Dave Rice, conference manager
Dave Rice is an archivist with a taste for the whimsical and a technologist with an affection for beauty and reason. His sympathies lie with independent media, community building and skill sharing, and with the desire to combine Open-Source Development and audiovisual preservation to its quixotic limits. He has been fortunate to gain expertise within organizations such as the City University of New York, Democracy Now, the United Nations, WITNESS, the Bay Area Video Coalition, and other wonderful spaces. A graduate of the Selznick School of Film Preservation, he is also impresario of the aptly titled No Time to Wait conference and a principal steward behind such projects as QCTools, DVRescue, MediaConch, BWF MetaEdit, and Vrecord. In short, he spends his days helping build the tools we need to delay the fleeting from vanishing altogether.
Valeria Davila
Valeria Dávila is an audiovisual archivist specializing in moving image preservation, and community and linguistic accessibility within cultural heritage. A member of the No Time to Wait Organizing Committee, her fifteen-year career spans Latin America, the US, and Europe. Valeria holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cinematography from the Fundación Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires and a Master’s in Library and Information Studies (MLIS) specializing in Audiovisual Archiving from the University of Alabama. She began her career as a Digital Film Restorer at Cinecolor Digital Argentina, restoring landmark films for the National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts (INCAA) Heritage Recovery Program and private parties. Her portfolio includes the milestone anniversary re-releases of the Academy Award-winning The Official Story (1985) and the classic comedy Waiting for the Hearse (1985). Relocating to the United States in 2016, Valeria completed fellowships at Yale University Film Archive, Oregon State University Libraries (OSUL), Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB), and the Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS), where she worked with photography, film, and magnetic media. Currently in Europe, alongside her involvement with NTTW, Valeria co-chairs the Advocacy Committee of the Board (ACOB) for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and serves as the Coordinator for the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA).
Alessandra Luciano
Alessandra Luciano works at the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg, where she coordinates the national digital cultural heritage and AI strategies. Her work focuses on the preservation and access of cultural heritage in the digital environment, with particular attention to the long-term stewardship of collections and the conditions that enable public access and reuse. She previously served as Digital Curator at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA), where she developed long-term preservation and access strategies for Luxembourg’s audiovisual heritage. Her professional background combines archival practice, policy coordination, and digital strategy, with a particular interest in the impact of emerging technologies in the management of cultural heritage throughout its lifecycle. At the Ministry, she also co-leads the internal working group on artificial intelligence and contributes to the Luxembourg Government’s wider culture and AI policy discussions. She is particularly interested in how digital policies can support preservation, access, and responsible innovation in the cultural sector.
Jérôme Martinez
Jérôme Martinez is the Founder and President of MediaArea.net, the lead developer of MediaInfo and a technical consultant to a variety of projects within the fields of broadcast video, audiovisual archiving, and web video. Jérôme’s work specializes in the analysis and categorization of audiovisual data as well as quality control, audiovisual metadata, and the development of open source solutions for media communities.
Elżbieta Wysocka
Elżbieta Wysocka is a restorer and researcher specializing in film, video and digital art. Trained in painting conservation and intermedia, she authored award-winning MA and PhD theses on audiovisual and media art preservation. She has led national and international projects in film restoration, digitisation, cataloguing and digital preservation at the at the National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute. She also guided the development of the Media Asset Management at FINA. A member of the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission, she also worked as film restorer at Deutsche Kinemathek (FFE Program). Since 2024, she has been Deputy Director at FINA, where she oversees the Digital Archive, Digital Collections and Digitisation.
Joanna Kaliszewska
Digital archivist and cultural manager specializing in preserving audiovisual heritage. She was responsible for implementing digital storage solutions and metadata standards for the film and audiovisual collections of the National Film Archive and FINA. She has experience implementing data storage solutions in DAM and MAM systems in the public and commercial sectors. From 2020 to 2021, she led the FINA Digital Repository team, and since 2025, she has served as Head of the FINA Digital Collections and Collection Information Management Department.
