Has In City gone up in the world as a music event?(The big question)

With strong speaker and live line-ups in place, this year's In the City attracted a record 2,500 delegates. So is the event getting back to its best?

Jonathan Green, Green Consulting

"It was a tremendous event this year, From my perspective as an independent, the panels were of very high quality and were not only about the music business belt music business-related areas such as telecoms and legal. The quality of the unsigned acts was really good as well and I also thought the positivity of the people outside the panels was very good."

Safta Jaffery, Taste Media

"I thought it was great. It's always good to catch up with the contacts, but I also thought the bands were very focused. I was on three of the panels, so it's hard to judge those, but the feedback I've had from everybody was that they were very useful and much more relevant than in previous years The change of venue was good as well." Martin Heath, Lizard King Records "I thought the level of debate and the level of optimism was very good probably the best it has been for a good couple of years All of the curious and upbeat people showed up, which gave the event a good buzz."

Alasdair Scott, Filter

"In The City 2004 provided a forum for ...