2020 IASA - FIAT/IFTA Joint Conference

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The IASA - FIAT/IFTA Joint Conference will be opened jointly by FIAT/IFTA President Bríd Dooley, IASA President Toby Seay and Dee Forbes, Director-General of RTÉ, the host of this conference.

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Sponsors are a vital part in the networks of FIAT/IFTA as well as IASA. As representatives of the industry they not only provide goods and services essential to the audiovisual archiving work, through their accumulated experience they also reinforce the know-how and empower the innovation in the field.

In this 'Meet the Sponsors' session, the sponsors of the IASA - FIAT/IFTA Joint Conference get the opportunity to present themselves to the participants, introduce the goods or services they provide, and tell or showcase briefly what they have to offer:

• GrayMeta - Matt Eaton
• Dalet - Jonathan Coutts-Zawadski
• AVP - Bert Lyons
• Atos - Mauro Starinieri

Conference attendants are equally encouraged to visit the sponsors in their virtual sponsorship booths accessible via the conference platform.

Sponsors are a vital part in the networks of FIAT/IFTA as well as IASA. As representatives of the industry they not only provide goods and services essential to the audiovisual archiving work, through their accumulated experience they also reinforce the know-how and empower the innovation in the field.

In this 'Meet the Sponsors' session, the sponsors of the IASA - FIAT/IFTA Joint Conference get the opportunity to present themselves to the participants, introduce the goods or services they provide, and tell or showcase briefly what they have to offer:

• NOA - Jean-Christophe Kummer
• Prasad - Simon Clark
• TMD - Tony Taylor
• Vizrt - Richard Cooper and Alejandro Hervella

Conference attendants are equally encouraged to visit the sponsors in their virtual sponsorship booths accessible via the conference platform.

The post-2016 era has pushed many to reevaluate their work in the context of racism, xenophobia, political corruption, and even physical isolation.  Academics need to ask themselves how their research and their teaching can address our current situation. In the field of television studies, researchers require access to audio-visual archives to support their critical research agenda, but the pandemic has obviously made that difficult. Outside of the current moment, though, a persistent problem bedevils television research that is engaged with issues of social justice, and that is the uneven preservation of TV news. Pandemic or no pandemic, access to television news is compromised by a number of factors, not the least of which is the overwhelming amount of programming to capture and archive. In this address, I highlight the importance of TV news archives to researchers who wish to understand and communicate to their students how the news straddles information and entertainment.

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The FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards are designed to honor outstanding archival initiatives and projects that have improved significantly the ways in which the archives are preserved, managed and used. Any initiative that brings the professional preservation and management of audiovisual archives to a higher level, any project that valorizes the use of archive in an outstanding way, is eligible to enter. Members of FIAT/IFTA can nominate their own organisation, or they can nominate a person or organisation with whom they have collaborated to bring the project to a successful end.

During this session, the shortlisted candidates get the opportunity to present their projects to the plenary audience of the conference.

The FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards are designed to honor outstanding archival initiatives and projects that have improved significantly the ways in which the archives are preserved, managed and used. Any initiative that brings the professional preservation and management of audiovisual archives to a higher level, any project that valorizes the use of archive in an outstanding way, is eligible to enter. Members of FIAT/IFTA can nominate their own organisation, or they can nominate a person or organisation with whom they have collaborated to bring the project to a successful end.

During the Awards Show, the winners of the 2020 FIAT/IFTA Archive Achievement Awards will be solemnly announced.

At the end of the 2020 IASA - FIAT/IFTA Joint Conference time has come for a word of thanks. Not only to our hosts and the organisers of the conference, but also to the speakers, the moderators, all that have worked behind the scenes and of course to you, the participants to this conference.

As this is an election year for both FIAT/IFTA and IASA, there are also a few people to whom we owe our gratitude as they've come to the end of their mandate on the respective organisation boards. The outgoing presidents of IASA and FIAT/IFTA will give their farewell address, and the new ones will present themselves and their plans for the future.

As tradition requires, at the end of this session the location for the next FIAT/IFTA World Conference will also be revealed.

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