A regional, curated, cross-sector leadership forum. Senior decision makers keen to engage in high-trust, knowledge-rich discussions are warmly welcomed from:

• National and state GLAM spaces (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) 

• Research infrastructure (national/large-scale HPC and data storage) 

• Cultural content custodians with heritage or commercial mandates (Indigenous, sport, broadcast) 

• Digital infrastructure policy makers and peak bodies 

• Industry infrastructure sponsors 

National heritage sectors are experiencing converging structural pressures to reshape how cultural data is preserved, accessed, governed, and funded. Chief among these concerns: 

• Digitisation at scale

• Balancing demand for access, reuse, and commercialisation with stewardship costs and requirements 

• Temporal, environmental and fiscal sustainability 

• System pressures from AI expansion 

• Growing cyber resilience and integrity requirements 

The rapid increase in preservation complexity and storage requirements, coupled with public expectations for digital access without disruption and myriad AI vectors to use, manipulate and redistribute digital assets requires deep conversations backed by solid technical knowhow. We invite a cross-domain discussion of the rapidly evolving landscape of unstructured, audiovisual, and born-digital cultural materials, and the architectural, structural, and systems solutions emerging to overcome the rising hurdles. 

To remain viable and robust, solutions must be scalable and sustainable. The true total cost of ownership of data is an indelible component of responsibly managing, maintaining, and preserving our cultural assets into the future. To this end, we aim to foster authentic discussion of asset licencing models to support stewardship beyond nearsighted funding cycles.