Here's to the next 10 years.

"For better or worse, it's easier than ever to become a dance music star: the only limits are your imagination and harnessing the new technology at your disposal."

Those 10 years didn't seem like such a long time after all. In fact, the noughties have passed in the blink of a hyper speed download. Truly, what's defined the last decade in dance music has been the vastly increased possibilities of - and reliance upon - digital technology and computers.

They've also democraticised DJing and dance music production. For better or worse, it's easier than ever to become a dance music star: the only limits are your imagination and harnessing the new technology at your disposal. Luckily, imagination is in greater supply than ever; it feels like the cusp of not just a modern epoch, but of a revoloution in music, too.

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The 2010 Rio Music Conference thinks big....

Inspired by Miami's WMC, last years inaugural Rio Music Conference proved a successful start to the city's attempts to focus the attention of dance music's global community upon it. With guest DJs David Guetta, Armin van Burren, Sven Vath, Erick Morillo, and Pete Tong helping to draw over 17000 people, it boasted a host of networking events, all taking place at the same time as Rio's world famous carnival.

With the city since confirmed to host the 2016 Olympics, confidence is riding high and there are larger plans too for this year's Rio Music Conference, which takes place 10th - 16th February.

"This year is about getting the scene more organised so we can increase the exposure of Rio and get more visitors to the city," says RMC's Executive Director Claudio Da Rocha Mirando Filho.

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