Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Monday, 20/Apr/2026 | |||||
| 9:30am - 10:00am |
REGISTRATION: BELGICAWEB & WORKSHOPS AND COFFEE Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
EARLY SCHOLARS SPRING SCHOOL ON WEB ARCHIVES [PART 1] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] Registration for this event begins at 9:00, followed by an icebreaker. |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM Location: PANORAMA [+6] BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM Digital Heritage for the Future - the BelgicaWeb Story 1: KBR, Royal Library of Belgium; 2: Ghent University; 3: University of Namur |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: USER NEEDS Location: PANORAMA [+6] BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM Users first: (Re)designing Web Archives around real Needs 1: Ghent University; 2: Bibliothèque nationale de France; 3: National Library of Norway; 4: University of Edinburgh; 5: UK National Archives |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: PROGRAMS Location: CONCERT [+4] BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM From pilot to program: cultivating institutional web archiving practices for sustainability 1: IIPC, United States of America; 2: Library of Congress, United States; 3: National Library of Australia, Australia; 4: British Library, United Kingdom |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: AI Location: ATELIER [+2] BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM AI in web and social media archives 1: KBR - Royal Library of Belgium, Belgium; 2: Internet Archive; 3: Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4: Aarhus University |
BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM PANEL: LEGAL Location: AQUARIUM [+2] BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM The legal challenges of web archiving and open collections 1: University of Namur; 2: Sciences Po Paris Law School; 3: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; 4: Reprobel |
SPRING SCHOOL [PART 2] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
LUNCH Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6).
🏛️ GUIDED TOUR KBR: If you signed up for a guided tour of KBR, please be in front of the three main elevators on Floor -2 at 12:30 [1st tour] or 13:00 [2nd tour]. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
WORKSHOP: BELGICAWEB [PART 1] Location: PANORAMA [+6] WORKSHOP & TUTORIALS Web Archiving, with a little help from my LLM friends. 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: KBR Royal Library of Belgium; 3: Université de Namur, Belgium |
WORKSHOP: SUSTAINABLE HARVESTING Location: STUDIO [+6] WORKSHOP & TUTORIALS Web harvesting in an environmentally sustainable way 1: Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Netherlands, The; 2: The National Archives (UK), United Kingdom; 3: National Archives of the Netherlands, Netherlands; 4: University of London, United Kingdom; 5: Publications Office of the European Union |
WORKSHOP: SOLRWAYBACK [PART 1] Location: ATELIER [+2] WORKSHOP & TUTORIALS Run your own full-stack SolrWayback, collaborate & unlock the potential of archived data 1: Royal Danish Library, Denmark; 2: The National Library of New Zealand; 3: Aarhus University; 4: National Library of Norway; 5: National Library of Luxembourg |
WORKSHOP: GLAM LABS & JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS [PART 1] Location: AQUARIUM [+2] WORKSHOP & TUTORIALS Explore the use of the GLAM Labs Checklist, Datasheets, and Jupyter Notebooks for digitized and born-digital collections 1: British Library; 2: University of Alicante, Spain; 3: National Library of Norway; 4: International Internet Preservation Consortium; 5: National Library of New Zealand |
SPRING SCHOOL [PART 3] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
WORKSHOP: BELGICAWEB [PART 2] Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
WORKSHOP: IA4LAM Location: STUDIO [+6] WORKSHOP & TUTORIALS From problem to practice: a collaborative use case workshop on AI-driven management and reuse of web archive content 1: AI4LAM; 2: IIPC |
WORKSHOP: SOLRWAYBACK [PART 2] Location: ATELIER [+2] |
WORKSHOP: GLAM LABS & JUPYTER NOTEBOOKS [PART 2] Location: AQUARIUM [+2] |
SPRING SCHOOL [PART 4] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm |
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SPRING SCHOOL [WRAP-UP] Location: KRANTEN / JOURNAUX [0] |
| Date: Tuesday, 21/Apr/2026 | ||
| 8:30am - 9:15am |
REGISTRATION AND COFFEE Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Galerie (Floor -2, next to Auditorium). |
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| 9:15am - 9:30am |
OPENING REMARKS Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] |
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| 9:30am - 11:00am |
OPENING KEYNOTE PANEL Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] |
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| 11:00am - 11:30am |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
🏛️ GUIDED TOUR KBR: If you signed up for a guided tour of KBR, please be in front of the three main elevators on Floor -2 at 11:00. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 11:30am - 12:35pm |
POSITIVE + NEGATIVE IMPACT OF AI Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Why ask WAAI: A sustainable approach to exploring web archiving artificial intelligence (WAAI) Internet Archive, United States of America 11:52am - 12:14pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Understanding and mitigating anti-bot technologies' impact on archival web crawling 1: MirrorWeb Limited, United Kingdom; 2: Library of Congress, United States of America 12:14pm - 12:35pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A AI-powered search to sustain IIPC conference knowledge 1: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt; 2: Alamein International University; 3: Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology |
SHORT TALKS Location: PANORAMA [+6] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A A Toolbox to foster Web Archives Use and Reuse National Library of France, France 11:41am - 11:49am 5-minute lightning talk Constructing and sharing historical web link graphs from web archives Arquivo.pt, Portugal 11:49am - 11:57am 5-minute lightning talk Lossy and porous archives: Sustainability and collaborative models of LAC and the Internet Archive University of Copenhagen, Denmark 11:57am - 12:05pm 5-minute lightning talk Ten years of websites and born-digital archiving in Slovakia University Library in Bratislava, Slovak Republic 12:05pm - 12:13pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Climate change captured: collaborative, complex crawling & collecting - learnings from a cross-institutional pilot on climate change reactions Royal Danish Library, Denmark 12:13pm - 12:21pm 5-minute lightning talk Bridging local and international communities: Web archiving outreach and collaboration 1: Aix Marseille University, France; 2: Humathèque, Campus Condorcet, France; 3: MMSH, CNRS, Aix Marseille University, France 12:21pm - 12:29pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Best practices for collaboration: Managing themed harvests with external partners National Library of Finland, Finland |
| 12:35pm - 1:35pm |
LUNCH Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served in in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
🏛️ GUIDED KBR MUSEUM TOUR (ENGLISH): If you signed up for a guided tour, please be by the Museum entrance on Floor 0 at 12:35 [1st tour] or 13:05 [2nd tour]. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 1:35pm - 3:00pm |
SOCIAL MEDIA Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] 60-minute panel Digital Democracy: archiving government social media content 1: The National Archives of the Netherlands, Netherlands, The; 2: The National Archives, UK; 3: National Library of Singapore; 4: Bodleian Libraries 2:40pm - 3:00pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A High-fidelity social media archiving: current state of the art Webrecorder |
WORKFLOWS FOR BUILDING AND ANALYSING DATA Location: PANORAMA [+6] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Digital Diaspora: mapping the Jewish internet The National Library of Israel, Israel 1:57pm - 2:18pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Improved language identification for web crawl data Common Crawl Foundation, United Kingdom 2:18pm - 2:39pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Hyperlinked homeland: A historical hyperlink analysis of 200 Dutch LGBT+ websites University of Groningen, Netherlands, The 2:39pm - 3:00pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A WARCbench: A swiss army knife for WARC processing Harvard Library Innovation Lab, United States of America |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium). |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
POSTER SLAM Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] Poster with 1-minute lightning talk A survey on data-access methods for an open web archive Common Crawl Foundation, France Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Linkra – application for archiving and creating citations of web resources in scientific texts National Library of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Application of AI at Social Media Archiving in the National Library of China National Library of China, China, People's Republic of Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Archiving and Analyzing YouTube Recommendations during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 1: Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle; 2: Université Rennes 2; 3: National Library of France, France; 4: Inria, Rennes; 5: Université de Lille; 6: LAAS-CNRS Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Detecting and managing challenging web crawls at scale MirrorWeb Limited, United Kingdom Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Mapping duplicate images in a web archive using perceptual hashing National Library of Norway, Norway Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Migration of Croatia's Web Archive's selective web harvesting system: transitioning to sustainable and interoperable solutions National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Using data to challenge negativity bias in quality assurance workflows Library of Congress, United States of America Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Sustainable web archiving: a living and participative poster 1: C2DH, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 2: Ecole Nationale des Chartes - PSL, France Poster with 1-minute lightning talk The technologies of an in-house seed handling tool National Library of Finland Poster with 1-minute lightning talk Virtual Mucem: from web archives to a museum remediation of an ethnological websites collection National Library of France, France Poster with 1-minute lightning talk WebData: Building a Research Infrastructure for the Norwegian Web Archive National Library of Norway, Norway 5-minute lightning talk Kaʻohipōhaku: Community social media archiving in Hawaiʻi University of Hawaiʻi 5-minute lightning talk Doing humanities with web archiving: an oral history of web archiving practices in academia and the making of digital culture 1: Aix Marseille University, TELEMMe Laboratory, France; 2: MMSH, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, France 5-minute lightning talk How not to build a web archive in two weeks Texas State University, United States of America 5-minute lightning talk Linking the awesome: Building a Community Knowledge Graph for Web Archiving Resources German National Library, Germany 5-minute lightning talk Revisiting a statistical approach for measuring Solr query performance National Library of Norway, Norway 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Sustaining web archiving through instruction New York University Libraries, United States of America 5-minute lightning talk The DOWARC notebook: modelling web archiving artefacts as RDF graphs in Jupyter 1: The National Archives, UK; 2: King's College London, UK 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Where is Hyves? Preparing hyperlinks for distant reading KB | National Library of the Netherlands, Netherlands, The |
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| 4:00pm - 5:20pm |
POSTER SESSIONS Location: GALERIE [-2] |
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| 6:30pm - 9:30pm |
Dinner at Le Cercle Des Voyageurs |
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| Date: Wednesday, 22/Apr/2026 | |||
| 9:00am - 9:20am |
MORNING COFFEE Location: GALERIE [-2] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium). |
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| 9:20am - 10:45am |
SOCIAL MEDIA Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] 60-minute panel Social media archiving in small institutions: working alone together 1: Vlaams Architectuurinstituut, Belgium; 2: ADVN, Belgium; 3: Amsab-isg, Belgium; 4: meemoo, Belgium; 5: KBR-UGent, Belgium; 6: Regionaal Historisch Centrum Eindhoven, Netherlands; 7: UGent, Belgium 10:25am - 10:45am 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Making 1.2 billion social media posts accessible: a user-centric search interface for large-scale Twitter archives INA - Institut national de l'audiovisuel, France |
COLLECTIONS AS DATA: WORKFLOWS & USE CASES Location: PANORAMA [+6] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Web archives of tragedy: ethical, sustainable access and research use for 9/11 collections University of Waterloo, Canada 9:42am - 10:03am 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Creative access - Lessons from the Digital Ghosts exhibition Univeristy of Edinburgh, United Kingdom 10:03am - 10:24am 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Developing a sustainable workflow for UK Web Archive collections as data British Library, United Kingdom 10:24am - 10:45am 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Bridging the Web Archive and the Library: a Linked‑Data Model for FAIR Web Archive Integration German National Library, Germany |
SHORT TALKS Location: CONCERT [+4] 5-minute lightning talk Environmentally-friendly digital preservation policies and infrastructure at the National Library of Norway National Library of Norway, Norway 9:30am - 9:38am 5-minute lightning talk Environmental Issues on the Web: Building and Promoting a Thematic Archive National Library of France, France 9:38am - 9:46am 5-minute lightning talk Storing URLs, targets, and other time-varying entities in a database as a path to sustainable recordkeeping Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre National Széchényi Library, Hungary 9:46am - 9:54am 5-minute lightning talk Web archiving automation at the Mexico Digital Preservation Group: error assessment and quality control 1: National Library of Mexico, Mexico; 2: Digital Preservation Group, Mexico 9:54am - 10:02am 5-minute lightning talk Sustainable and systematic: building a search index of research and practice in web archiving and digital preservation 1: Digital Preservation Coalition, United Kingdon; 2: IIPC, United States of America; 3: Cartlann Digital Services, Ireland 10:02am - 10:10am 5-minute lightning talk Querying the archived web with an AI assistant 1: Aarhus University, Denmark; 2: Macquarie University, Australia 10:10am - 10:18am 5-minute lightning talk Online annotation platform for web archives Arquivo.pt, Portugal 10:18am - 10:26am 5-minute lightning talk Warc School - fellowship & training program update 1: College of Wooster Libraries, United States of America; 2: Shift Collective 10:26am - 10:34am 5-minute lightning talk Organizing the 'Social Mess': a comprehensive Tool for Social Media and Instant Messaging Archiving 1: University of Pavia, Italy; 2: University of Bologna, Italy 10:34am - 10:42am 5-minute lightning talk Social media archiving, right now Digital Preservation Coalition, United Kingdom |
| 10:45am - 11:15am |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
🏛️ GUIDED TOUR KBR: If you signed up for a guided tour of KBR, please be in front of the three main elevators on Floor -2 at 10:45. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 11:15am - 12:20pm |
QUALITY ASSURANCE & DEDUPLICATION Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Deduplication in browser-based crawling with Browsertrix Webrecorder 11:37am - 11:59am 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Efficient quality assurance of deduplicated web archives with Browsertrix National Library of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 11:59am - 12:20pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A A browser-based approach to measuring completeness in archived websites University of Alberta, Canada |
TECHNICAL INNOVATION AND STRATEGIES Location: PANORAMA [+6] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Archiving websites and social media of national movements: best practices of ADVN | Archives of national movements ADVN | archive for national movements, Belgium 11:37am - 11:59am 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Combining browser-based and browserless crawling for better fidelity vs. efficiency tradeoffs 1: University of Michigan, United States of America; 2: University of Southern California, United States of America 11:59am - 12:20pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A The wasteback machine: measuring the environmental impact of the past web The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
ACCESS & REUSE Location: CONCERT [+4] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Unlocking the web: online access to the National Library of Singapore’s web archives collection National Library Board Singapore, Singapore 11:37am - 11:59am 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Unlocking the Web Archive: understanding researcher needs The National Archives UK, United Kingdom 11:59am - 12:20pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Text Mining Analysis of the discourse on ‘Archive Silences and Democracy’ 1: International Hellenic University, Greece; 2: Department of Library, Archival & Information Studies, International Hellenic University, Greece; 3: Department of Production Engineering and Management, International Hellenic University, Greece |
| 12:20pm - 1:25pm |
LUNCH Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium).
🏛️ GUIDED KBR MUSEUM TOUR: If you signed up for a guided tour, please be by the entrance to the Museum on Floor 0 at 12:20 [1st tour] or 12:50 [2nd tour]. To know if you signed up for a tour, check your registration details in ConfTool. |
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| 1:25pm - 2:30pm |
ARCHIVING BLOGS AND NEWS Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Blogs to digital heritage: a British Library case study British Library, United Kingdom 1:47pm - 2:09pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A The taste of blogging : towards sensible and ethical approaches to web archives. 1: École nationale des chartes, France; 2: Bibliothèque nationale de France 2:09pm - 2:30pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Capturing the flow of online news: complementary approaches to web archiving and legal deposit in Sweden National Library of Sweden, Sweden |
RESPONSIBLE STRATEGIES Location: PANORAMA [+6] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A End of Term Web Archive: Harmonizing WARC contributions from multiple crawling partners 1: University of North Texas Libraries, United States of America; 2: Internet Archive, United States of America 1:47pm - 2:09pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Crawl, cloud, carbon: measuring and reducing emissions for web archivists Tailpipe, United Kingdom 2:09pm - 2:30pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A How the “M” service contributes to reducing the carbon footprint Arquivo.pt, Portugal |
COLLABORATION & OUTREACH Location: CONCERT [+4] 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A A web archiving training program for Latin America 1: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico; 2: Webrecorder, United States of America 1:47pm - 2:09pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Modeling CARE: Sustainable web archiving across languages 1: Indiana University, United States of America; 2: ESRI 2:09pm - 2:30pm 15-minute presentation with 5-minute Q&A Approaches towards archiving digital Islam University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
BREAK Location: GALERIE [-2] & PANORAMA FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6) and in Galerie (Floor -2, next to the Auditorium). |
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| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
CLOSING KEYNOTE PANEL Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] |
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| 4:30pm - 4:45pm |
CLOSING REMARKS Location: AUDITORIUM [-2] |
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| 4:45pm - 6:00pm |
CLOSING RECEPTION Location: ROTONDE Drinks and nibbles will be served in Rotonde. Volunteers will guide you to floor +3 from where the historical part of the Library can be accessed. |
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| Date: Thursday, 23/Apr/2026 | ||||
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
MORNING COFFEE Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 9:30am - 9:40am |
GENERAL ASSEMBLY: OPENING REMARKS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 9:40am - 9:50am |
CHAIR ADDRESS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 9:50am - 10:30am |
TBC Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
COFFEE BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 11:00am - 12:00pm |
TOOLS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
TBC Location: STUDIO [+6] |
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP Location: AQUARIUM [+2] |
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| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
LUNCH Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] 🍴 Lunch will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
TOOLS Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
TRAINING WORKING GROUP Location: STUDIO [+6] |
RESEARCH WORKING GROUP Location: ATELIER [+2] |
CONTENT DEVELOPMENT WORKING GROUP Location: AQUARIUM [+2] |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
COFFEE BREAK Location: PANORAMA: FOYER [+6] ☕️🥐 Drinks and snacks will be served in Panorama Foyer (Floor +6). |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
GENERAL ASSEMBLY: CLOSING SESSION Location: PANORAMA [+6] |
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