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Spotify’s “Content and Distribution Guru” Sachin Doshi to present during MONETIZATION segment.
Reporting to the global Chief Content Officer, Sachin wears many hats at Spotify, working across business development, licensing, and artist and label relations. One of Sachin’s main areas of focus is to help educate artists and labels around Spotify’s business model and its impact on the wider recorded music business. As part of his wide-reaching role, Sachin is responsible for securing the rights necessary to operate and evolve the service from content partners. He works on technology partnerships designed to both enhance the Spotify user experience and grow distribution channels. Sachin also monitors and evaluates the growing impact of Spotify on the partners that make the business of music possible. Sachin was previously a Director of Business Development at Universal Music Group, where he worked on evaluating new digital music business models and negotiating digital distribution deals with some of the most innovative companies in the space.
Join the Fireside Chat with William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel at Google Inc. and Jim Griffin, Managing Director of OneHouse LLC to discuss copyright issues in the digital age! William Patry is Senior Copyright Counsel at Google Inc. He previously served as copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, and as a Policy Planning Advisor to the U.S. Register of Copyrights. For 12 years, he was also in the private practice of law, litigating copyright cases in court and advising clients. He is the most prolific scholar on copyright in history, in any language, beginning with a 6,500 page treatise, Patry on Copyright. His most recent book is How to Fix Copyright (Oxford University Press, January 2012).
Legendary record label executive and “NEA Jazz Master” George Avakian to join discussion on “Developing Non-Popular Music & Catalog Content for the 21st Century.”
Considered one of the most influential people in the history of the recording industry without whom the history of jazz would likely not be the same, Avakian started in the music business, while still at Yale University in the late 1930’s. He was responsible for the first reissues Columbia put out around 1940, discovering some unissued Louis Armstrong masters from his Hot Five and Hot Seven period in the process. His long tenure at Columbia Records culminated in his becoming responsible for the Popular Music and International divisions. During that time, Avakian introduced the LP record format created by Columbia engineers and produced the industry’s first 100 long-playing discs of popular music and jazz. He also produced the first live LP-Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. While at Columbia, Avakian signed and produced Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Johnny Mathis, Rita Reys, and Erroll Garner to the label, among others. In 1959 he was hired as one of the founding A&R managers for the newly-established Warner Bros. Records and also worked as a producer for RCA Victor. Additionally, he signed Bob Newhart, producing the first comedy album to win a Best Album Grammy Award. While retiring from the record business in the mid ’70s George Avakian has been recognized with a The Trustees Lifetime Achievement Award (Grammy) from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences for contributions to the music industry worldwide and by the National Endowment of the Arts as a NEA Jazz Master, among many other accolades.
Confirmed Speakers Include:
William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc.
Jon Vanhala, SVP Digital & Business Development, Island Def Jam Music Group
Jason Herskowitz, Chief Product Officer, Official.fm
Mike More, CEO & Co-Founder, Headliner.fm
Chris Wiltsee, Director, Business Development, RootMusic
Dan Kantor, CEO, ex.fm
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
Jeff Bronikowski, Head of Corporate Dev. & Strategy, The Echo Nest
David Pakman, Partner, Venrock
Jesse Israel, Co-Founder, Technology & Creative Director, Cantora Records + Labs
Jonathan Axelrod, Partner, ER Accelerator, Entrepreneur, Founder/CEO, MusicGremlin (SanDisk), Founder/President, Music123 (Guitar Center)
Howard Han, VP and General Manager of Reverb Live, ReverbNation
John Frankenheimer, Chairman, Music Practice, Loeb & Loeb LLP
Ned Sherman, CEO/Publisher, Digital Media Wire
Garth Holsinger, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Sales, Klout
Mike Perrone, COO & Co-Founder, SocialFlow
Brian Silver, COO & Co-Founder, RockCityClub.com / Rockrena, Inc.
Chris Swain, CEO, cred.fm
Sean O’Connell, Founder & CEO, Music Allies
Jonathan Leone, Co-Founder, Head of Strategy and Finance, Thrillcall
Aimee Higgins, VP Strategy and Planning, Pandora
James Lively, COO, DIY Media
Shannon Connolly, VP, Digital Music Strategy, MTV Networks/Viacom
Brenda Walker, CEO, Act Local Media
Cortney Harding, Music/Entertainment Evangelista, ThingLink
Les Watkins, SVP, Bus. Affairs & Dev., Music Reports
Michael Drexler, Executive Director, Business Development, BMI New Media
Cecily Mak, VP & General Counsel, Rhapsody
Michael Petricone, SVP, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
Julie Samuels, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jeff Price, CEO & Founder, TuneCore
Maurice Russell, SVP, Licensing & Bus. Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency
Barry Slotnick, Partner & Chair, IP & Entertainment Lit., Loeb & Loeb LLP
Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC
Jake Sigal, Founder and CEO, Livio Radio
Finbar O’Hanlon, CEO, Linius
Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Entertainment & Media, Manatt
Jim Cady, CEO, Slacker
Tom Brophy, CEO, Raditaz
David Hyman, CEO, MOG
Myk Willis, Founder, Myxer
Tres Williams, VP, Business & Legal Affairs, Clear Channel Digital
David Oxenford, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
George Avakian, NEA Jazz Master; Former Head of Columbia Records, Warner Brother Records & Founding Officer of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Carl Griffin, Former Head of A&R, GRP & N2K
Mike Brown, CEO, Cyber-NY
Erik Gilbert, CEO, Essential Music Services, USA / former head, Acquisitions & Content, IODA
Aaron Burton, CEO, Fizzkicks & SpinApp Mobile
Michael Corcoran, CEO, MusicSubmit.com
Jerald Miller, President/CEO, Nu Jazz Entertainment
Sachin Doshi, Content & Distribution Guru, Spotify
Evan Lowenstein, CEO & Founder, StageIt
Matt Ringel, Managing Partner, New Era Media & Marketing, Red Light Management
Jeff Pollack, CEO of Global Media & Entertainment, Pollack Media Group
Vincent Borel, Co-Founder, Webdoc
Jenn Miller, CEO, Audiosocket
Darryl Ballantyne, CEO, LyricFind
Vince Bannon, VP, Entertainment P’ships & Development, Getty Images
David Kohl, EVP Sales and Customer Operations, VEVO
Kurt Hanson, Publisher, RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter, CEO, AccuRadio.com and SlipstreamRadio.com
Eric Klinker, CEO, BitTorrent
Greg “Grouchy” Watkins, CEO & Co-Founder, AllHipHop.com
Anthony Volodkin, Founder, Hype Machine
Kristin Thomson, Co-Director, Artist Revenue Streams, Future of Music Coalition
Kevin King, CEO, MusicHype
Gabe Spierer, Director of Media, Beggars Group
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