The voices on stage

Lennart Östlund is a legendary producer and studio engineer with wide international recognition. He has recorded artists such as Led Zeppelin, Backstreet Boys, ABBA, Rammstein, Genesis, Ramones, Europe, Rainbow, Beastie Boys, Roxette and many, many more.

Scott Farrant is a music industry veteran with 40 years of experience across major and independent music publishers, as well as CMOs. His background includes foundational roles at PRS, EMI, and BMG, followed by executive positions at Palan Music, STIM, KSTAR, AMRA, and Kobalt Music. His scope of expertise ranges from high-level strategy, licensing, and operations to sample clearance and sync.

In addition to his corporate leadership, Scott has been deeply involved in global industry governance and technical standards. He served as vice-chair at ICMP—where he was also founder-chair of the Metadata Expert Group—and was a long-term board member of both IMPA and the MPA. He also founded and co-chaired the Steering Committee for the Technical Online Working Group for Europe.

In 2025, Scott founded Musaxia, an independent music consultancy offering strategic advisory services and deep domain expertise to music rights holders and music tech companies.

Alongside running Musaxia, Scott currently chairs the UK Government IPO Metadata Technical Solutions Group (TSG) and contributes to key international initiatives, including the EU Copyright Infrastructure Task Force, CreditsDue, WIPO’s AI Infrastructure Interchange Technical Exchange Network (AIII TEN) and promoting new AI standards such as C2PA.

Dedicated to building a fairer, future-focused music ecosystem, Scott remains an active songwriter and creates scrap metal sculptures in his spare time.

Christopher Thordson is COO of IFPI Sweden, which represents the recording industry – major labels, independent labels and self-releasing artists – in licensing and royalty distribution. He heads licence negotiations and has led the restructuring of its business operations, including the launch of new licence products. He also managed commercial operations for Avicii Music AB. He holds an LLM in Commercial Law from the University of Edinburgh.

Jakob Malmlöf works as Union Legal Counsel at Musikerförbundet (the Swedish Musicians’ Union). He has a background as an award-winning music producer and songwriter. In his role, he represents musicians and artists in legal matters and negotiations, with a particular focus on AI, copyright, and fair compensation within the music industry. Jakob is also a board member of SAMI (the Swedish Artists and Musicians Interest Organization).

Eva Karman Reinhold is Chair of SOM, Sweden’s independent music companies’ trade association, a board member of IMPALA, and Chair of IMPALA’s Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Task Force.

Founded in 1974, SOM represents over 330 Swedish independent music companies and self-releasing artists. The organization works to support Swedish music companies and organizes Manifestgalan, the Swedish independent music awards. IMPALA is the European organization for independent record labels, based in Brussels.

Eva studied music and production before beginning her long career in the music industry at STIM, the Swedish performing rights organization, and the independent music companies MNW and Gazell. In 2004, she founded her own record label and music publishing company, Smilodon. After passing a paralegal examination in 2009, she worked at a law firm and later earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.).

As a music lawyer, Eva represents artists, songwriters, managers, and independent music companies. In 2015, she returned to making music and became the songwriter, producer, and singer of MahRoot, a Swedish reggae/ska band.

Sofie Marin is the founder and CEO of Arts Dynamics, the Creative Tech cluster at Epicenter Stockholm, which brings music, art and culture together with technology and business to create new business opportunities and drive innovation. She is an entrepreneur, senior strategist and futurist with almost 30 years of experience in the cultural and creative industries in Sweden and internationally, including leading roles at STIM, the Royal Swedish Opera and the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and through her former London-based production company From Sweden Productions.

Sofie helps creators, companies and organisations understand change, navigate the future and identify new strategic opportunities. She has been nominated for Epicenter's Top 40 Changemakers, which recognises people who challenge the status quo and influence systems at scale in technology, business and society, and has been named one of Nordic Tech Week's 50 Most Impactful Ecosystem Players in the Nordics.

Saga Hansson is the founding CEO of Oddtune, a Gothenburg-based music tech company developing VERA, a platform for detecting AI-generated music. VERA identifies the specific traces AI generators leave in the audio, with reproducible results backed by evidence rather than a probability score. Oddtune works with rights organisations and labels across the Nordics and Europe.

Saga's background is in sales and management across several industries, before she turned her focus to the music industry. At Oddtune, she leads commercial strategy, partnerships and customer relationships, with a particular focus on how rights holders can verify the origin of the music they work with as generative AI becomes a growing part of how music is made and released.

Christian Alsing works as CPO of Elektron, a Gothenburg-based company creating electronic musical instruments. Elektron holds a unique position in the synth and sampler industry, with a strong connection to its users and a vibrant community built around its instruments and also a dedicated forum.

With 25 years in the music instrument industry and a musician himself, Christian brings a deep understanding and interest for the end users, how they create, and what drives their creativity.

Ankit is the Founder and CEO of Snafu Records, a record label that uses AI to identify and promote undervalued artists from all over the world. Snafu now has over 600 artists on its roster, with over 3 billion annual streams and 9 Grammy wins between them. Before starting Snafu, Ankit worked with digital strategy at Universal Music, where he worked on projects like Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, Tove Lo, Alesso, and Shawn Mendes. Ankit is a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient.

Lisa Nordström is a composer, musician and sound artist based in Gothenburg. Her work moves between electronic and acoustic music, film, performing arts and experimental soundscapes.

Since the early 2000s she has explored how electronic instruments and real-time sound processing can become a playable, intuitive and organic part of musical expression. In her work, composition, improvisation and sound design meet in a constant search for new expressions and musical possibilities.

She has composed music for a number of international film and stage productions, and in 2022 she received a Guldbagge Award for best original score for the film Children of the Enemy. Alongside this she runs her own artistic projects and collaborations, among them the experimental duo ZAWA ZAWA.

Erik Jonasson is Head of Music Unit and Senior Lecturer in Music and Media at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, and one of the people behind the Tune In West project that Music Tech Summit is part of.

His background is as a music and sound engineer, producer and teacher in related subjects, across a wide range of settings and contexts.

A living soundscape takes shape. With strings, voice and percussion, YoJuliet create an intimate, evocative concert in which the music slowly builds in layers of sound and loops.

Their expression moves between the fragile and the powerful – a weave of voices and instruments that opens inner images and lets the audience sink into a meditative, almost cinematic flow. Every note carries a story, and the room turns into a musical universe where time and place dissolve.

YoJuliet is a Swedish film music duo: string player and pianist Julia Sandwall and percussionist and singer Yohanna Eek Björnulfson. Known for atmospheric live performances in unique spaces, they tour internationally and create music for film and the performing arts. They have made a name for themselves as silent film musicians through their score and live performances for the film Gösta Berlings saga.

Photo: Lina Ikse

Carlos Sepúlveda is a sound engineer, immersive sound designer, musician and composer based in Gothenburg. With long experience of live production, system design and sound for the performing arts, he moves between technology and artistic storytelling.

He has worked with artists such as Sting, MC50 and Sister Sledge, and through Belly of the Whale Studio he develops portable immersive sound systems and spatial sound experiences. With Immersivader, a system of his own design, he explores how spatial sound can change the experience of music, performing arts and physical spaces.