Matthias Strobel is the President of MusicTech Germany, the Federal Association for music technology in Germany, founder and Vice-President of Music Tech Europe, the European umbrella association of national music technology associations in Europe, and founder of Wicked Artists, a booking agency for creative technology artists. He is Germany’s main point of contact for music technology innovation and his network of entrepreneurs, industry executives, researchers, and his connections to (inter)national policymakers, and media representatives make him one of Europe’s renowned experts in that area.
Matthias Strobel serves as a consultant, mentor, and independent manager to help accelerate avant-garde approaches from startups. Determined to further the innovative potential – and thus future success – of artists and entrepreneurs, he uses his experience and leverages his network to help create the music ecosystem of tomorrow. He gives lectures about music technology at Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the University of New York Berlin and facilitates events on innovation for the music ecosystem to foster the knowledge transfer between visionaries from all intersections of the creative industries. He curates conferences and runs his own regular event series, the Berlin Music Tech Meetups which has grown into a community of more than 2.200 music tech enthusiasts from Berlin. In September 2024, Matthias Strobel organize “NEW VISIONS For Music and Sound”, a new conference in Berlin that investigates fascinating new visions for music & sound across the entire music ecosystem.