DDEX to Host MusicTech 20/20 Summit in Toronto

DDEX will host the MusicTech 20/20 Summit in Toronto on November 19, with Meta serving as the sponsor. The opening speech of the MusicTech 20/20 summit will be delivered by Dan Simpson, who serves as the DDEX Board Chair and the Head of Music Operations at Meta. Phil Wiser, the former Chief Technology Officer of Paramount, will appear as the keynote speaker of the event. Tickets for the summit are available for 650 US dollars until November 1, after which the price increases to 770 US dollars.

DDEX is a non-profit organization that determines the formats used by music companies to share data, including sales reports and new release information. The organization was founded in May 2006 as a result of discussions that started in mid-2005. It now includes more than 150 members, featuring Spotify, Apple, Amazon, the three major music companies, as well as other leading firms across the sector.

According to Mark Isherwood, the biggest unsolved problem within music data is that authoritative links between musical works and sound recordings are not accessible to everyone publicly. In order to communicate data and recording links for large quantities of songs in bulk, DDEX relies on its own standard named BWARM.