Category: 
Executive, TuneUp, DMS, Radio Active, Millennials   

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Broadcast
General
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Technology
Digital

PRE REGISTRATION
HOURS OF OPERATION:
EXECUTIVE REGISTRATION HOURS OF OPERATION:
Tuesday, March 10 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Wednesday, March 11 - 8:00am - 8:00pm
Thursday, March 12 - 7:00am - 7:00pm
Friday, March 13 - 7:30am - 6:00pm
Saturday, March 14 - 8:30am - 6:00pm


Room: Saskatchewan
BAND REGISTRATION HOURS OF OPERATION:
Wednesday, March 11 - 11:00am - 7:00pm
Thursday, March 12 - 9:00am - 7:00pm
Friday, March 13 - 9:00am - 7:00pm
Saturday, March 14 - 9:00am - 6:00pm

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp, DMS, Radio Active, Millennials

Track:
Broadcast
General
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Technology
Digital

REGISTRATION

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp, DMS, Radio Active

Track:
Broadcast
General
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Technology
Digital

Newcomers Orientation
At CMW, if you've missed a little, you've missed a lot. So whether you're a first-timer, hungry to soak up everything from scratch, or someone who's been away and you feel like everything's changed in your absence (it has), orientation is a must. Relax, have some coffee, tell us what you need, and we'll map out your ultimate personalized CMW.

Presenter
Daniel Anstandig - President, McVay New Media, Cleveland
Greg Simpson - President, Mindbenders Music, London

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp, DMS, Radio Active

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Broadcast
General
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Technology
Digital

Welcoming Address
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! The future is now and Canadian Music Week is off and running with its annual kick-off session and comments CMW’s President, Neill Dixon and Jasper Donat, CEO, Music Matters Asia to kick off the 27th edition of CMW!

Opening Remarks
Neill Dixon - President, Canadian Music Week International, Mississauga
Jasper Donat - CEO, Music Matters Asia / Branded, Hong Kong

Category: 
Radio Active

Track:
Broadcast

Sean Luce: The Perfect Storm: Maximizing Your “Air Force” and “Ground Force” Sales
This seminar will help you sell advertising in today’s economy. Sean will show reps how to take a laser beam approach to increase your radio and TV sales. This is the most advanced radio and TV sales seminar your sales reps will ever attend.

A professional speaker and trainer on sales, sales management and general management. Sean has presented seminars for Fortune 500 companies, universities, broadcast groups and radio and TV broadcasting associations throughout the country.

Presenter
Sean Luce - Head National Instructor, Luce Performance Group,

Presented by: OAB and OIRG Sponsored by: CABR

Category: 
Radio Active

Track:
Broadcast

Radio Creative Presentation
by Dan Price, President, Oink Ink Radio
Dan Price had a dream. Unfortunately, there was already a comedian named “Carrot Top," so he founded Oink Ink Radio.

Oink Radio is an award wining bi-coastal production company and "Radio Agency". Oink Ink received several new industry honors from The Mercury Awards, Promax Awards, Cannes International Advertising Festival and most recently named as one of the "Top 5 Radio Production Companies" of the last 20 years at the The London International Advertising Awards (LIAA).

Presenter
Dan Price - President, Oink Ink Radio, New York, NY

Presented by: Radio Marketing Bureau Sponsored by: CABR

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp, DMS, Radio Active

Track:
Broadcast
General
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Technology
Digital

Opening Keynote: Cory Ondrejka
Cory Ondrejka is the senior vice president of digital strategy for EMI Music's digital business. In this position, Ondrejka is responsible for building the digital strategy for EMI Music, driving innovation around new revenue opportunities and building a world-class engineering team for the company. Prior to EMI, he was the co-founder of Second Life where he architected the core code and hired the team responsible for Second Life's growth to over 12 million residents. The ecosystems he helped create led directly to the success of Second Life, as well as the ongoing use of Second Life as a platform for music, education, and business.

Before Linden Lab, Ondrejka traveled an eclectic path from the US Naval Academy and nuclear power to defense contracting and video game development. More recently, he has served as a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he taught a course on online communities and coordinated the MacArthur-grant driving research for the Public Diplomacy and Network Culture Project.

Cory holds a B.S. in Weapons and Systems Engineering and in Computer Science from the United States Naval Academy.

Keynote
Cory Ondrejka - SVP, Digital Strategy, Co-Founder, Second Life, EMI,

Category: 
Radio Active

Track:
Broadcast

RCS Presents The Future of Music Scheduling And Automation
See how GSelector's goal-driven, demand based, music scheduling engine creates multi-station schedules with virtually no unscheduled positions and automatically updates your NexGen stations! Schedule songs with research obtained from your most recent PPM respondent data. The future is here and RCS created it. Let Barry Hill show you how Radio is now being done around the world!

Presenter
Barry Hill - Director, Technical Sales, RCS Selector,

Sponsored by: RCS Canada Ltd.

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp, DMS, Radio Active

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Broadcast
General
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Technology
Digital

View From The Top
This panel of industry insiders will discuss the transformation between the old business model and the new. What are the most likely business models for user generated content? What's the future for ad-supported free online distribution of music, video and games? The debate over digital music pricing and the future of digital rights management. What is the next big thing in online and mobile media? The answers may surprise.

Panelist
Jonathan Potter - Executive Director, Digital Media Association, Washington DC
Graham Henderson - President, CRIA, Toronto
John Kennedy - CEO, IFPI, London, UK
Tom Copeland - Chair, Cdn. Assoc. of Internet Providers, Ottawa
Jay Rosenthal - Sr. VP & General Counsel, National Music Publishers Association, Washington, DC

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp

Track:
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking

360 Degrees: Band as Brand
As the live industry continues to boom and record industry's decline is turning into a plunge, major labels have realigned their strategies to cope with a changing world, and set about totally reinventing the way they do business, a horribly difficult task for any institution.

This session explores the rising new model for developing talent, one in which artists share not just revenue from their album sales but concert, merchandise and other earnings with their label in exchange for more comprehensive career support. If the concept takes hold, it will alter not only the way music companies make money but the way new talent is groomed, and perhaps even the kind of acts that are offered contracts in the first place. Commonly known as “multiple rights” or “360” deals, the new pacts emerged in an early iteration with the deal that Robbie Williams, the British pop singer signed with EMI in 2002.

Not everyone is sold on the concept. Many talent and agents managers view 360s as a thinly veiled money grab and are skeptical that the labels, with their work forces shrinking amid industrywide cost cutting, will deliver on their promises. But record executives argue that such deals could free them from the tyranny of megahits because there would be less pressure to make back the label’s money immediately and the label can take a really holistic approach to the development of an artist brand. Our team of experts will discuss the various 360 deals that are currently being offered and and what we can expect in the future.

Moderator
Jake Gold - President, The Management Trust, Toronto

Category: 
Radio Active

Track:
Broadcast

Juggling Chainsaws: The Changing Role of Today's PD
Did we mention that the chainsaws were flaming? What is a PD today anyway? It’s a new world, and the traditional role of a program director has dramatically changed. The biggest challenge programmers face today is how to keep everything organized: Mobile, online, outdoor, social network... oh yeah, and ON-AIR!

Moderator
Kevin Carter - Editor, Street Talk Daily, Radio & Records, R&R, Los Angeles, CA

Panelist
Ryan Zimmerman - PD/Ops, The Bear - Astral Radio, Edmonton
David Corey - PD, CHUM-FM, Toronto
Jimmy Steele - PD, KCTS Channel 933, San Diego
Ross Winters - PD, CFNY-FM The Edge, Toronto
Steve Jones - VP Programming, Newcap, Dartmouth
Julie Adam - OM/PD, CHFI, Toronto

Category: 
DMS

Track:
Technology
Digital

DMS Keynote Luncheon
Keynote Speaker: Michael Robertson, CEO, MP3tunes Inc.
In his 18-year career, high-tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson has spearheaded a cache of diverse, high-profile companies ranging from digital music to operating systems to VoIP to entertainment. Not one to shy from controversy, his quest to offer competing products and innovative technologies has brought him face to face with corporate giants – and corporate lawsuits. But his madness always has a method – producing relevant technology and products that bring choice and freedom back to the consumer. Be it MP3, Linux, software, or hardware, Michael has built his career on supporting open standards that empower consumers. Michael's high-profile startups include MP3.com, where he established the largest collection of digital music in the world, amassing more than 1 million downloadable MP3 files. With his more recent ventures - Gizmo5, MP3tunes, Ajax13 and Linspire, Michael has entered industries that traditionally had only one or two dominant players. But with each industry he tackles, Michael's end goal is trying to bring competition and freedom of choice back to the marketplace. And restoring that freedom is the undercurrent of every venture he helms.

Featured Speaker
Michael Robertson - CEO, MP3Tunes Inc., San Diego, CA

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp

Track:
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking

Deal Or No Deal: The Agent Panel
As the modern concert business evolves with promoter consolidation and a boom in nationally promoted tours, the role of the agent has expanded and become ever more integrated including tv, movies, games and merchandising. In this panel our group of powerful backroom boys talk about how they put their fingerprints on the business and they’ll project where dealmakers will be taking the concert business in the future.

Panelist
Marty Diamond - Agent, Paradigm Agency, New York, NY
Tom Windish - President, The Windish Agency, Chicago
Tom Hoppa - Agent, TKO, Los Angeles
David Levine - Vice President, William Morris Agency, Los Angeles, CA
Nigel Hassler - Music Agent, Director, Helter Skelter, London, UK
Steven Himmelfarb - Booking Agenct, The Billions Corporation, Toronto, ON

Sponsored by: Artists Associates Program, World Vision

Category: 
Executive, Radio Active

Track:
Broadcast
General

Crystal Awards Luncheon
Ticketed Event

The hardest-working/hardest-thinking partiers in the business assemble to honour their own again as the Radio Marketing Bureau celebrates the year's best creative outbursts. An industry red-letter event, The Crystals are prestige trophies for agencies and broadcasters alike. Join host Wendell Ferguson for this year's edition of CMW's most “Crystalizing” event.

Sponsored by:Astral Media BBM
BES - Broadcast Executive Society CABR
Chum Radio
Chum Radio Sales
Newcap Radio Rogers Media The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group

Category: 
DMS

Track:
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Technology
Digital

DMS: Digital Evolution Of The Music Business
This panel of industry experts will discuss the future of digital music, with a focus on online and mobile music product offerings and business models, digital marketing, music recommendation and discovery services, next generation devices and the future of digital rights management (DRM). What business models, devices and marketing plans will drive the industry? Who will be the winners and the losers in the years to come?

Panelist
Scott Cohen - Founder & VP, The Orchard, London, UK
Gary Chen - CEO, Orca Digital, Beijing, China
John Possman - CEO/Co Founder, 247 Inc., Tokyo

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp, DMS

Track:
Records/Retail
Talent/Booking
Digital

Spotlight on China Part 1
Potential opportunities for Canadians in the Greater China market. China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Panel topics include the diversity of the China music scene; concerts and tours - facts & figures; Chinese musical culture. The market in China for live performances, concerts and touring. Tour management, artistic direction and professional support services. The importance of television in the China music market. Artist development: opportunities for the indie sector; the impact of live touring on content sales and career momentum.

Moderator
Stuart Watson - CEO, Swat Enterprises, Singapore

Co-Moderator
Jasper Donat - CEO, Music Matters Asia / Branded, Hong Kong

Speaker
Jackie Subeck - President & Co-Founder, Footprint Worldwide LLC, Los Angeles/Beijing

Presented by: Music Matters in association with SWAT Asia
Sponsored by: OMDC and Foreign Affairs Canada

Category: 
Executive, TuneUp

Track: