Open Music 2018 Annual Summit: Thank You!

Thank you to the over 150 members who joined us for the first Open Music Annual Summit on November 15-16, 2018 in New York, enjoying keynotes by Desmond Child and Imogen Heap; an MMA panel with top reps from DiMA, NMPA, RIAA, and producer Hank Shocklee; presentations by MIT Connection Science, PwC, URights, Blokur, Gusto and IBM, to name a few; plus governance updates, and working group meetings focused on the board, technology, implementation, and education. Stay tuned for more updates, including upcoming governance sessions, working group calls, board structure, and our next Open Music meeting in February. For now, enjoy this visual recap of a few Summit highlights.

(From right to left) Hank Shocklee, Music Producer / President, Shocklee Entertainment, Chris Harrison, CEO, DiMA, Erich Carey, VP and Senior Counsel, NMPA, David Hughes, CTO, RIAA and moderator Vickie Nauman, Founder, CrossBorderWork / Advisor, Open Music discuss the impact of the Music Modernization Act on artists and industry

Full house at the Open Music Annual Summit kicks off with Keynote Desmond Child, Grammy Winning Songwriter-Producer

Desmond Child and Panos Panay, VP of Innovation and Strategy, Berklee / Open Music Co-Founder, dive into conversation about songwriting careers past, present and future

Caroline Champarnaud, Director of International Development, SACEM presents a demo of the URights platform

Panos Panay invites conversation in advance of the break

Noah Beltran, Global Lead, Cognitive Solutions for Media & Entertainment, IBM discusses Big Data and IBM Watson, with Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Fellow, MIT Connection Science lending a helping hand

Will Wang, Founder of Gusto, presents a future use case on token economics for the music industry

Imogen Heap, Musician and Tech Innovator, Mycelia was the Keynote on day two of the Summit, interviewed by Brian Dubb, CEO & Founder, MPRO MUSIC and George Howard, Lead Researcher, Berklee / Open Music

Peter Guglielmino, CTO of Media and Entertainment, IBM gives a comprehensive presentation on blockchain and the future of music rights identification

Michiel Bakker, MIT Connection Science, Data Visualization Research Assistant, presents a demo on the data visualization work done by MIT Connection Science

Phil Barry, Founder of Blokur, presents a real-world demo on tracking music publishing data via blockchain and machine learning

The Summit concluded with working group breakout sessions, including the Technology/Protocol working group, led by Thomas Hardjono, Technology Officer, MIT Connection Science, and Thomas Foth, Director, Emerging Technology Labs, PwC

The Commercialization/Implementation working group, led by Kris Kersey,  Director, Emerging Technologies and New Services, PwC, and Ari Adler, Senior Portfolio Director, IDEO

The Board/Governance working group, led by Panos Panay, met to discuss the future structure of Open Music

The Education and Advocacy working group, led by George Howard, Nicole d’Avis, Director of Operations and Programs, Berklee / Open Music, and Marcus Welles, Manager, Entertainment, Media and Communications Consulting, PwC