Events DAM LA 2026 Day 1 What It Takes to Make AI Actually Work in the DAM

From Metadata Chaos to Machine Intelligence. 

The aspiration, the challenge, and the solution

  • Most teams want AI in their DAM, but few have the structural foundations needed for AI to produce reliable results.
  • The two essential layers:
    • How to prepare a DAM for AI through taxonomy, governance, and metadata readiness.
    • How to introduce AI-driven enrichment and automation in ways that are stable, scalable, and vendor-neutral.

A practical, end-to-end framework for moving from messy metadata to machine-supported workflows that improves accuracy, speed, and discoverability.

Covering:

  • The core elements of an AI-ready DAM = taxonomy patterns, metadata rules, and governance essentials.
  • Practical AI workflows that work today - alt text, keyword extraction, similarity search, and clustering.
  • Designing human-in-the-loop review and feedback loops.
  • Automation patterns that keep metadata consistent at scale.
  • A simple roadmap for adopting AI without disrupting existing operations.
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March 18, 3:05 PM PDT
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Events Event Speaker Erin McElrath
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What it Takes to Make AI Actually Work in the DAM