| When: | Thursday, October 29th, 2026 |
| Time: | 8:30 am — 5:00 pm |
| Location: | Library and Archives Canada, The Pellan Room, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa |
| Audience: | Carleton Community, Current Students, Faculty, Professionals |
| Cost: | Free |
Welcome to the Final InterPARES Symposium closing 32 years of high impact, transdisciplinary, multisectoral and international SSHRC funded research on digital archives. The Symposium presents some of the I Trust AI: Archives 4.0 results, and is also the closing of Dr Luciana Duranti’s illustrious career and a testament to her contributions to the theory and practice of digital preservation.
The Symposium will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2026 at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa in the Pellan Room from 9 AM to 5 PM.
For more information, please contact Tracey P. Lauriault at Tracey.Lauriault@carleton.ca
Program
| Time | Session |
| 9:00 – 9:10 | Opening Ceremony & Land Acknowledgement – Indigenous Elder |
| 9:10 – 9:15 | Welcome – Ottawa Convener, Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Canada |
| 9:15 – 9:20 | Karen Linauskas, Director General of Private Archives and Published Heritage, Library and Archives Canada |
| 9:20 – 9:30 | Sylvie Lamoureux, Chief Operating Officer and Vice-President, Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) |
| 9:30 – 9:35 | Alyssa Hyduk, President of the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) |
| 9:35 – 9:40 | Betina Kuzmarov, Associate Vice-President and Vice-Provost (International Student Experience and Strategic Partnerships), Carleton University |
| 9:40 – 10:10 | Luciana Duranti, University of British Columbia, Canada – I Trust AI Project overview and video from Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, University of British Columbia |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Peter Sullivan, University of British Columbia – AI tools for metadata enrichment at UNESCO and beyond |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Jim Suderman, City of Toronto, Canada – Decisions, Decisions: Access, Privacy & Ethics |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Victoria Lemieux, University of British Columbia – Clio-X as Public Infrastructure for Safe and Ethical Use of AI in Cultural Heritage |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Marianna Tascone, Regione Emilia-Romagna, Italy – The Role of AI for Records Management: Findings from Case Studies |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Jessica Bushey, San Jose State University, USA – Image Archives in the Age of AI: From data to discovery |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Michel Barbeau, Carleton University – Knowledge Graphs for Your Data |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Emanuele Frontoni, University of Macerata, Italy – From Pattern Recognition to Autonomous Reasoning: The PergaNet Trajectory in AI for Archival Science |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University – Digital Twins: Preserving Components of a Social and Technical Assemblage |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Alex Richmond, Bank of Canada – Toward Accountable AI Systems: The Function of Paradata |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Richard Arias-Hernandez, University of British Columbia – AI Literacy and Education for the Archival Professions |
| 16:30 – 16:40 | Final Remarks, Luciana Duranti, University of British Columbia |