2021 Conference Speakers
Adam Behr
Director, Live Music Exchange; Lecturer, Newcastle University, Edinburgh, UK
Adam Lewis
CEO, Planetary Group; Los Angeles, USA
Akira Nakano
President, CEO, & Artistic Director, LA Inception Orchestra, Los Angeles, CA USA
Alan Wolmark
Owner, CEC Management; New York, USA
Alejandro Cohen
Executive Director, DubLab; Los Angeles, CA, USA
Alex Gershwin
Manager, Business Development, Songtrust, Los Angeles, CA USA
Amy Baker
Co-Founder, Winston Baker, New York, NY, USA
Andreea Magdalina
Founder, SheSaid.so; Sr. Producer, HOO KOO E KOO; Los Angeles, CA, USA
Andrew Wallenstein
President & Chief Media Analyst of Variety Intelligence Platform; Los Angeles, USA
Andrew Stess
Founder and CEO, StessCo Consulting Group LLC; San Francisco, USA
Angela Rose Whaley
Co-Founder, Music Minds Matter; Marketing Strategist, Delta Six Digital; Co-Founder, Clixigen; Denver, CO, USA
Armen Shaomian
President, MEIEA; Associate Professor, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
Audrey Guerre
Coordinator, Live DMA; Board Member, European Music Council; Board Member, Trempolino, France
Ben Johnson
Performing Arts Program Director, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bryce Merrill
Music Programs Manager, Bohemian Foundation, Denver, CO USA
Catherine Fournier
Director, Marketing, LyricFind, Toronto ONT Canada
Celia Thomson
Administrative Assistant, Musical Bridges Around the World; Junior, UTSA; San Antonio, TX, USA
Chris Zacher
Executive Director and Founder, Levitt Pavilion Denver; Lecturer, Univ. of Colorado; Partner, Zebra Incorporated, Denver, CO USA
D.O. Gibson
President, Northern Power Summit; President and Founder, Northstarr Entertainment Inc.; Toronto, ONT, Canada
Danya Dixon
CEO, Canadian Music Week; Mississauga, ONT, Canada
Dave Ratner
Managing Partner, Principal, Creative Law Network, Denver, CO, USA
David Hazan
Founder DLH Strategic Marketing; NYC, USA
David McLoughlin
Owner, Brasil Calling; Sao Paulo, Brasilia
Debbie Carroll
Vice President, Health and Human Services, MusiCares; Nashville, USA
Diana Raiselis
Research Fellow, VibeLab; Berlin, Germany
Edwina Maben
Student, CU Denver; Partner Artist, Youth on Record; Denver, CO, USA
Elia Mssawir
Managing Partner, Big Beards Entertainment, Dubai, UAE
Elizabeth Cawein
Founder, Music Export Memphis; CEO & Founder, Signal Flow PR; Adj. Professor, Rhodes College; Memphis, TN USA
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
James Irvine Chair, Urban and Regional Planning, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA USA
Elizabeth Stookey Sunde
Co-Founder & Executive Director, Music to Life, Wilder, VT USA
Emily White
Founding Partner, Collective Entertainment & #iVoted; Brooklyn, NY, USA
Emmanuel LeGrand
Publisher, Creative Industries Newsletter; Washington DC, USA
Eric Gilbert
Festival Director/Co-Founder, Treefort Music Festival, Boise, ID, USA
Frank Heuser
Professor, Music Education, UCLA Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Geoff Mayfield
Freelance Journalist for Variety, Billboard, Music Business Worldwide, and Music Aficionado, Pasadena, CA USA
Gigi Johnson
President, Maremel Institute; Faculty, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles, CA, USA
James Jacoby
Sync & Licensing, Anthem Entertainment Group, Los Angeles, CA USA
Jason Kramer
Partner at One Drop Sync, KCRW Radio DJ, Manager, Adjunct Professor, Musicians Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jay Gilbert
Co-Founder, Digital Services, Label Logic, Los Angeles, CA USA
Jay Mogis
Media Rights, Data Scientist, Musician, Creative Media; Brisbane, Australia
Jay Tucker
Executive Director, Center for MEMES, UCLA Anderson School of Management; USA
Jeremy Peters
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University; Detroit, MI, USA
Jim Griffin
Pex, Vice President, Digital Rights; The Plains, VA, USA
Jim Peters
President, Responsible Hospitality, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Jocelyn Kane
Responsible Hospitality; Palm Springs, CA, USA
Jonathan McHugh
Music Supervisor, Director, Producer, Song Stew Entertainment, Santa Monica, CA USA
Jude Clark
Music Industry Digital Strategist, Joose Digital, UK/East Africa
Karen Reece
President, Urban Community Arts Network; Asst. Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison, WI, USA
Kate Becker
Creative Economy Strategist at Office of King County Executive Dow Constantine, Seattle, WA, USA
Kate Durio
CEO, North America at Sound Diplomacy; Lafayette, LA, USA
Kelsey Smith
Programs Director, Young Musicians Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ken Veerman
Cultural Consultant; Antwerp, Belgium
Kevin Erickson
Director, Future of Music Coalition; Washington DC, USA
Kim Wangler
Music Industries Program Director, Appalachian State University; Board of Director, College Music Society, Boone, NC, USA
Kwende Kefentse
Executive Director, CKCU; Ottawa, Canada
Larry Miller
Professor and Director, NYU Steinhardt; President, Musonomics; New York, NY, USA
Laura Clark
Director of Education, Music Forward Foundation, Las Vegas, NV, USA
Laura Hutfless
Co-Founder, FlyteVu; Nashville, TN, USA
Laura Wilson
Live Music Manager, Bohemian Foundation, Ft. Collins, CO, USA
Lena Ingwersen
Project Manager, Music Cities Network; Hamburg, Germany
Louis-Etienne Dubois
Associate Professor, School of Creative Industries, Ryerson University; Toronto, Canada
Luciana Pegorer
Ethos Music Group; Warner Music Group; LyricFind; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lutz Leichsenring
Co-Founder, Vibe Lab; Amsterdam, Netherlands
Matthew Bradbury
Program Director, Tully App
Matthew Che Kowal
Co-Founder and President, Majestic Collaborations; Denver, CO, USA
Meara McLaughlin
Executive Director, MusicPortland & MusicPortland Bridge, Portland, OR, USA
Merlijn Poolman
Nightmayor of Groningen. Founder of Gateway to China and COSIMO Foundation; Groningen, Netherlands
Michael Bracy
President, Music Policy Forum; Partner, Bracy Tucker Brown & Valanzano, Washington DC, USA
Michael Fichman
Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, PennPraxis; Philadelphia, USA
Michael Seman
Assistant Professor of Arts Management at Colorado State University, USA
Michelle McKenzie
Director, Urban Inclusion Community
Michelle Rocqet
Teaching Artist, Youth On Record; Denver, CO, USA
Mike Bell
Co-Founder, The New Colossus Festival; Founder, Lorimer Beacon, New York; NY USA
Mollie Quinlan-Hayes
Arts Consultant; Atlanta, GA, USA
Nancy Tarr
Executive Director, Well Dunn; Adjunct Lecturer, SUNY Oneonta, New York, USA
Nathalie Lévesque
Founder/Exec. Dir., La Boite interculturelle, Marchande d'idées Montreal, Canada
Nikki Swarn
Program Director, The Drop/KUVO Public Radio, Denver, CO, USA
Nurit Siegel Smith
Executive Director, House of Blues Music Forward, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Portia Sabin
President, Music Business Association; Host, The Future of What, Nashville, TN, USA
Raymond Torres-Santos
RTS Music; Director of Composition, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA
Ryan Butler
Recording Academy; Santa Monica, CA, USA
Reid Wick
Sr. Membership & Project Manager, Recording Academy, New Orleans, LA, USA
Renard Bridgewater
Community Engagement Coordinator, Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans, LA, USA
Richard Niles
Composer, ASMAC; Producer, Arranger, Conductor, Music Director, Orange County, CA, USA
Ritnika Nayan
Market Development Director, CD Baby; Owner, Music Gets Me High; New Delhi, India
Rob Amir
Partner, Vine Alternative Investments; Los Angeles, USA
Robert Singerman
SVP, International Publishing, Lyricfind; Partner, SyncSummit; Co-Founder, The Chile, Argentina, Brazil (CAB) Music Trade Mission Tour, New York, NY, USA
Sally Anne Gross
Principal lecturer in Music Business Management, University of Westminster
Sam Cook
CEO, The KMBA Creative Agency, Australia, Los Angeles
Sarah Guppy
COO, Gig Life Pro; Owner, This Much Talent, Melbourne, Australia
Sarah Williams
CEO, IMPEL, London UK
Saria Tourbah
Community Coordinator, Music Cities Events, Sound Diplomacy, Barcelona, Spain
Scott Fetters
Founder, 2112; Founder, Center for Creative Entrepreneurship; Chicago, USA
Scott Plusquellec
Nightlife Business Advocate, Office of Film + Music City of Seattle
Serona Elton
Head of Educational Partnerships, The Mechanical Licensing Collective; Associate Dean, Frost School of Music, Univ. of Miami, FL USA
Seth Schachner
Managing Director, Strat Americas LLC; Americas Partnerships, Smule; Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, Los Angeles, CA USA
Shain Shapiro
Founder and Group CEO, Sound Diplomacy; Exec. Director, Center for Music Ecosystems, UK
Shannon Daut
Manager of Cultural Affairs, City of Santa Monica; Santa Monica, USA
Sipho Sithole
Director: Afrocentric Agency; South Africa
Spencer Townshend Hughes
Co-Founder, Music Minds Matter; The Hollow, Denver, CO USA
Stacey Bedford
CEO, Bandzoogle; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Storm Gloor
Associate Professor, Music and Entertainment Studies, CU Denver; City Councilman, Glendale, CO, USA
Sydney Peters
Founder & CEO, Citrusfest, Citrus Venture Group; Student, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, Lincoln, NE, USA
Tamar Kaprelian
Founder/CEO, Nvak Collective, Nvak Foundation; New York, NY USA
Tara Duvivier
Sr. Planner, Pratt Center for Community Development; Brooklyn, NY USA
Taynaah Reis
CEO, All Be Tuned Records; Moeda Seeds, New York and Brazil
Theo Ellis
Founder, ProSound Media; VP Industry Partnerships, Digital Currensy, Detroit, MI USA
Tristra Yeagar
Strategist, rock paper scissors / Music Tectonics, Bloomington, IN, USA
Vickie Nauman
Founder, CrossBorderWorks Consulting & Advising, Los Angeles, CA USA
Weiler Harmon
Director of A&R, Brick City Records; Student, Ohio University; Athens, OH, USA