Future Of Music Policy Summit

We are honored to be panelists at the Future of Music Policy Summit taking place through October 6th in Washington DC.

The summit is intended to examine the impact of policy and technological innovation on everyone in the music ecosystem, through panels, discussions, events, workshops and keynotes.  The speakers so far have included Senator Al Franken, FCC Chairman (and LaunchBox Digital founder) Julius Genachowski, Mike Mills of REM, Ariel Hyatt of Cyber PR and so many others! Tomorrow’s line up includes Daniel Ek of Spotify, Seth Hurowitz of IMP, Ian McKaye of Fugazi, Eliot Van Buskirk of Wired, and many others.

We will be presenting as part of the “New Musicians Toolbox” panel at 2pm, which FMC describes as:

Despite the obvious disruptions, the digital revolution has been empowering for many musicians. Yet navigating this rapidly evolving landscape can be daunting. Representatives from some of the coolest new ideas in funding, promotion, asset management and data tracking will join us to demo their wares and talk about how musicians can effectively use new tools.

Duncan Freeman Founder, Band Metrics
George Howard Manager, Carly Simon (moderator)
Charlie McEnerney Host + Producer, Well-Rounded Radio; Instigator, Musicians for Music 2.0

We are particularly excited about being on this panel because connecting bands and fans is a HUGE motivating factor for us (we literally wake up every morning thinking about how we can do it even more effectively). We’ve been working on a great set of tools for artists to use our API to their full advantage, and we are looking very forward to talking about some of them tomorrow, and unveiling them over the coming weeks and months.

There are several ways to check out the summit, even if you can’t attend in person:

• • Watch live streaming of the event
  • Check out FMC’s live blog
  • Search #fmc09 on twitter (great quality and insight so far!)

If you are attending in person, please come say hi!

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   Looking very forward...doing this presentation tomorrow and talking about all

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