Finland | WOMEX 2025
WOMEX 2025 will take place in Tampere, Finland, from 22 to 26 October 2025.
WOMEX – Worldwide Music Expo – brings together over 2,600 professionals (including 260 performing artists) from 90 countries, making WOMEX the leading networking platform for the world music industry. Its musical spectrum ranges from the most traditional to the new global local underground, embracing folk, roots, jazz, local and diaspora cultures as much as urban and electronic sounds from all over the globe.
WOMEX hosts 7 stages, around 700 exhibiting companies, 100+ speakers, films, an opening concert and an award ceremony across five networking days and nights.
Panels include:
- Fire and Ice: Where the Balkans Meet the North
- Queering of Pinoy Electronic Music: An Introduction
- Sound Barriers: Defending Artistic Freedom
- Artist Residencies – Models and Their Role in Music Ecosystems
- Empowered Voices – Pacific women: music and social change
- Globalising AI in Music Management – Ethics, equity & cross-continental strategies
- Nature as Collaborator
- Sync Across Borders – The challenges and rewards of licensing music internationally