Future of Music Policy Summit, Georgetown University (October 3-5, 2010)

Speakers, Panels:

• Keynotes: Rocco Landesman (Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts), Victoria Espinel (US Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Office of Management and Budget)
• Musicians Online PR & Marketing Master Class
  • Ariel Hyatt (Founder, Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR)
• To-Do’s and You: The New Artist Checklist
  • Moderator: Bryan Calhoun (VP of New Media & External Affairs, SoundExchange)
  • Eric McKeown (Musician), Paul Rapp (Attorney, Musician, Community Radio Leader and Writer; Adjunct Professor of Law, Albany Law School), Perry Resnick (Senior Manager, RZO, LLC), Mercy Rauer Wagman (Professor, Drexel University; Attorney, Wagman Hurwitz)
• Health Care Reform and its Impact on Musicians
  • Moderator: Kristin Thomson (Education Director, FMC)
  • Alex Maiolo (HINT Program Coordinator, FMC), Renata Marinaro (Manager, Health Services Education and Outreach, The Actors Fund), Marie Ortiz (Program Director for Healthcare, Fractured Atlas), Harold Owens (Senior Director, MusiCares Foundation)
• What it’s Stat: Fan Data for Artists and Labels
  • Moderator: Greg Beshers (Director of Marketing, Independent Online Digital Alliance (IODA))
  • Ariel Hyatt (Founder, Ariel Publicity & Cyber PR), Lee Martin (Experimental Development, SoundCloud), Alex White (Co-Founder & CEO, Next Big Sound Inc.)
• The New Hustle: Direct-to-Fan Case Studies
  • Moderator: Jem Bahaijoub (Founder, imaginePR)
  • Marcus Johnson (CEO & Founder, Three Keys Music/FLO Brands, LLC), Joe Mach (Musician, Hotspur), Oddissee (Emcee; hip-hop entrepreneur), Jill Sobule (Musician; entrepreneur)
• Bred for Cred: Indie Labels in 2010
  • Moderator: Janine Small (Partner, Carroll, Guido & Groffman)
  • Dawn Barger (Manager, Post Hoc Management), Richard James Burgess (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/Burgess World Co.), Spott Philpott (Label Manager, Merge Records), Amaechi Uzoigwe (Partner, Definitive Jux/Official.fm)
• Where’s My Jetpack?
  • Moderator: Kristin Thomson (Education Director, FMC)
  • Chuck D (Musician; Activist; co-founder, Public Enemy), Jim Griffin (Managing Director, OneHouse), Dina LaPolt (Owner/Attorney, LaPolt Law, P.C.), Ian Rogers (CEO, Topspin Media), Tom Silverman (CEO & Founder, Tommy Boy Records), Fred von Lohmann (Senior Copyright Counsel, Google)
• Sound Decisions: Informed Policymaking for Creative Communities
  • Moderator: Michael Bracy (Co-founder & Policy Director, FMC)
  • Jonathan Adelstein (Administrator, Rural Utility Service, US Department of Agriculture), Maura Pally (Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Professional and Cultural Exchanges, US Department of State), Ron Sims (Deputy Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development)
• Craig Finn, Hank Shocklee and Jill Sobule in conversation with Ana Marie Cox
  • Moderator: Ana Marie Cox (Washington Correspondent, GQ Magazine)
  • Craig Finn (Musician, The Hold Steady), Hank Shocklee (President, Shocklee Entertainment; Producer & DJ), Jill Sobule (Musician; entrepreneur)
• Monsters of Data
  • Moderator: Peter DiCola (Assistant Professor, Northwestern School of Law)
  • Danah Boyd (Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research), Eric Garland (Founder, BigChampagne Media Measurement), Erin McKeown (Musician), Tim Quirk (Musician; Recovering online music executive)
• Tim Westergren in conversation with Kara Swisher 
  • Tim Westergren (Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora), Kara Swisher (Columnist, The Wall Street Journal; Co-producer, D: All Things Digital Conference)
• T. Bone Burnett in conversation with Greg Kot
  • T. Bone Burnett (Musician; Composer; Producer), Greg Kot (Music Critic, The Chicago Tribune)
• Who’s Your Ticket Master? The Magical Mashup Between Live Music and Social Networks
  • Moderator: Brenden Mulligan (Vice President of Strategic Development, Sonicbids)
  • Ian Hogarth (Co-founder & CEO, Songkick), Justin Karr (Director of Technology Programs, Fractured Atlas), Svetlana Legetic (Editor & Founder, Brightestyoungthings.com), Donna Westmoreland (C.O.O. I.M.P./9:30 Club)
• Future-Proofing Regulations
  • Moderator: Casey Rae-Hunter (Communications Director & Policy Strategist, FMC)
  • Harold Feld (Legal Director, Public Knowledge), Joseph Miller (Deputy Director & Senior Policy Director, Media and Technology Institute, The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies), Michael Petricone (Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronic Association), Patrick Ross (Executive Director, Copyright Alliance), Aparna Sridhar (Policy Counsel, Free Press)
• The Terminator: The Brewing Battle over Copyright Termination and Transfer
  • Moderator: Ann Chaitovitz (Owner, Anna Chaitovitz Consulting)
  • Ken Abdo (Vice President & co-chair of Entertainment Law Department, Lommen Abdo Law Firm), Lisa Alter (Partner, Alter & Rosen, LLP Attorneys as Law; Author, “Protecting Your Musical Copyrights), Jay Cooper (Vice-Chair, Global Media & Entertainment Practice, Greenberg Traurig), Marybeth Peters (Register of US Copyrights, US Copyright Office), Joel Schoenfeld (Partner, Mitchell Silberg & Knupp LLP)
• Rockin’ the Quad: Workable Models for Music on Campus
  • Moderator: Steve Worona (Director of Policy & Networking Programs, EDUCAUSE)
  • Zach Pentel (Owner, 808 Management), John Strohm (Attorney, Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP), Heidi Wachs (Director of IT Policy & Privacy Officer, Georgetown University)
• Radio, Radio
  • Moderator: Christopher Naoum (Policy Counsel, FMC)
  • Cephas Bowles (President, WBGO-FM/Newark Public Radio, Inc.), Peter Doyle (Chief, Audio Division, Media Bureau, FCC), Margaret Low Smith (Vice President of Programming, NPR), David Oxenford (Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP), Skip Pizzi (Technology Editor, Radio Ink Magazine), Pete Tridish (Director of Electromagnetism, Prometheus Radio Project)
• Creative Capital: Musicians, Money, and the Tools That Bring Them Together
  • Moderator: Mariam Adam (Clarinetist, Imani Winds and TransAtlantic Ensemble)
  • Eli Ball (CEO, Lyric Financial), Brian McTear (Founder & Executive Director, Weathervane Music), Benji Rogers (Founder & CEO, Pledge Music), Lara St. John (Concert Violinist; Owner, Ancalagon Records), Marcy Rauer Wagman (Professor, Drexel University; Attorney, Wagman Hurwitz)
• Presentations from Facebook, YouTube, CASH Music, and Nielsen Entertainment
  • Presenters:
    • Meredith Chin (Manager of Corporate Communications, Facebook), Christopher LaRosa (Product Manager, YouTube Music), Jesse von Doom (Executive Director, CASH Music), Eric Weinberg (President, Nielsen Entertainment)
  • Reaction Panel:
    • Moderator: Jean Cook (Director of Programs, FMC)
    • Bryan Calhoun (VP of New Media & External Affairs, SoundExchange), Rebecca Gates (Musician, Audio Editor), Dick Huey (CEO, Toolshed Inc.), Emily White (Co-founder, Whitesmith Entertainment; Board Member, CASH Music)
• A River of Nickels? The Changing Nature of Artist Compensation
  • Moderator: Kristin Thomson (Education Director, FMC)
  • Amy Blackman (Manager, Amy B MGMT/Cookman), Bertis Downs (Advisor, R.E.M.), Mark Kates (Founder, Fenway Records), Edward Pierson, Esq. (Attorney, Inside Passage Music), John Strohm (Attorney, Johnston Barton Proctor & Rose LLP), Jini Thornton (CEO, Envision Business Management Group, Inc.)
• Marshall Mathers Legal Matters: Is a Download a Sale or a License?
  • Moderator: Ann Chaitovitz (Owner, Ann Chaitovitz Consulting)
  • Davae Frey (Silent Partner Management), Ken Hertz (Senior Partner, Hertz and Lichtenstein LLP), Perry Resnick (Senior Manager, RZO, LLC)
• Future of Music Video
  • Moderator: Casey Rae-Hunter (Communications Director & Policy Strategist, FMC)
  • Georgia Sugimura Archer (Film Maker; Producer), Patricia Aufderheide (Professor & Director of Center for Social Media, School of Communication, American University)
• Cause, Collaboration and Culture: Using Music for Social Change 
  • Moderator: DeAnne Cuellar (Executive Director, Media Justice League)
  • Jonny 5 (Emcee, Flobots; Board President, Flobots.org), Candace Clement (Outreach Manager, Free Press), Kevin Erickson (Co-director, All Ages Movement Project), Andrew Schwarts (Musician; Member, Executive Board, Local 802 AFM)
• Money for Nothing and Your Bits for Free? Music Access Charges, Bundled Services, and Beyond
  • Moderator: Walter McDonough (Co-founder & General Counsel, FMC)
  • David Basskin (President & CEO, Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Association (CMRRA)), Jim Griffin (Managing Director, OneHouse), Peter Jenner (Manager, Sincere Management), Eddie Schwartz (President, Songwriters Association of Canada), David Touve (Assistant Professor of Management, Washington and Lee University)
• Taming the Metadata Monster: How Music Performance Data is Delivered and How Artists Get Paid
  • Moderator: Jean Cook (Director of Programs, FMC)
  • Michael J. Huppe (Executive Vice President/General Counsel, SoundExchange), Maxie Jackson (President & CEO, National Federation of Community Broadcasters)
• Partly Sunny with a Chance of Fog: Forecasting “Music in the Cloud”
  • Moderator: Rob Pegoraro (Consumer Technology Columnist, The Washington Post)
  • Brendan Benzing (Chief Product Officer, Rhapsody International), Peter Jenner (Manager, Sincere Management), Vickie Nauman (VP North America, 7digital), Patrick Sullivan (President & CEO, RightsFlow, Inc.)
• Damian Kulash in conversation with Neda Ulaby
  • Damian Kulash (Musician, OK Go), Neda Ulaby (Arts and Culture Reporter, NPR)