Tony D. Alexander is co-founder, President and Managing Director of Made In Memphis Entertainment LLC (MIME). MIME is a Black-owned full-service entertainment group comprising MIME Publishing (an independent music publishing company that handles the copyrights of some of the most sought-after young producers in hip-hop and R&B); Heavy Hitters Music (a film, TV, and ad sync company with an all-female creative team and Emmy-winning music catalogue); Beatroot Music (a leading independent music distributor, as well as its subsidiary Beatroot Africa); and 4U Recording (a state-of-the-art recording studio brand with locations in Memphis and Atlanta). MIME is dedicated to developing and empowering diverse talent on both the creative and business sides of the industry. Alexander is a proud member of the Leadership Music Class of 2023, serves on the Boards of the Music Business Association (Music Biz) and the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), and is President of the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) Atlanta Chapter. He has been featured in publications such as Billboard, Wired, Music Ally, Music Week, Pitchfork, and Memphis Business Journal. He has also been selected as a Billboard Indie Power Player (2021), Worth Magazine Worthy 100 (2022), and Memphis Magazine Power Player (2020-22) among other honours. Alexander is a magna cum laude graduate of Morehouse College. He also holds both Master of Science and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

CEO and co-founder. Software data startups and music industry since 2013. 20 years software architect & engineer (AI, data). AI dev since 1998. DLT since 2015. Former Dutch AI and technology diplomat in Japan (MinEA), MIT Sloan Fellow, MIT Media Lab and Fulbright Scholar. Key strengths are strategic partnerships, software products and multiparty win-win strategies. In 2016 aligned 200+ companies in the US music industry to agree on an open API data exchange. MBA MIT, MSc AI. Accredited Ai technology advisor to the Dutch national police.

Annette Barrett has held the position of Managing Director at Reverb Music, one of the UK’s most successful independent music publishers, since 2001. During that time, she has worked with high profile and successful songwriters, including Nitin Sawhney, Jamie Hartman, Peter Gordeno, and Matteo Saggese. Following the company’s 2012 acquisition by New York-based independent music company Reservoir, Barrett’s role has expanded to include the pursuit of intercontinental opportunities for the company’s international roster, which now includes talented names such as Cutfather, Katie Melua, and Lucy Rose. Barrett began her career in music publishing 30 years ago, in the Copyright Department of UK-based independent music publisher, Carlin Music. She worked her way up the industry ladder, eventually to the role of International Director at Virgin Music.   Over the course of her career, Barrett has signed and worked with a long list of world class songwriters and recording artists, including David Bowie, George Michael, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Madonna, Prince, Sting, and The Police, to name just a few. Even with such an impressive roster under her belt, Annette remains dedicated to the development and promotion of new talent, helping up-and-coming writers hone their skills and discover the markets that best suit their unique sensibilities. In 2020, she was elected President and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Independent Music Publishers International Forum (IMPF).

University educated in Business and Economics, and with collective experiences in music, arts and design, Karen Beach has combined her expertise in the corporate private label sector over the past 20 years. Her company, Brandworx, designs and manufactures custom clothing, accessories, product and provides manufacturing solutions to corporate brands worldwide. She has worked with Fortune 500 corporations and well-known brands, such as BMG, Panavision, Sony Music, Diageo, BMW, Mini, Coca-Cola, Polaris, Yamaha, NASCAR, Jack Daniel’s, Milwaukee Tool, William Grant & Sons and many many more global companies. She is currently developing collections and product lines for a variety of musicians and creatively driven artists, providing audiences with elevated, retail quality merchandise.

Matt is a music supervisor, specialising in source music research and copyright clearance. His career spans 25 years, with recent projects including Sex Education, Hacks, Heartstopper, One Day, Sunny, Hijack, Buccaneers and This Is Going To Hurt. 
In 2021, Matt, together with Ciara Elwis, won Outstanding Music Supervision at the Creative Arts Emmys for their work on Michaela Coel’s BBC Drama I May Destroy You. The soundtrack has been described by the New York Times as “stunning”.

Nicky Bignell has worked in the UK broadcasting industry for over 30 years, specialising in music rights for television, radio and online. She currently negotiates the BBC’s blanket music licences, and is responsible for the BBC’s relationships with music industry bodies in the UK including the MPA, Musicians’ Union, The Ivors Academy, PRS for Music, MCPS and PPL/VPL. Bignell oversees a team of music rights experts who are responsible for music reporting, sync, clearances and contracting composers to write new music for the BBC’s output.

Matt Bolton has worked in music publishing for over 25 years, specialising in online rights for more than a decade.  He has worked for a range of independent and major publishers including Universal, where he worked with online partners across Europe, Oceania and APAC. In 2018, he was approached by IMPEL to help move the organisation to independence and oversaw the significant growth of its membership. Matt joined ICE in 2023 and is responsible for Publisher Industry Relations.

Becky Brook is a seasoned advisor for companies bridging the gap between music and technology, with a focus on music rights, data, and industry engagement. Her expertise lies in how the music industry and rights interact with emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Livestreaming, and Virtual Reality. With a rich professional background spanning over 18 years, Becky has contributed her skills and knowledge to esteemed organisations including 7digital, Condense Reality, Driift, EMI Music, IYK, JAAK, Lickd, Omnifone, Pacemaker, RoEx Audio, Rovr Live, Samsung, SeeSaw, Sony Pictures & PlayStation, Stability AI and Warner Music.

SOCAN CEO since 2021, Jennifer Brown has more than two decades of strategic experience in rights management. She is a fierce advocate for songwriters, composers and music publishers, and, in the ever-changing music ecosystem, is dedicated to the fundamental truth that music has value and rights-holders deserve fair compensation for their work.

Åsa Carild currently leads business development at Broma16, an international licensing hub that services CMOs, publishers and labels with multi-territorial licenses and direct royalty collection from DSPs. Broma16 also provides rights management and royalty processing powered by the Heaven11 tech platform. Prior to this, Carild served as CEO of Polaris, Head of Business Development at ICE, and Head of International Licensing at STIM. Carild was an entrepreneur in the gaming industry with the company Muchdifferent, and she previously managed Nokia’s Nordic mobile music venture.  As a board member of SOM, the Swedish indie music producers’ organisation, Carild facilitated digital distribution for indie labels while simultaneously running the independent record company Exergy/Rothhändle Recordings. She has also conducted extensive academic research on the impact of digitalisation in the music business. Besides Broma16, Carild represents the SaaS platform Heaven11, focusing on expanding the company’s modern copyright database and data administration services, as well as royalty processing and distribution tools to the global market.

Ali Charrier-Rachidi is a seasoned music rights expert with over a decade of experience in music rights. Throughout his career, Ali has worked extensively with both independent and major publishers, as well as the renowned International Copyright Enterprise (ICE) before joining industry leader SACEM where he has served for five years. As Head of Online Partners at the French CMO for two years, Ali spearheaded the partnerships with SACEM’s online mandates. His primary focus areas include fostering customer and inter-society relations, overseeing operational management, leading technology initiatives, and cultivating collaborations with key industry stakeholders such as CMOs, DSPs, publishers, and members.

Indi Chawla is Head of International Relations for The MLC. Based in London, Indi is responsible for coordinating with international rights-holders to maximise the distribution of royalties, developing strategies for data validation and distribution, and helping to identify and address any operational challenges facing international members.  Chawla’s profound impact within the international music publishing industry spans nearly three decades. She began her music industry career as a Royalty Assistant, and rose to senior management positions in major and independent publishing companies. Notably, Chawla’s tenure as the leader of Warner Chappell’s Global Copyright Team in London spanned close to a decade. As Global Copyright Manager, she implemented highly efficient and standardised registration practices across the company’s extensive network. Her determination and dedication were instrumental in successfully launching the company’s first enhanced rights management system module, cementing her reputation as a visionary leader in the field. Most recently, Chawla consulted for the world’s first integrated licensing and processing hub ICE and continues to contribute to international industry working groups with the aim of developing industry best practices around the management of music publishing data.

Claire Cordeaux is Chief Executive of the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, a unique national medical charity that looks after the health of performers across the UK. With over 300 clinicians, BAPAM provides free health assessments to more than 3,000 individual performers annually and health and wellbeing education, training and resources about best practice in performing arts medicine.  Cordeaux has a professional background in management in the UK NHS and, before BAPAM, was Global Director of an independent healthcare company. She is an active musician in a psychedelic celtic fusion band, and has supported a number of arts initiatives and festivals from youth music projects to running a boat stage to connect performers in coastal areas.

When Alexi Cory-Smith founded Bella Figura, her mission was to establish an artist-centric music company for the digital age. Investing in a portfolio of rights from the likes of Guy Chambers, David Gray and Lil Peep, all supported by a team of passionate music rights management experts, Bella Figura represents an entrepreneurial new journey for the lawyer and industry lifer, whose seven-year run as President at BMG UK saw annual revenue expand by 2,000% to £120 million. A lifelong fan of The Rolling Stones, one of Cory-Smith’s career highlights was signing the band to a global publishing deal with BMG.

Sue Crawshaw, founder of Pick And Mix Music, has worked across all aspects of the music industry over more than three decades. She started her career in music publishing and performing rights. 20 years ago, she founded Pick And Mix Music – a TV & Film creative company. As a music supervisor, she has worked on successful BAFTA and Emmy Award winning TV productions including The Crown Seasons 1 and 2 (Netflix), Behind Her Eyes (Netflix), Three Pines (Amazon), Strike Back Seasons 6, 7 and 8 (HBO/Sky), Origin (YouTube Red), and The Replacement (BBC). Past credits also include the BAFTA nominated Son Of Rambow (Paramount), He Kills Coppers (BBC), Raw (RTE) and Love Hate (RTE). Her most recent work in 2023/4 can be seen in The Reckoning (BBC), Who Is Erin Carter (Netflix) and Apple TV’s Still Up. She is currently working on Dept Q (Netflix) and the football game UFL.

Fred is a Partner at Raine and Co-Heads the Music practice. Since joining the firm in July 2014, Fred has focused on both advising and investing across the global digital media/technology sector for high growth and earlier stage companies, including Chord Music, SoundCloud, Downtown Music, Quality Control and Moonbug. Fred divides his time between Raine’s London and New York offices. Prior to Raine, Fred was one of the three Founding Partners of CODE Advisors, where he worked with companies such as Spotify, Supercell, and Shazam.  Before founding CODE in 2010, Fred was the founding Partner of the leading Entertainment/New Media Law Firm of Davis Shapiro & Lewit. Fred is on the board of directors of Firebird and SoundCloud, both Raine portfolio companies.

André de Raaff is a veteran in the international music business. At 25, de Raaff became managing director at Warner Publishing Netherlands, followed by 10 years as President of Arcade, Europe’s largest independent record/publishing company.
In 2000, de Raaff founded CTM, which became one of the most successful independent entertainment music companies, now owned by de Raaff and his son Jitze. In 2008, CTM was one of the first power houses that started buying music rights, in cooperation with Dutch pension fund ABP. De Raaff succeeded in creating the world’s leading independent music publishing company Imagem in the shortest time ever in history – a groundbreaking and unprecedented achievement in music publishing. Imagem was subsequently sold to Concord in 2018 for more than $500 million. In 2014, de Raaff was honored by King Willem Alexander of The Netherlands as ‘Knight of the order of Orange Nassau’. As of 2018, de Raaff is a Board member of IMPEL in the UK, an international organisation of independent music publishers that collectively license their rights to digital service providers.  In 2021, CTM created a new strategic alliance with Dallas-based Outlander, with the aim to invest one billion dollars during the next five years in both publishing and master rights.

Alvaro de Torres is a London-based, experienced professional with an intensive background in many aspects of the entertainment industry. He is skilled in music publishing, record labels, intellectual property law, management of authors’ rights, CMOs and digital platforms. He also has substantial experience in business development, licensing, contract negotiations, copyright infringement, catalogue valuation and acquisition, due diligence, and international music licensing for digital platforms. In recent years, he has worked with Meta, Warner Chappell Music, BMG and Warner Music.

Ole Dreyer has worked as a music business professional since the early 1980’s. He entered the business on the local Punk-scene as a musician, but found his strength was releasing other people’s records. He has worked on all sides of the business since, from A&R, exploitation etc. at labels, to artist management and booking. He started as a music publisher in 1999, working for EMI Music Publishing until it merged with Sony in 2011. He rapidly created a partnership with others and formed Nordic Music NMS – an indie label and publishing company based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Dreyer’s main focus is still on publishing, working particularly in international exploitation and sync. Dreyer is the Chairperson for the MPA Denmark and has kept a seat on local PRO KODA’s Board since 2008.

Jane Dyball is a music industry veteran and strategic consultant. Formerly CEO of the £200m turnover businesses owned by the Music Publishers Association, she steered MCPS into financial recovery, paying down its £20m debt and overhauling its relationship with its owners, customers and service providers. In 2018, she won the Outstanding Contribution award at Music Week’s Women in Music Awards, in 2019 she won an Ivors Academy Gold Badge and, in 2022, the MPA Gold Badge.
Prior to that, Dyball spent over a decade running Legal & Business Affairs internationally at major publisher Warner/Chappell Music and was additionally responsible for international digital strategy, developing markets and public policy. Dyball is passionate about access to opportunity in the arts. She is Co-chair of Attitude Is Everything, Co-founder of the Primadonna Festival, a Trustee of Suffolk Artlink, and a mentor for tech music incubators including Abbey Road Red. She is a founder Advisory Board member for Music Tech UK and has a business transformation consultancy business, Laffittes Ltd.

Chantal Epp is an award-winning entrepreneur and founder of ClicknClear. She set up her first company Synergy Sounds, a music production company for cheerleading, whilst at University. Following a period working in sync licensing, Epp found herself in a unique position to merge her two passions: cheerleading and music, following a lawsuit between Sony Music and a number of cheerleading operators. This led to the creation of ClicknClear to solve a global music licensing problem in performance sports worth $2.4 billion annually. Epp is still an active athlete and advocate for ParaCheer (disability inclusive cheerleading) and is often found travelling around the world helping national federations start teams as well as building ClicknClear into a global solution across multiple sports.

Ylva Fahlen is Senior Manager for Digital Rights at PRS for Music. With over 7 years of experience in the multi-territory online space, she is the subject matter expert in digital rights for publisher members. With a background in copyright, combined with her previous role at a publishing company, she brings a wealth of experience to her role.

Connie Farr founded ThinkSync Music as an independent one-stop music creative consultancy and licensing service. We handle feature films, TV series, theatrical trailers, TV promos and documentaries at every level.

Matteo Fedeli was appointed as SIAE’s CEO in January 2023. He joined the society in 2014, as director of its Music Division, and contributed to the digital transformation of the organisation within a constantly evolving market. Prior to that, he gained a strong management consulting expertise at Bain&Company, focusing on corporate transformation, post-merger integration and reorganisation strategies.  He graduated with honors in management engineering and is a tech enthusiast and an ambassador for customer-centric approaches supported by a quantitative scientific methods.

Victor Finn is the Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Music Rights Organisation. IMRO licenses public performance, broadcast and online uses of music to over 25,000 business in Ireland and distributes these royalties to its members and to over 80 affiliates worldwide. Finn has a wealth of experience as former MD of MCPS (Ireland). A strong advocate for music creators, he plays a lead role in championing fair and balanced improvements to copyright law in the digital environment both at home and in Europe. Currently, Finn sits on the board of GESAC (the European umbrella body representing copyright management organisations) and on the Council of the IBEC Audio Visual Federation Under his direction, IMRO continues to develop its licensing and revenue generation activities including new contracts with radio, television, cable, satellite, and online service providers. Since joining IMRO, Finn has driven its strategic growth, delivering service levels that now make IMRO one of the most efficient collective management organisations globally.

Ibán García del Blanco is a lawyer majored in cultural management and a former Member of the European Parliament. Before his election to the European parliament, he was the Executive President of Acción Cultural Española (AC/E). At the European Parliament, García del Blanco played an instrumental role defining cultural policies and AI. He was the S&D group coordinator on the Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) currently working on the Data Act, the AI Act and on an initiative report on virtual worlds. In the Culture Committee (CULT), he was the EP rapporteur on a report entitled Cultural Diversity And The Conditions Of Authors In The European Music Streaming Market. He was also co-chair S&D on the Cultural and Creators Friendship Group in the European Parliament.

María González is co-managing partner of CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo and heads up the Industrial/Intellectual Property & Digital Business department. With over two decades of experience, she has provided guidance to both national and international clients on intellectual property, industrial property, copyright and technology, particularly in litigation and dispute resolution. Her particular focus lies in big data, AI, digital business, media and content, as well as the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Gonzalez Gordon is Co-Head of the global Digital Business subgroup of CMS and an active member of ITechLaw. She is a member of the Board of the AIPPI’s Spanish group (with particular focus on copyright); and a selected member of INTA’s European Global Advisory Council. She holds a number of additional roles at INTA, including being an INTA representative before the EUIPO Observatory.

Sania Haq has over a decade of hands-on experience working within the South Asian music industry through BollyCo, a dance and entertainment company she helps manage. This is coupled with more than 12 years in research, seven of which she spent leading on AudienceNet’s music and entertainment-related work, working closely with clients such as the IPO, IFPI, Sony, UMG, Warner, Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube, the BPI and ERA, among others.  Along with leading on research at the heart of industry decision-making, such as UK Music’s Music Creator Study and IFPI’s Global Music Consumer Study, Haq advocates for greater understanding of music and listeners from different cultures.  Haq shines a spotlight on diverse artists and audiences, and was nominated for a Women in Music Award last year for her dedication to increasing South Asian representation in the industry.  More broadly, Haq is an award-winning Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) practitioner and Cultural Consultant. In 2023, she set up Bye 2 Stereotypes, a brand through which she provides research, training and strategic support to organisations wanting to engage diverse audiences or address inequalities within society and the workplace.

Grammy nominated, 4x BMI Award winner, 2x Ivor Novello winner, Brit Award winner, Music Week Award winner, 4x Music Business Worldwide A&R Awards nominee, and 2021 Oscar shortlist nominee, Jamie Hartman has written, produced, and performed hundreds of cuts in the pop, singer-songwriter, and dance genres.  Working with a range of major label artists and top talent around the world, Hartman’s credits include tracks for Lewis Capaldi, Rudimental, Kygo, Backstreet Boys, Jennifer Hudson, Guy Sebastian, Marlon Roudette, Conrad Sewell, James Bay, Kylie Minogue, Parachute, Anastacia, Birdy, and Lena, among many others. 
In 2023, Hartman collaborated with Lewis Capaldi on Heavenly Kind Of State Of Mind from Capaldi’s No.1 UK Official Chart album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent. He also co-wrote Rudimental’s Top 5 hit Dancing Is Healing with Charlotte Plank and Vibe Chemistry.

Andy Heath CBE (born 1947) is a British music publishing executive. Having worked in the industry since 1964, Andy has formed two publishing companies of his own, Andrew Heath Music and Heathwave (a company still in operation today). He also formed a partnership with the Beggars Group in 1987 to create Momentum Music, a highly successful company that managed the publishing for Gary Numan, Cocteau Twins, Republica and Bauhaus, which he ran until its sale to Universal Music in early 2001. He remains a director of the Beggars Group (1991–present day) as well as running Beggars Music, the group’s publishing wing. He is also a director of IMPEL. Andy served on the Council of the Music Publishers Association (1989-2008 and President from 1993–97) and served on the boards of the PRS and MCPS. In January 2008, he was appointed Chairman of British Music Rights. When BMR was subsumed into UK Music in September 2008, Heath became chairman of the new organisation. 

David M. Israelite is President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), a position he has held since February 2005. Israelite is responsible for overseeing all aspects of NMPA’s operations, from legal strategy and implementation to government affairs and advocacy. His leadership has produced revolutionary successes on behalf of publishers including the largest CRB rate increase in history, groundbreaking industry collaboration in royalty rate agreements, landmark settlements and model licenses with streaming platforms, and ultimately raising the profile of the publishing community. Additionally, Israelite was instrumental in guiding the effort to modernise copyright laws culminating in the Music Modernization Act (MMA) and the subsequent creation of the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC). Israelite has been named on Billboard’s Power 100 multiple times and serves on the Boards of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Country Music Association and Special Olympics DC. He also serves as the President of the NMPA S.O.N.G.S. Foundation (Supporting Our Next Generation of Songwriters) which supports songwriters through funding scholarships and direct services, among other assistance. Prior to leading NMPA, Israelite held senior positions in various capacities for the US Government including at the Department of Justice where he served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counselor to the Attorney General of the United States, and was appointed Chairman of the Department’s Task Force on Intellectual Property. He also worked in the US Senate where he was Administrative Assistant (Chief of Staff) for Missouri Senator Kit Bond. Previously, Israelite also practiced law in the Commercial Litigation Department at the firm of Bryan Cave, LLP in Kansas City, Missouri. Israelite earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Missouri and his undergraduate degree from William Jewell College.

Golnar Khosrowshahi is the Founder and CEO of Reservoir, an award-winning independent music company headquartered in New York City and with operations in Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London, and Abu Dhabi. Established in 2007, Reservoir is the first female founded and led publicly traded independent music company in the US. Under Khosrowshahi’s leadership, Reservoir has grown to own and administer over 150,000 copyrights and 36,000 master recordings, with titles dating as far back as 1900. Khosrowshahi continues to lead the team in building a well-attended roster and an established catalogue, and regularly appears as one of Billboard’s Most Powerful Female Executives, as well as a Billboard Power Player. She notably earned a spot in Billboard’s Women In Music Hall of Fame in 2023, following her recognition as Executive of the Year for 2022. Khosrowshahi has been named Music Week’s International Woman of the Year in 2023, one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People In Business, Forbes’ 50 Over 50, among Inc.’s 2024 Female Founders 250 List, and to Variety’s New Power of New York, and Power of Women lists. Furthermore, Reservoir has twice been awarded both Publisher of the Year at Music Business Worldwide’s The A&R Awards and Independent Publisher of the Year at the Music Week Awards. In addition to her role as CEO of Reservoir, Khosrowshahi serves as a Director on the Board of the National Music Publishers’ Association, working to ensure fair compensation for songwriters and their representatives. She also sits on NMPA’s S.O.N.G.S. Foundation Board of Directors, an organisation that raises funds to support career songwriters. Working alongside Artist Director and cellist Yo-Yo Ma for over a decade, Khosrowshahi served as Board Chair of the musical collective, Silkroad. In 2022, she was elected to the Board of Directors for the New York Philharmonic. Khosrowshahi also previously served on the Board of Directors for RBI (Restaurant Brands International) and the Board of Directors of Nomad Foods. Khosrowshahi is a classically trained pianist through the Royal Academy of Music in London, England and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada. She holds an MBA from Columbia University in New York City and a BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College.

Florian Koempel is a qualified German lawyer. He advises creative trade associations on policy and legal developments, e.g. UK Music, British Copyright Council, Music Publishers Association. He also teaches music contracts and international copyright at Queen Mary, University of London. He holds an LLM in IP from London University (2000), as well as a law degree from the University of Regensburg, Bavaria. In 1998, he passed the bar exam in Munich.

Emmanuel Legrand is a Washington, DC-based journalist and consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He is currently the editor of the Creative Industries News platform and President of Legrand Network, a media consultancy company.

Helienne Lindvall is the President of the European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA), as well as an award-winning professional songwriter, musician and columnist. She’s the former Chair of the Ivor Novello Awards, Board Director of the Ivors Academy and Trustee of the Ivors Academy Trust. She’s also the writer behind the Guardian music industry columns Behind The Music and Plugged In, and is the former Head of Business & Songwriter relations for song data management platform Auddly/Sessions, backed by hitmakers Max Martin and Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, and Director of Business Development and Artist Relations, LANDR UK. Hailing from Sweden, Lindvall worked as a session singer, recording artist and performer in Stockholm and NYC before settling in London, where she signed a publishing deal with BMG Scandinavia and, later, Universal. Since then, she’s been working with recording artists on both sides of the Atlantic, including Roger Sanchez, with whom she wrote the club hit Turn On The Music, Big Daddy Wilson and The Dark Tenor, collaborating with award-winning writers including Jörgen Elofsson (Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears), Patrik Berger (Icona Pop, Robyn), Steve McEwan (Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood) and Negin Djafari (Becky Hill, Drake, Craig David). In 2016, her song A Better Man made the UK Eurovision finals. Recent releases include Unwant You and Locked In Your Love with Menrva, Glass Keys and Dani Senior, and Let My Love Shine Through with Ada Vox. Lindvall has written columns for Digital Music News, The Musician, The Australian and STIM-Magasinet. She regularly appears on Sky News, the BBC, Irish National Radio and Swedish National Radio, discussing songwriters’ rights, copyright and other music industry issues.

Mary Jo Mennella is the owner and CEO of Music Asset Management, Inc. (MAM), a leading independent music publishing consulting company that she founded in As one of the most well-known and respected rights administration and licensing experts in the industry, Mennella joined forces with Toronto-based publisher Red Brick Songs in 2023, for which she is an advisor. Prior to launching MAM, Mennella was a founder of Pulse Publishing Administration and previously served in executive roles at ASCAP, Saban Entertainment, and Fox Filmed Entertainment, where she was SVP and General Manager of Music Publishing for more than 15 years. Mennella currently serves on the Board of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and is Chair of its West Coast Events committee. She is also on the Boards of IMPF and IMPEL, and is a past President of the AIMP.

Arriën Molema is a creator, an advocate for creators and artists, and has a law-degree in IP-law. He has been awarded Platinum and Gold Awards with his band Room Eleven, with which he toured extensively in The Netherlands, Canada, Japan, South-Africa, Germany and Belgium. He works as a songwriter and producer, with successful releases, synchs and compositions in TV-shows. Nowadays, his focus lies, alongside music, on advocating for creators and artists. He chairs the Dutch creators society (BAM! Popauteurs), is Vice-President of CIAM (International Council of Music Creators), and he used to be a supervisory Board member of Buma/Stemra and Board member of ECSA.

Niclas Molinder is a songwriter, music producer and musician who now also runs several organisations to innovate in music industry data and rights management with a focus on music creators. After 20 years of songwriting and producing for artists such as Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, Mary J Blige and The Jonas Brothers, as well as running his own publishing company RedFly Music, the Swedish entrepreneur decided to help solve the music industry’s value gap. In 2014, together with Max Martin, Björn Ulvaeus of ABBA and Avicii originator Ash Pournouri, Molinder founded Session – the world’s first independent global hub for authoritative pre-registration music metadata sourced from creators. Molinder’s vision is to set a standard for how the roles of music creators and their representatives are identified within a song so that everyone is credited and correctly compensated when their music is used. In 2016, together with Max Martin and Björn Ulvaeus, Molinder also launched the Music Rights Awareness Foundation – an apolitical foundation that works to increase knowledge of music rights worldwide, adjusted to the future industry.

Emilio is the Managing Director of Rimas Publishing, where he heads three wholly independent publishing companies: RSM Publishing LLC (ASCAP), Risamar Publishing LLC (BMI), and Megasongs Publishing LLC (SESAC). Emilio has guided Rimas Publishing’s development, growth, and expansion, positioning the company as a leader in the industry with remarkable success and outstanding milestones in Latin music. Emilio leads an international powerhouse comprising over 140 highly acclaimed authors and producers from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Colombia, Venezuela, Uruguay, Nicaragua, and the United States. This diverse roster represents thousands of copyrights and has earned Rimas Publishing the coveted title of Billboard Latin Publisher of the Year in both 2021 and 2022, in addition to GRAMMY, Latin GRAMMY, and multiple ASCAP and BMI Latin awards. His role involves the careful administration and management of publishing licenses for an impressive catalog of talents, including Bad Bunny, Eladio Carrión, Subelo NEO, Mora, Pailita, Cris MJ, Marcianeke, Corina Smith, Tempo, DJ Negro, Lizzy Parra, and many others. Emilio’s expertise has enabled lucrative partnerships with major global brands, facilitating collaborations with industry giants such as Adidas, Amazon, Univision, NBC, Corona, Cheetos, Netflix, Spotify, TIDAL, HBO, Rockstar Games, Comcast, AT&T, Disney, SBS, iHeart Radio, and many others.

Adriana Moscoso Del Prado Hernández  is General Manager at GESAC. She was a City council member for Madrid City Council and spokesperson at the Culture Commission for the S&D Party until 2023, as well as being General Director for Cultural Industries, Copyright and Cooperation in the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain from 2018 to 2023. Prior to that, from 2017 – 2018, she was Director of Legal and Public Affairs of CISAC in Paris. She was also General Secretary of Instituto de Derecho de Autor in Spain; Legal Counsel of the State Society for External Cultural Action (SEACEX); and Legal Adviser for EU and international affairs to the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE). She was also a lecturer on copyright and cultural industries in several universities and seminars, both at national and international institutions, and has also participated in different legal and cultural publications. In 2022, she was awarded the distinction of “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture; and she was the winner of the Antonio Delgado Award 2023 in the category of Intellectual Property Dissemination. She was appointed Chair of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) for 2024, and Vice-chair for 2025; and was appointed UNESCO expert in 2024 for the Reflexion Group on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in the Digital Environment.

Terri Nelson Carpenter is the Founder and CEO of Reel Muzik Werks, LLC. An innovative full service independent music publisher that specialises in global writer and publisher administration, licensing and clearance, and music supervision for all media. Her executive experience includes a background in performing rights management at BMI in Film & TV Relations, and overseeing the global music business for Fox Family Worldwide and Music Production & Administration for MGM. Carpenter has been responsible for either score music and/or placements of songs in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol II, Spiderman: Homecoming, Conjuring 2, Puss In Boots, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Handmaiden’s Tale, Big Sky, Versace: A Crime Story, America’s Got Talent, Dancing With The Stars and NCIS: Los Angeles to name a few. Carpenter serves on the Executive Board of the IMPF and is a member of the IPAC for the NMPA. She is the President Emeritus of the AIMP LA Chapter and recently served as the first AIMP National Chair. Carpenter is also the Publisher Chair of the CISAC SPF A/V Group. She is also a member of NARAS, CMA, ACM and Leadership Music – Class of 2022.

Mike O’Neill is President and Chief Executive Officer of BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.). He oversees all of BMI’s business operations, domestically and globally, and directs the Company’s strategic growth to benefit BMI’s songwriters, composers, publishers and licensees. Under O’Neill’s leadership, BMI has reported its highest-ever revenues and distributions to its affiliated writers, composers and publishers. O’Neill has served BMI for 29 years. He joined BMI as Director, Group and National Accounts, and advanced to hold titles of Assistant Vice President, Media Licensing; Vice President, Sales and Administration, Media Licensing; Senior Vice President, Licensing; and Senior Vice President, Repertoire and Licensing. O’Neill holds an MBA from Rutgers University in Marketing and Finance and received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Montclair University. He is Chairman of the Board of FastTrack and sits on the Board of Directors for the Songwriters Hall of Fame and Monmouth Medical Center Foundation. O’Neill also serves as Honorary Chair of the BMI Foundation. In 2019, he was honored with the T.J. Martell Legacy Award and was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.

Gadi Oron is Director General of CISAC, the International Confederation of Authors and Composers Societies. In this role, he oversees the activities of the world’s largest network of authors societies, covering more than 120 countries and representing over 230 collective management organisations and 5 million creators of music, film, TV, literature and visual art. An entertainment and intellectual property lawyer, Oron has had leading roles in different sectors of the music and creative industries. An expert in international copyright and entertainment law, he held both private practice and in-house positions and represented the creative sector to governments, legislators, and international bodies. Oron serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the international standard for audiovisual works identification number (ISAN) agency. He is also Visiting Professor at Queen Mary, University of London, where he teaches on copyright and the creative industries. He is one of the specialist editors of Copinger & Skone James On Copyright and authored book chapters and articles on copyright and intellectual property. He has been named by Legal 500 as one of the leading lawyers in France, and by Billboard and Variety magazines as one of the top Power Players in the international music industry.

Will Page is the author of the critically acclaimed book Tarzan Economics, which has been translated into five languages and published in paperback under the title Pivot. As the former Chief Economist of Spotify and PRS for Music, Will pioneered Rockonomics. He’s lifted the lid on how new media platforms like Twitch and SoundCloud have changed the game by changing the rules, and shined a spotlight on Glocalisation, showing how and why local artists singing in their mother tongues are topping the charts on global streaming platforms. At Spotify, Will launched his ongoing and widely anticipated annual report on the global value of music copyright, and at PRS he saved BBC 6 Music. He’s a regular contributor to BBC, Financial Times, and The Economist.

Cristina Perpiñá-Robert has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) since April 2023. She has more than 25 years of experience in copyright and collective management and has held senior positions in international organisations such as the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), serving as its Director of Legal and Public Affairs (2019-2023). Previously, Perpiñá-Robert worked at SGAE from 1998 to 2018, holding various positions such as Director of Regulatory Affairs and Digital Markets (2016-2018) and Director of Legal Services. A graduate of Law from the Complutense University of Madrid, she is a lecturer, speaker and regular contributor to international conferences and congresses on intellectual property, collective management and artificial intelligence. Perpiñá-Robert has also authored various publications on copyright and intellectual property.

Živilė Plyčiuraitytė Plyčiūtėis a philologist and Lithuanian-qualified lawyer, with experience in IP, international and EU law, currently actively involved in copyright and AI issues. She is a member of the Lithuanian Parliament’s Future Committee’s AI working group, and of the national forum on AI strategy and implementation of the EU AI Act; a member of the national working group on copyright regulation and practice; and a Chair of the Governmental legal drafting group on horizontal blocking measures of illegal content online.

Dr Metka Potočnik is the Associate Director (International Programmes) of the Institute for IP and Social Justice (US) and the Director of The F-List for Music CIC (UK). She is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Wolverhampton (UK), a holder of research degrees from King’s College London (LLM) and Queen Mary University London (PhD), and a Member of the Slovenian Bar (EU) (2008 – current). Dr Potočnik is on the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College (UK AHRC PRC), UKRI Talent PRC, with research and teaching affiliations at several UK Higher Education Institutions (University of London, University of Aberdeen, and Cardiff University). Dr Potočnik is a published author in intellectual property, alternative dispute resolution and foreign direct investment. In recent years, she combines her feminist research on the role of intellectual property in perpetuating the existing inequalities of women and gender-diverse musicians, with her activism at The F-List for Music CIC (UK), which is directed towards achieving intersectional gender equality in the music industries. Dr Potočnik is the research lead of the F-List Gender in Music Research Hub, an interdisciplinary collective of feminist researchers in music.

Cécile Rap-Veber holds a master’s degree in contract law and private international law and a certificate of aptitude for the legal profession (Capa) from the Paris Bar. A lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeals, she joined Universal Music France in 2000, where she was Director of Legal & Business Affairs, then Director of Universal Music Consulting & Content (UMCC) until 2013. She joined Sacem in 2013 as Director of Licensing and a member of the Executive Committee. In 2016, her responsibilities were extended to International, in 2019 to Operations and in 2020 to Development. In these various roles, she was in charge of negotiation and collections relating to media, phonographic and videographic formats, digital exploitation, private copying and international. She oversaw the management of Sacem’s repertoire and the distribution of the royalties collected for the exploitation of works in Sacem’s repertoire in France and abroad. She was also responsible for the development and management of online mandates entrusted to Sacem by British and American publishers — including UMPG, Wixen, Warner Chappell, Impel, Wise Music — and initiated and supervised the deployment of the global digital data processing and BI platform known as URights. Rap-Veber is also CEO of the Society for the Administration of Mechanical Reproduction Rights (SDRM). She is Vice-President of the Board of Directors of Copie France and a member of the board of Directors of the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (Cisac), and of the Centre national de la musique (CNM). In October 2021, Rap-Veber was appointed as CEO of Sacem.

Paul Shaver is a music industry professional with over 25 years of experience. As President of CMRRA and SX Works, Shaver leads both organisations to ensure that music publishers and self-published songwriters have access to reliable licensing and administration data, securing accurate and fair compensation for the use of musical works across the industry. CMRRA and SX Works’ integrated systems leverage an extensive 48-year musical works database, along with SoundExchange’s 20-year authoritative ISRC and sound recording data, to provide administration solutions. These solutions enable organisations that own, represent, and/or engage with music to effectively manage their repertoire across the music ecosystem. Shaver’s career includes senior roles at Nielsen Entertainment Canada, Universal Music Group, EMI Music, and Virgin Records. Additionally, Shaver served as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Country Music Association.

Olga Sismanidi is a senior expert on EU funding in the context of the Creative Europe programme, where she manages the development and implementation of a multi-disciplinary portfolio in the fields of music, digital arts, innovation, digitalisation and cross-sectorial approaches to the culture media. At the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), she currently steers eleven European Networks representing the music industry and performing arts. Previously, she led the ‘Access to Finance’ action under the EU Media Programme, and several works on performance management and the European Platforms action of Creative Europe. She has held multiple roles on other EU funding programmes for innovation – research, entrepreneurship and technology after her time in the private communications industries, the IFPI and the BBC World Service.

Shiveta Sooknanan is Senior Global Legal Policy Adviser for IFPI. She works on securing effective legal protection in music markets worldwide and promoting the role of copyright in supporting investment in music and the licensing of digital music services. With particular expertise in legal policy, Sooknanan has a key role in IFPI’s promotion of the cultural and economic value of recorded music and securing an adequate legal and regulatory environment for rights-holders in the digital environment.  Prior to joining IFPI in 2020, Sooknanan was the Deputy Controller of the Intellectual Property Office of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, where she worked extensively on the territory’s reform of the national intellectual property legislation in keeping with international treaties.

Spek is the founder and CEO of PopArabia and its rights organisation subsidiary, ESMAA. PopArabia is an independent label and the leading music publisher in the MENA region, representing an Arabic catalog of over 15,000 songs and independent music publishers from around the world in the MENA region. ESMAA is a rights organisation representing PRO’s, NRO’s and MRO’s, pioneering music licensing in the Gulf. Spek is also EVP of International and Emerging Markets at Reservoir.

Hiroyuki Tachimoto, a TV broadcasting industry veteran, is the President of Fujipacific Music Inc., one of the top independent music publishers in Japan. Gaining proficiency in the music business through production of music videos, live recorded music and music programs, he joined Fujipacific Music Inc. in 2022. Tachimoto also serves as director for the Music Publishers Association of Japan, as well as JASRAC.

Kim Temple is Senior Manager, Programming and Industry Relations at Music Publishers Canada (MPC), a non-profit, membership-based organisation founded in 1949 that ensures the views of music publishers working in Canada are heard. MPC’s mission is to create business opportunities for its members and to promote their interests and those of their songwriting partners through advocacy, communication and education. Temple manages the Women In The Studio National Accelerator, Create B2B export missions and international song camps, and Meet The Music Supervisors events. She is President of High Priestess Publishing, a joint venture with Six Shooter Records in Toronto.

Tommi Tuomainen is the founder and CEO of Elements Music (est. 2005), Finland’s leading independent music publishing group. Prior to Elements, Tuomainen worked at BMG Finland, BMG Music Publishing and Sony Music where he signed and worked with Darude, Bomfunk MC’s and Lordi, among others. Tuomainen is currently Chairman of the Finnish Music Publishers Association and for eleven years he was member of the board of Teosto, the Finnish performing rights society. 

Goetz von Einem is Managing Director of peermusic Germany and Senior Vice President Digital & European Legal Affairs. Besides the day-to-day publishing business, von Einem’s main expertise is in digital licensing, copyright policy and collecting society relationships. He is also the President of the German publisher association (DMV) and Deputy Chair of the GEMA supervisory board.

Sarah Williams is the CEO of IMPEL, a ground-breaking collective of independent music publishers that licenses the digital services. Williams has led IMPEL since 2019, overseeing a period of great growth and development for the organisation. Prior to that, she was an independent music lawyer, specialising particularly in publishing and organisational governance. Over her career, her wide range of interests and focus on the bigger picture have also led her into the fields of politics, conflict resolution and the non-profit sector.

Takuya ‘Tak’ Yamazaki has worked in the music industry for over 25 years. In addition to handling legal matters and negotiations for various stakeholders, including artists, managers, music publishers, labels, and rights management organisations, he holds executive positions in international associations such as IMPEL and the Worldwide Independent Network (WIN). In Japan, he has been committed to driving positive change within the industry through various initiatives, including lobbying for the liberalisation of the copyright management market, pursuing antitrust lawsuits against anti-competitive practices in the copyright management sector, establishing Merlin Japan, and connecting international professionals in his role as a business advisor for Music Ally Japan. Yamazaki has received numerous honours and recognitions, most notably being listed among the ‘Best Lawyers in the field of Media and Entertainment Law in Japan.’