2021 Golden Melody Festival

No.	Date	& Time	Topic
1	8/18 WED	10:00-11:30	Meet the festivals and curators - East
2		13:00-14:30	How do overseas music festivals continue the brand spirit and keep the music going?
3		15:00-16:30	Music journalist and music editor －How do they influence music marketing and the trends
4	8/19 THU	10:00-11:30	Meet the festivals and curators - West
5		13:00-14:40	Creative coding & music
6		15:00-17:00	Mixing music for modern media　Music production and mixing – mono, stereo, to immersive
7	8/20 FRI	10:00-11:40	Overseas Buyers
8		13:00-14:30	How could we make a profit during the online concert era? How will the entertainment industry change?
9		15:00-16:30	Global development strategies in the view of AKB48
10		17:00-18:40	Using technology in real space for visual design

Conference 4

Topic：Meet the festivals and curators - West

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Mia Min YEN (Moderator)

Director, Taiwanese Waves

Taiwanese Waves is an agency founded by Mia Min YEN in 2016. The role of the agency is to bridge the musical gap between the East and the West. The agency focuses on promoting talents from Taiwan by hosting overseas tours and showcases with festivals, including annual showcase with Central Park's SummerStage. The agency also actively seeks collaboration opportunities for acts to build their career outside of Asia. Current management roster includes: 9m88, Sunset Rollercoaster, Elephant Gym, The Fur., LINION.

Vaidas STACKEVIČIUS

Director, Lithuanian Music Business Association, Lithuania

Co-founder and CEO of Lithuania based M.P.3 music agency (est. 2002), which operates as a record label, concert agency and concert promoter. From 2015 co-founder and current director of Lithuanian Music Business Association, the organizer of annual music conference & showcase festival "What's Next in Music?", which takes place every September in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Established in 2015, Lithuanian Music Business Association unites biggest music agencies, producers and promoters. It is the organization of annual music conference & showcase festival "What's Next in Music?", which takes place every September in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. "What's Next in Music?" started in 2012 under the Vilnius Music Week as a private initiative until the association became the organizer of the event in 2015. The main goals of LMBA are development, education and export of Lithuanian music market. Currently, the association is actively involved in the government supporting projects for culture industry sector, which was affected by Covid-19 pandemic.

Darryl HURS

Owner, Indie Week, Canada

Darryl HURS (CD Baby / Indie Week) has more than 25 years history in the music business including launching and running one of Canada's largest emerging artist showcase festivals and conferences, Indie Week Canada. Darryl currently is the director of market development in Canada for CD Baby. During COVID he has begun holding multiple online conferences and events including SCREEN x SCREEN music and tech conference (FEB 2021) and indie101 (APR 2021). Darryl has also negotiated numerous sponsorship and partnership agreements including those with Jack Daniels, Jagermeister, CD Baby, SLAIGHT MUSIC, and more. Past positions include graphic design/branding for Live Nation as a freelancer. Work included corporate rebranding, event marketing assets, work for known artists such as U2, Nickelback, Madonna, Beyonce, Jay-Z, and Dave Matthews, and the launching of VIPNATION.com. Darryl also has past experience as a booker for one of Toronto's top live music venues (The Rivoli) where he has either worked with or booked shows for Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols), The Trews, Matt Mays, Matthew Good, Hozier, Young the Giant and many more.

Indie Week was founded in 2003 on the principle of bringing together top-tier music business professionals and independent artists to educate, network, collaborate for future business. Over the years Indie Week has hosted conferences and festivals in Canada, Ireland, and the UK along with trades with international conferences in the US, UK, Brazil, Chile, Peru, and Korea. Indie Week’s large focus is on international exchanges and participation.
As the world adapts, Indie Week has moved online presenting 4 conferences per year.
Indie Week International (Nov 9-13, 2021)
SCREENxSCREEN music + tech (February 16-19, 2022)
indie101 (April 19 - 23, 2022)
A new conference to be announced to take place in September 2021.
"Indie Week was the best virtual conference I've attended." —— Dave Cool (Bandzoogle)

Peter ÅSTEDT

Owner at Musichelp / Booker at Future Echoes, Sweden

Peter ÅSTEDT has been working in the music industry for over 30 years. His company Musichelp Sweden AB is an umbrella company for several divisions like Musichelp Publishing, Distrosong, Dead Frog Records, Discover Sensation. Each company deals with different fields in the music industry like PR, Publishing, Distribution, Sync placements, Management, Festivals, and Artist Development.
Peter ÅSTEDT is part owner of Cashbox Radio where he also has his own Radio show. He is a columnist in Cashbox Magazine Canada and Record World USA. Peter ÅSTEDT has worked with several showcase festivals both in Sweden and internationally for over the past fifteen years. Last year Peter opened Sweden's new international showcase festival Future Echoes in Norrköping. Future Echoes put together people from several showcase festivals in Sweden to build one leading showcase festival that can serve as the export and import hub for Sweden and Scandinavia.

Future Echoes is Swedens new showcase festival that kicks off the 16-18th September, 2021 in Norrköping, Sweden. The festival but will be held annually in February starting in 2022 . The festival will have 100 artists from around the world and an international music conference with international speakers. The festival is held at several venues in central Norrköping. Applications from bands in 63 different countries have already been received and applications will stay open until June 30. The festival has gotten off to a good start and already has several international collaborations with artist exchanges and speakers, through the collaboration with the UNESCO Creative Cities Network in Norrköping.

Carmen BARAHONA

Director, En Órbita festival, Chile

Promoter from Chile and music programmer. Founder and director of En Órbita festival. Innate curator, curious idea seeker. Through the festival, she has collaborated in the development and direction of several side projects with artists, musicians as well as curating content with institutions like the Alma Observatory, MIT Media Lab groups, or the Pre-Colombian Museum of Art in Chile.Festival En Órbita is a music event that presents local and international artists, and also hosts panels and activities that showcase multidisciplinary ideas that connect with music. It takes place in Santiago, Chile, and in 2018 it also took place in New York and Lima, Peru. Collaborator of the recently opened label, El Hotel Records, booking agent of the Chilean artist Pablo Chill-E.

1977 Productions was founded as an extension of the Chilean records label Algorecords and the festival En Órbita. The line of work is live production, content development for sponsors, and artists representation.

Leading figures, both from home and abroad, are invited to speak on the current and future trends in the music industry, including music production, market exploration, technological innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.