Thursday, August 27, 2009

1:00 pm - Registration Opens

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2:00 pm

Conversation with... details to be announced

3:00 pm

Cory Ondrejka Executive Vice President, Digital Marketing, EMI Music

Cory Ondrejka is EMI Music’s Executive Vice President, Digital Marketing. In this role, which he assumed in March 2009, Ondrejka is advancing the company’s digital marketing capabilities, developing new consumer and market insight resources and leading EMI’s experimentation with new digital marketing and product models in order to provide the best service to its artists and their fans. Ondrejka was formerly EMI’s Senior Vice President, Digital Strategy. Since... (click for more)

4:00 pm

Conversation with... details to be announced

5:00 pm

Cocktails!

Friday, August 28, 2009

9:00 am - Registration Opens

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10:00 am

Hindsight is 20/20

A gathering of the leaders of the early digital music companies - a check in to see their thoughts on the present state of the industry based on the early possibilities saw and challenges they encountered.

Gene Hoffman
Gerry Kearby
Ken Wirt

11:00 pm

Conversation with Jeff Price, President & CEO, TuneCore

In its three years since launch, TuneCore has over 150,000 customer accounts, hundreds of thousands of releases and delivered millions of songs to iTunes and other digital stores including Grammy winners, record labels and unsigned artists. In addition to the tens of thousands of “unsigned” musicians, TuneCore customers also include David Byrne/Brian Eno, Nine Inch Nails, Jay-Z, Keith Richards, Zigggy Marley, Public Enemy, Joan Jett...(click for more)

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 pm

Hi-Speed Fan

These are the people that interact with fans daily and see their expectations and behaviors. What are fans responding to now? How to engage them in a way that keeps them loyal? A discussion about today's hi-speed fan by those that know them best.

Tim Bierman- Manager, Ten Club (Pearl Jam's Official Fan Organization)
Lee Martin, Silva Artist Management
Others to be announced

2:00 pm

Conversation with... details to be announced

3:00 pm

Conversation with Livia Tortella, GM/Executive VP of Marketing and Creative Media Atlantic Records

Livia Tortella is the GM/Executive VP of Marketing and Creative Media at Atlantic Records. She began her career in 1989 at PolyGram Canada in A&R, and then continued as a product manager for artists on newly acquired labels Island and Def Jam, in addition to Mercury, London, and Beggars Banquet Music Group. After transferring to New York and spending 5 years at Island Def Jam Music Group, she joined Atlantic following its merger with Elektra in 2004.

In the past 10 years, Tortella has helped develop the careers...(click for more)

4:00 pm

Conversation with... details to be announced

5:00 pm

Cocktails!

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