Barbara Reed has been an archives, records and information management consultant since 1985, collaborating with a range of government, non-government, private and non-profit organisations in Australia and internationally, and cited as a Fellow of the ASA in 2000. She has extensive expertise and experience in developing recordkeeping practices and competencies, transforming recordkeeping into digital practice and working with a range of stakeholders to create strategic interventions through standards and best practice guidelines. This work is driven by a deep interest in archival data models and their application in the digital world. She has written standards, policy and guidance for a range of jurisdictions and organisations, including topics such as access frameworks, metadata, digitisation and digital preservation. She has taught archives and recordkeeping at a range of Australian Universities, cultivates research involvement through a range of projects and is the author of many scholarly works - many of them contributions to Records Continuum scholarship. She has also played a major role in the development of Australian and International standards for records management, digitisation, recordkeeping metadata and many others, and is the current Chair of Standards Australia IT-21 Committee on Records and Document Management Systems. Most recently she has worked on empowering access to records for Care Leaver and Stolen Generations communities culminating in the recent development of a Best Practice Toolkit for the Charter of Lifelong Rights in Childhood Recordkeeping in Out of Home Care.

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Pia Andrews
Pia Andrews is an open government, digital transformation and data geek who has been trying to make the world a better place for 20 years. She usually works within the (public sector) machine to transform public services, policies and culture through greater transparency, democratic engagement, citizen-centric design, open data, emerging technologies and real, pragmatic actual innovation in the public sector and beyond. She believes that tech culture has a huge role to play in achieving better policy planning, outcomes, public engagement and a better public service all round. She is also trying to do her part in establishing greater public benefit from publicly funded data, software and research. Pia was recognised in 2018 and 2019 as one of the global top 20 most Influential in Digital Government and was awarded as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Australia for 2014. She is currently taking something of a public sector sabbatical, working as a Strategic Advisor to the Public Sector in AWS. She is in a newly formed team made up of experienced public servants who provide futures oriented policy and outcomes focused advice, support, exploration and experimentation, to agencies and departments across Australia, New Zealand and Oceania.