President Geoff Cannon sets the stage for our 2019 Navigating Disruption Conference, reviews DMLA's dramatic year of advocacy on behalf of our growing licensing community and news of our exciting plans for the year ahead.

As technology advances, content creation explodes and the media industry continues to be disrupted, the licensing industry as we know it is shifting in ways that change the way we work. Change is inevitable, but how do we best navigate this disruption for our own business? In this talk, Stan Pavlovsky, Shutterstock’s President and COO will draw from his experience and share insights on how to set yourself up for adaptability, to navigate opportunities and determine where your businesses can optimize for innovation.

45% of Creative Pros are using free (CC0) content, as many as use microstock. Sites offering free content like Unsplash and Pexels have blown up in the last few years. Unsplash boasts 1.7 Billion API requests/mo. Pexels has over 500K free photos and artists are uploading 50K images/mo. What is happening? What are the legal issues? Why the emergence of free and how do artists and agencies benefit? Come hear a panel of experts discuss the phenomenon of free.

In a world where customers increasingly seek verifiable content, join Tom Smith of Gado Images, Bob Ahern, Director of Getty Images Archive, Lia Jusino, Head of Archival at Vice News and Jonathan Wells, Bureau Chief of SIPA for a lively discussion of best practices, market trends, and new technologies to insure content is real and verified – all while editorial programming, authentic commercial content, archival interest and potential sources continue to explode.

AI has matured - and is increasingly “baked into” content creation, search and licensing software solutions. Join IBM, Google Vision, Imagga and CloudSight to learn how their products streamline workflows – automatic key wording, content moderation, trademark, landmark and people identification and categorization, text from images, security and other practical marketplace solutions for creators and licencors of all sizes.

Industry experts discuss auto-tagging, automatic-image captioning, categorizing images, building custom AI models, and more. This webinar builds on the Practical AI session at our 24th Annual Conference in 2019, and is ideal for those who did not attend the session, or attended and want to learn more about AI.

Chad Newell, Snapwire's CEO, explores the universe of on-demand custom production platforms. As the founder of a market leader, Chad digs into the value proposition of custom, why technology transformed the space and why custom satisfies a brand's growing need for wholly-owned and exclusive content.

What makes an image or video "authentic" and sell-able? Adobe, Getty, Alamy and Hawke Media at the epicenter of the trend towards authenticity, diversity and personalization explore why buyers increasingly seek images right for their own demographic, i.e. millennials for web pages or Influencers for their age group. Real life examples will answer if what client says they want, is what they buy. And how licencors guide creators?

45% of Creative Pros are using free (CC0) content, as many as use microstock. Sites offering free content like Unsplash and Pexels have blown up in the last few years. Unsplash boasts 1.7 Billion API requests/mo. Pexels has over 500K free photos and artists are uploading 50K images/mo. What is happening? What are the legal issues? Why the emergence of free and how do artists and agencies benefit?