Volodymyr Mikhalko, candidate of technical sciences, senior researcher, associate professor, senior researcher of the department of technological support of srchivalaffairs, The Ukrainian Research Institute of Archival Affairs and Record Keeping I have more than 15 years of experience in educational and scientific organizations. Author and co-author of about 95 scientific works (articles, conference papers, textbooks and manuals).

Catarina Gasche is currently a student in the master´s degree in Information Science at Faculdade de Letras. As already participated in the XIV EDICIC with an article connecting information Science and Democracy. Her interests are archival science, digital preservation and combining politics with information science to understand the information landscape. Luís Corujo serves as an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, where he directs the Information Science Master’s program. He is a researcher with the Information Science Team at the Centre for Classical Studies (University of Lisbon) and a member of ISKO’s Iberian Chapter.

Dr Maureen Pennock is Head of Digital Collection Management at the British Library and Associate Principle Investigator on the ReVerDi project. She sits on FLA Advisory Committee for Cultural Heritage, established the cross-sectional IFLA Network on Digital Cultural Heritage and leads the British Library ‘Sustainable Collecting’ staff network. Dr Jonathan Chenoweth is senior lecturer in the Centre for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Surrey and Programme Director of the MSc in Environmental Management, the MSc in Corporate Environmental Management and the MSc Sustainable Development. His research interests include sustainability, water resources management, and environmental management. Dr Matthias Sahli is a postdoctoral researcher in Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) Department of Business. His PhD in economics was awarded by the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. His research interests include intellectual property, innovation, digitalization, sustainability, applied econometrics and creative industries.

Gareth Cole is the Open Research Lead at Loughborough University. He also leads on the University Archive and copyright. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter. He co-leads the archiving and preservation work package on the Open Book Futures project. Paul Stokes has had a career in both the commercial sector and academia. At present he leads on preservation for Jisc. He is a director of the DPC and the OPF. He's passionate about repositories, preservation and all things green and has a bee in his bonnet regarding value, sustainability, carbon costs, and storage. Ross Higman has been involved in developing the open-source metadata management system Thoth since its early days, with a particular focus on integrating it with third-party platforms to automate book dissemination. Early work experience of data entry for a publishing company inspired him to learn to make computers do it instead. Jenny Fry is a Professor of Publishing and Information Science at Loughborough University. Her research is focused on digital scholarship. Rupert Gatti is a founder and Director of Open Book Futures. He is also a Director and CFO of Thoth, a non-profit, community interest company (CIC) dedicated to advancing open access publishing. He is co-lead of the archiving and preservation work package on Open Book Futures. Toby Steiner is the Product Manager and Chief Operating Officer of Thoth. Prior to this he was the project manager on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. He is interested in exploring Open Scholarship practices - currently with a focus on scholar- and community-led OA books and open infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Paul Wheatley was, until recently, Head of Research and Practice at the Digital Preservation Coalition. He has over 20 years experience in digital preservation. Holly Turpin is the Research Associate on the archiving and preservation work package of the Open Book Futures project. She is just completing her PhD at Loughborough University in Immersive Digital Storytelling.

Aparna Subramanian is a Fulbright fellow and NYU MIAP alumnus, serving on the AMIA Board of Directors (2024-2026). She specializes in integrating best practices and strategies in media preservation, collection management and archival administration. She provides advisory services on interdisciplinary education within the evolving digital and new media landscape. Dr Madhavi Reddy is Professor & Head of Department of Media & Communication Studies, Director of EMMRC at SPPU, Pune India. A recipient of TATA scholarship for Film Preservation & Restoration workshop by FHF. She is Project Director of ICSSR project- ‘Digitization and Archiving of the Materiality of Indian Cinema’. Shruti Hussain is an Architect, Journalist and Researcher. She is recipient of Wikipedia Open Knowledge, Canadian Centre for Architecture fellowships and is Project Associate with Pune University. She has been published in Journal Safar, Metropole, Failed Architecture, BBC South Asia. She is Executive Editor of CQRA Podcasts covering construction quality.