Capitol Hosts Royale With Ease
• Signaling its commitment to being a pioneer in the music and tech crossover space, Capitol Music Group is hosting Capitol Royale — a creativity and innovation marathon at the legendary Capitol Studios in Hollywood on December 1 & 2. The two-day conference will bring together the music and tech industries’ leading creatives, coders, designers and startups to highlight innovations that disrupt the music industry, including a “hackathon” that will challenge software developers to create products and services that reimagine music consumption and discovery.
Participants in the hackathon will have access to a catalog of roughly 14,000 pre-cleared audio streaming tracks from UMG and Universal Music Publishing Group, as well as never-before-seen original content and mentorship from veteran industry leaders and UMG’s technical partners, including the Capitol360 Innovation Center’s founding partners, Verizon, Twitch, Cloudinary, and ConsenSys’ blockchain music platform Ujo. Other partners include Spotify, TiVo, 7digital, Roland, Unity, Qloo, LyricFind and Havas. The hackathon will be exclusively live-streamed on Twitch for 24 hours and broadcast via Cinedigm’s digital-first WHAM Network on December 1-2.
Capitol is also teaming up with startup accelerator gener8tor to host a Startup Garden with curated, one-on-one pitch sessions between selected startups and venture capitalists and innovation executives from participating companies, breakout panels and workshops, partner exhibits, and artist performances.
“With the Capitol Royale event, CMG has a unique opportunity to bring our artists first access to new platforms, products, and apps to connect with fans and share their music in new and innovative ways,” says Capitol Music Group COO Michelle Jubelirer, who will also speak at the event. “We are committed to breaking boundaries and investing in the future by trailblazing new ground in music experiences and discovery.” Other speakers and judges include Larry Marcus (Walden & Marcy Venture Partners), Bill Gagnon (Universal Music Group), Daniel Miller (Unity), Marc Byers (Motown), Rishi Patel (Plus 8 Equity), Romain Reveillere (Havas/Station F), and others. For more information, please visit capitolroyale.com.
