Music Biz 2017

Edward Ginis stands at the forefront of the fast evolving music technology space. He has spent the past ten years evangelizing an industry-wide shift to the cloud and has helped position OpenPlay as an industry leader in the media asset management, workflow, and global supply cha... Read More →

Stephen Brady is a Software Developer at Big Machine Label Group. Big Machine Label Group is an independent record label specializing in country music artists based on Music Row in Nashville, TN.

Greg Delaney boasts over 30 years IT experience. He created Entertainment Intelligence (Ei) in 2014 to answer the growing need for robust but affordable data collection, reporting and analytics in the rapidly expanding world of digital entertainment. Ei is now ingesting billions... Read More →

John Getter came to Songspace from the Rumblefish/SESAC/Harry Fox Agency team where served as the Sr. VP of Product and Data Services. He spent the last 20 years leading teams in technology. Getter is a pioneer in the digital music industry starting at Rhapsody, and as one of the founding members of Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA)/Sony (the Orchard). He has an extensive background in data warehouse technologies and knowledge in metadata standards on both the master recording and publishing spectrums including DDEX, CWR, DDEX MWM... Read More →

Jake Handy is a composer and arranger with a Bachelor of Music in Music Technology who serves as Head of Metadata for Dart Data. He was a key contributor to the Music Business Association’s Music Metadata Style Guide V2.1 and the Music Business Association’s first Classical Metad... Read More →

Benji Rogers is a British-born, New York-based entrepreneur, technologist, musician, and the CEO and co-founder of the dotBlockchain Music Project. A pioneer of the direct artist-to-fan model of music distribution, Rogers founded PledgeMusic in 2009, which is now one of leading artist-to-fan platforms online with more than 4 million users and over 50,000 artists. In his current role heading dotBlockchain, Rogers is working to revolutionize the commercialization and movement of music in the digital economy. The project aims to create a decentralized global registry of music rights through a new music format by leveraging blockchain technology and to forge meaningful industry partnerships to overhaul how artists get paid. Straddling the worlds of technology and music, Rogers advises a range of tech and music companies on how to bridge the divide between their industries and is also an instructor at Berklee College of Music on digital trends in the industry. A dedicated patron of arts and creativity in all its forms... Read More →

Rob Weitzner brings a rich strategic and operational perspective gained over 20 years of experience at the nexus of music and technology. He has served in senior roles at several forward-thinking companies including VP of Global Business Development at IODA; founding Head of Memb... Read More →