David Ronan is the founder and CEO of RoEx, a London based music tech company with a simple mission- to streamline and enhance the creative process for musicians of any skill level. He was involved with AI long before it was cool and he intends to use AI to democratize audio production for all creators. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which is just one of many indicators of his "smartest guy in the room" bona fides.

Rick Keller is a NYC based record producer who has spent the past 30+ years shaping the sound of hip-hop as we know it, applying his signature touch to many of the genre’s defining records. The menu of A-list artists he's worked with reads like a Hall of Fame round table- DMX, Swizz Beatz, De La Soul, PDiddy, Ruff Ryders, Nas, Miles Davis, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne, Mariah Carey, Method Man, Snoop Dogg, Rick Ross, Ja Rule 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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