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As the Director of Streaming Media Operations at Tastemade, Akash is at the helm of managing the technical intricacies that power Tastemade's dynamic streaming channels. He is responsible for the end-to-end process of content operations, ensuring a seamless and engaging viewer experience across vMVPD, FAST, and VOD platforms.

Over the past five years, Akash has developed unique workflows to efficiently manage five channels in three languages across three verticals with distribution in 30+ global territories. 

Jen is a DAM expert with 15+ years of experience, leading Marketing & Creative Operations at Clear Channel Outdoor. She designs systems and workflows that help Marketing, Creative, and Sales teams quickly find assets, track usage, and work more efficiently. As CCO’s principal archivist, she also manages the company’s 120-year-old archive – one of the largest private OOH collections in the country.

With a background in library and information science, she’s passionate about organizing chaos, optimizing user experiences, and making DAM frictionless.

HaZ Dulull began his career in video games  before transitioning to visual effects, contributing to acclaimed projects like The Dark Knight and Hellboy 2, earning multiple VES award nominations.

Responsible for overseeing the delivery of high-quality advertising assets to Streaming Platforms , ensuring seamless integration and compliance with platform standards. Previously at FOX Entertainment, managed digital assets throughout their life cycle, maintained and optimized metadata within the DAM system, and ensured content integrity across multiple platforms.

Embrie Ann Beamon is a dynamic operations leader with a diverse global background and a passion for both fashion and creative production. A native of Greensboro, North Carolina, she pursued her academic interests at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in International Studies and Japanese. Embrie’s career journey took her to Japan, where she worked as an English teacher under the prestigious J.E.T. Programme, immersing herself in the culture and strengthening her Japanese language skills before returning to the U.S.

Jesse Krinsky is the Founder and Lead Consultant at In Focus Consulting, a creative operations firm specializing in helping in-house creative teams thrive. With over 20 years of experience spanning agencies, production companies, academia, and in-house teams (including leading video production and creative strategy at Thermo Fisher Scientific and The Economist’s U.S. in-house agency), Jesse has seen countless production teams struggle with endless rounds of revisions, late nights, lost footage, frustrated clients, legal fights, and worse.

Dmitry Shamis is the founder of