Social Events

Pre-Event Meet Up

March 17, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Elevate your conference experience at the pre-event meet up! Join us in the stylish heart of Downtown Los Angeles at Shoo Shoo Baby, a vibrant 1940s-inspired bar and lounge known for its craft cocktails, intimate speakeasy vibes, and lively atmosphere.

Michael Popham is a Digital Preservation Analyst with the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC), where he is part of the Good Practice team, providing advice and guidance to Members.

 

Geoff is heritage manager at King’s College London Libraries & Collections and is Chair of AIM25, a charitable consortium of 150 of London’s leading cultural organisations. Formerly Head of Archives at King’s, he developed the university’s DAM that is used for teaching, research, marketing, and recruitment and has supported King’s popular MA in Digital Asset and Media Management programme.  His work includes the application of technology to digital heritage content and stories including Linked Open Data and Extended Reality, through the XRchiving initiative.  

Alexandra Foulds is the Archives Manager at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. She has previously held positions at Gladstone’s Library and St George’s University of London. She is particularly interested in digitisation for public engagement, nineteenth-century medical records, and the particular issues relating to the long-term care of nineteenth-century collections.

Laurisa Sastoque (she/her) is a Digital Preservation Training Officer in the Digital Humanities Team, working on the Digital Preservation Southampton enterprise unit that seeks to provide digital preservation training and guidance to partners across the cultural heritage sector.

Kristin is the VP of Global Agencies and Partnerships at Monotype, with more than 15 years of international business experience across SaaS, platform integrations, and strategic partnerships. At Monotype she has worked extensively with agencies and global partners to design and scale product strategies that enhance Typography workflows across teams. Known for connecting commercial strategy with customer outcomes, Kristin brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to shaping and implementing how Monotype add values for customers in an evolving design landscape.

Tom Foley is an award winning Executive Creative Director at Monotype, where he strives to create beautiful typography for global brands. Tom takes a future-focussed approach, helping clients understand how good typeface design combined with new font technologies can elevate brand expression. Tom has designed custom typefaces for clients such as the National Portrait Gallery, Airbnb, Intel, PlayStation, Netflix, H&M, Opel and Dublin City Council. Tom also shares his passion for design through lecturing and workshops at Universities across Ireland and the UK.

Sharon is the Infrastructure and Digital Asset Manager of the Archives at Pixar Animation Studios, where she helps bridge creative and technical worlds to keep decades of visual and storytelling assets discoverable and alive. Sharon partners with production and technical teams to build and evolve DAM systems that preserve visual and text-based materials created during the filmmaking process with an eye toward expansive and efficient reuse.