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Wisdom Wednesdays - Edition #6

Gibson Brands

61-62 Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, London W1W 8NQ, UK England

51.516615 -0.13742630000001554

BPI Ltd

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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT IS FOR BPI MEMBERS ONLY. Wisdom Wednesday returns for our last event of 2019 - and we're going out with a bang! This session will focus on curators and tastemakers. With fierce dedication and deep knowledge of their respective cultural niches, our fantastic speakers each look after a wide spectrum of genres, from mainstream to cutting edge pop, through to urban and alternative. In this panel we will try to uncover the paths they have travelled – how they discovered music, how they managed to turn their passion into a career, how they navigated the ups and downs of the various cultural shifts they witnessed along the way, and what makes them tick. Without further ado, here is our fantastic line-up (whose bios you can read below): Sam Moy - Head of Content Commissioning, BBC Radio 6Music Posty - CEO & Founder, GRM Daily Peter Robinson - Journalist & Founder, Popjustice Sara Sesardic - Senior Music Editor, Spotify Moderated by Ben Homewood - Senior Staff Writer, Music Week Afterwards, stick around as there will be more free drinks and pizza and a chance for you to catch up with your industry colleagues. *** Schedule: 18.30 – 19.00 – Welcome Drinks 19.00 – 20.15 – Industry Panel and Q&A 20.15 – 21.30 – Free Pizza & Drinks Location: Gibson Brands, 61-62 Eastcastle St, Fitzrovia, London W1T 3QT Speaker bios: Sam Moy - Head of Content Commissioning, BBC Radio 6 Music Sam is Head of Content Commissioning for BBC Radio 6 Music, commissioning programming across the network and looking after day to day management of the output. Sam also leads the charge on the annual 6 Music festival, which in past years has been held in Manchester, Tyneside, Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow. Prior to joining the station, Sam was at Radio 1 for many years and produced Chris Moyles, Jo Whiley, Greg James, Rob Da Bank and launched Annie Mac on the network. Sam was also an Event Producer at the BBC Electric Proms and produced shows with Oasis, Dizzee Rascal, Goldfrapp and Robbie Williams. Posty - CEO & Founder, GRM Daily Posty is CEO and Founder of GRM Daily, the UK’s leading urban music platform. Posty founded GRM Daily in 2009 and has turned it into a platform which has over 1 Billion YouTube views and a social reach of over 2 million. He also has a record label, GRM Records and has worked with a number of high profile artists including Skepta, Chip and Giggs via his platform. GRM Daily has been named the official leading UK youth culture website and is multi award winning across a variety of categories, including Most Influential Digital Platform at the Young Music Awards. GRM also provides media services such as video production, advertising, consultancy and creative. Peter Robinson - Journalist & Founder, Popjustice Peter Robinson is the founder of award-winning blog Popjustice, which began in 2000 and accidentally became one of the world’s longest-running music blogs and inspired spinoff books, club nights and live shows. A journalist since his teens, Peter’s contributed to publications like the Guardian, Q, NME and i-D, interviewing the likes of Britney, Rihanna, Billie Eilish and Meat Loaf, while also consulting for labels and management teams in areas like artist development and media training. Sara Sesardic - Senior Music Editor, Spotify Sara Sesardic is senior music editor at Spotify. As part of the music culture and editorial team, Sara curates playlists with a focus on all things pop for the UK and Ireland. Before joining Spotify, Sara was a radio producer, and has worked across various shows for stations like BBC Radio 2, Heart and Absolute Radio.

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Start: 2019-11-13T18:30:00+00:00

End: 2019-11-13T21:30:00+00:00