Adrian Belew is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist and singer, he was the frontman for King Crimson for nearly 30 years. He has also released 20 solo records as well as working extensively as a session and touring player for such stars as Frank Zappa, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Tom Tom Club and Nine Inch Nails. Just imagine the stories he can share...

Daniel Rowland is that very rare genius who possesses a well developed right and left brain, which has enabled him to achieve huge success as an award winning music producer, tech executive, and educator. He is Head of Strategy and Partnerships at LANDR, co-founder of Audiotool, and longtime instructor at MTSU. As a creative, Daniel has produced the music for an Oscar-winning Pixar film (“Piper”); and mixed and mastered multiplatinum/Grammy-nominated projects for artists as varied as Nine Inch Nails, Seal, Phillip Glass, Gwen Stefani, Gayle, Gucci Mane and many others.

The Smartest People In The Room^® is a series of one-on-one conversations between music industry executives and personalities hosted by Tom Truitt, Managing Director of the Music & Live Entertainment practice. These hour long conversations draw an audience of hundreds and feature every type of global music industry executive, including agents, managers, attorneys, business managers, promoters, publishers, working musicians, songwriters. The audience is global, with strong concentration in music business centers like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin and more.

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