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Lisa Bennett is Vice President of Global Brand at Dell Technologies and Head of Dell Blue at Dell Technologies, the company’s in-house creative agency. She leads a global team of 160 strategists, account managers, producers, editors and creatives that develop hundreds of pieces of content annually for Dell and Alienware.

Alex has 35+ years of creative process and production experience in marketing, advertising, and feature film production. He is a respected industry leader, ANA Faculty member, guest lecturer, and has been the recipient of multiple industry awards and honors for creativity and innovation as a creative leader, manager of creative talent, production company owner, and feature film producer (Behind Enemy Lines, Fox 2001; Flight of the Phoenix, Fox 2004).

Anem Aftab is a senior leader on the Marketing and Creative Operations team at Instacart leading Channel Creative Program Management, specifically focusing on Growth Marketing. Prior to joining Instacart, Anem worked at Uber where she held several roles within the Marketing organization working alongside talented Creative and Design teams.

Justine Mar is the Senior Managing Producer at Instacart, where she is responsible for overseeing and leading photo, audio and video production. Prior to joining Instacart, Justine worked at Curology and various advertising agencies in SF and NY.

I'm a DesignOps leader with over 15 years of experience in design, leadership, and operations. I’m currently at Microsoft, providing Design Operations strategy and support to their collaborative apps portfolio. Previously, I spent 7 years at Shopify, establishing and leading the DesignOps practice as the Design team grew from 150 to 600. I focus on developing strategic systems, programs, processes, and teams that increase design's impact across the business.
My enthusiastic optimism supports change through listening, inspiring, and serving others.

Katherine is an information management consultant and taxonomy and metadata expert with more than nine years’ experience helping organizations across industries structure, manage, and organize their content. She works closely with each client to identify and prioritize needs and requirements that are unique to their organization, and designing taxonomy and metadata for the particularities of the DAM system.