This year's two-day WISE The Future Think Tank event expands from its humble beginnings last year to not only include 16 panel talks featuring a huge array of industry experts which will span trends in AI, music business and performance, the art market, Chinese culture, fashion gamification, and beyond, but also two full evenings of music. For such, they've called upon the help of Hamburg's Reeperbahn Festival ("Germany's answer to SXSW") at the Danish Cultural Center, organizing two free music showcases loaded with eclectic and individually strong Chinese and European acts.

Of the acts, homegrown talent includes the likes of Xiamen's LOWS0N, fresh off a gig at Austin, Texas' SXSW and a contestant in the upcoming season of Rap of China; Chengdu's all-female indie-rockers The Hormones; and Beijing's very own veteran synth-drummer duo White+.

From further afield, the foreign contingent spans Hong Kong's noisy art-punkers DAVID BORING, Argentinian electro-grime rapper/producer Catnapp, Dutch music-tech pioneer Chagall (pictured at top), Austrian hip-popper Mavi Phoenix, and Germany's hopeless romantic crooner Jungstötter.

For details on tickets and times, click here.