Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl is coming to the Code Convention

The music trade was reshaped by streaming. So earlier this yr, Warner Music Group put a streaming govt in cost.

The corporate’s new CEO, Robert Kyncl, was most not too long ago the chief enterprise officer of YouTube, the place he helped remodel the platform into one of many greatest names in creator monetization and streaming music. Earlier than that, he was vice chairman of content material at Netflix, engaged on partnerships because it entered the streaming period.

Subsequent month, Kyncl will sit down with Vox senior correspondent Peter Kafka to speak all issues music and streaming on the Code Convention. Kyncl has stated he desires to prioritize artists and companions at WMG, sees music as being “undervalued,” and believes the corporate’s subsequent steps might contain AI — “most likely some of the transformative issues that humanity has ever seen.”

The Code Convention can be held September twenty sixth and twenty seventh on the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in California. X CEO Linda Yaccarino, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott, GM CEO Mary Barra, and extra can be onstage for interviews, with extra names to come back. This yr’s convention can be hosted by Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel, Platformer founder Casey Newton, and CNBC senior media & tech correspondent Julia Boorstin. There’ll even be some particular visitor audio system, together with Code Convention co-founder Kara Swisher.

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