Back at last: For all the music industry delegates, the Reeperbahn Festival Conference Programme is back at the venues in and around the Reeperbahn. It is ready to help make up for lost time in terms of interacting, networking and talking business, live and on location with speakers as Michael Krause (General Manager Europe, Spotify), Hauschka (Composer), Jack Conte (CEO & Co-Founder, Patreon), Chris Woltman (CEO, Element1 Music), Dr. Yasmina Banaszczuk (Head of Content Programming & Strategy, TikTok Germany), Katarina Barley (MEP – Vizepräsidentin EU-Parlament, SPD), Julia Frank (Senior Manager Touring, Wizard / Die Grünen), or Annika Manick (Influencer & Social Media Specialist, Jung von Matt / Spree) and Franziska Gregor (Creative Partnerships DACH/NL, TikTok Germany), as well as numerous partner events offering access to networking sessions, meetings or showcases. More details on the programme are available here.
Michael Krause 
In conversation with Michael Krause from Spotify, we talk about Creative Equality: How to achieve a more gender balanced music industry behind the scenes of songwriting and production.

Session: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

For all friends of high-end series production and upscale music supervision: A peek behind the scenes of the Amazon Prime production "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo" with composers Michael Kadelbach and Robert "Robot" Koch, music consultant Pia Hoffmann, producer Sophie von Uslar and music supervisor Christoph Becker from Constantin Film.   

TikTok Sessions 

Dr. Yasmina Banaszczuk (Head of Content Programming & Strategy at TikTok Germany) and Michael Kümmerle (Head of Music Operations at TikTok Germany) will give a deep dive into `TikTok Live´ whilst highlighting the best LIVE cases from the music industry. 

From Germany to the Oscars 
 
Academy Award nominated composer Volker Bertelmann (Lion, Ammonite, Your Honor) talks with composer agent Annette Gentz and publicist Thomas Mikusz, about his international career scoring for high profile Hollywood movies and TV series,while being a well established solo artist at the same time and the European vs American mindset when it comes to artistic career development. 

Jack Conte 

Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, will speak in his keynote about the topic of creative communities, how they work and how artists should move in these communities. 

Session „Parliament of Pop“ 

Three candidates from the music industry are running for a seat in the German Parliament, all for different parties: Joe Chialo (head of the Airforce1 label)  Jens Herrndorf (manager of Fettes Brot) and Daniel Schneider co-founder Deichbrand Festival). But what do they stand for, what are their chances and what can other party members like Katarina Barley (SPD Vice President EU Parliament) and Julia Frank (Wizard Promotion- Bündnis 90 - Die Grünen) already tell us in terms of pop culture?