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English born producer, engineer and DJ residing in Prague Czech Republic. Used to run the now defunct Prague based label ‘Red Salamanda Records’. Production Manager and Tour Manager in the LIVE Music Industry . Rostra of Artists has included The Chemical Brothers, New Order, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, Asian Dub Foundation, The Streets, Madness, Lily Allen and many more.

Concert booking agent and promoter. In the last 14 years she managed a few concert venues in Poznań and run her own booking agency Bego Booking that organized mainly concerts of foreign acts throughout Poland.  Participant of this year’s edition of Keychange program.

Promoter, manager, music journalist, booking agent (AMPromotions), PR manager and musician. He is a founder of the Karlovy Vary music festival Top RoofTop, booker of the Open Region project in Karlovy Vary Depo v letu concert serie in Pilsen. He also runs the Wild Delfino Booking agency.

He founded the talent competition of the Karlovy Vary Region called Top RoofTop Talents. Ricardo is also an active singer and harmonica player.

Executive producer and founder of Minority Records, which celebrated 20 years on the scene last year. The roster of Minority Records includes names like Floex, Hidden Orchestra, Manon Meurt, Beata Hlavenkova, David Pomahac and many more.

Katya is a leader of the Ukrainian underground indie duo Gapochka.

Media engineer who works as a communications manager. He is a voluntary youth representative in his home town of Vohenstrauß and also president of the network club Musikinitiative Vohenstrauß e.V. The amateur musician plays drums and electric bass each in one band and is well connected to the music scene in the Upper Palatinate district and Bavaria in general. He has some experience in the booking and contacting of young, alternative bands. He introduces his club and its activities and gives a few practical tips on how amateur bands could gain traction in Bavaria.

Michal Hajduk started as a an independent concerts booker/promoter, gaining experience as music curator at Centre For Contemporary Art in Warsaw, independent music venues manager, tour manager and bands manager, co-programmer for festivals and contributor for indie record labels. Since 2008 he works with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, a state cultural institution promoting Polish culture around the world. As an alternative and jazz music curator he created and developed a strategy for an alternative music sector, co-organized number of events and conferences in Poland and all over the world under the label “Don’t Panic! We’re from Poland”. Since 2019 he cooperates with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice venue in Katowice as a jazz programmer.

She has been in OSA (professional association of composers, lyricists and musical publishers) since 2015, where she has been working on communication with authors and the public, and especially on the Partnership grant program. Its aim is to financially support the creation of new music projects by represented authors and music users who perform the represented music at their events. He also has experience of various grant programmes from his previous work in the public and voluntary sectors.

A Polish poet and musician, an author of several books of poetry revolving around the subjects of history, remembrance and ethics. He is a member of a psychedelic rock band Trupa Trupa.

Kwiatkowski co-hosts the workshop „Virus of Hate” at the University of Oxford. He was also a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley; Stanford University; Johns Hopkins University; the University of Chicago; Jewish Theological Seminary and many more. He is a member of PEN America and a European literature platform Versopolis.

His music and literary works have been published and reviewed in The Guardian, New York Times [T Magazine/TMicronovel series], Times of Israel, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Modern Poetry in Translation, New Poetry In Translation, CBC, Pitchfork, Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Billboard, Spin, Chicago Tribune, Times, NPR, BBC and KEXP. As a musician, he performed with his band at such events as Desert Daze Festival, Rockaway Beach Festival, SXSW, Primavera Sound and Iceland Airwaves. Trupa Trupa’s songs are regularly broadcast on radio shows hosted by Iggy Pop or Henry Rollins. The band was also invited to take part in a legendary NPR Tiny Desk session and BBC Radio 6 music session. Their music has been published by global record labels such as Sub Pop, Glitterbeat Records, Ici d’ailleurs and Lovitt Records.

Concert promoter and booking agent, organizing polish tours for alternative rock, jazz and folk groups from all over the world; manager of few polish and international acts; radio host; music journalist; DJ and PR rep; festival planner; CNM – Centre national de la musique aide/associate (France); Live Europe associate.

Manager and production managet of various events, mostly held in places you wouldn’t expect: A mine, a forest, a mountain, a hall, a monument, a street, a theatre, a grassland by medieval walls… He focuses on reviving brownfields and empty places through creative industries. Assistant professor at the Department of Production at DAMU.

Producer and musician (Kittchen, Tata Bojs, Kafka Band, Umakart, formerly Nierika or Lu. etc.), founder of Animan recording studio.

Jiří Pilip deals with alternative music at the Ministry of Culture. His work includes managing grants, cooperation with the Czech pro-export office SoundCzech and communication with the professional public. He is also in charge of the UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. This Convention deals, for example, with the digitisation of art, the status of the artist, gender and the cultural and creative industries.

Project Manager at Music Export Ukraine — an independent initiative, which helps Ukrainian emerging artists to establish connections, promote their music, develop careers and talents on the international level. She specialises in fundraising and non-formal education projects. At MEU, Tetiana facilitated the Eastern European Music Academy, a three-month capacity-building project for independent musicians and managers from eight countries of Eastern Europe, the Czech-Ukrainian media cooperation project, designed and facilitated sessions at SelectorPRO, the first Ukrainian showcase festival organised annually by MEU and the British Council Ukraine. Tetiana represented MEU and promoted the Ukrainian music scene at various international festivals in Czechia, Germany, Sweden and Austria.

She leads the partnership and sponsorship of the SHARPE festival. Project manager of the Slovak music export agency LALA. She is also the booker and manager of Slovak bands Tolstoys, God and Eve, Genuine Jacks and Sam Handwich. Katja is involved as a production manager in Flaam and MELA music festivals. In addition to these projects, she occasionally collaborates with other festivals, cultural events and artists.

James Thornhill is a journalist, music marketer, DJ, promoter and curator working out of the Midlands, UK. In 2020, he launched Proxy Music to help artists and labels promote themselves more effectively working with Wendy Rae Fowler, Julia-Sophie, No Type records, Subexotic records, Cowgirl, Pet Crow, Yammerer and Castles In Space amongst others.

As a journalist, he is a regular contributor to Electronic Sound and has bylines in Notion, DrownedinSound, Line of Best Fit, Louder, Under The Radar and GodisinTheTV as well as a monthly new music slot on BBC Radio Derby. In 2019, he wrote and edited the 40th Anniversary fanzine for Casio Instruments.

COO and Chief Commercial Officer of GoOut, the fastest growing ticketing company in Central Europe. The start-up was founded in Prague’s Žižkov district and currently operates not only in the Czech Republic, but also in Slovakia, Poland and Germany. The portal is a unique platform combining cultural overview, social network and ticketing.

Ticketing, cashless, event apps – digital solutions for events are booming and becoming increasingly accessible to promoters of all sizes. Josef Tajovský (BOOM, Burza #4) and Matěj Huleš (BOOM, Musical Theatre Karlín) together with Music navigator participants will explore new trends in digital tools for organizers and try to outline the opportunities that data collection digital tools can provide for organizers. What assurances do these tools offer in a time of turbulent changes in consumer behaviour ?