François Pachet has been a researcher in AI and music for the last 25 years. His recent activities are the creation of Imagine All The People, a company dedicated to AI-assisted creativity in marketing, and Ynosound, a company dedicated to next gen AI-assisted music creation. He is also associate researcher at LIP6 laboratory. He has been the director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab, where he designed the next generation of AI-based tools for musicians.
Ilya Tolchenov is the CEO and co-founder of Delphos, the assistive composition technology for professional composers, songwriters and producers. Ilya has been building scalable and generative music tech for almost a decade and is an authority on working with symbolic music data. Outside of Delphos, his research interests are Orthodox Christian music, digital topology and applications of AI within music tech.
Ralph W. Peer considers himself extremely fortunate to have been raised in a family intrinsically tied to music. Growing up Ralph learned several instruments but found his true passion in DJ-ing and record collecting.
Ralph joined peermusic in 2016 working in the company’s international and multi-territory digital licensing efforts. Prior to this Ralph studied law in London. In 2017 Ralph earned an LLM degree at Columbia Law School where he specialised in copyright law in the digital age and also worked in legal departments at Broadcast Music Incorporated and Universal Records.
Ralph returned to London in 2020 to work in the UK office’s business affairs and also initiated the company’s dedicated efforts to expand its creative and business reach in the emerging African and Middle Eastern markets.
Two years later Ralph migrated to Australia and became the managing director of peermusic’s Australasia operations. While there Ralph was elected a director of the Australasian Music Publishers Association (AMPAL), where he still serves.
In 2024 Ralph returned to London to work as MD of peermusic’s UK office while maintaining his responsibilities in Australasia, Africa and the Middle East. In addition to caring for peermusic’s renown catalog and its composers Ralph works directly with a wide variety of creative talent; from Lagos based producers such as Freshybeatz or Larry Gaaga, to outspoken Aboriginal artist Ziggy Ramo, to electronic UK duo Dusky. Concurrently Ralph also collaborates with publishing colleagues and clients to ensure the proper administration of their copyrights across the globe.
Dr. Matthias Röder is an award-winning musictech visionary and director of the Beethoven AI project. He is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at The Mindshift, a consultancy on creative leadership and innovation strategy. Matthias currently serves as a board member of the Karajan Foundation and is the Managing Director of the Eliette and Herbert von Karajan Institute. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Mozarteum Foundation.
Classical guitarist turned technology strategist. Former Managing Director of the Herbert von Karajan estate, where he spent a decade managing one of the most iconic brands in classical music and learning how institutions adapt (or don’t) to technological change.
Then came Beethoven X. The project that changed everything. Leading a team that used AI to complete Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony, commissioned by Deutsche Telekom, premiered in Bonn, covered by 2,000+ media outlets worldwide. It proved that AI and human creativity aren’t just compatible. They’re better together.
Now, through The Mindshift, he brings that same approach to business: understand the technology deeply enough to know what it can really do, then help leaders make it work in their world.