Programm 2024

Voneinander lernen US & EU Festivals
Learn From Each Other US & EU Festivals

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• Eugenie Encalarde
• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

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• Eugenie Encalarde

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• New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
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• As President and Chief Operating Officer of Festival Productions, Inc. of New Orleans, Eugenié “EJ” Encalarde has extensive experience as the Coordinating Producer of The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the world's foremost, one-of-a-kind, large-scale music event. She works with multi-generational teams across all organizational levels. Encalarde is also a certified strengths coach, teaming facilitator, and university B-School lecturer with over 30 years of project management experience.

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• Signe Lopdrup
• Roskilde Festival Gruppen

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• Signe Lopdrup

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• Roskilde Festival Gruppen
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• CEO of the Roskilde Festival Group With over 20 years of leadership experience in the European culture, music, and festival industry at both director and board levels, Signe Lopdrup is one of the industry's most seasoned professionals. Since 2016, she has been the CEO of the charitable organization The Roskilde Festival Group, which organizes the annual Roskilde Festival – one of Northern Europe's key cultural events for progressive music, art, and youth culture. The Roskilde Festival Group's ambition is to move and inspire people, whether this concerns producing the annual Roskilde Festival or helping other promoters and organizations in the fields of event safety, gastronomy, experience design, project management, and logistics. Signe Lopdrup possesses extensive knowledge of and a deep passion for music, culture, and various festival formats. Her key areas of focus include volunteering and fostering communities that inspire and mobilize people, combined with a firm conviction that art and culture can and should set the agenda and perspective on the world. This is particularly evident during the week-long Roskilde Festival, where Signe Lopdrup has been a key figure in sharpening the festival as a non-profit and progressive festival, which is supported by a strong sense of community among its 100,000 guests and 30,000 volunteers throughout the year. During Signe Lopdrup's tenure at the helm of the Roskilde Festival, the activist role of art has gained an increasingly strong position and now interacts even more closely with the music line-up. Thus, music, art, and communities among people should challenge and push the participants' ability to imagine, believe, and hope for a better future. Signe Lopdrup CEO der Roskilde Festival Gruppe Mit über 20 Jahren Führungserfahrung in der europäischen Kultur-, Musik- und Festivalbranche, sowohl als Geschäftsführerin als auch auf Vorstandsebene, ist Signe Lopdrup eine der erfahrensten Fachleute der Branche. Seit 2016 ist sie Geschäftsführerin der gemeinnützigen Roskilde Festival Gruppe, die das jährliche Roskilde Festival organisiert – eines der wichtigsten kulturellen Ereignisse in Nordeuropa für progressive Musik, Kunst und Jugendkultur. Das Ziel der Roskilde Festival Gruppe ist es, Menschen zu bewegen und zu inspirieren, sei es bei der Durchführung des jährlichen Roskilde Festivals oder bei der Unterstützung anderer Veranstalter*innen und Organisationen in den Bereichen Veranstaltungssicherheit, Gastronomie, Erlebnisdesign, Projektmanagement und Logistik. Signe Lopdrup verfügt über umfassende Kenntnisse und eine große Leidenschaft für Musik, Kultur und verschiedene Festivalformate. Zu ihren Schwerpunkten gehören Freiwilligenarbeit und die Förderung von Gemeinschaften, die Menschen inspirieren und mobilisieren, verbunden mit der festen Überzeugung, dass Kunst und Kultur die Agenda und die Perspektive auf die Welt bestimmen können und sollten. Besonders deutlich wird dies beim einwöchigen Roskilde Festival, wo Signe Lopdrup eine Schlüsselfigur bei der Entwicklung des Festivals zu einem gemeinnützigen und progressiven Festival ist, das von einem starken Gemeinschaftsgefühl unter den 100.000 Gästen und 30.000 Freiwilligen im Laufe des Jahres getragen wird. Unter der Führung von Signe Lopdrup hat die aktivistische Rolle der Kunst eine immer stärkere Position auf dem Roskilde Festival erlangt und interagiert nun noch enger mit dem Musikprogramm. So sollen Musik, Kunst und Gemeinschaften zwischen Menschen die Fähigkeit der Teilnehmer*innen, sich eine bessere Zukunft vorzustellen, daran zu glauben und zu hoffen, herausfordern und fördern

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• Marta Pallarès
• Primavera Sound

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• Marta Pallarès

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• Primavera Sound
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• Marta Pallarès is a music journalist from Barcelona with a masters degree in cultural journalism, who has developed a career beyond media to dive into music business. Back home after some years in Mexico City, and following two editions coordinating the Primavera Sound festival livestream with Red Bull TV, Pallarès got in charge of the international comms for the event. In 2023 she became its Head of Press, a position where she continues handling the relationship with media partners, while building strategies with national and foreign press and leading Primavera's press team. Pallarès is the company’s official spokesperson for initiatives such as the event's pioneering commitment to gender balanced lineups, its innovative protocol against sexual harassment and the corporate social responsibility actions, specially the ones involving sustainability and environmental projects. She shares them through panels and keynote speeches at the main conferences in the music business (Eurosonic Norderslaag, Reeperbahn Festival, ILMC, European Festival Conference, Talkfest Lisbon, MaMA Paris amongst others), or hearings for official bodies and European agencies (UK Parliament, Parlament de Catalunya). She is also one of members of the board of YOUROPE, the European Festival Association that represents 122 festivals and associated members from 30 European countries. Pallarès won the Excellence Award (personality) in the Iberian Festivals Awards 2024, a prize which is awarded by a jury of Spanish and Portuguese festival professionals.

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• Holger Jan Schmidt
• YOUROPE - The European Festival Association

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• Holger Jan Schmidt

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• YOUROPE - The European Festival Association
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• Holger is one of Europe’s leading networkers in the music festival branch. He is General Secretary of YOUROPE, the most important association for European popular music festivals, and leads the pan-European think tank GO Group (Green Operations Europe) as well as the TAKE A STAND initiative for social cohesion. Holger looks back at more than two decades at Germany’s biggest admission-free festival, RhEINKULTUR in Bonn, being in a leading position until the festival’s last edition in 2011. Today, Holger is a booker, consultant and part of the management team of DAS FEST in Karlsruhe.