The Reeperbahn Festival Conference is the leading industry meet-up for the music business, taking place at the Reeperbahn Festival – Europe’s biggest platform for pop culture and the music industry. Since 2006, we’ve been bringing experts in the business from all over the world together, to set inspirational markers for music, business and society.
The Conference’s line-up of around 190 events includes everything from keynotes, discussions, workshops, networking formats to practical sessions. It is aimed at professionals from all segments of the international music industry – from recorded music, live entertainment and publishing to media, technology, management and politics.
This year’s motto, “Imagine Togetherness!”, sees us calling for new ways of working together, taking responsibility and setting shared goals – for an industry that is united in its commitment to the next generation of artists, to fans, to the entire music ecosystem and, ultimately, to our democracy.
Our aim is to empower dialogue within the industry, share knowledge and promote forward-looking networks. Diversity, equality and sustainability are the guiding principles of this endeavour – together with around 5,000 industry professionals from up to 50 nations who take part in the Reeperbahn Festival Conference every year.
Flanking the conference is of course the Reeperbahn Festival itself: with around 1,000 concerts held at over 90 venues, the focus is on promoting new artists. The curated Arts & Word section adds more than 30 other events to the programme – including exhibitions, readings, live podcasts, film screenings and performances that artistically address relevant social issues.
Reeperbahn Festival International
Our international activities at relevant industry events around the world allow us to exchange ideas and highlight the relevance of the German and European music industry: at the South By Southwest creative trade fair, we represent the German and European music industry on the American market at an annual network meeting including a showcase. Our colleagues attend industry events across the globe to engage in dialogue on current topics. International delegations of music industry representatives travel worldwide as part of Reeperbahn Festival International, discovering new musical territory and building networks for music, business and society. In this way, we support sustainable and long-term economic, cultural and social developments and act as a connector between the European and global music industry.
Our Conference Programme 2025 will be successively published here on our website from June. Stay tuned!
