Haji Taniguchi
Music Publishers Association of Japan (MPAJ)


Haji Taniguchi was born in Tokyo in 1960. After graduating from Belmont University, Nashville TN, with a BA in Commercial Music, he entered the music business with Sony Music Publishing Japan in 1986. Since joining Avex Group in 1994, he has been responsible for international and intellectual property strategies, among other things. He is currently President of Avex Music Publishing Inc., Chairman of the Music Publishers Association of Japan (MPAJ) and Vice-Chairman of Foundation for Promotion of Music Industry and Culture (PROMIC).

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Ed Yen
Founder & Creative Executive Office
a-Peer Culture & Technology Co.


Ed Yen is Co-Founder and Creative Executive Officer of a-Peer Culture & Technology Co., a music/technology company which developed an innovative business model using leading-edge information technologies to serve the music and entertainment industries. a-Peer has offices located in Shanghai,Wisconsin, Taipei and Stockholm. Ed Yen also serves...

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Bill Yanbin Zang
Vice President of Shanghai Synergy Culture & Entertainment Group, Chairman of China Recording Industry Committee, Vice President of China Audio-Video Association

Bill Zang (Zang YanBin) started his music career when he joined the Shanghai Audio-Video Pressing (SAVP) in 1987. In 1992 Bill became the Vice President of SAVP. At the early stage, SAVP focused in licensing titles with the major labels (Warner, Sony, Universal, EMI, BMG), Disney, and Rock. Under Bill’s leading, SAVP became China No. 1 music label in 1995 and retain top-selling...

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Greig Watts
DWB MUSIC LTD

Born on January 6th 1975, Greig started to write songs from the early age of 14. With numerous previous endeavours, and forays into the world of music, in different shapes and sizes, Greig is now working as a Songwriter/Producer and Publisher, and he is building a name for himself within the industry.

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Eric de Fontenay
CEO & Founder of MusicDish

Starting in the 90's as a telecom consultant, Eric de Fontenay has spent his career steeped in the "digital revolution." He founded digital media firm MusicDish, subsequently launching the largest music newswire Mi2N. In 2009, he turned his focus on China's music industry, culminating in the MusicDish*China brand. He's since worked on projects for major artists in China and Taiwan, partnered with music festivals such as Love Peace and Midi Music Fest as well as developing Western acts and brands in China. He's been quoted in media as diverse as FT China and China Daily to Portugal's DIF magazine.[link]

Ruhan

Ruhan начала свою музыкальную карьеру в юном возрасте, занимаясь игрой на фортепиано в 4 года. В течение следующих 10 лет Ruhan выступала в опере, мюзиклах, театре и телевизионных шоу, а затем поступила в Китайскую Музыкальную Консерваторию для обучения вокалу и Шанхайскую Музыкальную Консерваторию — для обучения бельканто.

Thursday 17 May 14:00

Session: “New media. Actual advertisement and marketing solutions”

place:Digital October

The advertisement is the mover of commerce and for all digital sphere. The advertisement advances together with media. New media advance in many sectors and countries getting ahead traditional media. The quantity of the advertisement in Internet and mobile sphere is often bigger than traditional sectors of advertisement but there are new opportunities and new instruments for marketing and for advertisement campaigns. New media and advertisement synergism gives great forecasts for the future and some of them have already given record results. The speakers from Asia will share their experience in new media.

Wednesday 16 May 10:00

Session: “Entertainment indusrty and the content”

place:Digital October

It is not a secret that content of big size such as audio, music videos, animation, films, games are the main driving force in the digital space. Every day hundreds of millions of people look for such content in the Internet, listen to it, watch, load, share and also create it. For many sectors of big and serious business which is growing in the digital sphere the user's acting with entertainment models, models of preference, recommendations are the base for analytics researches and serious questions decisions making.

Alexander Tikhonov
InterMedia Communications

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Anastassia was born in Russia. Graduater from Moscow National University, then she went to Germany and made a soaring career. She held high positions in such companies as Mercedes, Deutsche Telekom, and today Anastassia is the Senior Vice-President of global operations of Qualcomm company, which is the leader in wireless telecommunication facilities.

Evgeniy Safronov
InterMedia Communications

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Konstantin Khankhalaev
producer and owner of the Gallery Khankhalaev

Konstantin Khankhalaev is a producer and owner of the Gallery Khankhalaev.An avid music lover from his youth, Konstantin organized one of the first recording studios in his native Irkutsk. In the 80-ies he was closely acquainted with musicians from various rock-clubs all across the former USSR. Later on Konstantin worked as a manager of musician AleksandrBarykin, rock-groups “Chaif” and “Nautilus Pompilius” and wasone of the organizers of the Clear Water Rock Festival, during which rock musicians travelled along the Volga River raising awareness of its environmental problems through rock music. [link]

Christian Ulf-Hansen
co-owns a TV and Film production company, Big Feat Films

Started in Music Business in 1981, at PRS (the Performing Right Society), worked his way up to become Membership Representative, the focal business and creative liaison person for PRS for songwriters and publishers and representing the company to the music business in general, and being responsible for major overhauling of PRS's reputation amongst the business.

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Christian Ulf-Hansen
co-owns a TV and Film production company, Big Feat Films

Начал свою карьеру в музыкальном бизнесе в Started in Music Business in 1981, PRS (Performing Right Society), продолжил свою карьеру в качестве представителя компании, связывающего PRS с авторами песен и издателями, а также -- представляющего компанию в целом и будучи ответственным за репутацию PRS в сфере бизнеса.

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Jessica Kam
Producer, Heart Farm Pictures Film-tv award produser

Jessica Kam is a senior TV executive and film producer who has more than 15 years of experience in film, TV, music, news and digital media, with a wealth of media experience that spanned 3 continents.

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James Matsuki
Producer, Syn K.K

Former director of business development and licensing at legendary house label King Street Sounds and co-producer of the New York - Tokyo Music Festival, one of the largest music festivals for Japanese artists in the U.S, held at Central Park's Rumsey Playfield in New York. Currently residing in Tokyo, Matsuki is the producer of Hennessy artistry, the 40+ nation global music initiative driven by Hennessy, and as director of Syn's business affairs and legal division, has provided production and consulting services for various brands including LVMH, Starbucks Coffee, Guthy Renker, Konami, Chanel, Grand Hyatt, Shangri-La Hotel, Right-On, and many more. Matsuki is also the lead singer and guitarist of rock group B/W, signed to major label Pony Canyon.

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Alexander Olkhovsky
Projects lead, Sberbank of Russia

Over 9 years of experience in telecommunication, e-commerce and digital media.

First business registered in the age of 17 – regional content provider “Mobikon” grown from one-man company to market leader to be later integrated in A1 Group. Founder of Softbox.ru – legal software catalog, sold to RBC holding in 2005. Opened first legal Russian distributor of digital music in 2006 – “Music Online”.From 2007 – R&D chief in Next Media holding (Promo.ru, now part of Ogilvy Group). Founder of UniBill– payment service provider with innovative risk management solution that guaranteefraud protection.

Graduated Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation, Financial Management Faculty, Moscow. Diploma topic – “Investment projects efficiency estimation”.

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Matthias Röder
Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute

Dr. Matthias Röder is the managing director of the Karajan Institute and as such responsible for the overall strategy and worldwide business development of the KARAJAN® brand and its associated products. Dr. Röder joined the Karajan Institute in 2011 from Harvard University, where he was a member of the music faculty and also received a PhD in musicology in 2010. At Harvard he founded the Digital Musicology Study Group (now at MIT) and worked on several music technology and digital learning projects with partners such as the Packard Humanities Institute or the American rock band Incubus. Prior to Harvard University, Matthias studied music at the renowned Mozarteum University in Salzburg.

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STRAND

After they played in numerous bands, they met and formed “STRAND” to pursue their music passion

They formed the band in 1995, wrote many songs and have been playing live. Their highly technical music represents scenery and atmosphere.

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STRAND

After they played in numerous bands, they met and formed “STRAND” to pursue their music passion

They formed the band in 1995, wrote many songs and have been playing live. Their highly technical music represents scenery and atmosphere.

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