As AI-generated music, synthetic artists, voice cloning, and streaming fraud become mainstream, the industry faces a growing trust deficit. Turo Pekari from Music Tech Europe brings experts Surbhi Gupta (Hirani & Associates), Margarita Grubina (Respeecher) Scott Cohen (former The Orchard/Warner Music Group) and Simon Dilling (ColliderScope Collective / MALT) together, to discuss if trust has become the industry’s most valuable asset. In another panel Pekari explores what happens when creating and building are no longer scarce skills because of technology with Kushal Patel (MassiveMusic), Matthias Strobel Hohmann (MusicTech Germany) and Alisha Outridge (Byte&Chord Inc). Music has attracted billions into technology, catalogues, streaming, creator tools and, lately, AI. But yesterday's big bet isn't necessarily tomorrow's. At the ESNS Conference Aga Samitowska (MusicTech Poland / Creative Industries Institute), Steve Sabatier (Chenavari Investment Managers / STRASS Prod / ANote Music), Nick Maiale (jump.global & HITS HOME) and Jenny Björk (Nordic Music Tech) make some actual bets on where the next generation of value in music will come from.