
4 MTFers win ISAbells
Four MTFers won ISAbells – the International Sound Awards and more were highly commended runners up in the prestigious event in Hamburg.

MTF Örebro: Humans in da Loop
We are thrilled to announce that in October MTF is landing in the thriving Örebro AI Innovation Ecosystem with HUMANS IN DA LOOP.

Launch of the Industry Commons Foundation
We received official validation from Stockholm County of our new not-for-profit organisation: Industry Commons Foundation. This is a huge deal for the entire MTF community.

#MTFLabs@ZKM
You will find us at the legendary ZKM in Karlsruhe doing a 24-hour intervention from Saturday, 27th of October, taking forward a bunch of awesome projects and collaborations from #MTF Stockholm, through performance, hacking and experimentation.

Meet Airan Berg at MTF Stockholm…
Airan Berg creates participatory music theatre projects and serves as the artistic director for Valletta2018 and Festival der Regionen.

MTF partners with KTH Innovation to seed new startups
One of the most important things at Music Tech Fest is that new projects and ideas that start at the festival can be supported and encouraged to go on and have a life beyond it. For that reason, we’ve partnered with KTH Innovation as part of the 24-hour Hack Camp at MTF Stockholm.

Prof Danica Kragic leads Robotics and AI at #MTFLabs
It’s hard to imagine someone who absolutely embodies the synthesis of cutting edge scientific research and human creative expression that we champion at Music Tech Fest more than the inspirational Professor Danica Kragic.

Symposium led by internet research pioneer Nancy Baym
On Thursday 6th and Friday 7th of September, Music Tech Fest hosts the #MTFResearch Symposium in the stunning library at the heart of KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The brilliant Nancy Baym will be leading the symposium, giving the opening keynote and hosting the...

Creative Labs with NASA scientist / inventor Kelly Snook
Music technology: it’s not rocket science. So we decided to fix that. We’ve invited an actual rocket scientist to lead the 24-hour Creative Labs at MTF Stockholm: Music producer, engineer, instrument inventor, and former NASA researcher Professor Kelly Snook.

Fashion Tech pioneer joins women in the lead at MTF Stockholm
We’re thrilled to announce that the incredible Dutch Fashion Tech designer Anouk Wipprecht will join MTF Stockholm in September. Music Tech Fest is championing women in tech and features inspiring ‘arts-meet-science’ women at the forefront of all the different areas of the festival.

Imogen Heap to lead labs and tech showcases at MTF
Grammy and Ivor Novello winning British artist and polymath Imogen Heap is the next in a series of inspirational ‘arts-meets-science’ Wonder Women who will be leading areas of the flagship Music Tech Fest (MTF) innovation festival in Stockholm…

Announcing #MTFStockholm
Music Tech Fest partner with KTH Royal Institute of Technology for #MTFStockholm 7-9 September 2018

The jawdropping moment at #MTFLabs Helsinki
Every time we assemble a diverse group of brilliant and talented people from the wider MTF community, something happens beyond even our high expectations. A jaw-dropping moment. We keep seeing it: not just a clever invention or a brilliant performance – those are a given – but a genuine breakthrough.

Blockchain AI and beyond
At our recent #MTFLabs: Industry Commons pilot at Slush in Helsinki, blockchain tech, intellectual property and the rights of creative innovators took centre stage – literally.

#MTFLabs in Helsinki – featuring Bela
We spent an amazing #MTFLabs week at the end of November with some of the most brilliant people you could imagine – most of whom had never met or worked together before, and yet managed to put together an incredible orchestrated performance in just a few days…

A new methodology for the altered industry landscape
Music Tech Fest today announced the launch of a new innovation management methodology – The Industry Commons.

All innovation is social innovation
New technologies are often blamed for an array of societal problems including precarious employment, economic exclusion and social division. Innovations don’t just affect us as consumers, but as citizens. The reason for this is clear, but all too often overlooked: all technologies are human technologies.

New literacies in the physical internet
For the past five years, the MTF community has been exploring the intersection between music and innovation. It’s key to what we do at Music Tech Fest, and the innovation that comes out of this space often goes far beyond musical performance.