2015-07-21



The third edition of Spain’s music industry and games conference BIME will take place in Bilbao from October 28-31.

BIME aims to be the top meeting place for European, Latin and South American executives.

This year will see 110 speakers from 15 different countries in attendance, while the companies confirmed so far include The Next Big Sound, Kobalt, Coda, The Agency Group, Sony Playstation, Merlin, Beggars Group, WARP Publishing, The Orchard and Pledge Music.

Last year's event hosted 1,400 delegates from 17 different countries at the BEC Exhibition Centre.

BIME also hosts one of Europe’s largest indoor live music festivals which will run parallel to the event from October 30 to November 1.

Imagine Dragons are confirmed as the first headliner, while other acts include !!!, Michael Kiwanuka, Everything Everything, The Go! Team, Matthew E. White, Iron And Wine and many more.

Confirmed 2015 speakers:

Alex White (The Next Big Sound)

Charles Caldas (Merlin)

Paul Hitchman (Kobalt Artist & Label Services)

Denis Ladegaillerie (Believe Digital)

Theo Seffusatti  (Warp Publishing)

Jeremy Norkin (The Agency Group Latin America)

Bruce Haughton (Hypebot)

Rob Challice (CODA)

Joe D’Ambrosio (JD Management)

Ruth Barlow (Beggars)

Christof Ellinghaus (City Slang)

Paul Bedford (Ingenious Media)

Jeremy Silver (MusicGlue)

Lara Goldsworthy (MS Dockville Festival)

Martin Hewett (Sony Computer Entertainment)

Simon Raymonde (Bella Union)

Oliver Brest (Hoerstmann / Lollapalooza Berlin / MELT)

Dr. Charles Kriel (12 Stories Tall)

Jim Carroll (Irish Times / Hard Working Class Heroes Ireland)

Rebecca Lammers (Laniakea Music)

Mia Margetic (This Is Music LTD)

John Broomhall (Games Music Connect)

Mark Jowett (Nettwerk Records and Publishing)

Chris Cooke (CMU)

Benji Rogers (Pledge Music)

Scott Cohen (The Orchard)

Stephen Budd (Stephen Budd Management)

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