Talks by topic · 9 picks · Wed to Fri · Pro pass
Rights, tools, platforms and the artists caught in between.
If AI touches your catalogue, your contracts or your workflow, this is the week's argument in one route. We kept sessions where the people deciding the terms are on stage: collecting societies, platforms, toolmakers and artists. Expect disagreement; that's the useful part.
By Songpot desk · from the ADE programme, our venue guide and artist notes
Industry pass needed for most sessions.
When an AI agent buys the ticket, who does the fan belong to?
TicketSwap's CPTO Ruben Meiland puts the question to people building the agents and the fan tools: DEPT's data and AI lead Job Deibel, Amplify.One's Molly Stevens and Moments.ai's Jan Willem van der Meer. Useful if you sell tickets or run an artist's direct-to-fan channel.
With Jan Willem van der Meer, Job Deibel, June Nauta, Molly Stevens, Ruben Meiland
What a label can actually get out of AI tools this year.
Nettwerk's Tomas Luyke, who runs marketing technology there, starts from an honest premise: everyone now has the majors' AI tools and almost nobody gets useful work out of them. Practical, for small labels and self-releasing artists.
With Tomas Luyke
Your rights when a model learns from your tracks.
Hospital Records' Chris Goss and Get Physical's Roland Leesker sit with BumaStemra counsel Kees Bulder and AI lawyer Barry Scannell, moderated by copyright lawyer Marijn Kingma. Labels that have lived through every format change, asking what this one takes from them.
With Chris Goss, Kees Bulder, Marijn Kingma, Roland Leesker
The platforms that will set AI's rules, at one table.
Deezer's CEO Alexis Lanternier, FL Studio's Constantin Koehncke, Splice's Kakul Srivastava, NVIDIA's Shari Reich, Believe's Romain Becker and SoundCloud's Bina Mistry, chaired by music lawyer Cliff Fluet. If your release plan depends on any of them, this is where the terms get argued in public.
With Alexis Lanternier, Bina 'B' Mistry, Cliff Fluet, Constantin Koehncke, Kakul Srivastava, Romain Becker
Independent music has the market share. It doesn't own the roads.
Builders of artist-owned infrastructure compare notes: Subvert's Austin Robey on a co-op music platform, Unchained Music's Matt Waters, Pipeline's Sofia Anglada and Suzy Ryoo. For anyone tired of renting distribution from someone else.
With Austin Robey, Maarten Walraven, Matt Waters, Suzy Ryoo
Jean-Michel Jarre makes the case for the machines.
The man who built stadium shows out of synthesizers sits with Google DeepMind's Jeff Chang, with French Touch producer Joachim Garraud asking the questions. The optimistic side of the AI week, from someone who has been early to every new instrument.
With Jean-Michel Jarre, Jeff Chang, Joachim Garraud
Inside the UMG and NVIDIA studio deal.
NVIDIA's global audio lead Shari Reich on what the collaboration that put AI infrastructure into Abbey Road and Capitol looks like in practice, with MAX Music's Amanda Schupf asking. For label and tech people who want specifics over slogans.
With Amanda Schupf, Shari Reich
Suno's music chief and a house pioneer, on the same stage.
Paul Sinclair, Chief Music Officer at Suno, faces Brooklyn house pioneer Todd Terry, whose records were built from samples long before models were. MIDiA's Laura Fisher moderates. The most direct AI conversation of the week.
With Laura Fisher, Paul Sinclair, Todd Terry
Artists only, no product demos.
Trance and film-score composer BT, Italian melodic techno duo Mathame and AI audiovisual artist Portrait XO, with Dave Clarke moderating and unlikely to let anyone hide behind marketing.
With BT, Dave Clarke, Mathame, Portrait XO
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