ABOUT
Neil Shah is the founder and CEO of MusicAtlas, a platform building the search and intelligence layer for recorded music. A Grammy-nominated music producer, he was an early team member at Venmo, helping to scale it to widespread use. He later served as an executive at Verizon and has advised and invested in multiple successful startups.
PANELS
Royalties in the Black Box: Fixing Music’s Most Broken System
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.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 5:20 PM