Winter Music Conference Is Returning to Miami Music Week in 2025

Winter Music Conference is returning to Miami Music Week in 2025.

Organizers today (Dec. 12) announced that the three-day conference will happen during the annual dance music industry gathering in Miami this March, with the conference taking place March 26-28 at the beachfront Eden Roc Miami Beach hotel.

This will be the first time since 2019 that the conference, which has a history going back 35 years, will be part of Miami Music Week, as the 2020 conference was cancelled due to the pandemic.

The 2025 event is set to focus on myriad facets of dance music business and culture through educational panels, keynotes and networking sessions. Specific topics will be announced in the coming months, with conversations to focus on agency dynamics, licensing, streaming, publicity, A&R, emerging social media platforms, brand longevity and more. Registration for the conference is open now.

WMC 2025 will end with a March 28 awards show, which will be the first ever hybrid event from the Electronic Dance Music Awards (EDMAs) and the International Dance Music Awards (IDMAs). This show will feature live performances and award presentations.

Winter Music Conference is owned by Ultra Music Festival, which kicks off in Miami the same day the conference ends, Friday, March 28. The three-day festival will again happen at its longtime home in Miami’s Bayfront Park, with the 2025 lineup thus far featuring artists including Armin van Buuren, Carl Cox, Afrojck, Tiësto, Martin Garrix and Hardwell, along with pairings like the previously announced Anyma b2b Solomun set and Pendulum playing both solo and back to back with Deadmau5, with the latter artist also performing his first ever career-spanning “retro5pective” set.

Launched in 1985, Winter Music Conference was held every March in Miami (prior to the pandemic) and is part of the larger event known as Miami Music Week, a marathon of dance music performances and parties. Drawing an estimated 100,000 attendees and 3,500 music professionals from more than 70 countries at its height, WMC hosts a schedule of events, parties, seminars and workshops and serves as one of the largest industry networking events in the dance/electronic music genre.

Though the Ultra Music Festival was originally spawned by the conference, it eventually surpassed it in terms of influence, and its parent company went on to acquire WMC in 2018.