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.

Stewart Carter is a media technology specialist with 20 years' experience in media production, digital asset management (DAM) and content supply chain. He has designed and implemented complex systems and workflows for leading organisations including Endemol Shine and IMG. He is now AI & Content Technology Lead within Amazon's marketing team, helping shape its global DAM platform and content supply chain. His current focus is on how AI can enhance DAM and content operations, driving smarter automation, metadata and workflow efficiency across the media ecosystem.