Digital Media Wire Announces Agenda for the Digital Music Forum East

Leaders from Digital Entertainment Industry Converge in Gotham at Exclusive Event

Los Angeles, CA (Billboard Publicity Wire) February 14, 2007 -- Digital Media Wire (http://www.dmwmedia.com/) announced today the agenda for the upcoming annual Digital Music Forum East Conference (http://www.digitalmusicforum.com/east07.html) to be held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, February 27-28, 2007.

As digital music has transformed from a cottage industry to a marketplace phenomenon, with the wildly popular adoption of offerings like iTunes to the explosive growth of mobile music, the Digital Music Forum has established itself as the leading conference to keep pulse with the pace if innovation.

The highly anticipated two-day event, which is produced in association with Billboard Magazine (http://www.billboard.com) and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) (www.ce.org), is the industry's only comprehensive digital music conference focused on the evolution and future of the digital music marketplace.

The conference agenda will cover compelling roundtable discussions and panels, which include The State of the Digital Union, Mobile Music Revolution - Music Beyond Ringtones, Device & Format Wars: Who will be the Winners and the Losers, Digital Copyrights: The Wild West All Over Again, Social Music Discovery, The Future of Radio, A&R in the Digital Age, Digital Rights and Clearances for Music, The Evolution of Live Music Events through Digital Media, Pros and Cons of P2P for Music Distribution, and other in-demand and challenging topics.

Attendees will include more than 300 decision-makers from a wide array of market-leading companies including top executives from record labels, music publishers, producers and distributors, technology companies, wireless companies, rights organizations, industry bodies, radio, advertising, attorneys, artists, investors and venture capitalists. The conference will focus on the role of digital and mobile technologies in the future of music, including predictions, provocations and analysis.

Speakers:

Keynote Speakers:

Thomas Hesse, President, Global Digital Business, Sony BMG Music Entertainment

Marty Diamond, Founder & President, Little Big Man Booking

Bruce Warren, Asst. General Mgr. Programming & Exec. Producer, WXPN/World Cafe

Ted Cohen, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic

Dave Ulmer, Sr. Director of Marketing, Motorola Media Solutions, Motorola

Ray Waddell, Exec Dir., Content & Programming, Touring & Live Entertainment, Billboard

Confirmed Speakers:

Chris Amenita, SVP, Enterprises Group, ASCAP

Steve Banfield, SVP & GM, Sony Connect

Kevin Barenblat, Co-Founder, SpotDJ

Mike Bebel, President & CEO, Ruckus Network, Inc.

Rachna Bhasin, VP, Business Development, EMI Music North America

Antony Bruno, Exec. Dir. of Content & Programming, Billboard

Tim Bucher, CEO & Chief Product Officer, ZING

Aydin Caginalp, Partner, Alston & Bird

Rio Caraeff, General Manager, Universal Music Mobile, N.A.

David Card, VP, Research, JupiterKagan

Frank Childs, VP, Business Development, PeerApp

Chris Coyle, VP, Business Development, Muze

Dave Dederer, Sr. Dir., Melodeo, Artist, The Presidents of the United States of America

David Del Beccaro, President & CEO, Music Choice

Noah Dinkin, Co-Founder & Partner, United for Opportunity

Robert Driscoll, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Michael Dorf, Founder, DCN & Knitting Factory

Maria Egan-Cohen, A&R, Columbia Records

Scott Fedewa, EVP & Executive Producer, Live Nation

Jason Fiber, President, Cordless Recordings

John T. Frankenheimer, Chair, Music Group, Partner & Co-Chair, Loeb & Loeb LLC

Gregg Freishtat, Chairman, INTENT Mediaworks

Brian Garrity, Senior Correspondent, Billboard

Thomas Gewecke, SVP, Digital Business Group, Sony BMG

Jim Griffin, Managing Director, OneHouse LLC

Daniel Harris, CEO, MediaPass Network

Jared Hoffman, President & CEO, Knitting Factory Entertainment

Vito Iaia, Sr. Director of Music Services Ticketmaster

Jack Isquith, Executive Director, Music Industry Relations, AOL Music

David Israelite, President & CEO, National Music Publishers' Association

Dave Jaworski, Founder & CEO, Passalong Networks

Martin Kay, CEO, Finetune

Robert Khedouri, Co-Founder, MusicGremlin

Bob Kohn, Chairman & CEO, RoyaltyShare

Marty Lafferty, CEO, DCIA

Jennifer Lane, President, Net Radio Sales

Gerd Leonhard, CEO, Sonific LLC

Zahavah Levine, General Counsel & VP, Business Affairs, YouTube, Inc.

Christopher Levy, CEO, BUYDRM

Larry Linietsky, VP, Business Development, Clear Channel Online Music & Radio Steve Marks, EVP & General Counsel, Recording Industry Association of America

Scott McKenzie, Group Editorial Director, Billboard

Ron Milkes, VP, Business & Legal Affairs / General Counsel, Control Room

Brent Muhle, General Manager, Nettwerk Music Group

David Pakman, CEO, eMusic

Ali Partovi, CEO, GarageBand.com

Michael Petricone, SVP, Government Affairs, Consumer Electronics Association

Dan Porter, VP, Corporate Development, Virgin USA

Jonathan Potter, Executive Director, Digital Media Association

Neeta Ragoowansi, Director of Artist-Label Relations, SoundExchange

Kelli Richards, President & CEO, The All Access Group

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

Greg Scholl, CEO, The Orchard

Matt Schwartz, Manager, Music Operations & Business Development, Verizon Wireless

Adam Sexton, Chief Marketing Officer, Groove Mobile

Dan Sheeran, SVP, Music and Video, RealNetworks, Inc.

Ned Sherman, CEO & Publisher, Digital Media Wire, Inc.

Ralph Simon, Chairman, Emeritus & Founder, Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas

Are Traasdahl, CEO, Thumbplay

Tim Westergren, Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora

Event sponsors and media partners include Billboard, CEA, Loeb & Loeb, Motorola, Passalong Networks, Alston & Bird, NVPR, Whiteblox, Javien, Zing, KCRW, Midem, DCIA, NARIP, Davis, Wright, Tremaine, LLP, Soundflavor, Speakerheart, ZING, Click and BUY, Mozes, Access Pass & Design, Parks Associates, New York - Tokyo, Thumbplay, Filter, DiMA, Music Connection, DCIA and WXPN.

For complete agenda, registration and event details please visit: http://www.digitalmusicforum.com/east07.html.

In addition to the Digital Music Forum West, Digital Media Wire will also launch the first annual Future of Film Conference on March 21, 2007 at the Writers Guild in Los Angeles, CA. Other prominent Digital Media Wire events include the Games & Mobile Forum; the Digital Commerce Summit; the Future of Television Forum and the Washington Digital Media Conference, which it produces in tandem with Potomac Tech Wire.

About Digital Media Wire, Inc:

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