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Jen has 10+ years of experience developing and managing digital asset management, archives and preservation systems. Together with her ongoing engagement in digital preservation, Jen also maintains a keen interest in user experience, training, accessibility, and diverse and inclusive practice.

As Head of Products & Services for BBC Archives Technology & Services, Brendan leads a team that’s responsible for the secure delivery of all new Programme into the BBC, enterprise media movement, permanent archive storage and a host of Media Asset Management & Inventory Systems that provides the core archive service for programme makers.

As former videotape editor and technical solutions lead, he’s trusted to develop and implement strategy that’s often transformational and highly effective.

Cathy is architecting the data across Ofcom, the UK's communications regulator, providing guidance on the what, who and how of data management and analytics, of which data models, taxonomies and ontologies play a central role.

Beth Holmes started in 2007 as the first Knowledge Engineer at the question-answering startup True Knowledge (later called "Evi"), where she led a team to design an ontology, inference rules and natural language templates to power Q&A over general knowledge and domain-specific datasets. Amazon then acquired the startup to provide Q&A on their Alexa voice assistant.

Mary has worked in cultural heritage photography for over 10 years. As a photographer at Glasgow Museums, then at National Museums Scotland before taking on the management of Science Museum Group Photo Studio in 2018.

Grant is a distinguished Digital Asset Management professional with two decades strategic expertise. Currently serving as Digital Asset Manager at VisitScotland, he leads innovative DAM operations critical to the Scottish Government's brand communication. Grant manages the Brand Scotland and VisitScotland Media Toolkits, ensuring rigorous privacy compliance and operational effectiveness.