New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Workman Entertainment) The New
Music Seminar (NMS), www.NewMusicSeminar.com, announces its second round of confirmed NMS
Players (speakers) including 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. 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.
Set to take place at Webster Hall in New York City on June 17-19, 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.
NMS is the meeting place of music visionaries, upstarts, and disruptors who are building a new music business together. Previously announced 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.
"The U.S. music business is flat at around $7 billion. This year's New
Music Seminar will discuss strategies to get it back to $14 billion and beyond," explained Tom Silverman, NMS Founder and Executive Director. "Our Movements are filled with the CEO's, presidents and founders of new businesses that promise to deliver new revenues that will take us there. It is time for our business to stop being the disrupted and become the disruptor."
New
Music Seminar brings together key music, technology, radio, venture capital, advertising agency, brand executives, artists, managers, producers, songwriters, booking agents, venues, and promoters. The event will offer high-level industry keynotes, discussions "Movements," NMS 18-minute intensives, workshops, closed-door meetings and networking opportunities.
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/.
Sponsors include SoundExchange, BMI, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Reverb Nation, AriZona Beverages, OurStage, Spotify, eMusic, Jambase, Section 101, Headliner FM, SESAC,
Filter Magazine, Bandzoogle, Gibson and DI-WHY. Media and Trade
Sponsors include Songwriters Hall of Fame, Aquarian Weekly, NARAS, A2iM, Merlin,
Music Connection, Billboard, Next Big Sound, Folk Alliance, NARM, MusicDish, Hypebot, Mozes, Aderra, Sabian and Yamaha.
To register, visit www.NewMusicSeminar.com.
