VMDO Music Data and Insights Summit

This is your chance to understand current music trends and insights that can inform future innovative strategies and policies.

The Victorian Music Development Office (VMDO) Music Data and Insights Summit is a thought-provoking and illuminating catalyst for new ideas that aim to inspire and inform our Victorian music professionals.

The summit will bring together local and international industry representatives and researchers to unpack recent trends, studies and best practice.

We are curating a summit at Collingwood Yards that will feature keynotes, panels and presentations covering a range of topics such as live music venue data, workplace skills trends, music consumer insights and analysis of the streaming economy.

Speakers include UK-based music data strategist Chris Carey, RMIT University academic Associate Professor Catherine Strong and Ben Green from the Music Industry Research Collective (MIRC), with more to be announced.

During the summit, Music Australia, in partnership with Untitled Group and The Daily Aus, and in collaboration with The Push, will launch its ts Listening In: Insights on live music attendance report. It will offer valuable insights into audience behaviours, preferences and attitudes towards live music in the context of changing social and economic conditions. This report is the first in a three-part research series exploring how Australians discover, experience and engage with music.

The VMDO Music Data and Insights Summit is supported by Music Australia and the Music Industry Research Collective.

The CY Venue at Collingwood Yards is an accessible space and the summit welcomes everyone.

The two-day program schedule will be released soon.

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