British feature films), manages the collections systems (including the Collections Information Database and the Digital Preservation... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 12:00pm - 12:25pm IST
  Presentation

12:25pm IST

My Balkan(s) Project: Strengthening the heritage of public service media institutions in the Western Balkans
Thursday June 4, 2026 12:25pm - 12:50pm IST
The MY BALKAN(S) project is a collaborative framework designed to strengthen the capacities of public service media institutions in the Western Balkans in the areas of audiovisual cultural heritage preservation, digitisation, and contemporary valorisation. In collaboration with INA France, the project acknowledges the importance of audiovisual archives as shared cultural assets in the Western...
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Moderators
avatar for Sarah Vandegeerde

Sarah Vandegeerde

Head of Audiovisual Operations, INA

Speakers
avatar for Miloš Stojanović

Miloš Stojanović

Head of the RTS Centre for Digitisation, RTS
Born in Belgrade, in 1972. He is currently employed as Deputy Director of Production at Radio-Television of Serbia. Since 2017, he has been in charge of the RTS Centre for Digitization, devoting his expertise to film restoration and the preservation and digitization of audiovisual... Read More →
avatar for Nevena Popovic

Nevena Popovic

Programme editor, Radio Television of Serbia (RTS)
Nevena Popović currently works as a programme editor at the RTS Centre for Digitisation. She is also an editor in the Music and Contemporary Arts Department at RTS 3, a Serbian national television channel that focuses solely on arts and culture.  Throughout her career, Nevena has... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 12:25pm - 12:50pm IST
  Presentation

12:50pm IST

Librarian Visit
Thursday June 4, 2026 12:50pm - 1:00pm IST

Thursday June 4, 2026 12:50pm - 1:00pm IST
  Break
  • about <br>

1:00pm IST

Lunch Break
Thursday June 4, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm IST

Thursday June 4, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm IST
  Break
  • about <br>

1:55pm IST

True-to-Source Digitization at Scale - From Scanning to Industrialized Workflows
Thursday June 4, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm IST
Millions of 16mm film reels hold our shared visual history — and they are at risk.Until now, digitization has been constrained by complexity, cost, and lack of scalability.This session presents a new approach to film digitization through a practical demonstration.At the core is a simple principle: True-to-source digitization — no alterations, no hidden processing, no compromises.The session...
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Moderators
EE

Esther Elorza

Manager of Archiving and Preservation, RTVE
Speakers
avatar for Tobias Golodnoff

Tobias Golodnoff

CEO, FASTFORWARD
Internationally known as a disruptor off the field of digitization. Responsible for coining the term USE=VALUE, and using it as a strategy to accelerate digitization and value creation. FASTFORWARD mission is to democratize digitization and access to our film heritage and is today... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm IST
  Demo

2:20pm IST

Getting a Grip on Your Collection: Seamlessly Connecting RSI Archivi’s Analogue and Digital Preservation Under an OAIS Umbrella
Thursday June 4, 2026 2:20pm - 2:45pm IST
RSI Archivi is currently completing the deepest preservation reform in its history, redefining acquisition, conservation and digital preservation within a unified conceptual framework inspired explicitly by the OAIS reference model (ISO16363). This presentation will outline how RSI is operationalising OAIS principles to create a coherent preservation strategy that seamlessly integrates analogue...
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Moderators
EE

Esther Elorza

Manager of Archiving and Preservation, RTVE
Speakers
avatar for Michel Martinelli

Michel Martinelli

Head of Acquisition and Preservation, RSI
Since 2024, Michel Martinelli has been Head of Acquisition and Preservation at the Italian‑speaking public broadcaster of Switzerland (RSI). From 2012 to 2023, he worked as a radio and video archivist at the same institution, where he oversaw the digitization of RSI’s radio archives between 2016 and 2018... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 2:20pm - 2:45pm IST
  Presentation

2:45pm IST

Transforming the National Theatre’s Digital Archive into an Accessible, Intuitive and Engaging Experience
Thursday June 4, 2026 2:45pm - 3:10pm IST
The National Theatre has undertaken a significant transformation of its digital archive, migrating more than 150,000 assets and 200TB of material from fragmented legacy systems into a unified, sustainable preservation and access platform.This presentation examines how the organisation moved away from disconnected spreadsheets, bespoke metadata structures and a limited discovery interface to build...
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Moderators
EE

Esther Elorza

Manager of Archiving and Preservation, RTVE
Speakers
avatar for Nathan Voogt

Nathan Voogt

VP of Sales, Preservica
avatar for Dan Heather

Dan Heather

Digital Archives Manager and co-Acting Archive Manager, National Theatre Archive
Dan Heather is the Digital Archives Manager at the National Theatre, UK,  a role that includes oversight of recordings of all plays performed across the theatre’s three stages since 1995. The archive also includes broadcasts delivered via the National Theatre’s global cinema... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 2:45pm - 3:10pm IST
  Presentation

3:10pm IST

BBC Archives Technology and Services: English Regions News Digitisation
Thursday June 4, 2026 3:10pm - 3:35pm IST
This presentation will focus on the challenges and learnings from the project to digitise local News cut stories held across the English regions. From the challenge of preserving this content while we still have the head life, support and expertise, to realising the opportunities of the regions moving to fully digital workflows, releasing physical storage and maximising the value of this...
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Moderators
EE

Esther Elorza

Manager of Archiving and Preservation, RTVE
Speakers
avatar for Janne Nuotio

Janne Nuotio

Team Lead, BBC Archives Technology and Services
Janne Nuotio leads digitisation and quality assurance at BBC Archives Technology and Services, managing both customer facing on demand digitisation services and internal digitisation projects. During his time with BBC Archives he has developed processes and end to end workflows which... Read More →
avatar for Paul Bentz

Paul Bentz

Team Lead, BBC Archives Technology and Services
Paul Bentz is a BBC archive specialist with over 20 years’ experience in film and audio preservation. As Team Leader for Film and Audio Digitisation in BBC Archives Technology and Services, he has spent more than a decade managing preservation workflows for fragile and historically significa... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 3:10pm - 3:35pm IST
  Presentation

3:35pm IST

Coffee Break
Thursday June 4, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm IST

Thursday June 4, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm IST
  Break
  • about <br>

4:00pm IST

A Hands-On Demonstration of a Videotape Digitization Workflow
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm IST
This workflow demonstration closely follows the best practices and recommended procedures of leading archivists and preservationists. From tape handling to digital output formats, from respect and care of the existing metadata to preserving the images as originally created, the SAMMA system workflow process removes a significant portion of the technical load, allowing operators to focus on the...
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Moderators
avatar for Marijn Daniels

Marijn Daniels

Project Manager, VRT
Speakers
avatar for Bob Berger

Bob Berger

SVP, Customer Technical Solutions, GrayMeta
Bob Berger is Senior Vice President of Customer Solutions at GrayMeta, where he leads the company’s SAMMA engagements with broadcasters, archives, and media organizations worldwide. With extensive experience in media technology and preservation workflows, Bob works directly with institutions... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm IST
  Demo

4:25pm IST

Azimuth Adjustments – Will we do all our collections again? New methodologies and improvements shared from the field
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:25pm - 4:50pm IST
The current methodology to correct azimuth on quarter inch audio tape based upon a combination of spectral tools and listening abilities has led in the last 25 years to common practices how to digitize tapes with wrongly adjusted azimuth. In a recent field test with senior archive audio engineers and young students, a test was done to compare different approaches how to adjust azimuth – based...
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Moderators
avatar for Marijn Daniels

Marijn Daniels

Project Manager, VRT
Speakers
avatar for Nadja Wallaszkovits

Nadja Wallaszkovits

Stuttgart State Academy of fine Arts
avatar for Jean-Christophe Kummer

Jean-Christophe Kummer

Managing Director, NOA
NOA is a privately owned business company founded in 2000 in Austria (EU) that provides flexible turnkey solutions for sustainable multimedia archiving and legacy archive digitization on an entry to enterprise scale. At NOA, we aspire to reshape the narrative of archiving technology... Read More →
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:25pm - 4:50pm IST
  Presentation

4:50pm IST

Future Heritage: Securing the Future of Today’s Digital Cinema
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:50pm - 5:45pm IST
The greatest threat to a movie is invisibility. As film production has almost fully transitioned to digital, a dangerous myth still haunts our industry: that professional preservation of masters is an optional cost. Producers often leave their works – their most precious digital assets – in some informal limbo, trusting that they will always be there when they need them. Thus future heritage...
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Moderators
avatar for Marijn Daniels

Marijn Daniels

Project Manager, VRT
avatar for Brecht Declercq

Brecht Declercq

Head of Archives, RSI
Brecht Declercq (MA, MSc) is the Head of Archives at RSI, the public broadcasting of Italian-speaking Switzerland. From 2013 until 2022 he was responsible for the preservation of the Flemish audiovisual heritage at meemoo. From 2004 until 2012 he held several roles in digitisation... Read More →
Speakers
RW

Richard Wright

Preservation Guide
AG

Anne Gant

EYE Film Institute
RC

Rossella Catanese

University of Tuscia
TC

Thomas Christensen

Danish Film Institute
avatar for Stephen McConnachie

Stephen McConnachie

Head of Data and Digital Preservation, BFI
Stephen has worked at the BFI since 2009. In his current role he leads the Data and Digital Preservation department, with strategic and operational responsibility for the BFI National Archive’s data and digital preservation policies, standards, practices and infrastructure.

The department defines and implements documentation and data standards for the BFI’s collections, creates the BFI Filmography (the national database of British feature films), manages the collections systems (including the Collections Information Database and the Digital Preservation... Read More →
avatar for Sarah Vandegeerde

Sarah Vandegeerde

Head of Audiovisual Operations, INA

avatar for Piero Costantini

Piero Costantini

CEO, Mnemonica
Thursday June 4, 2026 4:50pm - 5:45pm IST
  Discussion Panel

6:30pm IST

Welcome Reception
Thursday June 4, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm IST

Thursday June 4, 2026 6:30pm - 8:00pm IST
  Social Events
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Friday, June 5
 

9:30am IST

Opening
Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am IST
Tea, coffee and refreshments.
Friday June 5, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am IST
  Other

10:00am IST

DRI Labs: The new space for collaboration, experimentation, inclusion and sustainability
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am IST
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a CoreTrustSeal-certified trustworthy digital repository for the preservation of Ireland’s humanities, cultural heritage, and social sciences digital data for long-term access and discovery. As a dedicated digital preservation platform, DRI is committed to the FAIR Principles, and to fostering long-term access and re-use of the content we steward.To...
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Moderators
avatar for Etienne Marchand

Etienne Marchand

Multimedia Engineer, INA
Graduated from EICAR in 2008 after training as a sound engineer, Etienne Marchand has since been working on a great variety of archive documents - audio, video and film - and on every aspect of the technical workflows: assessment, cleaning and physical restoration of audiovisual carriers... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Noelia Romero

Noelia Romero

Training Manager and Digital Archivist, Digital Repository of Ireland
Noelia Romero is the Training Manager and Digital Archivist at the Digital Repository of Ireland, where she supports members in ingesting, preserving, and publishing digital collections while leading the development of a five-year digital preservation training programme aligned with... Read More →
avatar for Kathryn Cassidy

Kathryn Cassidy

Senior Software Engineer, Digital Repository of Ireland
Dr. Kathryn Cassidy is a member of the technical team at the Digital Repository of Ireland based in the Research IT group in Trinity College Dublin. She holds a PhD on the topic of eLearning for Grid Computing from Trinity College Dublin. Kathryn has over 30 years experience in the... Read More →
avatar for Beth Knazook

Beth Knazook

Research and Engagement Manager, Digital Repository of Ireland
Beth Knazook is the Research and Engagement Manager at the Digital Repository of Ireland, where she works to advance FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) research data through alignment with European and international initiatives. She leads engagement activities... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am IST
  Presentation

10:25am IST

A Discussion on Media Preservation Best Practices
Friday June 5, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am IST
We may all know what media preservation best practices.
Still, there may be doubts between the map and the territory.
Which are the good reasons at basis of recommendations?
If there are (good?) reasons to explore alternative practices, how to estimate the impact of different approaches.
Moderators
avatar for Etienne Marchand

Etienne Marchand

Multimedia Engineer, INA
Graduated from EICAR in 2008 after training as a sound engineer, Etienne Marchand has since been working on a great variety of archive documents - audio, video and film - and on every aspect of the technical workflows: assessment, cleaning and physical restoration of audiovisual carriers... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Laurent Boch

Laurent Boch

Responsible of Research Projects Administration, RAI Radio Televisione Italiana
Laurent Boch, graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1990 at “Politecnico di Torino”, has been working for RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana since 1992, at the Centre for Research and Technological Innovation (CRITS). He has been involved in several EU funded projects dealing... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 10:25am - 10:45am IST
  Presentation

10:45am IST

Metadata Salvage
Friday June 5, 2026 10:45am - 11:10am IST
TV and radio scripts are a goldmine of metadata, but many are trapped on outdated storage formats. In this case study, we show how we are working to recover and preserve this vital information, from building the hardware to analyzing and converting obsolete file formats
Moderators
avatar for Etienne Marchand

Etienne Marchand

Multimedia Engineer, INA
Graduated from EICAR in 2008 after training as a sound engineer, Etienne Marchand has since been working on a great variety of archive documents - audio, video and film - and on every aspect of the technical workflows: assessment, cleaning and physical restoration of audiovisual carriers... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Marjolein Steeman

Marjolein Steeman

Senior Media Manager Optimisation, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
Marjolein Steeman works as a Digital Preservation Officer at the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision. She studied information science at VU University Amsterdam and worked for years as an expert in data analysis and data management. Lately she has been working on projects in... Read More →
avatar for Tristan Zondag

Tristan Zondag

Solutions Architect, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision
Tristan is a specialized professional at the intersection of Information Technology and audiovisual heritage, with a career dedicated to the technical lifecycle of broadcast media. As Solutions Architect he combines the precision of an IT specialist with the vision of an archivist... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 10:45am - 11:10am IST
  Presentation

11:10am IST

Coffee Break
Friday June 5, 2026 11:10am - 11:35am IST

Friday June 5, 2026 11:10am - 11:35am IST
  Break

11:35am IST

The Archive Metadata Conundrum
Friday June 5, 2026 11:35am - 12:00pm IST
With so much metadata being produced today, and holding decades of legacy information, what should our metadata preservation strategy be in order to maximise the potential from legacy broadcast archives?
Moderators
avatar for Miroslav Čuljat

Miroslav Čuljat

Manager, Archiving and Preservation, RTÉ
Miroslav Culjat is Manager for Archiving and Preservation at RTÉ. With over 30 years in the Media and Broadcast industry, Miroslav has been leading solution design and service delivery in some of the most demanding and high-profile broadcast environments in Ireland and the UK. Miroslav... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Brendan Mallon

Brendan Mallon

Head of Products & Services, BBC Archives Technology & Services

Friday June 5, 2026 11:35am - 12:00pm IST
  Presentation

12:00pm IST

Sponsors Session
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm IST

Moderators
avatar for Brid Dooley

Brid Dooley

Head of Archives, RTÉ
Bríd Dooley is Head of Archives for RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service media organisation, with a career spanning over 30 years in both the UK and Ireland, as well as being an active member of a number of professional international association networks.

As Department Head, she is currently focused on the development of the digital archive as part of RTÉ’s overall digital transformation strategy, ensuring the long-term preservation of all legacy, current and future digital collections which span over nine decades of continuous... Read More →
Sponsors
avatar for FASTFORWARD
avatar for GrayMeta
avatar for Mnemonica
avatar for Preservica
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm IST
  Presentation

1:00pm IST

Lunch Break
Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm IST

Friday June 5, 2026 1:00pm - 1:55pm IST
  Break

1:55pm IST

Preserving Public Health on Tape and File: The Digital Preservation Journey of the VideoSaúde Archive
Friday June 5, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm IST
Founded over 126 years ago, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) is a leading Brazilian public institution in the fields of public health research and scientific development. Its scientific and cultural heritage comprises a wide range of archival collections, including significant audiovisual holdings that document public health policies, institutional activities, and social transformations in...
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Moderators
avatar for Miroslav Čuljat

Miroslav Čuljat

Manager, Archiving and Preservation, RTÉ
Miroslav Culjat is Manager for Archiving and Preservation at RTÉ. With over 30 years in the Media and Broadcast industry, Miroslav has been leading solution design and service delivery in some of the most demanding and high-profile broadcast environments in Ireland and the UK. Miroslav... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Eliane Batista Pontes

Eliane Batista Pontes

Public Health Technologist, VideoSaúde Distribuidora
Eliane Batista Pontes is a public health technologist at VideoSaúde Distribuidora (VSD/Icict/Fiocruz). Her background includes a degree in Radio and TV, a specialization in Communication and Health, and a master’s degree in Preservation and Management of Scientific and Cultural Heritage. She has profes... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 1:55pm - 2:20pm IST
  Presentation

2:20pm IST

Embedding Theoretical and Practical Training into the Preservation Workflow
Friday June 5, 2026 2:20pm - 2:45pm IST
Among the BFI National Archive’s myriad television treasures sits the TVAM collection. A monument of British commercial breakfast television innovation, these recordings contain an exciting slice of UK heritage, traversing the period from early 80s into the 1990s. Programmes were recorded ‘as broadcast’ at the TVAM studios in London, many of which on the lesser used Panasonic alternative to...
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Moderators
avatar for Miroslav Čuljat

Miroslav Čuljat

Manager, Archiving and Preservation, RTÉ
Miroslav Culjat is Manager for Archiving and Preservation at RTÉ. With over 30 years in the Media and Broadcast industry, Miroslav has been leading solution design and service delivery in some of the most demanding and high-profile broadcast environments in Ireland and the UK. Miroslav... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Charles Fairall

Charles Fairall

Videotape & Engineering Advisor, BFI
Charles Fairall has served the BFI National Archive in the UK for some 40 years as a technologist, engineer and senior manager. During his 10-year stint as Head of Conservation, he took primary responsibility for leading the technical teams who pioneered innovative techniques to conserve... Read More →
avatar for Thom Walker

Thom Walker

Trainee Archive Technology Technician, BFI
Thom Walker is a trainee with the technology department at the BFI National Archive. He’s a Fine Art Graduate with a specific interest in creative technologies, and a practice heavily steeped in the use of found and archival materials. With prior experience working with archives as a filmmake... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 2:20pm - 2:45pm IST
  Presentation

2:45pm IST

Migramann to the rescue: Designing, planning and implementing a large-scale DVD migration program in-house
Friday June 5, 2026 2:45pm - 3:10pm IST
Since 1995, the Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA) has been entrusted with the legal deposit of audiovisual works in France. Its responsibilities include preserving and ensuring accessibility to all broadcast programs for research purposes. Additionally, INA has been doing off-air TV & radio recording since 2002, collecting an impressive 24 million hours of audiovisual content.The...
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Moderators
avatar for Miroslav Čuljat

Miroslav Čuljat

Manager, Archiving and Preservation, RTÉ
Miroslav Culjat is Manager for Archiving and Preservation at RTÉ. With over 30 years in the Media and Broadcast industry, Miroslav has been leading solution design and service delivery in some of the most demanding and high-profile broadcast environments in Ireland and the UK. Miroslav... Read More →
Speakers
SD

Stanislas Defawes

Head of Off-Air TV & Radion recording department
GS

Guillaume Seznec

Software Engineer (Multimedia/System)
avatar for Sarah Vandegeerde

Sarah Vandegeerde

Head of Audiovisual Operations, INA

Friday June 5, 2026 2:45pm - 3:10pm IST
  Presentation

3:10pm IST

The Digital Preservation Lifecycle – Building skills and workflows for content longevity
Friday June 5, 2026 3:10pm - 3:35pm IST
This demonstration will show the core stages of a digital preservation workflow: identification, validation, and characterisation. Using CloudViPER [5], a browser-based virtual environment pre-loaded with open-source preservation tools, we will show practical use with a curated sample corpus to demonstrate how these stages connect to form a coherent preservation workflow.Aligned with the themes of...
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Moderators
avatar for Miroslav Čuljat

Miroslav Čuljat

Manager, Archiving and Preservation, RTÉ
Miroslav Culjat is Manager for Archiving and Preservation at RTÉ. With over 30 years in the Media and Broadcast industry, Miroslav has been leading solution design and service delivery in some of the most demanding and high-profile broadcast environments in Ireland and the UK. Miroslav... Read More →
Speakers
DD

Darren Dignam

Systems Administrator, Open Preservation Foundation
Darren is the Systems Administrator at the Open Preservation Foundation and was the developer responsible for bringing the ViPER tool to the Cloud. Amanda is the Administrative Officer at OPF and was the project manager for bringing ViPER to the Cloud
avatar for Amanda Slotboom

Amanda Slotboom

Administrative Officer, Open Preservation Foundation
Friday June 5, 2026 3:10pm - 3:35pm IST
  Demo

3:35pm IST

Coffee Break
Friday June 5, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm IST

Friday June 5, 2026 3:35pm - 4:00pm IST
  Break

4:00pm IST

Beyond Baking: New Tools for Understanding and Overcoming Tape Degralescence
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:55pm IST
Worldwide, millions of historically invaluable audio and video recordings stored on magnetic tape are at risk of being lost forever, with digitisation hindered by media degradation and playback equipment obsolescence. In this panel, we will explore the possibilities opened by combining scientific, lab-based characterisation techniques to understand degradation mechanisms and their origins.We will...
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Moderators
avatar for Laurent Boch

Laurent Boch

Responsible of Research Projects Administration, RAI Radio Televisione Italiana
Laurent Boch, graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1990 at “Politecnico di Torino”, has been working for RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana since 1992, at the Centre for Research and Technological Innovation (CRITS). He has been involved in several EU funded projects dealing... Read More →
avatar for Charles Fairall

Charles Fairall

Videotape & Engineering Advisor, BFI
Charles Fairall has served the BFI National Archive in the UK for some 40 years as a technologist, engineer and senior manager. During his 10-year stint as Head of Conservation, he took primary responsibility for leading the technical teams who pioneered innovative techniques to conserve... Read More →
Speakers
avatar for Sebastian Gliga

Sebastian Gliga

Physicist, Paul Scherrer Institute
Villigen-PSI
avatar for Nadja Wallaszkovits

Nadja Wallaszkovits

Stuttgart State Academy of fine Arts
avatar for Heidi Shakespeare

Heidi Shakespeare

CEO, Memnon
Heidi Shakespeare, the CEO of Memnon, is a dynamic leader with over 25 years of experience in driving sales growth across the broadcast and digital archiving industries. Her commitment to innovation has propelled Memnon to the forefront of audiovisual (AV) migration and archiving... Read More →
avatar for Jack Harrison

Jack Harrison

Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Scherrer Institute
Jack Harrison is a physicist and postdoctoral researcher at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. He completed an integrated Masters degree in physics at the University of Oxford (UK) in 2019. His PhD research, completed in 2023, focused on the magnetic properties of alpha-Fe2O3... Read More →
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Kelly Pribble

Sound engineer and restoration specialist, Kvibe
Friday June 5, 2026 4:00pm - 4:55pm IST
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Friday June 5, 2026 4:55pm - 5:00pm IST

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Laurent Boch

Responsible of Research Projects Administration, RAI Radio Televisione Italiana
Laurent Boch, graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1990 at “Politecnico di Torino”, has been working for RAI – Radiotelevisione Italiana since 1992, at the Centre for Research and Technological Innovation (CRITS). He has been involved in several EU funded projects dealing... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 4:55pm - 5:00pm IST
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