Michael is a sports media professional with extensive experience in digital asset management, media operations, and creative technology. Currently serving as Media Assets Manager for the Minnesota Vikings, Michael specializes in optimizing media workflows, implementing innovative technology solutions, and managing large-scale digital asset libraries.

Jessie specializes in metadata governance, controlled vocabularies, and asset stewardship across the information architecture. Their interest lies in ethical and folkloric taxonomy approaches for enterprise collections.

They were a 2026 Digital Storytelling Fellow for the Digital Library Federation's annual Forum. McCarty's writing and workflows in controlled vocabularies and folksonomies has been featured at the IIIF Open Meeting, The Digital Repository of Ireland, The MARAC Conference, and the International Council on Archives. 

Teresa Soleau is Product Manager for Digital Preservation within the Collection Platforms & Data team of Getty Digital – part of the J. Paul Getty Trust in Los Angeles, CA, USA. She has worked in the digital preservation space for over 15 years at Getty and with an international group of experts as part of the steering committee for the development of Rosetta, a digital preservation system. She co-authored the 3rd edition of Digital Preservation for Libraries, Archives, and Museums (Bloomsbury: 2026).

Sam took his family’s legacy film and video-tape archive, with records and logs spread across books, binders, and a DOS database and completely brought it into the 21st century. He and his team digitized what they could in-house and sent out to trusted partners what they needed to.