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Lauren is an information management professional who designs strategies, processes and solutions for the agile use of information assets across the organization. Bridging technology teams and content production groups with other business units to get businesses the information they need, she collaboratively defines and develops procedures and measures for data, metadata and information asset management. 

With more than 20 years in the digital asset management industry, Neal Bilow is known for his leadership and ability to translate strategic, organisational and business goals into technology solutions that work.

He is a respected member of the media, entertainment, and technology industries, and is recognised internationally for his innovative methods of identifying and unblocking digital supply chain obstacles, across all markets. 

Margaret Majorack is the Director, Managed Services at KlarisIP, operationalizing Rights and Clearances solutions for clients like National Geographic. Margaret’s career began at CTV News in Canada, managing the news archives for CTV Network. She has worked extensively in the operational management of film and video archives, including rights metadata capture and rights and clearances, for the Museum of Broadcast Communications (Chicago), National Geographic, Discovery Communications, Univision and most recently the streaming service, CuriosityStream. 

Dario Mescia is an Art Director/Creative Operations Specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is part of a full-service in-house team that brings together Marketing/Advertising, Public Relations and Web. Dario earned his B.A. in corporate communications from Elizabethtown College. He has spent the past 20 years working on the creative and the administrative sides of agencies, publishing houses and printing firms, finally settling in the healthcare sector.

Jessica Herczeg-Konecny is the Digital Asset Manager at the Detroit Institute of Arts. After undergraduate work in English and American Culture Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Jessica obtained a master’s degree in Public History from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She has been working in the museum industry for over ten years in archives, collections management, rights and reproductions, and digital asset management.

Christina Gibbs has managed the collections database at the Detroit Institute of Arts for over six years. She specializes in putting technologies to work in service of the museum’s talented staff and its mission. Her business understanding of systems integrations, dismantling data silos and creating distribution streams lead to measurable impact from sharing data and image sets from the collection. She was critical in the museum's initiative to publish the entire collection on the website.