OMAI CONFERENCE 2024 – Stockholm

Location: Kungliga Operan – The Royal Foyer
Gustav Adolfs torg 2, 111 52 Stockholm, Sweden
Registration

AGENDA:

Thursday 2nd May

14:00 – 15:00                Welcome & Registration

15:00 – 16:00                General Assembly Opera Managers Association International

16:00 – 16:30                Coffee break

16:30 – 18:00                AI – Management, Tools for The Future
                                       Guest speaker; Olof Haglund
Olof Haglund is an AI consultant who focuses on the educational aspect of AI, trying to get everyone to be able to utilize artificial intelligence to better their business. He will teach us how to approach the jungle that is AI, and which tools we as artist managers can benefit from to optimize parts of our work.

18:00 –                          Happy Hour

Friday 3rd May

09:00 – 10:25                Business Practices, topics pending

10:25 – 10:30                 Short break

10:30 – 12:00                Singers Associations

12:00 – 13:30                Lunch, at Grodan, Kungliga Operan

13:30 – 15:30                Nordic Opera Houses Panel – Perspectives from the Top of Europe

This panel will include Ellen Lamm (Acting Artistic Director – The Royal Swedish Opera), Anna Karinsdotter (Artistic & Managing Director – Drottningholm Court Theatre), Elisabeth Boström (Casting Director & Program Coordinator – Malmö Opera), Henning Ruhe (Artistic Director – Göteborgs Operan), Randi Stene (Opera Director – The Norwegian Opera & Ballet), Eivind Gullberg Jensen (Artistic and General Director – Bergen National Opera), Palle Knudsen (Soloist Manager and Nordic artists casting – The Royal Danish Opera) and Ville Matvejeff (Artistic Director – Savonlinna Opera Festival).

19:00 –                            Gala Dinner

Saturday 4th May

 

10:00 – 11:30                Training the Mind – Mental Health in the Industry
                                       Guest speaker: Franciska Skoogh
Franciska Skoogh is a concert pianist and psychologist. She has also founded the interdisciplinary centre for music and psychology, the Performance Centre at the Malmö Music Conservatory, which aims to broaden music students’ knowledge of psychological factors related to stage performance.
From 2008 to 2019 she worked part-time as a psychologist in areas such as primary care and pain rehabilitation. She has used psychological theory, her clinical experience as a psychologist and her long experience as a performer in her courses and lectures for musicians called “The Performing Human”.      

11:30 – 12:00                Coffee break

12:00 – 14:00               Nordic Concert Houses – The Sounds of Fire and Ice

This panel will include Staffan Becker (General Manager – The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra), Susanne Rydén (Executive and Artistic Director from September 2024 – Konserthuset Stockholm), Karin Tufvesson Hjörne (Planning Manager, Artistic booking – Göteborgs Konserthus), Gregor Zubicky (Artistic Director – Svenska Kammarorkestern), Erik Mikael Karlsson (CEO – Malmö Live Konserthus) and Henrik Marmén (Artistic Director – Norrköping Symphony Orchestra).