What are the foundations for AI? The function that synthetic intelligence will play within the music business continues to be being cemented as 2023 involves an in depth, although we’re witnessing the beginnings of a roadmap. Now, it’s time to take a better have a look at how AI will influence the music business into 2024 and past with among the most vital gamers within the enterprise.
To that finish, DMN has assembled a panel of main music business executives to sift via the offers, choices, and rising guidelines for AI — together with these already established, these within the technique of being established, and what’s coming subsequent.
We’re internet hosting a mini-conference and also you’re invited. Listed here are the small print.
This mini-conference gives a set of creatives, innovators, executives, policymakers, and advocates to find out what guardrails the inventive industries want in AI laws and policymaking—in addition to the right way to capitalize on the alternatives offered by the brand new know-how.
When is it?
This Digital Music Information mini-conference is happening October 25 from 11 am – 2 pm PT in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The convention is free for DMN Professional members, whereas tickets for non-members are $150.
Reserve your spot now to take heed to completely different sectors of the business focus on their collective opinions on the way forward for AI within the music business — with out the trouble of a multi-day convention. This isn’t a time-draining, multi-day affair: as a substitute, swoop in and take the networking and dialog with you if you depart due to the extra environment friendly format.
Right here’s what to anticipate.
This three-hour mini-conference will function two separate hour-long panel discussions separated by a lunch break, with a Q&A session with all panelists. The primary panel will concentrate on artists and the companies that help them, whereas the second panel will concentrate on the executive, authorized, legislative, and coverage facet of how synthetic intelligence will influence the business (see panel breakdowns beneath).
The aim of this business occasion goes far past typical convention discussions, nevertheless.
Each panels can be centered on the problems and the pertinent dialogue factors associated to AI and music. However attendees – each on-stage and off – can even be forging important assessments and next-steps for the way the music business ought to method, embrace, form, regulate, and litigate this fast-emerging know-how.
That features particular insights and proposals for relevant music sub-industries, together with these tied to recordings (together with main and indie labels), streaming platforms, music creation, artist improvement, track licensing, and cross-border monetization.
DMN Chief Income Officer Noah Itman will average each panels, sitting down with main voices from the inventive house, IP stakeholders, and tech corporations to current a roundtable of debate in regards to the influence of AI on our business as a complete.
This mini-conference will provide a complete look into AI and its intersection with the music and leisure industries. Attendees can anticipate discussions to incorporate each theoretical and sensible particulars, together with particular takeaways tied to particular offers and business sub-sectors.
We’ll discover these questions and extra with these panelists:
Group 1 — Artists & Providers | Confirmed Panelists
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- will.i.am | Founder & CEO @ FYI.me & Black Eyed Peas Member
- Nick Minicucci | Co-Founder & CEO at Immensity for Artists
- Daouda Leonard | Co-Founder, CEO at CREATESAFE
- Andreea Gleeson | CEO of TuneCore
- Philippe Guillaud | CEO MatchTune
Group 2 Administration & Regulatory | Confirmed Panelists
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- Mark Meikle | Co-Founder & CEO at Straightforward Music
- Shannon Sorensen | SVP, Authorized & Enterprise Affairs at NMPA
- Michael Simon | President & CEO of HFA & President of Rumblefish
- Sherlo Esajas | Governmental Affairs Supervisor at BUMA
- Bob Clarida | Companion at Reitler Regulation
- Tom Clees | SVP of Federal Public Coverage at RIAA
Reserve your spot now!
Panelist & Moderator Bios
Andreea Gleeson is TuneCore’s Chief Govt Officer, becoming a member of the corporate in 2015 as a member of senior management. She has made important contributions to the expansion of TuneCore since becoming a member of, first as Chief Advertising Officer and most not too long ago as Chief Income Officer. Underneath her steerage, TuneCore has established itself as one of the dynamic and revolutionary corporations within the unbiased music house, bringing nice merchandise and know-how along with branding and advertising and marketing to create a best-in-class service for unbiased artists.
Shannon Sorensen is SVP of Enterprise and Authorized Affairs on the Nationwide Music Publishers Affiliation (NMPA). Shannon leads copyright infringement litigations, represents music publishers’ pursuits in license and settlement agreements, and works on royalty rate-setting proceedings. Sorensen additionally helps deal with NMPA’s coverage work, advising on home legislative and regulatory issues together with copyright, commerce, and AI.
Michael S. Simon is the President & CEO of The Harry Fox Company (HFA), a premier music rights administration group. He additionally serves as President of Rumblefish, a personalized outsourced answer for music customers and distributors. Since becoming a member of HFA in 2001, Simon has centered his efforts on creating new alternatives for the corporate and the publishers it represents via revolutionary licensing and administration Providers applications. HFA and Rumblefish are each a part of the Music Providers division of SESAC Music Group, a worldwide multi-line music firm whose mission is to help creators and music distributors via a various set of rights administration companies.
Bob Clarida is a accomplice at Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLP in New York, the place he leads the agency’s mental property apply. For thirty years he has spoken and written continuously on all features of copyright regulation, together with a long-running column within the New York Regulation Journal and a treatise revealed by BNA/Bloomberg. Earlier than attending Columbia Regulation Faculty, Bob earned a Ph.D. and a Fulbright Fellowship in music, and wrote music for a number of New York dance corporations.
Tom Clees is a lobbyist and political strategist for RIAA and represents the key American document labels’ pursuits earlier than members of Congress and their staffs. This work has included advocacy on points together with copyright and mental property safety, digital commerce and content material moderation, COVID-19 aid for the music neighborhood, and social justice reforms. Previous to RIAA he labored as an advisor to Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and then-Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). He was a political regulation lawyer in his house state of Arizona.
Sherlo Esajas is an skilled governmental affairs skilled with a various and imposing profession spanning over twenty years. With a ardour for shaping public discourse and coverage, Sherlo has held key roles in each authorities and personal sector organizations, establishing himself as a trusted strategic advisor and spokesperson. At present he’s serving because the Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs at BumaStemra, which is a outstanding Dutch collective administration group that performs an important function within the music business.
Nick Minicucci has toured throughout North America as each a performer and tour supervisor, and has been concerned in over 1K live shows. He served as a Challenge Supervisor at MIT, main and/or collaborating in a number of AI and rising tech-focused initiatives. He additionally co-founded and at present serves as CEO of Immensity – an clever, AI-ML-driven knowledge studio and BI software designed for the leisure business.
Mark Meikle is obsessed with successfully combining know-how and humanity to foster music creation and enrich music experiences. He enjoys spending time together with his two daughters, Grace (6) and Lily (5), taking part in the piano, coding, swimming, and mountain climbing.
will.i.am helped lead the Black Eyed Peas into the boundary-pushing music group it grew to become. Born William Adams, he has confirmed he possesses a worldwide imaginative and prescient blended with years of diligent work and adaptableness. ‘Types upon types upon types is what I’ve,” the producer remembers. As a brand new period dawns on this planet of music with synthetic intelligence, will.i.am is as soon as once more positioned on the innovative of those instruments.
Noah Itman has been constructing digital music companies since 2011. Over the previous ten years, he’s exponentially grown Digital Music Information by growing enterprise by over 3,000% via crafting relationships with dozens of corporations, buyers, and executives throughout the music business. A guitar participant and collector, a solver of two Rubik’s cubes, and a self-described historian of rock music, Noah’s love of music is a driving pressure in each his private {and professional} life.