Signing up to speak with Michael Addicott is highly recommended if you're interested in curation in music streaming, tools and methods for artists distribute, promote, and monitor their metrics on streaming, metadata usage for artists, managers, and labels, and the ins and outs of algorithms and human curation.

Michael Addicott is the Manager of Curation at Pandora, leading a team of people who curate, editorialize, and develop Pandora’s catalog of content. In his 12+ years at Pandora he has directed 3X growth in the catalog, held key roles in music analysis, content curation and programming and people management. In addition to his tenure at Pandora he's been a DJ for more than 20 years with long running residencies at venues of all sizes across the SF Bay Area including AT&T Park and Oracle Arena.

You can read Michael’s full bio on his speaker page

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