The conference is a high touch event and the speakers are present throughout the day so that you can engage with them. Delegates are encouraged to bring product to exchange and network with speakers and delegates.
Bryan Michael Cox, a
Grammy-award winning American songwriter and record producer, will be speaking at
Music Exchange this year. He has been responsible for over 175 million album sales and has won a total of nine
Grammys and
has co-written and co-produced hit singles including Mary J. Blige's
Be Without You. He’s has been professionally producing since 1998, receiving his first formal credit on 1999's Get Gone by the R&B Houston-based group Ideal. In September 2009, Cox was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.
Concluding the first decade of the new millennium, Cox was named one of the top 10 producers of the decade by
Billboard Magazine. Be Without You, co-written and produced by Cox and performed by Mary J Blige, was also cited as the number one R&B song of the decade.
The programme will also host Brandon Bakshi, the executive director of Writer/Publisher Relations for Europe & Asia, based in the BMI’s London office. While at BMI, Bakshi has been responsible for the signing of Daft Punk, Pete Townshend, Queen, Sade, Afrojack, Deadmau5, One Direction, Shaggy, Avicci as well as Ellie Goulding. He has been a past speaker and moderator at the
Winter Music Conference,
Amsterdam Dance Event as well a
Music Managers Forum.
Limited tickets are now on sale through
Computicket, Shoprite and Checkers outlets countrywide or by calling 0861 915 8000. Tickets cost R100 per day, or R150 for the full two-day event. The programme is hosted in the Market Hall at GrandWest and starts at 09:30 each day.
For more information, visit the
Music Exchange website. Join the conversation on social media using the #MEX15 hashtag.