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Despite billions in streaming revenue, royalty accounting remains one of the most fragmented and inefficient parts of the music industry. Many labels and publishers still rely on spreadsheets and legacy systems, which creates delays, errors, and a lack of transparency. This panel explores how modern platforms are transforming royalty accounting, contract administration, and financial operations, enabling faster payments, better reporting, and scalable growth for labels, publishers, and distributors.

Generative AI transforms how music is created, distributed, and consumed—but it also raises fundamental questions around authenticity, copyright, attribution, and trust. As AI-generated music becomes increasingly sophisticated, AI detection is moving beyond research into real-world adoption across the music industry. Labels, publishers, distributors, DSPs, and rights organizations are beginning to integrate detection technologies into their workflows to support fraud prevention, provenance verification, content evaluation, and rights management. This panel brings together leaders from across the industry to discuss how AI detection is being deployed today, why organizations are adopting it, and what implementation timelines and standards may look like over the coming years.

Visual and interactive assets — social videos, lyric videos, Canvas, synced lyrics — are now as central to a release as the audio itself. This panel will gather the tools powering that shift to examine how labels and distributors can turn every track into engagement-optimized content.

The modern music industry offers more tools than ever—but building a sustainable, long-term career remains one of the biggest challenges for artists. This panel explores how artists evolve from early-stage discovery to established careers by combining fan engagement, direct-to-consumer strategy, and diversified revenue streams. We will break down what actually works at each stage of an artist’s journey—from building a core audience to scaling a global business—while identifying the common strategies every artist should use from day one.

AI certainly leads the discussion, but numerous other innovations have occurred in the music technology space this year. From agentic DAWs to immersive audio, collaboration, advanced instruments, and open formats, this panel covers the state of the art and what’s on the horizon

Mondo is excited to partner with the RIAA for its 11th annual series – a multi-panel look at where the music industry is headed, exploring key policy issues shaping the music business, from technology and AI to investment, IP protection, coalition building and artist advocacy. We’ll cap it off with a fireside chat a post-event reception.

One of the music industry's most influential executives, former Sony Music EVP, Business Affairs & General Counsel Julie Swidler joins Mondo to share insights from an extraordinary career at the highest levels of the business. Join us in the Grand Ballroom of the Arlo at 12:25 PM on Friday, October 16.

As we continue the Mondo tradition of this important opening panel, Variety Executive Music Editor Jem Aswad kickstarts our Mondo 2026 conference with a panel of industry experts and provocateurs.

Let’s be honest: the center of gravity in the music industry has shifted. In 2026, the people shaping careers, controlling budgets, and driving long-term strategy aren’t sitting exclusively inside labels or platforms. They’re managers. What began as a cottage trade is now a global profession, with managers serving as the industry’s central power brokers. They are the only role structurally positioned to operate across every sector of the ecosystem on behalf of the artist: translating artistic vision into strategy, deals, and sustainable careers. Modern management is about leadership, leverage, and long-term value creation in a decentralized, global marketplace. This panel dives into how that influence is exercised, how power is stewarded responsibly, and how managers are shaping the future of the global music economy.

A 90-minutes speed networking session rotating small-group conversations for real-world insight, questions and direct feedback from leading music supervisors, composers, producers and brand creative leaders. Open to all Mondo attendees.

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Sync Representation: Dissecting the Deal
Experienced sync representatives break down the key components of sync representation agreements and discuss how both sides can ensure a productive partnership.