From July 17^th to July 19^th 2019, our partners BMAT and Playground Music Scandinavia (PGM) represented FuturePulse at Sónar+D 2019 in Barcelona!

Sónar+D brought together more than 20.000 attendees, 5.000 key professionals of the music industry, from more than 2.000 companies worldwide! In specific, FuturePulse was at the Audio Tech section of the SónarHub, sharing space with more than 20 significant organizations of music and technology sector, such as Kickstarter, Pioneer, the Royal College of Art and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

During the event, professionals visiting our booth had the opportunity to learn about the latest developments in our project, including live demos with our sophisticated analytics and predictive modelling services. Our partners Saki Markovic, Head of Social Media Marketing at PGM and Gonçal Calvo Pérez, Head of Innovation at BMAT, elaborated meticulously on why FuturePulse’s new capabilities will make music distribution more effective and profitable.

     

During these 3 days, many creative professionals got to know the ‘future pulse’ of music:  

• Ex Artistic Director of Blanco y Negro music, one of the most important dance music record labels in Spain
• Deputy Head of Royalties Distribution from the German Authors’ Collective Management Organization (GEMA)
• Digital Music Journalist/Editor-in-Chief of "All Digital Music" Music Tech Business media
• Project Manager of MindSpaces / STARTS Horizon2020 project
• Founder of an investments firm, HS3
• Startup Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Last but not least, we would like to thank Scott Cohen, Chief Innovation Officer at Recorded Music for Warner Music, also one of our Advisors in FuturePulse’s Expert Advisory Board, who encouraged us to keep on building features for the project, like customizing the classification of moods taking into account the user’s listening history.
 
Thank you everyone for meeting us!