CONFERENCE SCHEDULE |12.11.24| THE MAC & OH YEAH CENTRE, BELFAST
OPENING KEYNOTES
10:00 - 11:15 | DOWNSTAIRS THEATRE, THE MAC
11:30 - 12:20 SESSIONS
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Moderator: TBA
Speakers:
Charlotte Dryden (Chief Executive Oh Yeah Music Centre)
Kim Hawes (Tour Manager Motorhead / Lemmy)
Sarah O’Sullivan (Artist Manager - SOS Artists / Publicist - MCD)
Jayne Trimble (Music Publisher)
Beverley Whitrick (Music Venues Trust)
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Moderator:
Bekah Molony (D07 Artists)
Panelists:
James Ayo (Hotbox Entertainment)
Kwame Kwaten (MD Ferocious Talent - Rumer, Amrit Kaur, Vivienne Chi)
Siobhan Brown (Soultrane Festival / Artist)
Jo Ricketts (NXGEN / Manager - Winnie Ama, Jordan Adetunji, Leo Miyagee)
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Host: Matt Bacon (Dropout Media / Bacon Bits)
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Chris Cooke (CMU)
Willie Ryan (Lawyer for Hozier, Johnny McDaid, The Coronas)
Liam Craig (Manager; Roe)
Aine Cronin-McCartney (A&R Faction Music & Label Manager for Bloom Records)
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Moderator:
Nigel Elderton (Peer Music)
Panelists:
Sarah Liversedge Platz (Bucks BDI Music)
Dina Coughlan (Planet of Sound/Music Supervisor)
Johnny Lappin (Publisher - Aslan, Sharon Shannon, Rob Burke, Rodrigo Y Gabriela)
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Moderator:
Aaron Casey (RAAP)
Panelists:
Nicky Bignell (Head of Music Licensing BBC)
Rebekah Fitch (Composer and Co-writer -The Traitors BBC Trailer, BBC Olympics Trailer)
Mat Andasun (Production Music Composer and Library Music Thought Leader)
Dean Fagan (Composer and Music Royalties Manager)
12.40 - 13.20 SESSIONS
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Ciaran Scullion (Head of Music Arts Council NI)
Nikki MacRae (Music Officer Belfast City Council)
Chris Tams (BPI)
John Hendrickse (PRS Foundation)
David Culbert (Help Musicians)
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Eamonn Forde (author)
Siobhán McAndrew (BBC/ Producer)
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Moderator: Siobhan Brown (Soultrane)
Speaker: Dr Richard Mills
The influence that black music and culture has had over The Beatles!
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Moderator:
Dylan Murphy (Mabfield)
Panelists:
ROISINO (Director / music and brands - clients include BBC, Netflix, Adidas)
Alison Lamb (Project Allies - Music Marketing & Campaign Management)
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Chris Cooke (CMU)
Phil Nelson (Pathways into Music / Manager - Duke Special, Aqualung)
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Moderator: Mark Gordon (Score Draw)
Speakers:
Tally Myners (Ignition Creative),
Ciaran Birch (Trailer Composer - ‘Ghostbusters - Frozen Empire’, ‘Avengers: Endgame’, ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’)
Jonathan Tester (Bucks Music)
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Moderator: Darren Ferguson
Speakers: Zarifa Asghari (Songwriter)
Eva Kearney (Aqua Tofana)
Glenn Millar (Musician, Author of ‘Made to Parade’)
Amita Ravikiran (Artist)
13:40 - 14:30 SESSIONS
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Moderator:
Rachel Lloyd (AEG Live)
Speakers:
Matt Hanner (Runway Artists - Chubby Cat, Baby Bird, The Wytches)
Joe Dougan (Belsonic)
Derick Mackinnon (New Found Sound Promoters)
Cheylene Murphy (Beauty Sleep)
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Moderator:
Mark Graham (Music Industry Podcaster, Music Lecturer & PhD Candidate)
Speakers:
Anthony O'Dwyer (Lecturer at SETU)
Helen Mullane (Little Storm Productions)
Leo Pearson (Composer and Producer)
Lee Grace
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Moderator:
Paul Bonham(MMF)
Speakers:
Rowan Brand (Tribe MGMT - Manager - Bears Den, Ciaran Lavery)
Trina Smith (CEO Electric Pineapple Media Group - Mutya (Sugababes) , Andrew 'Ace' Kingslow)
Jill Hollywood (Echo Beach Management - Jackknife Lee, Dave Bascombe)
Will Reeves (Karma Artists - Mixing Engineer: Stormzy, Bree Runway, Khalid)
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Moderator: Mark Gordon (Score Draw)
Speakers:
Sophie Urquhart (Tin Drum Music - Recent placements include Google, Diesel, Diet Coke)
Sascha Darroch-Davies (DLMDD - Recent placements include Amazon and MINI)
Mark Woodward (Former Creative Lead, BBC Football)
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Moderator: Tony Nwachukwu (CDR - Maya Jane Coles, SBTRKT)
Speakers: Sloucho (Artist - EMBY, Curtisy)
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Moderator:
Whitney Ribbins (Wild 1 Media - Pink Floyd, Glen Matlock, BMG)
Speakers:
Ian Randell (Marketing Consultant for Decca / Universal)
Andrew Roland (DarkWaves Music, Decca, BMG)
Richard Whittaker (Starboard Music Group - The Who, The Rolling Stones, Mary Black)
Lyndsy Coates (lyndsy.digital, Decca Records, Universal Music Group)
14:50 - 15:40 SESSIONS
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Moderator: Tom Brumpton (Polymath PR - Confess, Jesse Leach, Morgan Heritage)
Speakers:
Jess Murray (Hot Press - The Prodigy, The Pretty Reckless, UB40)
Sheena Madden (Amplify Agency - Gemma Hayes, Maria Kelly, Mary Coughlan)
Eve-Christine Adolph (Hey Eve)
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Speakers:
Gill Dooley (AIM Ireland)
Jack Clothier (Alcopop Records)
Brian Scally (Paragon Records)
Timmy Stewart (DJ / The Night Institute)
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Moderator:
Danny Carroll (IMRO)
Speakers:
Sarah McBriar (AVA Festival / UP! Productions)
Adam O’Brien (Event Consultant)
Constance Keane (ATC Management)
Shauna Watson (The Orchard)
Shane Dunne (MCD)
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Moderator: TBA
Speakers:
Eoghan O'Hagan (Music Support)
& Many more TBA
Music Support, the charity that helps anyone who works in UK music and live events experiencing challenges surrounding substance use and/or mental health invites you to join us for an open and honest discussion with experts from the worlds of music and mental health on navigating the highs and lows of the industry and the services we offer to empower individuals to look after the wellbeing of their peers (and themselves in the process).
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Speakers:
Emily Pilbeam (BBC Radio 6 Music / BBC Introducing)
Dexter Batson (Little Wonder PR, Spotify, BBC)
Oli Dutton (Obscene Strategies)
Gemma Bradley (Artist, BBC Introducing)
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(introduced by Stuart Fleming)
Moderator: Maeve Mulholland
Speakers: George Strezov (Composer, Conductor and Orchestrator - ‘The Tree of Life’, ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’, ‘The Witcher’)
CLOSING KEYNOTE
16:00 - 17:00 | DOWNSTAIRS THEATRE, THE MAC
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TBA Soon!