Finding Your Way to the DAM
Speakers
David Lipsey
Director, DAM & Creative Operations Programs
Rutgers University
Ralph Windsor
Publisher
DAM News
Victorian Simmons
Public Information Officer
Town of Apex
Allen Haren
Senior Manager of Digital Asset Management & Archives
Pepperdine University
Carol Boeira
Content Creation and Management Specialist
Make-A-Wish Canada
John Horodyski
Managing Director
AVP
Yumiko Hayashi
Director, Product Marketing
MediaValet
Parker Thompson
Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering
MediaValet
Crystal Vehse
Senior Director, Growth Marketing
MediaValet
Stephen Midgley
CMO
MediaValet
Rishad Alam
Principal Product Manager, Platform
MediaValet
Brendan Hoy
Product Manager
MediaValet
Dale Sekhon
Account Manager
MediaValet
Michael Aghamohseni
Account Manager
MediaValet
Ian Smyth
Senior Demand Generation Manager
MediaValet
Agenda
Day 1
Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 10 AM PT
The Economics of Content: What is Your DAM Actually Worth?
Can your marketing team tell you what they *spent* on content? Creative costs, licensing, redundant production, orphaned files; all of these costs are difficult to quantify, until they’re managed in one single space.
David Lipsey uses this session to dig into the true cost of content creation and helps reframe your DAM as a balance sheet asset, not a cost center.
- Why the “true cost” of content is almost always higher than what’s in the production budget
- How you can present your DAM as a balance sheet item, not a marketing line cost
- The hidden (and important) impacts of AI on the cost and value of our digital assets
- How leading teams are starting the DAM capitalization conversation with finance
Stephen Midgley
CMO
MediaValet
David Lipsey
Director, DAM & Creative Operations Programs
Rutgers University
Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 11 AM PT
The Volume Problem, Revisited: What You Lose When You Clean House
Ralph Windsor challenges the instinct to delete “low-value” assets, showing how to keep a DAM lean without letting it become a hoard of low-quality detritus.
Topics covered include:
- Why digital assets are much more than files, and why deleting them is short-sighted
- The regulatory impact and the risks of deleting assets
- Moving from API First to AI-First, and why AI massively changes the implications of not retaining digital assets
Ralph Windsor
Publisher
DAM News
Tuesday, Oct. 6 at 12 PM PT
Demystifying AI for DAM
Join John Horodyski, Managing Director of Strategic Client Growth at AVP, as he cuts through the noise around AI in DAM, tackling the governance gaps most teams haven’t caught up on yet, and where the real risks (and the real disclosure obligations) actually sit.
Join us to learn:
- Why AI governance is more urgent than ever, and what happens to brand loyalty when it’s missing
- What current and emerging AI legislation (EU and US) means for your disclosure obligations
- How to protect brand integrity from “AI slop” while still using AI responsibly
Stephen Midgley
CMO
MediaValet
John Horodyski
Managing Director
AVP
Day 2
Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 10 AM PT
The DAM That Reached the White House: A Crisis Communications Story
In the 1.7 seconds it takes someone to decide whether an image is worth their attention, is it one they can trust? For Victorian and the Apex Town communications team, that question sits at the center of every crisis they respond to.
Victorian shares how MediaValet replaced a slow, chain-of-command process with a single source of truth.
Join us to learn:
- How a public-facing DAM builds trust and transparency during a crisis
- Why authentic, well-labelled imagery is becoming the front line against AI-generated misinformation
- How metadata and face recognition cut search time when speed is critical
Victorian Simmons
Public Information Officer
Town of Apex
Wednesday, Oct. 7 at 11 AM PT
Built to Connect: How Pepperdine’s DAM + Marq Integration Transformed Content Creation
A disconnected DAM and design platform means every asset takes a detour: download, edit, upload, repeat all before it ever reaches a printer or a screen.
For Pepperdine University, that detour was the whole reason they moved off a 15+ year-old legacy DAM system in the first place, using their design platform of choice, Marq.
Also touched on during the session:
- How search that used to take multiple manual steps became a one-click, in-platform experience
- The ripple effect on adoption and hundreds of users across a decentralized university
- What Pepperdine’s team would tell other organizations evaluating a DAM + design-platform pairing
Dale Sekhon
Account Manager
MediaValet
Allen Haren
Senior Manager of Digital Asset Management & Archives
Pepperdine University
Day 3
Thursday, Oct. 8 at 10 AM PT
One Link, Every Channel: CDN Delivery for SEO, AEO, and Marketing Performance
One hero image. Five sizes. Captions in three languages.
By the end of the day, MediaValet’s CDN links and Dynamic Asset Transformation turn that scramble into a single master asset that adapts to any format, size, or language instantly, with no new uploads and no lost load speed.
We’ll cover:
- Why CDN delivery boosts Core Web Vitals and SEO
- How that same foundation keeps your pages accessible to AI crawlers
- Real scenarios: One asset → every channel, every time
Yumiko Hayashi
Director, Product Marketing
MediaValet
Crystal Vehse
Senior Director, Growth Marketing
MediaValet
Thursday, Oct. 8 at 11 AM PT
What’s New & What’s Next: Agentic AI for the DAM
Join Rishad and Parker for an inside look at how AI agents are transforming the way organizations tag, govern, and act on their content without adding more work.
We will share where MediaValet is headed and why the future of digital asset management is agentic:
- How purpose-built agents automate the full content lifecycle from metadata enrichment to brand compliance
- MediaValet’s philosophy: why every agent action must be permission-aware and auditable to be trustworthy
- What’s coming with MILA (MediaValet Intelligent Library Assistant) and the native Enterprise MCP Server — letting tools like Claude and ChatGPT work with your DAM
Parker Thompson
Senior Manager, Solutions Engineering
MediaValet
Rishad Alam
Principal Product Manager, Platform
MediaValet
Thursday, Oct. 8 at 12 PM PT
Connected by Design: Live Demos from MediaValet’s Newest Integrations
This session pairs a look at where the integrations roadmap is headed with real, hands-on demos of the workflows teams use every day — led by a MediaValet challenge solver who can show you how customers are actually using these connections, not just how they’re built.
We’ll explore:
- Why MediaValet builds integrations on one shared framework instead of one-off connectors
- Live demos across Monday.com, Asana, WordPress, and Drupal
- What’s new in the Microsoft Office integration and how it brings MediaValet’s AI search directly to you
Brendan Hoy
Product Manager
MediaValet
Michael Aghamohseni
Account Manager
MediaValet
Build Your Path to the DAM
Choose the sessions that matter most to your team, and we’ll send a calendar invite for each one, so getting there is the easy part.
No juggling links, no missed sessions, just show up when it’s time. It’s 100% free.
FAQs about MediaValet’s DAM Week
DAM Week is MediaValet’s twice annual themed webinar series dedicated to digital asset management.
Over the course of a week, MediaValet invites DAM practitioners, consultants, and industry experts for a series of focused sessions covering the strategy, technology, and best practices shaping how teams manage their digital assets today.
No DAM experience is required!
DAM Week is designed for anyone with an interest in digital asset management. Whether you’re just starting to explore DAM for your organization or you’re a seasoned practitioner looking to sharpen your strategy, there’s something for you at DAM Week.
Sessions span a range of topics and depth, so there’s something valuable whether this is your first introduction to DAM or your hundredth.
DAM Week is entirely online.
All sessions are delivered as live webinars, so you can join from anywhere without any travel required.
Can’t make it to your preferred session(s)? Register and we’ll send you the video after!
DAM Week is free to attend.
Registration is quick and easy; just sign up for the sessions you’re interested in.
Once registered, you’ll receive access details and reminders ahead of each session.
Unlike single-session webinars or large multi-day conferences, DAM Week is built around a single unifying theme that ties every session together into one cohesive narrative. This year’s theme, “Gravity’s Pull,” explores how DAM systems pull together scattered assets and workflows.
Attendees get a curated, connected arc across the week, featuring perspectives from respected voices in the DAM space like Ralph Windsor, John Horodyski, and David Lipsey, all without leaving their desk.