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Tech-Music Start-ups and Music Industry Leaders to Converge at 7th Annual Digital Music Forum West, October 6-7, Los Angeles as Investment Dollars Flow into Digital Music

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 03, 2011

Digital Media Wire today announced speakers, keynoters and agenda for the 7th Annual Digital Music Forum West (http://www.digitalmusicforum.com/west), to be held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles on October 6-7th, 2011.


This year's event comes as $ 411 Million has been invested in music-tech companies since in the first half of 2011. The event highlights many new and emerging companies in the space and is focused around six topic series: The Artist, The Fan, Rights, Distribution, Monetization and The Future.


Attendees are over 300 senior decision-makers from music-tech start-ups, record labels, music publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies, wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio, advertising, attorneys, artists, investors and venture capitalists.


Confirmed speakers include:

Gabe Adiv, CEO, TuneUp Media

Nic Adler, Owner, The Roxy

Jeff Bronikowski, Head of Corporate Dev. & Strategy, The Echo Nest

Kevin Browning, Engineer & Producer, Umphrey's McGee

Antony Bruno, Executive Director, Digital/Mobile, Billboard

Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation

Ryan Chisholm, Artist Manager, Bill Silva Management (Jason Mraz, Christina Perri, etc.)

Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic

Erin Dwyer, VP, Digital Strategy & Integration, The Marketing Arm/Davie Brown Entertainment

Bruce Flohr, Artist Manager, Red Light Management / A&R, ATO Records

Jay Frank, SVP, Music Strategy, CMT (MTV Networks)

Eric Garland, CEO, BigChampagne

Paul Geller, SVP of Business Development & Public Policy, Grooveshark.com

Jordan Glazier, CEO, Eventful

Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse

Dave Haynes, VP of Business Development, SoundCloud

Michael Hobson, CEO, High Resolution Technologies (HRT)

David Hyman, CEO & Founder, MOG

Jack Isquith, SVP, Strategic Development, Slacker Radio

Jeff Jampol, Manager/Owner, Jampol Artist Management (The Doors, Janis Joplin Estate, Michael Jackson Estate, etc.)

Omar Johnson, SVP, Beats By Dr. Dre

Mike Kaminsky, Artist Manager/Owner, KMGMT Artist Management (3OH3!)

Adam Kidron, CEO, boinc

Kevin King, CEO, MusicHype

Adam Klein, President and Chief Executive Officer, eMusic

Julie Lee, EVP, Business Development & Business Affairs, VEVO

Vivien Lewit, Director, Strategic P'ships & Head of Label/Artist Relations, YouTube

Larry Linietsky, SVP, Product & Operations, Clear Channel Radio

James Lively, COO, DIY Media

Evan Lowenstein, CEO & Founder, StageIt

David Marcus, SVP, Worldwide Artist Services, Warner Music Group

Chris Martin, VP of Engineering, Pandora Media

Vickie Nauman, VP, North America, 7digital

David Oxenford, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine

Adam Parness, Senior Director, Music Licensing, Rhapsody Int'l

Jeff Pollack, Chairman & CEO, Pollack Media Group

Jon Potter, President, Fan Freedom Project

Jeff Price, CEO, Tunecore

Michael Robertson, CEO, MP3Tunes

Ian Rogers, CEO, Topspin

Rachel Scarpati, Account Executive, Business Development, The Harry Fox Agency

Michael Schneider, CEO, Mobile Roadie

Syd Schwartz, CEO, Linchpin Digital

Lior Shamir, CEO, VibeDeck

Allison Shaw, Director of B2B Marketing, Jakprints

Ned Sherman, CEO/Publisher, Digital Media Wire

James 'J' Sider, CEO/Founder, RootMusic

Victor Siegel, President & CEO, VerveLife

Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow

Wilhelm Taht, Marketing Director, Flowd

Eric Tobin, Director, Artist Development, Hopeless Records

Claude Tolbert, Vice President, Business Development, BitTorrent

Neil Vineberg, CMO, ThingLink

Greg "Grouchy" Watkins, CEO & Co-Founder, AllHipHop.com

Les Watkins, SVP of Business Affairs, Music Reports

Alex White, Co-Founder & CEO, Next Big Sound


Event sponsors and media partners include Pandora Media, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Rovi, DIY Media, Music Reports, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Flowd, TuneUp, Sonos, WOWee, High Resolution Technologies (HRT), ThingLink, boinc, RightsFlow, Jakprints, NVPR, A2IM, Mashable, UCLA Anderson School of Management, The Recording Academy, New Music Tipsheet, EMF, Fusicology, Mary-Margaret Network, AFTRA, BoogarLists, TAG Strategic, Parks Associates, Canadian Music Week and PRWeb.


For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://www.digitalmusicforum.com/west.


Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include the LA Games Conference; NY Games Conference; Future of Television East; Future of Film Summit; Digital Music Forum East; Digital Media Conference East and West; and Digital Media Insider @ CES. Digital Media Wire is also a programming partner for the annual Canadian Music Week.


About Digital Media Wire, Inc.:

Digital Media Wire is an events, news, and publishing company serving the digital entertainment & media industry since May 2000. Digital Media Wire produces executive forums featuring the leading executives in digital media and entertainment. Digital Media Wire also publishes an authoritative daily email newsletter and industry directory. For more information, please visit http://www.dmwmedia.com.


Contact:

Duan Li

Digital Media Wire, Inc.

310-855-0033 ext. 0

duan(at)digitalmediawire(dot)com


OR


Hal Bringman

NVPR

323-851-6877

hal(at)nvpr(dot)com


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