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 with media preservation, in ISO/IEC standardisation activities, and has been technical coordinator of the RAI DigiMaster project dealing with massive master migration. He is responsible for the area “Administration Research Projects” of RAI/CRITS and he is chair of FIAT/IFTA PMC.

Brecht Declercq is Head of Archives at RSI, the public broadcaster of Italian-speaking Switzerland. From 2013 to 2022, he served as Digitisation and Acquisition Manager at meemoo – the Flemish Institute for Archiving, leading the digitization of Flanders’ audiovisual heritage. Between 2004 and 2013, he worked at the Flemish public broadcaster VRT, contributing to various projects on digitization, media asset management, and access to archives collections. Within FIAT/IFTA, the global association of media archives, he chaired the Preservation and Migration Commission (2016–2019), served as Secretary General (2017–2020), and held the position of President (2020–2024). A frequent speaker, conference curator, and guest lecturer, he regularly writes and reviews on audiovisual archiving topics. He also acts as a consultant for public administrators, audiovisual archives, and media organizations worldwide.

Miroslav Čuljat is the Manager, Archiving and Preservation for all projects across RTÉ Archives. His leadership in digital archiving and preservation is instrumental to the digital transformation and continuous improvements with business process efficiencies within the department, resulting in a positive impact for all stakeholders, internal and external to RTÉ.

Jean-Christophe Kummer is managing director and co-founder of NOA Archive. He successfully brought the company from a technical niche solution provider of audio archive digitization and preservation workflows to a large scale operating archive system specialist delivering CAPEX systems for digitization and management for all kind of AV media. He has successfully set up video and audio archive digitization and management systems at clients such as Swedish National Broadcaster(SRF), Belgium national broadcaster (VRT), Austrian Archive and National Broadcaster (ORF and Mediathek), Fonoteca Mexico, Croatian Radio Television, Slovenian Radio Television, Hungarian National Radio & Sharjah Broadcasting Authority in UAE and many others. The estimated total value of legacy AV material which has been digitised is counting up to more than 4,5 mio hours worldwide.The amounts of seats which are managed with mediARC, the Archive Asset Management (AAM) system of NOA, helping to find assets in your archive is meanwhile up to more than 10.000 seats worldwide.

Esther Elorza is the Manager of Archiving and Preservation at RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española) and a member of the FIAT/IFTA Preservation and Migration Commission.

Daniela Pinheiro is a doctoral student in History, Politics, and Cultural Heritage at FGV and Nova de Lisboa University (2022-present). She holds an MA in the same field from FGV (2019-2021) and a BA in Communication (2008). With extensive television experience at Grupo Globo, she workes as an Archive, Image, and Text Researcher, contributing to various TV programs. Her academic activities include talks on audiovisual archives and technology at IFTA, Universities of Madeira and Aveiro, the M de Potência Festival (2024), plus participation in CineOp 2022 and Café com Arquivo (FGV, 2020).