After 10 years touring internationally as an artist, Alex started work as an agent at Reprise Agency in London. Alex founded ATC Live agency in partnership with ATC in 2011, and the company now represents 580 artists and books tours worldwide. Alex’s roster includes Fontaines D.C. Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, The Lumineers, Metronomy, Black Pumas, Amyl & The Sniffers, Julia Jacklin and Sleaford Mods. Alex was voted Agent Of The Year at the 2018 European Festival Awards and at the 2023 Arthur Awards.

Beth Morton is a music agent at leading global talent agency UTA, based in theLondon office. She represents a diverse roster of artists including Dylan Gossett, Stephen Wilson Jr, Joss Stone, LocalNatives, Natalia Lafourcade, Midland, Ichiko Aoba, Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram,and many more. Prior to joining UTA, Beth was an agent at Neil O’Brien Entertainment as well as on the programming team for Kew the Music and Greenwich concert series. Beth started her music career at All the Worlds, a JV with Universal Music Group. She was part of the core team that developed and produced F1 Rocks (an entertainment and concert series that ran alongside F1 Grand Prix races), and launched the inaugural Singapore F1 Rocks concerts which featured top-tier performers such as Beyoncé, among others.

Chris Payne joined WME in 2019 after 9 years at ITB. Based in London, he works with artists such as Olivia Rodrigo, Loyle Carner, Lola Young, Max Richter, Mahalia, Dean Lewis and many more.

Cindy has over 20 years of experience in the music industry as a manager, agent, and booker. She has played a pivotal role in shaping artists’ careers and has been instrumental in guiding the festival’s evolution and growth from the very beginning.

Dušan Kovačević is the founder of the EXIT Festival group, which has developed into one of the leading independent event organizations in the world.

Over the past two years, the EXIT team has organized over 50 events in 12 countries, attended by nearly a million people.

Major global media outlets regularly report on EXIT as one of the most prestigious festivals in the world. EXIT has brought the biggest music stars to Serbia, including Robbie Williams, The Cure, Madonna, Depeche Mode, The Killers, Calvin Harris, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Prodigy, David Guetta, and many others.

In addition to conventional music events, EXIT has also entered the Metaverse and introduced the first VR festival experience at Expo Dubai 2020.

In 2021, the renowned American magazine Pollstar named Dušan one of the twenty most influential individuals in the European live music domain, recognizing him among leaders who have “led, inspired, and advanced the live music industry”.

Kovačević is also the founder of EXIT Foundation, a leader in Southeasastern Europe when it comes to youth development, peace promotion, creative industries, environmental protection, and destination branding.

It has partnered with some of the biggest global organizations such as the EU, UNICEF, UNWTO, USAID, and has established a special partnership with the largest humanitarian organization – United Nations World Food Programme on the Life Stream project.

Greg is MD of the International Live Music Conference and MD/co-founder of the International Festival Forum.

ILMC publishes IQ, the live music industry’s leading magazine, news, and content platform read by 100,000 professionals each month.

Greg is a published author and co-founder and former CEO of the UK’s umbrella trade association LIVE.

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Ivan Milivojev is a lifelong honorary member and former board member of YOUROPE – The European Festival Association, which represents over 130 of Europe’s most prominent music festivals. He served on the board for more than a decade, contributing to the growth and collaboration of the European live music scene.

He is the Co-Founder of EXIT Festival, one of Europe’s leading music events held at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia. Over the past 25 years, Ivan has co-founded several other influential festivals, including Sea Dance, Sea Star, Warriors Dance, DEV9T, and R:EVOL:UTION.

He has also helped establish key industry organizations such as AAA Production, SMMF – Serbian Music Manager Forum, and Direct Booking Agency, all based in Serbia.

In 2025, Ivan was appointed Exchange Ambassador for Eurosonic Noorderslag (ESNS), where he works to strengthen the international presence of European talent through expanded festival cooperation.

He currently collaborates with leading regional artists including Gibonni, Urban & 4, and Space Motion.

A journalist for over 20 years, James has spent more than 12 years covering the live music industry.

James is IQ magazine’s Special Projects Editor, in charge of publications such as the European Festival Report, Global Promoters Report, International Ticketing Report and others.

He is the editor of the Barbican’s monthly Guide magazine, and writes on culture for a variety of publications. As a regular presenter James has appeared at conferences such as the ILMC, Canadian Music Week, MIDEM and The Great Escape, and appeared on the BBC, France 24, ITV and more.

He is former Managing Director of the UK and European Festival Awards.

Jan Willem van der Meer is co-founder of Momants, a new AI venture that reimagines how audiences interact with events by placing conversational AI at the heart of the fan journey.

He previously founded Paylogic, one of Europe’s leading ticketing platforms later acquired by SFX and Vivendi. Also he launched The Chorus at Amsterdam Dance Event, connecting founders with industry leaders.

A serial entrepreneur and investor, he focuses on reshaping live entertainment through technology that makes experiences more direct, engaging, and personal.

Jenni is CEO & Co-Founder of mental health and wellbeing non-profit Getahead, and Founder & CEO of wellbeing consultancy business Work Inspired.

Jenni launched Getahead in 2018 while still working her full time job as Director of Culture & Partnerships at AEI Group. Prior to starting her journey in well-being, Jenni worked in the live sector, starting her career in Ibiza at age 17 she worked on the island every season throughout university where she graduated with Honours in Textiles & Fashion Design Management. After university, Music and Events overtook as Jenni’s real passions and a career in this sector was the one she pursued, going onto organise events and festivals all over the world for some the industries biggest brands and organisations, including Renaissance, Ministry of Sound, Hed Kandi, Pacha, UKF and more. After 20+ years of globetrotting and burning the candle at both ends in the music industry, Jenni found her purpose when she co-founded Getahead, which has an ambition to positively impact a billion people in the next 25 years.

Getahead launched initially as a 24 hour mental health and wellbeing festival in London in partnership with London Tech Week, and supported by charity Help Musicians. The festival itself offered a platform to also launch a Record label and Podcast series.

Jenni also has a wellbeing consultancy business WorkInspired, which works with and supports organisations with their people and communities mental health and well-being needs. Tailoring bespoke content to each client's individual requirements, programmes are curated across the brand pillars Training, Health, Development and Fun. Work Inspired delivers programs both in the workplace and online, or as hybrid events.

Jenni still consults for major music organisations including the Exit Festival Group, where she is a senior talent booker and is also leading on a new music and tech conference called Bridge, taking place in May 2025 in Croatia. With MDLBEAST, Jenni is a senior talent booker and programmer lead on XP Music Futures.

Jesper Adler is a Crowd Safety Manager working with Roskilde Festival, one of Europe’s largest and most influential music festivals. At Roskilde, Jesper has been responsible for planning, implementing and leading the first European festival´s team of Certified Showstop® Managers, ensuring that high-pressure decisions around crowd safety are executed with clarity and care.

In addition to this role, Jesper works across a range of events through RFX, focusing on operational crowd management and the development of live safety protocols tailored to each event environment. With deep experience on the ground and a calm command under pressure, he helps bridge the gap between planning and real-time response.

Jesse Fayne is Vice President of Global Festivals at Wasserman Music. A seasoned music agent and festival specialist, Fayne brings unparalleled expertise in international festival booking and artist development across diverse markets.

Fayne previously spent a decade at WME, where he played a pivotal role in expanding the agency's festival capabilities, including a seven-year tenure in London building and leading WME's international festival department from the ground up. In 2023, Fayne returned to America and joined Wasserman Music, where he was hired to build out the Global Festival department with a focus on international markets including Australia, Latin America, Asia, and Europe.

Jim King is CEO of AEG Presents UK and European festivals, responsible for the company’s award-winning and internationally renowned roster of festivals. From American Express Presents BST Hyde Park and Uber One Presents All Points East in London to Rock en Seine in Paris, or the more recently launched Forwards Festival in Bristol, Jim and his team entertain over one million festival goers each and every year.

Jim joined AEG in 2008, where he originated, produced, and led the creation of flagship festivals BST Hyde Park and All Points East. Prior to his time with AEG, Jim held senior roles at Cream where he produced Creamfields festival, before founding his own company LoudSound, for which he sits on the Board of Directors today.

Jim graduated from Liverpool John Moores University with Honours in Business, Management and Marketing.

When he’s not in London or touring, Jim spends his time in Liverpool, where he lives with his son and dog.

Joost Aanen is the Co-founder and CEO of Weeztix, the Dutch ticketing leader within the Weezevent Group.

Since launching the company in 2015 with university friend Chris de Jong, they've grown it from a campus startup into the Dutch market leader, now powering events across Europe and selling tickets worldwide.

As part of Weezevent, Joost plays a key role in delivering innovative technology that helps organisers sell out their events and enhance the attendee experience.

Joining WME as partner and co-head of the London office in 2023, Josh has been an international booking agent for over 20 years and represents and guides the careers of a diverse range of artists, including Coldplay, Eminem, Queens Of The Stone Age, Phoebe Bridgers, Modest Mouse and Snow Patrol.

With a roster ranging from new and emerging artists to stadium and festival headliners, Josh also works with artists such as Alice In Chains, Boygenius, Jimmy Eat World, Cigarettes After Sex, Belle & Sebastian, Afghan Whigs, Beth Orton, Foy Vance, The Charlatans, Kodaline, The Hold Steady, Echo & the Bunnymen, Jenny Lewis, Lightning Seeds, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Breeders, Refused, Touche Amore, City & Colour, Bright Eyes, Maximo Park, Alkaline Trio, The Amazons, Thrice and Taking Back Sunday.

I’m doing the booking the festival programming for "Les Eurockéennes" since the 2001 edition.

The festival exists since 1989 and takes place on the first weekend of July (4 days) in Belfort, France. I’m also in charge of a project called "Operation Iceberg" (Franco-Swiss program to help emerging music groups in these two countries) and I’m doing the booking for a big electro event around Belfort in Autumn called “En residence Secondaire”.

Kim Bloem is head promoter and managing director at MOJO Concerts, celebrating her 25^th anniversary in the business in this coming year. Starting as an intern and working her way up the business, it’s almost the American Dream.

Luís Soares is the Marketing Director of Rock in Rio, the world’s largest music and entertainment festival.

With a background in Tourism and a Master's in Events Marketing from London, he began his career leading one of the most profitable editions of Queima das Fitas.

He has worked at Sony Europe, China Business Network, and The Agency Group (now UTA), and today drives the strategic growth and international positioning of Rock in Rio.

Maria May is a Music Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

Based in the London office, May and her team represent many of the world’s leading musicians, including David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas, Roisin Murphy, Paul Kalkbrenner, The Chainsmokers, Robin Schulz, Oliver Heldens, Lee Burridge, Jonas Blue, Meduza, Purple Disco Machine, Guy Gerber, Monolink, Cloonee, Eli Brown, Layla Benitez, Sara Landry, Lanna, Abel and Who Made Who.

May’s roots in dance and electronic music run deep, with 30 years representing many of the most innovative artists in the electronic music scene. In 2012, she was tapped by CAA to help lead the agency’s expansion into dance music. She was inducted into the Music Week Women in Music Roll of Honour.

She has also been featured on Billboard’s International Power Players list multiple times.

May sits on the board of Lady of the House, an active female-led collective, which amplifies women’s contributions to the dance music industry and uplift and educate the community. She sits on the board of Beatport and the advisory board for the Frankie Knuckles Foundation.

Mark Williamson is the Co-Founder and CEO of The ROSTR Group, a music technology and media company based in Los Angeles, California.

The group's flagship product, ROSTR, has become a must-have resource for organizing the music industry, serving tens of thousands of music professionals. Building on this success, The ROSTR Group has expanded its offerings to include several other products.

Jobs by ROSTR, a job site, attracted a quarter of a million users in its first year. Stack by ROSTR is the largest online directory of music industry resources.

The group also launched ROSTR Insider, a dedicated news site for the industry. Prior to ROSTR, Mark spent almost a decade leading Spotify's artist relations teams. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two sons.

Martje Kremers, born in The Netherlands but based in London, is an agent at Primary Talent International, representing a roster of artists including Justice, Boys Noize, Vitalic, Basement Jaxx, Dave Clarke, Erol Alkan, NTO LIVE and many more.

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Roster: primarytalent.com/martje-kremers

Michal Kaščák is a promoter and musician. In 1997 he founded Pohoda festival, since then he is its director, curator, and booker.

Pohoda is an art festival where alternative, indie, electronic, punk, and world music meets classical music, along with literature, dance, visual arts, film, NGO´s and theatre. In addition to the festival, the Pohoda team organises also concerts and small festivals, such as the Doma dobre festival for people without home, series of antitotalitarian concerts in 120+ clubs around Slovakia Slovenska krcma (Slovak Pub) or pro LGBTI+ series of events in 250+ places Slovenska Teplaren, Concerts for Ukraine,..

Pohoda festival is acitve supporter of Music Saves UA, member of Yourope and its initiatives such as Take a Stand and YES Group and won The Green Operation Award, Take a stand Award, The Award for Excellence and Passion and Best Medium Size Festival Award at European Festival Awards.

Derek Robertson of Drowned in Sound wrote about Pohoda: “The organization is superb. Compared to UK festivals this is Utopia. In fact, it’s one of the most well-behaved festival crowds I have ever witnessed...”.

Mika Christoffersen is Head of Participation and Diversity at the Roskilde Festival group, working closely with safety to ensure that a more diverse group of people can participate and thrive at live events and festivals.

Mika is the lead on Roskilde’s social sustainability work focused on inclusion leadership and equal access, as well as doing consultancy work with other festivals, venues and live-events to ensure the inclusion and well-being of young people in the cultural industries.

Mika Christoffersen has a background in behavioural design, event management and teaching leadership and communications.

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Natália Oszkó-Jakab is the Festival Director of the Valley of Arts Festival (Művészetek Völgye) since 2013, the oldest, and greatest multi-art festival in Hungary, founded in 1989. She is Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Arts for Rural Development Foundation.

Natália started at the Palace of Arts in 2005. She spent two years (2011-13) at an international organisation. As a cultural diplomat, she was leading the Liszt Institute Brussels in 2022-2023 while leading her foundations and festivals.

She is founder of the Music Hungary Associations and now the Festival Department leader. In 2021 she founded Hungarian Tourism Programme Foundation which became the EFFE Hungarian Hub since Autumn 2023.

Through Startup Safari Budapest festival she is fostering collaboration in between the cultural and innovation sector. Since May 2024 Natalia has been a board member of the European Festival Association and an ELSI Board member of EIT Culture and Creativity KIC.

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Nicolas Bonard is the CEO and Co-Founder of Montreux Jazz Festival Media Ventures, where he develops innovative media strategies for the world-renowned music brand.

A veteran of the global media industry, Nicolas has held leadership roles at VICE Media Group, Discovery Communications, MTV Networks, and NBA Europe, and co-founded Screen Opus, a content financing company.

He brings deep expertise in content production, digital transformation, and brand monetization, and currently sits on the boards of HED Technologies SA and Kapaw Media.

Oscar Kriek is the Partnerships Director at TicketSwap.

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Paul Wilson is a senior Music Agent at leading entertainment and sports agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA).  Wilson is based in the London office and represents many of the world’s leading musicians including Angus & Julia Stone, Ben Howard, Dermot Kennedy, Kae Tempest, Leon Bridges, Lianne La Havas, Lucy Dacus, The Pretenders, Sam Fender, Tracy Chapman, among many others.

René Jensen has a background in major international companies in Danish business and more than 20 years of experience in the festival industry as both a volunteer and a professional. He is currently Head of Partnerships at Roskilde Festival.

Sana leads Fever’s business development for Northern Europe, driving the company’s expansion as the go-to tech partner in live entertainment.

Fever’s data-driven approach has reshaped demand generation in the industry. Recently, the company acquired DICE, further reinforcing its commitment to the music ecosystem, strengthening its role in supporting independent venues, festivals, and promoters. Together, Fever and DICE are scaling ticketing, marketing, and demand generation capabilities—empowering music creators to reach wider audiences and compete in a crowded market.

Sana, formerly a strategy consultant at BCG and a senior leader at Wayfair and Rocket Internet, was shortlisted for Adweek Europe’s Future is Female Awards in 2023, recognizing her leadership in shaping the future of live experiences.

Steve has worked alongside his partner Mark Hamilton to pioneer the Showstop® Procedure Course with The Pink Bows Foundation.

He has 30 years of experience at festivals in roles spanning event safety control, festival security, or head of artist security, which saw Steve take multiple headline artists into festivals across the world.

Steve is also an expert witness, a fellow of the Institute of Risk and Safety Management, member of the UKCMA and the Global Crowd Management Alliance.

Tamara Gal-On has been a creative industries coach since 2003. Since 2008 she has focused predominantly on working in the Music Industry.  In that time, she has worked with Warner Chappell, the Music Publishers’ Association, PRS Foundation, Help Musicians UK, Brighter Sound, Nordic Music Export, Iceland Airwaves Festival, Ginger Owl Productions and Tallinn Music Week among others. 

Tamara is the co-founder of Music Leaders Network, a transformational leadership programme for mid-career women and non-binary people in the music industry. The focus of her coaching practice is supporting her clients to achieve career longevity (if not career serenity) by helping them to stop flirting with burnout and instead build intuition led, values based careers instead. 

Tamara works internationally, mainly with women, including artists and managers, executives and freelancers from across the wider music industry from publishing to live, labels to music charities. 

Virag works as the head of international booking of Sziget Festival in Budapest, Hungary.

For the past thirteen years she has been a member of the organizing team responsible for the programs of Hungary's leading music festivals, and has contributed to the company’s success at the 2017 European Festival Awards and 2018 UK Festival Awards where SZIGET won awards for ‘Line-Up Of The Year’ and 'Best Overseas Festival'. 

In 2024, she took part in the planning and organization of over 200 music performances at the festivals. These include the first Hungarian appearances of Billie Eilish, Ed Sheeran, Lana Del Rey and Kendrick Lamar.

A creative industry and innovation expert with over 20 years of experience, Yvan Boudillet is the co-founder and honorary member of MusicTech Europe, the European network of music innovators hubs.

Yvan previously held leading roles in digital transformation and management at Warner Music and EMI Music and founded advisory company TheLynk, where he contributed to drive innovation within the music ecosystem by enabling connection & collaboration between music organizations or institutions, artists, and startups.

A regular international speaker (SXSW, Wallifornia, Slush Music, Sonar+D, Midem, ILMC, Music Inc. India, 4YFN, ISMIR, Eurosonic, Linecheck...) and lecturer specialized in the intersection between innovation & creative industries, Yvan has been a prominent voice advocating for inclusive & collaborative innovation across the music value chain.

Yvan is also the co-founder and President of Metal Social Club, the first network of metalhead entrepreneurs & creators.

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