Brighton Music Conference (BMC) has released the full schedule covering the Professional and Academy Programmes for the 2016 event at Brighton Dome on Thursday 14th April and Friday 15th April. The schedule looks like this at the moment.
THURSDAY 14th April 2016 PROFESSIONAL THEATRE
11:00-11:45 #TheFuture THE SCENE KEY NOTE: Save Our Clubs
Club closures is an important issue affecting our scene. Towards the end of 2015, there was a media feeding frenzy on club closures after it was reported that 50% of the UK’s nightclubs have closed since 2005. The mainstream media took the release of these figures as a cue to suggest that young people didn't want to go to clubs any more. Is this true, or is the threat to UK clubs more complex than that? How are restrictive licensing regulations and the attitudes of the authorities affecting these important breeding grounds for electronic music talent? This keynote panel looks at how to Protect The Dancefloor/Save Our Clubs
Carl Loben (Editor; DJ Mag)
Alan Miller (Chairman; NTIA)
John Ross (Owner; Mothership Group)
Mark Lawrence (CEO; AFEM)
12:00-12:45 #MakeMoney LABEL MANAGEMENT Beatport Label Summit
Terry Weerasinghe (VP of Music Services; Beatport)
Jack Bridges (European Account Manager; Beatport)
13:00-13:45 #HowToGrow DISTRIBUTION Distribution : Label Service & Direct To Consumer. Emerging Territories, Where do these services fit in your Plan/Strategy?, How Can It Help You, How Important Is It To The Eco-System?
Andy Singh (Director; Republic Of Music)
Joe Vesayaporn (Squadran Leader; Music Glue)
Lee Morisson (General Manager, UK; Believe Digital)
Matt Abbott (Managing Director; Label Worx)
Paul Hamill (Chief Navigator; Inflyte)
Ralf Kollmann (Owner; Mobilee)
Zac Vibert (Digital Marketing Manager; !K7 Artist & Label Services)
15:00-15:45 #TheFuture RESPONSIBILITY / THE ECO SYSTEM Stealing Our Own Success - Are DJs accidentally killing sales?
As more and more illegal ’subscription download stores' emerge retailing tracks without label permission and without profits going back into the hands of creators, are the DJs who use these services unwittingly killing their own industry?
Mark Lawrence (CEO; AFEM)
Ben Rush (CEO; Audio Lock)
Stuart Knight (Managing Director; Toolroom Records)
16:00-16:45 #TheFuture PIRACY Fighting piracy in dance music
Is it working? Is It worth it?
Lee Smith (Owner; Leak Delete)
Ben Rush (CEO; Audiolock)
Dean Muhsin (Director; Bear Management / Dispersion PR)
Perc (Artist, DJ & Label Owner; Perc Tracks)
Sebastian Spring (Head of Publishing; SUISA)
Zac Vibert (Digital Marketing Manager; !K7 Artist & Label Services)
17:00-17:45 #HowToGrow LABEL MANAGEMENT It's All About The Music! ….. Or Is It? Is there a magic formula for making a label work - or is down to timing, taste, and a dose of luck?
Chris Goss (Managing Director; Hospital Records)
Adam Woolf (Label Manager; Critical)
Emily Moxon (Label Manager; Brownswood)
John Rundell (Director ; Intec)
Matt King (Label Manager; Skint/BMG)
Ralf Kollmann (Owner; Mobilee)
11:00-11:45 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION Big Sound On A Small Budget
Which Home Studio Kit Really Makes A Difference?
Paul White (Editor In Chief; Sound On Sound) &
Hugh Robjohns (Technical Editor; Sound On Sound)
12:00-12:45 #TheFuture THE SCENE Clubs, Festivals & Grass Roots Venues
If Festivals are the new Superclub and local venues are diminishing, how do we develop new platforms and nuture new talent?
Dave Blackgrove (Agent; Coda)
Rob Baldwin (Booking Manager; Deltic Group)
Sarah Cole (Owner; YesYouDo Promotions)
Steve King (Booker, Space / Safehouse Management)
13:00-13:45 #TheFuture THE ECO SYSTEM Careers In Music
Megan Bean (Business & Legal; Hospital Records)
Paul Gibson (Bookings & Promotions Manager; Patterns)
Paul Quinsey (Owner; This Is Take & Marketing Manager; McQueen, Shoreditch)
Terry Ryan (Head of A&R, Promotions & Music Specialist; On The Rise)
14:00-14:45 #TheFuture BRANDING Your Brand Is Everything!
Jessica Rowe (Owner; Level Theory)
Lynn Cosgrave (Director, Safehouse Management)
Pavan Mukhi (Foreign Beggars / Brapp TV)
Tim Binns (A&R Director; New State Entertainment)
Tom Nettleton (Agent; Paramount)
15:00-15:45 #TheFuture RESPONSIBILTY / THE ECO SYSTEM
Women In Music Q&A
Lucy Blair (Director; Motive Unknown)
Ayah Marar (Singer)
Charlotte Cijffers (DJ Mag; Digital & News Editor)
Katy Ellis (Manager; Norman Cook)
Lynn Cosgrave (Director; Safehouse Management)
Sarah Cole (Owner; YesYouDo Promotions)
16:00-16:45 #HowToGrow LABEL MANAGEMENT
Shogun Audio Label Q&A
Carl Loben (DJ Mag; Editor)
Adam Savage (PR; Backdrop Promotions)
Ed Keeley/Friction (Managing Director, Shogun Audio)
Icicle (Artist)
Keir Tyrer (Managing Director; Shogun Audio)
Richard Snow (Label Manager; Shogun)
17:00-17:45 #MakeMoney PRS Music Publishing & Collection Societies Explained
Ashley Howard (Dance Music Account Manager; PRS for Music)
Alex Banks (Artist)
Hannah Simmonds (Head of Publishing; Toolroom Records)
Sebastian Spring (Head of Publishing; SUISA)
10:45-11:25 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION DEMONSTRATION
Rekord Buddy 2 Didier Malenfant (Founder; Next Audio Labs)
12:30-13:15 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION
Producer Q&A
Chris Todd / Crazy P (Artist)
Hyroglifics (Artist)
Prok & Fitch (Artist)
Steve Mac / Rhythm Masters (Artist)
14:40-15:25 #MakeMusic DJING DEMONSTRATION
New Product Rob Anderson
15:45-16:30 #MakeMusic DJING DJ Q&A; How to construct a DJ set
It's not just about 'Hands In The Air' moments - learn how our panel go beyond the obvious to make there sets stand out.
Seamus Haji (DJ / Artist)
Marcus Nasty (Rinse)
Prok & Fitch (Toolroom)
PBR Streetgang
FRIDAY 15th April 2016
11:00 11:45 #TheFuture MEDIA Dance Media in 2016
In an era of diminished ad revenue, hyperactive attention spans, and endless clickbait articles, what role does the dance music media hold going forward?
Eamonn Forde (Journalist; Music Ally/The Guardian)
Carly Wilford (Presenter, DJ & Creator; IAmMusic & Sister)
Damian Lepp (Owner; Decoded)
Mikey Maguire (Editor; Wunderground)
Simon Kelly (Head of Digital Media; DJ Mag)
12:00-12:45 #TheFuture STREAMING Streaming And 'Full Stack Music'
Songkick co-founder Ian Hogarth recently wrote a piece for TechCrunch on how streaming / on-demand music, live music and radio will become fully integrated in the future - a concept that he calls 'full stack music'. What impact will this have on the music industry, and what marketing opportunities and revenue streams will it open up?
Jamie Hughes (Director of Partnerships; Songkick)
Mark Mulligan (Founder, MD & Analyst; Midia Research)
Rosie Foster (Director of Marketing; 100 Management)
Terry Weerasinghe (Beatport; VP of Music Services)
13:00-13:45 #MakeMusic LAW Music Sampling. The right context
Sampling, the reuse of existing music in a new a track has been around for years. However it is typically, often unfairly, portrayed as an art form bereft of creativity, essentially ripping off other artists work
Dean Marsh (Managing Director; Creative Law & Business)
Alison Hook (Head of Sampling & Copyright Infringement; EMI/Sony Music Publishing)
Andrew Sharland (Leading Partner; Clintons)
Jules O'Riordan aka Judge Jules (DJ/Lawyer; Sheridans)
Nadav Poraz (CEO; Who Sampled)
Peter Oxendale (Forensic Musicologist; Peter Oxendale Musical Services)
Saranne Reid (GM; Crown Manangement & Managing Director; Sample Clearance Service)
14:00-14:45 #TheFuture RESPONSIBILITY / THE ECO SYSTEM
Gender Equality In Music
Carly Wilford (Presenter, DJ & Creator; IAmMusic & Sister)
Alison Wenham (CEO; AIM)
Lucy Blair (Director; Motive Unknown)
Ralf Kollmann (Owner; Mobilee)
15:00-15:45 #TheFuture RESPONSIBILTY / THE ECO SYSTEM
KEY NOTE: Get Played Get Paid - Building the New Music Industry
AFEM brings together innovative new services that will drive change for our genre; better security, better data, better income
Mark Lawrence (CEO; AFEM)
Francis Gine (Director; Demo Box)
Herman Verkade (Owner; Musiqware)
Paul Hamill (Chief Navigator; Inflyte)
Tristan Hunt (Business Development & Marketing Manager; Audio Lock)
Yuri Dokter (CEO; DJ Monitor)
16:00-16:45 #TheFuture SOCIAL MEDIA Video Marketing In Music
With our thirst for video ever-increasing, video will be a more important marketing and advertising medium than ever in 2016 and beyond. From live-streaming, 360 degree videos and virtual reality to the new generation of social media stars native to the likes of YouTube, Vine, Periscope, Instagram and so on - what revenue streams are there for the dance music industry in video content? Can YouTube make subscriptions work? And after a backlash in 2015 regarding payouts, how can YouTube redefine its role in music marketing?
Mark Mulligan (Founder, MD & Analyst; Midia Research)
Farhana Aboo (Marketing Manager; AEI Media)
Patrick Ross (Head of Digital Marketing; AWAL & Kobalt Label Services)
Vanessa Bakewell (Head of Entertainment Partnerships; Facebook/Instagram)
17:00-17:45 #TheFuture RESPONSIBILITY / THE ECO SYSTEM The rise and fall of EDM?
Debate the history of the EDM explosion from conception to its current position. What have we learnt and what impact has it made to our industry?
Mark Lawrence (CEO; AFEM)
Chris Goss (Managing Director; Hospital Records)
Duncan King (Partner; Tempo Music Management)
Tim Binns (A&R Director; New State Entertainment)
11:25-12:10 #HowToGrow DJING How To Get Gigs
How to kickstart your DJ career - and keep it going
Charles Green (DJ/Promoter; Patterns)
Darren James (Agent)
Dave Blackgrove (Agent; Coda)
Sammy Verghese (Owner; The Arch)
12:20-13:05 #MakeMoney DJING The Commercial Conundrum
Can you be commercially succesful in dance music, yet retain credibility?
Nick Halkes (Managing Director; Incentive Music Management)
Marcus Nasty (A&R/DJ; Rinse)
Rob Baldwin (Booking Manager; Deltic Group)
Tim Binns (A&R Director; New State Entertainment)
Yousef (Artist)
13:15-14:00 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION From the Bedroom to the Main Stage
Chris Goss (Managing Director; Hospital Records)
Cooly G (Artist)
Hyroglifics (Artist)
Marcus Nasty (A&R/DJ; Rinse)
Pavan Mukhi (Foreign Beggars / Brapp TV)
14:10-14:55 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION Louder, Bigger, Better
Creative Recording & Mixing Techniques for Software Studio
Paul White (Sound On Sound; Editor In Chief) &
Hugh Robjohns (Sound On Sound; Technical Editor)
15:05-15:50 #MakeMoney RESPONSIBILITY / THE ECO SYSTEM
Doing it for Yourself; Why Music Publishing is Important
An outline on the basics of why it is important to register your songs, clearing samples, copyright, signing to a publisher and how to make money from your music online
16:00-16:45 #MakeMusic DJING
DJ Q&A Carly Wilford (Presenter, DJ & Creator; IAmMusic & Sister)
Applebottom (Artist)
Cooly G (Artist)
De$ignated (Artist)
Hyroglifics (Artist)
Lauren Lo Sung (Artist)
Yousef (Artist)
16:55-17:40 #HowToGrow DISTRIBUTION Downloads, Streaming, Vinyl and Record Labels, Navigating the Next 10 Years
Nick Dunn (CEO; Horus Music)
Jules O'Riordan aka Judge Jules (DJ/Lawyer; Sheridans)
14:30-15:10 #MakeMusic DJING DEMONSTRATION
Pioneer DJ rekordbox including DJ Performance, Software Tips & Tricks and Compatible Controllers Rob Anderson
15:30-16:15 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION SHOWCASE
Doctor Mix; The Rise of the Synth Claudio Passavanti (Doctor Mix; Director)
16:00-16:45 #MakeMusic Technology Music & Technology
Where is Technology taking us?
Chris Barker (Head of Content & Editor; dBs Insider)
David Eserin (UK Marketing Manager; Native Instruments)
Julien Trisch (Business Development Manager; Steinberg)
Martin Dockree (Country Sales Manager; Pioneer DJ)
TOOLROOM ACADEMY @ DEADWAX SOCIAL
10.00-11.00 #HowToGrow PRODUCTION Demo Drop
Producers hand in demos to Toolroom A&Rs on USB sticks
11.00-12.00 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION Production Demonstration
Building A Groove Prok & Fitch
12.00-13.00 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION Production Demonstration
Tech House Masterclass Funkagenda
14.00-15.00 #MakeMusic PRODUCTION Production Demonstraton
How To Finish Your Track Funkagenda
15.00-16.00 #HowToGrow RESPONSIBILITY / THE ECO SYSTEM
Careers Panel Meet The Toolroom Team
16.00-17.00 #HowToGrow PRODUCTION
Demo Feedback & Live A&R Feedback
