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ADC 2015 to 2035

Looking Back at 10 Years of Audio Dev, and Peering Forward at the Next 10

00:00 - 00:00 | Friday 31st October 2025 |
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The 10th anniversary of ADC is a great excuse for a look back at how our industry has changed over the last decade. And thanks to the huge disruption that AI is having on the whole tech sector right now, 2025 is also a very relevant time to try to make some educated guesses about where it’s all heading.

This is too big a topic for one person to tackle on their own. But after 25 years in the audio industry, I’m lucky to be connected with a lot of the key people - so my plan for this talk is to call on the movers, shakers, and big thinkers in the audio world, and find out what they think.

And then, I’ll attempt to summarise and present all their opinions into a narrative, making it as useful (and entertaining) as possible, and will add my own twists.

Obviously a lot of this talk will depend on the opinions that people share with me, but the sort of questions I want to ask them include:

  • Statistics: how much has audio tech economy grown? Will it continue?
  • What were the biggest changes in the last 10 years? What hasn’t changed?
  • How has coding changed?
  • What aspects of the future do most gurus agree or disagree on?
  • What range of optimism/pessimism are industry leaders feeling?
  • How is audio doing compared to our neighbouring tech sectors, e.g. video?
  • What are the important past and future trends in terms of hardware vs software?
  • What should someone new to the industry be learning or focusing on right now?
  • Are we heading for AI doom, or AI utopia?

Julian Storer

Founder

Cmajor Software Ltd

I'm the creator of JUCE, Tracktion, Cmajor and CHOC 🙂

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