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! Guy Sebastian--Top Australian Idol Guy Sebastian.
NEW! Titus Day--Manager of Guy Sebastian & others.
NEW! Jaddan Comerford--Agent, manager, promoter and half owner of The Staple Group, home of Destroy All Lines, Boomtown records, Staple Management and Marketing, Attractive Promotions.
NEW! Dorry Kartabani--Owner of Big Tree Artists Agency, formerly Senior Agent Harbour Agency.
NEW! Edrei Cullen--Director, One Louder Management which manages Sarah Blasko, Paul Kelly, End of Fashion, The Drones & Kate Miller-Heidke.
NEW! Marc Sousley--Promoter & Booker with C3 Presents which produces Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and over 800 shows in the US.
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--Paul Buchanan, Metaphoric Digital, former 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.
Marianna Annas--General Manager Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) and longtime Business Affairs executive for major labels both in Australia and the US.
Sharon Ashworth--Music Marketing Manager Vodafone, she's also worked with Destra in its heyday and a veteran of Festival Mushroom, Shock and EMI.
Sebastian Chase--CEO of leading indie distributor MGM Distribution, he's also been an artist manager, label owner and music industry visionary.
Karen Farrugia--Market Manager Nokia Music Service; former Mobile & Online Content Manager at Universal Music and MTV Network Digital Strategies
Dan Hennessy--Aloha Management principal (Faker, Cog, Shihad, Sparkadia) and former A&R head of Warner Music
Georgia Hull--Former Senior Director New Media and Digital Business Development for Roadrunner Records Australia.
Shaun James--General Manager Music Channels for XYZ Networks (Channel [V], V2, Max, Country Music Channel); former Chairman & CEO of Warner Music Australia
Jeremy Macvean--Head of Digital Strategy for the Austereo Network and formerly Austereo Marketing Director, he came from an advertising background.
A.J. Maddah--Major Australian Concert & Tour Promoter.vProducer of Soundwave Festival
Richard Mallett--APRA Director of Recorded Music Services and one of the leading authorities on mobile and Internet delivery of music
Brett Oaten--One of our top music business lawyers
Ken Outch--Director Of Commercial Music Sony Music Australia; a digital visionary formerly with Destra, Festival Mushroom, Sanity Music and BMG Music
Paul Paoliello--CEO of Mercury Mobility mobile music industry leaders and former Managing Director of Zomba Records in Australia
Marcus Seal--CEO, Shock Entertainment Group, he's a veteran of Festival Mushroom moved to BMG as Marketing Director & Sony BMG International Marketing
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
Damian Trotter--Managing Director of Sony/ATV, one the largest and most progressive music publishers, he's championed songwriters for over two decades.
Keith Welsh--Formerly Co-Publisher The Music Network, AMCOS Board Member, partner in publisher Rough Cut Music and owner of Catalyst entertainment consultancy
And of course, Phil Tripp, AMBC Convenor returns to moderate.
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