Conference
TMW 2026 Conference will take place on 10 – 11 April at Nordic Hotel Forum, Tallinn, Estonia.
The Tallinn Music Week Conference addresses music-related topics from practical workshops and seminars to inspiring pop-culturology talks and cross-sectoral future visions.
TMW 2025 Main Topics
- European Music Ecosystem and Global Collaboration
- AI and Music Tech
- Challenges of Platformisation
- Running a Record Label
- Gaming and Sync
- Songwriting for Diverse Markets: K-Pop in Focus
- Live Music Market
- Local Heritage, Global Horizons
- Measuring Export Success
- Showcase Festivals’ Offer to the Music Scene
- Keychange Leaders
- Sustainability and Accessibility
- Mental Health and Psychological Safety
Speedmeetings and Networking:
- Meet the Estonian Companies
- Creative Europe Baltic-Nordic Desks
- Legal Clinic
Markets in the Spotlight:
- Ukraine, Sweden, Finland, Baltics, Poland, Canada, Taiwan and Central Asia
Related news:
09.04.2025 Tallinn Music Week draws 18 814 visits to the Estonian capital Tallinn
28.03.2025 Full conference programme for Tallinn Music Week 2025 revealed with new speakers including President Kersti Kaljulaid and founding member of Human League Martyn Ware
14.03.2025 Estonian music industry maverick Jüri Makarov to recount Estonia’s cultural revolution at the Tallinn Music Week conference
12.03.2025 Tallinn Music Week Conference Tackles AI, Export Success, Industry Evolution and Leadership in Music
30.01.2025 First wave of speakers revealed for the Tallinn Music Week conference
29.10.2024 Keychange Leaders Programme kick-off
14.06.2024 Tallinn Music Week brought 1 532 international visits and 3 835 overnight stays by visitors from abroad to Estonia
9.4.2024 Paulina Ahokas: TMW has played a crucial role in what has been achieved
2.4.2024 Keychange Rewind and Fast Forward at Tallinn Music Week
26.3.2024 Historic presence for Finland at Tallinn Music Week 2024
25.3.2024 President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Burning Man’s story and pioneering industry initiatives at the TMW 2024 conference
The conference will take place in a hybrid format, enabling both online and onsite participation and activities. The programme will be gradually announced from January to April 2026.
TMW 2026 PRO Pass (on-site and online access to the festival and conference) along with DigiPRO Pass (online conference access) and Supporter Pass are on sale at shop.tmw.ee.
Background and past years
Throughout the festival’s existence, the TMW conference has hosted numerous high-profile music experts and mavericks, including the legendary founder of Sire Records Seymour Stein, polymath musician Barry Adamson, the bassist of Cocteau Twins and head of Bella Union Simon Raymonde; influential managers Simon Napier-Bell, Marie Fredriksson, Edward Bicknell, and Peter Jenner; Radiohead’s guitarist and co-lyricist Ed O’Brien, protest punk rock act Pussy Riot, artists-turned authors Viv Albertine (The Slits), John Robb (The Membranes), Bob Stanley (St Etienne), and acclaimed pop culture scholars like Simon Reynolds and Adam Harper.
Since 2016 the TMW conference has expanded from music industry topics towards a wider social agenda, inviting speakers like the entrepreneur and philanthropist Hamdi Ulukaya, artist and activist iO Tillett Wright, geneticist Lili Milani, MEP Julia Reda, city developer Gunvor Kronman, pioneering post-punk designer Malcolm Garrett, and many other visionnaires from different disciplines and walks of life.
