Key Worldwide Music Industry & Sync Events List 2018 (Updated)

written by Emma Griffiths April 3, 2018

We’ve put together the most comprehensive list out there of key music industry events / conferences worldwide. Bookmark it now.

We’re constantly updating the list to make sure you know about the latest music industry events in each city. For smaller and more frequent events, be sure to stay updated with trade organisations such as AIM, ASCAP, A2IM, BMI and MPA (see a full list here). As not all dates have been announced yet, please refer to our 2017 list to get an idea of what’s to come.

Whilst this list primarily focuses on music industry events, we’ve also added some key gaming, advertising, media and film events.

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DATE	EVENT	LOCATION	@
January 2018
04/01/18 – 07/01/18	Music and Gaming Festival (MAGFest)	Maryland, USA	@MAGFest
06/01/18 – 07/01/18	Lahore Music Meet	Lahore, Pakistan
07/01/18 – 14/01/18	Jackson Indie Music Week	Mississippi, USA	@Jxnindiemusic
09/01/18 – 12/01/18	CES 2018	Las Vegas, USA	@CES
10/01/18 – 11/01/18	Jazz Connect Conference	New York, USA	@JazzConnectNYC
10/01/18 – 17/01/18	Winter Jazzfest NYC	New York, USA	@NYCWJF
12/01/18 – 16/01/18	APAP Conference	New York, USA	@APAP365
13/01/18 – 14/01/18	The 5th annual North American Conference on Video Game Music	Michigan, USA	@umichsmtd
16/01/18	NYC Copyright and Technology Conference	New York, USA	@copyright4u
16/01/18 – 18/01/18	NATPE	Miami, USA	@NATPE
17/01/18	AIM’s Women in Music Conference	London, UK	@AIM_UK
17/01/18	Lunch & Learn 04: Get in the Scene! Spotlight on Sync & Licensing	Toronto, Canada	@CIMAmusic75
17/01/18 – 20/01/18	Eurosonic Noorderslag	Groningen, The Netherlands	@ESNSnl
18/01/18 – 28/01/18	Sundance Film Festival	Utah, USA	@sundancefest
22/01/18	When Sound Meets Image	London, UK	@MusicTank
22/01/18 – 23/01/18	Artists Rights Symposium	Georgia, USA
22/01/18 – 25/01/18	The Dover Lane Music Conference	Kolkata, India
23/01/18 – 24/01/18	NY:LON Conference	New York, USA	@MusicBizAssoc
24/01/18 – 26/01/18	ABO Annual Conference	Cardiff, Wales	@aborchestras
25/01/18 – 27/01/18	Michigan Music Conference	Michigan, USA	@MichMusicConf
25/01/18 – 27/01/18	DISCOP Dubai	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	@DISCOPmarkets
25/01/18 – 28/01/18	The 2018 NAMM Show	Anaheim, USA	@NAMM
25/01/18 – 28/01/18	January Music Meeting (JMM)	Manitoba, Canada	@manitobamusic
26/01/18	Appetite for Disruption Conference	Brighton, UK	@AFD_Conference
26/01/18 – 05/02/18	Göteborg Film Festival	Göteborg, Sweden	@gbgfilmfestival
29/01/18 – 04/02/18	Independent Venue Week	Across the UK
30/01/18	Masterclass: Introduction to Music Supervision	London, UK	@GMS_UKEU
31/01/18 – 01/02/18	Americana Music Association UK Conference and Awards	London, UK	@AmericanaFest
31/01/18 – 02/02/18	MENT Ljubljana	Ljubljana, Slovenia	@MENTLjubljana
31/01/18 – 04/02/18	transmediale	Berlin, Germany	@transmediale
February 2018
01/02/18 – 03/02/18	Trondheim Calling	Trondheim, Norway	@TrdCalling
01/02/18 – 07/02/18	British Music’s annual trade mission to India	Mumbai, India	@bpi_music
01/02/18 – 03/02/18	CSUSA Mid-Winter Meeting	Georgia, USA	@TheCSUSA
02/02/18 – 03/02/18	Entertainment Management Conference	Montreal, Canada	@emcmtl
03/02/18 – 06/02/18	The Exchange X AVA Electronic Music Conference	Mumbai, India	@TheExchangeIn
05/02/18 – 06/02/18	Digital Entertainment World (DEW)	Los Angeles, USA	@dmwevents
05/02/18 – 07/02/18	Country Radio Seminar	Nashville, Tennessee	@CRSOfficial
05/02/18 – 09/03/18	SA Indies Music Week	Johannesburg, South Africa	@IMEXSA_SA
06/02/18	BASCA presents: Meet the Music Supervisors	London, UK	@BASCA_uk
06/02/18 – 08/02/18	Pollstar Live!	Los Angeles, USA	@pollstarlive
08/02/18	Output Belfast	Belfast, Northern Ireland	@belfastcc
08/02/18	AIM’s Indie-Con	London, UK	@AIM_UK
08/02/18	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Los Angeles, USA	@guildofmusic
08/02/18 – 10/02/18	MEGAPHONO	Ottawa, Canada	@megaphono
09/02/18 – 10/02/18	Where’s the Music? – Conference	Norrköping, Sweden	@wtmfestival
09/02/18 – 10/02/18	Vibrations Music Conference	New York, USA
12/02/18 – 13/02/18	Code/Media	California, USA	@Recode
12/02/18 – 15/02/18	Advertising Week Latin America	Mexico City	@advertisingweek
14/02/18 – 18/02/18	Folk Alliance International Conference	Missouri, USA	@folkalliance
15/02/18 – 16/02/18	Vegas Music Summit	Las Vegas, USA	@lvmusicsummit
15/02/18 – 16/02/18	FastForward	Amsterdam, Netherlands	@fastforward_xyz
15/02/18 – 18/02/18	ONGEA! The Eastern African Music Summit	Nairobi, Kenya
16/02/18 – 26/02/18	Noise Pop Festival	San Francisco, USA	@noisepop
17/02/18 – 18/02/18	Dancefair	Utrecht, Netherlands	@Dancefair
17/02/18 – 21/02/18	Avant Première – Music and Media Market	Berlin, Germany	@Avant__Premiere
20/02/18 – 22/02/18	DICE Summit	Las Vegas, USA	@Official_AIAS
21/02/18 – 23/02/18	Japan Live Entertainment & Event Expo	Chiba, Japan
22/02/18 – 23/02/18	Radio Days Ireland	Dublin, Ireland	@LearningWaves
22/02/18 – 24/02/18	Durango Songwriters Expo	California, USA	@durangosong
22/02/18 – 24/02/18	Soundcheck Music Conference	Tel Aviv, Israel
22/02/18 – 25/02/18	Millennium Music Conference & Showcase	Harrisburg, PA USA	@MillenniumConf
24/02/18	IMSTA FESTA Miami	Miami, USA	@IMSTA_FESTA
24/02/18	Women in Music Wellness Summit	Los Angeles, USA	@womeninmusicorg
27/02/18	Women in Music Atlanta Forum	Atlanta, USA	@womeninmusicorg
28/02/18	Music 4.5 Sync, the evolving deals	London, UK	@music4point5
28/02/18 – 01/03/18	The Event Production Show	London, UK	@EventProdShow
28/02/18 – 04/03/18	Selina International Music Summit	Medellín, Colombia
March 2018
01/03/18 – 02/03/18	NODO Music Conference	Mexico City, Mexico
01/03/18 – 03/03/18	By:Larm	Oslo, Norway	@byLarm
01/03/18 – 11/03/18	Stockfish Film Festival	Reykjavík, Iceland	@StockfishFest
05/03/18 – 09/03/18	New York City International Film Festival	New York, USA	@NYCIFF
06/03/18	Goldberg Conference	Nigeria, Africa
06/03/18	Green Events & Innovations Conference	London, UK	@AGreenerTweet
06/03/18 – 09/03/18	The International Live Music Conference (ILMC)	London, UK	@ILMC
07/03/18	Women in Music	Nottingham, UK
07/03/18 – 08/03/18	Media Summit New York	New York, USA	@dhollywood
07/03/18 – 09/03/18	Indonesian Music Conference (KAMI)	Maluku, Indonesia
07/03/18 – 10/03/18	Brazil Music Conference	Brazil, South America	@RMC_Brasil
07/03/18 – 11/03/18	MUTEK Barcelona	Barcelona, Spain	@MUTEK_ES
09/03/18 – 18/03/18	SXSW	Austin, Texas, USA	@sxsw
11/03/18	Needs x UN Women present HeForShe	London, UK	@residentadvisor
17/03/18	Sónar Hong Kong	Hong Kong, China	@SonarFestival ‏
17/03/18 – 18/03/18	ICNMC 2018	Treviso, Italy
18/03/18 – 20/03/18	Radiodays Europe	Vienna, Austria	@RadiodaysEurope
19/03/18 – 20/03/18	Independent Games Summit	San Francisco, USA	@Official_GDC
19/03/18 – 23/03/18	Games Development Conference	San Francisco, USA	@Official_GDC
19/03/18 – 22/03/18	Advertising Week Europe	London, UK	@advertisingweek
19/03/18 – 25/03/18	JUNO Week	Vancouver, Canada	@TheJUNOAwards
20/03/18 – 25/03/18	Miami Music Week	Miami, USA	@MiamiMusicWeek
20/03/18 – 22/03/18	AES International Conference on Immersive and Interactive Audio	York, UK	@AESorg
20/03/18 – 22/03/18	Mastering the Music Business	Bucharest, Romania
20/03/18 – 22/03/18	Winter Music Conference	Miami, USA	@WMCtweets
21/03/18	Variety’s MASSIVE Entertainment Marketing Conference	Beverly Hills, USA	@Variety
22/03/18	Music Cities Forumc	Vancouver, Canada	@MusicCitiesSD
22/03/18 – 24/03/18	m4music	Zurich/Lausanne, Switzerland	@m4musicfestival
22/03/18 – 24/03/18	SoundOff	Alberta, Canada
22/03/18 – 25/03/18	The Southern Women in Film & Television Summit (SWIFT)	Nashville, USA
23/03/18	NYU Royalty Conference	New York, USA
23/03/18	Question Session	Glasgow, UK	@QuestionSession
23/03/18	Karajan Music Tech Conference	Salzburg, Austria	@KarajanTech
23/03/18 – 24/03/18	The 11th Annual SS Cape May	New Jersey, USA	@SSCapeMay
24/03/18	Music Expo Miami 2018	Miami, USA	@musicexposf
24/03/18 – 25/03/18	Convergence: Music + Art + Technology	London, UK	@ConvergenceLDN
25/03/18	Mastering Music Mastering Life Mental Health Summit	Melbourne, Australia
28/03/18 – 29/03/18	STEP 2018	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	@stepconference
29/03/18	#BreakYourBoundaries: A Conversation with Leading Women in Music	New York, USA	@womeninmusicorg
29/03/18	Music Masters: Record Labels	Newcastle, UK
April 2018
02/04/18 – 08/04/18	Tallinn Music Week	Tallinn, Estonia	@TInMusicWeek
03/04/18 – 07/04/18	Tin Pan South Songwriter Festival	Nashville, USA	@TinPanSouth
04/04/18	Sound Development	London, UK	@MusicCitiesSD
04/04/18 – 06/04/18	MIL – Lisbon International Music Network	Lisbon, Portugal
05/04/18 – 12/04/18	Oshawa Music Week	Oshawa, Canada	@oshawamusicweek
05/04/18 – 15/04/18	London Games Festival	London, UK	@londongamesfest
06/04/18 – 08/04/18	WIM Festival	California, USA	@wimbayarea
06/04/18 – 08/04/18	Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo	Chicago, USA	@c2e2
06/04/18 – 08/04/18	Emerge Music + Impact Conference	Las Vegas, USA	@EmergeLV
07/04/18	Music Biz Day	Texas, USA
07/04/18	Music Business Summit	Arizona, USA
07/04/18 – 08/04/18	First Annual Music Entrepreneur Conference	Massachusetts, USA
07/04/18 – 12/04/18	NAB Show	Las Vegas, USA	@NABShow
10/04/18	Latin Music Explosion in America: The Multi-Cultural Confluence	Los Angeles, USA	@cacopyright
10/04/18 – 13/04/18	Prolight + Sound Frankfurt	Frankfurt, Germany
11/04/18 – 13/04/18	Palestine Music Expo	Palestine, Middle East
11/04/18 – 14/04/18	Westway LAB’s Professional Music Conference	Guimarães, Portugal	@WestwayFestival
11/04/18 – 14/04/18	Musikmesse 2018	Frankfurt, Germany	@musikmesse
11/04/18 – 14/04/18	Sound of the Xity (SOTX)	Beijing, China
12/04/18 – 13/04/18	FastForward: Sydney	Sydney, Australia	@fastforward_xyz
12/04/18 – 14/04/18	Florida Music Festival & Conference	Florida, USA	@2016FMF
12/04/18 – 14/04/18	Minnesota Music Conference	Minnesota, USA	@mnmusicco
12/04/18 – 15/04/18	French Quarter Festival	New Orleans, USA	@FQFestNOLA
12/04/18 – 15/04/18	LAUNCH Music Conference	Pennsylvania, USA	@LaunchMusicConf
14/04/18	AfroJam Music Conference	New York, USA	@afrojamORG
14/04/18 – 15/04/18	DIY Musician Conference Europe 2018	Valencia, Spain	@cdbaby
17/04/18 – 19/04/18	Hispanicize 2018	Miami, USA	@Hispanicize
18/04/18 – 21/04/18	Resonate	Belgrade, Serbia	@resonate_io
18/04/18 – 29/04/18	Tribeca Film Festival	New York, USA	@Tribeca
18/04/18 – 19/04/18	Dublin Tech Summit	Dublin, Ireland	@DubTechSummit
19/04/18 – 20/04/18	Music Cities Convention	Melbourne, Australia	@MusicCitiesSD
19/04/18 – 21/04/18	Spring Break	Poznań, Poland
19/04/18 – 21/04/18	Boomtown Film and Music Festival	Texas, USA	@boomtownfes
19/04/18 – 22/04/18	jazzahead	Bremen, Germany	@jazzahead
20/04/18	Music Connected 2018	London, UK	@AIM_UK
20/04/18	Media Composer Conference	London, UK	@BASCA_uk
20/04/18 – 21/04/18	Wide Days	Edinburgh, Scotland	@widedays
20/04/18 – 22/04/18	Connect: Beyond the Page	North Carolina, USA	@cbtp_avl
20/04/18 – 22/04/18	The Midwest Rhythm Summit	Ohio, USA
23/04/18 – 26/04/18	Billboard Latin Music Week	Las Vegas, USA	@billboard
23/04/18 – 29/04/18	Richmond International Film & Music Festival	Virginia, USA	@RVAFilmFest
25/04/18	Sandbox Summit	New York, USA	@Sandbox_Summit
25/04/18	Nigerian Entertainment Conference	Nigeria, Africa
25/04/18 – 27/04/18	Music Cork	Cork, Ireland
26/04/18	ICMP’s Latin America Regional Music Publishers Conference (LARC18)	Guatemala City, Guatemala	@_ICMP
26/04/18 – 29/04/18	MoPOP Pop Con	Seattle, USA	@MoPOPSeattle
26/04/18 – 27/04/18	Brighton Music Conference	Brighton, UK	@BrightonMusicCo
26/04/18 – 27/04/18	Future Music Camp 2018	Mannheim, Germany
27/04/18 – 28/04/18	The Music Symposium for Singers and Musicians	St. Lucia, Caribbean
27/04/18 – 29/04/18	Ashbury Park Music in Film Festival	New Jersey, USA	@apmff
27/04/18 – 05/05/18	Sync Up Conference	New Orleans, USA	@Jazznheritage
28/04/18	Girls Music Day	London, UK	@dicefm
29/04/18 – 01/05/18	Music Media Summit	Santa Barbara, USA
29/04/18 – 02/05/18	MUSEXPO	Hollywood, USA	@musexpo
30/04/18 – 03/05/18	Collision 2018	New Orleans (USA)	@CollisionHQ
May 2018
02/05/18	Ditto X	London, UK	@Dittomusic
02/05/18 – 04/05/18	Worldwide Radio Summit	Hollywood, USA	@WWRadioSummit
02/05/18 – 04/05/18	Nordic Media Festival	Bergen, Norway	@Mediedager
02/05/18 – 04/05/18	Digital Strategies for Musicians	Manitoba, Canada
02/05/18 – 06/05/18	East Coast Music Awards	Nova Scotia, Canada	@EastCoastMusic
03/05/18	Decibel Entertainment Conference + Expo	Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago	@DecibelExpo
03/05/18 – 04/05/18	FestForums NYC	New York, USA
04/05/18	Unconference Leeds	Leeds, UK	@unconferencelds
04/05/18	Variety Entertainment & Technology Summit	New York, USA	@Variety
03/05/18 – 05/05/18	MUTEK San Francisco	San Francisco, USA	@MUTEKSF
05/05/18 – 06/05/18	Sound City	Liverpool, UK	@SoundCity
06/05/18 – 08/05/18	Music Inside Rimini	Rimini, Italy
06/05/18 – 11/05/18	Game Audio Retreat	West Virginia, USA
06/05/18 – 11/05/18	Mountain Recording Retreat	West Virginia, USA
07/05/18 – 09/05/18	ASCAP I Create Music Expo	Los Angeles, USA	@ascapexpo
07/05/18 – 09/05/18	European Lab \| Forum 8th edition	Lyon, France	@European_Lab
07/05/18 – 09/05/18	AEDEM Convention	Barcelona, Spain
07/05/18 – 13/05/18	Canadian Music Week	Toronto, Canada	@CMW_Week
08/05/18	LA Games Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@dmwevents
08/05/18	Music Cities Forum	Indianapolis, USA	@MusicCitiesSD
08/05/18 – 09/05/18	Relix Live Music Conference	New York, USA
09/05/18 – 13/05/18	SPOT + Conference	Århus, Denmark	@spotfestival
09/05/18 – 20/05/18	Cannes Film Festival	Cannes, France	@FdC_officiel
10/05/18 – 12/05/18	FOCUS Wales 2018	Wrexham, Wales	@FocusWales
10/05/18 – 13/05/18	Prolight + Sound Guangzhou	Guangzhou, China
10/05/18 – 13/05/18	East Coast Music Conference	Virginia, USA
10/05/18 – 15/05/18	UK Trade Mission to China	Beijing, China	@bpi_music
10/05/18 – 19/05/18	Nashville Film Festival	Nashville, USA	@nashfilmfest
12/05/18	The 1^st Annual Canadian Sync Awards	Toronto, Canada	@CMW_Week
11/05/18 – 13/05/18	Wired Music Week	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
14/05/18 – 17/05/18	Music Biz 2018	Nashville, USA	@MusicBizAssoc
14/05/18 – 17/05/18	Advertising Week Asia	Tokyo, Japan	@advertisingweek
14/05/18 – 19/05/18	Belize Music Week	Belize, USA
15/05/18	Creators of Film and Television Music	Los Angeles, USA	@cacopyright
15/05/18 – 16/05/18	Vinyl World Congress	Brighton, UK	@Vinylworldcon
15/05/18 – 18/05/18	Mountain Songwriting Retreat	West Virginia, USA	@mybelize
16/05/18	AMPED SUMMIT	New York, USA	@Amped_Summit
16/05/18 – 19/05/18	Classical:NEXT	Rotterdam, The Netherlands	@ClassicalNEXT
16/05/18 – 20/05/18	SERFA	North Carolina, USA	@SERFAfolk
17/05/18	iHeart Urban Music Summit	New York, USA	@iHeartRadio
17/05/18 – 18/05/18	Indigenous Music Conference	Manitoba, Canada	@manitoahbee
17/05/18 – 19/05/18	The Great Escape	Brighton, UK	@thegreatescape
17/05/18 – 20/05/18	Moogfest	North Carolina, USA	@Moogfest
18/05/18 – 19/05/18	SyncSummit Nashville	Nashville, USA	@SyncSummit
18/05/18 – 20/05/18	New Skool Rules	Rotterdam, The Netherlands	@NEWSKOOLRULES
19/05/18	IMSTA FESTA Los Angeles	Los Angeles, USA	@IMSTA_FESTA
19/05/18 – 26/05/18	ISCM World Music Days Festival	Beijing, China	@ISCM_WMD
20/05/18	High Desert Music Conference	Oregon, USA
21/05/18 – 25/05/18	Song Castle	Helsinki, Finland	@musicfinland
22/05/18 – 24/05/18	Digital Hollywood	Hollywood, USA	@dhollywood
22/05/18 – 24/05/18	Licensing Expo	Las Vegas, USA	@licensingexpo
23/05/18	Buma Music in Motion	Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam	@Buma_MiM
23/05/18 – 25/05/18	IMS Ibiza	Ibiza, Spain	@IMSibiza
23/05/18 – 26/05/18	Canadian Song Conference	Prince Edward Island, Canada
24/05/18 – 25/05/18	TNW Europe Conference 2018	Amsterdam, The Netherlands	@TNWconference
24/05/18 – 26/05/18	AES Milan	Milan, Italy	@AESorg
24/05/18 – 26/05/18	FIMPRO	Guadalajara, Mexico	@FIMProGDL
24/05/18 – 28/05/18	Conference: Music & The Moving Image	New York, USA	@nyusteinhardt
28/05/18 – 31/05/18	The Indian Ocean Music Market (IOMMA)	Réunion Island	@IOMusicMArket
29/05/18 – 31/05/18	DISCOP Abidjan	Abidjan, West Africa	@DISCOPmarkets
29/05/18 – 05/06/18	Krakow Film Music Festival	Krakow, Poland
30/05/18 – 03/06/18	PRIMAVERAPRO 2018	Barcelona, Spain	@PrimaveraPro
30/05/18 – 04/06/18	youbloom Dublin	Dublin, Ireland	@youbloom
31/05/18	The Golden Trailer Awards	Los Angeles, USA	@goldentrailer
June 2018
01/06/18 – 02/06/18	Buma ROCKS!	Nijmegen, Netherlands	@BumaROCKS
01/06/18 – 02/06/18	Berklee Onsite	Boston, USA	@BerkleeCollege
01/06/18 – 02/06/18	AVA Conference	Belfast, Northern Ireland	@AVAFestivalNI
01/06/18 – 03/06/18	Upstream Music Fest + Summit	Seattle, USA	@UpstreamFest
02/06/18	2018 Girl Power! Women Working In The Music Industry Conference	California, USA	@FFgirlpower
03/06/18 – 06/06/18	New Interfaces for Musical Expression	Virginia, USA
04/06/18	Do It Yourself	London, UK
04/06/18 – 10/06/18	Albuquerque Film & Music Experience (AFME)	Albuquerque, New Mexico	@ABQFilmX
05/06/18 – 06/06/18	53 Degrees North	Hull, UK	@53DegreesMusic
05/06/18 – 08/06/18	Midem	Cannes, France	@midem
06/06/18 – 10/06/18	Northside Festival	Brooklyn, USA	@NorthsideFest
06/06/18 – 16/06/18	Symposium Stockholm	Stockholm, Sweden	@SymposiumSthlm
07/06/18 – 08/06/18	Linux Audio Conference	Berlin, Germany
07/06/18 – 11/06/18	Australian Songwriter Conference	New South Wales, Australia
08/06/18	NY Music Month Conference	New York, USA	@nymusicmonth
08/06/18 – 17/06/18	NXNE	Toronto, Canada	@nxne
09/06/18	Women’s Recording Arts Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@womensaudio
09/06/18	Music Expo Boston 2018	Boston, USA	@musicexposf
09/06/18	Evolution Emerging	Newcastle, UK	@GeneratorNE
09/06/18 – 10/06/18	Producers Guild of America’s Produced By LA Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@Produced_By
10/06/18 – 12/06/18	Ear Hub 2018	Hong Kong, China
11/06/18 – 13/06/18	Gospel Music Association’s IMMERSE Conference	Nashville, USA	@GMAimmerse
11/06/18 – 13/06/18	European Research Music Conference	Barelona, Spain
12/06/18	AIMP Indie Publisher Summit 2018	New York	@AIMP_NYC
12/06/18 – 13/06/18	Music Inc.	Mumbai, India	@MusicInc8
13/06/18	Variety’s Tune In: TV Summit	Los Angeles, USA	@Variety
12/06/18 – 14/06/18	E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo	Los Angeles, USA	@E3
13/06/18	Getahead Festival	London, UK	@Getahead24
13/06/18 – 16/06/18	Sónar+D	Barcelona, Spain	@SonarFestival
13/06/18 – 16/06/18	African Music Week	Toronto, Canada	@AfricanMusicWk
13/06/18 – 17/06/18	We Love Music Conference	South Africa	@INBlackExpoInc
14/06/18 – 17/06/18	Between The Waves Madison Music Festival & Conference	Wisconsin, USA	@BTWMadison2017
15/06/18 – 17/06/18	NAB Show Shanghai	Shanghai, China	@NABShow
16/06/18 – 19/06/18	LA Sync Mission	Los Angeles, USA	@SyncMission
18/06/18 – 21/06/18	A2IM Indie Week	New York, USA	@A2IM
18/06/18 – 22/06/18	The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival	Cannes, France	@Cannes_Lions
19/06/18	Unblocking The Sync	London, UK	@FeaturedArtists
19/06/18 – 20/06/18	VenuesNow Conference	Beverly Hills, USA
20/06/18 – 01/07/18	Edinburgh International Film Festival	Edinburgh, UK	@edfilmfest
20/06/18 – 22/06/18	AES International Conference on Music Induced Hearing Disorders	Chicago, IL, USA	@AESorg
22/06/18 – 23/06/18	SyncSummit New York	New York, USA	@SyncSummit
23/06/18	IMSTA FESTA Seoul	Seoul, South Korea	@IMSTA_FESTA
25/06/18 – 26/06/18	MIRA Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@MusicTechBE
27/06/18 – 08/07/18	Wallifornia MusicTech	Liège, Belgium
27/06/18 – 28/06/18	XpoNorth	Inverness, Scotland	@XpoNorth
28/06/18 – 30/06/18	Summer NAMM	Nashville, USA	@NAMM
28/06/18 – 30/06/18	AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration	Culpeper, VA, USA	@AESorg
29/06/18 – 30/06/18	Middle of the Map	Kansas, USA	@motmfest
July 2018
04/07/18 – 05/07/18	CHANGES Music Summit	Melbourne, Australia
09/07/18 – 15/07/18	Independent Music Week	TBA	@IVW_UK
10/07/18 – 12/07/18	Develop Conference	Brighton, UK	@developconf
10/07/18 – 14/07/18	The LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference)	New York, USA	@theLAMC
11/07/18 – 13/07/18	DISCOP Zanzibar	Zanzibar, Africa	@DISCOPmarkets
12/07/18 – 14/07/18	Independent Gospel Artist Alliance Conference	Maryland, USA	@indiegospelally
12/07/18 – 15/07/18	Latitude Festival: Film and Music Arena	Suffolk, UK	@LatitudeFest
14/07/18 – 15/07/18	We Love Music Conference	Baltimore, MD, USA	@INBlackExpoInc
20/07/17	Comic-Con San Francisco	San Francisco, USA	@Comic_Con
21/07/18	IMSTA FESTA Chicago	Chicago, USA	@IMSTA_FESTA
21/07/18 – 22/07/18	MixCon	New York, USA
26/07/18 – 27/07/18	Indie Con Australia	Adelaide, Australia	@ausindies
30/07/18 – 02/08/18	Advertising Week Sydney	Sydney, Australia	@advertisingweek
August 2018
01/08/18 – 05/08/18	Dekmantel Festival Opening Conference	Amstelveen, Netherlands	@dkmntl
03/08/18 – 05/08/18	Satchmo Summerfest	New Orleans, USA	@FQFestNOLA
03/08/18 – 27/08/18	Edinburgh International Festival	Edinburgh, UK	@edintfest
04/08/18 – 11/08/18	Classical Bridge	New York, USA
05/08/18 – 08/08/18	44th International Computer Music Conference	Daegu, South Korea
07/08/18 – 09/08/18	AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction	Tokyo, Japan	@AESorg
08/08/18 – 11/08/18	Triple A Conference	Colorado, USA	@FMQB
09/08/18 – 19/08/18	Manifesto Festival of Community & Culture	Toronto, Canada	@Manifesto_TO
10/08/18 – 12/08/18	Summer in the City	London, UK	@SummerInTheCity
10/08/18 – 12/08/18	Indie Entertainment Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@IESfest
11/08/18	The Breakthrough Music Summit	Boston, USA
13/08/18 – 16/08/18	DJ Expo	Atlantic City, USA	@DJExpo_
15/08/18 – 17/08/18	Pop-Kultur	Berlin, Germany	@popkulturberlin
16/08/18 – 17/08/18	Big Omaha Conference	Nebraska, USA	@BigOmaha
17/08/18 – 18/08/18	Assembly Arboretum Conference of Music + Culture	Ottawa, Canada	@ArboretumFest
20/08/18 – 22/08/18	Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity	Dublin, Ireland
20/08/18 – 22/08/18	AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality	Redmond, WA, USA
20/08/18 – 24/08/18	gamescom	Cologne, Germany	@gamescom
22/08/18 – 24/08/18	Edinburgh International Television Festival	Edinburgh, UK	@EdinburghTVFest
22/08/18 – 25/08/18	Soundtrack Cologne	Cologne, Germany	@SoundTrack_C
22/08/18 – 25/08/18	Cutting Edge CE Conference	New Orleans, USA	@CuttingEdgeNOLA
22/08/18 – 26/08/18	MUTEK Montréal	Montréal, Canada	@MUTEK_Montreal
23/08/18 – 24/08/18	All About Music	Mumbai, India	@allaboutmusicin
23/08/18 – 25/08/18	KZN Music Imbizo	Durban, South Africa	@kznmusicimbizo
25/08/18	Music Expo Nashville 2018	Nashville, USA	@musicexposf
24/08/18 – 26/08/18	DIY Musician Conference	Nashville, USA	@cdbaby
29/08/18 – 30/08/18	Music Tourism Convention	Cologne, Germany	@MusicCitiesSD
29/08/18 – 02/09/18	Long Beach Indie – Film, Media, and Music Festival	California, USA	@LongBeachIndie
30/08/18 – 31/08/18	c/o pop Convention	Cologne, Germany	@copopconvention
30/08/18 – 01/09/18	Going Global Music Summit	Auckland, New Zealand	@IndiesNZ
30/08/18 – 02/09/18	Charleston Music Confab	Charleston, USA	@NewMusicConfab
31/08/18 – 03/09/18	Coast 2 Coast Music Conference	Miami, USA	@coast2coastmag
September 2018
01/09/18	From Me To You (#FM2U)	Glasgow, Scotland	@FM2UMusic
02/09/18 – 08/09/18	Live at Heart	Örebro, Sweden	@LiveatHeart
03/09/18 – 09/09/18	Music Tech Fest	Stockholm, Sweden
04/09/18 – 06/09/18	me Convention	Stockholm, Sweden	@sxsw
04/09/18 – 07/09/18	BIGSOUND 2018	Brisbane, Australia	@BIGSOUNDtweets
04/09/18 – 08/09/18	DAFx	Aveiro, Portugal	@2018Dafx
05/09/18 – 07/09/18	TechCrunch Disrupt	San Francisco, USA	@TechCrunch
06/09/18 – 08/09/18	Perth Music Expo	Perth, Scotland
06/09/18 – 09/09/18	Country Music Week	Saskatchewan, Canada	@CCMAofficial
06/09/18 – 17/09/18	Toronto International Film Festival	Toronto, Canada	@TIFF_NET
07/09/18 – 09/09/18	Music Business Empowerment Conference	Atlanta, USA	@MBEconference
08/09/18 – 09/09/18	West Coast Songwriters Conference	San Francisco, USA	@WCSong
08/09/18 – 11/09/18	Music Matters	Singapore, Asia	@musicmatters
10/09/18 – 12/09/18	All That Matters	Singapore, Asia	@musicmatters
10/09/18 – 12/09/18	MU:CON 2018	South Korea	@KOCCAMUSIC
09/09/18 – 11/09/18	DICE Cannes	Cannes, France	Official_AIAS
11/09/18 – 16/09/18	Americana Music Festival & Conference	Nashville, USA	@AmericanaFest
12/09/18 – 14/09/18	Future Music Forum	Barcelona, Spain	@FmFBarcelona
12/09/18 – 14/09/18	audio mostly	Wrexham, UK
13/09/18 – 15/09/18	The 5th Annual Business of Music Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@urbannetwork15
13/09/18 – 16/09/18	MUTEK Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires, Argentina	@MUTEK_AR
13/09/18 – 16/09/18	Rifflandia Gathering	British Columbia, Canada	@Rifflandia
13/09/18 – 16/09/18	European Jazz Conference	Lisbon, Portugal	@europejazznet
14/09/18	Pivotal Music Conference	Birmingham, UK	@pivotalmusicuk
14/09/18 – 15/09/18	IMS COLLEGE	Malta	@IMSibiza
14/09/18 – 16/09/18	Kansai Music Conference	Osaka, Japan	@KMC__
14/09/18 – 16/09/18	Electric City Music Conference	Pennsylvania, USA	@ElectricCityMC
15/09/18	Guild of Music Supervisors State of Music in Media Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@guildofmusic
16/09/18	Sync Con Hollywood	Hollywood, USA
19/09/18 – 21/09/18	Web Audio Conf	Berlin, Germany
19/09/18 – 22/09/18	Reeperbahn Festival	Hamburg, Germany	@Reeperbahn_Fest
20/09/18	CEEMPC18 (Central and Eastern Music Publishers Congress)	Bucharest, Romania	@_ICMP
20/09/18 – 21/09/18	NEXT	Hamburg, Germany	@nextconf
20/09/18 – 22/09/18	youbloom LA	Los Angeles, USA	@youbloom
20/09/18 – 28/09/18	LA Film Fest	Los Angeles, USA	@filmindependent
22/09/18	Music Expo Nashville	Nashville, USA	@musicexposf
22/09/18	IMSTA FESTA New York	New York, USA	@IMSTA_FESTA
23/09/18 – 27/09/18	The 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference	Paris, France	@ismir2018
24/09/18	Screen Music Connect	London, UK	@ScreenMusicConn
25/09/18	Music Biz’s Entertainment & Technology Law Conference	New York, USA	@MusicBizAssoc
25/09/18 – 27/09/18	International Festival Forum (IFF)	London, UK	@FestForum
25/09/18 – 28/09/18	Radio Show	Orlando, USA	@RadioShowWeb
25/09/18 – 29/09/18	IBMA’s World of Bluegrass Week	North Carolina, USA	@IntlBluegrass
26/09/18	Music Week Tech Summit	London, UK	@MusicWeek
26/09/18 – 28/09/18	Spikes Asia	Singapore, Asia	@SpikesAsia
26/09/18 – 28/09/18	Paris Electronic Week	Paris, France	@PEW_France
26/09/18 – 29/09/18	Kinsale Shark Awards	Kinsale, Ireland	@SharkAwards
26/09/18 – 01/10/18	PopMid	Quarteira, Portugal	@PopMid_eu
26/09/18 – 28/09/18	Production Music Conference	Los Angeles, USA	@thePMAmusic
26/09/18 – 30/09/18	POP Montréal	Montréal, Canada	@popmontreal
26/09/18 – 30/09/18	Southwest Regional Folk Alliance Conference	Texas, USA	@SWFolk
27/09/18 – 28/09/18	Blast	Rome, Italy	@Blast_conf
27/09/18 – 29/09/18	Shibuya Showcase Fest Tokyo	Tokyo, Japan	@GIGINJAPANdotJP
27/09/18 – 29/09/18	Hard Working Class Heroes	Dublin, Ireland	@hwchfestival
27/09/18 – 29/09/18	The Music-preneur Mindset Summit	Long Beach, NY, USA	@RockStarAdvo
28/09/18	FastForward: London	London, UK	@fastforward_xyz
28/09/18	International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology	Paris, France
28/09/18 – 29/09/18	Film + Music Conference	Texas, USA
28/09/18 – 29/09/18	Network Music Conference	Florida, USA	@TheNetworkConf
28/09/18 – 29/09/18	RIDE Conference	Atlanta, USA	@RollingOut
28/09/18 – 30/09/18	Waves Music Conference	Vienna, Austria	@Waves_Vienna
27/09/18 – 06/10/18	Sensoria: The UK’s Festival of Film and Music	Sheffield, UK	@SensoriaFest
29/09/18	Industry Connects	Los Angeles, USA
30/09/18 – 01/10/18	Breathe Sunshine African Music Conference	Cape Town, South Africa	@BSunshineAfrica
30/09/18 – 02/10/18	IEBA2018	Nashville, USA	@IEBAConference
30/09/18 – 16/10/18	New York Film Festival	New York, USA	@TheNYFF
October 2018
01/10/18 – 02/10/18	Making Vinyl	Detroit, USA	@MakingVinyl
01/10/18 – 04/10/18	Advertising Week NYC	New York, USA	@advertisingweek
02/10/18 – 05/10/18	Mondo NYC	New York, USA	@MondoNewYork
03/10/18 – 07/10/18	A3C Festival and Conference	Atlanta, USA	@A3C
04/10/18 – 05/10/18	New York Media Festival	New York, USA	@NYMEFest
04/10/18	Digital Music Forum	New York, USA	@NYMEFest
04/10/18	The Empowered Musician	London, UK	@ISM_music
04/10/18 – 06/10/18	Music & Media Finland	Tampere, Finland	@musiikkimedia
04/10/18 – 06/10/18	Durango Songwriters Expo	Colorado, USA	@durangosong
04/10/18 – 07/10/18	New York Comic Con	New York, USA	@NY_Comic_Con
05/10/18	Rights Tech Summit	New York, USA	@NYMEFest
05/10/18 – 07/10/18	Zandari Festa	Seoul South Korea	@ZandariFesta
06/10/18 – 07/10/18	ATLARGE Film Festival	Georgia, USA	@ATLARGEFEST
07/10/18	Women In Music Empowerment Day	Sydney, Australia
09/10/18 – 10/10/18	GameSoundCon	Los Angeles, USA	@GameSound
09/10/18 – 10/10/18	Australian Women in Music Awards & Forum (AWMA)	Sydney, Australia	@WomenInMusicAus
09/10/18 – 11/10/18	Brand Licensing Europe	London, UK	@bleurope
10/10/18 – 13/10/18	Music China	Shanghai, China	@musikmesse
10/10/18 – 13/10/18	Live At Heart Newfoundland	Burin Peninsula, Canada	@LiveatHeartCan1
10/10/18 – 14/10/18	Indie Week UK	Manchester, UK	@indieweek
10/10/18 – 14/10/18	BreakOut West	Kelowna, Canada	@BreakOutWest
10/10/18 – 14/10/18	MusicNL Week	Twillingate, Canada	@_MusicNL_
11/10/18	Yorkshire Music Forum	Leeds, UK	@bpi_music
11/10/18	LIVE UK Summit	London, UK
11/10/18 – 12/10/18	Music Cities Convention	Louisiana, USA	@MusicCitiesSD
11/10/18 – 13/10/18	London Music Conference	London, UK	@LdnMusicConf
11/10/18 – 13/10/18	Revolt Music Conference	Miami, USA	@RevoltTV
11/10/18 – 13/10/18	College Music Society National Conference	Vancouver, Canada	@CollegeMusicSoc
11/10/18 – 13/10/18	Association for Technology in Music Instruction Annual National Conference	Vancouver, Canada
11/10/18 – 14/10/18	Bogotá Music Market (BOmm)	Bogotá, Colombia	@BOmm_Bogota
12/10/18 – 13/10/18	Montana Music Summit	Montana, USA
12/10/18 – 14/10/18	Music Producer Convention	Paris, France	@MPconvention
12/10/18 – 14/10/18	The MTV India Music Summit	Jaipur, India	@IndMusicSummit
12/10/18 – 14/10/18	WE ARE ROBOTS	London, UK	@WEAREROBOTSLDN
13/10/18	Indie101 Conference	Manchester, UK	@indieweek
13/10/18	IMSTA FESTA Toronto	Toronto, Canada	@IMSTA_FESTA
14/10/18 – 17/10/18	MICRO MUTEK Dubai	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
15/10/18 – 18/10/18	MIPCOM	Cannes, France	@mip
16/10/18 – 18/10/18	Digital Hollywood	Hollywood, USA
17/10/18	SF MusicTech Summit	San Francisco, USA	@SFMusicTech
17/10/18	Venues Day 2018	London, UK	@musicvenuetrust
17/10/18 – 18/10/18	NAB Show New York	New York, USA	@NABShow
17/10/18 – 18/10/18	The World Soundtrack Awards	Gent, Belgium	@WSAwards
17/10/18 – 18/10/18	Segue Radio and Audio expo	Leeds, UK	@radioacademy
17/10/18 – 19/10/18	MaMa	Paris, France	@MaMAevent
17/10/18 – 19/10/18	AES New York	New York, USA	@AESorg
17/10/18 – 20/10/18	Halifax Pop Explosion	Nova Scotia, Canada	@HalifaxPopX
17/10/18 – 21/10/18	Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE)	Amsterdam, Netherlands	@ADE_NL
18/10/18	Turn Up Conference	Queensland, Australia	@turnupevent
18/10/18	Music Week Sync Awards	London, UK	@MusicWeek
18/10/18 – 19/10/18	Tomorrow Comes Today	Porto, Portugal
19/10/18 – 20/10/18	WAMCon New York	New York, USA	@womensaudio
19/10/18 – 21/10/18	Amplify	London, UK	@BBCAmplify
20/10/18	Simple Things EXT.	Bristol, UK	@simplethingsuk
21/10/18 – 24/10/18	All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA)	Ghana, Africa	@AFRIMAWARDS
22/10/18 – 24/10/18	Tokyo International Music Market	Tokyo, Japan
22/10/18 – 28/10/18	MUTEK Mexico	Mexico, USA	@MUTEK_MX
24/10/18 – 26/10/18	BIME PRO	Bilbao, Spain	@BIMEnet
24/10/18 – 28/10/18	WOMEX	Katowice, Poland	@womex
27/10/18	IMSTA FESTA Berlin	Berlin, Germany	@IMSTA_FESTA
30/10/18	Event Safety & Security Summit (E3S)	London, UK	@E3Sworld
30/10/18	Variety Music for Screens Summit	Los Angeles, USA	@Variety
31/10/18	Sandbox Summit	London, UK	@Sandbox_Summit
31/10/18 – 04/11/18	WAMFest and Conference	Perth, Australia	@WAMFestWAMusic
November 2018
01/11/18 – 04/11/18	Molson Canadian Nova Scotia Music Week	Nova Scotia, Canada	@nsmwfest
02/11/18 – 03/11/18	Sørveiv Conference	Kristiansand, Norway	@Sorveiv
02/11/18 – 04/11/18	MUTEK JP	Tokyo, Japan	@MUTEK_JP
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Key Worldwide Music Industry & Sync Events List 2018 (Updated)