Mondo.NYC

New York's music and technology business conference, run by the people who built CMJ.

• Four days in Brooklyn each October, with the conference based at one hotel and the showcases spread across independent NYC venues.
• Led by Bobby Haber and Joanne Abbot Green, who founded and produced the CMJ Music Marathon. Mondo started in 2016 and reaches its 11th edition in 2026.
• 45+ panels and chats with 200+ executives from music, tech, finance, legal and media, plus round tables, product demos, workshops and one-on-ones.
• 35+ artist showcases at independent clubs, with selected performances streamed on Mondo’s YouTube channel.

The stated focus is the artist and songwriter ecosystem and what technology does to the money in it. That framing is why this event sits on an AI music directory at all: the revenue question is the one Mondo puts at the centre.

Five tiers, and the reduced rate is the one most readers here qualify for.

• The professional badge is $719 plus a $32.26 service fee for all four days.
• Artists, students, indie companies and non-profits pay $575 plus $27.05 for the same four days. That is a $144 difference for the same programming.
• A single day is $439 plus fees, which is 61% of the four-day professional price. As at BIME, the day pass is rarely the rational buy.
• Every tier carries 25% off a 2027 early bird badge if you buy it by 31 January 2027.

One caution on the checkout: Mondo lists several two-day and single-day variants inside the same $439 to $575 band, with different days and different inclusions. Read the tier description rather than the price.

Because the room is full of music lawyers, and they need the credit anyway.

• The CLE Music & Law day costs $559 plus fees and includes breakfast and lunch.
• Continuing legal education credit is issued when the attendance requirements are met, which is why it is ticketed separately from the general badge.
• The reduced-rate badge includes entry to the CLE panels but not the credit.
• A combo ticket at $819 plus fees covers the legal day and the full four days.

This matters beyond the lawyers in the room. A conference that programmes a full CLE day is one where rights, licensing and contract questions get argued in front of people who litigate them, which is a different conversation from the one happening on product stages.

Book it if you are:

• A label, publisher, manager or service provider working the US market. Four days, one hotel, 200+ executives, and a schedule built around one-on-ones rather than keynote theatre.
• A music lawyer or a rights person. The CLE programming makes this the clearest legal-facing room on the autumn calendar.
• An artist with a business reason to be in New York, not only a performance one. Showcase slots go through a separate application.

Skip it if you are:

Structurally present, not yet countable for 2026.

• Mondo is a music and technology conference by design, and it describes its panel programme as centred on the artist and songwriter ecosystem and the impact of technology on revenue-related risks and benefits.
• The 2026 session-level schedule had not published when this was assessed, so there are no titles to count and this rating is provisional.
• The legal programming is the tell. An event that runs a full CLE day in New York is where AI licensing and rights get argued in front of the people who write the contracts, which is a narrower and more practical conversation than the one on most conference stages.
• Recheck the daily schedule before you book if AI programming is the reason you are going.

For a 2026 programme where the AI sessions are already named and the model companies are on stage, Music Tectonics runs two weeks later in Santa Monica and is the better-evidenced choice.