SCHEDULE
A quick note before you arrive: the Summit works a little differently from most conferences and we think that’s what makes it special. We designed it as a continuous container for curiosity and growth. The community moves through it together, starting with the Welcome Dinner and then gathering as one group to open and close each day with smaller breakouts woven in along the way. In between you get to choose your own path through workshops and panels and activities, with keynotes and journaling and a few fun surprises throughout.
So much of what makes these days meaningful comes from everyone being fully present. We’d love for you to treat them as time for yourself rather than a stretch of back-to-back meetings. If something does come up that needs your attention, we’ve set aside spaces where you can step away for a quick call. You’ll also notice that our speakers are listed without job titles or company names. That’s intentional, because while we’re incredibly proud of this mix of music industry executives and accredited coaches, we care most about what they’ve learned and what they’re willing to share with all of us.
Click here for speaker bios.
Sunday, November 8
3:00 - 6:00 PM | 2nd Floor, The LINE LA
Badge Pickup
We can’t wait to see you! Pick up your badge and registration materials before the Welcome Dinner on the 2nd floor of The LINE Hotel.
Badge pickup will continue to remain open on Monday morning. All attendees should pick up their badges before the program begins. Speakers can continue to pickup their badges throughout.
6:00 - 8:00 PM | Gramercy Ballroom
Community Welcome Dinner & Opening Program (*mandatory)
The intentionality behind the jump.global community is what sets it apart – and you’ll learn all about it at this extra special Welcome Dinner. We’ll kick things off with a delicious meal and bring together coaches and music community leaders for icebreakers and intention setting. It’s also where you’ll find out which breakout group you’ve been sorted into, so you’ll want to be there for that.
Think about it – “What do you want to get out of these next few days?”
We'll be treated to an acoustic performance from UK rising singer/songwriter Finn Forster.
*If you truly cannot attend the dinner, please email summit@jump.global to let us know.
Monday, November 9
8:00 - 9:00 AM | Garrett's Greenhouse (Openaire Restaurant)
Early Bird Breakfast
Join us on the early side for breakfast. Food is first come first served.
9:00 - 10:00 AM | Gramercy Ballroom
Daily Opening & Featured Conversation with Janelle Lopez Genzink [KEYNOTE]
Join all summit attendees for an inspiring start to the morning as we welcome one of the music industry's most exciting entrepreneurs.
Janelle Lopez Genzink is a music manager and founder of Volara, a management company built around a simple belief: artists do their best work when they have the right people, perspective, and support around them. Known for her thoughtful, deeply personal approach to management, Janelle is passionate about helping artists build careers that feel authentic to who they are—not simply careers that look successful from the outside. Over the course of her career, she has worked with artists including New Kids on the Block and Fifth Harmony, and today, alongside the Volara team, helps guide the careers of Sabrina Carpenter, MARINA, and HAIM. At Volara, she is equally focused on creating a collaborative home for managers who share those values—providing the infrastructure, resources, and extended team that allow managers to give their artists the highest level of care and attention, while maintaining the independence and individuality that make great management personal. For Janelle, the goal is simple: build enduring careers, exceptional teams, and the kind of infrastructure that allows great artists to think bigger.
Nick Maiale
Music Business Human & Founder, jump.global
10:15 - 11 AM | Various Locations (Gramercy, Ivy, and Greenhouse)
Group Breakouts: Personal & Professional Growth
All attendees will be split into three equal-sized groups with the goal of answering a simple question: “What does growth mean to you?” The coaches and community members below will facilitate. You'll learn which group you are in when you pick up your badge.
11 - 11:15 AM
Quick Break
11:15 AM - 12:25 PM | Gramercy Ballroom
Creative Conviction™: The Power of Betting on What Sets You Apart [WORKSHOP]
Own Your Superpower. Trust Your Gut. LFG!
Somewhere between breaking into the music business and fighting to stay there, we can lose touch with the very qualities that opened the door in the first place. Our gut. Our taste. Our audacity. The courage to take the shot before we know the outcome.
As careers grow, so do the pressures, expectations, and opinions. And without even realizing it, we can start editing the very things that make us extraordinary.
In this empowering, interactive workshop, music executive and creative coach Kate LaBrel introduces Creative Conviction™—a framework for reconnecting with your unique strengths, trusting your instincts, and making bold decisions without waiting for permission or certainty. Through storytelling, guided reflection, and practical exercises, participants will rediscover their creative superpowers and learn to lead with greater confidence while empowering the artists, creatives, and teams around them to do the same.
Your greatest superpower isn't something you need to find. It's something you've had all along. It's time to remember it, trust it, and take the shots only you can take.
11:15 AM - 12:25 PM | Ivy Hall
The Songs We Carry: Write the Chorus You Need to Hear [ACTIVITY]
You know the song that got you through your hardest year. The one you played on repeat until it changed something in you. Music has been leading you your whole life. What if you got to choose the words?
The music industry runs on making other people feel something. But under pressure, the voice we hear loudest is our own, and it’s rarely singing anything we’d ever release.
In this session, hit songwriter Heidi Rojas and leadership executive Jamie Margulies, founder of New Frequency, turn the room into a writing session. You’ll write your own chorus: a few true lines about who you are when you’re leading at your best, and what you need to hear when you’re not. Then Heidi will help you set it to a simple melody and sing it back. No musical experience needed. Nothing gets shared unless you want it to.
Most sessions hand you a framework to remember. This one hands you a song you can’t forget.
You’ll walk away with:
- A chorus you wrote yourself, ready for the moment pressure hits
- A clearer sense of what pulls you off course, and how to find your way back
- A new way to help the artists, teams, and clients you lead find their own chorus
Find your chorus. Then help others find theirs.
Heidi Rojas
Songwriter & Creative Expression Facilitator
12:25 - 1:40 PM | Garrett's Greenhouse
Lunch
1:40 - 2:50 PM | Ivy Hall
Stop Being Polite: Turning Friction Into Creative Advantage [WORKSHOP]
Most teams deal with polite gridlock—meetings where everyone nods along, but work stalls the second people leave the room. The real problem isn't bad intentions; it's that leaders often treat disagreement like a threat to manage instead of useful energy to guide. This interactive workshop shows how to separate arguments about the work from personal conflicts. Through live exercises, leaders will learn how to break bad communication habits, clarify team roles, and set up clear meeting routines. You’ll leave with a practical playbook to turn team friction into creative progress—and make hard conversations productive on Monday morning.
1:40 - 2:50 PM | Gramercy Ballroom
The Business They're Building: Leaders Rewriting How Music Works [PANEL]
The music business is being rebuilt in real time, and this panel brings together people who are close enough to that change to have a real point of view on what the next ten years will look like. Whether they’re running teams and making the calls that shape the industry or keeping a close eye on the trends that are reshaping it. In this candid conversation, they’ll get into what they’d hold onto, what they’d happily leave behind and what they think the business still gets wrong about its people as it heads into its next chapter.
They’ll also dig into how the way we work inside of music is changing, from how we define success to what a sustainable career looks like over the next decade, and why the culture we build for the people in this industry will matter just as much as the results. Expect honest perspectives, a few hot takes and a clear view of where things are headed from people who see the business up close every day.
2:50 - 3:05 PM
Quick Break
3:05 - 3:50 PM | Various Locations (Gramercy, Ivy, Greenhouse)
Group Breakouts: Adaptive Resilience
You’ll head back into your breakout groups for an honest conversation about one simple question, “What’s getting in my way?” Whether the answer turns out to be a person, a pattern, or something you’ve been telling yourself for years, you’ll hopefully leave with a clearer sense of what to do about it.
3:50 - 4:05 PM
Quick Break
4:05 - 5:00 PM | Gramercy Ballroom
The Community Keynote
Monday’s end-of-day keynote is ... YOU! We’re keeping the details under wraps for now, but here’s what we can tell you: it starts with a sound bath curated by Eric Mellgren, and it ends with a few surprises.
What happens in between depends entirely on the our vibrant community, so it's incredibly important that we see you there.
5:00 - 6:30 PM | Garrett's Greenhouse (Openaire Restaurant)
The Reflection Reception
The first full day of programming has ended and it’s time to celebrate with fellow music business humans in our beautifully lit greenhouse. Drinks and lite bites will be provided.
Tuesday, November 10
8:00 - 9:00 AM | Garrett's Greenhouse (Openaire Restaurant)
Early Bird Breakfast
Join us on the early side for breakfast. Food is first come first served.
9:00 - 9:20 AM | Gramercy Ballroom
Daily Opening
Join all summit attendees for an inspiring start to the final morning.
9:30 - 10:40 AM | Gramercy Ballroom
Leading a Multigenerational Music Business Team [PANEL]
At any given time, four to five generations are working side by side in the music business, from executives who built careers on physical sales to Gen Z hires who grew up on TikTok. Leaders are expected to speak all of their languages, often in the same afternoon. In this candid conversation, some of the industry's top leaders share how they navigate how to communicate depending on who's in the room, without losing who they are and how they lead. They'll get into the very different ideas each generation has about feedback, loyalty, boundaries and what a good day at work looks like. They'll also talk about building teams where a 23-year-old coordinator and a 30-year veteran actually learn from each other instead of just putting up with each other. Expect honest stories, a few lessons learned the hard way and plenty of time for your questions. There's no script, just a real conversation about leading people who don't all see the world the same way.
9:30 - 10:40 AM | Ivy Hall
RnBreathe: Million-Dollar Capacity [ACTIVITY]
After 16 years inside the record business, Mo Hiromoto knows what it takes to perform under pressure and how easy it is to spend your best attention on everything except what actually moves the needle.
Now a record executive turned entrepreneur, Mo combines candid conversation with RnBreathe, her R&B-driven breathwork practice, to help you step out of the noise, regain perspective, and identify where your time, attention, judgment, and humanity create the greatest return.
Whether you’re stepping into leadership, growing through it, building something of your own, creating, or navigating what’s next, you’ll leave with practical tools and a new perspective you can carry into every chapter of your career — and your life.
10:40 - 10:55 AM
Quick Break
10:55 - 11:40 AM | Various Locations (Gramercy, Ivy, Greenhouse)
Group Breakouts: Effective Leadership
The various groups will aim to answer:
"What qualities make an effective leader?"
"What do I want people to learn from working with me?"
"How do I want them to feel?"
11:40 - 11:55 AM
Quick Break
11:55 AM - 12:55 PM | Gramercy Ballroom
The Empathy Bridge: A Creator-to-Executive Conversation (presented by ASCAP)
To truly evolve the music business and meet the culture where it’s at, we must bring every voice to the table and actively listen to one another. Here, we’ll have a powerful, unfiltered conversation between industry leader Nick Lehman and a music creator, something rarely done at the Summit. This candid chat is designed to deepen empathy between the creative and commercial sides of music.
What does it really mean to be a music creator in 2026? What emotional toll does the hustle take, and how can the industry better support the people at the heart of the music we love? And vice versa? Together, we’ll explore the highs and lows of the creative journey, from the pressure and the passion to the vulnerability, and why wellness must be part of the plan.
This session invites everyone to pause, reflect and connect, because building a more compassionate, sustainable music industry starts with understanding each other.
12:55 - 2:05 PM | Garrett’s Greenhouse (Openaire Restaurant)
Lunch
2:05 - 3:15 PM | Gramercy Ballroom
What’s Your Energy Type? Discover the Energy Behind Your Leadership [WORKSHOP]
The music industry swings between all-out acceleration and sudden slowdowns. You can succeed in both, but how you use your energy shapes how well you navigate them.
Your energy shapes how you think, feel, and act. The patterns that help you thrive when things are moving fast can work against you when they slow down. Yet few of us have learned to treat energy management as a crucial business skill.
When you learn to work with your energy rather than letting your patterns take over, you can navigate every season of the industry with greater focus, vitality, and aliveness, making success more sustainable and rewarding.
In this interactive workshop, you’ll take a quick assessment to discover your dominant energy type. Through practical teaching and group discussion, you’ll explore how your type shows up across different phases of the music business, where it gives you an edge, and the traps you’re most likely to fall into.
You’ll walk away with:
– Your personal energy profile and what it reveals about how you make decisions, collaborate, and lead
– A clearer picture of where you excel and where you’re most likely to get in your own way as projects move through cycles of acceleration and slowdown
– A practical three-step reset to regain clarity under pressure, adapt to changing demands, and reduce unnecessary energy drain
2:05 - 3:15 PM | Ivy Hall
Real Talk: Authentic Relating for Music Leaders [WORKSHOP]
The music business runs on relationships, yet most of our conversations stay on the surface: what are you working on, who do you know, what's next. In this 75-minute interactive workshop, executive coach Kelby Kupersmid guides participants through Authentic Relating, a simple, structured practice for skipping the small talk and building real trust fast.
Working in pairs and small groups with guided prompts, you'll practice saying what's actually true for you, listening without an agenda, and getting curious about the person in front of you. It's playful, surprisingly moving, and immediately useful, whether you're leading a team, signing an artist, closing a deal, or just want to leave the Summit with a few people you genuinely know.
You'll walk away with:
- Deeper connections with fellow attendees, made in the room
- A framework to turn any networking chat into a real conversation
- A practical tool for more honest one-on-ones and team meetings
No prep or experience needed. Come ready to talk, listen, and move around.
3:15 - 3:30 PM
Quick Break
3:30 - 4:15 PM | Various Locations (Gramercy, Ivy, Greenhouse)
Group Breakouts: Impact & Legacy
The final prompts for the groups will be:
“What’s one conversation I’ll start because of this week?”
“What will I bring back to the music business?”
4:15 - 4:30 PM
Quick Break
4:30 - 5:30 PM | Gramercy Ballroom
The Finale Featured Interview with Kathryn Frazier & Community Closing [KEYNOTE]
Everyone will gather together in the main ballroom as we close the summit for an incredible interview.
Kathryn Frazier is an ICF Certified Personal, Executive and Relationship Coach and a certified Reiki Master, as well as the Founder and CEO of the esteemed music PR company Biz 3. She is also teaching professor at UCLA with her own signature course, which has garnered glowing reviews from students (including feedback like “life-changing”). She was dubbed “the rockstar whisperer” by The Guardian, and Biz 3 has operated nationwide for 30 years with a staff of national publicists and more than 200 clients, including popular musicians such as The Weeknd, Chappell Roan, Daft Punk, Skrillex, Killer Mike, Raye and Lauryn Hill. Frazier also co-founded the record label OWSLA with Grammy-winning producer Skrillex and has finished her first book, on co-parenting, which will be published in 2027.
She takes her 30 years of building one of the most relevant music PR agencies in the world and blends it with decades of experience in self-work across psychology, energy and wellness, sharing her knowledge to help people live their best lives.
Our friend Bill Werde will return as moderator for this finale session.
Immediately following the keynote, we will officially close the Summit with a few inspiring words from our members.
5:30 - 7:00 PM | Garrett's Greenhouse (Openaire Restaurant)
NO EGO: Summit Edition
We did it! Another year of the Summit in the books. Let's celebrate by inviting a friend or two over to The LINE and bringing them into the community. Lite bites and drinks provided. Please email your guests name over to summit@jump.global.