Strasbourg Music Week Artificial intelligence: too human or synthetic reflection?

Sophie Ziessel is the founder of POLI FONI, and is Customer Success Manager at ADELIOM. She shares her vision of the pop music industry through training sessions on various innovative themes: the digital revolution of the sector over the last 15 years, the sound identity of brands and video games and the importance of data in the music industry in 2023.

Since 2021, she has been in charge of the shesaid.so France Strasbourg branch, and has joined the digital agency Adeliom, specialised in User Experience (UX). It is in this agency, in Strasbourg, that the inclusive digital directory Majeures.org was created and developed in 2022, a project of shesaid.so France and supported by Spotify, the CNM, the Ministry of Culture and the SACEM.

Specializing in the MusicTech field, Mathilde Neu works on communication strategies and press relations to support innovative music projects. 
She co-founded Music Tech France and the agency Resonance.
Co-founded with Natacha Ordas, Resonance is the first communication and business consulting agency for music innovators. The agency provides support in communication, press relations, development, and research to create and share the right message with the right people.

Established in 2019 during the MaMA music convention, Music Tech France (MTF) is an association bringing together economic actors whose core activity is innovation in music within a strong collective. Today, MTF gathers around 80 member structures and represents its network to institutions. 
MTF is also a co-founder of Music Tech Europe, a European collective.

Pauline Meyer is currently head of communications at Le Point d'Eau, a multi-disciplinary performance venue in Ostwald.

She is communications and cultural events production's professional since 2012.
Her career has taken her to work with famous venues, festivals and international artists, particularly in the field of classical music (Folle Journée de Nantes, Festival de la Roque d'Anthéron, etc.).
She holds a degree in Franco-English law from the University of Leicester and the University of Strasbourg.
She therefore combines a solid legal training with her cultural cultural commitment. As a result of her personal interest in new technologies, she trains in and uses new tools on a daily basis, ensuring that they are used sensibly and with a in the service of culture.

Le Point d'Eau - scènes d'Ostwald is a multi-disciplinary cultural space. 
With an eclectic and accessible programme spread over 2 venues, major international shows alternate with local creations, often in residencies at the Point d'Eau. There are also a number of practical arts workshops: hip-hop, theatre and circus thematics are proposed.
Ideally located in the heart of the Strasbourg Eurometropolis, the town of Ostwald aims at unabling a large scale of Ostwald inhabitants to discover Theatre, Circus, Dance, Music, Humour, jeune Public shows and exhibitions.

Active in the Belgian independent music scene for over 12 years, Romain Boonen is a freelance sound engineer and event manager. 
Freshly graduated from the Master in Management of the Solvay Business School (VUB), his research thesis was about the mutualization of employment for the music sector.

The goal? To create permanent contracts on the basis of partial and temporary employment opportunities, in order to reinforce the functioning of cultural organizations and to perpetuate the professional careers of workers. 

It is on this basis that he is now developing the employers' group Empowork Culture, the first shared agency for cultural employment in Brussels and Wallonia.

Philipp is founder and CEO of WISE - The Future Festival and Think Tank which he founded 2018 in Beijing at the intersection of music, art, AI & technology. After six editions, WISE will take place for the third time in Berlin in May 2024. WISE also organized events during SXSW, ART BASEL & SHANGHAI BIENNALE and will return to Shanghai on November 7th.
He is also co-founder of NEW VISIONS for Music & Sound, a new event format taking place in Berlin Sept 5+6. 

Philipp has more than 20 years of experience in the global music & events business in various roles (agent, promoter, PR, label, publishing,  management, project management) 11 of which he lived in China, where he co-founded 360-degree music agency FakeMusicMedia in 2009. He brought over 200 artists to China / Asia (e.g. Hot Chip, Die Toten Hosen, Royksopp, Daddy G of Massive Attack), and has taken chinese rockstars NOVA HEART around the world, securing them various sync deals for Netflix, HBO as well as airplay at Triple J, BBC, EinsLive etc. 
In 2022 he was commissioned to organize the government funded German House at SXSW, to lead the first EU financed Music Trade Mission to Mexico and was recruited as a consultant for German PRO GEMA for which he ran their 2023 SXSW activation, which included booking  TANGERINE DREAM´s first North American show in a decade!

WISE - The Future Festival & Think Tank is a global summit  at the intersection of Music, Art & Technology connecting thought leaders of the creative industries, science and the tech community and engaging them in an intersectional, societal dialogue.
Additionally WISE showcases exceptional emerging as well as established creative & diverse talent from Berlin and the world,  WISE also consults government institutions, businesses, artists  and the global creative community on all things China, helps curate likeminded conferences / festivals and is active in the European Music Export.
WISE is connecting local communities globally and facilitates business & cultural- and knowledge exchange through music, art & technology. 

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Pascal Kraft is a scientist and entrepreneur. 

With a background in applied math and his role as CEO of the music tech startup Cosonify, he brings both technical and business experience to the panel. 
He is focused on building solutions for real-world problems that improve the daily lives of people. Pascal sold his first website at age 16 and has been a web-developer ever since. After finishing his studies in applied math, he pursued a doctorate and built a website to simulate the spread of infectious diseases during the pandemic !
He also began building a toolkit for musicians who collaborate online: this idea turned into a startup after finishing his time in academia.

Cosonify is a music tech startup with the clear goal of making the daily life of musicians easier. 

By providing file storage, communication and idea management, Cosonify helps artists focus on what they really want to do: Making great music. The product consists of three major building blocks: A website to collaborate with others, including a whiteboard for musicians and a simple todo-list. 
A mobile app to collect ideas on the go and a VST-plugin that provides access to the eco-system where it matters the most: In the DAW.Today, Cosonify aims to extend it's product by providing AI solutions that help artists be more productive without diluting their creative spark. An AI lyrics assistant in the mobile app helps when writers block or lack of inspiration slow down the process and data from other AI services like Cyanite help artists understand input more clearly with more integrations to come soon.