New Music Seminar Adds “Players” Jason Flom, Benny Blanco, Just Blaze, for June NYC Conference
The New Music Seminar (NMS) continues to add to an extremely strong lineup of music industry panelists, ahead of the three day event taking place June 17-19 at Webster Hall in NYC.
The New Music Seminar is poised to concentrate the music industry's top minds in NYC this June.
Its second round of confirmed NMS Players (NMS speak for “speakers”) includes a wide range of executives, entrepreneurs and producers from across the traditional and digital media sectors. The latest group of additions includes: Warner Music Group CEO of Recorded Music, Lyor Cohen; Lava Records President, Jason Flom; Rhapsody CEO, Jon Irwin; Epitaph Records Founder/CEO, Brett Gurewitz; Producers Just Blaze and Benny Blanco; Sony Music Entertainment President of Global Digital Business, Dennis Kooker; Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, Dead Oceans CEO/Founder, Darius Van Arman; Slacker CEO, Jim Cady and Amazon Digital Music VP, Steve Boom.
According to NMS, they will be sharing their vision for the music industry and discussing the “new music business resurrection” over two and a half days of intensive seminars.
The event is designed to converge key music, technology, radio, venture capital, advertising agency, brand executives, artists, managers, producers, songwriters, booking agents, venues, and promoters. NMS will offer high-level industry keynotes, discussions “Movements,” NMS 18-minute intensives, workshops, closed-door meetings and networking opportunities.
This year’s revamped NMS conference will feature the SoundExchange Digital Broadcast Summit, the BMI Creative Conclave and keynotes from Clear Channel CEO Bob Pittman and digital music futurist and Founders Fund Executive General Partner, Sean Parker.
Previously announced NMS speakers include: SoundExchange President, Michael Huppe; Pandora CEO/President, Joe Kennedy; Clear Channel Entertainment Enterprises President, John Sykes; BMI CEO/President, Del Bryant; Violator Management CEO, Chris Lighty; Nile Rodgers Productions Founder/Owner, Nile Rodgers; Reverb Nation CEO/Founder, Michael Doernberg and many more.
New Confirmed NMS 2012 Players:
Amaechi Uzoigwe, Head of Content & Business Affairs of Official.fm
Anthony Volodkin, CEO of Hypemachine
Ariel Hyatt, CEO/Owner of Ariel Publicity
Axel Dauchez, CEO of Deezer
Benjy Grinberg, President of Rostrum Records
Benny Blanco, Producer
Bob Tulipan, Author of Rockin’ in the New World, Author
Brad Hardin, SVP of Programming and Rock and Alternative Brand Manager for Clear Channel Media + Entertainment
Brett Gurewitz, Founder/CEO of Epitaph Records
Bryan Calhoun, VP, New Media & External Affairs of SoundExchange
Cat Collins, Rhythmic CHR Brand Manager and Program Director of KYLD-FM and Hot Adult Contemporary KIOI-FM for Clear Channel Media + Entertainment
Charlie Feldman, VP, Writer/Publisher Relations at BMI
Christina Calio, Relationships & Strategy Business Development at Microsoft
Christopher Muratore, VP, Merchant Services & Emerging Growth at Nielsen Entertainment
Darius Van Arman, CEO/Founder of Jagjaguwar, Secretly Canadian, Dead Oceans
David Chesky, CEO & Co-Founder of HDTracks
David Del Beccaro, President/CEO/Founder of Music Choice
David Kahne, Producer
Dennis Kooker, President, Global Digital Business at Sony Music Entertainment
Doc Wynter, Urban AC Brand Manager and VP of Urban Programming for Clear Channel Media + Entertainment
Gerrit Schumann, CEO of Simfy
Gregory Mead, Co-Founder/CEO of Musicmetric
Hank Bordowitz, Author of Dirty Little Secrets of the Record Business
Jacques Krischer, CEO of Kollector
Jacob Luttrell, Songwriter
Jason Flom, President of Lava Records
Jeremy Welt, Head of Marketing at Maker Studios
Jim Cady, CEO of Slacker
John Ivey, SVP of Programming, CHR Brand Manager, and Program Director KIIS-FM and KHHT-FM for Clear Channel Media + Entertainment
Jon Irwin, CEO of Rhapsody
Jordan Walker, US Label & Artist Relations at Spotify
Josh Deutsch, CEO/Chairman of Downtown Records
Julie Pilat, Program Director of KYSR-FM and Music Director/Assistant Program Director of KIIS-FM for Clear Channel Media + Entertainment
Just Blaze, Producer
Luke Ebbin, Producer
Lyor Cohen, CEO of Recorded Music of Warner Music Group (WMG)
Mike Tompkins, Artist
Peter Asher, Producer
Reggie Barriero, Founder of The Artist Brand
Rob Miller, Mainstream AC Format Brand Coordinator and Program Director of WKTU-FM for Clear Channel Media + Entertainment
Spencer Drate & Judith Salavetz, Author of Five Hundred 45s: A Graphic History of the Seven-Inch Record Steve Boom, VP, Digital Music at Amazon
Steve Savoca, Head of Content Operations at Spotify
Susan Butler, Executive Editor of Music Confidential
Tony Van Veen, CEO DiscMakers/CDBaby
Tyler Gray, Deputy Editor of Fast Company
Vickie Nauman, President, North America at 7Digital
Vivien Lewit, Director of Content Partnerships at YouTube
Will Bortz, Sr Manager, Brand Partnerships and Sponsorships at Taco Bell
To view the full list of confirmed Players, visit http://newmusicseminar.com/event-details/players/.
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