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Life moves pretty fast. So does technology. If you’ve been in tech over the last five years, you know the pace of AI advancement is relentless. At Gaia Resources, we’ve shared our AI journey from fish image detection (2021) and handwriting analysis (2022) to more recently building the MATE framework for AI transcription and search of archival records. But for a team of passionate professionals, 'building' is never truly finished. We review, we audit, and - most importantly - we continue to tinker.

They say time flies when you’re having fun, that’s exactly how it feels after recently celebrating my 5 years at Gaia.

I joined the team in March 2021, stepping into the role of Marketing Coordinator. 

In late 2025, we headed to windy Wellington for the wonderful iPRES and PARBICA conferences. During this trip we had an inspiring question to answer: is there a way to empower passionate archiving professionals to deliver Digital Preservation on a budget?

We stumbled upon the recent Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) from multiple different places all at once a few weeks ago - from people we met at IPRES 2025 last year, and from current clients that we’re working with.  The JTS is a highly technical event, as outlined in the brief:

International Women’s Day was on Sunday the 8th of March, 2026.  To help celebrate this day, we’ve handed the blog over to Gill White, one of our Consulting Scientists to talk about how some of the programs at Gaia Resources provide support, and what the day means to her.

With the first two days of Team Week spent on our strategies for the future and empowering our teams we turned our focus to one of our other core goals - leaving the world a better place. Our destination for the final official day of Team Week was the beautiful Rottnest Island and our vibes were more relaxed - less office desks and laptops, more sunscreen and boardshorts.

If Day One of Team Week was about whole-of-business strategy, Day Two was about something just as powerful: giving teams the space to strengthen themselves.

We started the morning in our functional teams - but how that looked was entirely up to them:

For the third time in our 22-year history, Gaia Resources brought the whole band back together for our exciting ‘Team Week’. Over the coming few days we’ll be sharing our reflections on each of the three days we spent together and how each unique day shaped our experiences and vision for the future.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been overhyped, but here at Gaia Resources we’ve been working with AI for some time - over five years in fact (as highlighted from our recent #ThrowbackThursday post on our social media platforms).  While there is a fair b

For a number of years I’ve done a “wrap up” blog just before Christmas, and then a “welcome back” after Christmas.  On a very personal level, this is somewhat symbolic - it lets me draw a line under the previous year, have a break and come back refreshed to think about what’s coming up for us at Gaia Resources in the next year.  So it’s that time for a bit more crystal ball gazing.

To end last year, I wrapped up the blog with: