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With over 25 years of experience working on the agency side and then for a Global CPG organization, Michele’s professional journey has been a great ride filled with constant change and learning.

In Michele’s current role as a Senior Digital Asset Management Specialist, she manages over 30,000 assets a year for Nestlé Purina PetCare North America, working cross-functionally with the various zones and business’ units to empower the users on their journey when accessing Content Hub.

Having joined Twitch in 2019, Brett has built out the project management function in EMEA and APAC whilst still leading on multimillion dollar deals activating across global territories. Now leading on Creative Operations globally, Brett has been responsible for supporting the roll out of the Brand Partnership Studio in 10 new markets including training and instigating a cohesive process.

Caroline Pay is Chief Creative Officer at Headspace, where she directs the company’s dynamic, award-winning creative team. She guides all creative activities and serves as a thought leader to ensure Headspace continues to grow its leadership position worldwide, including digital, experiential and traditional advertising, as well as all marketing campaigns and initiatives. In 2018, Pay was awarded one of Adweek’s “Los Angeles Brand Stars.”

Julian provides global leadership and guidance to build a world class user experience team by defining standards, guidelines, best practices, processes and determining how the user experience team interacts with other groups. He advises and makes actionable recommendations to executive management and business groups on strategic ‘voice of the customer’ topics to develop a world class user experience. Julian specializes in zeroing in on users’ underlying emotional and functional needs and he then executes on those discoveries to create enjoyable experiences for ALL!

Nicole joined the University of Wyoming Art Museum in 2009. Formerly the Vice President of Gallery Operations and Director at the Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, she supervised staff, conducted research and worked with numerous collectors during her eight years with the gallery. Previously she was the curatorial assistant at the Sheldon Museum of Art on the University of Nebraska campus and completed the academic internship program at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Natalie Brewster is an experienced Senior Global Creative Operations Director, with extensive experience in building and leading in-house marketing and creative teams, as well as working within and alongside, award winning global creative agencies.

I stumbled into the world of Graphic Design and Production screen printing exhibits at the Maryland Science Center some 25 years ago. It was a bit antiquated, even then, but an appropriately unique place to begin a career journey that would lead me through various industries: museums, advertising, architecture, music, model making, political advertising, feature films, hospitality and, presently, sports and fashion. 

Klaus is based in Les Mills International’s global Head-Office in Auckland, New Zealand, and has over 25 years’ experience in building and delivering engaging user experiences across Content Management, Digital Asset Management and Decision Support Systems.

Klaus is responsible for the development, delivery and strategic execution behind Les Mills’ global website and Digital Asset Management platform (Marketing Studio); available to Les Mills staff and 20,000+ club partners across 25 International markets, and 13 languages.

Spencer joined the AFL at the end of 2010 as an inaugural member of the AFL Media team. With 40 years of TV Broadcast and Production experience, working both in Australia and overseas, Spencer began to realise that the AFL Video and Film archive was deteriorating and would need significant effort to ensure that it was preserved.

As Operations and Broadcast Services Manager, Spencer managed the logistics of cataloguing and shipping the precious 20,000 items to Canberra for digitisation. The only way to preserve it, to monetise it, to share it, was to digitise it.

Rebecca has worked with a variety of content formats during her 10 year span at the CBC, including digital, video, audio and stills. She works to ensure that, through metadata, content is searchable and discoverable, both by the internal content creators and the external audience.

Recently, Rebecca has focused her attention on working towards metadata optimization within CBC's various content systems to help facilitate a better, personalized, and more engaged audience experience.