An accomplished Program and Practice Manager with extensive consulting experience in Business Integration, Application Design, Development and Implementation for Fortune 500 Corporations. Mike leads Intrasphere’s ECM practice and is responsible for developing ECM offerings for clients in a variety of industries. Mike has over 15 years of experience in systems and business integration ranging from ERP solutions through ECM strategies, roadmaps and implementations. Mike has specific Digital Content Services experiences which include Digital Asset Management, Web Content Management and related business processes and technologies spanning the entire content management lifecycle

Stan Scoggins is the Vice President of Worldwide Digital Assets at NBC Universal. The NBC Universal Digital Asset Management System has been in service for five years and services all Universal Marketing and Publicity areas. Prior to working at NBC Universal, Mr. Scoggins was an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton and was a member of Senator Dianne Feinstein's staff for her two Senate Campaigns.

Steve Kotrch is the Director of Electronic Publishing Technologies for Simon & Schuster, a major trade book publisher. His basic focus there is to find ways to lower the publishing costs and time to market for products. His involvement with digital asset management dates back to 1995, when he created a repository of product shots for the company. Since then he built a home-grown digital archive for product files, and then implemented an enterprise-wide digital asset management system based on Artesia Teams. The next version of his "Digital Asset Bank" will integrate with S&S's portal.

As Director of Technology for Scholastic, Abby De Millo handles the operations of both content management and digital asset management systems. She is the executive project lead for the redevelopment of Scholastic's Enterprise-wide digital asset management program and was responsible for the expansion and redevelopment of Scholastic's web content management practice.

With over twenty years of industry experience in directing digital and e-business operations, web application design and usability design and testing, Abby has established herself as a leader and expert at creative business solutions.

Carin joined Discovery in 1990, writing the initial business case for a footage archive, Discovery Images (launched in 1996). Carin’s team catalogued and indexed DCI’s owned footage assets into an onsite asset management solution for reutilization of existing owned assets. In 1999, Carin left Discovery to consult in digital distribution. Clients included Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment (launching Movielink) and Ascent Media (developing best practices around an enterprise wide asset management initiative).

Carin re-joined Discovery in 2003 to work with internal clients and business partners on accessing DCI’s growing library of digital assets for review, collaboration and approval. Carin oversees three applications, DCI’s DAM solution, the Digital Media Center, ScheduALL and DCI’s document management system, eDocs.

Mr. Krishna is responsible for the digital media practice at Frost and Sullivan. He has written extensively on the enterprise content management, digital asset management, video server, video streaming and encoding services, and interactive kiosk markets. Apart from analyzing these markets, Mr. Krishna has also lead consulting projects in these fields for key Frost & Sullivan clients. Mr. Krishna has spoken at various speaking engagements on his area of expertise and is widely quoted in the press. Mr. Krishna is also on the board of editors of the International Journal of Digital Asset Management. Mr. Krishna earned his Masters in International Management from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management in Arizona.

Geoffrey Bock, Senior Vice President and Senior Consultant at the Patricia Seybold Group, focuses on content management and workgroup collaboration. An analyst and author with over 25 years of industry experience, he is most interested in how digitized media transforms customers’ experiences and expedites business processes. He tracks how organizations create, organize, and manage online content, including digital assets, for building and sustaining business relationships. As a consultant, he advises software companies, end-user organizations, universities, and government agencies in the area of business strategy, technology innovation, and workgroup computing. Prior to joining the Patricia Seybold Group, Bock served as senior product manager and principal software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, working in both advanced development and product development groups on collaborative computing, intelligent agents, information sharing, and integrated office systems

Richard Medina works with Fortune 1000 customers to identify the most appropriate technology strategy for their business requirements. He also provides executive-level advice for technology providers. Medina has performed hands-on evaluations of a vast number of products, including solutions for records management, content management, and infrastructure. Medina is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is regularly published and quoted in leading industry publications.

Bob is a senior analyst in Forrester's Information Delivery research group, focusing on all aspects of content management, including research covering the converging areas of Web content, document and image management, emerging technologies, and content life cycle. Bob came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group. Prior to joining Giga, he was senior system architect for the American Red Cross. He served as the in-house consultant to the Health and Safety, Biomedical, and Disaster Services Divisions. Previously, Bob managed the technical services group for the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation, with responsibility for system administration, network monitoring, system upgrades, applications integration, and security analysis.

Andrew Salop is responsible for driving Adobe's product and marketing strategy for DAM. As senior product manager, Andrew champions content management technologies - defining future product requirements, developing market and message strategies, and identifying customer and partner opportunities. Andrew led the definition, development and evangelism of Adobe’s award winning open standard Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP). His background is in filmmaking and digital media with a successful track record of framing products and solutions that energize digital publishing.

Jeffery is responsible for identifying and developing leading Interactive Business Solutions for NextLeft’s clients. Jeff has a proven history of putting technology in the service of business. He has conceived and delivered a multitude of Information Management (WCMS, DAM, ECM, Doc Mgmt, Portals, eCommerce) solutions using a wide spectrum of Internet technologies and working in a variety of industries for Global 1000 companies: Chemical, CPG, Apparel, Financial Services, Private Foundations, Government, Venture Capital, High Tech, Shipping, Wood, Pulp and Paper, Real Estate and Pharma.

Over the past five years Mr. Leone has transformed BusinessWeek’s Imaging Department from a basic retouching and color-correcting group into an innovative and cost effective multi-media team. Imaging now produces graphics for the TV show BusinessWeek Money Talks and rich media for the Zinio edition. The department has also expanded into workflow automation and DAM evaluation. Prior to BusinessWeek Mr. Leone spent 16 years in print management and 4 years retouching at AGT/Seven’s Conde Nast location. He attended NYU’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications studying video editing and special effects.

Carl Hixson has more than 16 years' digital imaging experience, and is responsible for the development and integration of emerging DAM technologies into the technical and business infrastructure of HBO. Recent projects include the design and implementation of the HBO Digital Library, an enterprise-level DAM system for rich media objects. Carl is responsible for the HBO Intranet/Extranet environments, as well as the web content and electronic document management initiative. He is also instrumental in the utilization of XML to define metadata and lexicon standards for the management of rich media assets as pertains to the entertainment industry.

Manolo Almagro’s office is responsible for defining the direction and strategy behind MarketForward’s worldwide product development, content engineering and emerging technology research efforts.

Manolo has over 18 years experience in disciplines such as, digital media production workflows, IP-based content design and engineering, software product development, DAM and the management of public information display networks. He is also a named inventor on both domestic and international patents relating to software design and processes.

Jennifer Neumann is one of the four founders of Canto. Leading Canto since 1993, she is Chairwoman and CEO of Canto, Inc. Ms. Neumann has been interviewed and portrayed by the media around the world on technical, as well as political and cultural issues. She's recognized in the publishing industry as a market influencer, and has had numerous speaking engagements at major industry events. Jennifer Neumann graduated in 1986 with a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Berlin.

A strategic consultant focused on Enterprise Content Management and Rights Management, Pierre-March has spent the last 20 years in IT, and is the founding partner of Vision IT. Previously Pierre-March was VP Information Systems for Sesame Workshop, managing both the internal operational strategy and Research & Development on content management models that support the new generation of distribution networks and channels. Pierre-March was also VP/CIO for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, where she managed all strategic IT planning and implementation. In this, Pierre-March developed a unique content management model enabling specialized publishing opportunities and content management across all distribution channels.

Before moving into Information Technology, Russ Stanton had developed a professional resume that encompassed radio production, producing and directing commercials and longer formats for television, to producing music videos for MTV. He was the recipient of 13 Addy Awards and one Gabriel Award. In the 1980s, Russ chose to move away from TV and radio and jump into the IT movement. In IT, he has successfully developed and managed enterprise business applications for top entertainment and publishing companies and has produced various interactive learning websites. His two careers recently merged into one by successfully implementing the Digital Workflow for TV, Print and Radio production at BBDO.

As Director, Project Management, Media Technology Board, Graham's role is to manage enterprise media technology projects across the diverse digital media activities of The Walt Disney Company. Prior to this, Graham spent more than nine years leading digital asset management initiatives at Disney's Feature Animation division, overseeing the transformation of production DAM from the 2D to 3D worlds.

Laura Gale is a partner with Venture10, a Chicago-based company that works with graphics arts businesses to drive revenue growth through the best use of technology, sales and print processes. During her 22 years in the graphic arts industry, Laura has held VP, SVP and EVP positions at Prinexus, at the Global Production and Manufacturing Group of International Thomson Publishing, at World Color Press’ Digital Division, and has held senior positions at Rand McNally, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, and Applied Graphics Technologies.

Scott Bowen is the President and COO of Artesia Technologies. In this capacity, Scott is responsible for the overall operations of the company, as well as strategy formulation and execution. Scott was the Founder and General Manager of the TEAMS software division of the $6 billion Thomson Corporation, a division that Artesia ultimately purchased from Thomson in a venture-backed management buyout in the spring of 1999. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and Electrical Engineering from Yale University.