Converge with over 200 Widen Collective® digital asset management (DAM) practitioners at the annual Widen customer summit. Empowering Collective customers since 2012, the Widen Summit is packed with actionable content and rewarding connections that will give you knowledge and confidence to fuel DAM success in your organization.
With inspirational sessions and keynotes from world-class speakers, Collective customers, and Widen experts, you’ll be energized to enhance your approach to digital asset management and leave ready to take on your business and DAM challenges.
We can’t wait for you to join us for three engaging days filled with new ideas, new connections, and actionable takeaways at the only conference created just for you, our Widen Collective community.
Your Summit pass includes access to keynotes, breakout sessions, one-on-one meetings with Widen staff, expo hall, food and beverage, swag, activities, and entertainment.
For group rates (3+ attendees), please email summit@widen.com.
Situated on the shores of Lake Monona in downtown Madison, Monona Terrace is a convention center like no other. It was first designed by Wisconsin native and internationally-renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright. While Wright's design was used for the building's exterior, the interior was redesigned by Wright apprentice and Taliesin architect Tony Puttnam.
In November 2015, Monona Terrace was certified as a “green building” at the Gold Level by the U.S. Green Building Council’s prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) program. This award recognizes the continued efforts of Monona Terrace to promote a whole-building approach to sustainability.
The Widen Summit discounted room block has ended. Click here to book your room(s) at the current selling rate or call (877) 510-7465.
The Summit is for all Widen customers, whether you’re brand new or have years of experience. With four session tracks to help you master the basics, empower change, learn from customer examples, and evolve your DAM, you'll find new ways to develop your DAM involvement no matter your role or experience level. Past attendee roles include digital asset managers, librarians, marketing managers, graphic designers, content strategists, marketing technologists, and more.
The Summit offers a collaborative environment for you to explore new ideas, form new connections with other customers and Widen staff, and it prepares you for action back in the office. With content tailored for foundational, technical, and tactical needs, this unique conference is the only time during the year where you'll have the opportunity to meet and learn from hundreds of other Widen Collective admins and users in one place. Plus, it’s just a lot of fun!
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Start the Widen Summit with Widen Essentials, an in-depth course addressing the most important concepts in digital asset management and Widen Collective administration.
This training session requires active participation. You’ll be moving, thinking, talking, and strategizing with Wideneers and other Collective administrators.
Participants will be able to:
Apply knowledge of DAM capabilities to formulate their DAM purpose and vision statement
Assess their organization’s DAM users’ needs to design their DAM site’s security structure (asset groups, roles, and permissions)
Evaluate their organization’s existing processes and user needs to organize their site’s search structure (metadata and categories)
Break down their organization’s DAM needs to configure upload structures within the site (tagging security and metadata using upload profiles)
Connect the needs of their DAM users with a user experience that promotes site engagement (Dashboard, help text, download/share options)
Use Insights charts to monitor site security and performance indicators
This course is designed for beginners and knowledge of the Collective or DAM is not required. The only prerequisites are a working site and site admin privileges. The cost for this session is $899. Lunch and snacks are included on both days. This course is limited to 16 participants.
Team rates (For groups of 4+)
Email summit@widen.com for more info
Looking to bring a guest to the Summit’s evening events? Or maybe you’re not able to attend the day sessions but still want to enjoy networking and socializing with your fellow DAMsters after work. Guest passes are now available for just the evening events. This includes the Monday Welcome Reception and the Tuesday evening dinner and entertainment. Guests must be over 21.
Matthew has the honor of serving the highly-intelligent and playfully-engaged Widen team as they focus on solving marketing and creative challenges for the most amazing customers in the world. He started at Widen in 2000 with a background in printing and earned the CEO role in 2009. Matthew is active in faith, family, fitness, organizational culture, marketing, technology, education, and community. He embraces the eudaimonious life and encourages others to do the same.
Jon Acuff is the New York Times Bestselling author of six books including his most recent Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller, Finish: Give yourself the gift of done.
For over 20 years he's helped some of the biggest brands in the world tell their story, including The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. Most recently he's spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges, companies, and churches. Featured regularly on national media, Jon has been seen on CNN, Fox News, Good Day LA, and several other key outlets.
In addition, Jon is a big proponent of social media with blogs that have been read by four million people and almost 300,000 twitter followers. In 2010 he used his influence with his tribe to build two kindergartens in Vietnam. Jon lives with his wife Jenny and two daughters in Franklin, TN.
Deanna is an optimist who’s always looking for a better way forward. With 15 years of product experience, she leads the Widen Product Development teams in delivering value-driven software through collaborative listening with our customers. She values continuous learning and growth opportunities for Widen’s internal teams, processes, and products and thrives on innovative approaches to challenges developed out of strong communication and teamwork. Deanna spends her free time chasing three energetic boys and enjoys reading, hiking, running, and quality time with good food and wine shared with friends and family.
Entrepreneur, speaker, and CEO at WNDYR, Claire is passionate about human acceleration and workplace transformation, and fascinated by the intersection between systems and human behaviour. She works with a diverse range of clients in the corporate and technology sector, and along with her team, is focused on redefining the future of work in the following areas: humans, technology, and space.
With an analytical mindset and entrepreneurial spirit, Vladimir is passionate about the user experience component of product design. As a certified product owner, he brings 10 years of experience in product management, project management, and digital marketing to his role as digital product manager at 3Shape A/S, a market leader in developing 3D scanners and CAD/CAM software solutions for the dental industry. Born and raised in Uzbekistan, Vladimir has a Korean background and speaks Russian as his first language. He currently lives in Denmark with his wife and three children and enjoys spending time with his family, long-distance swimming races, and reading books.
Megan Fisher is the Digital Marketing Associate at Crayola in Easton, Pennsylvania. As the DAM admin for one of the most colorful companies in the world, she utilizes creativity as well as keen organizational skills to maintain, enhance and magnify The Crayola Gallery’s content, metadata, and user experience. Megan’s passion for the digital space expands beyond DAM and into social media, which she works on both professionally at Crayola and personally for her YouTube channel.
Mark Rogotowicz has led an impressive career as a Systems Engineer, Technical Director, and Solutions Architect in his 15 years working as an IT professional in the Industrial sector. In 2014, he was awarded the Australian User Group Prize by SAP and RMIT University for his strategy and analysis skills in Enterprise Systems.
Serving currently as the Digital Architect at Spraying Systems Co. in Wheaton, IL, Mark plays a major role in the development of Sales and Marketing Technologies (Smartech). Through his commitment to this role, he has helped Spraying Systems improve the integration and feature sets of CRM, DAM, and ERP systems.
Prior to his current role at Spraying Systems Co, Mark served as the Technical Director at his own consulting company Aves Group, helping develop CRM and Digital Marketing solutions for small and medium enterprises in Australia. Before starting Aves Group he was an Applications Engineer at a machine vision services company, Adept Turnkey.
Strong businesses make their brand clear and accessible to their audience, have a common understanding of who they are and what they stand for, and demonstrate how they’re unique among the competition. In this workshop, discover the challenges and opportunities for your brand in its positioning, messaging, and presentation.
We’ll explore how your brand’s messaging, value, and design compares to the competition and assign a grade to your brand’s overall health. Then we’ll show you 11 powerful yet simple ways to manage your brand with the Widen Collective.
Metadata is the set of data that describes and gives information about other data. The metadata used in your Widen Collective site impacts the overall experience of how your content is found and used. So how do you make sure that you have the right metadata in place to keep your assets secure and findable?
In this session, we will discuss how to build a metadata structure that's right for your content. We will explore the three types of metadata in the Collective: descriptive, structural, and administrative; and look at how metadata can support integrations with tools like content management systems (CMS) and project information management (PIM) systems.
With the right structure in place, you can better understand what metadata is critical and how to make sure it’s being entered consistently.
Portals and dashboards are easy to create. But designing them can be another story.
Using design thinking methodology, this workshop will focus on creating user-facing Dashboard messages and portals that will engage and captivate your audience.
You’ll leave this workshop with:
- An understanding of the design thinking methodology, allowing you to ideate and create inviting experiences for your Widen Collective users
- A strategy for designing engaging portals or Dashboard message within your site
- A draft portal or Dashboard message that will enhance your users’ experience