CONFERENCES | PANELS | GUEST LECTURES
• HITS HOME 2026
(Featured House Guest / Speaker) - Nashville
• Media Insights & Engagement Conference 2026
(Opening Keynote, The New Rules of Cross-Platform & Global Storytelling) - Miami
• Columbia Graduate School of Business 2026
(Speaker, Fireside with Soy Kim, Representation, Identity, and Media) - NYC
• Harvard Club of New York Fireside Series 2026
(Panelist, Entertainment, Media, and Publishing Pathways - NYC
• Youth Marketing Summit NYC 2025
(Speaker, Shaping the Next Generation of Influence) - NYC
• USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences: Korean Studies Forum 2025
(Panelist, Bridging Korea and America in the Global Media Industry) - LA
• Yale School of Management AAAPIA Fireside Series 2025
(Speaker, Fireside with Soy Kim MBA '19) - New Haven
• Harvard Business School Asian Business Conference 2025
(Panelist, The Future of Global Entertainment Business) - Boston
• Lunar Accel Spring Accelerator 2025
(Moderator, Closing Keynote: Katie Soo, COO of DICE) - NYC
• Jump.Global Summit 2024
(Keynote Moderator, Intuition & Intentionality with Vickie Nauman) - LA
• USC Annenberg: K-Pop Summit 2024
(Panelist, Evolution of K-pop Marketing) - LA
• She Is The Music NYC x YouTube Music 2024 (Panelist, Career Pathways in Music) - NYC
• Digilogue Days 2023 (Panelist, Globalization of Music) - NYC
• MU:CON 2023: Open Session Keynote (Speaker, The Power of Data) - Seoul
- PR: “Big Data the Game Changer of the Music Business - MU:CON 2023,” Financial News, 2023.09.07
- PR: “Global Music Business Success Strategy,” Yonhap News, 2023.09.05
- PR: “Soy Kim Speaks At MU:CON 2023 Open Session,” NEWSIS, 2023.09.05
• Music Forward Foundation: All Access Fest 2023 (Panelist, Streaming & Tech Careers) - Virtual
• The Digilogue x TikTok SoundOn Present: AAPI Women in Music & Tech 2023 (Moderator) - LA
• The MLC: AAPI Music Industry Roundtable 2023 (Panelist, How AAPI identity & community
contribute to the U.S. music industry) - Virtual
• Music Biz 2023 (Moderator, Spotify for Artists Masterclass: The Modern Artist’s Toolkit) - Nashville
• Trusted Advisor x Axos Bank: MUSIC x NYC Summit 2023
(Moderator, Tech, Transparency, Rights, Royalties: What's Needed to Move Forward?) - NYC
• Gold House x Venice Music 2023 (Panelist, Building a Sustainable Future for Independent Artists) - Virtual
• Drexel University Music Industry Summit 2023 (Panelist & Mentor)
• NYU Stern School of Business MBA Program 2023:
Media Entertainment Sports Association x Asian Business Society
(Guest Speaker, Career crafting with purpose + bridging U.S. & Asia)
• SXSW 2023 (Moderator, The Modern Artist’s Toolkit) - Austin
• Women in Music x BMI x Storefront Music 2023 (Panelist, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Music) - NYC
• USC School of Annenberg 2022 (Guest Lecture, COMM 314: The Evolution of K-pop)
• 2022 Spotify AAPI Entrepreneurship Fireside Chat:
Wong Fu Productions & Bopomofo Founder Philip Wang (Moderator)
• Forté Foundation x UVA Darden: MBA Alumnae Pathways 2022 (Speaker, Yale SOM)
• The Digilogue: Patreon Series 2022 (Speaker, Product marketing in music-tech)
• Spotify Raising the Volume Conference 2022 (Panelist, Early career pathways and career pivots) - NYC
• Music Biz 2022 (Panelist, Asian American advocacy in music industry;
Panelist, The Female Experience in Music-Tech) - Nashville
• 2022 Spotify AAPI Heritage Month Fireside Chat: Actor Justin H. Min (Moderator)
• Country Radio Seminar 2022 (Speaker, Spotify for Artists: Using data to grow your fanbase) - Nashville
• NY:LON CONNECT 2022 (Moderator, Distribution in emerging growth markets)
• Shesaid.so Industry Icons 2021 (Speaker, Future of artist marketing)
• LA Film School Music Summit 2021 (Panelist, Artist marketing)
• CSUF Media Fest 2021 (Speaker, Jumpstarting your career in music)
• Yale School of Management 2021: Media & Entertainment Club
(Panelist, Transitioning from MBA to entertainment)
• 2021 Spotify AAPI Heritage Month Fireside Chat: Actor Simu Liu & Jason Y. Lee (Moderator)
• The XX Project 2021 (Panelist, Navigating the industry as women in music)
• Color of Music Collective x DistroKid x Asian American Arts Alliance 2021
(Panelist, Challenges AAPI Face Working in the Music Industry)
• #NEXTGEN_U 2021 (Panelist, Global cultures in music)
• LA Film School Music Summit 2020 (Panelist, Future of digital music)
• NY:LON CONNECT 2020 (Panelist, K-pop, K-culture, and the Korean market) - NYC
PUBLICATIONS | WRITTEN WORK
(representative selection below)
• HYPEBEAST Digital Cover Story, January 2026
”Park Chan-wook: The Master of Dark Irony” (online) - Writer, Interviewer, Translator
• HYPEBEAST Magazine Cover Story, #36 The Platinum Issue (F/W 2025)
”Twin Flames: CxM, SEVENTEEN” (print & online) - Writer, Interviewer, Translator
• Billboard Cover Story, October 2023
”Can Japanese Girl Group XG Make X-Pop’ the Next 'K-Pop?” (print & online) - Writer, Interviewer
• HYPEBEAST: For Soy Kim, Music Marketing Is Cultural Storytelling (online)
• Billboard Feature, April 2023 - The K-Pop Issue
”K-Pop Star to Watch: NewJeans” (print & online) - Writer
• Billboard Feature, April 2023 - The K-Pop Issue
”What’s Next For BTS And BLACKPINK” (print & online) - Writer
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