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A new music industry conference will focus on wellness over work. The inaugural jump.global annual summit will be held in Los Angeles this November.

ATLANTA — Women in Music Atlanta Chapter Chair Hadley Poole has stepped down and appointed musician, businesswoman and health professional Deu Almeida as her successor. Poole, who founded and launched

Buzzy audio platform Clubhouse has hired Kelly Stoetzel, the 17-year TED executive responsible for curating the company’s famed TED Talks series, as its head of thought leadership programming. Stoetzel joined TED in 2004 and most recently served as head of conferences and speaker curation. Variety reports that she first initiated discussions about a partnership between TED and Clubhouse before joining the company in-house. In her newly-created role, Stoetzel will lead efforts to recruit auth...

  Femme It Forward, a female-led music and entertainment company, announced today that applications are now open for the Next Gem Femme Mentorship Program. The new initiative designed to empower and increase opportunities for young women of color in the workforce will pair promising talent with female industry titans and entrepreneurs in the music, media, entertainment, technology, and social justice industries. Through a comprehensive year-long program, mentees will receive exposure ...

FilmMagic/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Clubhouse is on fire, thanks to the efforts of its two founders and a fast-growing team. The company has more than doubled its staff from a dozen employees to 35 so far this year. Insider is giving credit where credits due with a list of the top executives and early employees. The small but mighty team behin...

CÎROC, Combs Enterprises and Culture Creators Honor 50 Inspiring Women With EMPOWERED WOMEN Platform Share Article The first cohort of the 2021 Empowered Women honorees, including Iman, Valeisha Butterfield-Jones and Fadia Kader, are announced in celebration of International Women’s Day Empowered Women - March 2021 Honorees “It is an honor to continue to build and strengthen the ‘Empowered Women’ platform alongside Culture Creators and ELLE Magazine,” says Ingrid Best, Vice President...

Empowered Women platform.  Empowered Women, first launched in 2016 by Combs Enterprises’ women-led executive team, uplifts, spotlights, and honors an eclectic and dynamic group of entrepreneurs, creatives, and businesswomen. This year, CÎROC and  Combs Enterprises partnered with Culture Creators, a cultural connectivity organization that aims to spotlight the contributions of individuals who have shaped the global view of Black culture.  To further amplify the initiative, fittingly la...

SXSW Adds Pete Buttigieg As Keynote; Ava DuVernay, George W. Bush And More Set For Featured Sessions Deadline 2/24/2021 New York Times podcast Together Apart Priya Parker, and Interior Chinatown author Charles Yu join the Keynote lineup that includes previously-announced sessions from political leader and game-changer Stacey Abrams as well as music icon Willie Nelson. More from Deadline “The three Keynote Speakers we’re announcing today are a perfect complement to our Conference lineu...

What do Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Governor George W. Bush have in common (aside from having laid dibs on bedrooms in the White House, to varying success)? Theyve both just been added to the speaker line-up at this years SXSW virtual conference. The final wave of speakers for this years virtual conference (running March 16-21) presents President Joe Bidens nominee for Secretary of Transportation (and SXSW 2019 veteran) Buttigieg making his return as one of three new keynotes, among a st...

Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Mick Fleetwood, of Fleetwood Mac, arrives at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony at the Barclays Center on March 29, 2019, in New York. The lineup also includes a conversation among the heads of inclusion and diversity at the three major labels. South By Southwest (SXSW) has announced new keynotes and the final round of featured speakers for this years fully virtual edition, which takes place March 16 through 20, including a number of music executives and...