DMW has a rich history of gathering the best in the industry to speak at our annual NYC music event. From Shawn Fanning to Lyor Cohen to Les Paul, some of the best and brightest in the industry have lit up our stage and networked in our halls. If you are interested in speaking, presenting or performing at the event, please complete our speaker submission form.
Speakers at DMW’s past Digital Music Forums include:
Aaron Burton, CEO, Fizzkicks & SpinApp Mobile
Aaron Grosky, President, Control Room
Abe Burns, Digital Operations, Guy Oseary (Madonna, Alex Rodriguez, A-Grade)
Adam H. Parness, Senior Director, Music Licensing, Rhapsody International Inc.
Adam Kidron, CEO & Co-Founder, Beyond Oblivion
Adam Parness, Senior Director, Music Licensing, Rhapsody Int’l
Adam Powers, Senior Director, Technology, Rovi Corp
Adam Satariano, Reporter, Bloomberg News
Adam Wexler, Founder/CEO, Rank ‘em
Adam Wolf, Senior Creative Director, pigFACTORY Music, USA
Aharon Weiner, CEO & Co-Founder, FanKix
Aimee Higgins, VP Strategy and Planning, Pandora
Al Miyashita, Vice President, Worldwide Data Sales, Rovi Corporation
Alan Miller, Co-Owner/CEO, Filter Creative Group /Co-Publisher, Filter Magazine
Albhy Galuten, VP, Media Technology Strategy, Sony Network Entertainment
Alec Foege, Author/Writer, Founder, Brookside Research
Alex White, Co-Founder & CEO, Next Big Sound
Alexandra Patsavas, Owner / Music Supervisor, Chop Shop (The Twilight Saga, The O.C., Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl)
Allison Schlueter, Vice President, Digital Media, Island Def Jam Music Group
Allison Shaw, President/Owner, Manic Monkee MGMT and Marketing
Allison Streuter, Director of Technology Partnerships, Atom Factory (Lady Gaga)
Amanda Marks, Global Head of Digital Accounts, Universal Music Group
Andrew Katz, Director of Marketing, Pepsi-Cola North America
Anjula Acharia Bath, Chairman, President & Founder, Desi Hits!
Antony Bruno, Community Manager, NARM
Anu Kirk, VP of Mobile Product, MOG
Ariel Elazar, VP Digital Distribution, Dick Clark Productions
Arvind Venkateswaran, SVP, WW Bus Dev / GM – Americas & Asia, Geodesic
Asya Shein, CEO, Fusicology
Aviad Arviv, COO, Watchitoo
Giorgia Fumanti, Award Winning Artist
Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Ent & Media, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Barry Massarsky, President, Massarsky Consulting / Former Senior Economist, ASCAP
Barry Slotnick, Partner/Chair, IP & Entertainment Lit., Loeb & Loeb LLP
Ben Campbell, CEO, OurStage, Inc.
Bill Werde, Editorial Director, Billboard
Brad Navin, CEO, The Orchard
Brad Prendergast, Senior Counsel, Licensing & Enforcement, SoundExchange
Brandon Martinez, CEO & Co-Founder, INDMUSIC (YouTube content network)
Brenda Walker, CEO & Co-Founder, Act Local Media
Brenna Ehrlich, Senior Editor MTV O Music Awards , MTV Networks/Viacom
Brian Bacchus, President, SoulFeast Music, Former Head of A&R, Blue Note Records, RCA/Novus, Island /Antilles
Brian Lakamp, President, Clear Channel Digital
Brian McGarvey, Vice President, Business Development, Rhapsody
Brian Silver, COO & Co-Founder, RockCityClub.com / Rockrena, Inc.
Brian Whitman, Co-Founder & CTO, The Echo Nest
Brock Batten, Creative Director, Mobile Roadie
Bruce Flohr, Artist Manager, Red Light Management / A&R, ATO Records
Bryan Calhoun, VP, New Media & External Affairs, SoundExchange
Cameo Carlson, EVP, Universal Motown Republic Group
Carter Adamson, COO, Rdio
Casey Rae-Hunter, Deputy Director, Future of Music Coalition
Cecily Mak, Vice President & General Counsel, Rhapsody
Cecily Mak, VP & General Counsel, Rhapsody International Inc.
Celia Hirschman, Music & Marketing Consultant, Downtown Marketing
Chris Castle, Managing Partner, Christian L. Castle Attorneys
Chris Martin, VP of Engineering, Pandora Media
Chris Phenner, EVP, Business Development, Thumbplay
Chris Swain, CEO, cred.fm
Chris Tsakalakis, General Manager, eBay Tickets / StubHub
Chris Wiltsee, Director, Business Development, RootMusic
Christina Calio, Director, Music Relationships, Strategy & Biz Dev, Microsoft
Chuck D, Founder, Public Enemy and Spit Digital
Cindy Charles, SVP & General Counsel, MediaNet
Claes Loberg, CEO, Guvera
Colin Rushing, Senior Counsel, SoundExchange
Constantine Roussos, Founder and CEO, dotMusic (.MUSIC)
Corey Simmons, CEO & Co-Founder, ClubCreate
Cortney Harding, Music/Entertainment Evangelista, ThingLink
Courtney Nichols, VP of New Music & Culture, Editorial Director, DJCN
Craig Besnoy, Vice President, Business Development, Universal Music Group
Craig Bruck, Music Agent, International Creative Management (ICM)
Dan Kantor, CEO, ex.fm
Dan Stuart, Counsel, Entertainment Industry, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Daniel Glass, CEO & Founder, Glassnote
Daniel Tibbets, EVP & Studio Chief, GoTV Networks
Daren Tsui, CEO, Mspot
Darryl Ballantyne, CEO & Co-Founder, Lyricfind / SongFreaks
Daryl Berg, Vice President, Music, Shine America
Daryl Friedman, VP, Advocacy & Gov’t Relations, The Recording Academy
Dave Haynes, VP of Business Development, SoundCloud
David Bakula, SVP, Analytics, Nielsen/SoundScan
David Del Beccaro, CEO/Founder, Music Choice
David Hyman, CEO & Founder, MOG
David Kohl, EVP Sales and Customer Operations, VEVO
David Leibowitz, Chairman, SirGroovy
David Marcus, SVP, Worldwide Artist Services, Warner Music Group
David Oxenford, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP
David Pakman, Partner, Venrock
David Porter, CEO & founder, 8tracks
David Rosenberg, General Counsel, Live365
David Seklir, VP of Music, MTV Games
David Sherbow, Founder, LiveMusicMachine.Com
David Siemer, Founder, Siemer Ventures / Siemer & Associates
David Silverman, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
David Weiss, Co-Founder/Co-Editor, SonicScoop.com
David Zierler, EVP & General Manager, INgrooves
Dermot McCormack, EVP of Digital Media, MTV Networks Music & Logo Group
DJ RAP, Artist/Label owner
Dorothy Hui, VP, Partnership Marketing & Sales, Wind-up Records
Doug Barry, Managing Director, Selby Ventures
Eric Garland, CEO & Founder, BigChampagne
Eric Klinker, CEO, BitTorrent
Eric Tobin, Director, Artist Development, Hopeless Records
Erika Savage, Senior Business & Legal Affairs, Interscope Geffen A&M Records
Erin Dwyer, VP, Digital Strategy & Integration, The Marketing Arm/Davie Brown Entertainment
Evan Lowenstein, CEO & Founder, StageIt
Eyal Goldwerger, CEO, TargetSpot
Finbar O’Hanlon, CEO, Linius
Fred Beteille, Senior Director of Strategic Technology, The Harry Fox Agency
Fred Goodman, Author, Fortune’s Fool: Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music, and an Industry in Crisis
Gabe Adiv, CEO, TuneUp Media
Gabe Spierer, Director of Media, Beggars Group
Garth Holsinger, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Sales, Klout
Garth Trinidad, Award-Winning DJ, Host, Music Supervisor
Gary Shapiro, President & CEO, Consumer Electronics Association, Author, The Comeback: How Innovation will Restore the American Dream
Gene Sheridan, CEO, BridgeCo
Geoff Mayfield, VP, Business Analysis & Mkt Research, Universal Music Group
George Searle, CEO, LimeWire
George White, GM, Digital, Billboard
Gerrit Meier, Chief Operating Officer, Digital, Clear Channel Radio
Greg “Grouchy” Watkins, CEO & Co-Founder, AllHipHop.com
Hans Bousie and Rob van Dongen, Lawyers/Partners, Bousie Advocaten (Amsterdam)
Harlan Frey, VP Touring / Artist Development, Roadrunner Records
Henry Hall, Director, Search Mktg. Dev. & Innovation, Media Contacts – NY, Havas Digital
Holly Adams, Consultant and Former Vice President, Warner Bros. Records
Howard Han, VP and General Manager of Reverb Live, ReverbNation
Ian Rogers, CEO, Topspin
J Scavo, SVP, Interactive Marketing & E-Commerce, Warner Bros. Records
J. Sider, CEO & Founder, BandPage
Jack Isquith, SVP, Digital Music, Warner Bros. Records
Jackson Gates, Director, Business Development, Pandora
Jaclyn Ranere, VP, Marketing & Corporate Communications, The Orchard
Jake Sigal, Founder and CEO, Livio Radio
James Blades, Artist Manager, McGhee Entertainment (KISS, Clint Black, Hootie and the Blowfish, TOTO, Night Ranger)
James ‘J’ Sider, CEO/Founder, RootMusic
James Lively, COO, DIY Media
Jamie Roberts, VP – New Media & Publicity, Big Machine Media
Jan D’Alessandro, VP, Bus. Dev. & General Counsel, Topspin Media
Jason Feinberg, VP, Digital Strategy, Epitaph Records
Jason Herskowitz, Chief Product Officer, Official.fm
Jay Baage, VP, Content & Business Development, Digital Media Wire
Jay Frank, SVP, Music Strategy, CMT (MTV Networks)
Jayne Charneski, Executive, Intelligence Group, Creative Artists Agency
Jeff Bronikowski, Head of Corporate Dev. & Strategy, The Echo Nest
Jeff Jampol, Manager/Owner, Jampol Artist Management (The Doors, Janis Joplin Estate, Michael Jackson Estate, etc.)
Jeff Minsky, Director, Next Emerging Media, OMD Ignition Factory
Jeff Pollack, Chairman & CEO, Global Media & Entertainment, Pollack Media Group
Jeff Price, Founder, TuneCore, President / GM / Co-Founder, spinART Records
Jeff Sass, VP, Bus. Dev., Chief Evangelist, Myxer
Jeffrey Dorenfeld, Professor, Music Business /Management, Berklee College of Music
Jeni Lee Chapman, EVP, Global Brand & Communication Consulting, Harris Interactive
Jenn Miller, CEO, Audiosocket
Jenna LoMonaco, Head of New Media, Glassnote Records
Jennifer Elias, Director, Bus. Development, Bandcamp
Jenny Connelly, Vice President of E-Commerce, Live Nation-Ticketmaster
Jerald Miller, CEO, Nu Jazz Entertainment
Jeremy Welt, VP, Strategic Initiatives, Warner Bros. Records
Jesse Israel, Co-Founder, Technology & Creative Director, Cantora Records + Labs
Jim Cady, President & CEO, Slacker
Jim Griffin, Founder, Choruss / Advisor, Warner Music Group
Jim Heckman, Founder & CEO, 5to1.com
Jim Lucchese, CEO, The Echo Nest
Jim Rondinelli, SVP, Strategic Development, Slacker
John Boyle, Chief Growth, Officer & Interim CFO, Insomniac
John Davi, Director, Engineering, Cisco
John Frankenheimer, Chairman, Music Practice, Loeb & Loeb LLP
John Rubey, President, AEG Network LIVE
John Rudolph, Senior Advisor, Siemer & Associates
Jon Potter, Digital Media Consultant
Jon Potter, Principal, RPG Strategies
Jon Satterley, SVP – New Media & Global Business Development, Roadrunner Records
Jon Vanhala, SVP Digital & Business Development, Island Def Jam Music Group
Jonathan Axelrod, Partner, ER Accelerator, Entrepreneur, Founder/CEO,
Jonathan Leone, Co-Founder, Head of Strategy and Finance, Thrillcall
Jordan Glazier, CEO, Eventful
Julie Lee, EVP, Business Development & Business Affairs, VEVO
Julie Samuels, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Julie Yannatta, Founder, Be Why
Julien Mitelberg, CEO, Bandsintown
Karen Allen, VP Client Services, TAG Strategic
Keith Brannan, VP of Marketing & Financial Security Planning, Country Financial
Kelli Richards, President & CEO, The All Access Group
Kevin Bacon, Owner, AWAL (Artists Without A Label)
Kevin Browning, Engineer & Producer, Umphrey’s McGee
Kevin Chernett, EVP – Strategic Alliances, Live Nation Network
Kevin King, CEO, MusicHype
Kevin Straley, Vice President, Programming, TuneIn
Konny Zsigo, CEO, Wireless Developer Agency
Kristin Thomson, Co-Director, Artist Revenue Streams, Future of Music Coalition
Kurt Hanson, Publisher, RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter, CEO, AccuRadio.com and SlipstreamRadio.com
Larry Kenswil, Of Counsel, Loeb & Loeb LLP
Larry Linietsky, SVP, Product & Operations, Clear Channel Radio
Lee Knife, Executive Director, Digital Media Association
Les Watkins, SVP, Bus. Affairs & Bus. Development, Music Reports
Lior Shamir, CEO, VibeDeck
Lisa Tiver, SVP, Business Development, RightsFlow
Louis Levy, Partner, Lerman Senter PLLC
Luke Kallis, VP, Sales, VEVO
Marc Ruxin, Founder and CEO, TastemakerX
Mark Eisenberg, Digital Media Executive & Consultant, LatticeWorks Media
Mark Ghuneim, CEO & Founder, Wiredset / Trendrr
Mark Ghuneim, CEO, Wiredset
Marshall Jensen, Managing Partner, DMW Hexagon
Marty Lafferty, CEO, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)
Matt Ostrower, Artist Partnerships & Programming, Pandora
Matt Pierson, Former Senior VP A&R, Warner Brother Jazz; President, Stockboy Productions
Matt Ringel, Managing Partner, New Era Media & Marketing, Red Light Management
Matthew DeFilippis, Vice President, New Media & Technology, American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP)
Matthew Siegel, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Indaba Music
Matthew Tomaszewicz, Co-Founder, Head of Business Dev. & Product Marketing, Thrillcall
Maurice Russell, SVP, Licensing & Bus. Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency
Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing, Collections & Business Affairs, The Harry Fox Agency
Max Royale, Founder, Loopport.com
Megan Brown, Talent Negotiations Specialist, Ketchum Sports & Entertainment
Michael Corcoran, CEO, MusicSubmit.com
Michael Doernberg, CEO & Founder, ReverbNation
Michael Drexler, Executive Director, Business Development, BMI New Media
Michael Hobson, CEO, High Resolution Technologies (HRT)
Michael Huppe, EVP & General Counsel, SoundExchange
Michael Papish, Product Development Director, Rovi Corporation
Michael Petricone, SVP, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association
Michael Robertson, CEO, MP3Tunes
Michael Schneider, CEO, Mobile Roadie
Mike Brown, CEO, Cyber-NY
Mike Carson, Chief Marketing Officer, Myxer
Mike Kaminsky, Artist Manager/Owner, KMGMT Artist Management (3OH3!)
Mike Masnick, Editor, TechDirt
Mike More, CEO & Co-Founder, Headliner.fm
Mike Perrone, COO & Co-Founder, SocialFlow
Mike Scogin, VP, Wireless, MTV Mobile at MTV Networks
Mike Spinella, Director, Label Relations AOL Music Network
Mitch Rotter, SVP, Marketing & Product Dev., Universal Music Group
MusicGremlin (SanDisk), Founder/President, Music123 (Guitar Center)
Myk Willis, Founder, Myxer
Nate Auerbach, Music Strategy & Outreach, tumblr
Ned Sherman, CEO & Co-Founder, Digital Media Wire
Neil Vineberg, CMO, ThingLink
Nic Adler, Owner, The Roxy
Nicholas Butterworth, CEO, HD Cloud
Nick Adler, VP, Business Development, Stampede Management (Snoop Dogg, The Far East Movement, DJ Quik)
Nick Lippman, VP & Manager, Lippman Entertainment (George Michael, Matchbox Twenty, Rob Thomas)
Nicole Cifani, Interactive Director, Partner Relations, Yahoo! Music
Patrick Sullivan, CEO, RightsFlow
Patrick Sullivan, President & CEO, RightsFlow
Paul Campbell, Founder & CEO, Amazing Media
Paul Geller, SVP of Business Development & Public Policy, Grooveshark.com
Paul Josephsen, Senior Director of Tour Marketing, Eventful
Pete Watson, Sr. Bus. Dev. Manager, Research in Motion Limited (RIM) / BlackBerry
Peter Kafka, Senior Editor, AllThingsD
Peter Rafelson, President, Rafelson Media Consulting / Owner, RMC
Philip Cohen, SVP, Music Business Affairs, Universal Studios
Philippe Perreaux, CEO, Restorm
Pierce Stacy, Director of Business & Legal Affairs, IODA
Portia Madina, Music Journalist, Hollywood Reporter
Rachel Masters, Partner & Co-Founder, Red Magnet Media
Rachel Scarpati, Account Executive, Bus. Dev., The Harry Fox Agency
Ranj Bath, COO & Co-Founder, Desi Hits!
Rich Bengloff, President, A2IM
Rich Holtzman, Manager, The Artist Organization
Richard Bishop, Head of EDM, Red Light Management
Richard Bullwinkle, Chief Evangelist, Rovi Corporation
Richard Caccappolo, CTO, eMusic
Richard Conlon, SVP, Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media, BMI
Rick Alden, Founder and CEO, SkullCandy
Rick Sorkin, VP, Talent & Strategy, WhoSay
Rio Caraeff, President & CEO, VEVO
Rob Bonstein, GM, The Creed Company (Bruno Mars, The Smeezingtons)
Ron Faris, Director of Brand Experiences, Virgin Mobile USA
Roy Campanella, New Product Manager, Native-Instruments
Russ Crupnick, President, NPD Entertainment, The NPD Group
Ryan Barkan, Sr. Dir., Advertising & Video Games, Primary Wave Music Publishing
Ryan Chisholm, Artist Manager, Bill Silva Management (Jason Mraz, Christina Perri, etc.)
Sachin Doshi, Content & Distribution Guru, Spotify
Samantha Murphy, Singer/Songwriter and Founder, The Highway Girl
Scot Richardson, CEO & Founder, TicketMob
Scott Campbell, CEO, Virtually Atomic
Scott Perry, President, Sperry Media
Scott Sellwood, SVP & General Counsel, RightsFlow
Sean O’Connell, Founder & CEO Creative Alies, Music Allies
Seth Freed, Director of Non-Traditional Sales & Partnerships, Nettwerk Music Group
Shannon Connolly, VP, Digital Music Strategy, MTV Networks Music Group
Sibley Verbeck, Founder & CEO, The Electric Sheep Company
Stephen Collins, Product Manager Live and Content, BitTorrent
Steve Bradbury, Principal, Vlocity Digital
Steve Lerner, Practice Manager, RampRate
Steve Machin, CEO, stormcrowd
Steve Raymond, CEO & Co-Founder, Big Frame (part of YouTube’s Premium Funded Channel Initiative)
Syd Schwartz, CEO & Founder, Linchpin Digital
Tami Lester, Music Partnerships, Indiegogo
Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic
Ted Mico, EVP, Digital, Interscope Geffen A&M
Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Bus., US Sales & Corp. Strategy, Sony Music Entertainment
Thomas Meyer, Marketing Director, Earned Media, Sonos
Tim Scanlin, CEO & Founder, Brandracket & BrandsForBands
Timo Poijärvi, VP, Hitlantis.com
Tim Westregren, Founder, Pandora
Tom Brophy, CEO, Raditaz
Tom Gates, Artist Manager, Bill Silva Entertainment
Tom Silverman, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Tommy Boy Records
Ty Roberts, CTO, Gracenote
Vickie Nauman, VP, North America, 7digital
Vince Bannon, VP, Entertainment Partnerships & Development, Getty Images
Vince Iwinski, Manager, Umphrey’s McGee
Vincent Borel, Co-Founder, Webdoc
Vito Iaia, SVP of Music Services, Ticketmaster Entertainment
Vivien Lewit, Director, Strategic P’ships & Head of Label/Artist Relations, YouTube
Wilhelm Taht, Marketing Director, Flowd
William Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google Inc.
Yinka Adegoke, Senior Media Correspondent, Reuters
Zahavah Levine, Director of Content Partnerships for Android, Google
Zeeshan Zaidi, COO, LimeWire
