IMPF Global Music Summit returns to Palma with Peermusic CEO Mary Megan Peer among keynote speakers

The IMPF Global Music Summit returns to Palma for its 2025 edition on Tuesday October 7-10, including eight keynote speakers. 

This year’s conference will begin with a keynote session involving Peermusic CEO Mary Megan Peer and Swedish songwriter Chris Wahle in conversation.

As CEO of Peermusic, Mary Megan Peer directs the largest privately owned music company of its kind, operating in 39 offices from 32 countries with more than million titles owned or administered and over 200 employees worldwide. 

She has driven several high-profile acquisitions for the company in recent years including Arctic Rights Management and Korea’s largest K-Pop publisher, Music Cube.

The second day of the Summit will start with a conversation keynote looking in detail at one of the latest industry partnerships announced in the past year, with Elizabeth Matthews (CEO, ASCAP) and Cécile Rap-Veber (CEO, Sacem).

The Guild of Music Supervisors’ President Lindsay Wolfington will host a keynote address on day three of the Summit. Wolfington has been working in music supervision for over 20 years. She is known for her work on One Tree Hill (where she featured over 1,700 songs from breaking artists to iconic names like Led Zeppelin and U2) and more recently for her work on the Netflix hits To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, To All The Boys: PS I Still Love You, and To All The Boys: Always And Forever. 

Music Creative Director at Publicis/Prodigious, Christophe Caurret, will deliver a keynote case study on the intersection of music and brands. At Publicis, Caurret works alongside the agency’s creative directors.

Under his leadership, Prodigious has received numerous awards in the sound category at the Clio Awards, Grand Prix Stratégies and Prix de la Création Musicale CSDEM, and most recently earned a Gold single for the collaboration between the artist Jul and the Oasis brand.

The final day of the Summit will focus on A&R and includes a creator and publisher keynote conversation between award-winning composer, artist and producer Nitin Sawhney, and Reservoir MD Annette Barrett.

As a composer, producer and musician, Sawhney has been a recipient of over 20 international awards, a CBE, an Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award and seven independent honorary doctorates. He has scored more than 60 films (including Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle for Netflix) and numerous TV series (including BBC’s epic Human Planet series), and made over 20 studio albums.

As well as Sawhney, Barrett has worked with many of Reservoir’s most successful songwriters including Jamie Hartman, Peter Gordeno and Cutfather. She has also headed IMPF as President since 2020.

There are world-class executive names all the way through the event programme this year, proving once again that Palma is the place to be for the global independent music publishing community

Annette Barrett

Alongside the keynote sessions, the 2025 IMPF Global Music Summit programme features a number of roundtable discussions on many of the topics, opportunities and challenges currently facing the world’s independent music publishing community. 

The guest speakers include Tomas Ericsson (CEO, AMRA), Alkis Argyriadis (head of music worldwide, Ubisoft), Nicky Bignell (head of music licensing, BBC),

Colin Barlow (CEO, Merrystar Productions), Sat Bisla (founder & president, A&R Worldwide/Musexpo), Thomas Duval (head of A&R, Strictly Confidential Music Publishing), Sarah Liversedge Platz (co-director and director A&R, Bucks Music Group), and many more.

The full programme can be found here.

IMPF president Annette Barrett said: “We’re proud to welcome some really special keynote speakers to this year’s IMPF Global Music Summit. I feel like we say this every year, but the event really does go from strength to strength with each new edition. And it’s not just about the star-studded list of keynotes. There are world-class executive names all the way through the event programme this year, proving once again that Palma is the place to be for the global independent music publishing community.”