Darryl Hurs (CD Baby / Indie Week) has a 25+ year history in the music business including launching and running one of Canada’s largest emerging artist showcase festival/conferences, Indie Week Canada (Nov 9-13, 2021). Since COVID began, Darryl has also launched Music Pro Summit (Sept), SCREENxSCREEN (February) and indie101 (April) online music and tech conferences. Darryl currently is also the director of market development in Canada for online distributor, CD Baby. He also consults for a number of international business development programs and conferences. Past positions include graphic design and event branding for Live Nation (which included re-branding/logo design for Live Nation, launching vipnation.com and various marketing materials for artists such as Madonna, U2 Nickelback), artist manager and venue booker.