The Event: The Event: Henry Stewart Symposium -- NY 2009

When: Jun 1, 2009 - Jun 2, 2009

Where: Hilton Hotel
1335 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
(212) 265-9069

What: Joseph Bachana, President of DPCI, chairs the project management track of the 2009 Henry Stewart Symposium on Digital Asset Management.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM GUIDE (SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION)

09.00 A.M. "DAM Forensics 201: A Look at Hits and Misses in 2008 as well as upcoming trends in 2009 and beyond"

DPCI President and Henry Stewart Symposium Project Management Track Chair Joseph Bachana goes over new trends in technology and project practices in Digital Asset Management. Bachana will also review the advances in the industry as well as where the vendors may be falling short.

The session will cover:

• Big wins and big ideas in the Digital Asset Management vendor space from 2008
• Where the vendors need to be focusing in 2009 and beyond
• Opportunities and Threats to the Digital Asset Management marketplace
• New Trends and best practices in Digital Asset Management project management

SPEAKER: Joseph Bachana, President, DPCI

09.40 A.M. "State of the Industry & Latest Developments"

Melissa Webster leads IDC's Content and Digital Media Technologies research program. This program tracks, analyzes, and forecasts markets and trends in document and content management, records management, digital asset management, digital rights management, and authoring and publishing software. Current research topics include dynamic enterprise publishing, XML, and digital media in the enterprise -- including video, audio, podcasting, digital signage, and other emerging applications. In this session Melissa will summarize the key issues arising in the world of DAM

SPEAKER: Melissa Webster, Program Director, Content & Digital Media Technologies, IDC

11.00 A.M. "A Vendor-Independent Approach to Selecting the Best DAM System"

In the technology world, conflicts of interest abound. How can a prospective buyer of content technologies find truly impartial advice as to which system is best for their enterprise? CMS Watch exists to provide such advice - and this session will give you a vendor-independent look at how to select the DAM system that's most appropriate for you (rather than the system that your boss' golf partner is selling). Theresa Regli, analyst and editor of the forthcoming Digital Asset Management Report, will lead you through:

• Hints and tips on selecting a DAM product for your organization
• Overcoming the daunting prospect of selection
• A critical, high-level overview of DAM solution providers and product selection best practices
• Picking the best product based on digital and media asset management use-case scenarios

SPEAKER: Theresa Regli, Principal, CMS Watch

11.40 A.M. Expert Roundtable: "DAM Procurement Best Practices"

• Requirements Gathering
• Vendor Filtering
• Best Practices in RFP Preparation
• Demo Script Preparation
• Lessons Learned

MODERATOR: Joe Bachana

2.20 P.M. Case Study - "Best Practices in Implementation of an enterprise Digital Asset Management System"

Speaker to be Announced

3.00 P.M. "Project Management 301: The 'special sauce' for project managing your Digital Asset Management implementation"

Expert practitioners to be announced. Each will present a 10 minutes segment on project management practices that have helped improve success rates for Digital Asset Management Implementations.

The session will cover these best practices in:

• Change management
• Communication plan creation and management
• Risk identification and management

4.20 P.M. Executive Roundtable: "2008 in Review: Best Practices and Lessons Learned - the Road Ahead"

Speakers to be Announced

Moderator: Joseph Bachana

Session will review best practices from recent implementations:

The session will cover:

• Lessons learned around DAM implementations
• Approaches to integrating DAM with other systems (ex, CMS, multi-channel, CRM)
• 'Gotchas' and corrective actions that can be taken
• DAM's place in the Semantic Web
• Newly identified opportunities, risks and threats to DAM implementations
• 2009 wish-list to send the DAM vendors home with

How: Henry Stewart Symposium website may be found here. DPCI will have a discount code for this event to offer customers in the early Spring, so please check back with us by March.

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