| Henry Stewart

Events Webinar Speaker Luis Clark

Luis Clark helps teams work better by showing them a smarter way to run work - giving people time back for creativity, strategic thinking, and the work that actually makes a difference.

An ex-media and radio leader with 20+ years’ experience, he’s led creative teams and transformation projects across some of the UK’s biggest audio, radio, and digital advertising brands, blending creative ambition with operational discipline.

Events Webinar Back to Big Ideas: Making Space for Creative Work Again

Modern campaigns have evolved, but Creative Operations hasn't.

Creativity is being crushed by a "content explosion" and the ambiguity of bad briefs.

This session is a blueprint for Creative Ops leaders to move from being "order-takers" to "strategic architects." We’ll discuss how you can strip away the administrative noise, leverage AI to reclaim your team's time, and build a scalable engine that prioritises big ideas over repetitive tasks.

Events On Demand Content Design, Create, Comply: Operating AI Workflows Under the EU AI Act

Design, Create, Comply: Operating AI Workflows Under the EU AI Act

A practical guide for CreativeOps, DesignOps, ProductOps, PhotoOps, and DAM leaders

Context

AI is rapidly being embedded across creative, content, and product operations - from asset generation and automated tagging to workflow orchestration, personalisation, and performance measurement.

Events Creative Operations On Demand Content Design, Create, Comply: Operating AI Workflows Under the EU AI Act

Design, Create, Comply: Operating AI Workflows Under the EU AI Act

A practical guide for CreativeOps, DesignOps, ProductOps, PhotoOps, and DAM leaders

Context

AI is rapidly being embedded across creative, content, and product operations - from asset generation and automated tagging to workflow orchestration, personalisation, and performance measurement.

Events Creative Operations Summit New York 2026 Drinks & Networking

Continue networking, sharing ideas and celebrate a great day at the official drinks reception!

Events Creative Operations Summit New York 2026 Track 2 From Chaos to Craft: How Operational Leadership Unlocks Creative Scale

High-performing creative teams often reach a tipping point, where output is strong, but the lack of structure, visibility, and alignment begins to limit both efficiency and creativity.

Wajmah Strange and Jeff Costello explain what it really takes to move from that state of controlled chaos to a more scalable, sustainable Creative Operation.

Drawing on shared experience across organizations including AOL, ABC News, and CBS/Paramount Global, this session reflects years of navigating these challenges in different environments.

Events Creative Operations Summit New York 2026 Track 1 Your CMO Has Seen the Future. Your Team Hasn't

What now?

Assertion

A gap is widening inside brand organizations. The C-suite is meeting vendors, seeing demos, and greenlighting AI transformation at speed - while the teams and agencies responsible for execution are often the last to know what changed.

What is to be done?

A candid look at the knowledge gap reshaping Creative Ops:

Events Creative Operations Summit New York 2026 Track 2 People-First in an AI-Accelerated World

We are in the midst of a significant shift across organizations and technology, and how value is defined. As AI continues to scale, so do important questions about its impact on the human experience at work. At the same time, employee expectations are evolving - particularly among creative teams - toward work that supports agency, originality, and meaning.

Events Creative Operations Summit New York 2026 Track 1 Good, Fast, and Cheap: From Production to ContentGen

Pick two. That's been the deal in creative production for as long as anyone can remember.

Generative AI made us think the deal had changed. Marcia Howard, Senior Director of Creative Technology & Enablement at Target, was one of the first people at a major retailer to find out whether that was actually true.

In this session, she traces the full journey, from managing photo shoots across Berlin and New York, to running 3D CGI production, to standing up GenAI workstreams inside a large-scale creative studio in retail.

What she found along the way: