Speakers Archive - Athens Music Week

Aggelos Kleitsikas (GR)

Artur — Mon, 15 May 2023 17:33:23 +0000

Aggelos Kleitsikas grew up in Athens, in an environment where music was not merely a soundtrack but a way of thinking. Since 2015, he has been actively involved as a music and culture journalist, with his work published in leading Greek media outlets such as Avopolis.gr, LIFO, SONIK, and Rolling Stone Greece.

Alongside this, he has built a strong professional background in marketing, PR, and strategic communication, collaborating with major international brands. In recent years, he has also worked on a wide range of cultural projects as part of the team at Technopolis City of Athens. This experience has allowed him to creatively bridge the cultural and corporate worlds, translating vision into narrative and content into strategy.

As Artistic Director of Athens Jazz, the country’s oldest and largest jazz festival, he envisions further strengthening its international identity, its active support of the local jazz community, and its contemporary artistic direction. Creating meaningful musical experiences, fostering the sustainable growth of cultural institutions, and connecting audiences, artists, and ideas lie at the core of his philosophy.

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Alaa Elhadba (DE)

Artur — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:47:15 +0000

Alaa Elhadba is the founder and CEO of Djoid, a music curation intelligence platform built for professional DJs. With a background as a search architect at Zalando and Head of Data at Native Instruments, he spent over a decade at the intersection of music and machine intelligence before building Djoid — now a profitable SaaS with thousands of paying users and a proprietary Music Canonical Graph at its core.

A DJ with 15+ years of experience, Alaa builds from the inside out: the product reflects a practitioner’s obsession with how music is understood, organized, and played. He speaks on AI-powered music discovery, search architecture applied to creative domains, and what it means to build infrastructure for culture.

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Alexandre Stevens (BE)

Artur — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:55:24 +0000

Alex Stevens is a festival programmer, creative director, and music tech entrepreneur based in Belgium.
With over 20 years of experience in live music curation including nearly two decades as Artistic Director at Dour Festival, where he co-programmed some 3,000 concerts. Alex has become one of Europe’s most respected voices in festival curation. He currently serves as Creative Director and Head of Music at IKII, where he books artists for major festivals including Marsatac (Marseille), Sakifo, and Francofolies de la Réunion.
Parallel to his curatorial work, Alex founded Live Intelligence Labs, a tech venture studio building the data infrastructure for the live music industry. Its flagship products include Bookr.fm, a festival programming SaaS platform used by 56+ European festivals, and Predikt.live, a decision intelligence tool that turns booking intuition into quantifiable risk scoring.
He holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Liège, and sits at the rare intersection of deep curatorial expertise and technical fluency. His current focus: encoding 20 years of programming knowledge into scalable AI-powered tools for the live industry.

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Andreas Mitrelis (GR)

Kiki — Wed, 10 May 2023 15:05:48 +0000

Andreas Mitrelis was born in Patras in 1977 and he is in the Greek Music Business over 25 years as a Radio DJ, Promoter, Manager, part of indie labels, producer, director and many more. He has studied music Production and business in London.

In 2019 he founded Veego Records, a record label focused on new sounds and Artists and Vinyl Re-issues.
In 6 years, the label released almost 50 records and keeps on going.

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Anna Zò (IT)

Artur — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 09:31:47 +0000

Anna Zò is leading the Agenda on Innovation of the Italian social enterprise Music Innovation Hub, responsible of MusicTech-related activities, project leader of the EU-funded acceleration program for music startups Music Tech Europe Academy and Director of Linecheck Music Meeting and Festival.

Co-founder and President of Music Tech Europe Network, Anna is part of the team that has developed the new BA/BSc in Music Business at SAE Institute Milan, where she is also active as Lecturer.

With a strong focus on CCIs and a business background (Master Graduate in CCIs Management), she has also been managing projects in different cultural fields, such as visual arts (in London) and cinema (in Paris).

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Arturo Soler (ES)

Artur — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:56:59 +0000

Arturo Soler is a music industry executive and entrepreneur working at the intersection of music technology, data, and royalty systems. With more than 20 years of experience in international business development and over a decade inside the music ecosystem, he has worked with artists, labels, distributors, and CMOs across Europe and Latin America.

He previously worked with MonitorLATINO, focused on music audience measurement and market intelligence, and with Revelator, a technology platform for digital distribution and royalty infrastructure. Through these experiences he has developed a broad perspective on how data, rights management, and technology are reshaping the global music industry.

Arturo is the founder of SongsWallet, building financial infrastructure around royalties and exploring how these revenue streams can be structured as financial assets within the modern music ecosystem.

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Autow Nite Superstore (GR)

Kiki — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:54:33 +0000

Autow Nite Superstore is an electronic music producer & DJ, based in Athens, GR. His work falls between a contemporary, genre-bending mix of electronic styles, spanning garage, techno, bass and jungle elements. For the last years, he’s been behind an array of full-length albums and projects, building his sound upon textures, and moving images.

His work has been featured by BBC Radio6, XLR8R, METAL Magazine, Bandcamp’s New & Notable, VICE, ELLE, LIFO, IGGY, ASBO, and many other tastemakers, whilst receiving remix work from electronic music pioneers such as Andy Barker from 808 State, Mikael Delta and more.

He has been performing live & DJing in selected venues and festivals around Europe, with sets that lean into emotive, tense moments, moving between techno, UK bass and rave, always anchored to the dancefloor.

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Becky Brook (UK)

Artur — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:50:44 +0000

Becky is a seasoned advisor for companies bridging the gap between music and technology, with a focus on music rights, data, and industry engagement. Her expertise lies in how the music industry and rights interact with emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Livestreaming, Metaverses and Virtual Reality.

With a rich professional background spanning 20 years, Becky has contributed her skills and knowledge to organisations including 7digital, Cantine, Condense Reality, Driift, EMI Music, IYK, JAAK, Lickd, Omnifone, Pacemaker, RoEx Audio, Rovr Live, Samsung, SeeSaw TV, Sony Pictures & PlayStation, Stability AI and Warner Music.

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Boral Shen (BG)

Artur — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:49:27 +0000

Boral Shen is the executive director of the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers (BAMP), the recording industry organization, representing and protecting the rights and interests of the producers of sound recordings in Bulgaria. Established in 1996, BAMP is the official National Group of the IFPI in Bulgaria, since 1999.

Boral has more than 15 years of expertise across the music, media, tech, and creative industries.

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Christian Cléret (FR)

Artur — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:02:27 +0000

After an MBA from Mississippi State University (USA) and after 5 years in major corporations, Christian Cléret created Dionysiac Tour in 2007. Dionysiac Tour is a booking & label agency based in Paris.

In the last 20 years, Christian Cléret has participated to major musical conferences on the 5 continents (Eurosonic, Trans Musicales, Womex, Zandari, Babel XP, Iomma, Mundial Montreal…) and is particularly interested on import / export strategies in the cultural field.

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