Innovative success stories from Stanford Live, San Diego Symphony and Museum of Chinese of America will be showcased at this year’s Tessitura Learning and Community Conference in the Tessitura’s Innovator Series Live at TLCC on August 16, 2017.

This will be the next instalLment of the innovator Series, which in many ways had its birthplace at TLCC. The ongoing program of brief talks by industry innovators is inspired by the demonstrated value of peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and collaboration long fostered within the Tessitura community and on display at the Conference.

Three inspiring talks

Three talks will be presented to attendees of the conference live from the stage at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego:

Deconstructing the Notion of “An Audience” by Chris Lorway, Executive Director of Stanford Live 

Find Your Music™: Building Audiences through Community by Martha Gilmer, Chief Executive Officer  of San Diego Symphony 

"Michael Wang, have you eaten yet?": The Journey to Knowing Ourselves and Our Members by Nancy Yao Maasbach, President of Museum of Chinese in America 

“The term audience development is complicated. As we invite people in our community into our spaces, we need to consider if what we are actually offering them is going to meet their expectations.” Chris Lorway, Stanford Live, Deconstructing the Notion of "An Audience". 

Tessitura Learning & Community Conference

The Tessitura Learning & Community Conference is the largest annual global gathering of arts and cultural professionals, attracting passionate and intelligent digital artists, ticketers, marketers, fundraisers, developers, executives, techies, and arts & cultural mavens who are part of the Tessitura community. Over 250 sessions will be delivered at this year’s conference in San Diego, August 13 - 17.