Ludovic Delépine has 30 years of experience in the field of IT, particularly in IT governance in public administration, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation. He is currently Head of the Archives Unit at the Directorate-General of the Presidency. He has also headed the IT Governance Thematic Unit of the Inter-Parliamentary Union for the past seven years. He previously taught computer science at several French universities and was a researcher in CNRS-certified artificial intelligence laboratories.

Alexandre Rouxel is Senior Project Manager for Data and AI at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), working within the Technology & Innovation (T&I) department. He supports collaborative initiatives on artificial intelligence and metadata with EBU members – Europe’s public service broadcasters. His work focuses on the development of AI algorithms for media content analysis, tagging and enrichment. He is also responsible for the EBU AI Sandbox, a platform to help members explore, test and evaluate AI tools adapted to media applications. Alexandre is involved in international projects and contributes to standardisation activities, including the SMPTE Task Force on AI and Metadata. Prior to joining the EBU, Alexandre worked for 20 years as an algorithm and systems engineer, contributing to the design of products and technology standards.

Koen Renders has been working at the VRT archives for 25 years, mainly in the field of music. A few years ago he joined the Archive Data Team, focusing on general metadata modeling and ontology.

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.

Graduated in audiovisual & heritage management after studying movies and visual arts, Olivio Segura joined INA’s Collection Management Department in 2019, assigned to an experimental and cross-departmental mission focus on experimenting AI-based solutions. Working alongside data scientists from the Information System Division, trained to machine learning models management, he contributed to develop automatic segmentation and indexing process for TV contents in charge of change management. Since 2020 Olivio joined the Data Department service as a project manager to pursue the lead and coordination of various AI projects.

Miel Vander Sande is Data Architect at meemoo, Flemish Institute for Archives. Meemoo manages a large quantity of mainly audio-visual material from more than 160 partners in cultural heritage and media. More than 8 million objects are currently stored, ranging from digitised newspapers, photos, video, and audio. As a Data Architect, Miel is responsible for the organisation, quality, and usability of metadata, both today and tomorrow. Miel has a background in Web technology, a PhD in publishing Linked Data and leads the Knowledge Graph project, which unifies all metadata used within meemoo.

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).

Janique Sonderegger is a documentalist and specialist in new information technologies and data management. She participate in the implementation of new AI tools at the RTS and in the business analysis around these developments.

Laurent Guignard is a documentalist at RTS from 1995. He’s a specialist in Sport and Information material. He’s been Team Manager from 2005.

Emanuele Balossino is Head of Media Management at Mediaset, the italian commercial broadcaster, where he is responsible for company Archives, leading digital transformation and innovation projects from raw materials storage facilities to finished products Library, coordinating a team of 50 staff members. He is responsible for content digitization, ingest, cataloguing, quality control, editing and distribution management, supporting end-to-end production workflows. He actively participates in the FIAT/IFTA community, focusing on media management and process development, closely with technology evolution.

Davide Zampatti is Media Specialist in the Media Hub team, within the Media Management department at Mediaset. He is actually in charge of MAM workflow governance and service monitoring, particularly supporting QC workflows. He is actually key user and coordinator for AI adoption on QC activities, focusing on cue point detection and Playout support.

René Duursma has been Curator of Audiovisual Materials at the Groningen Archives since 2005. Leading a small team of five people and a group of volunteers, he is dedicated to the ongoing digitization and metadata management of the collection. Duursma is constantly involved in projects aimed at the general public, often in collaboration with partner organizations. He is a member of the Domain Council (AVA_NET) and serves as the Chairman of NORAA (Regional Archives in the Netherlands). In addition to his work at the archive, Duursma is a musician (Kinetophone), filmmaker, and presenter.

Ross Wilson is a Lead Technical Architect in the BBC’s Archives Technology & Services department. The department manages one of the world’s largest multimedia archives with a mission to safeguard the BBC’s archives now and for the future. Over nearly a decade, Ross has worked with multiple teams across the organisation, experiencing the breadth of the media supply chain. He has a software engineering background, having worked on the BBC websites, iPlayer, mobile apps, and BBC Account – which enables a more personalised signed-in BBC for audiences. Now he’s leading the architectural direction of the new BBC Library, a new platform to support content discovery and reuse.