Hazel Savage

With 15 years experience in the industry, Hazel is a music-tech lifer, guitarist and CEO/Co-Founder at Musiio. She started her music-tech journey as an early employee at Shazam and spent time understanding the pain points of the industry at Pandora, Universal and HMV before co-founding music AI company Musiio in 2018. Musiio was acquired by SoundCloud in 2022 to bolster the music platform’s discovery capabilities, and Musiio CEO Hazel moved across to take a role a leadership role as VP, Music Intelligence.

Hazel travels the world speaking at conferences and educating catalogue owners about the value of artificial intelligence integration and digital transformation in the music industry. As a female leader in the heavily male-dominated industries of music and tech, Hazel offers a breath of fresh air and insight, with interesting and humorous anecdotes, as well as easy-to-follow explanations and digestible use cases of artificial intelligence technology.