The international conference “No Time to Wait” is set to mark its tenth edition from October 14 to 16, 2026, hosted at Filmoteka Narodowa – Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA) in Warsaw.
This three-day event brings together archivists, software developers, preservation experts, and media professionals from around the world to explore open media practices, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation. Since its launch in 2016, the conference series has grown into a major forum for collaboration across archives, cultural institutions, and the open-source community.
No Time to Wait combines presentations, discussions, and workshops focused on:
- collaborative strategies for preserving audiovisual collections;
- tools and workflows that support open standards;
- examples of cross-community cooperation and innovation in digital preservation.
Timetable
Wednesday, 14. 10
9:00👋😊 Quick Introduction & registration
10:00 Assemble for Tour/Workshop
- Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Digital Preservation and Collection Management Practices at FINA
- Behind the Scenes at FINA: From Film Scanning to Digital Restoration Workflows
- Behind the Scenes at FINA: From Film Identification and Conservation to Scanning (other location: Chełmska Street 21/28)
10:00 10 Years of FFV1 Standardization – Jérôme Martinez (workshop)
11:00 Adéla Kudla, Jina Chang & Sonia Milewska EMBARK
11:00 Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Digital Preservation and Collection Management Practices at FINA
11:00 Behind the Scenes at FINA: From Film Identification and Conservation to Scanning
11:00 Behind the Scenes at FINA: From Film Identification and Conservation to Scanning
12:30 🥗Lunch Break
13:15 Restoring the Most Challenging Films at FINA: Workflows, Tools and the Role of AI – FINA (Grzegorz Krynicki, Adam Raczyński, Natalia Sokolova, Halszka Brzózka)
13:30 FINA Digital Archive: Developing Strategies for Digital Deposits – FINA (Michał Mazur + TBC)
14:00 FINA Digital Archive: A road to building in-house migration workflows – FINA (Joanna Kaliszewska, Antonina Hejwowska)
The NTTW Warm-Up Sessions
14:00 The use of AI in DIAMANT-Film Restoration – Franz Hoeller & Walter Plaschzug
14:15 Lost in Translation (and Cloud Billing): Scaling automatic translation at the Center of Community Archives – Wojciech Budzisz, Ewa Majdecka
14:30 Trust in Archives Initiative: A Community Response to Generative AI – Yvonne Ng
14:55 More Important, Less Visible: The Future of Open Knowledge in the Age of AI – Kamila Neuman
15:20 Automatic Speech Recognition for Films at the Federal Archives of Germany – Vy Nguyen
15:45 AI in GLAM, Friend or Foe? – TBD
18:00 🎉 NTTW Parade to Opening Social Dinner and Dance Party (let's gather in front of FINA)
Thursday, 15.10
8:30 Registration
9:00👋😊 by Alessandra Luciano, FINA Team
9:10 Welcome by FINA Leadership
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 ☕ Break
11:35 Managing large digital photo collections – Aida Garrido
12:00 (WIP) Hindsight is 20/20 - Resolving the Details – 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, Taisiia Turchyn
13:20 “Too Fragile to Scan?” – DFT and Cinecittà scanning archive film stocks - Michael Schneider
13:45 🥗 Lunch Break
14:45 Domestic Sensel-Native Archiving: A Recipe for Uncooked Film Scanning - Pablo Miliani
15:10 How a mass digitisation project boosted photochemical film conservation and presenvation - Tiago Baptista
15:35 Printer film scanner, a diy open source project developed by Udelar – Ignacio Seimanas & Mariano Reperger
16:00 The State of Film Preservation – Round Table, TBD
16:50 📸 Group Photo – Everybody
18:00 DPC Awards
Friday, 16.10
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 – Elżbieta Wysocka, Joanna Kaliszewska, Monika Supruniuk, Arkadiusz Węgłowski: FINA
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
10:55 ☕ 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 Surprise, Surprise: One Challenge After Another 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 ☕ 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 – TBD
17:30 Shutting it down & NTTW11?
18:00 10 YEARS of NTTW 🍾
Saturday, 17.10
TBC Guided Tour of Warsaw (no limit but need to sign-up)
More information: https://mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait10
