MI-RAP at Tallinn Music Week

15 April 2025

As part of Tallinn Music Week 2025, the MI-RAP project hosted and co-organized several events focused on innovation, collaboration, and the future of the music industry.

Friday 04.04.
The program started with the TechTrack Final Pitching session, where participants of the cross-sectoral innovation programme presented their project ideas to a diverse audience of industry professionals. The session highlighted new approaches developed during the Tallinn-based accelerator and sparked discussions about how to transfer these ideas across borders.

Later that day, the MI-RAP Roundtable “Music Industry Innovation: Are We Doing Enough?” brought together experts from across Europe to discuss current gaps, emerging trends, and the role of public funding and policy in driving innovation. The panel featured voices from the MI-RAP partnership alongside stakeholders from Hamburg, Estonia, and beyond.

Saturday 05.04.
On Saturday afternoon the TechTrack Mentor Matchmaking session provided the top three TechTrack teams with the opportunity to meet potential mentors and discuss their music tech ideas and development strategies. Following the session, three mentors were selected to support the teams in the TechTrack Incubator.

Shortly after TechTrack and Hamburg Music hosted a networking reception that connected conference guests, local professionals, and MI-RAP partners in a more informal setting. It was a great opportunity to deepen conversations started during the conference and explore future collaborations.

Throughout the week, MI-RAP’s presence at Tallinn Music Week created a platform for visibility, exchange, and reflection — both for the project itself and the broader innovation topics it addresses.

In addition to the main events, Hamburg Music organized a dedicated transfer and assessment visit of the local implementation of the MI-RAP tool “cross-sectoral innovation programme”, which in Tallinn took the form of the TechTrack programme. Four experts from Hamburg — Agnes Chung, Isabel Lorenz (Clouds Hill Notes), Flo Siller (Flo Siller Mastering), and Jonathan Väth (Audio Branding Academy) — attended TechTrack sessions to observe and evaluate the concept for potential transfer into Hamburg’s music ecosystem.