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David is Chief Exec of Collections Trust where he leads the organisation and delivers collections consultancy projects. David was Chair of the UK Museum Accreditation Scheme for four years, and is Chair of Your Trust, Rochdale’s culture and leisure trust. Most recently, David was Curator of Earth Sciences at Manchester University Museum for nineteen years, where he worked with a large collection, supporting researchers and decolonisation work.

Jennifer Pearson is a Digital Archivist at HSBC, where she supports and maintains the digital preservation system for the bank’s global archives team. Her particular focus is catalogue metadata management and automation of processes using scripts.

Heidi Hudson is the Curator of Photographic Collections at The Royal Kennel Club, where she oversees one of the most significant archives of canine imagery in the world. She holds a Master’s degree in the History of Art with Photography from Birkbeck, University of London, and is recognised as a specialist in both 19th-century and contemporary dog art and photography.

Aigars Tukāns is a Brand Operations Manager at Vinted. In addition to managing brand campaigns, he oversees brand asset management, ensuring that stakeholders both inside and outside the company use assets consistently and in line with brand guidelines. Before joining Vinted's in-house Brand Studio, Aigars gained experience as a project manager and brand strategist at creative agencies.

Duncan works with content creators, business users, and system specialists to develop a new DAMS. The system supports access to Historic England’s archive of over one million digital images, and is used across the organisation for publications, media, marketing, education, and web content.

Duncan’s role focuses on interpreting between business need and technical capabilities to provide a platform that enables teams to find, access, and reuse shared imagery that is ready for wider use. Still a work in progress!