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Ace Piva

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Over the Bridge

Adam Behr

Director, Live Music Exchange; Lecturer, Newcastle University

Adam Fowler

Director of Research, Beacon Economics; UC Riverside School of Business

Adam Lewis

CEO, Planetary Group

Akira Nakano

President, CEO, & Artistic Director, LA Inception Orchestra

Alejandro Cohen

Executive Director, DubLab

Amy Baker

Co-Founder, Winston Baker

Andreea Magdalina

Founder, SheSaid.so; Sr. Producer, HOO KOO E KOO

Andrew Wallenstein

President & Chief Media Analyst of Variety Intelligence Platform

Angela Rose Whaley

Co-Founder, Music Minds Matter; Marketing Strategist, Delta Six Digital; Co-Founder, Clixigen

Anne McKinnon

Cofounder & Co-CEO of Overview Ark

Anthony Martini

CEO, Royalty Exchange; Founder, Commission

Anya Della Croce

Executive Manager, Petzi

Armen Shaomian

President, MEIEA; Associate Professor, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia

Audrey Guerre

Coordinator, Live DMA; Board Member, European Music Council; Board Member

Ben Johnson

Performing Arts Program Director, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles

Bryce Merrill

Music Programs Manager, Bohemian Foundation

Celia Thomson

Administrative Assistant, Musical Bridges Around the World; Junior, UTSA

Chris Zacher

Exec. Director & Founder, Levitt Pavilion; Lecturer, Univ. of Colorado; Partner, Zebra Incorporated

D.O. Gibson

President, Northern Power Summit; President and Founder, Northstarr Entertainment Inc.

Dameun Strange

Director of Communications, American Composers Forum

Dave Ratner

Managing Partner, Principal, Creative Law Network

David Hazan

Founder, DLH Strategic Marketing

Debbie Carroll

Vice President, Health and Human Services, MusiCares

Diana Raiselis

Research Fellow, VibeLab

Don Pitts

President and Co-Founder, Sound Music Cities

Edwina Maben

Student, CU Denver; Partner Artist, Youth on Record

Elia Mssawir

Managing Partner, Big Beards Entertainment

Eline Van Audenaerde

Captain, The Unicorn Mothership

Elizabeth Cawein

Founder, Music Export Memphis; CEO & Founder, Signal Flow PR; Adj. Professor, Rhodes College

Elizabeth Currid-Halkett

James Irvine Chair, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California

Elizabeth Stookey Sunde

Co-Founder & Executive Director, Music to Life

Emily White

Founding Partner, Collective Entertainment & #iVoted

Emmanuel LeGrand

Publisher, Creative Industries Newsletter

Eric Gilbert

Festival Director/Co-Founder, Treefort Music Festival

Frank Heuser

Professor, Music Education, UCLA Alpert School of Music

Geoff Mayfield

Freelance Journalist for Variety, Billboard, Music Business Worldwide, and Music Aficionado

Gigi Johnson

President, Maremel Institute; Faculty, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

James Jacoby

Sync & Licensing, Anthem Entertainment Group

Jason Kramer

Partner at One Drop Sync, KCRW Radio DJ, Manager, Adjunct Professor, Musicians Institute

Jay Gilbert

Co-Founder, Digital Services, Label Logic

Jay Tucker

Executive Director, Center for MEMES, UCLA Anderson School of Management

Jeremy Peters

Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

Jim Griffin

Pex, Vice President, Digital Rights

Jocelyn Kane

Responsible Hospitality

John Petrocelli

CEO & Founder, Bulldog DM

Jonathan McHugh

Music Supervisor, Director, Producer, Song Stew Entertainment

Justin Ruoff

VP, Operations, Media Creek / Live 365

Karen Reece

President, Urban Community Arts Network; Asst. Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Kate Becker

Creative Economy Strategist at Office of King County Executive Dow Constantine

Kate Durio

CEO, North America at Sound Diplomacy

Kelsey Smith

Programs Director, Young Musicians Foundation

Ken Veerman

Cultural Consultant

Kevin Erickson

Director, Future of Music Coalition

Kim Wangler

Music Industries Director, Appalachian State University; Board of Director, College Music Society

Kristen Agee

CEO, 411 Music Group

Kwende Kefentse

Executive Director, CKCU

Larry Miller

Professor and Director, NYU Steinhardt; President, Musonomics

Laura Clark

Director of Education, Music Forward Foundation

Laura Hutfless

Co-Founder, FlyteVu

Laura Wilson

Live Music Manager, Bohemian Foundation

Louis-Etienne Dubois

Associate Professor, School of Creative Industries, Ryerson University

Lutz Leichsenring

Co-Founder, Vibe Lab

Mark Davyd

CEO, Music Venue Trust

Matthew Bradbury

Program Director, Tully App

Matthew Che Kowal

Co-Founder and President, Majestic Collaborations

Meara McLaughlin

Executive Director, MusicPortland & MusicPortland Bridge

Meng Ru Kuok

CEO & Co-Founder, BandLab Technologies

Merlijn Poolman

Nightmayor of Groningen. Founder of Gateway to China and COSIMO Foundation

Michael Bracy

President, Music Policy Forum; Partner, Bracy Tucker Brown & Valanzano

Michael Fichman

Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, PennPraxis

Michelle Rocqet

Teaching Artist, Youth On Record

Michelle McKenzie

Director, Urban Inclusion Community

Mike Bell

Co-Founder, The New Colossus Festival; Founder, Lorimer Beacon

Mollie Quinlan-Hayes

Arts Consultant

Nancy Tarr

Executive Director, Well Dunn; Adjunct Lecturer, SUNY Oneonta

Nikki Swarn

Program Director, The Drop/KUVO Public Radi

Nurit Siegel Smith

Executive Director, House of Blues Music Forward

Raymond Torres-Santos

RTS Music; Director of Composition, California State University, Long Beach

Reid Wick

Sr. Membership & Project Manager, Recording Academy

Michael Seman

Assistant Professor of Arts Management at Colorado State University

Renard Bridgewater

Community Engagement Coordinator, Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans

Ritnika Nayan

Market Development Director, CD Baby; Owner, Music Gets Me High

Robert Singerman

Lyricfind; SyncSummit; The Chile, Argentina, Brazil (CAB) Music Trade Mission Tour

Sally Anne Gross

Principal lecturer in Music Business Management, University of Westminster

Saria Tourbah

Community Coordinator, Music Cities Events, Sound Diplomacy

Scott Fetters

Founder, 2112; Founder, Center for Creative Entrepreneurship

Scott Plusquellec

Nightlife Business Advocate, Office of Film + Music City of Seattle

Serona Elton

Head of Educational Partnerships, The MLC; Associate Dean, Frost School of Music, Univ. of Miami

Seth Schachner

Strat Americas LLC; Americas Partnerships, Smule; Pepperdine Graziadio Business School

Shain Shapiro

Founder and Group CEO, Sound Diplomacy; Exec. Director, Center for Music Ecosystems

Shannon Daut

Manager of Cultural Affairs, City of Santa Monica

Sipho Sithole

Director: Afrocentric Agency; South Africa

Spencer Townshend Hughes

Co-Founder, Music Minds Matter; The Hollow

Stacey Bedford

CEO, Bandzoogle

Stan Renard

Associate Professor of Music Marketing, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Storm Gloor

Associate Professor, Music and Entertainment Studies, CU Denver; City Councilman

Sydney Peters

Founder & CEO, Citrusfest, Citrus Venture Group; Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts

Tamar Kaprelian

Founder/CEO, Nvak Collective, Nvak Foundation

Tara Duvivier

Sr. Planner, Pratt Center for Community Development

Theo Ellis

Founder, ProSound Media; VP Industry Partnerships, Digital Currensy

Vickie Nauman

Founder, CrossBorderWorks Consulting & Advising

Karine Delage

CEO, Karyzma Agency

Richard Niles

Composer, ASMAC; Producer, Arranger, Conductor, Music Director

Natasha Pasternak

Songwriter; UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music; Desert Dreams Creative; Women in Music

Lena Ingwersen

Project Manager, Music Cities Network; Project Manager, Hamburg Music Business Association

Jude Clark

Music Industry Digital Strategist, Joose Digital

Sam Cook

CEO, The KMBA Creative Agency

Danya Dixon

CEO, Canadian Music Week

Catherine Fournier

Director, Marketing, LyricFind

Alex Gershwin

Manager, Business Development, Songtrust

Nathalie Levesque

Founder/Exec. Dir., La Boite interculturelle, Marchande d'idées

David McLoughlin

Owner, Brasil Calling

Jay Mogis

Media Rights, Data Scientist, Musician, Creative Media

Taynaah Reis

CEO, All Be Tuned Records; Moeda Seeds

Sarah Williams

CEO, IMPEL, London

Dick Wingate

Founder, DEV Advisors, New York

Tristra Yeagar

Strategist, rock paper scissors / Music Tectonics

Jim Peters

President, Responsible Hospitality Institute

Peter Astedt

Festival Director, Future Echoes

Robert Haber

Managing Director, MONDO.NYC

Myla Hardie

Worldhaus, SIM SP

Ariel Hyatt

Ariel Publicity, CyberPR

Margaret McGuffin

CEO, Music Publishers Canada

Grace Puluczek

CEO & Director - 3 Notes

Nuno Saraiva

President, AMAEI; Publisher, Lusitanian; Exec. Dir., WHY Portugal

Francisca Sandoval

General Manager, IMICHILE; Founding Partner, La Unión; Executive Producer, Fluvial

Andrew Stess

CEO, StessCo Consulting Group

Kim Temple

President, High Priestess Publishing

Tom Truitt

Buffkin Baker (MusicRowSearch)

Alan Wolmark

CEC Management, Port Washington

Weiler Harmon

Director of A&R, Brick CIty Records; Student, Ohio University

Constantine Roussos

Founder and CEO, .MUSIC

Luciana Pegorer

Music Business Partnerships Specialist and Trends Brasil Conference Organizer

Ryan Butler

Recording Academy

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Help Desk - Amplify Music

Tech assistance, guidance and general inquiries

Creative Arkansas Community Hub & Exchange (CACHE)

Northwest Arkansas Regional Arts Services Organization

Tully

Empowering artist entrepreneurs with tools to navigate the music industry.

Bandzoogle

Bandzoogle makes it easy to build a beautiful website for your music.

LyricFind

The Trusted Source for Lyric and Data Licensing

Music and Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA)

Bringing Together Educators and Leaders of the Music and Entertainment Industries

UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Creating Musical Community - Voice, Resonance, Counterpoint, and Virtuosity

Label Logic

EXPERIENCE WORKS

Art of Mass Gathering for Performing Arts

The participation of event producers, preservation professionals, police/fire/paramedics, parks, planners, people of color, presenters and performers is paramount to the potency of this preparedness program.

LA Inception Orchestra

he Los Angeles Inception Orchestra infuses creativity into music education through composition.

The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers

Education and advocation focused on how music is created by arrangers, composers and orchestrators.

Live DMA

European network for live music associations.

Creative Law Network, LLC

Our solutions are as creative as our clients.

Live365

The World's Audio

Majestic Collaborations

Empower communities to address environmental and humanitarian concerns with art, culture, design and planning.

CAB

Chile, Argentina, Brazil Music Trade Mission Tour, now Collaborative and Beneficent

2112

Chicago's Creative Industries Ecosystem

Music Minds Matter

Caring for the minds that make the music you love.

Youth on Record

Empowerment Through Creative Education

Center for Creative Entrepreneurship

CCE empowers creatives at all levels with the knowledge, skills, and relationships necessary for business success.

Music Forward Foundation

Music Forward transforms young lives, inspires careers, and champions a more inclusive music industry.

VibeLab

The pulse of night - consultancy agency