Charlie Halford is a Principal Research Engineer in the BBC’s Research & Development department, where he works as part of the Advisory Team, which does longer term technology and media industry trend forecasting and analysis and produces technical strategy recommendations for the rest of the BBC. As part of this, he leads the BBC’s work on “Project Origin”, a technical standard co-founded and developed by the BBC that seeks to address the dangers of disinformation on the internet by providing secure media provenance. His background is in software engineering and architecture, where he has spent a significant proportion of his career working with content management and publishing technologies. At the BBC, he has been lucky enough to combine that expertise with a love for citizen empowerment and public service journalism.

Lauri Saarikoski serves as Development Manager for the Archives at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company. He provides expert support to various archive teams in such areas as operational and technical planning, strategy, cross-functional collaboration and management. With over 15 years of experience in music and media archive work, he specialises in metadata, AI and innovation activities. He actively participates in the EBU and FIAT/IFTA communities and currently focuses on media-related AI applications, process development and data economy.

Ronja Halter is an Archive Editor in the Radio Archive Team at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company. With a background in language and literature studies, as well as computer science, she is enthusiastic about combining her knowledge of both humanities and technology in her work. She has been building contemporary solutions for media archive work by implementing automated and AI-assisted workflows for metadata management and creation. Outside of work, Ronja enjoys knitting, video games, and cuddling up with her two cats.