Music 4.5 - Upcoming events
Music 4.5 is a series of events that bring together music tech start-ups, serial entrepreneurs, investors, artists, band managers and key industry players to share knowledge, discuss strategies for business success, debate market trends and evolution, as well as network.
Music 4.5 Mobile Music - the sound of the future
8th March 2012, 14.00-18.00, Lewis Silkin offices, 5 Chancery Lane, Clifford's Inn, London, EC4A 1BL
Smartphones are becoming the online device of choice and the number of people accessing the web from a mobile will soon surpass those surfing the web on a computer. Two trustworthy predictions meaning that anyone who doesn't have a mobile app or a mobile website might just as well not exist. So, how to tap into and engage with this new and still largely unexplored market?Music 4.5 Mobile Music will explore and discuss the development and the future of the mobile music landscape - from listening to and playing with music on your mobile, via games, social mobile marketing and NFC, to the market of mobile tools and apps to create music.
Speakers
Leon Alexander, Redlight/Hope Management
Edward James Bass, Audio Silver Lining and TheNextWeb
Michael Breidenbrukcer, RjDj
Ashley Elsdon, Palm Sounds
Cliff Fluet, Lewis Silkin
Clara Goldsmith, Warner Chappell
Tim Grimsditch, Six3, and ex-Nokia
David Hamilton, DAM Good Media and Pepper
Syd Lawrence, We Make Awsome Sh
William Lovegrove, Release Consulting
Martin MacMillan, BounceMobile
Charlotte Mceleny, New Media Age
Will Mills, Shazam
Mark Mulligan, Music Industry Blog
Gareth Williams, Liine
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MUSIC techpitch 4.5
In partnership with EMI Music
27th March 2012, EMI headquarters, 27 Wrights Lane, Kensington, London, W8 5SW
14.00-18.00
Judging panel
Judging panel will be announced shortly.For full event details, click here
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Music 4.5 Data is Sexy 2: Data as arms
18th April 2012, Lewis Silkin offices, 5 Chancery Lane, Clifford's Inn, London, EC4A 1BL
14.00-18.00
You don't notice meta-data unless it is wrong. Get it right and correctly linked, and your revenues/sales can increase by 28%, as research from Decibel shows.We are the first generation where data is available to everyone: this decade is where it all got out on the internet. But, how to use it, how to clean it up and make it fit for purpose, and how to ensure correct and high quality?
Following on from last year's popular Music 4.5 Data is Sexy, we are taking the discussion around data to the next level, focusing on issues such as live-data, relational data, the gathering and refining of data, semantics, and the new commercial paradigm created by data as 'links'. More details to follow shortly. Please contact petra(at)2pears(dot)com for further information in the meantime.
Speakers
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Music 4.5: Collective Licensing - the debate
19th June 2012, Lewis Silkin offices, 5 Chancery Lane, Clifford's Inn, London, EC4A 1BL
14.00-18.00
Investigative debate no.2
We will continue our Collective Licensing debate, looking at the latest developments within the legal and technical areas and their implications on music-tech startups, artists, consumers and the industry.The questions to be asked:
How has the draft directive on Collective Licensing changed the market place since it was announced last year? Has it had any impact?
What are they latest key developments?
Has any of the complexity been resolved to the benefit of entrepreneurs and new businesses, while protecting the rights of the artists, since last year?
Has the level of transparency improved?
What are the learnings from other territories?
The secondary rights, e.g publishing, situation...
More details to follow shortly. Please contact petra(at)2pears(dot)com for further information in the meantime.
Speakers
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Who attends the Music 4.5 events?
New digital technology music businesses (i.e. startups)Artists, bands and music managers
In addition to...Software producersIP & DRM specialistsInvestors incl VC funds, incubators, alternative funding models, angelsSupport service providers e.g. law firms, accountants etc.Music industry bodiesGovernmentTelcosAgencies - experential/advertising/marketing/communicationsSourcing and licensing agenciesGig promoters, venues, ticketing service providers, festivals and festival/event organisers involved in musicMusic industry businesses, labels & Music groupsInformation & research companies, analysts
Past attendees to Music 4.5 events include representatives from:
EMI Music Publishing, Live Nation, BlueDroplet, FT Digital Business, Songkick, Warner Chappell Music, BBC, The Live Scene, gracenote, MusicMetric, Decibel, AudioFuel, 19 Entertainment, Sounday, BandCentral, PPL, Fintricity, Intruders TV, Leap Music , Hope Music Group, Ameritz Music, Armoured Minds Limited, MusicTank, Enamel, Daily Telegraph, UK Music, The Live Scene, Music Business School, Mixcloud, Music Publishers Association, The Guardian, Hidden Rebellion, The Unsiged Band Review, Hidden Rebellion, 7Digital, Paul Crockford Management, riot management, Music Week, BBC Digital Planet, Skint Records and Management, OneBird Records, Lucky Voice, Miguel Rodrigues Music LTD, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, Psonar Limited, puffafish, CloudSpeakers, Featured Artists Coalition, Record of the Day, Strata Creative Agency, Inkysmudge, GigLocator, Music Managers Forum, PRS for Music, KissKissBankBank, Ingenious Media, GigJunkie, Girlygeekdom, LoveLive TV, Synchtank, AWAL, Technology Strategy Board, PRS for Music, Imagesound, Aupeo!, AudioFuel, Record-Play, Rockol, Pizza Express, Mobile Media, LBi, MusicDealers, Viacom Brand Solutions, PIAS Media, MusicHype, MusicAlly, Bounce Mobile, Shazam, Musikzonen, Hitlantis, Softwind Studio, EMI Music, TopSpin, Tonic, Brand-e, Absolute Radio, The Pineapple Lounge, Audio Network, MusicWeek, Resilient Music, EMI Music Publishing, Omnifone, West One Music Group, Google, RjDj, Davenport Lyons, Sony DADC, Clintons, We7, SACEM, UK Radio, PureTone Media Group, Endemol, Reed Smith, BASCA, Wiggin, News International, Buma/Stemra, TheNextWeb, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Release Consulting, PPL, Poplandia, Flowd, Nielsen Music, MusicConnex, Rovi, The House London, Billboard, puma, The Guardian, CELAS, Last.fm, New Media Law, Ernst & Young, Herbert Smith, Captive Minds, Seatwave, FiveEight, LiveMusicStage, Pepper, Eskimo Live, MusicGlue, Mobile Roadie, MediaTainmentFinance, SheMakesWar, BeingHuman, goetzpartners, 10Tribes, Mama Group, AudioLock.NET, Beat Flick, blur Group, Pinsent Masons, Bristol Music Foundation, Cue Songs, digitalle, Dizzyjam.com, Eden Ventures, Financial Times, FrogValley, Future Copyright, Hooolp, Juggernaut Brew, LondonlovesBusiness, Mobile Backstage, Momu, IC Tomorrow, Seevl, Sony Music Entertainment, Webdoc, Xylyx and many more.