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. As not all dates have been announced yet, please refer to our 2020 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 2021 | ||
| 05/01/21 – 08/01/21 | Virtual Sync Summit | Virtual |
| 08/01/21 – 12/01/21 | APAP|NYC+ | Virtual |
| 10/01/21 – 17/01/21 | Jackson Indie Music Week | Mississippi, USA |
| 11/01/21 – 14/01/21 | CES Asia 2021 | Virtual |
| 11/01/21 – 14/01/21 | CES 2021 | Virtual |
| 13/01/21 – 16/01/21 | Eurosonic Noorderslag | Virtual |
| 19/01/21 – 22/01/21 | NATPE Miami | Virtual |
| 25/01/21 – 28/01/21 | NY:LON Conference | Virtual |
| 25/01/21 – 31/01/21 | Independent Venue Week | Virtual |
| 26/01/21 – 28/01/21 | South African Music Week | Virtual |
| 26/01/21 – 28/01/21 | AmericanaFest UK | Virtual |
| 28/01/21 – 30/01/21 | Michigan Music Conference | Virtual |
| 28/01/21 – 03/02/21 | Sundance Film Festival | Virtual |
| 31/01/21 | Romanian Music Export | Virtual |
| February 2021 | ||
| 08/02/21 – 12/02/21 | Digital Entertainment World (DEW) | Virtual |
| 08/02/21 – 25/02/21 | CSUSA Midwinter Meeting | Virtual |
| 11/02/21 | AIM SYNC | Virtual |
| 13/02/21 – 16/02/21 | Dover Lane Music Conference | Kolkata, India |
| 15/02/21 – 18/02/21 | Avant Première – Music and Media Market | Virtual |
| 16/02/21 – 19/02/21 | Country Radio Seminar | Virtual |
| 16/02/21 – 20/02/21 | Screen x Screen Music + Tech Conference | Virtual |
| 18/02/21 | Output Belfast | Virtual |
| 18/02/21 – 20/02/21 | Durango Songwriters Expo | Virtual |
| 19/02/21 – 20/02/21 | 6th Annual 'State of Music in Media' Virtual Conference 2021 | Virtual |
| 22/02/21 – 24/02/21 | ONGEA! The Eastern African Music Summit | Virtual |
| 22/02/21 – 26/02/21 | Folk Unlocked | Virtual |
| 23/02/21 – 25/02/21 | #NEXTGEN_U | Virtual |
| 24/02/21 – 25/02/21 | Selector PRO UK/Latin America | Virtual |
| 24/02/21 – 26/02/21 | 8th Live Entertainment Expo TOKYO | On-site & virtual |
| 25/02/21 – 27/02/21 | NAfME 2021 | Virtual |
| 26/02/21 – 27/02/21 | Millennium Music Conference & Showcase | Virtual |
| 26/02/21 – 27/02/21 | RIDE Conference | Virtual |
| 26/02/21 – 28/02/21 | Measure of Music | Virtual |
| 27/02/21 – 28/02/21 | Soma Skool | Virtual |
| March 2021 | ||
| 01/03/21 – 08/03/21 | Abbey Road Equalise | Virtual |
| 02/03/21 | Green Events & Innovations Conference | Virtual |
| 03/03/21 – 05/03/21 | International Live Music Conference (ILMC) | Virtual |
| 03/03/21 – 06/03/21 | Catalyst Music Conference | Virtual |
| 04/03/21 | Phoenix Rising | Auckland, New Zealand |
| 04/03/21 – 06/03/21 | Insights - The Future of Music | Virtual |
| 08/03/21 – 09/03/21 | ADCOLOR in Music | Virtual |
| 08/03/21 – 12/03/21 | Latínica | Virtual |
| 10/03/21 – 12/03/21 | ABO Conference | Virtual |
| 11/03/21 | SoundCloud Forum | Virtual |
| 11/03/21 | AIM Connected | Virtual |
| 11/03/21 – 12/03/21 | Midem Latin American Forum | Virtual |
| 12/03/21 – 24/03/21 | vgmtogether | Virtual |
| 16/03/21 – 20/03/21 | SXSW Online | Virtual |
| 17/03/21 – 26/03/21 | Sauga City Music Festival | Virtual |
| 19/03/21 – 28/03/21 | WA Music Week | Perth, Australia & virtual |
| 19/03/21 – 28/03/21 | London Games Festival | Virtual |
| 20/03/21 | Canadian Music Expo - Spring Equinox Edition | Virtual |
| 20/03/21 – 21/03/21 | 8th International Conference on New Music Concepts | Treviso, Italy |
| 22/03/21 – 26/03/21 | Karajan Music Tech | Virtual |
| 24/03/21 – 26/03/21 | m4music | Zürich, Switzerland |
| 25/03/21 | Third Annual Ohio University Music Industry Summit | Virtual |
| 27/03/21 – 28/03/21 | MUTEK JP | Kyoto, Japan |
| 31/03/21 | Music Week Tech Summit | Virtual |
| 31/03/21 – 14/04/21 | New York City International Film Festival | New York, USA |
| April 2021 | ||
| 07/04/21 – 10/04/21 | Westway LAB | Guimarães, Portugal |
| 10/04/21 – 11/04/21 | Brasil Music Summit 2021 | Virtual |
| 11/04/21 | 11th Annual Guild of Music Supervisors Awards | Virtual |
| 12/04/21 – 16/04/21 | Digital MIPTV | Virtual |
| 13/04/21 – 15/04/21 | #NEXTGEN_NOW | Virtual |
| 15/04/21 | A2IM's Pan-Am Indie Summit | Virtual |
| 15/04/21 – 16/04/21 | Future Music Camp | Virtual |
| 19/04/21 – 23/04/21 | 37th Virtual DDEX Plenary Meeting | Virtual |
| 20/04/21 – 22/04/21 | Collision | Virtual |
| 20/04/21 – 24/04/21 | indie 101 music conference | Virtual |
| 21/04/21 – 23/04/21 | amplify music 2021 | Virtual |
| 21/04/21 – 24/04/21 | WISE | Virtual |
| 22/04/21 – 24/04/21 | c/o pop xoxo 2021 | Virtual |
| 25/04/21 | Nigerian Entertainment Conference (NECLive) | Virtual |
| 29/04/21 – 02/05/21 | jazzahead | Bremen, Germany |
| May 2021 | ||
| 03/05/21 – 08/05/21 | MUTEK.ES+AR | Barcelona, Spain & Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| 04/05/21 – 07/05/21 | The LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference) | Virtual |
| 05/05/21 – 07/05/21 | Nordic Media Days | Virtual |
| 05/05/21 – 09/05/21 | Tallinn Music Week | Tallinn, Estonia |
| 10/05/21 – 12/05/21 | LA Games Conference | Virtual |
| 10/05/21 – 13/05/21 | Music Biz 2021 | Nashville, USA |
| 12/05/21 | Synchtank's Data, Rights & Royalties Summit | Virtual |
| 13/05/21 – 14/05/21 | The Great Escape | Virtual |
| 16/05/21 – 19/05/21 | Prolight + Sound Guangzhou | Guangzhou, China |
| 18/05/21 – 20/05/21 | Mastering the Music Business | Bucharest, Romania |
| 18/05/21 – 21/05/21 | Canadian Music Week | Virtual |
| 21/05/21 – 25/05/21 | Cannes Lions 2021 | Cannes, France |
| 25/05/21 – 27/05/21 | Sandbox Summit Global | Virtual |
| 25/05/21 – 27/05/21 | Sandbox Summit Global | Virtual |
| 25/05/21 – 30/05/21 | Krakow Film Music Festival | Krakow, Poland |
| 26/05/21 – 27/05/21 | Event Production Show | Hampshire, UK |
| 28/05/21 – 30/06/21 | New Skool Rules | Virtual |
| 31/05/21 – 03/06/21 | 9th Indian Ocean Music Market | Réunion Island, Indian Ocean |
| June 2021 | ||
| 01/06/21 – 04/06/21 | AES Show Spring 2021 | Virtual |
| 07/06/21 – 09/06/21 | AIMP Global Music Publishing Summit 2021 | New York, USA |
| 09/06/21 – 11/06/21 | MENT Ljubljana | Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 09/06/21 – 12/06/21 | Soundtrack Cologne | Cologne, Germany |
| 09/06/21 – 20/06/21 | Tribeca Film Festival | New York, USA |
| 10/06/21 – 12/06/21 | Trondheim Calling | Trondheim, Norway |
| 10/06/21 – 14/06/21 | Australian Songwriters Conference | NSW, Australia |
| 12/06/21 – 13/06/21 | North American Conference on Video Game Music (NACVGM) | Virtual |
| 14/06/21 – 17/06/21 | A2IM Indie Week | Virtual |
| 14/06/21 – 17/06/21 | Live Week: Reviving Live! | Los Angeles, USA |
| 15/06/21 – 18/06/21 | NIME2021 | Shanghai, China |
| 16/06/21 – 17/06/21 | XpoNorth | Virtual |
| 17/06/21 | Dublin Tech Summit | Virtual |
| 17/06/21 – 19/06/21 | SPOT + Conference | Århus, Denmark |
| 17/06/21 – 19/06/21 | Sónar+D | Barcelona, Spain |
| 21/06/21 – 23/06/21 | Athens Music Week | Athens, Greece |
| 28/06/21 – 01/07/21 | Midem Africa | Virtual |
| 29/06/21 – 01/07/21 | 18th Sound and Music Computing Conference | Virtual |
| July 2021 | ||
| 03/07/21 – 04/07/21 | Scottish Electronic Music Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
| 05/07/21 – 07/07/21 | Web Audio Conference 2021 | Barcelona, Spain |
| 06/07/21 – 17/07/21 | Cannes Film Festival | Cannes, France |
| 06/07/21 – 08/07/21 | Wallifornia MusicTech | Virtual |
| 08/07/21 – 10/07/21 | Independent Gospel Artist Alliance Conference | Virtual |
| 15/07/21 – 17/07/21 | Summer NAMM | Nashville, USA |
| 19/07/21 – 23/07/21 | Game Developers Conference | Virtual |
| 21/07/21 – 25/07/21 | The TBL Black TV & Film Conference | Virtual |
| 25/07/21 | IMSTA FESTA Seoul | Virtual |
| August 2021 | ||
| 09/08/21 – 12/08/21 | DJ Expo 2021 | New Jersey, USA |
| 15/08/21 – 17/08/21 | Ticket Summit Trade Show | Las Vegas, USA |
| 18/08/21 – 20/08/21 | All About Music | Mumbai, India |
| 24/08/21 – 29/08/21 | MUTEK Montréal | Montréal, Canada |
| 25/08/21 – 28/08/21 | Pop-Kultur | Berlin, Germany |
| 25/08/21 – 29/08/21 | gamescom | Cologne, Germany |
| 29/08/21 | IMSTA FESTA Tokyo | Virtual |
| September 2021 | ||
| 01/09/21 – 04/09/21 | Nordic Music Days | Faroe Islands, Denmark |
| 01/09/21 – 03/09/21 | Australian Festival Industry Conference (AFIC) | Queensland, Australia |
| 01/09/21 – 03/09/21 | audio mostly | Trento, Italy |
| 01/09/21 – 04/09/21 | Live at Heart | Örebro, Sweden |
| 07/09/21 – 11/09/21 | DAFx 2021 | Vienna, Austria |
| 09/09/21 – 12/09/21 | Waves Vienna | Vienna, Austria |
| 10/09/21 – 11/09/21 | West Coast Songwriters Conference | Virtual |
| 14/09/21 – 19/09/21 | Richmond International Film & Music Festival | Virginia, USA |
| 15/09/21 – 17/09/21 | MIL – Lisbon International Music Network | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 16/09/21 – 18/09/21 | LAUNCH Music Conference | Pennsylvania, USA |
| 17/09/21 – 19/09/21 | Kansai Music Conference | Virtual |
| 17/09/21 – 25/09/21 | ISCM World New Music Days 2021 | Shanghai & Nanning, China |
| 20/09/21 – 26/09/21 | The Albuquerque Film & Music Experience (AFMX) | Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 22/09/21 – 25/09/21 | Americana Music Festival & Conference | Nashville, USA |
| 22/09/21 – 25/09/21 | Reeperbahn Festival | Hamburg, Germany |
| 22/09/21 – 26/09/21 | PopMid | Quarteira, Portugal |
| 22/09/21 – 26/09/21 | POP Montreal | Montréal, Canada |
| 27/09/21 – 30/09/21 | Classical:NEXT | Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 28/09/21 – 30/09/21 | International Festival Forum (IFF) | London, UK |
| 28/09/21 – 02/10/21 | World of Bluegrass 2021 | North Carolina, USA |
| 29/09/21 – 02/10/21 | Music Tourism Convention | Mississippi, USA |
| 29/09/21 | IMSTA FESTA Germany | Virtual |
| 30/09/21 – 02/10/21 | By:Larm | Oslo, Norway |
| 30/09/21 – 06/10/21 | Nashville Film Festival | Nashville, USA |
| October 2021 | ||
| 01/10/21 | Sound City Ipswich | Ipswich, UK |
| 01/10/21 – 03/10/21 | Sound City 2021 | Liverpool, UK |
| 01/10/21 – 09/10/21 | Sensoria | Sheffield, UK |
| 07/10/21 – 09/10/21 | FOCUS Wales 2020 | Wrexham, Wales |
| 09/10/21 – 11/10/21 | Radiodays Europe | Lisbon, Portugal & virtual |
| 09/10/21 – 13/10/21 | NAB Show | Las Vegas, USA |
| 11/10/21 – 13/10/21 | AES Show Fall 2021/span> | Las Vegas, USA |
| 11/10/21 – 14/10/21 | MIPCOM | Cannes, France |
| 12/10/21 – 15/10/21 | MONDO NYC | Virtual & New York, USA |
| 13/10/21 – 14/10/21 | Radio Show | Las Vegas, USA |
| 13/10/21 – 16/10/21 | Music China | Shanghai, China |
| 13/10/21 – 17/10/21 | Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) | Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| 13/10/21 – 17/10/21 | BreakOut West | Manitoba, Canada |
| 22/10/21 – 24/10/21 | Musikmesse | Frankfurt, Germany |
| 23/10/21 | The World Soundtrack Awards | Gent, Belgium |
| 26/10/21 – 28/10/21 | Develop Conference | Brighton, UK |
| 27/10/21 – 30/10/21 | BIME PRO | Bilbao, Spain |
| 27/10/21 – 31/10/21 | WOMEX | Porto, Portugal |
| 31/10/21 | IMSTA FESTA Online | Virtual |
| November 2021 | ||
| 01/11/21 – 04/11/21 | Web Summit | Lisbon, Portugal |
| 03/11/21 – 06/11/21 | Iceland Airwaves | Reykjavík, Iceland |
| 08/11/21 – 12/11/21 | ISMIR 2021 | Virtual |
| 12/11/21 – 14/11/21 | Coast 2 Coast Music Conference 2020 | Miami Beach, USA |
| 16/11/21 – 19/11/21 | Midem Digital Edition | Virtual |
| 16/11/21 – 20/11/21 | Tin Pan South Songwriter Festival | Nashville, USA |
| 17/11/21 – 20/11/21 | Visa For Music | Morocco, North Africa |
| 23/11/21 – 25/11/21 | Linecheck Music Meeting and Festival | Milan, Italy |
| 24/11/21 – 28/11/21 | MUTEX México | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 25/11/21 – 27/11/21 | ACCES | Tanzania, East Africa |
| 28/11/21 | IMSTA FESTA Rio | Virtual |
| December 2021 | ||
| 01/12/21 – 03/12/21 | DISCOP Kigali | Rwanda, East Africa |
| 10/12/21 – 12/12/21 | Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo | Chicago, USA |
