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
9:30👋😊 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
- location: FINA, Wałbrzyska 3/5, Cafe (Floor 0)
- 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 Hoeller
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
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
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
