New York, NY (February 11, 2008) -- Digital Media Wire is pleased to announce the agenda and speakers for the upcoming Digital Music Forum East to be held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, NY on Tuesday, February 26 and Wednesday, February 27, 2008.

The two-day event, which is produced in association with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), is the industry’s only comprehensive digital music conference focused on the evolution and future of digital music. The conference agenda, which includes senior participants from all four major labels, leading indie labels, social networks, online music retailers, mobile companies, artists and association heads, includes compelling roundtable discussions and panels on the following topics:

• The State of the Digital Union
• Social Networking & Music Discovery And What It All Means For Music Businesses
• The Future of Mobile Music
• Top Digital Media Trends Impacting The Music Business
• The Copyright Debate: Is The System Broken? If So, How Do We Fix It?
• Global Music Marketing In The Digital Age
• The Kids Are All Right: The Tween, Teen, & College Market For Music
• Digital Rights And Clearances For Music
• The Indie Takeover?
• A&R In The Digital Age

The event features keynotes from Gary Shapiro, President, CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, Thomas Hesse, President of Global Digital Business, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, David Pakman, CEO, eMusic and Michael Robertson, Founder, MP3.com and MP3Tunes. Attendees are over 500 decision-makers from record labels, music publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies, wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio, advertising, attorneys, artists, investors and venture capitalists.

Confirmed Speakers:
Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewellyn, Owner, Bluhammock Music

Edith Bellinghausen, VP, New Media, Razor & Tie

Rich Bengloff, President, A2IM

Rachna Bhasin, VP, Business Development, Zing

Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Entertainment & Media Group, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Benjamin Campbell, CEO, OurStage, Inc.

David Card, VP, Research & Senior Analyst, Jupiter Research

David Chidekel, Attorney, Fish & Richardson

Ted Cohen, Man. Partner / Chairman, TAG Strategic/Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas

Alan Cohen, VP, Strategic Business Development, Guitar Center

Jim Cooperman, COO, Wind-Up Records

David Del Beccaro, President & Founder, Music Choice

Jim Donio, President, National Association of Recording Merchandisers

Rob Driscoll, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Brad Duea, President, Napster

Maria Egan-Cohen, A&R, Columbia Records

Jesse Ervin, Director, Online Marketing, EMI

Matt Fitz-Henry, New Media, Walt Disney Records

John Fleckenstein, SVP, International, BMG Label Group

John Frankenheimer, Chair, Music Group / Partner & Co-Chair, Loeb & Loeb, LLP

Eric Garland, CEO, Big Champagne

Mark Ghuneim, Chief Executive Officer, Wiredset

Gary Greenstein, Of Counsel, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Jim Griffin, Managing Director / Co-Founder, OneHouse LLC / Pho Group

Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business & U.S. Sales, Sony BMG Music

Celia Hirschman, Host, KCRW's On The Beat

Jeff Howe, Contributing Writer, Wired Magazine

David Israelite, President & CEO, National Music Publishers Association

Steve Jang, CMO & Head of Business Development, imeem

Bob Kohn, Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO, RoyaltyShare, Inc.

Matt Laszuk, President, Iris Distribution

Gerd Leonhard, CEO, Sonific LLC

Cecily Mak, Sr. Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs, Real Networks

Steve Marks, General Counsel, RIAA
Elliot Mazer, Multi-Platinum Producer/Engineer/ Founder, Left Turn Music
Matt Mason, Author, The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism

Jim McNiel, CEO, Fifth Generation Systems

Ted Mico, New Media, Universal Music Group

David Pakman, President & CEO, eMusic

Ali Partovi, CEO, iLike

Doug Perlson, CEO, TargetSpot

Michael Petricone, SVP of Gov't Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association

Dorrian Porter, CEO, Mozes

Jon Potter, Executive Director, Digital Media Association

Mike Rich, SVP & GM, AOL Entertainment & AOL Black Voices

Kelli Richards, President & CEO, The All Access Group

Michael Robertson, Founder & CEO / Founder, MP3tunes / MP3.com

Peter Rojas, CEO & Co-Founder, RCRD LBL

Maurice Russell, VP, Licensing & Label Relations, The Harry Fox Agency

J Scavo, General Manager, MySpace Records

Greg Scholl, CEO, The Orchard

Matt Schwartz, Manager, Music Operations & Bus. Dev., Verizon Wireless

Gary Shapiro, President & CEO, Consumer Electronics Association

Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire

Aram Sinnreich, Founder & Managing Partner, Radar Research

Maria Thomas, SVP, NPR Digital Media, NPR

Are Traasdahl, Founder & CEO, Thumbplay

Dave Ulmer, Senior Director,Entertainment Products, Motorola Media Solutions

Amaechi Uzoigwe, Co-Founder, Definitive Jux

Daniel Werner , A&R Epic Records

George White, SVP, Strategy & Product Development, Warner Music Group

Navarrow Wright, President & CEO, Global Grind

Jeff Zakim, Sr. Dir., E-Commerce & Internet Marketing, The Blue Note Label Group

Event sponsors and media partners include Red Velvet, Manatt, Loeb & Loeb, OurStage, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Passalong Networks, Mozes, Fish & Richardson, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Fifth Generation Systems, TargetSpot, Thumbplay, Music Choice, Javien, Pollstar, Filter Magazine, A2IM, KCRW, NARIP, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Midem, EMF, Parks Associates, New York-Tokyo and NVPR.

For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://www.digitalmusicforum.com/east.

In addition to the Digital Music Forum West, Digital Media Wire will also host the Millennials Conference in Toronto on March 5, 2008 at Canadian Music Week. Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include the Games & Mobile Forum; Digital Music Forum West: Mobile Games Insider, The Millennials, and the Washington Digital Media Conference, which it produces in tandem with Potomac Tech Wire.

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