(Former Head of Rock, Spotify & Host/Executive Producer, Spotify Original Series)
Booking Agent, Sound Talent Group
Charley Londoño
Counsel Plus, Co.
Chris Foitle
Head of A&R, Epitaph Records
Founder & CEO, Velvet Hammer Music & Management Group (Alice In Chains, Deftones, Korn, System Of A Down & More)
Director, Buma ROCKS! (The Netherlands)
Garrett Capone
VP of Promotion & GM Rock Music, Crush Music
Executive Sr. VP / Talent & Curation, Danny Wimmer Presents
Sr. Business Affairs Manager, FCB NY
Sr. Vice President A&R, Warner Chappell Music
Chairman of APRKA (Czech Republic)
CEO, Eventim Live Asia
Founder, Blue Lemon Management (Sweden)
Managing Director, RBK Fusion (Germany)
Executive Manager, YMU
Program Director, 95/5 KLOS Meruelo Media, Los Angeles
Rock Editor, AllAccess.com
Sr. VP/Head of A&R, Red Bull Records
Head of Artist Relations, IndieFlow
Lisa Worden
Vice President Rock & Alternative, Program Director ALT 98.7 - LA's New Alternative, iHeartMedia National Programming Group
Music & Media Journalist (U.K.)
Founder, Endless Music (The Netherlands)
Matt Pinfield
Host "New & Approved" KLOS, Los Angeles / Westwood One & Benztown Radio Networks Syndicated Host
Co-Founder, Artist For Artist
Michael Faley
President, Metal Blade Records
Owner & Founder, Ranka Kustannus
Publisher, The Music Registry
President & Founder, Mad Mac Entertainment
Founder, Infinite Dreams / Bangalore Open Air Festival (India)
Sat Bisla
President & Founder, A&R Worldwide / Global Rock Summit
Sean Heydorn
Vice President, Rise Records
Artist & Producer Manager, Creative Consultant, SOS Management
Founder & Managing Director of Third Culture Ent't (India)
Thomas Scherer
President, Repertoire & Marketing, Los Angeles & New York, BMG
Award Winning Producer (Alice In Chains, KISS, Korn, Ozzy Osbourne, Primus & More)
Sr. Programming Director/Music Strategies, Trafalgar Releasing
SALMAN SYED
Founder, Infinite Dreams / Bangalore Open Air Festival (India)
Salman U. Syed started his career at the age of 17 as a promoter, with 14 years of experience in the International Music business, he has been instrumental in keeping the Live Music scene alive in India. He has organized and produced shows/tours for a lot of Indian and international bands who have toured India. He also managed quite a few prominent Indian Rock/Metal acts. Most notably Kryptos, one of India's biggest heavy metal exports. He also managed India's oldest Metal Band Millennium.
He founded Bangalore Open Air, which is today India's Biggest Heavy Metal/Rock Music festival in 2012. Salman is also the Wacken Open Air festival representative in India, Nepal, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka. He is also the promoter for the Wacken Metal Battle in the Indian Subcontinent.
He founded INFINITE DREAMS ENTERTAINMENT, a live entertainment and event management company.
He founded Rock N Roll Originals in 2020. Today, Rock N Roll Originals features over 200+ International artists. Rock N Roll Originals is India's Only Licensed Music Merchandise Store.
In 2021 Salman secured a full grant from Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, IFA) is Germany's oldest intermediary organization for international cultural relations, he was selected along with 125 highly committed fellowship holders from 47 countries out of nearly 3000 applications, each with a very special and interesting background to work with a German Organization.
Salman has also worked with a lot of foreign offices in India on culture exchange programmes. Notably, The Embassy of Israel, The Embassy of Norway, The Embassy of Germany and is currently working with the Embassy of the United States of America for a project on Women's Empowerment in the field of music called "Let Women Do The Talking"
Salman has travelled the globe as a speaker in various music conferences, mostly talking about the live entertainment Industry.