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Conference Chair
David H. Lipsey
David Lipsey is a well-known industry founder and contributor to DAM
projects. He has 25 years of experience in the diversified
media and entertainment sectors, including newspapers, trade, education
and technical publishing, magazines, commercial printing, syndication
services, cable, broadcast and studio work. He is
widely known as an innovative thought leader and speaker on
contemporary content issues.
Speakers
David Bercovici
Digital Project Manager,
Group IT
Hachette UK
David Bercovici has ten years of experience supporting Digital Asset Management deployments. David is currently at Hachette UK, the largest book publisher in the United Kingdom, where he is leading the deployment of DAM across the enterprise.
David previously supported DAM deployments in the U.S. at Hachette Book Group, where he led a DAM implementation and several upgrade projects aimed at reducing duplication, costs and time spent by staff managing assets on the DAM. David has experience with both OpenText and North Plains DAM systems.
David began his career as a consultant at Accenture in New York where he focused on clients in the media & entertainment industry.
Laura Caulkin
Strategic Project Manager
Net-a-Porter
Mark Davey
Founder
DAM Foundation
A
Knowledge Wealth specialist with a background in publishing,
marketing, advertising and currently a consultant in media rich
applications and services for government and business eco systems.
Ian Davis
Information Scientist
SGS
Ian Davis joined SGS in March 2011 with a remit to enforce and develop global metadata and taxonomy standards relating to a diverse set of content assets, including images, videos and documents. Working with the SGS website team Ian also creates and maintains corporate metadata schemas, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri that support sections of the SGS public facing website www.sgs.com.
Ian is an information specialist with a track record of success in information and project management stretching back to the early 90s. Ian has worked with still images for thirteen years for Corbis and for Photonica. Ian also spent four years as a consultant for Dow Jones providing integrated solutions focused on improving information and content organisation to extract actionable value for a diverse range of clients.
Ian has a passion for information, a consuming interest in DAM and a fascination for the many ways diverse assets, images, video, audio and text can be organised so they can be found and used effectively.
Lisa Hayward
Global Brands Online Communications Manager
Shell International
Lisa is the business project manager for Brand Central, the new global and Group-wide digital asset management system for Shell. Brand Central is the replacement for the One Source digital asset management system. It’s the place where every Shell business and function can store all brand, marketing and communications assets including PDF files, high resolution advertising artwork, presentations and video files.
Lisa is responsible for the digital landscape in support of Shell’s technical relationship with Ferrari. This includes the Shell Motorsport website at www.shell.com/motorsport, plus its supporting social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and Flickr.
Bruce Hellman
Artemis Digital Programme Manager
Serco
Bruce Hellman lead Serco’s Artemis Digital service for archive digitisation and metadata annotation, delivered by prisoners. Working with archive holders, digitisation specialists and Serco prisons, Bruce has delivered projects for audiovisual, photographic and document archives. Prisoners work with digital files in a secure custodial environment, adding metadata to content to clients’ requirements.
Artemis offers archive holders a high-quality on-shore and cost-effective metadata creation service, while significantly contributing to prisoner rehabilitation, skill development and digital literacy. The Artemis service provides end-to-end solutions, helping archive identify material for digitisation, then taking content through the digitisation and metadata annotation process and into a DAM system.
Prior to Artemis, Bruce worked at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport leading policy and strategy development across culture, design, art and sports. Bruce is a recent Imperial MBA graduate and an Ironman triathlete.
Fearghal Kelly
VP Media Solutions, Media Practice Division
KIT Digital
Fearghal Kelly joined KIT Digitalin 2005 to set up and run their Media Practice. Kelly has 14 years experience in the media sector, focusing predominantly on large web platforms, video, advertising and television. Before joining ioko, he was deputy head of technology at BBC Broadcast (Red Bee Media) for four and a half years, where he started their product development arm. He was technical architect and manager of the development of the first BBC iPlayer, launched in 2004. Prior to this, he was head of interactive technology at Teletext for three years, setting up their development division to deploy television and web portals in the UK.
Kelly’s early career began at international advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty. He spent two years there as a senior systems analyst working on desktop video and extranets. In 1994, he developed software for the Apple Newton, which was cool at the time.
Kelly has been influential in industry thinking and research via publications and talks. He is a regular conference speaker and contributer to media forums also advising institutional investment groups. He has also written articles for publications such as Broadcast, TVB Europe and Cabsat. He holds a BSC from University of Manchester and an HCI Masters from University College London (UCL).
Douglas McCarthy
Rights & Images Manager
National Maritime Museum
Douglas McCarthy is Rights & Images Manager at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, leading the Photographic Studio and Picture Library within the Museum’s wider Commercial Team. He advises on IP management, commercial strategy and metadata for the Museum. Douglas has over a decade’s experience in the picture library industry, working previously at Mary Evans Picture Library and The Art Archive, and he is a member of the Museums IP Network.
John O'Donovan
Director, Technical Architecture and Development
Press Association
John is Director of Architecture and Development at the Press Association, one of the world’s leading News, Sports and Data providers, managing a vast array of content and formats. John recently joined the Press Association from the BBC where he was Chief Architect for News, Sport and Knowledge. He has pioneered the use of metadata to drive new workflows and integrate intelligent, semantic technologies into the enterprise. With over 15 years experience of working with content and technology, at organisation like the Press Association, BBC, Sky and British Airways, John is an expert in dealing with the problems of enterprise content management and how this fits to the needs of business.
Theresa Regli
Principal DAM Analyst & Advisor
The Real Story Group
Theresa Regli is Principal with The Real Story Group, covering and
advising on enterprise search, digital asset management, and web content
management.
A fifteen-year veteran of the content technology industry, Theresa
began her career writing about technology and Internet start-ups for a
Boston newspaper in 1994. Theresa then moved on to website development
and information architecture before spending 10 years leading content
management teams at various start-ups and at a systems integration firm.
Theresa oversees The Real Story Group's Search and Digital Asset
Management research, and leads consulting & advisory services. Since
joining The Real Story Group in 2006, she has advised a worldwide
client base that includes The UK National Trust, Shell, The British
Museum, IKEA, Nokia, The City of Edmonton, the US Public Broadcasting
Service, Arcapita, and Elaph Publishing. She also teaches seminars and
presents keynotes at events throughout the world.
Theresa holds degrees and certifications in linguistics, French and
European studies from universities in France, the US and the UK.
Sarah Saunders
Director
Electric Lane
Sarah Sanders is Director of consultancy and training company Electric Lane www.electriclane.co.uk. She has worked as a photographer, image library manager CEO of picture library association BAPLA, and commentator on the stock industry for the trade press. She has extensive knowledge of image and data workflow and archiving issues, as well as user interface considerations. The driver for her work is productivity – making the most effective use of image resources with the latest available technology.
Sarah is a specialist in digital imaging and image metadata, and works with the IPTC Photometadata Working Group to set international standards for metadata in the image file. Recently she has been working on controlled vocabularies and automated systems for handling images and data.
Simon Tanner
Director, Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at
King’s College London
Co-Director, MA in Digital Asset Management,
King’s College London
Simon Tanner is the founding Director of Digital Consultancy Services (KDCS) at King's College London. KDCS provides research and consulting services specialising in the information and digital domain for the cultural, heritage and information sectors.
Simon is a senior manager in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s and is Co-Director for the MA in Digital Asset Management. He has also written extensively on the digital domain including his book Digital Futures and an edited volume Digital Preservation. He tweets regularly on all things DAM and beyond at SimonTanner on Twitter.
Sarah Winmill
Head of Information Systems Services
Victoria and Albert Museum
Sarah Winmill is Head of IS Services at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she has worked for 8 of the last 9 years. Sarah relishes working for arts heritage charities in unique environments, previously enjoying the Royal Academy of Arts, Historic Royal Palaces (including HM Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace), and the Royal Albert Hall.
Sarah’s IT career has seen her focus on ticket sales and retail systems, networks, and infrastructure. For the past ten years she has managed IT teams, striving to provide business solutions to meet the needs, and delight the visitors, of some of the UK’s most iconic arts heritage organisations.
Sarah holds an MSc in Data Communications, is a Chartered IT Professional and a Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. She is Chair of the Charities Consortium IT Directors Group and serves on the committee of BCSWomen, an online support group for female IT professionals. In 2008 she was a Finalist in the Intel IT Leader of the Year, at the BCS IT Industry Awards.
Tabitha Yorke
Senior Manager, Digital Asset Projects
HIT Entertainment
Tabitha has worked for HIT
Entertainment since 2007, overseeing all HIT’s Digital Asset Management
projects. During her tenure at HIT Tabitha has managed the
implementation of HIT’s DAM solution, including engineering business
change, managing the project and development teams and creating
standards and procedures to promote best use of the system. Tabitha has
overseen the on-going development of HIT’s DAM system as well as
managing other digital and archiving projects at HIT. Tabitha has 14
years’ experience in the broadcast industry and prior to joining HIT
worked for Red Bee Media on projects for major clients including the
BBC.
HIT Entertainment is one of the
world’s leading independent children's entertainment producers and
rights owners. HIT is the home of classic pre-school brands including
Bob the Builder, Barney, Thomas & Friends, Pingu, Fireman Sam,
Angelina Ballerina and many more. HIT delivers engaging and inspiring
content on TV, online, on-stage; in DVDs; through books and in consumer
products.