Speakers

Conference Chair

David Lipsey

Principal, Media & Entertainment | Optimity Advisors

David Lipsey is a well-known industry founder and contributor to DAM projects. He has 25 years of experience in the diversified media and entertainment sectors, including newspapers, trade, education and technical publishing, magazines, commercial printing, syndication services, cable, broadcast and studio work. He is widely known as an innovative thought ...

Presenters

Christina Aguilera

Project Manager - Global Digital Asset Management | McDonald's Corporation

Christina Aguilera leads the Global Digital Asset Management initiative for McDonald’s Corporation. Her passion for implementing the right solution with an exceptional customer experience has led the enterprise through the research and business case phase, through the product selection and deployment phase, and through the development of a global ...

Sarah Cervinski

Manager, Digital Asset Management | Ubisoft

Since the beginning of her career, Sarah has focused her experience on digital archiving and digital asset management. Currently she is working for the gaming company Ubisoft, where she is playing a key role within a global project team in renewing their marketing DAM which serves more than 800 users ...

Frank Chagoya

Executive Print Production Manager, Asset Management | Leo Burnett USA

Frank Chagoya has made his presence felt in the Print Industry over the past 20 years by seamlessly implementing innovative technologies in traditional and digital production environments. He has been instrumental in streamlining conventional workflows and transitions to the digital environment to create production efficiencies, increasing capabilities, and speed to ...

Lauren Dohr

Optimity Advisors | Manager

Lauren Dohr, Principal with MediaVerse Data Management, provides consulting services to the media industry and businesses with issues of getting the right info to the right people at the right time. Ms Dohr builds the bridges between people and data architecture, work flows and data governance, and meets the practical ...

Seth Earley

President | Earley & Associates

Seth has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 12 years and has been in the technology field for 20 + years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at ...

Paul Graham Hayward

Director, Broadcast & Digital Communications | CME Group

NASDAQ: CME is the world's largest and most diverse derivatives marketplace. CME Group was created by the merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX.)Heads up all digital operations and TV communications. Manages staff in Chicago and New ...

Charlie Gray

Independent Consultant & Digital Strategist

Charlie Gray is a seasoned professional with extensive experience managing global taxonomy's across multiple systems and will share insights and experiences on metadata life cycle management and the value it can bring to your business. Charlie is a former Motorola Mobility employee, where he held the role of Senior Consulting ...

Douglas Hegley

Director of Technology | Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Douglas Hegley moved into the world of museum technology in 1997, following earlier stints within higher education and pediatrics research. During 14 years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, he focused on implementing technology that served the mission of the institution, and on creating a collaborative and open technology operation. ...

Jean Hodges

Senior Director of Content / News & Interactive Division | GateHouse Media, Inc

Jean Hodges became senior director of content for GateHouse Media in January 2012. She oversees strategy for print and online content, training — including development of the training program for the company’s new content management system, and the company’s website for newsrooms: Ghnewsroom.com. Jean joined GateHouse Media five years ago ...

John Horodyski

Principal | DAM Education

John Horodyski is Principal at DAM Education (www.dameducation.com) offering DAM training and education from basic entry level to high level strategic offerings. He consults on metadata and taxonomy design as well as teaches a graduate online course at San José State University in Digital Asset Management. John came from Electronic ...

Stephen Kaufman

Chief Technology Officer | Schawk, Inc.

Stephen Kaufman, Chief Technology Officer for Schawk Inc. is an engaging speaker featured at many technology and graphic arts industry conferences around the world is a visionary leader able to connect technology enablers to real business challenges in user-friendly ways. As such, he directs the development and implementation of strategic ...

Tony Lipira

Digital Asset Management IT Project Manager | McDonald's Corporation

IT Project Leader with over 20 years of diverse experience with various technologies, functional areas and corporate cultures. Career at McDonald's began as an IT Consultant and then expanded to Corporate McDonald’s IT, supporting applications in over 10 Business areas. Current project success highlights Burgey, McDonald’s Global Digital ...

Dan McGraw

President and Founder | Seven Dials Media

Dan is a media workflow, content and digital asset management specialist. Dan's clients include McDonald’s Corporation, Caterpillar, Logitech, Warner Bros, DDB, Y&R, CP+B, McCann-Erickson as well as some of the leading film and post production companies in the US and UK. A frequent speaker at industry events, Dan helps companies ...

Theresa Regli

Principal & Managing Director | The Real Story Group

Theresa Regli is Principal with The Real Story Group, covering and advising on enterprise search, digital asset management, and web content management.A fifteen-year veteran of the content technology industry, Theresa began her career writing about technology and Internet start-ups for a Boston newspaper in 1994. Theresa then moved on to ...

Kunal Sen

Chief Technology Development Officer | Encyclopædia Britannica

Kunal Sen, Chief Technology Development Officer at Encyclopædia Britannica, is responsible for the development of all of their digital products. In this role, Kunal oversees software development, content management, information management, search engine optimization, and is part of Britannica’s strategy team. He has been involved with digital publishing for almost ...

Genevieve Standing

Director, Business & Legal Affairs/Production Management Operations | Discovery Communications, Inc.

Genevieve Standing is Director, Business & Legal Affairs/Production Management Operations at Discovery Communications. She has 20 years of experience in media, including 12 years at Discovery. Her responsibilities include managing deal, rights, and production systems/processes which support the Discovery global family of networks and other businesses. She ...

Nathanial Taylor

Content Manager | Hasbro

Nate Taylor is an accomplished DAM professional who has deep experience supporting and developing creative services DAM solutions at Hasbro. He has been instrumental in designing robust workflows for engineering toy and game production which drives Hasbro's manufacturing process. Nate is also a knowledgeable leader in the areas ...

Nick Van Weerdenburg

Senior Product Marketing Manager | North Plains Systems

Nick Van Weerdenburg is Senior Product Marketing Manager at North Plains Systems. He has fifteen years of B2B enterprise software experience, mostly in enterprise collaboration and knowledge management. Prior to joining North Plains, Nick launched Dyadem’s Stature enterprise knowledge management solution for ensuring new products and processes leveraged prior design ...

Linda Ziemer

Manager, Digital Asset Management | Arc Worldwide

Linda Ziemer has been managing images and other creative assets for more than 25 years, first as a traditional photo archivist at the Chicago History Museum, then as the first "digital archivist" at Frankel, starting in 1997.  Frankel has since been merged into Arc Worldwide, the marketing services arm of ...