The Business of Music
Music & Tech Conference & Showcase Festival
Arlo Williamsburg Hotel October 15-18, 2024
Mondo.NYC Speaker
Howie Singer
Adjunct Professor, NYU Music Business
Howie Singer PhD is an expert on innovation and data analytics in the music industry who played a leading role in the transition to digital music delivery. At Warner Music Group, he served as SVP and Chief Strategic Technologist analyzing new business models and services. Since 2018, he has taught a graduate class on "Data Analysis in the Music Industry" at NYU. Howie spent the first part of his career at Bell Labs and AT&T where he co-founded a2b music, an early digital music start-up. His book "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry," co-authored with Bill Rosenblatt, arrives September 18 from Oxford University Press.
Days of Future Passed: Disruptive Technologies and the Music Industry
10/10/23, 7:00 PM
If you want to predict how new technologies such as AI and social video will change the music industry, one way is to analyze how previous innovations impacted the business. As Steve Jobs said, "You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Howie Singer and Bill Rosenblatt, authors of the new book "Key Changes: The Ten Times Technology Transformed the Music Industry," look at lessons from historical developments over more than a century to help us predict how the latest disruptive technologies will shake up the music business.