23 September

Business Archives & Resilience ICA - SBA 2024 Conference

Kozminski University together with Polish Development Bank (BGK) would like to invite you to the Business Archives & Resilience ICA - SBA 2024 Conference event, which will be held on September 23-24, 2024 at Kozminski University in Warsaw.

Business archives play a key role in supporting organizational resilience, enabling companies to cope with challenges and adapt to change. By preserving historical records, business archives provide invaluable insight into past strategies, successes and failures. This rich repository aids in decision-making, risk management and strategic planning, equipping companies with the knowledge to anticipate future trends, mitigate risks and capitalize on opportunities. Business archives are therefore not just repositories of history, but are fundamental to building a resilient and adaptive corporate culture. The two-day conference will include sessions and workshops:

23.09.2024

8:00 - 9:00 Registration
9:00 - 9:30 Opening remarks: Alexander Lukas Bieri, Chair of ICA – Section on Business Archives Basel, Swiss
9:30 - 11:00 Session 1 Resilience & Sustainable development (Chair: Tomasz Olejniczak)

Speakers: • Radosław Milczarski, Expert in promoting the BGK history, BGK – Polish Development Bank Warsaw, Time-proof legacy. 100 Years History of BGK’s Resilience. • Henning Morgen, Group Historian, A.P. Moller Group Copenhagen, Denmark, FROM STRATEGY TO POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. • Lovisa Severin Kragerud, Archivist & Chief Storyteller, The Absolut Group Pernod Ricard Stockholm, Sweden, THE REPATRIATION OF THE PRE-COLOMBIAN FIGURINES. • Manuel Tonolini, Director, Fondazione Dalmine Dalmine, Italy, SCHOOL AND BUSINESS ARCHIVES: A POSSIBLE RELATIONSHIP.

11:00 - 11:30 Caffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Session 2 Bussines archives, corporate histories and anniversaries (Chair: Anders Sjöman)

Speakers: • Anna Cento, Museum Curator, Museum of the Coffee Espresso Machine of Cimbali Group Milan, Italy, MUMAC DIGITAL CAVEAU: MEMORY AND FUTURE FOR AN ENDLESS JOURNEY. • Tracey Panek, Historian, chief of Archives. Levi Strauss & Co. San Francisco, California, USA, CELEBRATING 150 YEARS OF LEVI’S 501 JEANS, THE ORIGINAL BLUE JEAN. • Katarzyna Pąk, Head of Marketing & Communications, Ericsson Poland Warsaw, Poland, Strengthening Brand Identity Through Corporate History. • Mária Hidvégi, Historian, Research Fellow, Bocconi University Milan, Budapest, Hungary, Why and how to save archives of long-lived companies? The story of Tungsram Historical Collection?

12:50 - 14:00 Lunch break
13:00 - 14:20 Session 3 Business archives, luxury, and heritage marketing

Speakers: • Sanghamitra Chatterjee, Founder, Past Perfect Heritage Management Agency Mumbai, India, CENTURY OF STYLE: HOW A 100-YEAR OLD TILING COMPANY REDEFINED COOL. • Carol Quinn, Head of Archives, Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard Midleton, Ireland, MIDLETON VERY RARE: SILENT DISTILLERY – A STORY IN 5 CHAPTERS. • Francesca Mucchetti, PhD student in Design and Technology, Collaborator of the historical archives of Riva (Ferretti Group) Torino, Italy, A DESIGN STRATEGY TO FOSTER THE VALUE OF THE RIVA’S HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. • Bartłomiej Konopa, Archivist, State Archives Head Office Warsaw, Poland; Konrad Szuba, Chief specialist, State Archives Head Office Warsaw, Poland, STATE ARCHIVES AND CORPORATE HISTORIES – THE CASE OF E. WEDEL CHOCOLATE FACTORY.

15:20 - 15:40 Coffee break
15:40 - 17:00 Session 4 Business archives, digital transformation, and AI

Speakers: • Katya Corvino, Head of Heritage Lab, Heritage Lab, the museum – laboratory of Italgas Group Torino, Italy, HERITAGE LAB ITALGAS. • Ewa Majdecka, Researcher and manager of digital products. Phd, The Center of Community Archives – Centrum Archiwów Społecznych, Warsaw, Poland, CENTRE OF COMMUNITY ARCHIVES IN POLAND – A SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR COMMUNITY ARCHIVE MOVEMENT. • Kenneth Atuma, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Library and Archives Studies, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom, THE EVOLVING ROLE OF INFORMATION PROFESSIONALS: LEVERAGING ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) FOR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN BUSINESS ARCHIVES. • Maimuna Janneh, Head of Current Records Directorate, National Records Service, Banjul, Gambia, THE GAMBIA NATIONAL ARCHIVES: A CRITICAL ASSET FOR NATIONAL RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISASTERS.

17:00 - 17:20 Coffee break
17:20 - 18:40 Session 5 Business archives, museums, and revitalizations

Speakers: • Robin Debo, ETWIE (centre of expertise on technical, scientific and industrial heritage in Flanders, part of the Industrymuseum), Gent, Belgium, REVITALIZATION OF THE BOELWERF SHIPYARD – WHERE BUSINESS ARCHIVE AND COMMUNITIES DO WHAT THE DEVELOPER DIDN’T. • Dagmara Rozkwitalska, Business Development Manager, Imperial Shipyard, Gdańsk, Poland, A PLACE WORTH ITS HISTORY, WHERE #NEWSTORIES WILL BE WRITTEN. • Alexander Lukas Bieri, Chair of ICA – Section on Business Archives, Basel, Swiss, THE HOMECOMING OF ROCHE IN RIGA: A HISTORIC REMEDIATION. • Dawn Stewart, Brand Archive Manager, The Macallan, The Edrington Group, Glasgow, UK, THE BUSINESS OF RESILIENCE – STORYTELLING THROUGH HERITAGE.

18:40 - 19:00 Closing
19:00 Gala Dinner

24.09.2024