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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!

Michal Kubin is a Senior Ontologist at zooplus SE, with 13 years of experience in eCommerce taxonomy, ontology, and largescale product classification, always with a strong focus on customer experience and shop navigation. At zooplus, he has been deeply involved in upgrading the legacy taxonomy of a 25yearold company into a modern, standardized system that enables automated category assignments for both 1P and 3P sellers through facetbased classification.

Danila Arminio is a Taxonomist and Ontologist at zooplus SE,with over 20 years of experience bringing order to complex digital product worlds. During her 12 years at Amazon, she helped build the Unified Taxonomy model, contributed to the launch of the Italian and Spanish Amazon shops, and supported Knowledge Graph initiatives, always with one goal: making sure products, systems, and customers were all speaking the same language.

With more than 20 years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS platforms in e-commerce, insurtech and fintech, Rohit brings a dual focus on customer success and product excellence.