Music Futures

Music Futures to welcome BBC Radio 1 and Universal

Music industry professionals from BBC Radio 1, Universal, the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) and Believe Digital will be among those speaking at Music Futures.

Jim Ottewill
  • By Jim Ottewill
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • min read
Music industry professionals from BBC Radio 1, Universal, the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) and Believe Digital will be among those speaking at Music Futures.

The conference, which will take place on Thursday 12 November at Sage Gateshead and is organised by music development agency Generator, will welcome a number of experts to discuss key issues and opportunities facing the industry.

Joe Harland (BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra’s head of visualisation) and Simon Cole (7 Digital’s chief executive officer) will explore the future of radio.

Alison Donald (co-president of Columbia Music UK), Jim Chancellor (managing director of Fiction Records and joint managing director and head of music at Caroline International) and Caroline Elleray (head of A&R, Universal Music Publishing) will look at the current health of the industry in the Crisis What Crisis? debate.

Elsewhere, Kim Bayley (CEO of the Entertainment Retailers Association), Official Charts Company’s Martin Talbot and Lee Morrison from Believe Digital will evaluate the state of the retail business.

Jim Mawdsley, Generator’s chief executive officer, said: ‘We aim to make this the must attend conference for the UK music industry and as such have aimed high to encourage a line-up of senior music industry executives to take part in panels and debated that will look over the horizon on where we are all heading too.’

Early bird tickets are now available at £80 plus VAT until Friday 28 August from musicfutures.info.