Pete Mathias & Vaughn Mckenzie-Landell
Topic: Pioneering Music Blockchain Pilot: Learnings & Application For The Wider IP Industries
The complexities of copyright and IP management have the music industry in a stranglehold, affecting creators, rights holders, and those who license music – but blockchain offers a potential solution, a unified framework to collaborate on a single view of rights. London-based tech start-up JAAK is laying the foundation for an industry-wide solution with their blockchain-based rights network KORD, with the goal of providing a single global view of intellectual property information. With a successful pilot including key music industry players behind them, the potential gains are huge and extend beyond music into broader IP and content industries. JAAK CEO Vaughn McKenzie-Landell and Bertelsmann’s Pete Mathias discuss the outcomes of the music pilot and the wider implications for the creative sector.

PANELISTS:
Deep Ghumman, Principal, Advisory Services, EY
Lillian Ruiz, COO & Co-Founder, Civil Media Company
Jarrod Dicker, CEO, Po.et
Jesse Grushack, Co- Founder, Ujo Music
Moderator: Christopher Kenneally, Director, Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center

Eve Sussman
Artist Spotlight
Eve Sussman is a Brooklyn-based artist working in film, video, and installation. Sussman will present a preview of 89 seconds Atomized, a re-invention of her well-known video artwork, 89 Seconds at Alcázar. 89 Seconds at Alcázar is a continuous seamlessly looping video that imagines that space and the characters in Diego Velazquez’s painting Las Meninas. It was first shown at the 2004 Whitney Biennial. All editions of the piece are in museums (MoMA, Whitney) or private collections. Sussman is now appropriating her last artist proof to make a new work: 89 seconds Atomized, and presenting it to the crypto community via an interactive project on the blockchain in collaboration with Snark.art. The artist will tell the back-story of this project and give a preview of this blockchain experiment.

PANELISTS:
Jacob Varghese, Founder & Director, Noctil
Daniel Doubrovkine, CTO, Artsy.net
Michael Simon, President, Rumblefish; CEO, Harry Fox Agency LLC
Mario Pena, Product Manager, Safe Creative Ltd.
Moderator: Maurice Russell, CEO & Founder, Media Rights Management

PANELISTS:
​Jessica Sobhraj, CEO, Cosynd
Robert Norton, CEO & Co-Founder, Verisart
Jackson Turner, Partner, Soundchains
Drew Waters, Vice President, VEVA Sound
Moderator: D.K. Smith, CMO & Co-Founder, dxDigital.com 

PANELISTS:
Stu Levy, Founder, TOKYOPOP, POP Comics, POP Crypto
Misha Libman, Co-Founder & Head of Product, Snark.art
Mark Willis, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, Texel
Alex Bulkin, Co-Founder & Chief Alchemist, CoinFund
Moderator: Paul Sweeting, CEO, Concurrent Media, Editor & Co-Chair, RightsTech

PANELISTS:
Sarah Howes, Director & Counsel, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Ben McEwen, Commercial Director, ICE (London)
Alisa Coleman, Chief Operating Officer, ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Keith Kupferschmid, CEO, Copyright Alliance
Moderator: Adrienne Fields, Director of Legal Affairs, Artists Rights Society (ARS)

Merck Mercuridias, CEO, Founder, & Managing Partner, Hipgnosis Songs Ltd
Nile Rodgers, Grammy Award-Winning Producer, Songwriter, Musician, and Singer

INTERVIEWER:
Robert Levine, Author, Freelance Writer

PANELISTS:
Daniel Dewar, Founder, Paperchain
Pete Mathias, Bertelsmann Entrepreneurs Program, Bertelsmann
Virginie Berger, Managing Partner, DBTHCap Ventures
Moderator: Sun Jen Yung, Partner, Head of Digital Media, Nfluence Partners

PANELISTS:
JJ Rosen, EVP of Music Strategy & Industry Relations, Splice
Jonathan Skogmo, Founder & CEO, Jukin Media
Noah Becker, President, AdRev
Rasty Turek, CEO, Pex
Moderator: ​Chauncy Jackson, President, Siri Music Group

PANELISTS:
G. Thomas Esmay, Director of Business Development, SingularDTV
Rick Goetz, Marketing Director, ONErpm
Cheryl Potts, Founder & CEO, Cleerkut
Dae Bogan, CEO & Founder, TuneRegistry
Moderator: Georgii Speakman, Founder, OUT.LI.ER

PANELISTS:
Danny Anders, CEO & Founder, ClearTracks
Razi Rais, Subject Matter Expert (Blockchain), Microsoft
Cédric Cobban, President and Founder, PeerTracks Inc.
Eugene Mopsik, CEO, American Society for Collective Rights Licensing (ASCRL)
Moderator: Christopher Kenneally, Director, Business Development, Copyright Clearance Center

PANELISTS:
Christopher Sprigman, Professor, NYU School of Law, Co-Director, Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy
Taishi Fukuyama, Co-founder, COO, Amadeus Code
Ahmed Elgammal, CEO, Artrendex
MODERATOR:  Edward Klaris, Managing Partner, KlarisIP