Back by popular demand and following its success in Hollywood (at DAM LA 2026), a dynamic session bringing together leading voices in the DAM world to unpick the biggest innovations, content strategies, creative shifts and game-changing trends defining 2026.

Fast-paced, punchy, insightful and interactive - this is not a typical panel - expect bold perspectives, unfiltered and candid conversations, and real-time interaction with lots of audience participation. Raise your expectations for this fun, end of event, wrap-up.

What you Need to Know Before Making Technology Decisions

• A practical, hands-on session exploring why a people-first metadata strategy underpins access and discoverability - now more than ever.
• How to manage knowledge to maximise discoverability - for both humans and machine-based technologies.

Fundamental:

Context:

Most organisations have moved beyond asking whether they should integrate their DAM – the question now is how to scale those integrations intelligently across the enterprise.

As the ecosystem surrounding DAM expands to include PIMs, CDPs, CRMs, marketing automation, eCommerce platforms and AI services, the point-to-point connections that worked for two or three systems quickly become unmanageable at scale.

The Integration Maturity Curve:

Time to have some lunch and visit the exhibition. 

Building an AI-Ready Content Operation 

13:10 to 13:40 | Exhibition Hall 
Kindly Sponsored by Sitecore & EPAM

Engineering a Human-centred AI Supply Chain for Digital Experiences

A discussion with Continental on speed, alignment and building the foundation for scalable DAM, productivity and integration

In an era of infinite content and AI-driven experiences, human-led governance is a catalyst. 

This session introduces the concept of agentic DAM, where content is guided, governed, and activated with intelligence. The conversation then turns to how this plays out in practice: tackling supply chain congestion, steering teams toward the most effective assets, enabling consistent cross-channel activation, and maintaining quality in both traditional and AI-assisted workflows.

Context:

Originally developed to centralise and safeguard high‑quality photo and video assets, the HIVE – World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF’s) digital asset management platform – has evolved over the past decade into a mission‑critical system supporting global storytelling, documentation, and collaboration.

Today, the DAM serves more than 70 offices worldwide, each shaped by different cultures, regulations, infrastructures, and levels of digital capability.

Observation:

Content Hub 2.0 turns Nestlé’s greatest marketing strength – its scale – into its sharpest advantage. It connects millions of assets and brands’ intelligence into one agentic ecosystem that powers the marketing operating model, so excellence becomes the default, not the exception, and Nestlé’s collective power sits in every marketer’s hands.

In this session, you’ll find out:

The Great DAM Bake Off is a forum to provide attendees with succinct, comparative presentations on the latest DAM solutions.

DAM vendors will present a series of short, focused demos showing how their systems address specific business use cases and attendees will help crown the "DAM EU 2026 Tastiest DAM Demo".

Expert judges will offer commentary, both attendees and the judges can ask tough questions, but YOU vote for the winner. Which system soufflé will rise to the top?