First Sessions Announced

We're delighted to give you a first look at 4 confirmed sessions, offering a taste of the insights, ideas, and conversations you can expect at DAM Australia.

If you have a story to share, please contact Christine Le Couilliard at christine@clecevents.co.uk.


The Evidence Layer Wins: From DAM to AI Infrastructure

The new reality:

Dr Gina Fox is an Associate Professor in Criminology and Deputy Dean of Education for the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at the University of Leicester. She is a University Distinguished Teaching Fellow and holds Principal Fellowships with Advance HE, recognising her sustained leadership in curriculum design, academic practice and pedagogic enhancement.

 

Erin DeSilva is Senior Associate Provost for Learning Innovation at Dartmouth College, where she oversees the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL) and Learning Design and Innovation (LDI). Her team of educational technologists, learning designers, faculty developers, and media specialists partners with faculty to integrate pedagogy and technology in service of student learning. With nearly two decades of experience in higher education, Erin brings a practitioner's perspective to the challenge of sustaining teaching quality while navigating rapid institutional change.

Nicole Buckenwolf is a Senior Staff Ontologist at Spotify, working on a small central team responsible for ontology/taxonomy and domain modeling across the company's media catalog. The team serves as an expert resource for groups across the organization, helping teams improve interoperability, align their models to best practices, and extend them to new use cases.
 

Session 1 - The New GLAMP Technology Landscape: Building Connected Collections 

Tuesday October 20, 2026
8AM PDT / 11AM EDT / 4PM BST / 5PM CEST

Digital Asset Management is no longer a standalone repository. Modern institutions increasingly operate interconnected ecosystems that combine DAM, Collections Management Systems, Digital Preservation platforms, public websites, APIs and AI-powered discovery tools.

From agency to in-house teams, commercial brands to purpose-driven organisations, Lily has worked across brand, marketing, content, design and creative operations, partnering with diverse teams and leaders to solve complex business challenges. She believes design thinking is one of the most underutilised capabilities in organisational leadership, and that shifting creative to become a strategic enabler is the key to improving decisions, streamlining workflows, strengthening brand and delivering stronger organisational outcomes.

Greg Vasami is a technology leader with over a decade of experience in eCommerce. He has a proven record of building and leading high-performing go-to-market teams, and for the past three years has overseen commercial strategy and execution at Akeneo. With deep expertise in product data and digital commerce, Greg helps organizations navigate transformation and deliver customer experiences that drive growth.



 

Based in New York, Martin Balaam is the CEO & Founder of Pimberly, an Enterprise SaaS platform for Product Information Management and Digital Asset Management for retailers, manufactures, and distributors accelerating their speed to market by automating & simplifying the management of vast quantities of product data, images, videos, 3D and documents needed for today’s digitally rich, cross-border, omnichannel world.