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When: Fri, 2010-04-16 09:00 - Sun, 2010-04-18 18:00Sounds Digital is a uniquely exciting creative event for digital media and music professionals.
Sounds Digital will focus on the future of digital music across all platforms and devices. Music streaming, mobile applications, online video, social media and immersive entertainment experiences such as Nine Inch Nails “Year Zero” have captured the imagination of millions of music fans worldwide and are making huge impacts on the way people listen to and interact with digital music.
Sounds Digital is your chance to hear from the power-brokers in digital media, music, immersive entertainment and VC's and entrepreneurs - assisting you to achieve your goal of commercial success.
Sounds Digital includes a one-day Conference (Fri 16th) featuring a selection of the world's most influential music, digital media and entertainment powerbrokers; and a two-day Lab (Sat 17th - Sun 18th) where selected project teams work one-on-one with the Sounds Digital speakers/mentors on their own project ideas.
Sounds Digital connects people with original digital music ideas with a superb international network of creative thinkers, technology wizards, commercialisation experts, potential business partners, and potential financial resources.
All this in London - one of the world's coolest music cities!
Sounds Digital International Speakers and Mentors include:
- Ken Hertz – Senior Partner, Goldring, Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP (Los Angeles)
- Fred McIntrye - Vice President, Product – CBS Interactive (San Francisco)
- Frank Rose – Contributing Editor to Wired (New York)
- Martyn Ware – Founding Member, The Human League, Heaven 17 and The Illustrious Company (London)
- Matthew Hawn – Vice President, EMEA & Asia Pacific – Global Digital Operations – Sony Music Entertainment (London)
- Susan Bonds – President/CEO/Founder, 42 Entertainment (Pasadena)
- Bob Johnson - Principal and Co-founder, Planet Illogica (Los Angeles)
- Steve Jang – Strategic Advisor at Animoto / Conduit Labs / Pixelpipe / StumbleUpon (San Francisco)
- Tim Chang – Principal, Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto)
- Kaiser Kuo – China Digital Media Expert and Rock Musician (Beijing)
- Marcelino Ford – Livene – General Manager of Interactive Content and Advanced Advertising Development, Intel Digital Home Group (Los Angeles)
- David Maher Roberts – CEO, The Filter (Bath)
- Jason DaPonte - Managing Editor, BBC Mobile Platforms (London)
- Ashley Head – Executive Chairman, Datacash Group Plc (London)
- Priya Prakash - Creative Director for Consumer Experience, Nokia (London)
- Nicole Yershon - Director of Innovative Solutions, Ogilvy (London)
Who Should Attend?
Digital music entrepreneurs, music executives, investors, advertising, social media and marketing professionals, hackers, games developers, content creators, producers, promoters, managers, business strategists and analysts – all professionals involved in the digital media and music industries…
The Mentors
XMediaLab has access to a superb roster of some of the world's leading digital media practitioners, innovators, and power-brokers. International Mentors and Speakers for Sounds Digital include (click on image for full bios):
Conference Day
Friday 16th April, 9.00am - 5.00pm, followed by Networking Reception
Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN
Registration: £299 + VAT £149 + VAT (First Time in London - 50% discount!!)
The Sounds Digital Conference Day is the must attend digital media and music event in London 2010.
Join some of the world’s best music execs, technology innovators, immersive entertainment, branded content and social media experts, VC's and entrepreneurs to explore the future of music: new growth opportunities, new partnership possibilities and new business models.
If you are developing ideas for digital music across any platform - mobile, the Internet, alternate realities, or for video, or any form of IP TV content or services, this is your chance to hear how the experts do it. Sounds Digital gives you the low down on the latest market developments, creative ideas, business, streaming, syndication and distribution models across platforms and across the emerging new markets for music!
No time-wasting boring panels, just densely-packed, information-rich, clear and helpful, set piece keynotes from digital media luminaries from all over the world.
If you are a music exec, a digital media professional, media executive, producer, creator, technology wizard, entrepreneur, analyst or strategist of any kind, this is the one-day you need to attend – with utterly exceptional value pricing, thanks to our partners and supporters. Conferences costing more than ten times as much don’t have anywhere near the clarity of focus, the richness of practical information, or the variety of international perspectives.
Update yourself in a day!
Sounds Digital International Speakers and Mentors include:
- Ken Hertz - Senior Partner, Goldring, Hertz & Lichtenstein LLP (Los Angeles)
- Frank Rose - Contributing Editor to Wired (New York)
- Matthew Hawn - Vice President, EMEA & Asia Pacific – Global Digital Operations – Sony Music Entertainment (London)
- Susan Bonds - President/CEO/Founder, 42 Entertainment (Pasadena)
- Bob Johnson - Principal and Co-founder, Planet Illogica (Los Angeles)
- Steve Jang - Strategic Advisor at Animoto / Conduit Labs / Pixelpipe / StumbleUpon (San Francisco)
- Tim Chang - Principal, Norwest Venture Partners (Palo Alto)
- Kaiser Kuo - China Digital Media Expert and Rock Musician (Beijing)
- Marcelino Ford - Livene - General Manager of Interactive Content and Advanced Advertising Development, Intel Digital Home Group (Los Angeles)
- David Maher Roberts - CEO, The Filter (Bath)
- Jason DaPonte - Managing Editor, BBC Mobile Platforms (London)
- Ashley Head - Executive Chairman, Datacash Group Plc (London)
- Priya Prakash - Creative Director for Consumer Experience (London)
- Martyn Ware - Founding Member, The Human League, Heaven 17 and The Illustrious Company (London)
- Nicole Yershon - Director of Innovative Solutions, Ogilvy (London)
- Fred McIntrye - Vice President, Product – CBS Interactive (San Francisco)
Who Should Attend?
Digital music entrepreneurs, music executives, investors, advertising and marketing professionals, hackers, games developers, content creators, producers, promoters, managers, business strategists and analysts - all professionals involved in the digital media and music industries...
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The Lab
Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th April
Sadler's Wells, Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN
The Sounds Digital Lab is a uniquely exciting creative event for digital media and music professionals.
Nominate your digital music company / project idea / business plan to receive elite one-on-one mentoring from the Sounds Digital Keynote Speakers!
Sounds Digital consists of a one-day Conference Day (Friday 16th) that showcases all the International Mentors as Speakers. The Lab (Saturday 17th - Sunday 18th) itself is an intensive two-day creative ideas and business matching environment for the selected participants who get to work directly on their own project ideas with a range of the world's best digital media and digital music experts, and build business opportunities with other Lab participants.
The Sounds Digital Lab experience increases the chances of getting your project idea to market and achieving commercial success. You also enter into an impeccable international network of digital media stars with their superb expertise and high-value international contacts.
The environment of the Lab allows participating companies and teams to schedule their own unique Lab experience by selecting for themselves which Mentors they choose to spend their one-on-one time with.
It's a form of elite personal consultation with a range of the world's outstanding digital media people about your own project ideas. And you make friends with the international stars.
Previous project teams have ranged from independent start-ups which have gone on to win awards at MIPCOM in Cannes, UNESCO in New York, AIMIA in Australia; to Lonely Planet; ABC’s Rage and The Chaser; Disney Internet Group from Tokyo; Zuji.com; India’s biggest games and animation company; and world leading Virtual Worlds platform. Project teams have come from the UK, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Japan, Germany, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India and New Zealand.
The "X" in XMediaLab stands for: Cross Platform, Cross Disciplinary, and Cross Cultural.
The Sounds Digital Lab is looking for 14 great projects across digital music - mobile, video, social media, recommendation services, interactive entertainment and media content and web applications.
Nomination is simple and it's free!
Click here to nominate your project now!
Previous Lab participants have been laudatory in their praise for this unique experience.
| "Profound and transforming" |
"Nothing short of extraordinary" |
| "An exceptional experience!" | "By far the best professional event I have attended!" |
| "Compressed a year into three days - a million dollars worth of mentoring!" | "Mind Blowing!!" |
| "A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity" | "Informational, Illuminating, Inspiring!" |
Getting There
Sounds Digital will be held at London's Sadler's Wells - a unique venue inextricably linked to innovative dance and music performances!
Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN, London, United Kingdom
