The 2026 Music Tectonics Conference Focused on
The Rising Tide: Growing Music, Growing Value.
In our 8th year, 888 music innovators gathered in Santa Monica to translate music's cultural impact into revenue across the industry.
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Who is Music Tectonics For?
THE Music Industry
Labels, publishers, artists, managers, in short everyone in the business needs to have a tech stack of the right digital tools to manage rights, reach fans, and get paid.
The Music Tectonics conference focuses on innovation that actually grows the money you can make in music, not disrupts it.
Stay ahead of the algorithms and connect directly with the people building and using new tools.
Music Tech Founders
Startups and scaleups come to Music Tectonics to rub shoulders with everyone in music tech, the music industry, and music innovation.
Compare notes with other founders, meet labels and managers, network with investors, learn how music licensing works, hear where things are going so you can solve the right problems and build a successful company!
Everyone who wants to grow the value of music
Music Tectonics is built for connection. We’ve evolved from being known as a music tech and startup conference to being the conference where the whole music industry gathers with the tech infrastructure that supports it.
Whatever your role at the intersection of music and tech, you'll take away lessons for your business and your career, new connections, and potential business partners, investors, advisors, and allies.
What Makes Music Tectonics Different
Music Tectonics was founded to explore the deep seismic shifts that keep the music industry unsettled. At the next annual conference in 2026, we'll delve into the consequences of these shifts and the new fault lines poised to change the industry yet again.
Music Tectonics unites music tech innovators across industry boundaries to share insights and get business done. The Music Tectonics team intentionally crafts experiences in unexpected beachside venues to foster openness to new ideas and new partnerships. The result is a conference and a community unlike any any other.
Music Tectonics is a community of innovators everywhere in the music ecosystem: startups, major labels, indie labels, AI pioneers, streaming services, distributors, social media platforms, investors, accelerators, legal experts, live event execs, gear makers, music software developers, consultants—in short, everyone who works where music and tech meet.
Meet Music Tectonics' Past Participants: Spotify, Bose, Pandora, YouTube, Google, TikTok, BeatSaber, Instagram, Facebook, Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, BMG, Twitch, Reddit, TIDAL, Deezer, SoundCloud, Riot Games, Epic Games, Roblox, Bandsintown, Raised In Space, Sony Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Plus Eight Equity Partners, Waverley Capital, Crush Ventures, Techstars Music, Roland, PioneerDJ, The MLC, TuneCore, Luminate, Rumblefish, Atlantic Records, Capitol Records, Concord Music, Sub Pop, Interscope, Rostrum Pacific, FUGA, 4AD, Secretly Canadian, Run the Jewels, Peloton, BandLab, BeatStars, Sonos, Seven20, Cameo, Patreon, AEG, Audius, Pixelynx, LA Times, Billboard, Forbes.
Who We Are
PR firm Rock Paper Scissors, Inc. explores the new terrain at the epicenter of music and technology through their PR and marketing services as well as the Music Tectonics Conference, podcast, online events, and in-person meetups.
Everything Music Tectonics does explores the seismic shifts that shake up music and technology the way the earth’s tectonic plates cause quakes and make mountains.