Tag: panel
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Video: Speaking on the Music Tectonics Panel: Starting up and Succeeding in Music Tech
This week I was asked to join the MusicTectonics panel as last year’s Narwhals startup competition winner.
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DIGITAL GENERATION: GETTING YOUR FIRST JOB IN MUSIC – ESTABLISHED OR INDIE?
Get an internship or start out on my own? That’s the key question for young music industry wannabes who are starting out today. It’s an important question. Working your way up in an establish music company is competitive and rewarding. At the same time the availability of technology and tools to create communities online has made the building…
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NY:LON Connect Review
Last month I reprented MusicUp at the MusicAlly NY:LON Connect event along with Sachin Premnath, partner, global entertainment and industry group at Reed Smith; Graham Davies, director of strategy and digital at PRS for Music; and Benji Rogers, founder of Dot Blockchain Music. The moderator was Jeremy Silver, CEO of Digital Catapult. Read Stuarts great overview of the…
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Speaking at NY:LON Thanks to MusicAlly and the Music Business Association
Early next week I’ve been invited to speak at NY:LON. An event connection the US and UK music industry. My panel is around investment and digital innovation in music. My outlook on the UK early stage startup scene has been a little pessimistic of late. But with the upcoming announcement of Techstars Music in the…
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BBC Future Music Conference 2016 – The End of Innovation in Digital Music
Is digital innovation dead? The question posed to myself, Sammy Andrews and Gregor Pryor last month at the BBC Future of Music Conference (previously BBC on the Beat). With Rorri Keflan-Jones hosting it was clear we were all supportive of supporting the digital music startup ecosystem. Offering up ideas that perhaps a variation in business…
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The Japanese Music Market and Tokyo Dance Music Event
This month I’ve been exploring Tokyo. The neon city is more different from London, New York or LA than I ever could have imagined. The language, the customs, the music industry. Wandering the streets of Shibuya in the west of the city I came across a glowing monument to CDs. Long since the preserve of…
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BEC Conference – Stream Work Makes the Dream Work
This week I was invited to speak at the inaugural Beats Evolution conference. One of a few recent upstart events. BEC focusses on the Drum and Bass industry. Coming a few months after Beatport announced that drum and bass as a genre had recently moved four points to the fifth most popular genre on the…
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Chewhiker – Repping Chew in Austin
During February and March 2016 I traveled North America to meet the Chew community, DJs, partners and investors. Read more about the entire Chewhiker trip here. After weeks of traveling across the country Austin for South by South West was the next big milestone. For six months before the trip it had come up time and time…
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Speaking at SXSW: Tech Nation and the Disruption of Music
I just so happens that my trip around North America staying and playing with the community of Chew DJs and producers also coincides with South by South West. It’s well known to be an international shit show of tech, film, music and excessive alcohol consumption. That’s why as I’ve traveled from state to state I’ve been…