2025 Speakers
Athan Billias, MIDI Association Executive Board, MIDI2Marketing
Athan Billias has dedicated his whole life to music, technical innovation and MIDI. He played keyboards with Herb Reed and the Platters and Jerry Martini from Sly and the Family Stone. He then moved into the musical instrument industry as Product Planning Manager at Korg where he helped turn the Korg M1 into the largest selling music workstation of all time. He then developed the sound library that shipped with the Sega Saturn Game Console. As a Director of Marketing at Yamaha he was involved with the product planning and marketing of many Yamaha products including the Motif Series and the Montage. He has been on The MIDI Association Executive Board for over 20 years.