EXECUTIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE - MARCH 6-8, 2008
Targeting Music & Media business professionals, the Executive Conference is the official meeting ground for those who truly shape the music & broadcast industries. A spectacular forum of seminars, debates and keynote speakers from around the world focusing on burning issues facing professionals at every level of the entertainment biz. The Executive Conference attracts more that 2000 of your colleagues and competitors - over 70% VP/Director or higher. Here’s where you meet the trailblazers and visionaries leading us into tomorrow. All convetion functions take place at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel.

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 8:00am-9:00am Registration, Refreshments & Networking Room: EXECUTIVE/DMS REGISTRATION HOURS Tuesday, March 4 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm Wednesday, March 5 - 8:00am - 8:00pm Thursday, March 6 - 7:00am - 7:00pm Friday, March 7 - 8:00am - 6:00pm Saturday, March 8 - 8:30am - 6:00pm You can upgrade your CMW Badge to include access to the One-Day Marketing Conference “The Millennials”. (Upgrade Fee or before March ) $100.00

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 8:15am-8:45am Newcomers Orientation: Start Making Sense Room: Alberta At CMW, if you've missed a little, you've missed a lot. So whether you're a first-timer, hungry to soak up everything from scratch, or someone who's been away and you feel like everything's changed in your absence (it has), orientation is a must. Relax, nibble some snacks, tell us what you need, and we'll map out your ultimate personalized CMW. Facilitator Greg Simpson - President, Mindbenders Music, London Daniel Anstandig - President/ New Media, Mcvay Media, Cleveland, OH

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 9:10am-9:50am Welcome & Opening Remarks Keynote: Jim Balsillie Room: Ballroom CO-CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, RESEARCH IN MOTION (RIM) Mr. Balsillie is Co-CEO at Research In Motion. He is responsible for directing RIM's strategy, business development and finance. In 2002, Mr. Balsillie founded The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), a world-class global research institute focused on the restructuring of international governance, with particular emphasis on financial and economic institutions. Mr. Balsillie is a Graduate of the University of Toronto and the Harvard School of Business. He is a Chartered Accountant and elected as a Fellow of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants. He also holds a Doctorate Degree from Wilfrid Laurier University. Research In Motion, developers and manufacturers of BlackBerry®, has been honored with numerous industry and product awards. Keynote Jim Balsillie - Co-CEO , Research In Motion (RIM), Waterloo, ON Presenter Vanessa Thomas - Managing Director, Nielsen, Toronto

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 10:00am-11:00am View From The Top: State Of The Digital Union Room: Ballroom This panel of digital media insiders will discuss the “hand off” between the old business model and the new, focusing on hot button issues like the tendency of big media companies to cannibalize existing businesses in their rush to take advantage of digital distribution opportunities. What are the most likely business models for user generated content? What's the future for ad-supported free online distribution of music, video and games? The debate over digital music pricing and the future of digital rights management. What is the next big thing in online and mobile media? The answers may surprise. Introduction Ned Sherman - CEO, Publisher & Executive Editor, Digital Media Wire, Los Angeles, CA Moderator Paul Brindley - Managing Director, Music Ally, London, UK Panelist Ted Cohen - Chairman, MEF Americas, Managing Partner, TAG Strategic, Steve Jang - VP, Marketing & Business Development, imeem, San Francisco Jim Griffin - Managing Director, OneHouse LLC, John Parikhal - CEO, Joint Communications, Westport CT Lee Knife - General Counsel, Digital Media Association, Washington

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 11:00 am-11:20pm Networking & Refreshment Break Room:

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 11:20am-12:20pm Digital Media & The Live Music Experience Room: Digital technologies are creating new opportunities and experiences for artists, performers, promoters, vendors and fans. From text messaging to broadband video, digital technologies are being used to enhance the live music experience. This panel will discuss the use of digital technologies to promote, produce and create new revenue opportunities around live events. How is technology being used to enhance and grow the significance of live music? Moderator Kelli Richards - President & CEO, The All Access Group, Panelist Jared Hoffman - President, Knitting Factory, New York Gary Schwartz - President, Impact Mobile Inc., Toronto Jane Tattersall - Direction, Marketing, MySpace, Toronto Jim McNiel - President and Chief Executive Officer, Zude, Roslyn Heights, NY Philip Camino - Acting Director of Ontario Marketing (Rogers/FIDO), Rogers Wireless Inc., Toronto Susan Bank - Music Programming, Control Room, Beverly Hills

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 2:40pm-3:40pm The New 360 Deal: Band as Brand Room: Ballroom As the live industry continues to boom and record industry's decline is turning into a plunge, major labels have realigned their strategies to cope with a changing world, and set about totally reinventing the way they do business, a horribly difficult task for any institution. This session explores the rising new model for developing talent, one in which artists share not just revenue from their album sales but concert, merchandise and other earnings with their label in exchange for more comprehensive career support. If the concept takes hold, it will alter not only the way music companies make money but the way new talent is groomed, and perhaps even the kind of acts that are offered contracts in the first place. Commonly known as “multiple rights” or “360” deals, the new pacts emerged in an early iteration with the deal that Robbie Williams, the British pop singer signed with EMI in 2002. Not everyone is sold on the concept. Many talent and agents managers view 360s as a thinly veiled money grab and are skeptical that the labels, with their work forces shrinking amid industrywide cost cutting, will deliver on their promises. But record executives argue that such deals could free them from the tyranny of megahits because there would be less pressure to make back the label’s money immediately and the label can take a really holistic approach to the development of an artist brand. Our team of experts will discuss the various 360 deals that are currently being offered and and what we can expect in the future. Moderator Robert Thompson - , Billboard Magazine, Toronto Panelist Terry McBride - CEO, Nettwerk, Vancouver Jake Gold - Manager/Label Owner, Management Trust/Kindling Music, Toronto, ON Susan Abramovitch - Head -- Entertainment and Media Law, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, Toronto Dan Hoffman - Executive VP, Razor and Tie Direct LLC, New York Janie Duquette - President, DEJA Musique, Montreal Jeanine Griffin - GM/VP of Operations, MBK Entertainment, New York Sponsored by: Billboard Magazine

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 3:40pm-4:00pm Networking & Refreshment Break Room:

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 4:00pm-4:45pm Keynote Dr. Daniel Levitin James McGill Professor and Author of "This Is Your Brain on Music" Room: Ballroom Dr. Daniel Levitin, Author of This is Your Brain on Music; Max Bell Chair in the Psychology of the information Sciences, offers an overview on music cognition-what we know about how musical expertise is attained and how musical preferences are formed. Dr. Levitin's talk will lead into a panel discussion about the Paradise of Infinite Storage. Keynote Dr. Daniel Levitin - James McGill Professor and Author , McGill University, Montreal Sponsored by: McGill Schulich School of Music

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 5:15pm-6:15pm Head to Head: Bruce Allen in conversation with Bob Lefsetz Room: Concert Hall Canada's Legendary Manager Goes 'Head to Head' with interviewer Bob Lefsetz Outspoken, abrasive, but widely respected, Allen is one of the most honoured and awarded managers in the business today. Allen's stable of artist include Bryan Adams, Martina McBride, Anne Murray, Michael Buble and producer Bob Rock. Should be lots of sparks fying here - don't miss it! Celebrity Interview Bruce Allen - President, Bruce Allen Talent, Vancouver, BC Interviewer Bob Lefsetz - Author, The Lefsetz Letter,

THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH, 2008 - 6:15pm -7:00pm The Canadian Music Industry Awards Gala Reception Room: Ontario See old friends and catch up on the latest gossip in the hour of speculation before the CMW Awards.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 8:00am-9:00am 6th Annual Women in Broadcast Breakfast Room: Tudor 7/8 Rogers MusicStore Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce that Ky Joseph will be receiving the Rosalie Award, which celebrates trailblazing Canadian women in broadcasting. Joseph will be recognized and honoured for her achievements by friends and peers at the 6th Annual Women in Broadcasting Trailblazers’ Breakfast. Sponsored by Chum Radio, Evanov Radio Group and Red Lemon Salon, the breakfast takes place on Friday, March 7th at 7:45 a.m. at The Fairmont Royal York Hotel in downtown Toronto. “The Trailblazers’ Breakfast is a great way to start your day with a ‘career boost’. Radio has a very bright future with executive talents like Ky Joseph to lead the way with her passion for radio and her excellence in sales” said Liz Janik, producer of the Women in Broadcasting Trailblazer’ Breakfast. Joseph is the Executive Vice President of Sales of The Evanov Radio Group, one of Canada’s fastest growing independent broadcasters. How she got here from her beginnings as a flight attendant and author of a self-published ‘how to’ book on becoming a flight attendant, is an inspiring story. In 1995, Joseph joined CIDC-FM as a junior sales representative and soon became the company’s top sales producer. At the same time, she served as TV spokesperson for a cosmetics firm, and found time to be the first female host of HGTV’s “Let’s Build”. In 1998, she set a precedent and sold more than $1 million for CIDC. By 2000, Joseph was General Sales Manager, and one year later, added Executive Vice President of Sales for The Evanov Radio Group, becoming one of the country’s youngest female executive VP’s in broadcasting. Joseph is currently a member of Canadian Woman In Communications, sits as a board member on The Humber College Advisory Council for Media Studies and has been named “Community Liaison” of Etobicoke General Hospital’s Perinatal Bereavement Program. She is the founder of E.L.L.A. (Ever Lasting Little Angels), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating tools and literature to help woman work through the grief of losing a baby. Best selling author, Karen Salmansohn, will be a guest speaker at the breakfast. Salmansohn is a recovered Senior V.P. Creative Director from the advertising world (at age 26), who left it all behind to become a writer. Journalists call Salmansohn Deepak-Chopra-meets-Carrie-Bradshaw, because of how she merges empowering psychology and philosophy tips with edgy humour and stylish graphics. She’s now a best-selling author with over a million books sold including ‘BE HAPPY, DAMMIT”. Karen describes her self-help books as being for people who might NOT normally be caught DEAD reading a self-help book. In May, she’ll embark on a 15 city tour to promote her latest book – THE BOUNCE BACK BOOK – with a red rubber cover on the outside, and inside, techniques on how to thrive in the face of adversity and loss. Her topic: BALLSY – More Important Than Talent, Is Courage. Tickets for the breakfast are $30 and are available from the Rogers MusicStore Canadian Music Week offices or www.cmw.net. About The Rosalie Award Inspired by Radio’s Legendary Rosalie Tremblay, “The Rosalie Award” honours Canadian women in broadcasting who have blazed new trails. Between 1967 and 1984, Rosalie Tremblay was one of the most powerful radio programmers in North America. A straight-talking, no nonsense woman with an unfailing ear for picking hit songs, Rosalie was the Music Director of the legendary CKLW-AM in Windsor. Rosalie will be presenting the Award. Speaker Karen Salmansohn - Author, , New York Rosalie Award Recipient Ky Joseph - Executive VP Sales, Z103.5 (CIDC), Toronto Sponsored by: CHUM Radio Evanov Radio Group Red Lemon Salon

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 10:10am-11:10am I’m With The Brand: Building Audiences Through Sponsorships Room: Salon B Consumer attention is at an all-time low, media channels have proliferated and audiences have fragmented... Today's leading brands are having to find new ways of engaging with consumers, whilst the music industry is having to deal with falling CD sales and grappling with the threats and opportunities that digital technology presents. Everybody involved is looking for new and sustainable revenue streams. This session will explore how brands, agencies, artists and labels can work together to create partnerships that benefit the consumer and ensure a more profitable marketplace. Understand how the two worlds of brands and music can work together and build consumer loyalty, multiplatform opportunities and long term revenues. Anyone who is looking to drive relationships with key consumer groups must explore the collaboration between music and brands! Moderator Marcie Allen Cardwell - President, MAC Presents, Nashville Panelist Dave Videka - , Maxxium Canada, Toronto Adrian Capobianco - Vice President, FUSE Marketing, Toronto Carter Marshall - Account Director, Hip Digital Media Inc, Toronto Paul Kalbfleisch - , Research In Motion, Waterloo Sid Zuber - Senior Executive Festival Producer, Creative Marketing Agency/Coachella, Los Angeles Mark Ghuneim - Chief Executive Officer, Wiredset, New York Sponsored by: Jimi Hendrix Liquid Experience

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 11:10am-11:30am Networking & Refreshment Break Room:

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 12:30pm- 1:30pm In Conversation With Seymour Stein and Tommy Ramone Room: Concert Hall The passing of Ahmet Ertegun truly marked the end of an era. There are, however, still a few of the original generation of rock and roll record men who go back to the days when the 45 r.p.m single was an exciting innovation, and even fewer who remain a vital part of what is going on in music today. Seymour Stein broke through in the Brill Building days (google it), and learned at the feet of the masters, before becoming recognized as a master himself with the founding of his label Sire Records. Among the dozens of artists he signed and helped become stars are The Ramones, and today, he and Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone will be in discussion with John Nichols, the Washington Editor of The Nation Celebrity Interview Tommy Ramone - Musician, , New York Seymour Stein - Chairman, Sire Record Group, Interviewer John Nichols - Washington Editor, The Nation, Madison, WI

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 2:40PM-3:40PM Spotlight on Latin America: Round 2 Room: Algonquin Potential opportunities for Canadians in the Latin American market. Panel topics include the diversity of the Latin American music scene; facts & figures; Latin American efforts for music exports; Latin American musical culture. The internet and the new opinion makers; online piracy and illegal downloading. Distribution in Latin America - traditional versus virtual - business model and prices. Opportunities for the indie sector. Co-Moderated by Eric So, Synergex Corporation Canada and David McLoughlin, BMA (Brasil Musica & Artes) Brasil. Panelists: Javier Fainzaig, FaroLatino S.A. Argentina; Gerard Werron, Laser Company / Nuclear Blast Brasil; Mauricio Bussab, Tratore Brasil; Claudio Vicentin, Roadie Crew Brasil; Rafael Reisman, RR Producoes Ltda. Brasil; Eduardo Muszkat, MCD Entertainment Brasil. Co-Moderator David Mcloughlin - Manager, BM&A - Brazil Music and Arts, Sao Paulo, Brazil Eric So - Vice President, General Consul, Synergex Corporation - Canada, Mississauga Panelist Javier Fainzaig - President, FaroLatino S.A., Buenos Aires Gerard Werron - Label Manger, Laser Company / Nuclear Blast, Sao Paulo Mauricio Bussab - President, Tratore, Sao Paulo Claudio Vicentin - Editor, Revista Roadie Crew, Brazil Rafael Reisman - , RR Producoes Ltda., Ed.Marcia Eduardo Muszkat - President, MCD Entertainment, Sao Paulo Presented by the International Marketplace. Sponsored by OMDC in partnership with Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (International Cultural Relations), The Department of Canadian Heritage (Trade Routes Program), CIRPA and CAAMA.

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 3:40pm-4:00pm Networking & Refreshment Break Room:

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 5:00pm-6:00pm Global Radio Forum Room: Alberta Keynote Mancow - Talk Show Host, Talk Radio Network, Chicago Moderator Sean Ross - Vice PresidentMusic and Programming, Edison Media Research, Somerville, NJ Panelist Tim Renner - Managing Diriector, Motor FM, Berlin, Germany Mancow - Talk Show Host, Talk Radio Network, Chicago Linda Bracken - Manager, triple j - The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney Chris Kennedy - Program Director, Q92, Montreal

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 5:15pm-5:30pm Keynote: Gerd Leonhard Room: Let's face it: controlling the digital distribution of music is over. In addition, the Web is forever changing music production, promotion, marketing and even A&R, as well. Any and all music is now available online, permitted or not, streamed or downloaded - if anyone still cares for making that distinction. And as of early 2008, the snake-oiled idea of DRM and digital copy protection is finally, officially, irrevocably, toast, too. The battle for digital control has been lost. For those digital natives, access to music is already replacing ownership. Radio - as we knew it - is now playing second fiddle to Online Social Networks, and the kids are tuning out of MTV & VH1 and into free, web-based, shortform TV like YouTube. Flat rate music proposals are being discussed around the globe, and gathering steam. Now, the key question is this: how can music creators get paid (and indeed, prosper!) in a world of open access, feels-like-free, paying-with-attention, a world where telecom operators, search engines and online giants run the show? How do we make money after we give up control (and it certainly looks there is no other choice)? In his keynote, Gerd wil talk about why it is crucial to welcome this change, and let go of the idea of controlling the digital flow of music, and where the new cash will come from - and lots of it, too! Keynote Gerd Leonhard - Music Futurist & CEO, Sonific LLC, Basel Presenter Roland Deal Jr. - VP, Kadoink, San Francisco David Gratton - Founder / CEO, Project Opus, Vancouver Matt Jubelirer - Director of Product Marketing, Slacker, San Diego Facilitator Gerd Leonhard - Music Futurist & CEO, Sonific LLC, Basel Kelli Richards - President & CEO, The All Access Group,

FRIDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2008 - 5:15PM-6:15pm Celebrity Interview: Alanis Morissette Room: Concert Hall Celebrity Interview Alanis Morissette - Singer/Songwriter, , Los Angeles, CA Interviewer Maie Pauts - Announcer, CHUM-FM, Toronto Sponsored by: SAC