Gruffudd Prys is the Head of the Language Technologies Unit at Bangor University, a multidisciplinary team of 8 linguists and 5 software developers specializing in the creation of Welsh language resources for the digital age. Having worked as a terminologist developing technical terms for Welsh-medium education, Gruff ventured into the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), developing part-of-speech taggers and named entity recognition models for Welsh. Currently he leads a Welsh Government funded project sourcing Welsh-language data in the form of speech and text to enable the creation of open source language models, open datasets and associated resources to create a strong foundation of language technologies for Welsh.

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 audio heritage for future generations. With over a decade of experience in audio-visual and digital preservation, Anja has held roles at the IFI Irish Film Archive and the Digital Repository of Ireland. She brings expertise in archival workflows, media archaeology, metadata standards, and sustainable preservation strategies that are internationally recognized.

Dr Brian Ó Raghallaigh is an Assistant Professor at Dublin City University (DCU), where he is a member of the Gaois research group. He is Principal Investigator (PI) on the Placenames Database of Ireland project and Co-Investigator (Co-I) on the Canúint project. He has a BA (Mod.) in computer science, linguistics and Irish, and a PhD in speech technology, both from Trinity College Dublin. His current research is focused on the creation of digital Irish-language resources for general and specialist users, language technology and other applications. He is a Board Member of the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI).

Prof William Lamb (University of Edinburgh) holds a Personal Chair in Gaelic Ethnology and Linguistics. Since joining the University in 2010, Professor Lamb has made significant contributions to Gaelic dialectology, oral tradition and language technology. He is the author of Scottish Gaelic: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge, 2024) and has published extensively in peer-reviewed venues on Digital Humanities topics. Lamb recently completed an MSc in Speech and Language Processing (UoE) with distinction and, over the past 5 years, has secured substantial grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and other funders focusing on Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence. Outwith his academic role, Professor Lamb serves on the Board of Management for Faclair na Gàidhlig and several other executive committees dedicated to Gaelic language and culture. He is also a Fellow of the Generative Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (GAIL) and an Affiliate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI).