Business of Entertainment Summit 2024 | Financial Times Live | 19 September 2024 | 1 Hotel West Hollywood, 8490 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069, USA

The entertainment industry is undergoing a period of prolonged disruption, from the need to rethink the streaming-first business model to the rise of AI. It is a time of reinvention and opportunity for the worlds of film, TV, music and gaming. This is occurring against a backdrop of rising costs, continued growth and an unstable international climate creating complexities at every turn. As businesses come to terms with the new parameters of entertainment - new customers, new mediums and new opportunities - cooperation is more important than ever. Consumers now demand easy access to all of their entertainment instantaneously and with many major players now sitting across the key verticals simultaneously the challenge is finding ways to do this and maximising the value of doing so.

The Financial Times’ summit will bring together the key players across film & TV, music and gaming to find solutions to the industry’s biggest challenges, identify how collaboration can breed success and explore how businesses can capitalize on disruption.

Key Themes:
• What's shaking up the entertainment world across M&A, private equity investment and partnerships?
• Understanding the risks and opportunities of AI
• Creating commercial strategies for Generation Z and beyond
• What are the future growth markets across new directions, regions and communities?
• Find new revenue and maximise existing income streams
• Diversifying business models across different mediums

Why Attend?
Understand:
• The latest trends that are shaping the future of the entertainment industry
Build:
• Lasting relationships with visionary leaders from across music, TV, film and gaming
Discover:
• New approaches to maximizing profits and creating new revenue streams

2024 Speakers

Eva Longoria
Founder, Hyphenate Media Group

Greg Peters
Co-CEO, Netflix

Jody Gerson
Chairman and CEO, Universal Music Publishing Group

Tony Vinciquerra
Chairman & CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Pearlena Igbokwe
Chairman, Universal Studio Group

Barry Diller
Chairman and Senior Executive, IAC

Cris Abrego
Founder, Hyphenate Media Group

Sherrese Clarke Soares
Founder and CEO, HarbourView Equity Partners

Bill Kramer
CEO, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Jeremy Zimmer
CEO and Board Member, UTA

Alison Hoffman
President, Domestic Networks, STARZ

Marco Bassetti
CEO, Banijay Entertainment & Banijay Live

Jane Turton
CEO, All3Media

Isaias Hernandez
Environmentalist, Educator, and Creative, Queer Brown Vegan

Erik Hodge
Partner, Raine

Per Sundin
CEO, Pophouse Entertainment

Rebecca Glashow
CEO, BBC Global Media & Streaming

Grace Lee
US Co-Lead of Media & Entertainment, AlixPartners

Tim Richards
Founder and CEO, Vue International

Daniel Hong
Partner, Bain & Company

Tom Ara
Partner, DLA Piper

Rob Jonas
CEO, Luminate

Emma Witkowski
Global Head of Brand Strategy and Client Success, Moonbug Entertainment

Jordy Freed
Head of Brand, Business Development, Partner Marketing & Strategy, Sony

Lizzie Collins
SVP, B2B Marketing and Ad Innovation, SiriusXM Media

Sam Wu
CEO, Rakuten Viki

Paige Fitzgerald
COO, Patreon

Josh Rosenbaum
Partner and Producer, Waypoint Entertainment

Rachel Webber
Chief Commercial and Brand Officer, 11:11 Media

Mark Marshall
Chairman, Global Advertising & Partnerships, NBCUniversal

Dr. Songyee Yoon
President and Chief Strategy Officer, NCSOFT

Jade Sherman
Agent, Partner and Head of Digital, Gersh

William Santor
Founder and CEO, PMI and YuVee

Devi Mahadevia
Senior Vice President of Strategy & Growth, SoundCloud

Ryann Lauckner
Chief Strategy & Operating Officer, Fulwell 73

Ricardo Briceno
Chief Business Officer, Gamefam

Laura Naviaux Sturr
GM Operations, Amazon Games

Mathias Gredal Nørvig
CEO, SYBO

Will McIntosh
President, Fandango & NBC Sports Next

Steve Martin
Vice President, Lightspeed Studios

Tanneasha Gordon
Principal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Mike Minton
Chief Monetization Officer, Twitch

Bill Grundfest
Founder, Comedy Cellar

Tom Mackay
President, Premium Content Group, Sony Music Entertainment

Ben Fund
Managing Director, Credit Opportunities, Carlyle

Mara Brock Akil
Showrunner and Producer

Christopher Brearton
Partner, AGBO

Sharon Johnson
Executive Director, Bellwethers

Ben Ross
Acting CEO and Chief Content Officer, Image Nation Abu Dhabi

Karine Martin
CEO, Starlings Entertainment

Faiza J. Saeed
Presiding Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Richard Weitz
Co-Chairman, WME

Christian Muirhead
Co-Chairman, WME

Anders Christofferson
Partner, Bain & Company

David Graff
VP, Global Policy & Standards, Trust & Safety, Google

2024 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSORS:
• Alix Partners
• Bain & Company

LEAD SPONSOR:
• Bellwethers

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• Deloitte
• DLA Piper
• Raine
• Starz
• Tencent