PROGRAMME

FIRST RELEASE

Our first programme release spans AI agent analytics, digital preservation, archive evolutions, climate science storytelling, cautionary AI tales, digital capability deep dives, educational VR gaming, and weird and wonderful tech-meets-art experiments.

Full programme coming soon - including more fantastic sessions, presentation abstracts, and timing!

From Digital Skills to Digital Behaviour: Rethinking Digital Citizenship in the Age of AI
Ahmad Ghandour

Not So Great Expectations: Copilot and Ngā Upoko Tukutuku
Nik Crombie \ Te Herenga Waka- Victoria University of Wellington

Low friction, non-fiction connections on Kōtuia: How we’re testing ways to tell stories on our collection sharing site Kōtuia ngā Kete
Emma Philpott \ Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand

Making FRIEND: holy objects, intimate machines and artificial companions
Jemimah Widdicombe & Jesse Stevens \ National Communication Museum

The Flowering Crisis – Communicating Confronting Science
Nicholas Yeats \ Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum

Preserving DVDs: Agentic AI to the rescue
Tom Ackroyd \ Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

Our first decade – 10 years of born digital records transfers, reflection and future plans
Jan Hutař & Carly Lenz \ Archives Library New Zealand

Mōkihi of Time
Katharine Watson, Marcos Gabriel Merlo & Danny McNeil \ Christchurch Archaeology Project, One Simple Matter, & Christchurch City Libraries

Digital Preservation for Small Organisations
Timothy Barnett \ Ngā Pātaka Kōrero o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Council Libraries

Asking the Shelves: How a District Council Library Built an AI Analyst from 14 Million Transactions
Angela Jowitt, Andrew Terwiel & Eric Bonhomme \ New Plymouth District Council, Puke Ariki, & Qrious

What does it mean to be a truly digital archive in Aotearoa today?
Richard Hulse & Kate Roberts \ Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision