This day-long event took place at Spotify’s New York City office and was organized in collaboration with Monthly Music Hackathon.
Organizers: R. Sommer McCoy; Katarina Hoeger, Adam November, Jason Sigal for Monthly Music Hackathon
Artwork: Alec Donkin
Publicity: Chrissy Borsellino, chrissy@rightanglepr.com
Talks
Can Hip Hop Save the World?
Manny Faces, The Center for Hip Hop Advocacy/The NY Hip Hop Report
Digital Humanities: Why You Must Archive Your Work in the Information Age
Martha Diaz, Founder, The Hip Hop Education Center
Tuma Basa, Global Programming Head of Hip Hop, Spotify
Panels
Hip Hop, Social Media, and Mental Health (Panel)
Dave “D” Bellevue, lyricist, Oxymorrons
Ka5sh, Social Media Guru “Meme Creator”
Sheldon Garnett, Google/Music Producer
Michael J. Heyliger, STACHE Media/Sony Red
Carly Schwartz, Google/Editorial
Keith White, Artist Manager/ Lawyer
How Hip Hop Artists x Tech Founders Can Collaborate (Panel)
Moderator: Shawn Setaro, Senior News Editor, Complex/The Cipher
Matt Bond, CEO of TrebleFM
Sam Hamad, CEO of OffTop
Victor ‘Divine’ Lombard, founder of Fintech and hip hop artist
Workshops and Activities
The Beat Bang Theory
Shareef Islam/Native Instruments
Beat Listening/Critique Session
Breakbeat Lou, Spazecraft, Hank Shocklee, Eboni Smith, Madli, VHVL, and Pozibelle
Beginner Coding Workshop: Gotta Code ‘Em All
Make School
Cache Rules Everything Around Me: Hip Hop Journalism in the Information Age
Manny Faces
DJ Demo
Breakbeat Lou
Hustling 101: How to turn your Code into Cash
Saeed Jabbar, founder of Inclusion
The Intersection of Impact, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Vince Randolph, founder of Sociosmith
Join the Cipher
Ed Sullivan Fellows
The Living Remix Project Monster Mash-Up!
DJ Spazecraft
Music Production
Today’s Future Sound
Off the Top
Rabbi Darkside, Say Word Entertainment/New School
Protecting Your Work: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright (Hunter)
Lindsay Rodman, Intellectual Property and Entertainment Attorney at Davis & Gilbert LLP
Serge Krimnus, Intellectual Property Attorney from Mauriel Kapouytian Woods LLP
The Sound Lab: How Hip Hop Intersects Technology & Effects Cultures within Local Communities
Michael Peterson
What Is Artists-As-Brands Development
Alec Friedman, Redfoot Projects & Complex Networks
Special performances
Scuzz Ortega, John Robinson, Select Ed Sullivan Fellows, Jam No Peanut, Divine, Jahan Nostra
Special thanks to
7/20 Films
Alec Donkin Design
All Star Code
Blak Fintech
Ed Sullivan Fellows Program
#HipHopEd
La Unidad Latina Foundation
Make School
New York Music Month
NYU Music Experience Design Lab
OffTop
Say Word
Spotify
The Cipher
The Hip Hop Education Center
The New York Hip Hop Report
Today’s Future Sound
TrebleFM
Young Hackers
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