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Susan Wambui Kibaara is a Kenyan Records and Archives Management Professional and Information Management Specialist with over two decades of experience in records and archives management, knowledge management, information governance, and digital preservation. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of County Records and Archives management at the Nairobi City County Government, Kenya.

Susan holds a Master`s in Degree in Knowledge Management and Innovation, a Bachelor of Science in Information Science, and a Diploma in Information Science. She is also a Certified Strategic Manager (CSM).

Her professional interests span records and archives management, audiovisual heritage preservation, digital transformation, and the safeguarding of institutional and cultural memory. She is particularly passionate about innovative approaches to documenting kenya`s contemporary history, preserving underrepresented narratives, and ensuring that baudiovisual and documentary heritage remains accessible to future generations.

Through her work, Susan continues to champion the role of archives and information management in preserving collective memory, strngthening institytional accountability, and connecting the past with the present and future.

Dan Hockstein is dedicated to preserving the cultural and historical record for future generations. Dan is an Archivist at the Library of Congress’ American Folklife Center, where he serves the needs of collections documenting diverse expressions of human experience. His work spans a wide range of materials, from contemporary born-digital media to field recordings that trace the early history of recorded sound.

Prior to joining the Library of Congress, Dan worked as a transfer technician and preservation specialist, focusing on the digitization of legacy audiovisual media, workflow management, quality control, and collections care. His professional experience includes positions at the Smithsonian Institution, The Ohio State University,  George Blood LP, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dan is a former board member of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) and currently co-chairs its Education and Training Committee. He is also an active member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and regularly serves on the Audio-Visual Working Group of the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI). He is especially interested in research, training, and organizing efforts targeted towards repair and maintenance of playback equipment. 

Dan holds a Bachelor's in Audio Post Production from Emerson College and a Master’s in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Based in Baltimore, Maryland, he enjoys exploring and cooking local food and sharing his passion for music and media with friends. 

Andrew Martin is Operations Manager at DAMsmart located in Canberra, Australia, where he is responsible for the technical oversight and operations of the facility. Andrew has been responsible for the design and management of projects such as The Nelson Mandela 46664 video digitisation, The National Archives of Fiji moving image collection, Art Gallery NSW Time Based Media collection digitisation, and The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television and radio archive digitisation.

Andrew specialises in audiovisual preservation workflow design, audiovisual digitisation and digital preparation for archive. He has significantly contributed to IASA TC06, Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings. Andrew has a background in audio recording, television production and master control, and previously worked for the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. He holds a postgraduate in Audiovisual Archiving.

Pedro Félix is the coordinator of the Installation Team of the National Sound Archive, a structure created by the Portuguese Government and directly supervised by the Minister of Culture and the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.

Before assuming that role, he was part of the team responsible for the preparation of the Fado proposal to UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. Afterwards, he coordinated the program of digitization of the phonographic collection of the Fado Museum. He has participated in the organisation of several public and private sound archives and phonographic collections. He has done work of audio recording, digitising and restoring audio from historical carriers. His digitization and restoration of sound documents have been published in several critical reissues of historical recordings.

He conceived and coordinated the European project HeritaMus, a digital tool for collaborative curation of material (phonographic) and immaterial (musical knowledge and practices) heritage. He was also the founder of Matéria do Som, a scientific association for the study and preservation of sound heritage in Portugal.

Nadia Lai has worked as head of cataloguing and training at the Swiss National Sound Archives in Lugano since September 2015. She mainly deals with data quality controls, data consistency, cataloguing rules as well as with the training of the Swiss National Sound Archives staff. In September 2023 she was also appointed Deputy Head of the Swiss National Sound Archives.

Since her arrival at the Swiss National Sound Archives, Nadia has regularly attended the IASA Conferences and given presentation on various subjects related to cataloguing and collection management. Since January 2022 she is chair of the Training and Education Committee and since September 2023, she is part of the EB as Treasurer.

Previous to this experience, Nadia worked mainly in libraries and libraries networks. Her professional career includes a three and a half year-experience as cataloging coordinator in the Library Network of Western Switzerland (RERO) and a four and a half year-experience as system librarian for the Alexandria Network and the Swiss National Library. Nadia earned a degree in English Literature and Science of Religions at the University of Fribourg in 2001 and a post-graduate certificate in Information and Documentation Science at the School of Business Administration of Geneva and the University of Geneva in 2007.

Jennifer Vaughn is Acting Manager of the Digital News Archive at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, Czechia. She is part of an international team of archivists and media managers who are building a repository of unique video content from countries where a free press is banned by the government or not fully established. Her work there focuses on designing and refining archival workflows, creating enterprise-level metadata models, and building multilingual linked data taxonomies.

Previously, she was Catalog Librarian for Music Materials at Syracuse University Libraries, where she worked to increase access to historic sound recordings and advocated for their use in research and education.
Ms. Vaughn has been an active conference presenter on metadata in AV archives. In past years she has served on the Executive Board of the Music OCLC User Group, the Cataloging and Metadata Committee of the U.S. Music Library Association, and indexed the IAML journal Fontes Artis Musicae from 2017-2023. She was IASA Broadcast Archives Section Chair from 2020-2023.