DPC Annual Members Unconference and Networking Event 2023 (UK)

We are delighted to invite DPC Members to attend our DPC’s Annual Members’ Unconference and Networking Event in London!

This UK-based event will take place face-to-face over two days and will form part of a worldwide program of Member networking activities which aims to offer events in locations in other parts of the world as scheduling permits (details to follow in due course).

The DPC Members’ Unconference will run alongside the DPC Board and Executive Council Meetings planned for the same dates in London* and is an opportunity to meet and network with other members of the Coalition, exchange ideas and updates on your work, as well as to help shape the DPC’s own activities for the coming year.

Each day we will have an exciting program of fast-paced member led talks and discussions, giving you the opportunity to take the floor and exchange ideas, showcase work and discuss key themes.

*Given the nature of the activities, we do not plan to offer online attendance at this event but aim to provide written highlights.

Who is the event for?

The Annual DPC Members’ Unconference is for DPC Members only and designed to privilege operational staff working directly on digital preservation. We are particularly keen to hear from three groups:

• Junior staff recently appointed and looking for opportunities to build their professional networks;

• New entrants to digital preservation seeking to apply professional know-how to this new field;

• Experienced practitioners who might not normally attend the DPC Board but have clear insights into the challenges of digital preservation in their own institutions and are well placed to steer the DPC's practical program.

Senior staff, researchers and students are also welcome, though it is practical knowledge exchange that will be most prominent.

Outline Program

This is an ‘Unconference,’ so the program is currently empty. We’d like you to fill it with your suggestions for sessions!

Day 1: Thursday 22^nd June 2023

Day 2: Friday 23^rd June 2023

How does it work?

Make a session suggestion: Open to all Members

Whether you have a task you want to work on with others, a fresh idea or solution you want to demo, or topics you want to discuss to learn from others’ experience, this part of the program provides a space for you to achieve all of this. Please pitch your ideas and we’ll fill in the (currently blank) program for you to make the most of the Coalition’s collective digital preservation expertise. You are welcome to collaborate on a session with a colleague or another Member. DPC Staff can be available to assist in certain sessions if required. 

Each session will offer approximately 45 minutes for you to either:

• Discuss: Pick the collective digital preservation hive mind and start a discussion about a topic

• Learn: Demonstrate and share solutions or workflows so that others can learn from your experiences.

• Share: Show and tell presentations of recent work, new ideas and achievements (or failures)

• Play: Share and lead a digital preservation games session! 

Click here to share your suggestion for a Member-led session by Monday 5th June

If you would like to discuss an idea with us before you take the plunge and add it to the form, please do email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. 

Register to attend!

This event is open to all DPC Members. As this is an in-person event, numbers are strictly limited and will be first come first served. Full Members may send up to 5 representatives, and Associate Members may send 1 representative to attend. Consortium Members please contact your organisation to arrange which representative will attend.

DPC Members log in to register by Monday 5th June.

DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy

The DPC Community is guided by the values set out in our Strategic Plan and aims to be respectful, welcoming, inclusive and transparent. We encourage diversity in all its forms and are committed to being accessible to everyone who wishes to engage with the topic of digital preservation, whilst remaining technology and vendor neutral. We ask all those who are part of this community to be positive, accepting, and sensitive to the needs and feelings of others in alignment with our DPC Inclusion & Diversity Policy.