Winter Music Convention (WMC) will make its extremely anticipated return to Miami for its thirty sixth version from Tuesday, March 24 by Thursday, March 26, 2026, headquartered on the Kimpton EPIC Lodge in Downtown Miami – the Official Miami Music Week Lodge.
WMC 2026 ushers in a brand new chapter for this legendary establishment, reaffirming its place as a worldwide hub for music, expertise, training, and tradition. The convention will characteristic two curated programming tracks (Business + Creators), day by day rooftop pool events on the Kimpton EPIC Lodge, and the Bridges for Music × Worldwide Dance Music Awards Gala, honoring excellence all through the electronic-music panorama.
Globally acknowledged because the longest-running digital music convention of its form, WMC returns with a program constructed to attach trade leaders, creators, and rising expertise by panels, keynotes, workshops, exhibitor showcases, and curated networking.
Set towards the Kimpton EPIC Lodge overlooking Biscayne Bay, WMC 2026 re-centers Miami because the nexus of Miami Music Week and the worldwide digital music group.
WMC 2026: Each day Programming Snapshot
Tuesday, March 24: Badge Pickup & Opening Pool Celebration
Wednesday, March 25: Panels, Workshops, Exhibitors & Networking Alternatives, Pool Celebration
Thursday, March 26: Remaining Programming Periods, Closing Pool Celebration, and Bridges for Music × Worldwide Dance Music Awards (IDMA) Gala
Instructional Programming for Business & Creators
WMC 2026 delegates will join by panels, keynotes, workshops, and networking alternatives, designed to encourage each trade leaders and creators.
- WMC // INDUSTRY: The Business Monitor is constructed for music and stay occasions professionals. Programming consists of panels, workshops, and networking periods designed to dive deep into the enterprise of music, occasion manufacturing, rising applied sciences, and the evolving panorama of dance tradition. From thought management discussions with high executives to sensible insights from adjoining industries like tech, advertising and marketing, and social media, this observe is the place to attach, collaborate, and form the way forward for the worldwide digital music ecosystem.
- WMC // CREATORS: The Creators Monitor is devoted to DJs, producers, and content material creators shaping as we speak’s and tomorrow’s scene. Anticipate gear demos and showcases from main manufacturers, artist-led workshops, and profession path breakout periods designed to encourage and inform. This observe places the highlight on creativity, empowering the following era of music makers and giving them the instruments, expertise, and connections to reach an ever-changing panorama.
Bridges for Music x Worldwide Dance Music Awards (IDMA) Gala – Thursday, March 26
Thursday night concludes with a landmark collaboration between Bridges for Music – a worldwide nonprofit that empowers underserved communities by music and training – and the International Dance Music Awards (IDMA), digital music’s longest-running awards establishment.
Bridges for Music has constructed a strong repute for its work in bridging cultural and financial divides by music-led education schemes. Identified for its pioneering Academy in South Africa and for the help from artists like Richie Hawtin, Skrillex, Martin Garrix and Black Espresso, the group has change into a worldwide mannequin for social affect by digital music and is increasing quickly throughout the African continent.
The Worldwide Dance Music Awards, established in 1985, are digital music’s authentic award platform, honoring inventive and technical excellence throughout the worldwide dance panorama. From pioneering producers and rising acts to trade leaders and behind-the-scenes innovators, the IDMAs celebrates the tradition’s evolution and future.
The 2026 Gala will mark a brand new period for each establishments – merging philanthropy, recognition, and celebration into one unforgettable night time. The occasion will characteristic in-person award displays, artist performances, and alternatives to help the mission of Bridges for Music by ticket proceeds, auctions and consciousness.
Be aware: The gala is not included with WMC badges and can be individually ticketed. Extra particulars to observe.
Miami Music Week Lodge: A Unified Imaginative and prescient between ULTRA Worldwide and We Group
Since 1985, Winter Music Convention has served because the heartbeat of the worldwide dance tradition – a gathering floor the place the trade’s pioneers, innovators, and future leaders converge to form the sound and spirit of what’s subsequent.
Beneath the stewardship of ULTRA Worldwide – the world’s most worldwide music competition model – WMC 2026 continues to evolve as a forward-looking incubator for concepts and innovation whereas honoring its legacy because the trade’s annual cornerstone.
Past the academic programming, the Kimpton EPIC Lodge will remodel into the Official Miami Music Week Lodge, internet hosting day by day rooftop pool events on the Kimpton EPIC Lodge, mixing enterprise, creativity, and celebration in Downtown Miami.
The Kimpton EPIC’s panoramic pool deck gives a particular mixture of luxurious and power, serving because the week’s social centerpiece and gathering level for artists, executives, and followers alike.
We Group, the award-winning London-born collective behind WMC’s manufacturing and operations, brings many years of experience in large-scale competition and occasion supply – together with manufacturing, operations, well being & security and licensing. The groups, primarily based in London and Miami, have delivered experiences for among the most famous promoters within the UK and US. Constructing on its profitable enlargement into the US, We Group shares WMC’s imaginative and prescient to craft experiences that merge training, leisure, and group affect on a worldwide scale.
WMC 2026 will conclude on Thursday, March 26, simply earlier than Extremely Music Pageant’s Twenty sixth-anniversary version begins at Bayfront Park (March 27 – 29, 2026), bridging the convention, the Official Miami Music Week Lodge, and the competition into one unified weeklong celebration of digital music tradition. Tickets to Ultra Music Festival 2026 are on sale now.
Be a part of Us At Winter Music Convention 2026!
| Keep tuned for extra bulletins within the coming weeks, together with panel subjects, keynote audio system, and pool occasion programming.
Winter Music Convention and the Miami Music Week Lodge have formally partnered with FEVER and DICE to offer attendees with the very best buyer expertise. For 2026, WMC will provide two badge tiers: WMC Entry and WMC Professional: The WMC Entry badge supplies delegates with admittance to all Winter Music Convention Programming, together with keynotes, panels, exhibitor areas, and workshops. Convention programming begins on Wednesday (twenty fifth) and runs by Thursday (Twenty sixth), with early badge pickup on Tuesday (twenty fourth) on the registration desk on the 14th Flooring. NOTE: The Entry badge doesn’t embrace admittance to any of the pool events or sanctioned occasions.The WMC Professional badge supplies delegates with admittance to all Winter Music Convention Programming, together with keynotes, panels, exhibitor areas, and workshops. This badge additionally covers pool events on the Kimpton EPIC Lodge, happening from Tuesday to Thursday (1 pm – 10 pm) that includes top-tier DJs and label companions. Moreover, the Professional badge grants entry to all our sanctioned occasions throughout Miami Music Week, with choose events to be introduced as they’re secured. NOTE: Entry to sanctioned occasions isn’t assured and is usually the primary hour to 2 hours after doorways open. |
