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Neil Grindley is the Digital Preservation Programme Manager at JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), an organization that funds and supports technology-related projects and services for the UK Higher and Further Education sectors.

The Digital Preservation Programme supports a number of projects, studies and collaborations, the overall objective of which is to raise awareness and increase the capacity of communities to engage with digital preservation as part of a life-cycle management approach to creating and exploiting digital resources.

Previously, Neil worked on a program to promote the advanced use of ICT methods for arts and humanities research. Prior to that, he was involved with IT management and image cataloguing and database work at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Mark Guttenbrunner is PhD Researcher at the Department of Software Technology and Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology. Since 1996 he has worked as an employee and as an independent IT Consultant for different companies and universities in Austria. Mark graduated the diploma study in Computer Science from the Vienna University of Technology in 2007. His special interests are preservation planning, emulation, and the preservation of video games.