The Smartest People In The Room®

The Smartest People In The Room® is a series of one-on-one conversations between music industry executives and personalities. These hour long conversations draw an audience of hundreds and feature every type of global music industry executive, including agents, managers, attorneys, business managers, promoters, publishers, working musicians, songwriters. The audience is global, with strong concentration in music business centers like New York City, Los Angeles, Nashville, London, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin and more.


Dave Edwards and Chris Dalla Riva

Dave Edwards is the new SVP of Revenue and Operations at Warner Records. This is a "back to the future" move for him as he began his career as a label intern 23 years ago. In between, he's held senior roles in several music tech focused companies, including the CRO at Audiomack, where he was the company's most senior non-founder employee.

Chris Dalla Riva probably has been called Chris "Data" Riva by some of his industry peers. He is the Senior Product Manager - Data and Personalization at Audiomack. Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free, along with tools to help them expand their audiences.

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Tom Truitt

Tom Truitt is Managing Director and our Head of the Music & Live Entertainment practice.