Around the World – Risk Management

In the first of our new series of Around the World webinars, we are going to explore the topic of “Risk Management” between 17^th-19^th November, 2026.

We are inviting the international digital preservation community to hear from one another and discuss a range of issues around this topic. What does “risk” mean to you? What are the greatest risks you face in your digital preservation work? What is your organization’s attitude to risk, and what steps are in place (or planned) to mitigate risk? Does your organization face particular kinds of risk, or are there risks which you think the digital preservation community has yet to adequately identify or address? Do you think the risks we face in digital preservation have been under- or over-stated? Or perhaps you have an entirely different take on the topic?

In this series there will be three separate webinars looking at risk management: one for each of the major global time zones covered by the DPC’s Membership organizations and Supporters:

Around the World - Risk Management #1 (Australasia and Asia-Pacific) - 01:00 UTC (click here for your local time) Tuesday 17th November 2026, Co-host: Sam Searle, University of Queensland

• The Risk of Waiting: Social Media Collecting as Anticipatory Risk Management – Dr Asti Sherring, ANU research humanities centre and State Library of New South Wales

• Developing a risk profile as part of a Digital Preservation Roadmap – Rachel Tropea, RMIT University Archives

• A review of the National Archives of Australia, ‘A Risk Framework for digital records’: lessons learned and future development – Liz Long, National Archives of Australia

• From Strategic Plan to Risk Profile: Assessing Digital Preservation at the University of Melbourne – Dr Eva Samaras, University of Melbourne

• Other speakers to be confirmed.

Around the World - Risk Management #2 (Americas) - 18:00 UTC (click here for your local time) Wednesday 18th November 2026, Co-host: Tricia Patterson, Harvard Library Preservation Services

• How Trustworthy Repositories Understand Risk and Uncertainty – Rebecca D. Frank, University of Michigan

• Risk Management: The Case of Brazilian Higher Education Institutions – João Andrade, Rede Cariniana/Ibict

• Constraint, creativity, and collaboration – Katherine Skinner, Invest in Open Infrastructure

• Global Data Resilience – Mark Parsons, American Geophysical Union

• Other speakers to be confirmed.

Around the World - Risk Management #3 (UK, Europe, Africa, West Asia) - 13:00 UTC (click here for your local time) Thursday 19th November 2026. Co-host: TBA

• Driving in the dark without headlights, technically it’s possible but is it sensible? – Elizabeth Thompson-MacRae, University of St Andrews

• Working With Risk: Digital Preservation as a Risk Mitigation Exercise – Bryony Hooper, University of Sheffield

• (tbc) Safeguarding At-Risk Cultural Memory: Community-Driven Risk Assessment in Digital Preservation – Richard Chiwota, Chinhoyi University of Technology

• Thinking the unthinkable: considering and managing risk in an uncertain world – Rachel MacGregor, University of Warwick

• Beyond Bit Rot: A Risk Assessment Framework for Digital Preservation Amid Cyber Threats and AI – Wim Provoost, Docbyte

Registering to attend just one of these events will give you access to all three – and you will also have access to any recordings so that you can catch up at your leisure. So we hope that is three good reasons why you will want to join us on this themed trip Around the World!

Recordings

All presentations will be recorded and made available to DPC Members and Supporters via this web page after the event (login to DPC website required).

Recordings for all three webinars will also be shared with non-members who pay to attend the event.

Please note – DPC Members do not need to register in order to access the recordings after the event.

Registration

Registration is open to all, with no charge for DPC Members or DPC Supporters and £250 for non-Members. Full Members may register 3 attendees and Associate Members may register 1 attendee for this event. DPC Members can claim their free place by entering the promotional code DPCMEMBER. DPC Supporters can claim their free place by entering the promotional code DPCSUPP. Any additional attendees can attend for a charge of £250.

Registration will close 48 hours before the event starts. If you wish to register after registration has closed, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org

DPC events rely on having minimum numbers to run successfully and effectively. Low numbers may mean events are not viable and will need to be cancelled, so please check that you can attend before booking.

If you register for this event and find that you can no longer attend, you are welcome to send a colleague in your place. If you need to cancel, please email eleanor.oleary@dpconline.org with the event name. If cancelling please try to provide more than 48 hours’ notice before the scheduled event time, otherwise a cancellation fee of £50 may apply.

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.