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 a fireside chat and a post-event reception.

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.

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,

Two years after ChatGPT's debut, AI’s impact on the industry continues to evolve. This panel track 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:

• Aspiring Artist Tech Stack: How a New Wave of Tools is Onboarding the Next 100M Music Creators
• Latest Trends in Music Production Innovation
• Invisible Tech: How AI is affecting Music Behind the Scenes
• Always On: Will AI accelerate the Rise of the Virtual Artist?

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!

We end an incredible day of immersive discussion and networking with cocktails and a reception in the magnificent lobby of the Arlo Williamsburg Hotel.

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!

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.

New for 2025, our friends at boomerang! 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.