Health, equity and safety

What music leaders do in unstable times.

Block9's Gideon Berger, Coldcut's Matt Black and IMPEL's Sarah Williams, chaired by In Place of War's Ruth Daniel. Big questions, asked by people who act on them.

With Gideon Berger, Matt Black, Ruth Daniel, Sarah Williams

Fewer labels, fewer festivals, fewer agencies. Who gets in?

A shesaid.so conversation with HoneyLuv, LYZZA, Novah and SPFDJ, moderated by FUGA's Connie Chow, on who gets through the door as the industry consolidates.

With Connie Chow, HoneyLuv, Lyzza, Novah, SPFDJ

From 300 delegates to 10,000, told by the people who started it.

ADE co-founders and early team members Anna Knaup, Maria Jiménez, Richard Zijlma and Jan-Willem van de Ven with programmer Gary Smith, Dave Clarke moderating. Thirty years from three night venues to three hundred.

With Anna Knaup, Dave Clarke, Gary Smith, Maria Jiménez, Richard Zijlma

If streaming volume works against artists, what do we build instead?

Troy Carter takes ADE's big question with Music Ally's Paul Brindley. The keynote to catch if you only catch one.

Club culture started as a safe space. Keeping it one.

The METOODJS collective and Ivy's Dennis Snorremans, moderated by Victória Mazzone de Castro, on counterculture roots and the work of keeping rooms safe for the communities that built them.

With Dennis Snorremans, Laureline Teste Wyrich, Victória Mazzone de Castro

An afternoon on women's place in electronic music, with a plan.

BumaStemra Rise Up and DGTL Academy host DJ and Future Female Sounds founder Tia Korpe, Amsterdam DJ and organiser Isis van der Wel and Taskforce GO!'s Elske van der Linden. Workshop energy more than panel talk.

With Elske van der Linden, Isis van der Wel, Thomas van Well Groeneveld, Tia Korpe

More money than ever. Is it reaching creators?

Get Physical's Roland Leesker, composer-lobbyist Simone van Vugt and DAP's Sven Toering, moderated by DJ Rufy Ghazi, on what would actually make the business fairer.

With Roland Leesker, Rufy Ghazi, Simone van Vugt, Sven Toering

Liberation and excess, the old tension, talked through straight.

Night Time Industries Association chief Michael Kill, BUDDY founder Claire Wright and techno vocalist Louisahhh, moderated by journalist Senay Boztas, on drugs, harm reduction and what's changing on the floor.

With Claire Wright, Louisahhh, Michael Kill, Senay Boztas

A DJ lecture on the women whose voices made house.

DJ scholar Lynnée Denise follows the voices of Black women through disco, hip-hop, house and dancehall in a performed, music-led lecture. Part history class, part set.

With Lynnée Denise

Brazil's funk scene, and who still gets left out.

Baile funk DJ and curator Galecta, LUA and DJ Ray, moderated by Monique Dardenne, on the machismo that still sidelines women and queer artists in a scene the world is dancing to.

With DJ Ray, Galecta, LUA, Monique Dardenne

Beirut keeps dancing.

Tala Mortada, Hot Axis' James Khoury and DJ Rolbac, with SceneNoise's Timmy Mowafi, on how Lebanon's electronic scene survives and changes. Resilience, told by people living it.

With James Khoury, Rolbac, Tala Mortada, Timmy Mowafi

Building a scene in Cairo without the infrastructure.

Cairo DJ Zeina, Nacelle's Aly Goede and Venture Lifestyle's Rabih Mockbel, with SceneNoise's Timmy Mowafi, on how Egypt's electronic music grows when the clubs, labels and funding don't exist yet.

With Aly Goede, Timmy Mowafi, Zeina