You won't want to miss this -- an intimate one-on-one between Xavier "X" Jernigan and Larry Miller. X is the Head of Cultural Partnerships & The Voice of Spotify, LITERALLY, the voice and personality behind the world’s first AI DJ, Spotify’s newly launched feature. Larry is a Clinical Professor & Director, Music Business Program, NYU Steinhardt, a music and technology entrepreneur and producer/host of the Musonomics podcast.

Mondo welcomes Reservoir Media CEO Golnar Khosrowshahi, Billboard's Executive of the Year and the first woman to take an independent music company public in the U.S. – one that she founded! In a wide-ranging conversation with Larry Miller, Professor & Director at NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, we’ll focus on Reservoir's culture as a source of its competitive advantage.

We’ll ask the important questions: How did Reservoir go public and why? How has it dramatically outpaced industry growth and sourced off-market deals against stiff competition? How has it been able to attract, retain and reward employees? And perhaps most interesting of all, what is Reservoir’s client service competitive advantage that has enabled it to outperform larger publishers so that writers (and owners of administered catalogs) don’t want to leave?

We'll touch on the industry-wide issues including the CRB, regulation and consent decrees in music publishing, the most exciting future revenue sources and much more.

Join Nari Matsuura and Barry Massarsky, Partners and Co-Leaders of Music Economics and Valuation Services at Citrin Cooperman, as Larry Miller, Professor & Director at NYU Steinhardt Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, moderates an intimate conversation on the current landscape of music economics and catalog valuations, and what they see for the future of the industry.

The pandemic has led many streaming royalty recipients to take a hard look at their royalty statements and question the fairness of how streaming and other digital royalties are split. This panel will look at the recent UK-based government hearings on this issue, user-centric and other digital payment models, and the laws and regulations which would have to be changed in order to start rebalancing digital royalty payments.

Looking past hi-res audio and playlists at their fingertips, the music fan is currently enjoying a plethora of new discovery, experience and ownership tools and offerings, while the industry focuses on crafting solid financial models to insure their viability. We’ll address the following questions: What does a decentralized streaming platform look like? Will AR transform music discovery through sunglasses? Will blockchain protocols and NFTs provide artists with enhanced financial security or end up being as transitional as ringtones? The digital music industry continues to find its footing in an ever-shifting terrain – we will be sharing our views on where we feel it will land.