Events Design Operations New York 2026 First Sessions

First Sessions Announced

We are delighted to announce the first sessions!

Adaptive UX Operations in the Age of AI

What’s Old Is New, What’s New Is Old

Context

As AI rapidly transforms how digital experiences are conceived and produced, UX Operations leaders find themselves at a familiar crossroads: scaling practices, safeguarding quality, and enabling teams to move faster without losing the user. 

Events Event Speaker Rohit Goyal

With more than 20 years of experience building and scaling B2B SaaS platforms in e-commerce, insurtech and fintech, Rohit brings a dual focus on customer success and product excellence.

Events Event Speaker Sean Fitzgerald

With over a decade in production and post-production, Sean brings a rare blend of hands-on execution and team leadership to modern content creation. His current work centers on embedding generative AI into creative pipelines, enabling teams to move faster while elevating storytelling and maintaining trust.

Events Semantic Data Europe 2026 Hear from Progress

Most enterprise AI conversations still start in the wrong place: the model. But the organisations that succeed with AI will be the ones that understand the sum of the parts beneath it.

Taxonomies make information findable. Ontologies make it meaningful. Knowledge graphs make it connected. Rules, metadata, provenance and governance make it reliable. AI-ready data platforms bring these capabilities together so that models, RAG systems and agents can work with context they can trust.

Events DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026 Social Event

Pre-Event Meet Up

25 June, 17:15 - 18:15
Convene, 155 Bishopsgate

Arriving for DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage? Get a head start on the conversation.

Join DAM Europe the evening before for a drinks reception and get a kick start on your networking. This is a great opportunity to meet fellow attendees, make connections, and ease into the event.

Events Event Speaker Jason Boyer

Jason Boyer is a marketing and AI transformation leader who helps organizations translate creativity and emerging technology into practical business advantage. As Senior Vice President at Aquent Studios, he advises Fortune 100 companies on growth, analytics, and Agentic AI. He draws on experience as CMO at Deloitte, where he launched the firm’s AI practice and influenced more than $1 billion in new business opportunities, and at Dubai World, where he built a global digital marketplace connecting hundreds of thousands of businesses across Asia and the Middle East.

Events Event Speaker John Wall

John Wall is the Head of the Content Studio at GSK, where he leads a team of over 100 creative, production, and operations professionals producing content for 25+ pharma brands across the U.S. With a career spanning pharma, financial services, e-commerce, and retail media, John brings a cross-industry perspective to the challenge of scaling content operations in highly regulated environments. He has led the implementation of AI-enabled platforms and operating models that have significantly improved throughput, speed to market, and cost efficiency.

Events Event Speaker Travis O'Neal

With 25+ years navigating the creative and marketing industry and a track record working with brands like GoPro, Adobe, YETI, and Patagonia, Travis O'Neal knows exactly what it takes to make enterprise creative operations actually work and as SVP of Global Agency Partnerships and Delivery at Aquent Studios, he puts that to use every day, building strategic partnerships that help organizations scale output, modernize how they operate, and turn creative operations from a cost center into a measurable competitive advantage.

Events Webinar Speaker Lara Guerard

Lara Guerard is a digital transformation industry advisor and expert, currently managing partner relationships across the creative and content supply chain ecosystem. She is known for helping organizations modernize content operations, align technology to business strategy and drive transformation across the full content lifecycle.

With experience spanning media, broadcast, production and enterprise content environments, Lara has advised technology providers and global brands on DAM, MAM, content operations and digital transformation initiatives.