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Cologne’s c/o pop convention and festival scales up
2009-06-23
22 June 2009: c/o pop, the pop culture 2.0 convention, based in Cologne has announced that it is scaling up this year’s event to include even more international delegates following the postponement of the PopKomm convention in Berlin.
This year’s c/o pop will showcase the export offices of Holland, Denmark and Norway for the first time, and c/o pop founder Norbert Oberhaus says his team are in discussions with many other international organisations whose plans have been disrupted by the PopKomm announcement.
“We regret that Popkomm did not succeed in keeping a key industry event alive”, says Norbert Oberhaus. “But we believe there remains a gap in the market for a music-based event with real roots in the German music industry. c/o pop‘s aim is to connect the right people with best ideas from all areas of pop culture, whilst not aligning itself as a pure music convention. Our decision to establish an industry meeting which incorporates a wide range of the creative industry was right.”
Meanwhile c/o pop has announced that legendary UK manager Peter Jenner will deliver a keynote session at this year’s event.
Jenner has managed a roll-call of some of the most influential UK artists of all time including Pink Floyd, T Rex, Ian Dury and The Clash. He is President Emeritus of the International Music Managers Forum and continues to manage Billy Bragg.
c/o pop launched five years ago as a German-focused event following the departure of the internationally-focused PopKomm convention to Berlin.
Having built its reputation as the premier German national music event, c/o pop had already planned this year to broaden its scope with a high-level line-up of international speakers, including Mute Records founder Daniel Miller and Jim Griffin, President of Choruss, the proposed ISP-level network music service targeted at college students which cuts to the heart of the music industry debate about monetising music consumption over the internet.
Other confirmed speakers at this year’s c/o pop include: Marc Chung (Managing Director, Freibank), Dieter Gorny (President, Bundesverband Musikindustrie), Carl Mahlmann (Director Business Planning, EMI), Christian Hufgard (Piratenpartei), Tina Funk (General Manager, Creative Lobby), Marcus Corallo (Senior Investment Manager, bmp), Karl Heinz Pütz (Managing Director, Random House Audio), Gerrit Pohl (Head of Music, Axel Springer), Dominik Landwehr (Head of Pop and New Media, Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund), Jonathan Landgrebe (Managing Director, Suhrkamp), Tobias Trosse (Managing Director, Putpat TV), Stefan Vogelman (Managing Director, Broken Silence), Birgit Schmitz (Head of Program, Berlin Verlag), Kurt Thielen (Managing Director, Zebralution), Johnny Haeusler (Editor, re:publica/Spreeblick).
The c/o pop convention takes place on Thursday and Friday, August 13 and 14 2009.
Further speakers will be announced over the coming weeks in a programme set to embrace video games, TV, books, live and branded entertainment as well as music.
In 2008 c/o pop attracted 30,000 visitors and 1,000 accredited industry guests.
With five days of music, 20 conference events, 25 venues, 50 concerts, 75 exhibitors and 200 artists, c/o pop definitively established itself last year as Germany's pop culture festival in Cologne. Now it plans to evolve into an internationally recognized congress for the creative industries.
The unique networking project Europareise - which brings representatives of 70 European festivals from 20 different countries to Cologne - plays an important part in making c/o pop the »festival of festivals«.
The c/o pop convention will take place on the 13th and 14th of August, the c/o pop festival from the 12th to the 16th of August 2009 in Cologne.
Full details about c/o pop are at http://www.c-o-pop.de/
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Cologne’s c/o pop convention and festival scales up
2009-06-23
22 June 2009: c/o pop, the pop culture 2.0 convention, based in Cologne has announced that it is scaling up this year’s event to include even more international delegates following the postponement of the PopKomm convention in Berlin.
This year’s c/o pop will showcase the export offices of Holland, Denmark and Norway for the first time, and c/o pop founder Norbert Oberhaus says his team are in discussions with many other international organisations whose plans have been disrupted by the PopKomm announcement.
“We regret that Popkomm did not succeed in keeping a key industry event alive”, says Norbert Oberhaus. “But we believe there remains a gap in the market for a music-based event with real roots in the German music industry. c/o pop‘s aim is to connect the right people with best ideas from all areas of pop culture, whilst not aligning itself as a pure music convention. Our decision to establish an industry meeting which incorporates a wide range of the creative industry was right.”
Meanwhile c/o pop has announced that legendary UK manager Peter Jenner will deliver a keynote session at this year’s event.
Jenner has managed a roll-call of some of the most influential UK artists of all time including Pink Floyd, T Rex, Ian Dury and The Clash. He is President Emeritus of the International Music Managers Forum and continues to manage Billy Bragg.
c/o pop launched five years ago as a German-focused event following the departure of the internationally-focused PopKomm convention to Berlin.
Having built its reputation as the premier German national music event, c/o pop had already planned this year to broaden its scope with a high-level line-up of international speakers, including Mute Records founder Daniel Miller and Jim Griffin, President of Choruss, the proposed ISP-level network music service targeted at college students which cuts to the heart of the music industry debate about monetising music consumption over the internet.
Other confirmed speakers at this year’s c/o pop include: Marc Chung (Managing Director, Freibank), Dieter Gorny (President, Bundesverband Musikindustrie), Carl Mahlmann (Director Business Planning, EMI), Christian Hufgard (Piratenpartei), Tina Funk (General Manager, Creative Lobby), Marcus Corallo (Senior Investment Manager, bmp), Karl Heinz Pütz (Managing Director, Random House Audio), Gerrit Pohl (Head of Music, Axel Springer), Dominik Landwehr (Head of Pop and New Media, Migros-Genossenschafts-Bund), Jonathan Landgrebe (Managing Director, Suhrkamp), Tobias Trosse (Managing Director, Putpat TV), Stefan Vogelman (Managing Director, Broken Silence), Birgit Schmitz (Head of Program, Berlin Verlag), Kurt Thielen (Managing Director, Zebralution), Johnny Haeusler (Editor, re:publica/Spreeblick).
The c/o pop convention takes place on Thursday and Friday, August 13 and 14 2009.
Further speakers will be announced over the coming weeks in a programme set to embrace video games, TV, books, live and branded entertainment as well as music.
In 2008 c/o pop attracted 30,000 visitors and 1,000 accredited industry guests.
With five days of music, 20 conference events, 25 venues, 50 concerts, 75 exhibitors and 200 artists, c/o pop definitively established itself last year as Germany's pop culture festival in Cologne. Now it plans to evolve into an internationally recognized congress for the creative industries.
The unique networking project Europareise - which brings representatives of 70 European festivals from 20 different countries to Cologne - plays an important part in making c/o pop the »festival of festivals«.
The c/o pop convention will take place on the 13th and 14th of August, the c/o pop festival from the 12th to the 16th of August 2009 in Cologne.
Full details about c/o pop are at http://www.c-o-pop.de/
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