Billboard Latin Music Week 2026: Dates, Schedule, Speakers and Biggest Industry Themes
Billboard Latin Music Week will return to Faena Forum in Miami Beach from October 19–22, 2026, with the Billboard Latin Music Awards set to coincide with the gathering on October 22. The 37th edition brings an announced program led by Maluma, Becky G, Fuerza Regida, Rubén Blades and Pitbull, while placing AI-generated music, Mexican music, Cuban reparto, touring and catalog nostalgia on the conference agenda.
Billboard announced the four-day event in May as a forum combining artist conversations, business panels, showcases and networking. The schedule now gives that broad pitch a clearer shape: the most prominent names are paired with sessions examining the practical and cultural forces around contemporary Latin music. Billboard Brasil’s announcement confirmed the event’s return to Faena Forum for its 37th edition.
Billboard Latin Music Week returns to Faena Forum
The 2026 conference runs October 19–22 at Faena Forum in Miami Beach, according to the event’s official FAQ. Its overlap with the Billboard Latin Music Awards on October 22 makes the final day a focal point in a week that conventionally brings artists and industry executives into the same Miami orbit.
For attendees, the notable detail is the event’s split identity. It is not solely a speaker conference or a performance series: Billboard has positioned it as a four-day gathering with conversations, panels, showcases and networking. That structure matters to the 2026 program, which moves between artist-facing sessions and discussions about the infrastructure, technologies and audience habits shaping the market around those artists.
Maluma, Becky G, Fuerza Regida and Rubén Blades lead the lineup
The official lineup lists Maluma, Pitbull, Becky G, Anuel AA, Fuerza Regida, Rubén Blades, Rawayana, Grupo Frontera, Kany García, Lola Índigo, Quevedo and Ryan Castro among its speakers and performers. The names span established figures and current acts across several Latin music lanes, rather than narrowing the event to a single regional or pop format.
That breadth is reflected in the scheduled subjects. Fuerza Regida appears at a moment when the program is explicitly addressing the new Mexican music generation, while the conference’s Cuban reparto programming puts another fast-moving scene in focus. Elsewhere, Latin pop, touring and management receive dedicated panel attention. The full list of announced participants is available through the official event site.
Official Billboard Latin Music Week 2026 event artwork — Source: Billboard Latin Music Week
AI, reparto and Mexican music set October 20’s agenda
Tuesday, October 20 is scheduled to include a session with Cristina Perpiñá-Robert on AI-generated music, along with Q&As involving Fuerza Regida and Anuel AA. The day also includes a global women’s panel featuring Ana Mena, Greeicy, Lali, Lola Índigo and RaiNao, plus a Fuerza Regida performance under the Billboard En Vivo banner.
The published schedule places those appearances inside a wider set of conversations on AI and creativity, the globalization of Cuban reparto and the new Mexican music generation. It is a pointed mix: artist sessions provide the marquee draw, while the panels address questions that extend beyond any one release cycle, from emerging scene visibility to the role of new technology in music-making.
Neither the schedule nor the event announcement suggests that these themes will resolve into a single thesis. Instead, they make the Tuesday slate a concentrated example of the conference’s approach—using high-profile artist participation alongside specialist discussions about the conditions in which Latin music is being made, presented and circulated. The published schedule carries the listed sessions and performance.
Touring, management and nostalgia shape October 21
Wednesday, October 21 shifts attention toward the systems that support an artist’s public career. The program includes conversations with Maluma, Becky G, Rubén Blades and Pitbull, alongside panels on touring corridors, Latin pop, artist-management power players and music nostalgia.
Those topics put touring infrastructure and management beside catalog culture, rather than treating the live business, artist teams and listener attachment to older music as separate conversations. The schedule also identifies mental health among its central subjects, widening the frame beyond performance and promotion. For a conference built around both artists and executives, that is the connective tissue behind the headline appearances.
With the event running through October 22 and coinciding with the Billboard Latin Music Awards that day, the October 20–21 sessions form the core published conference agenda ahead of the awards-night connection. Billboard Latin Music Week’s official schedule remains the reference point for attendees as the Miami Beach program approaches.