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Charlie is the Head of Creative Services EMEA for Creative Shop at Meta, a global team of consultants who bridge that gap between product and advertisers.  In his role, he manages a team that consults with the world's largest brands on how to apply scaled production solutions to advertising across the Meta family of apps, from Instagram Reels to Whatsapp AI Agents. 

Sharon M. Burney is a program officer with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), where she supports the Recordings at Risk, Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices, and Digitizing Hidden Special Collections grant programs. Sharon specializes in academic, cultural heritage, community, and institutional support systems, navigating administrative policy adherence with an interpersonal connection that promotes community building. She is the host and co-producer of the award-winning HBCU Library Alliance Tour, season three of CLIR’s Material Memory podcast.

Alyson Pope is a program officer with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), where she supports the Recordings at Risk and Digitizing Hidden Special Collections grant programs, and assists the Operations Team with events, contracts, and logistics. Her professional interests include cultural heritage, DEI, community data and data analytics, and system logistics.

Julie leads enterprise content management across iconic beverage brands in the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. Over her 13-year tenure with the company, Julie has held a variety of roles in marketing and sales enablement, consistently driving innovation and championing continuous improvement. Her work empowers teams across the organization to deliver best-in-class experiences in the competitive beverage industry.

Christian is a Product Manager with nearly a decade of experience in DAM and extensive expertise integrating DAM and PIM systems to optimize content supply chains and drive business results. At KEEN Footwear, Christian led the integration of DAM and PIM, reducing operational costs, improving data accessibility, and cutting seasonal setup times by 60%.

Tom Baione is Harold Boeschenstein Director of the Gottesman Research Library at the American Museum of Natural History. A librarian and archivist, he oversees the Rare Book Collection and the Archives' extensive non-print collections, including photography, film, archives, manuscripts, art, and memorabilia. Tom is passionate about the 155-year history of the Museum that the Library’s various collections illuminate and works to make these collections discoverable and accessible to multiple audiences. 

Juan Montes is the Vice President and Chief Information Officer at the American Museum of Natural History. He is focused on using technology, both the most innovative and the tried and true, to help the museum fulfill its mission, which is to discover, interpret and disseminate knowledge about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a program of scientific research, education and exhibition.  The museum has over 200 researchers on staff, a degree-granting graduate school and a world-class collection.