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DAY 1,  Dec. 8, 2003

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Networking Breakfast

9:15 - 9:30 Opening Remarks
Michael Stroud, Conference Chair

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote

Sean Ryan, Vice President Music Services

RealOne Music Division, RealNeworks

10:00-10:20  Presentation by eBay

10:20 - 11:20 Supersession Panel

Rip! Burn! Sue!
You may think you know a music pirate when you see one. But recent legal decisions exempting Kazaa and Grokster from prosecution and the music industry's decision to file suits against individual infringers demonstrate how convoluted the legal terrain has become.

Want to see sparks fly?

Don't miss this lively and heated debate featuring the the most outspoken and articulate industry leaders representing record labels and consumers!

• Mitch Glazier, RIAA, Sr. VP Government Relations
• Daniel Ballard, McDonough, Holland and Allen, Partner
• Ted Cohen, EMI Music, Sr. VP Digital Development and Distribution
• Wendy Seltzer, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Staff Attorney
• Ron Stone, Gold Mountain Entertainment, Founder and President (Manager, Bonnie Raitt)
• Moderator: Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal, Staff Writer
  
  

11:20 - 11:40 Networking Break

11:45 Demo: PaymentOne

11:55 - 12:45 Supersession Panel

Reinventing the Music Industry

2003 is on track to be the third straight year of substantial declines in worldwide music industry revenues. Online and physical music piracy continue to take a major bite out of this once-profitable business. What is being done to reinvent the music industry? What new business models are showing promise? How will the music industry recover? What is the impact on the retail industry?

• Courtney Holt, Interscope/A&M/Geffen Records, Head of New Media and Strategic Marketing
• David Ring, Universal Music Group, eLabs, VP Business Development & Business Affairs
• Jonathan Potter, DiMA, Executive Director
• Chris Amenita, ASCAP, Sr. VP Enterprises Group
• Robbie Vann-Adibé, Ecast, CEO
• Chris Gladwin, MusicNow (formerly FullAudio), COO & Co-founder
• Moderator: Michael Stroud, iHollywood Forum, Founder

12:45 - 1:30 Networking Lunch

1:30-2:00 Keynote

Peter Lowe, Apple, Director of Product Marketing and Applications

2:00 - 2:40 Gen-Y Roundtable

What College Students and Consumers Really Think About Music

A panel of college students and avid music consumers take questions from a moderator and the audience about the only questions that really matter: Have they bought any CDs over the last year? Are they deterred by RIAA lawsuit? Will they use new online music services? How do they listen to and purchase music? Is the PC or MP3 player really good enough? What influences their buying decisions? What do they think of music services?

Moderated by Stephen Gates, CEA, Sr. Communications Manager

2:45 - 4:00 Analyst Roundtable
The Battle for Consumers: Can It Be Won?

Bonus Report:  Each attendee will receive exclusive white papers prepared for our conference.

Presentations by leading market research analysts discuss consumer buying trends; results of large scale consumer surveys; consumer music buying habits and preferences; and download usage statistics for recently launched digital music services. We examine from the perspectives of artists, managers, consumers, record labels, software, hardware and device makers.  What are consumer attitudes about digital downloads after the RIAA lawsuits? How do consumers view artists, record labels and retail stores? Have RIAA actions had a deterrence effect on peer to peer networking?  What is the future of the record label industry? What services will generate revenue from music sales and services, and what price point will consumers adopt? 

• Russ Crupnick, NPD Group, Vice President
• Phil Leigh, Inside Digital Media, Senior Analyst
• John Barrett, Parks Associates, Analyst
• Matt Kleinschmit, Ipsos-Insight, Director, Tempo
• Gerry Philpott, E-Poll, President and CEO
• Moderator: Amy Bernstein, Business 2.0, Senior Editor

4:10 - 4:30  Afternoon Networking Break

Breakout Tracks:

4:30 - 5:20 (Choose From Three sessions)

Digital Marketing Strategies for Music

We all know how the online buzz about a new album can make or break sales. That buzz factor is rapidly moving to new technologies including cell phones, broadband, Internet, online marketing, chat rooms, and websites. Learn from markeing leaders for artists and albums on how to develop a strategy to effectively promote musicians across all media.

Demo: Musikube

• Brad Duea, Roxio/Napster, Vice President, Worldwide Business Development
• Joe Fleischer, Big Champagne, Principal
• Jeremy Welt, Maverick Records, Head of New Media
• Jean Luc Rejaud, Focus Marketing, President
• Chris Fralic, eBay, Entertainment Strategic Partnerships
• Moderator, Chris Marlowe, Hollywood Reporter, Tech/New Media Associate Editor

The Next Wave for Audio Electronics

We consider the technologies, formats and media that are taking the business and enjoyment of music to the next level: CD formats such as DVD-Audio, SACD, enhanced and interactive CDs; 8 channel surround-sound and greater; mini-discs; and more. Are consumers buying into the next generation?

• David DelGrosso, DTS, Vice President Marketing
• Adam Sexton, Macrovision, Vice President Marketing
• Aram Sinnreich, USC Annenberg School of Communications, Doctoral Fellow, former Jupiter Music Analyst
• Moderator: Stephen Gates, CEA, Sr. Communications Manager

Wireless and Mobile Music: Success Stories for New Revenue Streams
Music labels are looking to polyphonic and graphical ringtones, graphics, games, downloadable and streaming music and other emerging services to boost a steady ringtone market. We discuss dealmaking, licensing, artist and songwriter perspectives, digital rights management, new technologies and  how to make money in the emerging mobile music market.

Demo: Chaoticom

• Thomas Gewecke, Sony Music Digital Services, Sr. VP Business Development
• Jon Vlassopulos, AT&T Wireless, Senior Director Business Development
• Mark Spellen, Mobileway, VP Sales East Coast
• Andy Volanakis, Zingy, Senior VP of Business Development
• Lucy McQuilken, Chaoticom, President
• Nihal Mehta, ipsh!, President
• Moderator: Richard Conlon, BMI, VP Marketing and Business Development

5:30 - 6:30 PM (Choose from Three sessions)

CD or Not CD? So Whose Buying Anyway?

And What about the Indies--Can they Do Better than the Majors?

The traditional record store faces a Darwinian challenge in the face of declining album sales, piracy and mega-stores. Does the humble CD have a future? And was Universal's decision to drop CD prices by 30 percent a stroke of genius or an act of desperation?

The major labels take a lot of bullets from artists and others who complain about everything from the amount of royalty payments to bloated staffing. But many promising indies have been unable to break artists or sell product, despite the Internet, which was to have leveled the playing field. What is the role of indies in today's changing landscape?

Featured Presentation: The Orchard

• Demo: Steve Hartford, Reboot Music, President
• Liz Brooks, BuyMusic.com, Senior VP for Business Development
• Dan Hart, Echo, CEO (Consortium owned by Best Buy, Hastings Entertainment, Tower Records, Virgin Entertainment Group, Wherehouse Entertainment, and Trans World Entertainment)
• Bob Cahill, Sanctuary Records Group 
• Scott Cohen, The Orchard, President
• Ashley Heather, Musikube, CEO
• Moderator: Geoff Mayfield, Billboard, Director of Charts/Senior Analyst
  

Taking It On the Road with Portable Devices

We examine the technology of music portability -- from MP3 players to cell phones, from polyphonic ringtones to hard drives in automobiles -- and the impact it is having on the music business. How do revenue models --and copyright issues -- change when content passes freely from device to device? What are consumers buying?

• Daniel Benyamin, Phatnoise, Co-Founder and CTO
• Ty Roberts, Gracenote, CTO
• Scott Young, Best Buy, Vice President/General Manager
• Tom McGoldrick , Toshiba Storage Device Division, Manager, Support Engineering
• Jeff Cavins, Loudeye, President and CEO
• Moderator: Larry Langs, Attorney and Business Consultant

Digital Business Challenges Facing the Music Industry

How do you conduct your business, negotiate deals, and set policy in the face of legal uncertainties and digital rights issues?

Hear leading music business attorneys and business affairs/development executives discuss their

strategies for negotiating deals and developing standards and policies.

This session is qualified for 1 hour MCLE credit for California attorneys

• Jay Cooper, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Partner
• David Hughes, Sony Music, VP Technology Strategies and EMD
• Amanda Marks, Universal Music eLabs, Sr. VP
• Ken Hertz, Goldring, Hertz, and Lichtenstein, Partner
• Moderator: Lucy Goldenhersh, IP Digital Rights Management, Principal
  

6:30 - 7:45 Cocktail Party and Product Showcase

8:00-10:00   VIP Dealmaker Dinner for Deluxe Ticket Holders Ticket Holders

DAY 2, Dec. 9, 2003

8:30 - 9:30 Registration and Networking Breakfast

9:30 - 10:00 Keynote

Wayne Rosso, CEO, Optisoft SL

P2P United, Founding Member and former CEO, Grokster

10:00-10:15   Featured Presentation

MusicNow

10:15-11:15 Supersession Panel
The Download on Downloads
We examine the leading models for making money by downloading music: Rhapsody's combination subscription and pay-per-burn; Apple's straight 95 cents a burn; and other emerging approaches. Are the price points correct? Are the services making money? And are consumers biting?

• Scott Kauffman, MusicNow (formerly FullAudio), CEO
• Ellie Hirschhorn, MusicNet, GM and EVP
• Peter Csathy, MusicMatch, President
• Mark Ghuneim, Sony Music, Sr. Vice President Sony Music Online Services
• Don Teague, PaymentOne, Vice-President of Sales and Marketing
• Ranah Edelin, RealNetworks, GM, Business Development and Label Relations
• Moderator: Dawn Chmielewski, San Jose Mercury, Digital Media Reporter
  

11:15-11:45 Morning Break

11:50 to 12: 50   Supersession Panel
The Future of Radio
Radio is still king when it comes to music marketing. Now terrestrial radio faces digital competition from cable, satellite and online radio providers. Are the newcomers making headway? With government inquiries into pay-for-play and rising fees to play music on the Internet, how's a radio station to make money? What are trends for Internet radio?

• Zack Zalon, RadioFree Virgin, General Manager
• Lee Abrams, XM Radio, Sr. VP Content and Programming
• Jim VanHuysse, AOL Radio@Network, General Manager
• Quincy McCoy, MTV Networks, VP, Music and Radio
• David Goldberg, Music, Yahoo! Vice President and General Manager
• Moderator: Brida Connolly, Radio and Records, Digital Media Editor

1:00-2:00 Networking Lunch

Breakout Sessions

2:00 - 3:00 PM

Taming the Peer-to-Peer Beast
Peer-to-peer file-sharing has revolutionized the way music is shared and decimated industry profits. Can P2P become a legitimate and lucrative part of the music business?

Demo: Morpheus

• Paul Myers, Wippit, CEO
• Derek Broes, Altnet, Executive Vice President
• Michael Weiss, Morpheus, CEO
• Russ Frackman, Mitchell, Silberburg and Knupp, Partner
• Moderator: Rusty Weiss, Morrison & Foerster, Partner

Remixing the Home

Broadband cable, satellite music channels, home networks and WiFi are changing the way consumers enjoy music in the home. We examine the landscape and ask the important questions: are labels, cable and satellite companies successfully monetizing their broadband offerings? Are songs downloaded on PCs finding their way into living rooms? How close are we to the vision of "media servers" that pump music anywhere in the house?

• David Del Beccaro, Music Choice, President and CEO
• Ian Rogers, Muse.net, President
• Luca Bosurgi, Fmagazine, Publisher
• Albhy Galuten, Universal Music Group, Sr VP, Advanced Technology
• Jerry Del Colliano, The Audio Revolution, Publisher
• Moderator: Michael Stroud
  
  

3:00-4:00 Closing Networking Mixer

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