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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 announced today the agenda for the upcoming annual Digital Music Forum East Conference 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 and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), 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:
Digital Media Wire is an events, news, and publishing company serving the digital entertainment & media industry since May 2000. Digital Media Wire produces executive forums featuring the leading executives in digital media and entertainment. Digital Media Wire also publishes an authoritative daily email newsletter and industry directory. For more information, please visit: www.digitalmediawire.com.

Press contact:

Hal Bringman
NVPR
323-851-6877

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Phil McGovern
NVPR
323-851-6877

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