Swedish startup Tracklib is no stranger to returning Westway PRO delegates, as it was a few years ago that keynote Tom Silverman, of Tommy Boy Records, had first introduced us to Tracklib, before it was even in Beta phase. It is the first startup dedicated to legal sample licensing, dealing with both Master rights as well as Publishing rights. Tracklib is now in full swing, fully functional and creating sampling success stories! Emily Otterbeck comes to Portugal to present the future of sampling.

Speaker Jeroen Siebens

Westway LAB, together with its media partner Antena 3, is honoured to host two living legends of European Public Radio to debate the present and future of public radio in the European context - both from the political as well as digital perspectives, might radio actually be threatened in the XXI century? Vic Galloway from BBC Scotland and Laurent Marceau of EBU - European Broadcasters Union debate this important theme with a special moderator from Antena 3.Speaker Laurent MarceauModerator Vic Galloway

Music Moves Europe preparatory action “Europe in Synch”, trains young professionals while seeking useful support mechanisms for music for the next Creative Europe programme, 2021-2027. AMAEI - Portuguese Independent Music TA leads the project, which sits at the same table young professionals from the music side along with Catalyst Experts from film and advertising. Project Director Markus Linde, Music Supervisor Nis Bogvad and AMAEI’s President Nuno Saraiva present us with the first findings and learnings from these 12 months of work.

Portugal’s export office for music, WHY Portugal, organized showcases for Portuguese artists at BIME - Bilbao International Music Experience back in 2019. For 2020 due to the pandemic, this is not possible but of course WHY Portugal hopes to strengthen its BIME participation next year. Meanwhile, we would like to introduce you to BIME and also its Atlantic Music Conference Symposium initiative, bridging Iberia with LatAm. With Last Tour's Vera Wrana and moderator Ana Rita Feijão, Exec. Coordinator, WHY Portugal.

Rob Challice is a live music professional with over 35 years’ experience, be it as an agent, promoter or festival organizer. He is one of the founding Directors of Coda Agency Ltd., founded in 2001. Rob has worked with and represented Bon Iver, Billy Bragg, Warpaint, Kings of Convenience, Moses Sumney, Ben Folds, Magnetic Fields, Beirut, John Grant and other great artists. Coda Agency represents over 800 artists and has built its reputation launching new talents, with several names high-lighted in recent years, such as Bastille, Ellie Goulding, Liam Gallagher, Years & Years, SIA, Disclosure,...

Turo Pekari of TEOSTO Futures Lab, Finland, returns to Westway LAB to debate the present and future of metadata - increasingly important in the attribution and distribution of rights royalties. In the context of faster identification of all the interested parties in any given recorded work, will we ever manage to distribute all income to its respective authors and artists in an automated fashion, without money getting lost along the way…? When? And how…?

Each year, Westway LAB dedicates a session to informal conversations and presentations from music supervisors, to further unveil the details of this professional, virtually unknown in Portugal - but very important for placing music in film, TV, advertising, trailers and videogames. The guests this year are Lena Obara, from Berlin, specializing in film, and Vanessa Jorge Perry, working the complex world of trailers in Los Angeles, also having a special connection to Portugal.

Nicki McNeill of Global PR hosts a panel debating the Future of Music Journalism. (With NPR, others TBC)Anastasia ConnorSpeaker Noise Unit PRNicki McNeillSpeaker Global PR

GDA - The Portuguese Artist Performing Rights Society presents its annual session at Westway LAB PRO. If in the previous year it presented new artist-facing platforms such as Faniak, and also introduced several new mechanisms of cultural and social support via its GDA Foundation - including Portugal's first international showcase support mechanism, in this year of 2020 the discussion will be oriented towards the augmented relevance of digital music, as well as the importance of neighbouring rights in the post-Covid-19 world.

Westway LAB has already hosted, in previous editions, country focuses on Austria and Canada. Spain, however close, remains a conundrum, apparently hard to unite even in a musical context. Our neighbours? Yes, but which ones? Will Westway LAB succeed in having Spain as our country focus next year? Reps from Live Nation Spain, Last Tour and the export office from the Balearic Isles discuss this theme.Xavier BarcelóProject Manager Institut d'Estudis BaleàricsVera WranaOradora BIMECesar AndionOrador Live Nation

Rock in Rio. Rock in Rio Lisboa. Better World. A life in music! Westway LAB is proud to present Roberta Medina as our national keynote of 2020. What was meant to be a retrospective of Roberta’s career and the major event that is Rock in Rio Lisboa, now also looks to the future, as we ask Roberta for her outlook on live events in a post-Covid world. What can we do in music to make this planet a better world?

AMG Productions teams up with Piranha to bring WOMEX 2021 to Porto, Portugal, and WHY Portugal has some good news in this respect. Join WOMEX's Alexander Walter and AMG's António Miguel Guimarães in celebrating this highly anticipated Portuguese debut for WOMEX.

Guna Zučika, from Every Little Thing (LV), is the artist manager for Carnival Youth, who built up their touring career via the showcase festival circuit, Eurosonic, and a synch deal via a Denmark-based campaign that helped them cross borders. Could this great example of career development from a small peripheric country on the other end of Europe teach some best practices for Portuguese artists and their managers? We believe so and kick off the 7th edition of Westway LAB with this highly motivational session – it might even attract a very special guest from Denmark!

Creative Europe’s INES - Innovation Network of European Showcases project was co-founded by GigMit and several showcase events including Westway LAB. The associated showcasing events list has grown and Westway is happy to introduce you to two new showcase festivals that have recently joined the project.

AMAEI, the Portuguese Independent Trade Association, invites national and international music publishers to a discussion on the present state of music publishing in Portugal. There is not a long-standing tradition of independent music publishing in our country (without being connected to multi-national publishing houses or media companies). So, AMAEI once again invites AEOM – Associação de Editoras de Obras Musicais – to the Westway LAB so it can present the national panorama of publishing and synch.

Unfortunately, on this year's edition of Westway LAB, we will not be able to have the concerts from the creative residencies and the city showcases in our program. This due to the pandemic we are all facing globally since the beginning of the year. Instead, we invited some of the artists to perform some songs. The result will be shown on an online transmission using our social media.Line-up