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Steve Albini, Owner and Engineer, Electrical Audio / Producer Nirvana, Pixies / Artist Shellac

Dominic Arsenault, Video game writer, Lecturer Université de Montréal Film Studies

David Basskin BA., LL.B., LL.M., M.B.A. is President and CEO of the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA), Canada's largest music licensing agency. Mr. Basskin is a lawyer and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1979. He is also President of CMRRA-SODRAC Inc., a joint venture of CMRRA and SODRAC which licenses the joint repertoire of those collectives for online music distribution in Canada, and a Director of the Canadian Private Copying Collective.
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Skratch Bastid, Sampling artist

Bryan Bean, Content and Programming Manager, Puretracks

Alexandre Bérard, Fondateur Titanium Mobile

Anne-Marie Bergeron is a videographer documenting music scenes, here in her native Montreal and around the world. She hosts the WebTV show Music Spins the World broadcasted on 33mag.tv and writes on the music blog Mélomane Mathématicienne. She was also part of the art collective Epsilonlab (2000-2001) and played music in different local bands.
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Christian Bernhardt, The Kork Agency

Susan Bincoletto, Director General Industry Canada

Jean-Robert Bisaillon is the current digital watch consultant for SPACQ. He had previously created SOPREF in 1997, following the Forum des musiques amplifiées, a conference aimed at giving a voice to alternative and self-produced musical artists of the province of Quebec. He now is secretary of the board for SOPREF and LOCAL Distribution (collective distributor), participatory economy structures for musicians. He is also present on the boards of Musicaction (public financing body), Francouvertes (band contest) and MUTEK (festival). He has just co-written with Jean-Noël Bigotti, an indie music trade guide between France and Quebec/Canada, published by SOPREF and french structure IRMA
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James Booth, Producer CBC Radio 3

Bryan Borzykowski is a Toronto-based music and business writer. His work has been featured in Chatelaine, Inside Entertainment, NOW, AOL Music, Canadian Business and Harp Magazine among other places. He's been the reviews editor at Chart Magazine and is currently the editor-in-chief of The New Pollution, an online music magazine.
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Mario Bouchard, General Counsel, Copyright Board of Canada

Patricia Boushel¸Organizer and Indie Film Producer, Pop Montreal

Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg is currently professor and head of the Institute for Media Technology, Ilmenau Technical University, and director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT, both in Ilmenau, Germany. He is a leader in the development of digital audio technology, and gained worldwide recognition for his work on the MPEG audio standard and the creation of the MP3 format.
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Keith Brown is the Director of Operations for the DKD Label Group, a job that involves the day-to-day running of Aquarius Records and more of a background business affairs role with Tacca Musique, Last Gang Records and Arts and Crafts International and numerous smaller imprints.
Keith had already been working with Donald K Donald in several capacities for about 4 years when he was hired full-time as a concert tour manager in 1972. After promoting about 1500 shows in all parts of Canada, Keith moved over to Aquarius Records where started in promotion, moved on to A&R and marketing. Ultimately he became the label's president in 1990.
Today Keith enjoys a job that combines legal work, publishing, marketing and (de facto) artist management. His greatest satisfaction remains playing a role the development of musical careers. The skill set that he has developed over 35 years in the business is incredibly varied, and possibly unique in Montreal.
Brown explains, "I've had a real "Forrest Gump" experience with music. The first concert I went to was the Beatles in 1964. I was at Woodstock. I've carried Jim Morrison on and off stage (a couple of times), and Peter Townsend has served me tea. Without really trying I managed to have some unexpected encounters with many of the biggest names in music and my luck is holding up; after all, I'm in the music business in Montreal in 2007, and that's a pretty great place to be."
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Over the past fifteen years, Marie-Pierre Brunelle has worked at Studio Victor, Fusion III Distribution/Justin Time Disks, and with SOCAN. As Accounts Executive at SOCAN, she keeps abreast of new industry trends in publishing and copyright. A lover of music, she was a DJ for many years at CIBL and Foufounes Électriques.
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Buck 65, Artist

Jean-Pierre Caissie, Artistic Coordinator DARE-DARE

Owen Chapman: Assistant professor in Communication Studies at Concordia University (Montreal), Owen Chapman is also a DJ and sample-based composer. He has written on audio sampling for a variety of publications including M/C: Journal and The Canadian Journal of Communication. His work has been commissioned internationally for radio, video and contemporary dance. opositive.ca

Larry Crane (Jackpot! Recording) is the editor and founder of Tape Op Magazine, owner of Portland’s Jackpot! Recording Studio, a freelance engineer who’s worked nationwide and archivist for the Estate of Elliott Smith. Tape Op Magazine began in 1996, and has 45,000 readers in the US and 10,000 in the EU and UK. Since 1997 he’s owned and run Jackpot! Recording Studio, Inc., a busy mid-sized studio in Portland, Oregon, where he's worked with artists like Sleater-Kinney, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, Go-Betweens, Elliott Smith, Stephen Malkmus, Quasi, Richmond Fontaine and more. He's spoken on and moderated panels about recording for TapeOpCon, SXSW, NXNW, NARAS, and CMJ. He has worked in the past as a record label owner, radio station music director, DJ, record distributor sales, freelance music journalist, band manager and bass player (in bands since 1984, including Elephant Factory, Vomit Launch and the Sunbirds.) Crane currently resides most of the year in southern Arizona. www.tapeop.com, www.jackpotrecording.com
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Gilles Daigle, Lawyer Gowling Lafleur Henderson

Martha de Francisco, Producer, Sound Engineer, Associate Professor, McGill University

Dave Derr, President, Empirical Labs

Dagoberto Donato, Trama Virtual (Brazil)

John Drake, Harmonix, Agents of Fortune

Solange Drouin is Vice-présidente aux affaires publiques et directrice générale at ADISQ. A lawyer, Ms. Drouin is a member of the Barreau du Québec, and has a worked in the Quebec cultural milieu for many years. She was also the director of the Société de gestion collective des droits des producteurs de phonogrammes et de vidéogrammes du Québec (SOPROQ) from 1995 to 2001.
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Jack Dylan¸ Artist

Douglas Eck is Professor of Computer Science at the Université de Montréal with a special interest in machine learning and music cognition. He spent most of the past year as a visiting scholar at Sun Microsystems research laboratories, working on a project for a large scale music recommendation system combining audio features with socially generated recommendations (Search Inside the Machine or SITM). He is affiliated with BRAMS (the Group for Brain, Music and Sound) at UdeM, CIRRMT (Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology) at McGill, and LISA, the Machine Learning Laboratory at the UdeM.
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Ed Felten is Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and Director of the Centre for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. His research is in the fields of computer security and privacy, technology policy, and their intersection. He was the star Dept. of Justice witness in the Microsoft anti-trust case, and is well-known for his research on electronic voting systems, web security, and copyright, and is a hero to hackers and programmers worldwide. He is host of the popular blog freedom-to-tinker.com.
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David Fewer is Staff Counsel with the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. CIPPIC, Canada's only technology law clinic, advocates on behalf of the public interest for balance in policy and law-making on issues arising out of new technologies. Mr. Fewer's responsibilities at the CIPPIC involve training students in effective legal advocacy, producing relevant public education documents, and participating in the government policy development and law-making processes.
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William W. (Terry) Fisher - Hale and Dorr Professor of Property Law, Harvard University; Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Ichiro Fujinaga is Associate Professor of Music Technology at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University. He is currently involved in major research projects for the preservation and distribution of digital musical archives within library systems. These include studies in digitization of analogue formats, optical recognition, including optical scanning of analogue recordings and notation recognition, interlibrary communication, web services and compatibility between libraries, and the optimization of information sharing.
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Federica Furlotti, A&R One Little Indian Records/Tangled Up! Recordings – UK

Brett Gaylor, Filmmaker, opensourcecinema.org

Kiriakoula Hatzikiriakos, Lawyer, McMillan Binch
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Originally from London, UK, Leila Hebden began tour managing her brother – Four Tet straight after graduating from university. She then moved to Toronto and worked at Paper Bag Records for 2 years. Keen to get back into management Leila started her own company in 2006. Dote Management now works with - Born Ruffians, Junior Boys, We’re Marching On, Young Rival, Caribou and Four Tet.
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Over the last 40 years Bill Henderson has been a singer, songwriter, composer of music for film, television and theatre; guitarist and record producer; winner of Juno, Genie, SOCAN and other music awards; solo artist and member of the musical groups THE COLLECTORS, CHILLIWACK and ULRICH HENDERSON FORBES (UHF); past president of SOCAN and the Songwriters Association of Canada Boards and past co-chair of the Canada Music Council. He is a current Vice President of the Board of the S.A.C., is the chair of the advocacy committee and is also on the SOCAN Board.

Steven Himmelfarb, Booking agent Paquin Entertainment

Paul Hoffert is the CEO of Noank Media Inc., Faculty Fellow at Harvard University Law School and Professor of Fine Arts at York University. He is the author of several books about life in the information age, including The New Client, All Together Now, and The Bagel Effect. He is a Canadian rock icon and Canadian Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee as a founding member of the rock group Lighthouse and has a distinguished career as a scientist and new media pioneer. He received the Order of Canada in 1995.
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Craig Hutchison (Hutch) is Chief Designer at Manley Audio. A well-known producer, he was for many years at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, where he worked with dome of the biggest acts in the world. Through his work there, he became familiar with Manley products and David Manley, and eventually left Electric Lady to help sell Manley products. He also does freelance work for WAVES, the Israeli DSP plug-in and digital technology company.
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Paul Irvine, Entertaiment paralegal, Sanderson Entertainment Law

Simon Jodoin, Simon J. and the Fuckengruvin Virtual Dumb Band

Keith Jones¸ Program Director Music on Film Film on Music

Rick Karr is a professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. A well known reporter and correspondent, he worked for 12 years at NPR as a technician, correspondent, and host, and is an expert in media issues. Last October he wrote and participated in a 90 minute special for PBS entitled Net@Risk, hosted by Bill Moyers, on issues of the internet, neutrality, U.S. competitiveness, and democracy. Before that he was the media correspondent for NOW with Bill Moyers on PBS. He is currently writing a book/tv series on the history of technology's impact on music (technopop.org), and has written articles for The Nation, New Musical Express, and Stereo Review.
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Lenny Kaye, from New Brunswick, New Jersey, is best known for Nuggets, a recorded anthology of psychedelic rock hits from the mid-60s, which he compiled in the early 70s. He got to know and worked with Patti Smith and played guitar for some of the early poetry improvisations which became some of her best known songs and went on to collaborate with her for over 25 years. He continued performing on his own in the Lenny Kaye Connection, and has gone on to teach Rock History at Rutgers University, and has written for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and has an article included in the Penguin Book of Rock and Roll Writing.
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Jay Kerr-Wilson, Lawyer - Fasken Martneau Dumoulin

Paul Lamere - Lead Researcher, Search Inside the Music Project, Sun Microsystems Laboratories

David Lametti, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law McGill University, CIPP

Grant Lawrence brings specific expertise to the Media training workshop, having worked extensively on both sides of the medium. For 17 years he was the lead singer of hard-working Canadian independent band the Smugglers. In the process he gained a widespread reputation for his outrageous stories of rock n roll excess. On the strength of his verbosity, he was hired by CBC Radio nine years ago. Grant is now the leading voice in Canadian independent music as host of the top-rated CBC Radio 3 Podcast, and host of his own daily web radio show on cbcradio3.com. He has also interviewed almost every band in Canada, for better or worse.
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Bruce Lehman, President and CEO, International Intellectual Property Institute; Principal Author, Digital Music Copyright Act

Cynthia Leive is the head librarian of the Marvin Duchow Music Library at the Schulich School of Music Library. She was instrumental in the planning and design stages of the new Library Building, and has been a driving force within the library system at McGill for many years. She has been an integral partner in virtually every aspect of new technology, both at the library and the faculty.
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Dan Levitin is a James McGill Associate Professor and the Bell Chair in the Psychology of Electronic Communication at the Laboratory for Music Perception, Cognition, and Expertise at McGill University. He is a world leader in the study of the science of musical sound and its effect on the human organism. He is the author of This is Your Brain on Music as well as a number of scholarly publications on psychology and perception. A former record producer, he is much in demand by media outlets for his broad understanding of both the world of music and perception, and his exhaustive general knowledge of popular and serious music. He is an authority on music acquisition in patients with Williams Syndrome, and has been a frequent guest on both networks of CBC Radio, he was regular contributor to 'Freestyle' on Radio One, and has been heard on NPR, and appeared on CBC-TV, CTV, PBS, Bravo, and many online news programmes.
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Murray Lightburn¸ Artist The Dears

Lisa MacDonald, C.E.O. Myrockingprofile.com

Joseph Malloch, PhD Student Faculty of Music McGill, Inventor ‘t-stick’

Stefan Martin, Lawyer Fraser Milner Casgrain

Grammy Winner George Massenburg (George Massenburg Labs and Massenburg DesignWorks) is Professor of Recording Arts and Sciences at McGill University and visiting lecturer at UCLA and USC and other institutions. A leader in the field of extended resolution and bandwidth as a goal in digital recording, in analog-digital-analog analysis and conversion, and pioneer of 'parametric equalization', he also has an impressive career as an engineer and producer, having worked with Madeleine Peyroux, The Dixie Chicks, Earth, Wind and Fire, Linda Ronstadt, Lyle Lovett, Randy Newman, Weather Report, and Frank Sinatra, among others.
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Albert Maysles, Documentary Filmmaker (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens)

Walter McDonough is General Counsel and a founding member of the Future of Music Coalition. He is also Professor of Copyright Law at Suffolk University Law School. He a board member of SoundExchange, the U.S. performing rights society, and the Alliance of Artist and Recording Companies. He has spoken widely on issues of copyright law and has been legal counsel to a number of artists including the Dresden Dolls and Mission of Burma.
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Don K. McLean, Dean Schulich School of Music McGill University

Stacey Mitsopulos, Lawyer, Taylor, Mitsopulos, Burshtein Entertainment Lawyers

Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, Assistant Professor McGill University Faculty of Law

Paul Murphy (a.k.a. Scratch Bastid) has been DJing for 10 years and producing for 4. His most recent work is production on Buck 65's upcoming "Situation" album (Warner).
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Eli Pasternak Senior Vice President & Chief Technical Officer , Bridgewave Communications, Co-founded Netro in 1995 and BridgeWave Communications in 1999. Previous to Netro, he held technology and consulting positions at P-COM and Plantronics. Inventor and co-inventor of 20 patents in areas of communications, signal processing and consumer electronics. Co-invented Signal Code Modulation (SCM), a combined analog/digital technique of representing information.
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Sandy Pearlman (Alpha and Omega Recording) is Adjunct Professor of Theory at Schulich School of Music, McGill University. A leader in the creation and production of heavy metal music, Sandy produced Don't Fear the Reaper, and Burning for You for Blue Öyster Cult and has worked with The Clash, Patti Smith, Phil Manzanera, and Black Sabbath. He is also a poet and was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar in the History of Ideas. He is a leading figure in the convergence of multimedia and music, and was the founder of emusic, a Bay Area company specializing in online/multimedia music-based products.
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Dimitri Perrier, Talent Buyer, Festival Sous la Plage

Shawn Petsche, Coordinator, ArtPop

Fred Pinto¸ Lawyer SPIEGEL SOHMER INC

Tina Piper, Associate Professor Faculty of Law McGill University

Jonas Prangeroed, OYA Festival (Norway)

Evan Prodromou, Co-founder Wikitravel, wiki programmer

Jeffrey Remedios, Producer, Founder Arts & Crafts Records

Film Producer Keith Robinson is best known for his work on the documentary When We Were Kings the story of the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire in 1974. More recently he produced Mau Mau Sex Sex, a history of two exploitation film directors, which was produced, filmed, and distributed entirely through digital media. Most recently he worked as editor on Haskell Wexler's From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks.
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Gilles St. Laurent is Audio Conservator at the National Library of Canada, where he has worked since 1983. He is responsible for the preservation and conservation of the Recorded Sound and Video Collection at the Library. He is a member of the Audio Engineering Society Technical Committee on Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries, and has worked on conservation projects for record labels including Analekta, Sony, and CBC Records. He has contributed to the restoration of recordings spanning over a century, and is well-known for his work on archival Glenn Gould recordings at the Library.
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Dianne Sammer - CEO of Goombah.com

Catharine Saxberg is the executive director of the Canadian Music Publishers Association, where she has represented publishers and their interests for the past three years. Prior to this, she was the executive director of the Radio Starmaker Fund. In her pre-music industry life, she spent over twenty years working for broadcasters in marketing, research and strategic planning.
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Jean-Louis Schell, Alias / JHD Productions

Eddie Schwartz' songs have sold over 30 million records and have received multiple Junos, BMI and SOCAN awards. He has written, performed and/or produced songs such as "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar, "The Doctor" by the Doobie Brothers, and "See Me Through" by Rascal Flatts. Schwartz is President of the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Vice President of the Songwriters Association of Canada, and Chair of the International Music Creators Coalition, which is currently working to monetize peer-to-peer networks internationally.
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Dan Seligman, Producer / Manager, Creative Director Pop Montreal

Robin Simpson, Pavillion Projects

Lars Skovgaard, Head of Programming, VEGA (Denmark)

Johanne Sloan, Séripop

Patti Smith, Artist

Matt Sonzala, SXSW Music Festival

Karla Starr is a journalist for the Willamette Week in Portland, Oregon, where she is words editor, and the Seattle Weekly. She has written widely on technology issues for the Seattle Weekly ranging from gaming to music recommendation engines.
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Jesse Stein, Artist

Shelley Stein-Sacks is the former head of the Music Entrepreneurship Programme of Telefilm Canada. He is the author of a pioneering report on the state of the Canadian Music Industry, The Canadian Independent Music Industry:An Examination of Distribution and Access, published by the Federal Government in 2006. He currently serves as GM of Fusion III Distribution.
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Jonathan Sterne, Department of Art History and Communications Concordia University


Jamie Thompson, Artist The Unicorns

Kristin Thomson, Deputy and Education Director, Future of Music Coalition

Nick Thornburn, Artist ISLANDS, the Unicorns

Jacques Vézina, Escouade Anti-graffiti

Brian Whitman - Co-founder of The Echo Nest Corporation, MIT Media Lab

Wieslaw Woszczyk - James McGill Professor, Sound Recording, McGill University