PRESENTATIONS - Bridging Tech & Talent
Featured Speakers:
Dorian Perron, Co-Founder, Chief Business & Music Officer, Groover
Dorian Perron is the co-founder of Groover, the web platform which connects artists who want to promote their music with the best media outlets, radios, record labels, curators and industry professionals seeking emerging talents. An innovative web platform on which musicians are ensured their music is going to be listened to, to get feedback guaranteed and coverage. On Groovier, more than 5 million replies have been given by the 3,000+ active music music curators & pros on www.groover.co to the 500,000+ artists signed up, which led to 1MM+ shares and 1,000+ signatures with record labels, publishers, managers and bookers.
Alongside Groover, Dorian Perron created the indie music blog Indeflagration in 2013, the Studio Flagrant in 2015 – which hosted more than 40 live sessions with Patrick Watson, Plants & Animals, Asgeir etc. –, organized dozens of shows in Paris and became an indie dance DJ in 2024 under the name 'Dorian Flagrant', performing in Paris & New York.
Aged 30, Dorian Perron has been a speaker at SXSW, MaMA Festival, M For Montreal, Reeperbahn, Liverpool Sound City, MIL, c/o pop, BMC & more.
Geoff Cubitt, CEO, North America, StrmMusic
Geoff Cubitt is the CEO of StrmMusic North America. StrmMusic is a Music Career Accelerator leveraging data, AI, financial support, distribution, and label services to advance artists' careers independently, sustainably, and without restrictive contracts. Founded in Brazil in 2020, it has supported over 65,000 artists and music professionals across 80+ countries. Leveraging a global dataset of more than 10 million artists and 170 million tracks, the platform delivers personalized AI-powered solutions, digital distribution, and flexible financial advances.
With 30+ years leading digital transformation for global enterprises, Geoff co-founded pioneering digital agency Roundarch, which evolved into Isobar US—one of the world's largest digital agencies. Under his leadership, Isobar was named a Leader in Gartner's Digital Agency Magic Quadrant and Forrester's Digital Experience Service Provider Wave, one of Forrester's Top 10 Innovation Agencies, and featured in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for VR/AR. He also won the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Best Digital Craft based on work with Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins.
A two-time Purdue University Hall of Fame honoree and Stanford graduate, Geoff has driven digital transformation for companies like HBO, NBC Universal, Adidas, JP Morgan Chase, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, and the U.S. Air Force.
Kristian Fryer-Kelsey, CEO & Nick Moxham, Chief Product Officer, Plates
Plates is an AI-powered marketing intelligence platform for the music industry. It has a wide range of automated analytics features including song surge/trend detection and cause analysis, analysis of release campaigns, playlist updates, TikTok sounds data tracking, social media audience analysis, catalogue uplift analysis, artist updates etc etc. All of which might require an analyst, or a marketer to spend hours pulling data and compiling, whereas they now take seconds in Plates. It's targeted at artist managers and marketers, with leading management companies like Crush, Blue Rain Coat and Foundation already using it daily, alongside streaming teams, audience/digital people, analysts and A&R's across labels like Virgin, Roc Nation, Glassnote, Empire, Partisan, Disney etc.
Jason Wall, CEO & Founder, TourCntrl
Jason Wall is a 20+ year veteran of the music industry. His first gig was at the original Ziggy’s in his hometown of Winston-Salem, NC, where he ran merch so no one would ask his age. He later opened a recording studio in Nashville before launching a software company that built properties for artists like Kelly Clarkson, T-Pain, and Pitbull. After a successful exit, he returned to the live side and has been the promoter on 1,000+ events. Jason is currently the Founder/CEO at TourCntrl, a free-to-use live event management software for artists, agencies, and venues. He is married with six kids and now calls Jacksonville, FL home.
