Andrea Goethals is the Manager of Digital Preservation and Data Capability at the National Library of New Zealand, leading a team specializing in digital preservation, web archiving, and data analysis. She is active in regional and international initiatives, including iPRES, IIPC, and DataCite.
Abby Wolf is the Digital Preservation Analyst at the Harvard Library, where she is the service owner for Harvard’s preservation repository.
Panelists:
Kevin Thomas is Vice President of Marketing at Geyser Data, leading branding and market strategy for its Tape-as-a-Service archive solution. With over 20 years in technology marketing at HP and DXC Technology, he brings a strong customer focus. He is also Co-Founder and CMO of Purple Koru, a consultancy bridging strategy and execution. Kevin is passionate about helping organizations preserve data responsibly and sustainably.
Linda Tadic is Founder/CEO of Digital Bedrock, a trusted, managed digital preservation service that partners with libraries, archives, museums, producers, studios, artists, and individuals to preserve their digital content. Her over 35 years’ experience includes positions at HBO, the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, ARTstor, and the Getty Research Institute. She has also taught as an Adjunct Professor at UCLA’s Department of Information Studies, and at NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Linda consults and lectures on digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, metadata, and the impact of digital preservation on the environment.
Bevan Sinclair is a Senior Solution Engineer at Microsoft, based in Wellington, New Zealand. Bevan works with enterprise customers to design and deliver scalable cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, with a focus on digital preservation, infrastructure modernization, and AI-driven innovation. Bevan has spent most of his 30 year IT career supporting the NZ public sector from inside and out, with a focus on improving citizen engagement and services.
Terence White has been working in IT for nearly 30 years designing, building and running solutions and managing teams of IT professionals for both the public sector and private enterprises. He did a four and a half year stint at the National Library of New Zealand around the time it was kicking off its digital preservation journey in the early 2000's and helped bring in some of the initial computer software, hardware and storage for that project. He holds the AWS Solutions Architect and AWS DevOps Engineer certifications at the Professional level and he works as a consulting cloud engineer for a multinational AWS Partner Network (APN) partner headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.
Paul Seiler is the Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst Cloud, New Zealand’s locally owned cloud provider. As a senior technology and operations leader, he drives the company’s strategy for delivering secure, sovereign cloud infrastructure tailored to Aotearoa’s needs.