MW:M 2025
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Confirmed Speakers MW:M24
Here we announce the confirmed speakers of Most Wanted: Music 2024. This list will be successively updated until the event, so check back from time to time.
Meet our talking heads
We are pleased to present you a number of this year’s speakers and discussion partners from a huge variety of business sectors.
Our confirmed speakers
A couple more of our past Speakers
While we have not been able to announce any new speakers yet, you are welcome to take a look at who has already taken part in recent years. As soon as we have the first confirmed speakers for 2024, we will list them on this page and inform everyone who has signed up for our newsletter.
Our confirmed speakers
Tom Nieuweboer is Chief Operating Officer at !K7 Music since 2014. He is responsible for the day to day operations of the company across the three offices in Berlin, New York and London, HR, process management, IT strategy as well as the financial reporting to the board and other stakeholders.
Tom is member of the Board of IMPALA and former member of the board of AFEM.
Until end of 2013 he was also heading the digital department at the !K7 label group. This included being key account manager digital distribution and being responsible for new business development in terms of exploiting master rights in the digital environment.
!K7 is a multi-faceted music company working out of offices in Berlin, London and New York.
!K7’s group of inhouse labels includes !K7 (Michael Mayer, Tosca, Hundred Waters) Strut (Sun Ra, Ebo Taylor, Mulatu Astatke), Aus (Midland, Bicep, Huxley) DJ-Kicks (Marcel Dettman, Matthew Dear, Jackmaster, Seth Troxler, Nina Kraviz, Moodyman) and 7K (Luca D’Alberto, Martyn Heyne, Niklas Paschburg).
!K7 provides global marketing, sales and distribution services to a like-minded group of labels from around the globe including, Gondwana, Luaka Bop, International Anthem, R&S, Rush Hour, We Jazz, Turbo, Planet E, Sonar Kollektiv and more.
!K7 also provide artist direct services to manage all aspects of a release (Fat Freddy’s Drop, Tricky, The Pop Group and Crazy P).
Dr. Carsten Winter is a university professor for media and music management at the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media, where he is the spokesperson for the Master’s programme ‘Media and Music’. He researches and develops digital strategies and tactics for old and new music and media players, especially ‘young professionals’ and new opportunities and challenges of and in media and music ecosystems.
He is a member of the board of the German Society for Music Business and Music Culture Research (GMM e.V.) and the board of the International Music Business Research Association (IMBRA e.V.), co-editor of the International Journal of Music Business Research (Sciendo) as well as an international and two national book series on music business and music culture research (Springer).
A couple more of our past Speakers
Currently, we are planning the Programme of MW:M25. We will publish speakers as soon as possible.
You’d like to contribute to MW:M25, having ideas about speakers or sessions? Please watch out for our Call for Proposals!
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