Learn more about No Time to Wait 2026 | 10th Edition | Warsaw
Timetable
Wednesday, 14. 10
9:30👋😊 Quick Introduction & registration
10:00 Behind-the-Scenes Tour/Workshop
- Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Digital Preservation and Collection Management Practices at FINA
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Cafe (Floor 0) - Behind-the-Scenes at FINA: From Film Scanning to Digital Restoration Workflows
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Foyer in front of Promised Land (Floor 1) - Behind-the-Scenes at FINA: From Film Identification and Conservation to Scanning
location: FINA, Chełmska Street 21/28 - Workshop: 10 Years of FFV1 Standardization – Jérôme Martinez
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, MiniMax (Floor 0)
11:00 Behind-the-Scenes Tour
- From Film Scanning to Digital Restoration Workflows
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Foyer in front of Promised Land (Floor 1) - From Film Identification and Conservation to Scanning
location: FINA, Chełmska Street 21/28
11:15 FINA Digital Archive: A road to building in-house migration workflows – Joanna Kaliszewska, Antonina Hejwowska (FINA)
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, MiniMax (Floor 0)
12:00 🥗Lunch Break
13:00 Restoring the Most Challenging Films at FINA: Workflows, Tools and the Role of AI – Grzegorz Krynicki (FINA)
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1)
13:30 FINA Digital Archive: Developing Strategies for Digital Deposits – FINA (Michał Mazur)
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, MiniMax (Floor 0)
The NTTW Warm-Up Sessions
14:00 The use of AI in DIAMANT-Film Restoration – Franz Höller
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1)
14:15 Lost in Translation (and Cloud Billing): Scaling automatic translation at the Center of Community Archives – Wojciech Budzisz, Ewa Majdecka
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1)
14:30 Trust in Archives Initiative: A Community Response to Generative AI – Yvonne Ng
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1)
14:55 More Important, Less Visible: The Future of Open Knowledge in the Age of AI – Kamila Neuman
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1)
15:20 Automatic Speech Recognition for Films at the Federal Archives of Germany – Vy Nguyen
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1)
15:45 AI in GLAM, Friend or Foe? – Aida Garrido (moderator)
location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1)
18:00 🎉 NTTW Parade to Opening Social Dinner and Dance Party (let's gather in front of FINA)
Thursday, 15.10
All events on this day will take place at FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1). The coffee and lunch breaks will be happening in the Café area on Floor 0.
8:30 Registration
9:00👋😊 by Alessandra Luciano & FINA Team
9:10 Welcome by FINA Directorial Board – Tomasz Kolankiewicz, Elżbieta Wysocka, Monika Supruniuk
9:20 TIB‘s AV holdings as use case for Core Preservation Processes – Merle Friedrich & Bertrand Caron
9:45 The OS as a Deployable Artifact: Immutable Linux for Media and Preservation – Jonáš Svatoš
10:10 Permanent data storage media – and how to be read in 50 or 100 years? – Martin Kunze
10:25 Eternal what? Migration? No. We do #DataGardening here. 🌻️🌻️🌻️ -It's beautiful! – Peter Bubestinger-Steindl
10:50 From physical program acquisition to stream capture: 30 years of evolution of legal deposit at the INA – Guillaume Seznec & Nicolas Laurent
11:15 ☕ Coffee Break
11:35 Managing large digital photo collections – Aida Garrido
12:00 The Devil is in the Details – The Art of QC – Mat Fernandes
12:15 From Long-Term Practice to Linux-Based Video Digitization Workflows – Marion Jaks & Peter Bubestinger-Steindl
12:40 Nitrate Film: From History to Contemporary – Loubna Régragui
12:55 Before the Scan: Preserving Film Collections Under Wartime Conditions in Ukraine – Oleksandra Osnach
13:20 🥗 Lunch Break
14:20 Domestic Sensel-Native Archiving: A Recipe for Uncooked Film Scanning – Pablo Miliani
14:45 “Too Fragile to Scan?” – DFT and Cinecittà scanning archive film stocks – Michael Schneider
15:10 Printer film scanner, a DIY open source project developed by Udelar – Ignacio Seimanas & Mariano Reperger
15:35 The State of Film Preservation – Round Table – Shay Hix (moderator)
16:15 📸 Group Photo – Everybody
18:00 Digital Preservation Awards ceremony
Friday, 16.10
Na All events on this day will take place at FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Promised Land (Floor 1). The coffee and lunch breaks will be happening in the Café area on Floor 0.
9:00 👋😊 How Does NTTW Work? – Dave Rice
9:15 The Metadata Universe - Selected projects from the Cataloguing and Documentation Commission (CDC) of FIAF – Adelheid Heftberger, Paul Duchesne, Elżbieta Wysocka
9:45 Connecting the Archive: Many projects, One system, shared preservation workflows at FINA – Elżbieta Wysocka, Joanna Kaliszewska, Monika Supruniuk, Arkadiusz Węgłowski
10:30 This is where it all began – the development of optical sound digitization technology over many years of cooperation with the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute – Jakub Stadnik (FINA)
10:55 ☕ Coffee Break
11:15 No More Time to Waste – Reto Kromer
11:30 Designing leadership for sustainable stewardship. A Governance Consultation Case Study from the Centre for Computing History – Caylin Smith
11:55 Computer Says No: The Struggle of Open Source AV Archiving in a Zero Trust, Enterprise IT Environment – Callie Holmes
12:10 Challenge After Challenge in Web Archiving – Mona Ulrich
12:35 How good is 'good enough'? – Richard Wright
12:50 🥗 Lunch Break
13:50 Rights, business case, and Compatibility: What Keeping Old Games Playable Actually Requires – Piotr Gnyp (GOG / EFGAMP Board – moderator), Marcin Paczyński (GOG – Business Development), Adam Ziółkowski (GOG – Technical Engineer)
14:30 Open-Sourcing the Micrio (Image) Viewer – Erwin Verbruggen
14:55 No Budget, No Time? No Problem: Local Control of Your Workflow with Open Source Tools and a sprinkle of AI – Martin Weiss
15:20 Good to Go(obi): revamping end to end audiovisual preservation workflows in the IFI Irish Film Archive – Cydney Thompson
15:45 ☕ Coffee Break
16:05 It Worked!: An Update on Sharing Open Source Tools with Film Vendors - Sarah Gentile
16:20 Building a European Community for Media Art Preservation: Introducing EMBARK and CUSP – Jina Chang
16:35 Optimizing FFV1 for Apple Silicon, and others – Jérôme Martinez, Victor Pranchere & Gilles Thoma
16:50 Stepping Stones, Building Together – Lode Scheers (moderator)
17:30 Shutting it down & NTTW11?
19:00 10 YEARS NTTW 🍾
location: Cafe Stolica, Iluzjon, Ludwika Narbutta 50A
Saturday, 17.10
TBC Guided Tour of Warsaw (no limit but need to sign-up)
More information: https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait10