Collaborative Approaches to AI: Exploring the Scope for Archival Agency

joined the Národní filmový archiv in Prague in 1987 and, after working there in various positions, became its director general in 2012. From 2002 to 2008, he was dean and then head of department at the city’s FAMU International film school. His professional interests focus chiefly on the history of cinema in various cultural and social contexts, as well as on Czech and European modernism and the avant-garde. Since 2014, he has been a member of the executive committee of the ACE – Association des Cinémathèques Européennes and, since 2022, its president. From 2017 to 2021, he was also a member of the executive committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).

is the coordinator of digital products and strategy at Cinematek, the Royal Belgian Film Archive, where she leads the digital strategy to support the institution’s heritage, cultural and distribution work and its implementation through products and data. Prior to her career in cultural heritage, she spent eight years in tech, spanning media and fintech and specializing in product development, data and applied AI alongside translating European frameworks such as the AI Act into practice. Together with a team at Cinematek, she coordinates the CHAIN program (Cinema Heritage AI Intelligence Network), a European AI training initiative which unites audiovisual archives from six countries with focused events at major heritage film festivals designed to explore practical use cases, ethics and institutional transformation.