SHIFT’s organizers are betting that Miami Music Week’s greatest drawback isn’t too few occasions, however too many shallow ones.
The producers behind the 2025 Winter Music Convention and the Digital Dance Music Awards are launching SHIFT, a four-day occasion collection centered on connecting EDM artists straight with trade professionals.
Debuting March 24-27, 2026, SHIFT is poised to launch as Miami Music Week’s newest try to resolve the networking drawback: too many enterprise playing cards exchanged, too few alternatives created. The brand new collection ditches the standard convention mannequin to offer “curated encounters” for artists and professionals, in keeping with organizers.
The pitch is easy and well timed: get rising expertise in the identical room because the individuals who can really advance their careers. Document label reps, reserving brokers and managers will take part in periods designed for face-to-face interplay with the aim of “high-value networking,” per SHIFT. Which means conferences and demo drops with high-profile digital music A&Rs listening in actual time as an alternative of the umpteenth panel dialogue about the way forward for streaming.
“Music Week in Miami has all the time been about connection, however the trade has been lacking a spot the place these connections can really take root,” SHIFT’s organizers stated in a press launch. “You requested for it, and we listened. SHIFT is constructed for that goal. That is about creating entry, not lectures—a spot the place the appropriate folks can meet, join and open doorways.”
The occasion coincides with the EDMAs shifting to The Clevelander South Seaside for 2026. The ceremony, which has emerged because the digital dance music trade’s preeminent award present, is shifting from its earlier venue to the Ocean Drive landmark. Entry to subsequent 12 months’s EDMAs comes via successful an award, receiving an invite or buying a restricted early-bird SHIFT ticket.
SHIFT’s inaugural programming runs Tuesday, March twenty fourth via Friday, March twenty seventh at The Clevelander and different partnering South Seaside places. Tickets could be bought right here.
