Ori Winokur is the Head of Music at Artlist, which is a creative technology company empowering global brands and creators by offering over 3 million high-quality, royalty-free assets created by award-winning artists such as music, sound effects, footage, templates. He is a "music lifer", having played in bands as a young teen in his hometown of Jerusalem and producing records as a sound engineer. He's done a little bit of a lot and has loads of wisdom and inspiration to share.

Jeff Ponchick is the co-founder and CEO of Mogul, which is a fast growing start-up that helps artists do three things very fast and efficiently - complete registrations of their music, monitor royalties, and find missing money, Previously he was CEO of Repost, which he helped sell to Soundcloud and ran it as Soundcloud for Artists.

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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