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Al Wadey is Global Head of Technology & Innovation at ICP, where he leads the Technical Services, AI and Automation teams helping enterprise clients build and scale their content operations. A familiar face across the DAM community, Al has spent his career at the intersection of technology and transformation, working with some of the world's most complex organisations to turn ambitious digital strategies into measurable reality. 

Jess Lewis is a Cyberpsychologist and the Global Chief Technology and Data Officer at Crossmedia, and sits on the leadership team at Dawn. She has spent more than fifteen years building the data, AI, and workflow infrastructure behind marketing at scale, with prior leadership roles at Adobe, Dentsu International, Disney, and Hearst.

David is a creative operations and technology leader whose career has been shaped by a simple belief: that the right infrastructure, built thoughtfully, makes creative people free to do their best work.

His path into DAM began in the early 2000s at The Marketing Store, one of the world's largest promotional marketing agencies, where he first encountered the challenges of managing digital assets at enterprise scale. That experience planted a deep technical fluency that has only grown with time.

Caroline McKay drives the execution of creative operations initiatives across a portfolio of iconic retail brands including JCPenney, Brooks Brothers, Lucky Brand, Nautica, and Aeropostale. She manages the Digital Asset Management, Print Production, and Post Production teams while driving the transformation of the technology ecosystem, workflows, and processes that power content delivery at speed and scale.
 

Kate is a metadata specialist at the National Gallery of Art with more than 15 years of experience in digital asset management, metadata strategy, and museum imaging workflows. She leads development of the Gallery’s enterprise metadata schema and collaborates across departments to improve access, organization, and preservation of digital collections. Her work focuses on controlled vocabularies, cataloging standards, rights management, and user-centered DAM system design and support.

Mel has been with ResourceSpace since 2022, working as an in-house Arts & Heritage Specialist to deliver onboarding, training, and consultancy for a wide range of ResourceSpace users. Previously, Mel has worked in archives, data analysis, and digital collections management, collaborating with UK institutions such as Art Fund, Royal Academy of Arts, and The Leach Pottery alongside global clients including Oxfam, IKEA, and Starbucks.

Selva is the Founder & CEO of FileSpin, a media operations platform that runs end-to-end media workflows from a single AI prompt. Informa (Cannes Lions, Black Hat, Money20/20) and XXL (sports retailer, Nordics) use FileSpin Cloud for global delivery, Teleport at the edge, and the MCP Connector with Claude and ChatGPT.