Resilience through Innovation: Countering Escaleting Threats to our Cultural Heritage by Rethinking Preservation through Digital Technology

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

The CyArk 500 Annual Summit is an international event to bring together all those working to Digitally Preserve cultural heritage sites around the world. This is the perfect opportunity to connect with expert researchers and heritage authorities, technical experts from the leading hardware and software manufacturers and diplomatic emissaries from over 15 countries on an intimate scale to discuss the status of heritage preservation worldwide.

In response to the recent natural and intentional destruction of cultural heritage sites around the world, the organizing theme of the CyArk 500 Annual Summit is: Resilience through Innovation: Countering escalating threats to our cultural heritage by rethinking preservation through digital technology.

Topics
• Escalating Risks: The risks facing heritage and the traditional response including political diplomacy, physical conservation, artifact recovery, site survey, and training.
• Rethinking Preservation: Using emerging methods and technologies to respond to heritage at risk, during, before, and after loss and destruction.
• Technology Innovation: Developing new technologies to digitally capture and experience the world.

For more information and agenda of the conference, please visit http://cyark500.org