Events DAM and Collections Management for Cultural Heritage 2026 From Archive to Primetime: How One Photograph Transformed Hidden History into Global Impact

A journey from a single photograph to worldwide recognition

The Backstory

In 2018, while researching an 1880s South London wrestler and boxer, Jack Wannop, historian Sarah Elizabeth Cox stumbled upon an unusual name in a newspaper archive: "Ching Hook." A Google search led her to a striking photograph held in The National Archives – a young Black boxer, fists raised, digitised but unidentified. There was no other information publicly available about the man.

Events DAM LA 2026 Course Basic Page Reading List

The DAM Los Angeles 2026 Reading List

As the DAM Los Angeles conference approaches, we've curated an essential reading list to prime you for the event. These carefully selected blogs and resources from event speakers and sponsors offer a sneak peek into the cutting-edge conversations and innovations you'll encounter at the conference.

 

Three Rules for Turning Your Video Library Into a Versioning Engine by Myron Nilsson of AdPipe Studio

Events Event Speaker Dan Hunt

Dan is an experienced strategic and creative leader, with over 18 years’ experience in content creation. Building on this experience, Dan now works with some of our biggest clients to help solve creative operations challenges with extensive knowledge on creative automation and building content at scale. A key part of his remit today is guiding clients in evaluating emerging AI tools, collaborating with ICP’s studio team to test their ability to deliver against client needs and ambitions.​

Events Event Speaker Jewell Morson

Jewell R. Morson serves as a Frontend Web Development Support Specialist at Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America, where she brings nearly two decades of technology and e-commerce experience to one of the world's most iconic entertainment brands. A rare blend of technologist and artist, Jewell's perspective is uniquely shaped by her parallel career as founder of graffikceramiks, her design and ceramics studio, a creative practice that has quietly informed her approach to digital commerce since 2008.

 

Events Event Speaker Baylie Brenner

Baylie is currently the Head of UX Operations at Twitch, with previous leadership roles at Disney and J.P. Morgan Chase. She brings deep experience in scaling design, product and engineering orgs, building design systems, and leading strategy across complex environments. She has a diverse background in M&A, data analytics and machine learning as well as large-scale change management. Baylie has been featured in Design Shots- How to Design an Organization, and her career path is memorialized in the book Chief Design Officers.

Events Creative Operations Summit London 2026 - Reading List

The Creative Operations Summit London 2026 Reading List
 

As Creative Operations Summit London 2026 approaches, we’ve curated an essential reading list to get you inspired and ready for the event. These hand-picked blogs and resources from our speakers and sponsors offer a sneak peek into the innovative ideas, real-world strategies, and forward-thinking conversations you’ll experience at the summit.
 

Events Event Speaker Casey Templeton

Casey Templeton is the founder and CEO of Stacks, a DAM profesional services firm, and the creator of MQS (Metadata Quality Score), a structural governance scoring standard for digital asset metadata. After eight years of building custom assessment frameworks for enterprise DAM clients, Casey recognized the industry needed a shared, transparent measurement model. MQS is the result: nine signals, two dimensions, one published standard available to any organization or practitioner.

Events Event Speaker Shelley Meeks

Shelley Meeks is a strategic product leader with over 25 years of experience delivering metadata-driven digital content solutions in enterprise environments. At Stacks, she leads operations and co-designed the MQS scoring model, translating real-world metadata governance challenges into the nine signals that drive the standard. Her background spans product roadmap ownership, taxonomy design, AI-powered tagging, and workflow automation across global organizations.