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Keynote — at UC Cyber Security Virtual Summit

Keynote — at UC Cyber Security Virtual Summit

by | Oct 14, 2020

Dr. Gigi Johnson keynoted this virtual event, sharing “Augmenting Selves: Creating Lives and Futures in a Trained and Tracked Digital World”.

Dr. Johnson’s world changed two years ago. After two decades of work with companies and at UCLA exploring digital disruption, an illness made her rethink how her own life and brain work with augmenting and nagging technologies. Our many challenges in this hyper-curated world are not just from our smart devices, digital tools, and platform marketplaces. She will challenge us to look as system designers and decision-makers at the darker underside of how digital systems train us to make major and minor life decisions, how we can create digital extensions for a more focused life, and how we can rethink how we learn and create in this trained and tracked digital world.

The event was the 10th Biannual UC Cyber Security Summit.  

Link to Program

5 Changes Impacting Music

by | Aug 10, 2020

Maremel Events

August 13, 2020

Virtual

Private Event – 5 Changes Facing Music

This private session will share 5 transformations affecting the music business — locally and globally — and how young creators and future business leaders can prepare for careers in this changing world. 

Closed to Group

Schedule an Event

Ideas@maremel.com

Amplify Music 2020 Virtual Conference – April 23/24

Amplify Music 2020 Virtual Conference – April 23/24

by | Apr 15, 2020

We have joined UCLA Alpert, CU Denver, and many other organizations for a Virtual Gathering/Conference on April 23/24 and pilot session April 17.  

Website: AmplifyMusic.org

Free Registration Link (Eventbrite): https://amplifymusic2020.eventbrite.com

Event Mission: A gathering of lived experiences and workable ideas

This event brings together diverse music leaders and creators online to learn and share from local community response, emergent solutions, and heroic efforts to support local artists, venues, creative communities, and support networks in the surge/challenges of the COVID-19.

  • Unique practices that may transfer to other areas
  • Ways to learn between great ecosystems and communities of communities
  • New combinations of business and community models – bridges beyond streaming
  • “After” – rebuilding trust, conflicts for space/time/funds, challenges of funding in a community rebuilding mode

Please reach out if you have other ideas as well.  This is a Big Tent project, meant to connect groups and great ideas. 

Lead Co-Hosts:

  • Dr. Gigi Louisa Johnson, President, Maremel Institute; Faculty, UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music
  • Storm Gloor, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver College of Arts & Media

List of Collaborating Organizations: See the ever-updating list at AmplifyMusic.org.

Inquiries: Please reach out for speaking or collaborating at the links above.  You also can email us at amplifymusic@maremel.com. 

FAQ: 

Speakers and Schedule: In planning stages now 

Cost to Attend: Free.  You may contribute toward the event at Eventbrite, but no payment is required to attend, speak, or share.

Cost to Collaborate: None required, though various collaborators are bringing their community emails, in-kind resources, volunteers, and great ideas.

Technology Needs to Participate: 

  • Speakers will need a webcam, microphone, and optimally a headset, along with Internet access from their computer, tablet, or smartphone.  
  • Participants and Speakers will be on Zoom or another webconference platform, so will need to be able to access the platform we chose (based on attendance); the sessions also will be recorded and shared online afterwards, and may be livestreamed as well.  

Current Draft Schedule (to be shared with more detail by April 16):

April 23/24, 2020
Online – Details to be shared via Eventbrite 

PDT-7EDT-4Mumbai+5.5Tokyo+9NZST+12CEST+2TypeSession Name
1:00 PM4:00 PM8:00 AMWelcomeWelcome
1:15 PM4:15 PM8:15 AMPanelWhat is Resilience?
1:45 PM4:45 PM8:45 AMPanelChallenges to Date
2:15 PM5:15 PM9:15 AMBreakBreak
2:30 PM5:30 PM9:30 AMFutures 15Future of Live Music
2:45 PM9:45 AMPanelPractical Actions from the Front Lines in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco
3:15 PM10:15 AMPanelWhat have been Nonprofit, Govt, and Organizational Main Actions in Local Music Communities?
3:45 PM10:45 AMBreakBreak
4:00 PM8:00 AM11:00 AMPanelHow can local organizations and foundations help?
4:30 PM8:30 AM11:30 AMPanelHow have Local Radio and Media Stepped Up?
5:00 PM9:00 AM12:00 PMBreakBreak
5:15 PM9:15 AM12:15 PMPanelMusic Education — The Intertwining of Educational Disruption and Music Disruption
5:45 PM9:45 AM12:45 PMPanelNight Mayors – West Coast and Asia
10:15 AM1:15 PMBreakBreak
10:30 AM1:30 PMFutures 15Future Music Trends Impacting Asia, Australia, and New Zealand
10:45 AM1:45 PMPanelTokyo & Japan: Practical Actions and Challenges
11:15 AM2:15 PMPanelChina & Hong Kong: Practical Actions and Challenges
11:45 AM2:45 PMBreakBreak
8:30 AM12:00 PM3:00 PMPanelNew Zealand & Australia: Practical Actions and Challenges
9:00 AM12:30 PM3:30 PMPanelNew Zealand & Australia: Practical Actions and Challenges
9:30 AM1:00 PM4:00 PMBreak
9:45 AM1:15 PM4:15 PMFuturist 15TBA
10:00 AM1:30 PM4:30 PMPanelTBA
10:30 AM2:00 PM5:00 PMPanelTBA
11:00 AM2:30 PM5:30 PMBreak
11:15 AM2:45 PM5:45 PMPanelIndia: Practical Actions and Challenges
11:45 AM3:15 PM8:15PanelIndia: Practical Actions and Challenges
12:15 PM3:45 PM8:45Break
12:30 PM4:00 PM9:00PanelAdvocacy Approached from Europe
1:00 PM4:30 PM9:30PanelEuropean Nightlife: Practical Actions and Challenges
1:30 PM5:00 PM10:00Break
1:45 PM12/31/1899 17:15:0010:15Futurist 15Beyond Music: Bigger Trends in a Changing Society
2:00 PM5:30 PM10:30PanelWorking with Government in Recovery
2:30 PM11:00PanelEurope: Practical Actions and Challenges
3:00 PM11:30PanelMusic Cities: How Can Information and Social Structures Support Current and Future Challenges?
3:30 PM12:00Break
3:45 PM12:15PanelDiversity of the Live Music Sector
4:15 PM12:45PanelCOVID-19, and then what?
4:45 PM13:15Break
5:00 PM13:30PanelTBD Europe
8:00 AM5:30 PM14:00PanelTBD Europe
8:30 AM6:00 PM14:30Break
8:45 AM14:45Futurist 15TBD
9:00 AM15:00PanelLatin America: Practical Actions and Challenges
9:30 AM15:30PanelLatin America: Practical Actions and Challenges
10:00 AM16:00Break
10:15 AM16:15PanelHow Data is Collectable/Collected Toward Local Action and Recovery
10:45 AM16:45PanelRole of Technology in Our Transitions
8:15 AM11:15 AM17:15Break
8:30 AM11:30 AMPanelImportant Takeaways from Katrina: The Challanges of New Orleans’ are the World’s Challenges
9:00 AM12:00 PMPanelArchiving Music History and Culture
9:30 AM12:30 PMBreak
9:45 AM12:45 PMFuturist 15TBA
10:00 AM1:00 PMPanelFuture Cities: Working Together for Government Structured Support for Recovery
10:30 AM1:30 PMPanelRecovery: How To Support One Another Through Music and Vice Versa
11:00 AM2:00 PMBreak
11:15 AM2:15 PMPanelFuture of Live Venues and Events
12:15 PM3:15 PMPanelFuture of Live Experience and Music in Future Disasters and Social Challenges
12:45 PM3:45 PMPanelRoles of the Individual in Society – Inequalities, Anonymity and Rights
1:15 PM4:15 PMPanelWhere the Next Year May Take Us
1:45 PM4:45 PMPanelClosing Conversation: How To Stay Connected and Share Insights Going Forward

 

Futures and Challenges: Music Cities & Scenes — at SXSW

by | Feb 1, 2020

 
 
 
5:00-6:00 pm Panel

FUTURES AND CHALLENGES: MUSIC CITIES & SCENES

SXSW has showcased innovative Music Cities and their leaders for years now. Many cities have stepped into new organizing models for local change — and these have both worked and stumbled. We will discuss with the audience the impacts of these movements in both big cities and small scenes. We will share examples of best practices and big changes vs. policy recommendations, including Night Mayor implementations and ways small cities are organizing around their live music scenes. The session will prompt the audience to think about their own work and communities with examples of how venues and organizations are programming, co-creating, organizing, and educating artists for a great, healthy local music scene.

 

SXSW

The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference & Festivals celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. Fostering creative and professional growth alike, SXSW® is the premier destination for discovery.

An essential destination for global professionals, the event features sessions, showcases, screenings, exhibitions, and a variety of networking opportunities. SXSW proves that the most unexpected discoveries happen when diverse topics and people come together.

Throughout SXSWeek®, experience 10 days of unparalleled discovery, learning, and networking with creatives across interactive, film, and music industries.

Make plans to join the world’s brightest creators March 13-22 at the 2020 SXSW Conference & Festivals in Austin, TX.

 

Storm Gloor

Associate Professor, Music and Entertainment Industry Studies,
University of Colorado, Denver

 

Gigi Louisa Johnson

Exec Dir, Center for Music Innovation,
UCLA

Together: Master + Pub Under 1 Roof & Artist Impact — at SXSW

by | Feb 1, 2020

 
 
 
12:30-1:30 pm Panel

TOGETHER: MASTER+PUB UNDER 1 ROOF & ARTIST IMPACT

In the past, the longstanding advice for artists was to keep your publishing and master rights in different companies to mitigate risk. Now, increasingly we are seeing labels buying publishing rights and publishers administering masters and artists retaining either or both – why is this happening? In a world of transparency and digital uses such as synch that need both rights, the fragmentation of rights is problematic and the traditional practice of keeping them separate is going by the wayside. Join a panel of experts to understand how artists can get the most out of their intellectual property, choose the best partners, and learn how labels and publishers are evolving their thinking.

 
PANELISTS:

Bob Bruderman, Kobalt Music
Gigi Johnson, Center for Creative Futures / UCLA
Vickie Nauman, CrossBorderWorks
Andrew Sparkler, Downtown Music Publishing

SXSW

Experience 10 days of unparalleled discovery, learning, and networking with creatives across tech, film, and music industries at the 2020 SXSW Conference & Festivals from March 13-22, 2020 in Austin, Texas.

 

 

 

Bob Bruderman

EVP, Partnerships,
Kobalt Music

 

Vickie Nauman

Founder,
CrossBorderWorks

 

Andrew Sparkler

SVP/Business Development,
Downtown Music Publishing

 

Gigi Louisa Johnson

President,
Maremel Institute