Day 1 of the Global Career Summit at Berklee’s Valencia campus. It is held at the Science Museum.
Today was awesome. I met a lovely girl Berta from Barcelona (my mom used to go by that!) and we became quick friends. She is into musical theater and has written three musicals. She is attending the Global Entertainment & Music Business program here. Smart as a whip and extremely thoughtful - I will share more later on that.
Attended panels by various music executives including Jonas Weber formerly of Universal Music Group, founder of COLORS x STUDIOS - a universal music video platform launching artists from all over the world.
A panel with Rupert Vereker - founder of DIY magazine, Ro Rowan - renowned cellist, and Opeyemi Iredumare - entertainment lawyer. They all gave some incredible tips and advice.
And an IP & Creative Rights (intellectual property) Workshop - An Entrepreneurs Guide to Protecting Your Ideas. All about copyrighting, patents, trademarks and various legalities with those. I learned a lot of this in college but it was a good refresher and some things have changed as well. The instructor is an attorney who knew all the laws and rules for different countries as well as various cases around some of these. Lots of legal jargon but I really enjoyed it. Apparently AI and computers are helping people write songs now! (What?)
Had lunch at the mall at a Thai spot. It had an elephant as the logo which is why I chose that place. The other options were McDonald’s, KFC, Subway and a few others lol.
Met another cool girl Mariah who is also in the business program. She’s from Thailand and is a singer who wants to be an artist manager and help Thai artists get their music into the world. V inspiring stuff. And she helped me get into the Berklee campus so I could check it out.