Pre-Event Tutorials

Please join our Pre-Event Tutorials on Wednesday, September 30. Kick start your professional learning before the conference and delve deeper into DAM.

Places are limited so early booking is advised! Choose from:

Wednesday, September 30, 10:15AM - 1:15PM

Career History

Sam is a global learning and development leader with a track record of partnering and agility to drive measurable learning impact across the Pharma, Biotech, MedTech, and High-Tech sectors. He has successfully led highly distributed global teams across multi-national environments competing in diverse markets with complex geopolitical environments. Sam is skilled at translating strategy into scalable operations and commercial capability solutions that improve competitive execution across global markets and teams. 

Callum McKean is the Lead Curator for Born Digital Archives and Manuscripts at the British Library, where he has looked after the UK national collection of literay and political personal archives since 2021, overseeing their acquisition, preservation, processing and access provision. His recent research projects, 'Data Analysis and Network Visualisation as Tools for Curating Hybrid Correspondence Archives', which considred e-mail and analogue correspondence networks in the Harold Pinter collection.

Alexandru Radavoi is Global Director of Digital Commerce and Digital Product Catalog at Vertiv, where he is redefining the role of the product information and corporate website in an AI-driven world. He leads the transformation of Vertiv.com from a traditional web presence into a scalable digital growth platform powered by structured product data, intelligent content, and AI.

Reality:

Most Digital Asset Management systems are good (or good enough).

  • They store assets.
  • They support workflows.
  • They help teams find what they need.

But only a few achieve greatness—systems that people trust, adopt naturally, and that clearly enhance how organizations create, manage, and deliver content - producing great outcomes for the organization.

Questions:

Fundamentals of Metadata and Taxonomy for DAM Professionals

Wednesday September 30, 10.15am-1.15pm

This tutorial teaches the fundamentals of metadata and taxonomy, including standards, best practices, and governance needed to manage your content in your DAM. Metadata matters because not only does it define us at any given point in time, but it also gives structure and meaning to the data associated with all that we do in our business. Metadata is the foundation of any digital strategy.