We are excited to welcome you to the first day of the FIAT/IFTA World Conference 2021 (Online)!

Each day we will be sharing the programme for the day on our social media accounts alongside highlights from the Conference. Please make sure to follow along and share your experiences using the hashtag #FIATIFTA2021

Please find the Day 1 (Tuesday 19 October 2021) programme below:

9:00am – 10:00am CEST

• Opening Session

10:00am – 11:00am CEST

• Charlotte Kemp (Futures Alchemist)

11:30am – 12:00pm CEST

• From Chennai to Tallinn – the hot and cold of international project collaboration | Simon Clark (Prasad) & Kadi Sikka (National Archive of Estonia)

• How to launch a new SVOD offer on the French market and manage its marketing with 3 different content sources? | Hugues Blondet (Salto), Steny Solitude (Perfect Memory) & Melanie David (Redbee Media)

• Recovering South Africa’s missing history | Seymour Holman (SABC), Quinton Fredericks (Afravision) & Kevan Jones (SACIA)

12:00pm – 12:30pm CEST

• Quality control and enhancement for German Football Archive | Christoph Forster (German Football Archive) & Tom Lorenz (Cube-Tec)
• How to handle public service content in the commercialized field | Sarah Udsen (DR)
• South African memory: the trials and triumphs of the digitisation of the Rivonia trial. Where to from here? New steps, new challenges in digitising South Africa’s archival sound collections | Nkwenkwezi Languza (NFVSA)

12:30pm – 1:00pm CEST

• SWR Panasonic D5 tapes migration: a wicked problem and how it was solved with Memnon support | Robert Fischer (SWR) & Michel Merten (Memnon)
• Library sales from public collections: A demand-led mission with dubious commercial returns or an opportunity not to be missed? | Philippe Sartori (INA) & Hugo Domenach (INA)
• Digital Preservation of Malawian Intangible Cultural Heritage | Chimwemwe Sumani (Rei Foundation Limited)

2:00pm – 3:30pm CEST

• MEET THE GOLDEN SPONSORS | Mayam, Memnon, NOA & DALET

4:00pm – 5:30pm CEST

• WORKSHOP FRAME EXPERT | Virginia Bazán-Gil (Radiotelevisión Española – FIAT/IFTA), Claude Zurcher (FONSART), Rawan Al Homaimat (French Embassy in Jordan), Véronique Ginouvès (Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme – CNRS), Domingo Lemus (RED CCAPFA) & Christine Braemer (INA)

4:00pm – 4:30pm CEST

• Producing in a pandemic: Leveraging the cloud to launch new business initiatives | David Klee (A+E Networks)
• IA Algorithms and automatisms in audiovisual archives: conquests and borders based on the ATRESMEDIA experience | Eugenio Lopez De Quintana Saenz (Atresmedia) & Antonio León Carpio (Etiqmedia)

4:30pm – 5:00pm CEST

• Repurposing Archival Content | Gerry Field (American Public Television), David Packham (OB Media) & Neil Blake (Axle AI)
• More metadata, lots of links, but what do you do with them? Practical examples of the added value of automatic metadata and linked data for archive users | Tim Manders (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) & Mari Wigham (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)

5:00pm – 5:30pm CEST

• Introducing New Standards to Old Data: Wrangling Metadata in Sports Archives | Rachel Mandell (FIFA)
• Governance of contents Data at France Televisions for better usage and valorisation of TV programmes | Matthieu Parmentier (France Televisions) & Louis Matignon (Perfect Memory)

6:30pm – 7:00pm CEST

• Don’t dismiss that VTR! | Silvia Proscia (Rai)
• So many questions, so little time – Archival Support for Newsrooms and Social Media Managers | Maria Fuchs (Bayerischer Rundfunk)
• Making public: Perspectives from the Hidden Years Music Archive | Lizabé Lambrechts (Africa Open Institute For Music, Research And Innovation, Stellenbosch University)

7:00pm – 7:30pm CEST

• Storage migration of the Olympic Films collection | Sabine Haller-Neumann (Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage) & Julien Desponds (Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage)
• The role of audiovisual archives in the era of the over-the-top revolution and transmedia production: new challenges and opportunities | Iris López de Solis (RTVE)
• The FEPACI Archival Project | Aboubakar Sanogo (Carleton University-Pan African Federation of Filmmakers)

7:30pm – 8:00pm CEST

• Digitization of 16mm reel film: experiences from National Records and Archive Services of Malawi | Bright Joshua (National Records and Archives Services of Malawi)
• Facilitating researchers in identifying biases in audiovisual archives using AI | Jesse De Vos (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision) & Philo van Kemenade (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)
• African Cinema and Audiovisual Archives | Aboubakar Sanogo (Carleton University-Pan African Federation of Filmmakers)