The 9th AustralAsian Music Business Conference 2009
August 20-22, 2009. Acer Arena, Olympic Park Sydney

The 9th AustralAsian Music Business Conference has outlined its schedule of panels and topics as well as the first 30+ of over 50 speakers for the three day event August 20-22, 2009 at Acer Arena in Sydney. The registration page is active and all prices are outlined for one, two or three day tickets incorporating discounts for Music Managers Forum (MMF), Association of Artist Managers (AAM) and AustralAsian Performing Right Association (APRA). There is also a generous discount for music and music business students.

AMBC is the longest running, largest and most successful music industry conference and fully independent with over 600 attendees projected to attend. The conference will be dealing with all areas of the future of the music and entertainment software business including digital distribution and downloading, mobile content, branding, music use in film, TV, games, advertising and other applications, subscription paradigms, online music technology, music marketing, live music promotion and much more DIY topics.

Register to attend the AustralAsian Music Business Conference

For details on the registration rates visit our rates page.

First 35+ Major AMBC 2009 Speakers

1st Keynote: Jon Satterley--Senior Vice President New Media and Global Business Development for Roadrunner Records in New York, formerly CEO of Roadrunner Records Australia

Keynote #2: Brent Grulke--Creative Director South by Southwest has been with the event from 1987 and co-ordinates the music festival bookers as well as many music panels.

Keynote #3: Gerd Leonhard--Media Futurist, Author & Blogger, Keynote Speaker & Strategist, co-Author of the influential book ‘The Future of Music’.

Keynote #4: Jeff Price--Founder CEO TuneCore President / GM / Co-Founder spinART Records.

NEW! Keynote: Kevin Bermeister--Chief Executive Officer of Altnet Inc and Brilliant Digital Entertainment, the driving force behind Kazaa and internet innovator.

NEW! Shae Constantine--Director of Domestic Music Warner Music

NEW! Stuart Matchett--Content Director Digital Radio ABC

NEW! Nick Love--Business Development Director MySpace

NEW! Paul Buchanan--General Manager, Soundbuzz Australia

NEW! Clayton Doughty--Entertainment Relations, Gibson Guitars, former Marketing Manager International EMI Music

NEW! Kim Green--Music Supervisor Music Licensing Pty Ltd.

NEW! Jade Harley--Managing Editor of The Music Network.

NEW! Tim Levinson--The hip hop artist known as Urthboy, MC for The Herd, he also the founding member of independent label Elefant Traks.

NEW! Gregg Donovan--Manager of Airbourne, Grinspoon and Josh Pyke.

NEW! Andrew Reid--Managing Director, Peer Group. Previously MD for both Bluefreeway Australia and Nielsen Online.

Michael Smellie--Our 8th AMBC opening keynoter, formerly world COO for Sony/BMG, Asia Pacific head of BMG, MD of Polygram and rooArt in Australia

Sebastian Chase--CEO of leading indie distributor MGM Distribution, he's also been an artist manager, label owner and music industry visionary.

Richard Mallett--APRA Director of Recorded Music Services and one of the leading authorities on mobile and Internet delivery of music

Catherine Haridy--Manager of Eskimo Joe and former A&R head of Festival / Mushroom Records

Dan Hennessy--Aloha Management principal (Faker, Cog, Shihad, Sparkadia) and former A&R head of Warner Music

Brett Oaten--One of our top music business lawyers

Paul Paoliello--CEO of Mercury Mobility mobile music industry leaders and former Managing Director of Zomba Records in Australia

Marianna Annas--General Manager Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) and longtime Business Affairs executive for major labels both in Australia and the US.

Damian Trotter--Managing Director of Sony/ATV, one the largest and most progressive music publishers, he's championed songwriters for over two decades.

A.J. Maddah--Major Australian Concert & Tour Promoter.vProducer of Soundwave Festival

Shaun James--General Manager Music Channels for XYZ Networks (Channel [V], V2, Max, Country Music Channel); former Chairman & CEO of Warner Music Australia

Karen Farrugia--Market Manager Nokia Music Service; former Mobile & Online Content Manager at Universal Music and MTV Network Digital Strategies

Jeremy Macvean--Head of Digital Strategy for the Austereo Network and formerly Austereo Marketing Director, he came from an advertising background.

Julia Davis--Director New World Artists, a leading booking agency with a unique culture & ethos based on sustaining long term artist careers across many genres.

Marcus Seal--CEO, Shock Entertainment Group, he's a veteran of Festival Mushroom moved to BMG as Marketing Director & Sony BMG International Marketing

Ken Outch--Director Of Commercial Music Sony Music Australia; a digital visionary formerly with Destra, Festival Mushroom, Sanity Music and BMG Music

Sharon Ashworth--Music Marketing Manager Vodafone, she's also worked with Destra in its heyday and a veteran of Festival Mushroom, Shock and EMI.

Keith Welsh--Formerly Co-Publisher The Music Network, AMCOS Board Member, partner in publisher Rough Cut Music and owner of Catalyst entertainment consultancy

Georgia Hull--Senior Director New Media and Digital Business Development for Roadrunner Records Australia.

And of course, Phil Tripp, AMBC Convenor returns to moderate.

More speakers to be announced on a continuing basis.

Register now online at http://www.immedia.com.au/ambc/register/ and get the lowest price for all three days, 50+ speakers, nine panels and massive showbag:

Register to attend the AustralAsian Music Business Conference

For details on the registration rates visit our rates page.

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