Thurs. Mar 12, 2009 - Sat. Mar 14, 2009 Targeting Music & Media business professionals, the Executive Music Conference is the official meeting ground for those who truly shape the music & broadcast industries. A spectacular forum of seminars, debates and keynote speakers from around the world focusing on burning issues facing professionals at every level of the entertainment biz. The Executive Music Conference attracts more that 2000 of your colleagues and competitors - over 70% VP/Director or higher. Here’s where you meet the trailblazers and visionaries leading us into tomorrow.
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Canada's Legendary Manager Goes 'Head to Head' with interviewer Bob Leftsetz
Outspoken, abrasive, but widely respected, Allen is one of the most honoured and awarded managers in the business today. Allen's stable of artist include Bryan Adams, Martina McBride, Anne Murray, Michael Buble and producer Bob Rock.
Should be lots of sparks fying here - don't miss it!
OPENING KEYNOTE: JIM BALSILLIE, CO-CEO RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIM)
Jim Balsillie is Co-CEO at Research In Motion. He is responsible for directing RIM's strategy, business development and finance. Prior to joining RIM in 1992, Jim was Executive Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors with Sutherland-Shultz Limited in Kitchener, Ontario. Jim has also held the positions of Senior Associate, Strategy Consulting Group and Senior Accountant, Entrepreneurial Services Group at Ernst & Young in Toronto. In 2002, Jim founded The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), a world-class global research institute focused on the restructuring of international governance, with particular emphasis on financial and economic institutions. Jim is a Chartered Accountant with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Harvard.
Rio D. Caraeff
Executive Vice President, eLabs & GM,
Universal Music Mobile
DIGITAL MUSIC & MEDIA SUMMIT KEYNOTE: RIO CARAEFF
Rio D. Caraeff is Executive Vice President of Universal Music Group’s (UMG) eLabs division as well as General Manager of Universal Music Mobile – US (UMM-US). eLabs is the division of UMG responsible for handling the company’s electronic commerce initiatives, Internet exploitation, and new technology business opportunities worldwide.
Dr. Daniel Levitin
James McGill Professor and Author ,
McGill University
DIGITAL MUSIC & MEDIA SUMMIT KEYNOTE: Dr. DANIEL LEVITIN
Dr. Daniel Levitin, Author of This is Your Brain on Music; Max Bell Chair in the Psychology of the information Sciences, offers an overview on music cognition-what we know about how musical expertise is attained and how musical preferences are formed. Dr. Levitin's talk will lead into a panel discussion about the Paradise of Infinite Storage.
From the massive worldwide success of her Grammy-winning 1995 debut for Maverick Records, Jagged Little Pill - which remains one of the most popular recordings in music history with over 30 million in sales worldwide - through her eclectic and highly praised subsequent albums,
A seven-time Grammy Award winner and 12-time JUNO Award winner, Morissette has become one of Canada’s most recognized and internationally acclaimed singer-songwriters.
Debora Spar
Author, Senior Associate Dean,
Harvard Business School
GLOBAL FORUM KEYNOTE: DEBORA SPAR
Ruling the Waves: From the Compass to the Internet, a History of Business and Politics along the Technological Frontier. Harvard Business School professor explains how technological breakthrough open new opportunities. But these changes were followed by commercialization, chaotic and sometimes unsavory exploitation, growing mainstream dependence on the new medium, and finally, appeals for both government intervention and the establishment of standards and property rights.
Seymour Stein’s lifelong adventure in rock & roll has seen him prominently engaged in wave after wave of popular music’s successive cycles of taste, from the Brill Building sound of the 1960’s through to his wholesale signing to his legendary Sire Records of New York punk luminaries like the Ramones and the Talking Heads in the 1970s to, and, a little later, Madonna, the Pretenders, kd lang, The Bare Naked Ladies and Hot Hot Heat. His ability to divine what’s great in each new generation of music has made Stein one of the rare record company men whose appreciation and approval is sought not only as a means to a career and money, but also as an artistic accolade. Sire, itself, is a crucial example of the evolution of the contemporary American indie label. If ever there was a true renaissance man in popular music, Stein would be the prime contender
