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Cutting Edge CE Conference Speakers are experience, innovators with extensive knowledge of the “Hot Topics” and “Current Trends” in today’s Music and Entertainment Business. Cutting Edge CE Conference and Events, August 25 – 27 – New Orleans – Speakers follows:

Abid Hussain, Esq. – Technology Law

Allen E. Frederic III, Esq.– Partner, Jones Walker – Filmmaker, producers and film financiers

Brian D. Caplan, Esq., Partner, Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt LLC – Litigating a broad range of entertainment, intellectual property and commercial matters

Christoper Szapary, Esq., Provosty & Gankendoff, LLC – Transactional contracts entertainment law practice

Cosmo Ohms, Anamaze Booking Agency – 40 years recording and production services in sound, lighting and live production and recording

Darryl Cohen, Esq. Cohen, Cooper, Estep & Whitman, LLC – Former Chairman of the Daytime Emmy Awards organization, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). Representation of on-air network talent, including anchors, actors, photographers, models, recording artists, and talent agencies.

Dave Moore, Executive Director, CIMM Fest – Film Programmer

David Fink, Esq., Managing Partner, Kelley Drye – Media and Entertainment practice

David Lessoff, Esq., Manatt, Phelps & Phillips – Recorded music, music publishing, Internet/technology and entertainment.

Drew Young, Owner at Good and Plenty Records, producer of The Porch Sessions TV Show

Edgar “Dino” Gankendoff, Esq., Provosty & Gankendoff, LLC – Transactional contracts entertainment law practice

Frank Nicotera, Esq., CAO/General Counsel, Summerfest – Milwaukee World Festival

Henry Turner, Jr., Producer Ultimate Louisiana Party Tour – Musician, vocalist, guitar player, composer, producer, and promoter

J. Miguez, CEO, VL Group – Music technology

Jake Schneider, [Keynote Speaker] Partner, Madison House Booking and Management – Booking and management, BASSNECTAR, Beats Antique, Lotus, Paper Diamond, Keys N Krates

Jay Rosenthal, Esq., Partner, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp – former Senior Vice-President and General Counsel at the National Music Publishers Association

Jeff Becker, Esq., Martin & Bell, LLP – Entertainment and Media Law Practice Group

Jeff Brabec, Esq., Vice President of Business Affairs for BMG Chrysalis – Representing the catalogues of OutKast, David Bowie, My Morning Jacket, Sheryl Crow

Jessica Kaye, Esq., Kaye and Mills, – Transactional contracts entertainment law practice, book publishing and film

John F. Bradley, Esq., Bradley Legal Group, P. A. – Intellectual property litigation

John Tehranian, Founding partner of One LLP – Litigator – copyright, trademark and right of publicity disputes

John Tovar, Tovar Music Group – Management Services

Judith Defraites, Esq. – Transactional contracts, corporate and litigation law

Kevin Mills, Partner, Kaye and Mills – Transactional contracts entertainment law practice, book publishing and film

Stephanie Adwar, Esq., Partner, Furgang & Adwar, LLP – Transactional contracts and litigation matters in entertainment, trademark, unfair competition, and copyright law

Lesli D. Harris, Esq., Stone Pigman – Intellectual property litigation and entertainment law, representing professional sports teams

Linda Septien, CEO of Septien Entertainment Group  Music artist development

Marc Stollman, Esq. – Transactional contracts entertainment law practice

Marcia Groff, Entertainment Enterprises – Media consulting

Mark Hornsby, Director Of Operations, Sweetwater Studios – Award winning music producer, audio engineer, musician and writer – Online equipment sales

Martin Atkins – Entrepreneur, Author: Tour:Smart

Martin Fischman, Esq., Sports Agent – NFLPA Contract Advisor, Sports Launch Magazine named Martin to their “Thirty under 30”

Michael Dixon, Sodarock Entertainment – International creative management (Artist: Ron Sexsmith)

Nadine M. Ramsey, Esq., District “C” Councilmember, City of New Orleans – Former Judge for Orleans Parish Civil District Court

Olga Wilhelmine Munding – Recording artist, filmmaker, actress, producer, singer-songwriter

PJ Morton, Musician, Singer-Songwriter – Multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning Maroon 5

Ralph Murphy, Songwriter, Author – Widely acclaimed Murphy╒s Laws of Songwriting

Rick Garcia, CEO, Hacienda Records – Record label management

Rico Brooks, CEO of Adella Thomas Management – Discovering and breaking phenomenal new talent

Rueben Williams, Thunderbird Management – Management Services (Artists: Tab Benoit, Cyril Neville)

Sabrina Ment, Esq., LaPolt Law – Music, merchandising and fashion, book publishing, motion picture and television

Scott Billington, Vice President, A&R, Rounder Records – 28 times Grammy nominated record producer

Scott Fetters, Director 2112 – Film/video, and creative focused technology incubation

Scott Keniley, Esq., Keniley-Kumar, LLC – Transactional contracts, corporate and litigation law

Steve Jones, CEO Brash Music – Record label management

Suzette Toledano, Esq. – Transactional contracts entertainment law practice

J. Sagen, Jeff Battaglia Management – Management Services (Artists: Disturbed, Device, Sevendust)

Tim Bennett, Owner, Overtime Sports, MGM Ballpark, Biloxi, MS – Minor League Baseball Park Owner

Todd Brabec, Esq., Author – Music, Money and Success: the Insider’s Guide to Making Money in the Music Business, former Executive Vice President and Worldwide Director of Membership for ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers)

Thomas R Leavens, Esq., Partner, Leavens, Strand & Glover, LLC – Transactional contracts entertainment law practice

Tyler Thompson, Film Producer [Keynote Interview] – Black Swan, Everest, Black Mass, Rush, A Walk Among the Tombstones

Vernon P. Thomas, Esq. – Transactional contracts, corporate and litigation law

Wallace Collins, Esq. – Entertainment and intellectual property law

And More…