Welcome to another round of Let’s Talk Digital, where we will take a closer look at some of the important topics within music and digital.

Moderator: Jesper Bay/MusicMatters.

Presented by Promus & SPOT+ in cooperation with Koda

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Rasmus Rex, Assistant Professor, RMC/RUC,  will share his analysis of what exactly is going on in the streaming market, how consumers behave, what people listen to, and who makes the money.

Rasmus Rex (DK)

Assistant Professor, RMC/RUC

Rasmus Rex Pedersen is teaching Assistant Professor at Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and Lecturer at Roskilde University. His research covers how digitalization changes structural organization and business models in the music business. His ongoing research project focuses on the streaming economies consequences for Danish musicians.

We have never had so much data available in the music industry. And yet, everybody complains about the lack of transparency.

Meet Benji Rogers/DotBlockChainMusic, Niels Mosumgaard/DPA/Koda, Niclas Molinder/Auddly & Mads Voigt Hingelberg/Innovation Lab.

Niels Mosumgaard (DK)

Chairman of the Board, DPA/Koda

Niels Mosumgaard is Chairman of DPA and KODA's board besides being a composer and songwriter. The last years he has been part of the discussions on digital distribution of music and the challenges it rises. He has been one of four artists in the global music industrys attempts to raise a database system for performing rights, which today is part of CISAC and the FastTrack system.

Benji Rogers (UK)

CEO & Co-founder, DotBlockChainMusic

Benji Rogers is a New York-based entrepreneur, technologist, musician, the founder of PledgeMusic and co-founder of the DOT Blockchain Music Project - an attempt to create a decentralized global registry of music rights using blockchain technology that will overhaul the commercialization and movement of music online. Rogers is also an instructor at Berklee College of Music on digital trends and strategies in the industry.

Niclas Molinder (SE)

Founder , Auddly & Music Rights Awareness Foundation

After 20 years of hitmaking for artists as Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga and Mary J Blige, as well as running his own publishing company Niclas Molinder putted his creative work aside to revolutionize the music industrys rights side. In 2014 he founded the worlds first independent song data hub Auddly, with the vision of a transparent and digitized data flow where everyone get paid and credited correctly. Two years later he started Music Rights Awareness Foundation as a linked initiative to increase the worlds knowledge about music rights.

Mads Voigt Hingelberg (DK)

LabAgent, Innovation Lab

Mads has worked with Big Data for more than 10 years. His large hands-on experience gives him a practical and useful fundament supervising this discipline. Through lectures, workshops and strategic supervision he gives insight in both society- organizational- and management possibilities regarding Big Data. In addition Mads has also been responsible for eBays business on mobile units in Denmark.

Jesper Bay (DK)

Managing Director, MusicMatters

Jesper Bay runs his own consulting company working with music and culture. His work are primarily communication, strategy, business and event development. He is also a partner in the music company Body of Work with the singer and songwriter Asbjørn, president of the Bremen Theatre, vice chairman of the Danish National Opera and a member of the Music Committee in Aarhus.

Chris Cooke, MD & Business Editor CMU Insights, will start this session sharing his views on the subject which will be followed by an open debate – hopefully involving the audience.

So be there!

Chris Cooke (UK)

MD & Business Editor, CMU Insights

Chris Cooke is MD and Business Editor of CMU. The CMU business provides training and consultancy to music companies, hosts the UKs biggest music business conference at The Great Escape festival in Brighton, and runs the CMU:DIY education program for new talent. Chris writes for CMUs media, co-hosts the podcast, curates and presents CMU@TGE, and leads on training and consultancy projects.