SPOT seminars and keynote speeches: the music industry at your fingertips.

Like every year SPOT Festival will again offer a variety of seminars and speeches dealing with the challenges the music industry is facing and the opportunities arising from them. Speakers this year include among others the world-renowned futurist Gerd Leonhard, former chairman of music studies at Salford University Sheila Whiteley and co-founder of The Orchard, one of the world’s largest digital distribution companies and manager of The Raveonettes Scott Cohen.

Here’s a full list of the events offered in English: (free access with SPOT-wristband)

Friday 4 May

Music & Media Pitch Germany

10:00 – 13:00 @ Promus, Vester Allé 15

Pitch your music or project to German music and media professionals. During the meeting you will have the opportunity to meet: Michael Schmidt (Exit Strategy Entertainment), Pia Hoffmann (Music Supervising), Cathrin von Seld (My Foxy Music), Birte Krohn (Krohn Musik), Ingmar Rehberg (Yessian), Marion Mertin (Marion Mertin Music Consulting), Django Seelenmeyer (Music & Business Consultant, Klangspeicher Musikverlag), Anette Unger (Bremedia Produktion) and Wolf Lang (Threaks).

Presented by Promus, registration through: www.promus.dk

Host: Jesper Mardahl

Keynote speaker: Gerd Leonhard // Music industry’s future scenario: the next three to five years – the cloud, creators, rights, money and the people formerly known as consumers.

15:00 – 16:00 @ Remisen (Godsbanen)

The world-renowned futurist and keynote speaker Gerd Leonhard will among other things talk about the concept “Music 2.0: restarting the music industry.” The music industry has gone through enormous changes and therefore a complete restart of the industry as such is underway. Gerd Leonhard proclaims that music 2.0 is just around the corner.

The festival of the future

16:15 – 17:15 @ Remisen (Godsbanen)

Are festivals as we know them a thing of the past? Are there just too many of them, or are they too similar to each other? Sonisphere and many other great festivals got cancelled – also in Scandinavia – like it happened with Norwegian Quart. What does the future hold for festivals and how will they survive?

Presented by Northside Festival.

Saturday 5 May

Keynote speaker: Sheila Whiteley // Gender imbalance: how does it affect the music industry politically and culturally?

11:00 – 12:00 @ Radar (Godsbanen)

Sheila Whiteley was the chairman of music studies at Salford University until 2006 and winner of three European social funds’ awards for her research on gender, women and culture. Whiteley will talk about the music industry, the gender debate, identity, subjectivity and sexuality.

Keynote speaker: Scott Cohen // Show me the money

12:15 – 13:15 @ Radar (Godsbanen)

It is a challenge to make money in the music industry. The digital age has created a wealth of new opportunities in the music industry, but also added several layers of complexity. Get some industry tips and tricks directly from the experts.