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At a time when words divide and algorithms amplify differences, music remains one of the world’s last true bridges, uniting billions through shared rhythms and emotion. This session’s focus is on music’s enduring role as a global connector, exploring how sound becomes story, how emotion becomes economy, and how artists become ambassadors of something greater than entertainment. Audience members learn how data, digital platforms, and live experiences can bring us closer rather than further apart. Music may be an industry, but it is also a common language. It’s one that still has the power to rebuild trust, empathy, and belonging in a fractured age.
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Gary Vaynerchuk is always one step ahead, listening closely to the signals to spot major shifts before they hit the rest of us; e-commerce, social media, blockchain, and now AI. The edge goes to those who learn the tech faster and double down, without losing their empathy. In a world racing toward automation, humanity is your competitive advantage. Squeeze the moment while you still can!
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- Creator Economy Fireside 9 December 10:00 - 10:15AM
The Price of Influence in a Platform World
Content creators shape culture and discourse, yet many face unstable incomes, opaque moderation policies, and limited protections. With influence often fleeting and livelihoods uncertain, how can policy, technology, and investment help build a fairer creator economy that values originality, safeguards expression, and shares power more equitably?
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