Morvan has been pioneering digital marketing in entertainment through initiatives including: the 1996 launch of the first label portal in France focused on independent labels and artists; the Daft Club permission marketing campaign for the international release of Daft Punk’s “Discovery” album in 2001; the 2005 creation of the first Consumer Relationship Management (CRM) department in a major music label in France; the deployment of CRM and CMS solutions across Europe and early strategic partnerships with digital media players such as Google and MSN.

After heading New Media at Sony Music UK for 9 years, Neil is now managing Media Junction, one of the UK’s leading marketing agencies in arts & entertainment, where he helps artists like Jamiroquai, The Prodigy, companies like ATC Management and Mama Group connect to their audience through websites, social media and widgets.

Martin worked at Orange and invested in Mobivillage (a ringtones platform) in 2001. He launched the Mobile Music Portal in 2005 and handled Madonna’s promotion of “Confessions on a Dance Floor”, as well as the SMS Jukebox project. At bluenove, he is responsible for mobile and Web 2.0, and works on innovative social networks projects.

In charge of development for major European, Japanese and French indie labels, Vincent creates new processes for building artist-consumer relationships, including special video game OST applications for mobile phones, dedicated B2B websites for improving publishing repertoire use and new digital tools to promote interaction between a song/event and the media.

As InStyle DM’s President, Diego implemented the infrastructure and digital marketing services for EMI Latin America across multiple countries, a multi-language campaign and instensive management of the social networks of latin band RBD that reached 2 million visitors per month and 600,000 fans, and recently designed and executed a strategy for Jencarlos Canela’s social networking sites that resulted in more than 10,000 fans and 8,000 records sold within its first week online.

In the last 18 months, Simon & Hyperlaunch have won awards for their PR & Social Media campaigns for Scouting For Girls & Warner Bros movie “The Hangover” along with the Annie Lennox website. Hyperlaunch built the new Glastonbury Festivals site and delivered digital campaigns for over 100 UK releases including 12 no.1’s and have driven tens of millions of viral game plays.

Rachel helped to launch over 300 social networks, blogs, and fan pages for Artists such as Linkin Park, 50 Cent and Radiohead. She is looking forward to helping you think about how to use social media products and services in order build an effective direct-to-fan marketing and sales channel.

Aiming to optimise producer investments and artist recognition, Vincent animates communities and creates content to build strong links between artists and consumers. He helps Japanese bands develop fan base collaboration, manages official artist social network sites and builds strong communities to increase interest from key French market actors.

Jeff is a globally renowned thought leader, author, visionary and entrepreneur. He is an early investor in Twitter, and creates and hosts the 140 Characters Conference, looking at twitter as a platform and as a language we speak, and explore the effects of the real-time Internet on Business.

For the past 5 years, Gareth has been developing Kontor’s international network and overseeing the global marketing campaigns for artists such as SCOOTER and ATB, both platinum-selling artists in different territories across Europe. Based in the Hamburg HQ, he works closely with designated licensing partners around the world. For the reintroduction of SCOOTER to the UK market, he accompanied the band on 2 tours to the British Isles either side of the album release, which entered the charts at #1.

Matt is an advisor to Metric - who have set up their own global label to self-release future albums, available in 18 countries. He helps Metric to land on US Top 20 radio, performed on David Letterman, placements in video games, major motion pictures and hit TV shows. He also helps Metric to expand to over 120,000 mailing list names, 1000% website traffic increase, and very lucrative direct-to-fans online music sales.

Throughout his music business career as consultant, manager and postgraduate director, David has overseen, designed and executed all music genres’ marketing plans. From SKA-P or Carlos Núñez to Auxilar’s “Superherois” (an electro pop act from Barcelona worldwide released), he has pursued to build all marketing strategies upon good songs and international development.

Adam works with more than 400 retail partners worldwide to collaborate on sales and marketing campaigns for IODA labels, selecting the ideal services for each release and the most effective approach for maximizing labels’ digital strategies. Recent examples include Latin sensation Aventura, #1 charting Reggae band Easy Star All Stars and the esteemed London Symphony Orchestra.
He creates unique licensing and branding opportunities for independent artists with multi-national companies including Microsoft/Zoon, Real Networks’ Rhapsody, Apple/iTunes, Sprint and Verizon.

Emily developed The Dresden Dolls worldwide and used those indie grassroots strategies at Live Nation Artists, launching Zac Brown's debut album into the Billboard Top 20. Now, she is working on comprehensive album releases with Family Of The Year, Sydney Wayser as well as managing Brendan Benson of The Raconteurs..