 Now is time for the NDF awards and I'm going to hand over to the chair of the NDF board, Phil Edgar, because he knows what's happening. I vaguely know what's happening. One of the best things about being the chair of the NDF board is to present the NDF awards for 2017. Our first award is for the Social Media Innovation Award. The winner is... I have to look at the slides because I don't know. There it is. We're keeping up with the librarians and I've said, is there anyone from the Kago City Libraries here? Fiona's just getting the stuff here. Thank you very much. Anything you'd like to say, briefly? Just a massive shout out to the team as well. It's their award. Shout out to Kaila, our amazing photographer. Jay, Andrew, Chris and our amazing team leader, Bonnie. And just keep following us and keep posted and we're going to have some more zany and crazy things in store for you guys. Cheers. And our second award is for a new digital exhibition or collection this year. And the winner is... The Sergeant Gallery. For the new online collection site, for doing it the right way with open content and links and punching above their weight. And Paul Rowe will collect on behalf of the Sergeant. Now, so unfortunately the Sergeant Gallery couldn't be here today. They're quite a small regional gallery, but they've asked me to come up and accept this on their behalf. It's been our pleasure to work on the site. It's been really great to have an institution embracing, opening up access to their entire collection. They've let us experiment on their collection images and show you the results of that. And then they've worked with us to prototype the site that we've ended up releasing in the last few weeks. I'd also like to thank our web developer, Shenoi Sam, who worked on the project. Thank you very much. And our next award is the Digitisation Award. I'm not sure there's any surprise in this one. The winner is... The Nelson Provincial Museum for completing their seven-year project to digitise their entire glass plate collection. And for a lot of hard work that's scaled some pretty big mountains. Thank you. This has been our project that has resulted in the digitisation of almost 160,000 glass plate negatives. And it's a project that's started back in the 1990s with a huge team of volunteers who did cataloging. And then a team of about three people working in a dark room for seven years during the digitisation. So to all those glass plate negative digitisers, thank you very much. And where to from here we will see. Thank you guys. The next award is the Innovative Use of Technology Award. And the winner is... The Museum of New Zealand Papa Tongarewa for the Hinatore Flying Machines Manufata. An app that allows you to build and fly your own virtual kite. Sorry, kite. Flying a virtual kite. I didn't have any lunch. For working with Tongarewa, giving mana to kids and collaborating with Iwi to create a virtual reality app that takes us to the skies. Is there anyone from Hinatore here? Ati. Far out, first of all. Hoi ano, mihi ano kia tātou te whare. Tukau tahu paku hoa mahi. Mihi hoki kia rungawhakata kete iwi na rātau tinei. Te whakāru na rātau hoki te tautoko nere i mihi ano kia rātau. Wow. Far out, I always thought if I was getting it all to be it. The Grammys for best heavy metal album of the year, but it ain't. It's from an app, and yeah, it's been really awesome. And I also want to acknowledge the Massive Space Program team who helped us develop the app, and also my team up in Hinatore. So download it. It's available at iOS Store and Google Play Store. It's free. The final award in this section before we go to the conference awards is an open category award. We'd like to recognise a member of the community just for the great work that they've done. And the winner is... Alison Breeze. For her hard work on the Dunedin City Council Archives project using Flickr and Facebook, and for fantastic content and for showing us that one person can make such a big difference. Alison's not here, but I believe she might be watching online as we speak. So kia ora Alison, congratulations. To be honest, we'll probably drink your bottle of wine, but... Much better answer. OK, the two conference awards. Yeah, this is pretty exciting. And thanks for all the nominations we received. A record number. The Big Thought Award for the talk that made people think differently, presented a big idea and opened people's minds. And the winner is... Barbara Makuati-Afitu. Oh, Beyonce. For her presentation on Pacific Spectives, reconnecting Pacific communities with their collections. And to be honest, it was... There wasn't even any competition really for this one. Barbara was an overwhelming number of nominations. So, David. Ta-lo fa, Barb's too humble to think that she was worthy of staying for the rest of the conference and needed to get back to Auckland to her people. So this is definitely for her because she spends a lot of time putting so much work into this project, but then is very shy about singing its praises. So this award is just fantastic and I'll have great pleasure in taking it home to her. Thank you. And a final award. The Big Takeaway Award for the talk that inspired people to try something new or different in their practical work. And the winner is... Flora Felton and Ting Sun for everything you wanted to know about APIs and weren't afraid to ask. I just wanted to say thank you to my manager on the spot. And National Library helping us to put our thoughts together and share something, just helping the whole National Library to learn and then expand it to the whole world really because everybody coming everywhere. And it's really daunting. I never experienced coming up here. Now I'd like to pass over to Fiona for her closing comments. And I'd just like to thank Fiona and the Organising Committee for another amazing conference. If you'd just join with me in thanking them. You know, I still can't really believe this is happening and that you're all here. It's been such a long year of planning. And now it's almost over so I'd better start believing it sometime. It's an investment to come together ka nohi kete ka nohi and it's important because there is inherent waeroa, positive energy and value in talking and being and learning together in one place on this land. Kia ora, thank you all for being here. I'm a slow kind of reflective thinker. It takes me a while to work out what I really think about things and even longer to build the confidence to say them out loud. So talking last at a conference like this after so many amazing speakers it's pretty darn uncomfortable for me and I feel really vulnerable standing up here in front of all of you. Last year Matthew Oliver spoke at the end and what he said and what he showed has stuck with me all the way through and when I knew that I was going to be talking last it was this image that I thought about and this isn't a piece of art that I think about a lot when I feel uncomfortable and vulnerable and so this is my one and only slide. And so what I've been doing slow reflective thinker not really sure what I think but there's all these amazing speakers that we've had today so I'm channeling them and I've been picking bits and pieces from what I've heard to say what I'm about to say. So I'm uncomfortable. This is a place of discomfort and as Pia said it's important to embrace discomfort and Ariana and Claire and Honiana will reinforce this with their powerful kōrero about venturing and being in a place of discomfort and finding new important pathways by working together. I'm reminded of another quote from Brene Brown's book on vulnerability where she says where there's discomfort there's a need for leadership there's a need to step up to stand up and do something that might take you forward to move away from the simple to see and accept that we are dealing with increasingly complex things and focusing in on the needs the needs gap to work out what we, our sector can do to actually meet the needs of New Zealanders and to ensure all people have the ability to thrive. To be a collaboration really workforce because complexity is our world now possibly always has been but it's definitely pretty complex and ambiguous at the moment and we are here to help people to connect people to their stories and their culture and their heritage and their taonga and help them be with it in a way that's right for them and right for their culture to ensure that all of it is cared for in an appropriate way for those people so that it will always be there in a way that they need it forever and that's really friggin' hard and that's what we're doing in trying to do. As Andrea so beautifully illustrated yesterday just one area of challenge is copyright and licensing and the public domain in a digital world and we've made some really great strides in New Zealand but there's an opportunity for all of us to be working together just outside our bubble to do more to accept we are all imperfect at the moment and that we can all hold hands not look back and keep hugging in our own way preservation is a whole other complex area same sort of approach we need to be nodes in the wider network we need to get better at looking for and authentically working with natural allies and work out what we can build on to make a bigger impact to get better outcomes for New Zealanders to embrace change to enable trust to use our skills and empathy and kindness and critical thinking and move into a space of true collaboration because if there's something that we're all we all need to be doing it's playing the infinite game and you know Harkinwall to continually change to keep our deepest values in play and ensure that everyone can benefit from what we do and that means to be experimental and agile and to try small things and play around with time and do little things in quick time or take a long time and play the long game something we're not great at I think probably in this conference we're getting there a little bit better something we're not great at in our glam bubble is admitting and sharing our failures to take the criticisms on the chin to share them and use them to motivate us to grow and learn and make things better Andrea's supervisor said to her recently all failure is good data for learning Are we sharing this data enough the data about our failures what we've tried and hasn't worked because we can't truly learn from that data unless we have access to that information and we need to be beyond open with that we need to try things and fail and succeed and learn and share and try and grow and that's hard but we need to be up for it so now is the time for us to create the future we need to be in time with our communities that we're in and that we serve and that means it's now is the time to be better now is the time to be vulnerable to admit and share when things haven't worked so well and when they have we need to speak of how sweet the kumara is more and better now is the time to embrace the discomfort of this complex world and work out what we really need to take into the future and what we need to leave behind and it's time now to prepare for that future so I stand for you completely uncomfortable feeling like this and completely willing to embrace it with all of you and now it's time for me to thank some amazing people my dream team I'll see, look, every time I get up here I get all vulnerable my dream team, the committee the conference committee this team is amazing and they've worked so hard so Adrian I hate having to do sponsorship in this but when there was a gap Adrian stood up and picked it up and ran with it and Adrian thank you so so much and for your support and friendship Sarah, Paul picked up workshops ran with them and this was the biggest pre-conference workshop offering that we've ever offered at NDF and it was an experiment to see how it would work we're pretty sure it worked and we'll be doing this again thank you Sarah Lucy Orbell ran with communications and helped get our story out there and got media interested and got the mayor here and did wonderful things to share the great mahi that we do, thank you Lucy Dave Sanderson, our program leader he did all of the hard work getting things in the right order and trying not to clash things and wrangling all of the speaker information and just did an amazing job, thank you Dave Michael Parry helped Dave with the program and with the selection process and picked up other bits and bobs along the way that were gaps that just needed to be done and so thank you Michael and Corin Corin came onto the committee I thought I know what I can get him to do he can organise the newbies breakfast and the social, the speakers dinner that we have before the conference starts and he did an excellent job I know how to choose the good ones for the right thing Amy Joseph thank you Amy she organised all of the scholarships and working with Internet New Zealand and others to make sure it was quite a process to get that all sorted and she also picked up a bunch of other things like the post conference survey that you're all going to get and you're all going to send feedback in so that we can learn about our failures and our successes and build on them thank you Amy then there's our conference organisers Nikki, Reina, Hailey, Penny the whole party Cooper team they're our solar energy they help us be sustainable and make things happen that's sweating the small stuff while we're all doing our day jobs and then trying to do this on top of the day jobs which brings me to the committee I want to thank the organisations that they work for because those organisations are supporting them to do this work and that's an investment and we really appreciate that to everyone that presented it's hard work putting a presentation together and you shared your learnings and your failures and your successes and we learn from you and we're going to keep going back to the videos and keep learning from your mahi so thank you to our amazing keynotes who travelled far and wide to our sponsors I thank them a lot they're so important I bow before you sponsors we need you and we appreciate it to the NDEF board thank you for your support and guidance let's embrace this discussion and we hope you'll be able to let's embrace this discomfort together and make that bigger impact for everyone here together as a board and for all New Zealanders we've got a challenge and I reckon we're up for it Arianna said something really beautiful today and I hope she's okay with me picking it up and using it again I think it was at the end of the talk she said in that atahairi tatu eraro e te nākau mahaki go carefully in the spirit of humility and respect and that's what I wish for all of you and that's it that's the end it's time to go home it's time for me to go home to my wonderful husband who has held the thought fought over the last few days I've used up all my brownie points and I used to go home to my babies and see them and look after them and so it's time for us to go and go home and think about what we've done look out for the videos that are coming please answer the survey that is coming we want to learn from you it's traditional at the end of NDF that if you're hanging around or you've got some time afterwards head over to the Max Brubar I think I'm pointing in the right direction and have a bear or whatever an orange juice together kakaiti ano thank you