SMILEfest 2017

Description

The 9th annual SMILEfest music and media industries conference was held over seven hours on Tuesday 28th March 2017. I was co-organiser of this event. 
Guest speakers/panel participants included: Speech Debelle (Mercury award winning artist), Jen Long (Dice, NME, BBC), Flora Ward (Youth Music), Jon Davies (Shazam), Lucy Wood (Latitude), Annie Nightingale (BBC), Simon Raymonde (Bella Union Records), Rob Da Bank (BBC, Bestival), Olivier Behzadi (Sassy Films and former hea of A&R at Sony), Alan Pell (music industries consultant and former head of A&R at EMI) and Amanda Maxwell (BoilerRoom and She Said So). There were also live performances by Serrah Sillah/SVGA and Ian Easton & The Widowmakers

Period	Mar 2017
Event type	Other
Location	Southampton, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	National