Music Industry Business Models Battle It Out at Digital Music Forum West
Over 300 Top Music and Digital Industry Leaders to Gather in Hollywood for the Prestigious Annual Event, Oct. 7-8.
LOS ANGELES, -- Digital Media Wire today announced additional speakers and an up-to-date agenda for the most recent edition of the Digital Music Forum West (www.digitalmusicforum.com/west), to be held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on October 7-8th, 2009.
Much like the wildly popular TV show, American Idol, this year's Digital Music Forum West will feature the latest contenders in the ongoing digital music battle to win the hearts and checkbooks of the multi-billion dollar music industry.
While piracy maintains a 95% market share for digital music, it now faces increased competition from free music streaming from the likes of Imeem, MySpace Music, Spotify, and many of their ilk that survive from one VC paycheck to the next in hopes of finding a sustainable business model. Meanwhile, more recently, mobile music iPhone apps that compete indirectly with the iPod/iPhone - were approved by the very company that makes the device.
"By having key stakeholders and players from the industry leading the debate at our event, we aim to help emerging music business models, which have received so much attention and investment, address the chaos and uncertainty rampant in the new music industry to assess the chances of their survival," said Ned Sherman, CEO of Digital Media Wire. "Everyone knows, it is who you know as much as what you know, and at Digital Music Forum West, any participant can walk away with both."
The two-day event is the industry's only comprehensive digital music conference focused on the evolution and future of digital music. The conference agenda, which includes senior participants from all the major labels, leading indie labels, social networks, online music retailers, mobile companies, artists and association heads, includes top keynotes, discussions and panels on topics including mobile apps, the state of the digital union, the future of Internet radio, online video, digital innovation, investments, the digital copyright debates, social networking, music blogs and games and music.
Attendees are over 300 senior decision-makers from record labels, music publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies, wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio, advertising, attorneys, artists, investors and venture capitalists.
Speakers include:
Courtney Holt, President, MySpace Music
Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, Pandora
Garth Trinidad, Award-Winning DJ & Host, KCRW
Nic Adler, Owner, The Roxy Theatre
Jay Baage, VP, Content & Bus. Dev., Digital Media Wire
Vince Bannon, VP, Ent. Partnership & Dev., Getty Images
Anthony Batt, Founder, Buzzmedia
Hal Bringman, Founder & President, NVPR
Josh Brooks, Vice President, Project Playlist
Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Ent. & Media, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Mike Cannady, Chief Strategy Officer & CFO, Scratch DJ Academy
Tom Carolan, Founder, Total Music Live
Claudia Ceniceros, Sr. Dir., Media & Ent. Partnerships, Cisco
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
Richard Conlon , VP, New Media & Strategic Dev., BMI
Dave Conway, Founder, Little Radio
Chad Cooper VP, Sales, Mktg & Editorial Content, OVGuide.com
Tyson Cornell, Marketing Director, Book Soup
Russ Crupnick, VP & Sr. Industry Analyst, The NPD Group
Dave Dederer, VP, Bus. Dev. /Artist, Melodeo/The Presidents of the United
States of America
Vikter Duplaix, Music Producer & Recording Artist
Johnie Floater, General Manager, Media, Live365
Jay Frank, SVP, Music Strategy, CMT (MTV Networks)
Justin Gage, Founder, Aquarium Drunkard / Autumn Tone Records
Eric Garland, CEO, BigChampagne
Scott Geller, CEO, Zooz Mobile
Jordan Glazier, CEO, Eventful
Jim Griffin, Founder / Advisor, Choruss / WMG
Alex Hackford, Head of A&R, Sony Computer Entertainment America
Kurt Hanson, Publisher / CEO, RAIN / AccuRadio
Celia Hirschman, Host, KCRW's "On The Beat"
Christian Jorg, Head of Digital, Island Def Jam Music Group / UMG
Larry Kenswil, Of Counsel, Loeb & Loeb
Alf LaMont, Dir. Marketing & Development, The Comedy Store
Barry Layne, COO, ARTISTdirect Internet Group
Benjamin Lebrave, Founder, Akwaaba Music
James Lamberti, VP, Marketing & Artist Services, Topspin
Lina Lecaro, Columnist, LA Weekly
David Leibowitz, Chairman, Sir Groovey
Nathan Levinson, Marketing Director, The Viper Room
Alexander Ljung, Founder & CEO, Soundcloud
Cecily Mak, Asso. Gen. Counsel & Dir. of Music Licensing, Real & Rhapsody
Jeff Marshall, Executive Producer, Rock Band Network
Ted Mico, Head of Digital, Interscope Geffen A&M
Alan Miller, Co-Owner & CEO/Co-Publisher, Filter Magazine
John Moakley, Executive Vice President of Data Services, Rovi Corporation
Brenden Mulligan, Founder & President, ArtistData
Jeannie Novak, Lead Author & Series Editor, Game Development
David Oxenford, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Ali Partovi, CEO & Co-Founder, iLike
Massimiliano Pellegrini, CEO, Dada Entertainment
Michael Petricone, SVP of Gov't Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
Jonathan Potter , Executive Director, Digital Media Association
Tim Quirk, VP Programming & Creative, Rhapsody America
Jaclyn Ranere, Dir.,Marketing & Corporate Comm., The Orchard
Kyra Reed, Co-Founder, MarKyr Media
Kelli Richards, President & CEO, The All Access Group
Heidi Richman, Founder & CEO, HRMP Lifestyle Marketing & Promotion
Jim Rondinelli, SVP, Strategic Development, Slacker
John Rubey, President, AEG Network Live
John Rudolph, CEO / Board Member, Bug Music / NMPA
Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Bus. Affairs, The Harry Fox
Agency
Mark Shedletsky, Founder & CEO, BlueHaze
Asya Shein, Founder & CEO, Fusicology
Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire
Rose Slanic, GM, Roadrunner Records Canada
Mike Spinella, Director, Label Relations, AOL Music Network
Erik Steigen, Dir., Publishing & Royalties, Provident Financial Management
Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
Adam Taylor, President, APM Music
Fran Ten, Founding Band Member, West Indian Girl
Daniel Tibbets, EVP & Studio Chief, GoTV Networks
Darin Tsui, CEO, mSpot
Sami Valkonen, Head of Global Business Affairs, Nokia Music
Brenda Walker, Principal, Rebel Content
Les Watkins, SVP, Business Affairs, Music Reports
Larry Weintraub, Co-Founder & CEO, Fanscape
Dick Wingate, Head of East Coast Client Relations, TAG Strategic
Event sponsors and media partners include Loeb & Loeb LLP, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Rovi Corporation, RightsFlow, Cisco, Dada Entertainment, Davis Wright Tremaine, Digital Media Association, NVPR, Filter Magazine, KCRW, A2IM, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Hypebot.com, Aquarium Drunkard, Music Connection, Parks Associates, TAG Strategic, Canadian Music Week, New Music Tipsheet, PR Newswire, MultiVu, AFTRA, and EMF.
For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://www.digitalmusicforum.com/west.
Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include the LA Games Conference; NY Games Conference; Future of Television East; Future of Television West; Digital Music Forum East, and Digital Media Conference East and West.
About Digital Media Wire, Inc.:
Digital Media Wire is an events, news, and publishing company serving the digital entertainment & media industry since May 2000. Digital Media Wire produces executive forums featuring the leading executives in digital media and entertainment. Digital Media Wire also publishes an authoritative daily email newsletter and industry directory. For more information, please visit www.dmwmedia.com.
LOS ANGELES, -- Digital Media Wire today announced additional speakers and an up-to-date agenda for the most recent edition of the Digital Music Forum West (www.digitalmusicforum.com/west), to be held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on October 7-8th, 2009.
Much like the wildly popular TV show, American Idol, this year's Digital Music Forum West will feature the latest contenders in the ongoing digital music battle to win the hearts and checkbooks of the multi-billion dollar music industry.
While piracy maintains a 95% market share for digital music, it now faces increased competition from free music streaming from the likes of Imeem, MySpace Music, Spotify, and many of their ilk that survive from one VC paycheck to the next in hopes of finding a sustainable business model. Meanwhile, more recently, mobile music iPhone apps that compete indirectly with the iPod/iPhone - were approved by the very company that makes the device.
"By having key stakeholders and players from the industry leading the debate at our event, we aim to help emerging music business models, which have received so much attention and investment, address the chaos and uncertainty rampant in the new music industry to assess the chances of their survival," said Ned Sherman, CEO of Digital Media Wire. "Everyone knows, it is who you know as much as what you know, and at Digital Music Forum West, any participant can walk away with both."
The two-day event is the industry's only comprehensive digital music conference focused on the evolution and future of digital music. The conference agenda, which includes senior participants from all the major labels, leading indie labels, social networks, online music retailers, mobile companies, artists and association heads, includes top keynotes, discussions and panels on topics including mobile apps, the state of the digital union, the future of Internet radio, online video, digital innovation, investments, the digital copyright debates, social networking, music blogs and games and music.
Attendees are over 300 senior decision-makers from record labels, music publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies, wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio, advertising, attorneys, artists, investors and venture capitalists.
Speakers include:
Courtney Holt, President, MySpace Music
Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer & Founder, Pandora
Garth Trinidad, Award-Winning DJ & Host, KCRW
Nic Adler, Owner, The Roxy Theatre
Jay Baage, VP, Content & Bus. Dev., Digital Media Wire
Vince Bannon, VP, Ent. Partnership & Dev., Getty Images
Anthony Batt, Founder, Buzzmedia
Hal Bringman, Founder & President, NVPR
Josh Brooks, Vice President, Project Playlist
Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Ent. & Media, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Mike Cannady, Chief Strategy Officer & CFO, Scratch DJ Academy
Tom Carolan, Founder, Total Music Live
Claudia Ceniceros, Sr. Dir., Media & Ent. Partnerships, Cisco
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
Richard Conlon , VP, New Media & Strategic Dev., BMI
Dave Conway, Founder, Little Radio
Chad Cooper VP, Sales, Mktg & Editorial Content, OVGuide.com
Tyson Cornell, Marketing Director, Book Soup
Russ Crupnick, VP & Sr. Industry Analyst, The NPD Group
Dave Dederer, VP, Bus. Dev. /Artist, Melodeo/The Presidents of the United
States of America
Vikter Duplaix, Music Producer & Recording Artist
Johnie Floater, General Manager, Media, Live365
Jay Frank, SVP, Music Strategy, CMT (MTV Networks)
Justin Gage, Founder, Aquarium Drunkard / Autumn Tone Records
Eric Garland, CEO, BigChampagne
Scott Geller, CEO, Zooz Mobile
Jordan Glazier, CEO, Eventful
Jim Griffin, Founder / Advisor, Choruss / WMG
Alex Hackford, Head of A&R, Sony Computer Entertainment America
Kurt Hanson, Publisher / CEO, RAIN / AccuRadio
Celia Hirschman, Host, KCRW's "On The Beat"
Christian Jorg, Head of Digital, Island Def Jam Music Group / UMG
Larry Kenswil, Of Counsel, Loeb & Loeb
Alf LaMont, Dir. Marketing & Development, The Comedy Store
Barry Layne, COO, ARTISTdirect Internet Group
Benjamin Lebrave, Founder, Akwaaba Music
James Lamberti, VP, Marketing & Artist Services, Topspin
Lina Lecaro, Columnist, LA Weekly
David Leibowitz, Chairman, Sir Groovey
Nathan Levinson, Marketing Director, The Viper Room
Alexander Ljung, Founder & CEO, Soundcloud
Cecily Mak, Asso. Gen. Counsel & Dir. of Music Licensing, Real & Rhapsody
Jeff Marshall, Executive Producer, Rock Band Network
Ted Mico, Head of Digital, Interscope Geffen A&M
Alan Miller, Co-Owner & CEO/Co-Publisher, Filter Magazine
John Moakley, Executive Vice President of Data Services, Rovi Corporation
Brenden Mulligan, Founder & President, ArtistData
Jeannie Novak, Lead Author & Series Editor, Game Development
David Oxenford, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Ali Partovi, CEO & Co-Founder, iLike
Massimiliano Pellegrini, CEO, Dada Entertainment
Michael Petricone, SVP of Gov't Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
Jonathan Potter , Executive Director, Digital Media Association
Tim Quirk, VP Programming & Creative, Rhapsody America
Jaclyn Ranere, Dir.,Marketing & Corporate Comm., The Orchard
Kyra Reed, Co-Founder, MarKyr Media
Kelli Richards, President & CEO, The All Access Group
Heidi Richman, Founder & CEO, HRMP Lifestyle Marketing & Promotion
Jim Rondinelli, SVP, Strategic Development, Slacker
John Rubey, President, AEG Network Live
John Rudolph, CEO / Board Member, Bug Music / NMPA
Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Bus. Affairs, The Harry Fox
Agency
Mark Shedletsky, Founder & CEO, BlueHaze
Asya Shein, Founder & CEO, Fusicology
Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire
Rose Slanic, GM, Roadrunner Records Canada
Mike Spinella, Director, Label Relations, AOL Music Network
Erik Steigen, Dir., Publishing & Royalties, Provident Financial Management
Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
Adam Taylor, President, APM Music
Fran Ten, Founding Band Member, West Indian Girl
Daniel Tibbets, EVP & Studio Chief, GoTV Networks
Darin Tsui, CEO, mSpot
Sami Valkonen, Head of Global Business Affairs, Nokia Music
Brenda Walker, Principal, Rebel Content
Les Watkins, SVP, Business Affairs, Music Reports
Larry Weintraub, Co-Founder & CEO, Fanscape
Dick Wingate, Head of East Coast Client Relations, TAG Strategic
Event sponsors and media partners include Loeb & Loeb LLP, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Rovi Corporation, RightsFlow, Cisco, Dada Entertainment, Davis Wright Tremaine, Digital Media Association, NVPR, Filter Magazine, KCRW, A2IM, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Hypebot.com, Aquarium Drunkard, Music Connection, Parks Associates, TAG Strategic, Canadian Music Week, New Music Tipsheet, PR Newswire, MultiVu, AFTRA, and EMF.
For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://www.digitalmusicforum.com/west.
Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include the LA Games Conference; NY Games Conference; Future of Television East; Future of Television West; Digital Music Forum East, and Digital Media Conference East and West.
About Digital Media Wire, Inc.:
Digital Media Wire is an events, news, and publishing company serving the digital entertainment & media industry since May 2000. Digital Media Wire produces executive forums featuring the leading executives in digital media and entertainment. Digital Media Wire also publishes an authoritative daily email newsletter and industry directory. For more information, please visit www.dmwmedia.com.
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