We kick off the final day of Mondo with breakfast in the ballroom hosted by our friends at Technotainment. Technotainment brings The Music Revolution to Mondo. Meet the Technotainment team starting at 9 AM in the Grand Ballroom of the Arlo.

Every year GMS & Mondo bring together top music supervisors and creators in advertising, film and TV to educate and inspire our attendees everything you need to know about the craft and business of music supervision. Join us on Thursday October 16, 2025 in the Mirror Bar for an immersive day-long series of panels, round tables and case studies produced by GMS New York to keep up with the pulse of music supervision.



The day will be packed with rich and insightful conversation and learning,

The Mondo Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Music & Tech Law Symposium, Powered by Michelman & Robinson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP and sponsored by Recording Artists Project (“RAP”) at Harvard Law School, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, Granderson Des Rochers, Lewis & Lin LLC and Loeb & Loeb LLP, returns for its ninth year as top music lawyers and thought leaders host an all-day entertainment law seminar addressing some of the biggest legal and regulatory developments affecting the music industry, including recent court decisions and key policy matters focusing on AI, music acquisitions, defamation, collecting public performance income, managing reputational risk, music copyright terminations and more.

We’re proud to welcome our Steering Committee: Michael Poster, Chair, Michelman & Robinson, LLP; Adrian J. Perry, Covington & Burling LLP; Phil Hill, Covington & Burling LLP; Scott Sholder, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP; Lynn Gonzalez, Granderson Des Rochers; Nicole Haff, Lewis & Lin LLC and; Monika Tashman, Loeb & Loeb LLP.

Mondo is excited to partner with the RIAA for its 10th 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 two fireside chats -- RIAA CEO & Chairman Mitch Glazier sits down for one-on-ones with Apple Music's Ole Obermann and Vermillio's CEO Dan Neely -- and a post-event reception.

We're proud to present an intimate conversation between two industry leaders about the state of our industry and where it's headed. Mondo welcomes Apple Music's Ole Obermann and the RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Glazier for what promises to be a spirited and memorable conversation.

We're proud to welcome Elizabeth Matthews, Chief Executive Officer of ASCAP in a keynote conversation with Variety's Executive Music Editor Jem Aswad. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on how the music business landscape is evolving and impacting composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers from every music genre. The conversation will zero in on the value of collective licensing and ASCAP's work to innovate for the benefit of songwriters, composers, music publishers and licensees across all media platforms.

When Pieter van Rijn spoke at Mondo in 2024, he reflected on the company’s journey over the two decades since its founding. Through a series of strategic moves amid an ever-evolving industry, Downtown evolved from a traditional music publisher into a comprehensive music services business serving independent artists, songwriters and businesses worldwide

But in the year since van Rijn's last Mondo visit, the next step in Downtown's journey has been one of its most interesting, with the company's December 2024 announcement of its proposed acquisition by Virgin Music Group. Now, with a focus firmly on the future, van Rijn and Larry Miller will discuss the growing needs of independent artists, songwriters, and the businesses that support them, how technology is influencing a changing industry, and how a collaboration between Downtown and Virgin could provide this generation and the next with the tools they need to unlock their full potential.

Join an intimate fireside chat featuring Sam Hendel, Managing Partner, Chord Music Partners & Dundee Partners, and Apollo Global Management Managing Director Paul Sipio. Expect insights into how scaling catalogs, deploying creative financing structures, and leveraging global networks are unlocking next-chapter growth and enhancing value creation for creators, rights-holders and investors. With Apollo’s financial reach and scale and Chord’s proven track record in building a diversified IP portfolio, this session delivers a rare, front-row view of where opportunity, risk and market forces converge in the evolving creative economy.

Three years after ChatGPT's debut, AI’s impact on the industry continues to evolve. This multi-panel track, curated by LANDR Audio's Daniel Rowland and AudioShake's Jessica Powell, explores how AI and related technologies are changing the way music is created, produced, distributed and monetized, from new tools and formats to broader implications around ethics, copyright, quality standards and artist protection. We also explore the “last mile” of music delivery to fans as platforms enable new ways of listening and interacting with music, from creator tools to immersive mixing and everything in between.

Panel agenda:

• Creatives in Tech: Moving from Label & Creative Work into Music Tech
• AI and New Licensing Opportunities
• State of AI in Music
• Creative & Business Challenges in Gen AI Music
• AI and Music Education

The music ecosystem has never been more complicated or more democratic. Music revenues in the US and Europe have become more stable, trust in the music market is strengthening among investors, and new technology is empowering artists to find and connect with global audiences. Join Concord COO Victor Zaraya and NYU’s Larry Miller as they discuss the implications for independent music in an increasingly international environment.

Covington & Burling LLP returns to Mondo present a multi-panel suite of sessions capturing a broad range of activities beyond releasing an album including:

Fireside Chat: an industry leader one-on-one in conversation with Covington Partner and Co-Chair of the Music Industry Practice Adrian Perry.

Investing in a Brand: focusing on musician/brand relationships.

Let’s Get This Show on the Road: how various aspects of live music performances fit into the overall matrix of an artist.

Join us opening day as we partner with KOSIGN to kick off your Mondo 2025 experience as we present "The State of Indie," a broad-based panel suite focusing on empowering artists, songwriters and creators, their representatives and rights-holders to maximize their revenue opportunities. Immediately following is Mondo's always awesome kickoff cocktail reception and tenth birthday party. KOSIGN'S platform provides its members cutting-edge technology and global infrastructure to take control over their own songs and royalties. Learn more at https://www.kosign.com/

As we continue the Mondo tradition of this important opening panel, Variety Executive Music Editor Jem Aswad kickstarts our Mondo 2025 conference with a panel of industry experts and provocateurs.

Mondo is proud to welcome Music Managers Forum - US (MMF-US) back for another year hosting an important suite of panels for music managers, self-managed artists and their affiliate rights-holders and representatives. MMF-US provides an ever more critical and diverse platform to connect, educate and advocate for the music management community, furthering the interests of managers and their artists in all fields of the music industry, including in live performance, music publishing, recording, investment, copyrights, and streaming, and strives to engage in smart, cutting edge, informative and innovative programs, and initiatives, as well as advocacy efforts to improve the businesses, careers and professional growth of its members and related community.

Mondo and RAP at Harvard Law School hosts Pro Bono Sessions for independent artists for its seventh consecutive year. RAP is a student practice organization serving the music community by offering pro bono legal services to local and national musicians.

We're proud to launch the Mondo Innovator Awards recognizing outstanding individuals who are making a profound impact on our industry. Join us as we celebrate groundbreaking music and tech industry achievement in leadership, innovation, artistry, entrepreneurship, education, collaboration/deals, use of music in media and advocacy for doing good.

Welcome back to Williamsburg for our tenth birthday conference and showcase music festival. The Mondo tradition continues as we kickoff our first night with a reception in the spectacular lobby of the Arlo Williamsburg Hotel. Hang with old friends and make new ones and enjoy the very best of New York City in October! Hosted by KOSIGN + Kobalt, the team powering the next evolution of music rights.

We end an incredible day of immersive discussion and networking with cocktails and a reception in the magnificent lobby of the Arlo Williamsburg Hotel. Thanks to our hosts, the RIAA & Vermillio

As evening descends on Brooklyn, join old and new friends in the incredible lobby of the Arlo Williamsburg Hotel as Stuff.io and APM Music welcome you to the Thursday night soiree! Enjoy drinks and craft nibbles before you venture to an awesome Mondo live music showcase.

Join your industry friends and colleagues as we celebrate the kickoff of Mondo's tenth annual conference with breakfast in the magnificent Grand Ballroom of the Arlo Williamsburg Hotel. Thanks to Eventim, our awesome ticketing platform for helping us welcome all of you back to Brooklyn!

Our friends at Concord return to graciously host Tuesday's lunch. It's been a hectic morning reuniting with your business colleagues, so know you've worked up an appetite. Dig into lunch, Arlo style!

Wake up sunshine -- it's time for Mondo Day Two. Yes, we know yesterday was awesome -- get ready for another great one with Beyond the Album, Everything You Need to Know about Music Policy in About an Hour, the Future of Music Creation & Technology's AI Deep Dive, the RIAA & Vermillio-hosted Lobby Reception and so much more. To start the day off right, our friends at ASCAP are hosting breakfast bites and Joe in the magnificent ballroom of the Arlo Williamsburg Hotel. Get outta bed, sleepy head!!!

Hungry yet? Thanks to Downtown, yummy eats are on the menu! Join us for Wednesday's lunch in the beautiful Grand Ballroom of the Arlo Williamsburg.

Start Mondo day three off with a terrific Thursday breakfast in the Grand Ballroom hosted by our friends at Clio Music. It will give you the nourishment you need for another incredible day at the Arlo!

New for 2025, our friends at boomerang! and Riptide Music Group welcome you to our terrific Thursday lunch. GMS attendees and all Mondo registrants are invited to join us for great eats in the Grand Ballroom of the Arlo Williamsburg.

Please join us for a special presentation and listening session into the making of Woody at Home with Anna Canoni, President of Woody Guthrie Publications and Woody’s granddaughter, and GRAMMY-winning producer Steve Rosenthal, as we delve into the process and backstory of the landmark release of Woody Guthrie’s home tapes. This year, home recordings by Woody Guthrie were released in the two-volume landmark collection Woody At Home –- Volumes 1 & 2 via Shamus Records, label subsidiary of TRO Essex Music Group.

Woody at Home is a two-volume secret treasure trove of Woody’s home recordings — recordings that Woody was unable to release in his lifetime, a life cut short by Huntington’s disease. Never intended for commercial release, these raw and intimate home tapes were recorded in 1951-1952 at the family’s apartment in Beach Haven, Brooklyn. Woody made them as his musical introduction to his new publisher. Now, thanks to the leaps made in technology, Woody’s voice, ideas, and recordings are a guiding and candid voice. Woody sings about historic events, stories of the disenfranchised and ignored, love, and of course, the fight against fascism.

The collection contains 22 previously unreleased recordings, including 13 Guthrie songs not heard on any of his other recordings. Woody Guthrie’s original tapes were made in his home using a consumer tape recorder that played and recorded at a very slow speed, 3 3/4 inches per second. The tapes have been restored with as much fidelity and character as possible in a way that matched the tenor and spirit of Woody’s songs. In this panel, the album's producers will delve into the making of Woody at Home. For more information, please visit woodyathome.com, shamusrecs.com or the official Woody Guthrie site at woodyguthrie.org.