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Shaping the digital future
MixRadio Music Connects 2014, the Indian music ecosystem's most
denitive annual get together is back. The focus this year is on the artiste,
the musician and how he/she can make a career, while growing revenue in
an industry that is undergoing drastic transformation. And how all those in
the ecosystem can benet from the creative product that is
created–whether it is streaming services or old-fashioned labels or MCNs
or brands or broadcast channels.
MRMC '14 produced by Hong Kong based Music Matters and
indiantelevision.com group's radioandmusic.com unites stakeholders
across the music ecosystem to drive meaningful dialogue and facilitate
practical solutions to drive the music industry forward.
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Day 1 Evening Tea Break Partner
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PR Partner
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Tuesday, 4 November
8:30 am onwards
Registration opens
09:30 am - 09:35 am
Tuesday,
November
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Anil
Wanvari's
welcome speech
09:35 am - 09:45 am
Jasper Donat's opening introduction
09:45 am - 09:50 am
Welcome to India from Vijay Lazarus, IMI
09:50 am - 10:20 am
Keynote presentation on how the industry stands
today
Sridhar Subramanium, President, India and Middle East, Sony Music
Entertainment India
10:20 am - 11:15 am
Streaming: Gathering momentum
Key Themes: A conversation with the new players in the
streaming ecosystem. What's driving their streaming story in
India? Their plans for labels, for individual artistes, and how they
are sharing revenue. Tips on using their services better, best
practices on placing music and getting into playlists, the
importance of metadata.
Moderator:
Mandar Thakur
Chief Operating Ofcer, Times Music
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Panelists:
Melissa Price
Senior Product Manager, MixRadio
Sylvain Delange
Head of Sales, Asia, Believe Digital
Snehal Shinde
Vice President of Emerging Markets,
RDIO
Claes Loberg
Founder and Director Of Innovation,
Guvera Limited
Keynote presentation by
Jyrki Rosenberg, VP, MixRadio
Morning Refreshment Partner
11:45 am - 12:00 noon
Tea Break
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12:00 noon - 12:45 pm
The new emerging independent artist
platforms
Key Themes: A handful of digital, broadcast platforms have
emerged to provide an outlet to non-Bollywood musicians,
whether independent Indian rock or pop or Indian classical. What
are they offering? Are they rewarding talent? What are their
business plans? How can musicians and artistes loop into their
ecosystems better?
Panelists:
Chinmayee Tripathi
Director - Marketing, Songdew.com
Rachna Kanwar
SVP & Business Head,
Digital Media & New Business,
Radio City 91.1 FM
Vijay Basrur
Co-Founder, OK Listen
Nikhil Udupa
Head- Music Marketing, MTV & MTV
Indies
Moderator:
Devraj Sanyal,
Managing Director,Universal Music Group South Asia
EMI Music South Asia
12:45 pm - 1:30 pm
In conversation with Terry Ellis, Founder,
Chrysalis Records
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 pm-3:00 pm
In conversation with Imtiaz Ali
Ratish Tagde
Founder & Managing Director, Insync
Interviewer: Karan Grover, Director Entertainment – IMENA
(India, Middle East & North Africa), MixRadio
3:00 pm-3:45 pm
Building your audience
Key Themes: Best practices for various social media platforms
(YouTube, Dailymotion, Twitter, Facebook, your website). How
to cumulatively use the power of each of these to build yourself
as an artiste amongst your fans.
Moderator:
Amit Agrawal,
Entrepreneur & Strategic Advisor, Ex Youtube, Evangelist, Online
Video
Panelists:
Manan Singhi
Head of Music Partnerships,
YouTube (India & South Asia)
Pratik Gupta
Founder & Director for New Business
& Innovation, Foxy Moron
Rajiv Dhingra
CEO, WatConsult
Rob McDermott
Owner, To11 Media Inc.
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Evening Tea Break Partner
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Tea Break
In conversation with Alan Ridgeway, President
International & Emerging Markets, Live Nation
Entertainment
Interviewer: Vijay Nair, Director, Only Much Louder
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
The east west connect
Panelists:
Brandon Bakshi
Executive Director - Writer, Publisher
Relations Europe & Asia, BMI
Tuomas Kantelinen, Composer
Key Themes: What does it take for Indian musicians,
composers, and publishers to nd success abroad and how
are their western counterparts breaking into the Indian market?
Moderator:
Andrew T. Mackay, Composer / Producer
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm
5:40 pm - 6:00 pm
Music from SongHubs: A collaboration between
Australian & Indian musicians and writers
Natalie Di Luccio, Singer
Frank Liwall
President, The Royalty Network, Inc.
Jatanil Banerjee
Membership Development Manager
Asia, PRS for Music
Andrew T. Mackay,
Composer/Producer
Glenn Dickie
Export Music Producer,
SOUNDS AUSTRALIA
Moderator:
Panelists:
Jaideep Singh
Sr VP & Business Head - Integrated
Network Solutions, Viacom18 Media Pvt
Ltd
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Albert Almeida
Chief Operating Ofcer, Hungama Mobile
Anil Wanvari, Founder, CEO & Editor in chief,
IndianTelevision.com Group / Radioandmusic.com
Anurag Rao, CEO & Co-founder, Canvas
Talent, MARD Initiative, Farhan Live &
Farout Media
Tech meets Live
Sidharth Pisharoti, Country Sales head India, Akamai Technologies
6:00 pm
Wrap up & TuneTeams introduction
6:00 pm - 8:15 pm
Lobby cocktail party
8:00 pm
SOUNDS AUSTRALIA and NH7 present THE
AUSSIE BBQ, featuring four Australian bands at
Blue Frog
Hosted by
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Wednesday, 5 November
9:45 am - 10:45 am
Crystal Ball gazing: The biggies give their
view
Key Themes: How much have the biggies delivered in the
evolving digital ecosystem? Have their business models
worked? Do we see new ones emerging in the coming year?
What challenges do they see and how much change is needed?
Moderator:
Atul Churamani, Managing Director, Turnkey Music &
Publishing Pvt. Ltd
Panelists:
Pawan Agarwal
VP & Business Head, Gaana.com
Damien King
Chief Technology Ofcer, Guvera
Adarsh Gupta
Head Music Business, HMV
Saregama India Ltd
Anand Chandrasekaran
Chief Product Ofcer,
Bharti Airtel Ltd.
Neeraj Vyas
Senior Executive Vice President &
Business Head,
Sony MAX & Sony MIX
Tarun Malik
Director & Head, Media & Cloud
Services, South West Asia, Samsung
10:45 am - 11:00 am
In conversation with Seymour Stein,
Co-Founder and Chairman, Sire Records
Interviewer: Ralph Simon, Chairman of Mobilium Global and
Chairman Emeritus, Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas
10:30 am - 11:15 am
Tea Break
11:15 am - 11:35 am
Maati Baani interview & performance
Interviewer: Manan Singhi, Head of Music Partnerships,
YouTube (India & South Asia)
11:35 am - 12:20 pm
The brand story
Key Themes: Brands have an important role to play in the music
ecosystem. Fans love music and by putting their money behind
music, brands can make fans their consumers. Who are the ones
who are doing so? What are they doing? Why? What are they
looking for? And what is needed for musicians to get synced with
their plans? Best practices.
Panelists:
Aditya Swami
EVP Viacom18 Media and Business
Head - MTV & MTV Indies
Ali Imran
GM-Marketing, Bacardi India Pvt. Ltd
Manojeet Bhujabal
General Manager – Marketing,
Vivanta by Taj
Moderator:
Anant Rangaswami, Editor, Storyboard, CNBC-TV18
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12:20 pm - 1:05 pm
The Indian MCNs
Key Theme: A look at the players who are creating content
online.
Moderator:
Jasper Donat, Co-Founder & CEO, Branded Ltd
Panelists:
Tanmay Bhat
All India Bakchod
Samir Bangara
Co-Founder & Managing Director,
Qyuki Digital Media
Rajeshree Naik
Co-founder & Director,
Ping Network
Parmeet Lamba
Business Head- Entertainment,
Digital Quotient (HT Media)
Satya Raghavan
Head of Content Operations - India,
YouTube
1:05 pm - 2:05 pm
2:05 pm - 2:50 pm
Lunch
Of all things finance
Key Themes: How do those who put their money behind music
initiatives view the ecosystem as an investment? What areas are
seeing value and money creations, hence appearing attractive?
What kind of ROI expectations ado they have? And has their
prot horizon shifted?
Panelists:
Rishi Negi/ Vivek Raichur
Executive Vice President Operations,
CA Media Ventures
Rajesh Sawhney
Founder, GSF
Gourav Bhattacharya
Matrix Partners India
Moderator:
Anil Wanvari, Founder, CEO & Editor in chief,
IndianTelevision.com Group / Radioandmusic.com
2:50 pm - 3:05pm
Closing remarks
7:30 pm
UK Showcase at Blue Frog
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