• Welcome by Kim Beauchamp, DDEX Chair and SVP Process Innovation & Advanced Operations, Universal Music Group (US); and
• Introductory remarks by Susan Butler, Executive Editor/Publisher, Music Confidential (US)

3    Not Sharing? Moving On with “Best Of” Data09:30 – 10:30

At the first BIG Summit in 2015, audience members all promised to share more data to improve the industry’s collective efficiency for money to flow to the true rights holders, creators and performers and not be stuck in the muck. Seven years later, some essential data is still not being shared or not being shared quickly and effectively. “Enough!” say many company executives. They are therefore involved with for-profit companies using machine learning, AI and sophisticated algorithms to try and figure out the “best of” data to use. But this actually scares some other executives. We will hear the “whys” and “why nots”.

Featuring:
Mark Douglas, Chief Information Officer, PPL
Harmen Hemminga, Head of Partnerships and Strategic Projects, FUGA

4    Break: the first BIG HELLO! For a long time10:30 – 11:00
5    Mixing Up The Boards11:00 – 12:00

Why is it important that IT and operations executives need to be serving on boards of directors and not only on committees? What approaches could or should be taken to achieve more direct IT and operations influence at board level to ensure strategic decisions taken inside companies and within industry organizations can cut through the red tape to manage IT and operations more efficiently. (Reference, Music Confidential, Issue 06 2022, Navigational Changes).

Featuring:
TBA

6    Empowerment!12:00 – 13:00

Empowerment comes when an individual has been able to communicate critical issues so effectively inside an organization and outside the organization that some of the most challenging hurdles to doing business in the digital music ecosystem can truly be overcome. How is this achieved?

Featuring:
Cecile Rap-Veber, CEO, SACEM

7 Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
8 Tell Me Only Once! 14:30 – 15:30

Is it time to shake up the ways in which DSPs and authors’ societies/publishers communicate music usage, rights claims and amounts due? Is all the back-and-forth and back-and-forth about usage, claims, discrepancies, amounts due and money withheld because of over-claiming really the best that can be done in the 21st Century? These executives argue it’s time to change!

Featuring:
Victoria Campoamor, Senior Director, Content Operations & Services, Spotify (US)
Greg Quillard, Director of Music Publishing and Label Operations, YouTube (Spain)
Amy Thomson, Chief Catalog Officer, Hipgnosis Songs (UK)

9 Break 15:30 – 16:00
10 Listen Up! Enhancing External Communication 16:00 – 17:00

Informing targeted groups in the industry about rights and data to keep everyone working together effectively and up to date on changes is so incredibly challenging! The US Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) is required by government regulation to get messages out to the industry, educate everyone on mechanical licensing, and keep targeted groups up to date. The MLC has been doing just that. The two executives leading that charge share their expertise and experiences to assist others in the industry in achieving effective external communication.

Featuring:
Kris Ahrend, Chief Executive Officer, The Mechanical Licensing Collective
Ellen Truley, Chief Marketing Officer, The Mechanical Licensing Collective

11 What’s On Your Mind? 17:00 – 17:30

A time to bring up what’s on your mind on related areas of the business and propose possible solutions to challenges. Bring it up on your own or go through Susan to bring it up anonymously (speak with Susan before the summit or slip that idea on a note into Susan’s pocket the day of the summit).

12 Cocktails (in the lounge of University of Miami School of Law, across Miller Drive from the Gusman Concert Hall) 17:30 – 19:00