The future is now. As tech powers more key functions across the music business and unlocks ways to ensure fair compensation for artists and creators, how will the industry and age-old institutions keep up? How do we build future tools to better serve creators? In this track, we’ll discuss opportunities tech provides for the industry to meet creators where they are, reduce friction in payments, and empower the next generation to create and distribute music in ways we once could never have dreamed possible. Furthermore, we’ll explore how these new ways of doing business impact revenue and monetization models.

SoundExchange sits at the center of the business of music and will bring in experts from tech platforms, streaming, labels, managers, and more to weigh in on leveraging current innovations in tech and building a better and sustainable future for creators worldwide.

Grayson Music is hosting a Meet the Creators Mixer: A casual happy hour networking event held at the extraordinary Water Tower, high atop Mondo's 2023 HQ at the Williamsburg Hotel overlooking downtown Manhattan. The focus of the event is on the benefits of inclusion and the promotion of connection and opportunity for underrepresented creators from the NYC music community. Established and emerging songwriters, producers and composers will mix, mingle and network with music supervisors, music directors, agency creatives and other decision-makers from the advertising and synch industry – leading to what we hope will be new and exciting creative connections and potential collaborations. A win win for all in attendance.

Mondo.NYC is proud to partner with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for its eighth annual series, “Everything You Need to Know About Music Policy in One Hour.” This important “state of the business” analysis features leaders from Capitol Hill, the Copyright Office and industry leaders speaking about the latest policies that affect the music industry.

The Mondo Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Music & Tech Law Symposium, Powered by Michelman & Robinson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP and sponsored by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP, TIDAL, Recording Artists Project (“RAP”) at Harvard Law School, The Baldonado Group, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP and Fox Rothchild LLP, returns for its seventh year to host an all-day entertainment law seminar on addressing some of the biggest legal developments affecting the music industry, including recent court decisions upending fundamental issues and the re-imagining of key policy matters.

We’re proud to welcome our 2023 Steering Committee: Michael Poster, Chair, Michelman & Robinson, LLP; Adrian J. Perry, Covington & Burling LLP; Phil Hill, Covington & Burling LLP; Hector Baldonado, The Baldonado Group, P.C.; Rebecca Sergay, TIDAL; Scott Sholder, Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP; Leron Rogers, Fox Rothchild LLP; and Ify White-Thorpe, Harvard Law School.

Covington & Burling LLP presents "Getting Physical With Music Tech," a three panel track focused on exciting developments and important issues in hardware and music reproduction technologies. Technology is so much more than the 1's and 0's streaming to your device over the internet or the information pouring out of the latest human-like generative AI platform. The music industry is also being shaped and changed in novel ways by technology that we can touch and hear.

In its "Getting Physical With Music Tech" three-panel track, Covington will bring together inventors, industry executives, and music tech users to discuss: (1) technological developments and the future of music recording technology, including recording gear and techniques, instruments, and software; and (2) developments in consumer smart speaker, spatial computing, and headphone technologies and innovations in music reproduction technology, including spatial audio and hi-fi/audiophile formats. Additionally, Covington will host a fireside chat with an AI technologist to discuss the intersection of AI and music, including the impact that AI will have on recording and music reproduction technologies.

It has been 20 years since Rhapsody brought the virtual jukebox we now call music streaming into our homes. From a niche format that we used on our PCs, streaming has become the most used music listening format ever. With that adoption has come a river of new services offering myriad features that work on virtually all connected devices in every place fans want to discover and access music. A new consumer study from DiMA, in collaboration with MusicWatch, will look at “everything streaming”: what brought listeners to the format in the first place; why they are so passionate about the experience; and what opportunities the future might hold.

The Guild of Music Supervisors NYC Education Event & Film Festival returns for its sixth year as top music supervisors and industry executives in the fields of advertising, film, TV, video games and trailers give attendees a unique opportunity to meet, network and learn from some of the leading names in the business.

The Future of Music Production track returns with a suite of panels analyzing how the broad impact of technology is dramatically changing the music creation and distribution process, from how creators make and monetize their works to how listeners experience music and engage with their favorite artists. The track is curated by Daniel Rowland, Head of Partnerships & Strategy for LANDR.

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