Fantastic Futures Canberra 2024 Conference - onsite and online

In the middle of the Australian Spring, in October 2024, the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will be running workshops, tours, keynotes, talks and networking events for the AI4LAM community. 

The big questions for the global community this year are:

• How do we sustain and build on our capacity to collaborate as a community?

• What are the resourcing implications of using or developing AI to preserve and make accessible GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum) collections (as data) using AI?

• What does operationalising AI with GLAM collections mean in real terms?

• How do we build in CARE and FAIR principles into GLAM work practice?

We are looking forward to the GLAM and research community grappling with ethical challenges, experimenting and in some cases driving forward with uptake of AI technologies submitting proposals for papers, panel sessions, lightning talks, workshops, and surprising us with other ideas. Dr. Keir Winesmith, the NFSA Chief Digital Officer, is convening the conference with the help of NFSA staff, partners, and colleagues in Australasia and from around the globe: Australian National University, CAVAL, National Archives of Australia, Australian Centre for Moving Image, State Library of Victoria, National Library of New Zealand, Victoria University of Wellington, Library of Congress, Stanford University Library, British Library, Internet Archive, Indiana University Bloomington Libraries, National Library of Norway, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and Ècole nationale des chartes, PSL.

We have a range of onsite experiences for those that can travel to Canberra, Australia, including options to join workshops or tours on Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th October prior to the two-day formal segment of keynotes, presentations and panel sessions on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th October.

For those organisations sending a representative to the onsite conference in person a livestream token will be provided so that colleagues back at base camp can join virtually in a watch party. Following the conference the livestream recordings of the formal sessions will be produced for delayed or repeat viewing.

The aim in hosting the conference with onsite and online components is in recognition that being together to talk and exchange ideas in the beautiful surrounds of the Australian bush is a fundamental part of being social and experiencing a sense of place. NFSA is sited on Ngunnawal country and nearby is Ngarigo and Ngambri country. Conserving funds and care for country drives our move to provide a concurrent livestream and post event the edited recordings. This is with the intention for the power of people, audiovisual media, knowledge sharing and collaboration to be available to many but not at the cost of our collective carbon footprints.

Check out our announcement timeline and get your ideas into proposals and your travel plans readied!

Announcements

• Call for Proposals is closed

• Registration now fully booked!

• Key speakers announcement: 3 May 2024

• Proposals reviewed by the program committee: extended to 3 June 2024

• Proposal acceptances: extended to 14 June 2024

• FF24 conference countdown 54321…

• Registration closed: 30 September 2024

• You are in Canberra or are joining us online later in the week! 15 October 2024

More information

• Join the NFSA FF24 mailing list for regular updates

• Drop a note into the #ff2024 event channel in the AI4LAM Slack

• Connect and chat on Mastodon & Bluesky using #ff2024 hashtag 

• Send detailed inquiries to ff24 [at] nfsa.gov.au