WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY 3 MARCH 3 MARCH 2021 2021 9.30–10.00
THE VIRTUAL GUIDE TO ILMC Host: Greg Parmley, ILMC (UK) ILMC head Greg Parmley welcomes all players to ILMC 33 for the official start of the conference. This briefing will cover everything you need to know about the first-ever virtual ILMC, including key features and tips to help your avatar make the most of their new digital home.
10.00–11.00
GRASSROOTS VENUES: ROUTE TO RECOVERY Chairs: Mark Davyd & Beverley Whitrick, Music Venue Trust (UK) This session brings together an international collection of passionate grassroots music venue operators to shed some light on issues facing their rooms, look ahead to a brighter 2021, and discuss whether there’s further need for cooperation to safeguard these vital spaces.
10.00–11.00
SUSTAINABILITY: THE BEST OF GEI Host: A Greener Festival (UK) Participants in the previous day’s Green Events & Innovations Conference reconvene to discuss the key takeaways and spotlight the collaborative work that has been going on behind the scenes since last year’s conference. If you can’t make GEI this year, this round-up will fill you in on the main discussion points.
10.00–11.00
PULSE: NEW TECHNOLOGY PITCHES Host: Steve Machin, LiveFrom Events (UK) This quick-fire session sees guests given just five minutes to pitch their new product, idea or invention. From XR to VR, holograms to virtual venues, ticketing tools to mobile apps and much more beyond… for anyone looking for a headsup on the newest technology most likely to impact the business, this is a must-see session.
11.30–12.30
THE VENUE’S VENUE: ROOMS TO MANOEUVRE Chair: Debbie McWilliams, SEC (UK) Considering the possibility of the pandemic being endemic and recurring again – as well as how venues re-skill their buildings when shows return – a stellar line-up of venue specialists join forces to achieve some workable solutions to the challenges ahead.
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11.30–12.30
COLLABORATION: THE MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE Chair: Manfred Tari, Pop100 (DE) With many international initiatives having seen results during the coronavirus crisis, this session discusses cooperation in the business and asks whether there is an argument for an international live music industry body – an IFPI of the concert business – to serve as a unified front for any further crises ahead.
11.30–12.30
PULSE: SWEET STREAMS – BEST IN CLASS Chair: Lars-Oliver Vogt, Live Nation GSA (DE) With live music on forced hiatus, what have the leading lights in the emergent live-streaming space learnt in recent months about how best to produce, market and promote successful live-streamed concerts? We invite those riding the crest of this new wave of virtual events to discuss.
13.30–14.30
THE TALENT PIPELINE: BRINGING NEW ARTISTS ONLINE Chair: Beckie Sugden, X-ray Touring (UK) Artists who were hoping 2020 would be their breakthrough year have been frustrated by the pandemic shelving most plans for live performances. Will they be given a chance to reset for 2021, or will the industry and fans simply move on to another set of acts? Guest speakers discuss the evolving world of A&R.
13.30–14.30
INSURANCE: THE BIG UPDATE Chair: Katie Moore, Live Nation (UK) What does the next 12–24 months look like for policies and cover, and how different will the insurance market look compared to how it did going into 2020? In what’s likely to be the best-attended insurance session ever at ILMC, we ask what comes next and how to navigate this roadblock to the return of live.
13.30–14.30
PULSE: THE LIVE-STREAMERS’ GUIDE TO LIVE MUSIC Speakers include Matthew Kiichi Heafy, Trivium and Danny Lee, Asian Agent According to those who’ve already lived it, just how fundamentally is live-streaming – whose adoption elsewhere can be seen in the 15m daily users on Twitch and 500m fans of e-sports – going to change live music? PULSE invites a line-up of gamers, streamers and platform-heads to tell us what’s around the corner.