Finding The Future

City Showcase has announced the first free music industry event encouraging enterprise, creativity, employment and debate in the entertainment sector. The 3-day event presents a platform for aspiring entrepreneurs and jobseekers to meet, speak to, learn from and share ideas with leading music industry experts and peers.

The panels and presentations include wide-ranging topics such as careers in A&R, music marketing, songwriting and live music as well exploring the DIY ethos of the independent music market including taking control of your career, online business models and brand partnerships.

Key executives already lined up to chair, moderate and speak at panels include moderators Guy Fletcher (PRS Chairman), Sean Devine (ASCAP), Emmanuel Legrand, Matt Dixon (Band2Market), Tim Ingham (Music Week), Chris Cooke (CMU) and Liz Stokes (Record of The Day).

Panellists include Colin Barlow (RCA), Jo Charrington (Capitol), Martin Goldschmidt (Cooking Vinyl), Simon Williams (Fierce Panda), Ed Horrox (4AD), Alex Boateng (Island), Ollie Hodge (Columbia), Daniel Lloyd Jones (Sony ATV), Jim Reid (Warner Chappell), John Saunderson (Notting Hill Music), Paul Hutton (Metropolis Music), Claire Horseman (Coda), Daniel Mathieson (Barclaycard) Richard Dawes (DawBell), Eliot Kennedy (songwriter), Stuart Galbraith (KiLiLiVE), Melvin Benn (Festival Republic) and Mark Mulligan (MIDiA) and many more.

There will be daily Sessions from heavily tipped new acts between 8pm and 8:30pm.