HIGHLIGHTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR A CHANGING GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
11 OCTOBER 2019
AVIVA STADIUM, DUBLIN
ATTENDEES
SPEAKERS
COUNTRIES
MEDIA
ATTENDEES
SPEAKERS
COUNTRIES
MEDIA
IS A GATHERING OF
THE WORLD‘S LEADING EXPERTS,
FROM THE ESTABLISHED TO THE RADICAL,
HIGHLIGHTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES
IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY,
WITH A FOCUS ON THE FAN EXPERIENCE.
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ROCKSTARS ·
· ROCKSTARS ·
Sr Experience Designer | ADOBE
Susse is a senior experience designer focused on voice design tools for Adobe XD. Susse joined Adobe through the acquisition of Sayspring, she is a firm believer that we all soon will be talking to our digital devices a little more, in an effort to look at them a little less.
SUSSE SØNDERBY
Sr Experience Designer | ADOBE
Director of Business Intelligence | AEG EUROPE
Allan is responsible for ensuring that data potential is maximised by venues such as The O2 in London, Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, festivals like BST Hyde Park and All Points East and promoters AEG Presents.
ALLAN KERR
Director of Business Intelligence | AEG EUROPE
Creative Director | SIGUR RÓS
Sarah Hopper has been working as a designer since 1992. In 2007 Hopper began a long term working relationship with the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. In 2011 Hopper art directed the Sigur Rós live performance film Inni, working closely with director Vincent Morisset, as well as making her directional debut on the related short film Klippa. She was creative director for the show design and content design for both the 2012 Sigur Rós world tour and the 2016-2017 world tour the former of which won a Knight of the Illuminations award for both lighting and video content. Sigur Rós have been collaborating on the concept of Tónandi with Magic Leap as an interactive audio visual experience for the last 6 years and Hopper has been involved as Creative Director on the project for Sigur Rós from the early brainstorming sessions to the present day. The first version of Tónandi was launched summer 2018 and this February won the Dice award for ‘Immersive Reality Technical Achievement".
SARAH HOPPER
Creative Director | SIGUR RÓS
Lead Industry Consultant - Telco, Media & Entertainment | IBM
Alison has worked for 20 years in the media & entertainment industry, and was responsible for the launch of the UK's first ad-funded music video on-demand service. Alison joined IBM 3.5 years ago to lead their solution development within the Telco, Media & Entertainment vertical, ultimately helping clients gain market advantage from emerging technology. She is particularly interested in the business impact of implementing AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain.
ALISON DAVIS
Lead Industry Consultant - Telco, Media & Entertainment | IBM
Interactive Director | MAGIC LEAP (Alumni)
XR creator with years of experience at Magic Leap and Amazon, including direction of the award winning Sigur Rós Tónandi experience. I am a musician passionate about the convergence of creative arts and technology. I received a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from UCSB in December 2012.
STEPHEN MANGIAT
Interactive Director | MAGIC LEAP (Alumni)
CCO & Founder MUSIKVERGNUEGEN | President HEALTHTUNES
It would take a lifetime to describe Walter’s career achievements, but he is best known as founder of Musikvergnuegen and his ubiquitous five note mnemonic for Intel that rose brand awareness from 24% to 93% globally, endless original scores for episodic television, network packages, feature films, record projects, film trailers, commercials, and main titles. Walter also founded HealthTunes®, a California nonprofit online streaming audio service created to improve one’s physical and mental health by pairing credible medical research with music.
WALTER WERZOWA
CCO & Founder MUSIKVERGNUEGEN | President HEALTHTUNES
CEO and President | ROQU Media International
ROBERT QUIRKE
CEO and President | ROQU Media International
Music and Film Producer/Director | VERTEBRAE PRODUCTIONS
Grammy nominated, San Francisco based music and film producer, Count Eldridge, is a recording artist, has worked for indie and major labels, scored films, and has worked as producer, mixer, and remixer for artists such as DJ Shadow, Frank Sinatra, Radiohead, No Doubt, New Order, RUN DMC, Tycho, Run the Jewels, Zoe Keating, Galactic, Mavis Staples, Thievery Corp, and many more. Count is director of the documentary ‘Unsound’, which is about the impacts the unintended consequences of the internet revolution- from piracy to fake news. He is also currently involved in the formation of the Artist Rights Alliance, helping to deal with issues affecting creators in the internet age.
COUNT ELDRIDGE
Music and Film Producer/Director | VERTEBRAE PRODUCTIONS
Co-Founder & Head of Music | BEAT GAMES
Jaroslav is Co-Founder and Head of Music of Beat Games s.r.o. The Czech indie studio behind VR hit “Beat Saber”. The best user rated game on Steam and the most viral VR title to date. He is also music composer and founder of Epic Music Productions. The company behind music for game/movie trailers including: Overwatch, StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Battlefield, Call Of Duty, Need For Speed, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and many more. Jaroslav was selected for the Czech Forbes “30 under 30” list in 2016.
JAROSLAV BECK
Co-Founder & Head of Music | BEAT GAMES
Director and Head Design | MORITZ WALDEMEYER DESIGN STUDIO
Moritz Waldemeyer is an internationally renowned designer based in London. His work occupies a diverse range of creative spaces, from art and product design to fashion and entertainment. Originally from Germany, Moritz moved to London in 1995 to study engineering at Kings College. He completed his Mechatronics master’s degree in 2001 before making his debut into the design world, enabling interactive show pieces for Swarovski’s Crystal Palace exhibition. Following his early collaborative work for the likes of Hussein Chalayan and Zaha Hadid, Moritz soon established himself as an independent designer. He held his first two gallery exhibitions “Electric Kid” and “By Royal Appointment” between 2006 and 2007. A year later, Moritz exhibited in MoMA’s Design & the Elastic Mind exhibition. In 2013 his lighting product ‘My New Flame’ was unveiled as part of MoMA’s permanent collection. Moritz founded his own Studio in 2004, enabling him to work on large-scale, independent projects. The Studio was built on a philosophy of playful experimentation by forging links between technology, art, fashion and design. This approach has resulted in a number of bespoke installations for brands like Audi, Panerai and Rinascente as well as a series of eccentric LED-embedded hats designed in collaboration with Philip Treacy. The studio has also made its mark in the music industry by creating high-tech, light-studded costumes for a range of a-list clients including U2, Rihanna, and also the London Olympics Handover Ceremony performers. In 2017 his studio performed a complete redesign of Jamiroquai’s stage persona, in the form of a parametric robotic hat. The same year, the studio created the new lighting brand “mori.london” via a Kickstarter campaign, as a vehicle to sell innovative lighting products directly online. Moritz acts as head designer in everything the studio undertakes, crafting his signature aesthetic into each piece.
MORITZ WALDEMEYER
Director and Head Design | MORITZ WALDEMEYER DESIGN STUDIO
Senior Associate | REED SMITH
Nick is a Senior Associate at Reed Smith specialising in digital content and music. He works with digital service providers, artists, managers and brands on legal and commercial matters.
NICK BREEN
Senior Associate | REED SMITH
Commissioner | BBC MUSIC
Rebecca is the creative lead for BBC Music Day, the UK-wide celebration of the power of music to change lives, with events across the UK and broadcasts on TV, Radio and digital. In 2018 BBC Music Day programmes reached over 13 million viewers on TV, 14 million on radio and trended on Twitter throughout the day. The initiative united 100 external partners who delivered over a thousand live music events, which featured in over 100 different BBC programmes.
REBECCA SANDIFORD
Commissioner | BBC MUSIC
Venture Partner | DRAPER ESPRIT
Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a Venture Partner and former Managing Partner at Draper Esprit, the leading European venture capital firm, and is based in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining Draper Esprit, Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where his investments included AePONA (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR – LSE:CSR.L). Previously, Brian co-founded both Exceptis Technologies - sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000 and Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian’s Draper Esprit investments include Movidius (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), Datahug (Callidus Software – NASDAQ: CALD), RhodeCode, Mobile Travel Technologies (Travelport – NYSE: TVPT), Graphcore and Clavis Insight (Ascential – LSE:ASCL). Brian was a member of the senior management team that successfully IPOed Draper Esprit in June 2016. He also sits on the board of the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading daily newspaper. He is a private investor/advisor to a number of early stage technology companies. Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association’s "Technology Person of the Year" award and has been inducted into the Irish Internet Association’s Hall of Fame. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network’s “Business Angel of the Year” award. Brian is a former Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association.
BRIAN CAULFIELD
Venture Partner | DRAPER ESPRIT
Computational Designer | SENNHEISER
Felix is an independent designer, developer and musician who collaborated closely with Sennheiser AMBEO and Magic Leap to create the AMBEO Lab spatial audio experience. Felix has previously collaborated with various other artists and companies including Microsoft, ROLI and Nuraphone, designing and building new audio visual experiences for digital audio and music creation.
FELIX FAIRE
Computational Designer | SENNHEISER
Partner | NILE-Evoke
Marco Vitali is a founding partner at Nile Rodgers’ "Music Intelligence" agency Nile-Evoke where he combines a Juilliard degree as a violinist with MBA degrees from NYU in both Marketing and Finance and over 18 years experience running various music agencies.
Over the course of 2 decades helping some of the world’s most iconic brands create their master brand level music strategies, Marco has focused on filling the need gap among C level marketers and agencies to put a more sophisticated marketing lens to music both creatively and strategically. To this end he and his partners launched music agency “Evoke” where they pioneered a sophisticated analytical approach to solving marketing objectives with music solutions called “Music Intelligence” which enables the category of music to enter a brand's marketing mix on a higher and more strategic level. It is this unique, tried and tested mix of science and art and its potential to elevate the role of music in marketing and branding that attracted the desire of legendary music producer and hit maker Nile Rodgers to join forces and eventually create "NILE-Evoke."
Previously managed as an artist, composer and producer by Nile Rodgers and former Dreamworks Records President / Warner Music A&R President Michael Ostin, Marco has written, produced, and/or recorded violin with Nile and other artists like Quincy Jones, Wu Tang Clan, Ceelo Green, Organized Noize, Peter Wolf (J. Geils Band), Q Tip, and Pete Rock.
MARCO VITALI
Partner | Sonic Lens Agency
Sr Experience Designer | ADOBE
Susse is a senior experience designer focused on voice design tools for Adobe XD. Susse joined Adobe through the acquisition of Sayspring, she is a firm believer that we all soon will be talking to our digital devices a little more, in an effort to look at them a little less.
SUSSE SØNDERBY
Sr Experience Designer | ADOBE
Director of Business Intelligence | AEG EUROPE
Allan is responsible for ensuring that data potential is maximised by venues such as The O2 in London, Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Barclaycard Arena in Hamburg, festivals like BST Hyde Park and All Points East and promoters AEG Presents.
ALLAN KERR
Director of Business Intelligence | AEG EUROPE
Creative Director | SIGUR RÓS
Sarah Hopper has been working as a designer since 1992. In 2007 Hopper began a long term working relationship with the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. In 2011 Hopper art directed the Sigur Rós live performance film Inni, working closely with director Vincent Morisset, as well as making her directional debut on the related short film Klippa. She was creative director for the show design and content design for both the 2012 Sigur Rós world tour and the 2016-2017 world tour the former of which won a Knight of the Illuminations award for both lighting and video content. Sigur Rós have been collaborating on the concept of Tónandi with Magic Leap as an interactive audio visual experience for the last 6 years and Hopper has been involved as Creative Director on the project for Sigur Rós from the early brainstorming sessions to the present day. The first version of Tónandi was launched summer 2018 and this February won the Dice award for ‘Immersive Reality Technical Achievement".
SARAH HOPPER
Creative Director | SIGUR RÓS
Lead Industry Consultant - Telco, Media & Entertainment | IBM
Alison has worked for 20 years in the media & entertainment industry, and was responsible for the launch of the UK's first ad-funded music video on-demand service. Alison joined IBM 3.5 years ago to lead their solution development within the Telco, Media & Entertainment vertical, ultimately helping clients gain market advantage from emerging technology. She is particularly interested in the business impact of implementing AI, Machine Learning and Blockchain.
ALISON DAVIS
Lead Industry Consultant - Telco, Media & Entertainment | IBM
Interactive Director | MAGIC LEAP (Alumni)
XR creator with years of experience at Magic Leap and Amazon, including direction of the award winning Sigur Rós Tónandi experience. I am a musician passionate about the convergence of creative arts and technology. I received a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from UCSB in December 2012.
STEPHEN MANGIAT
Interactive Director | MAGIC LEAP (Alumni)
CCO & Founder MUSIKVERGNUEGEN | President HEALTHTUNES
It would take a lifetime to describe Walter’s career achievements, but he is best known as founder of Musikvergnuegen and his ubiquitous five note mnemonic for Intel that rose brand awareness from 24% to 93% globally, endless original scores for episodic television, network packages, feature films, record projects, film trailers, commercials, and main titles. Walter also founded HealthTunes®, a California nonprofit online streaming audio service created to improve one’s physical and mental health by pairing credible medical research with music.
WALTER WERZOWA
CCO & Founder MUSIKVERGNUEGEN | President HEALTHTUNES
CEO and President | ROQU Media International
ROBERT QUIRKE
CEO and President | ROQU Media International
Music and Film Producer/Director | VERTEBRAE PRODUCTIONS
Grammy nominated, San Francisco based music and film producer, Count Eldridge, is a recording artist, has worked for indie and major labels, scored films, and has worked as producer, mixer, and remixer for artists such as DJ Shadow, Frank Sinatra, Radiohead, No Doubt, New Order, RUN DMC, Tycho, Run the Jewels, Zoe Keating, Galactic, Mavis Staples, Thievery Corp, and many more. Count is director of the documentary ‘Unsound’, which is about the impacts the unintended consequences of the internet revolution- from piracy to fake news. He is also currently involved in the formation of the Artist Rights Alliance, helping to deal with issues affecting creators in the internet age.
COUNT ELDRIDGE
Music and Film Producer/Director | VERTEBRAE PRODUCTIONS
Co-Founder & Head of Music | BEAT GAMES
Jaroslav is Co-Founder and Head of Music of Beat Games s.r.o. The Czech indie studio behind VR hit “Beat Saber”. The best user rated game on Steam and the most viral VR title to date. He is also music composer and founder of Epic Music Productions. The company behind music for game/movie trailers including: Overwatch, StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Battlefield, Call Of Duty, Need For Speed, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and many more. Jaroslav was selected for the Czech Forbes “30 under 30” list in 2016.
JAROSLAV BECK
Co-Founder & Head of Music | BEAT GAMES
Venture Partner | DRAPER ESPRIT
Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a Venture Partner and former Managing Partner at Draper Esprit, the leading European venture capital firm, and is based in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining Draper Esprit, Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital where his investments included AePONA (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs – NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware – NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR – LSE:CSR.L). Previously, Brian co-founded both Exceptis Technologies - sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000 and Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian’s Draper Esprit investments include Movidius (sold to Intel – NASDAQ: INTC), Datahug (Callidus Software – NASDAQ: CALD), RhodeCode, Mobile Travel Technologies (Travelport – NYSE: TVPT), Graphcore and Clavis Insight (Ascential – LSE:ASCL). Brian was a member of the senior management team that successfully IPOed Draper Esprit in June 2016. He also sits on the board of the Irish Times, Ireland’s leading daily newspaper. He is a private investor/advisor to a number of early stage technology companies. Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association’s "Technology Person of the Year" award and has been inducted into the Irish Internet Association’s Hall of Fame. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network’s “Business Angel of the Year” award. Brian is a former Chairman of the Irish Venture Capital Association.
BRIAN CAULFIELD
Venture Partner | DRAPER ESPRIT
Computational Designer | SENNHEISER
Felix is an independent designer, developer and musician who collaborated closely with Sennheiser AMBEO and Magic Leap to create the AMBEO Lab spatial audio experience. Felix has previously collaborated with various other artists and companies including Microsoft, ROLI and Nuraphone, designing and building new audio visual experiences for digital audio and music creation.
FELIX FAIRE
Computational Designer | SENNHEISER
Partner | NILE-Evoke
Marco Vitali is a founding partner at Nile Rodgers’ "Music Intelligence" agency Nile-Evoke where he combines a Juilliard degree as a violinist with MBA degrees from NYU in both Marketing and Finance and over 18 years experience running various music agencies.
Over the course of 2 decades helping some of the world’s most iconic brands create their master brand level music strategies, Marco has focused on filling the need gap among C level marketers and agencies to put a more sophisticated marketing lens to music both creatively and strategically. To this end he and his partners launched music agency “Evoke” where they pioneered a sophisticated analytical approach to solving marketing objectives with music solutions called “Music Intelligence” which enables the category of music to enter a brand's marketing mix on a higher and more strategic level. It is this unique, tried and tested mix of science and art and its potential to elevate the role of music in marketing and branding that attracted the desire of legendary music producer and hit maker Nile Rodgers to join forces and eventually create "NILE-Evoke."
Previously managed as an artist, composer and producer by Nile Rodgers and former Dreamworks Records President / Warner Music A&R President Michael Ostin, Marco has written, produced, and/or recorded violin with Nile and other artists like Quincy Jones, Wu Tang Clan, Ceelo Green, Organized Noize, Peter Wolf (J. Geils Band), Q Tip, and Pete Rock.
MARCO VITALI
Partner | Sonic Lens Agency
Director and Head Design | MORITZ WALDEMEYER DESIGN STUDIO
Moritz Waldemeyer is an internationally renowned designer based in London. His work occupies a diverse range of creative spaces, from art and product design to fashion and entertainment. Originally from Germany, Moritz moved to London in 1995 to study engineering at Kings College. He completed his Mechatronics master’s degree in 2001 before making his debut into the design world, enabling interactive show pieces for Swarovski’s Crystal Palace exhibition. Following his early collaborative work for the likes of Hussein Chalayan and Zaha Hadid, Moritz soon established himself as an independent designer. He held his first two gallery exhibitions “Electric Kid” and “By Royal Appointment” between 2006 and 2007. A year later, Moritz exhibited in MoMA’s Design & the Elastic Mind exhibition. In 2013 his lighting product ‘My New Flame’ was unveiled as part of MoMA’s permanent collection. Moritz founded his own Studio in 2004, enabling him to work on large-scale, independent projects. The Studio was built on a philosophy of playful experimentation by forging links between technology, art, fashion and design. This approach has resulted in a number of bespoke installations for brands like Audi, Panerai and Rinascente as well as a series of eccentric LED-embedded hats designed in collaboration with Philip Treacy. The studio has also made its mark in the music industry by creating high-tech, light-studded costumes for a range of a-list clients including U2, Rihanna, and also the London Olympics Handover Ceremony performers. In 2017 his studio performed a complete redesign of Jamiroquai’s stage persona, in the form of a parametric robotic hat. The same year, the studio created the new lighting brand “mori.london” via a Kickstarter campaign, as a vehicle to sell innovative lighting products directly online. Moritz acts as head designer in everything the studio undertakes, crafting his signature aesthetic into each piece.
MORITZ WALDEMEYER
Director and Head Design | MORITZ WALDEMEYER DESIGN STUDIO
Senior Associate | REED SMITH
Nick is a Senior Associate at Reed Smith specialising in digital content and music. He works with digital service providers, artists, managers and brands on legal and commercial matters.
NICK BREEN
Senior Associate | REED SMITH
Commissioner | BBC MUSIC
Rebecca is the creative lead for BBC Music Day, the UK-wide celebration of the power of music to change lives, with events across the UK and broadcasts on TV, Radio and digital. In 2018 BBC Music Day programmes reached over 13 million viewers on TV, 14 million on radio and trended on Twitter throughout the day. The initiative united 100 external partners who delivered over a thousand live music events, which featured in over 100 different BBC programmes.
REBECCA SANDIFORD
Commissioner | BBC MUSIC
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