Advance Look At The Upcoming Bandwidth Conference
Next month in Portland, Oregon, the Bandwidth music and technology conference kicks off for its annual event discussing the evolving music space, bringing in top minds in the field from Sony Network Entertainment, Beatport, Warner Music Group, YouTube, and more. Closed discussion sessions revolve around how people discover, purchase, interact with, and are exposed to new music – with a focus on marketing, fan behavior, current trends, and future forecasts.
Attendees must apply to be invited, and the event is held a bit differently than most music conferences in that no traditional panels take place. Sessions occur in boardrooms and are kept small to encourage collaborative discussion and networking. Interestingly enough, this year’s Bandwidth conference will be a no-press event. This is in hopes to encourage even more open discussion amongst attendees and speakers, and attendees are also asked to not tweet, post or blog about session details and comments.
Professionals in new media, marketing, new products, digital music and fan-to-consumer will benefit highly from Bandwidth by discussing innovative ways consumers discover and interact with music and artists, along with technological shifts that impact the industry. In addition, the "Fast Forward" sessions will provide insight into the long-range shape of the industry, and the future agents that one would need to consider when planning strategies moving forward.
Bandwidth 2012 takes place August 27th and 28th from the McMenamins Kennedy School hotel in Portland. You can apply for an invite here.
MORE: Highlights from last year's Bandwidth conference in San Francisco
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Hisham Dahud is a Senior Analyst for Hypebot.com. Additionally, he is the head of Business Development for Fame House, LLC and an independent musician. Follow him on Twitter: @HishamDahud
Great article, Bruce! Though I do find it odd that the Bandwidth Coference is cut off from social media. If there will be “Professionals in new media, marketing, new products, digital music and fan-to-consumer” sectors, then why try to cut off the very people they are marketing to?
Are these attendees allowed to blog or tweet about these conferences after the event? Otherwise, Bandwidth leaves a lot of interested people (like myself) in the dark…
To attend this conference is very useful to the businessman’s.to know the things how are going on.try attend everyone.
I tried connecting to the link apply to be invited, but I get the server unavailable message. Is there any problem with the link? How should apply now? Is there any other possible links to apply? Can I get the invite to mail ID?
I just checked it was up for me. Maybe try again?