ADE Green completes its program for 30 YEARS ADE, bringing together the urgent questions shaping sustainability and social change across electronic music. Taking over Felix Meritis on ADE Friday as is tradition, the full-day program moves from climate and circularity to community, ownership, access and the future of the dance floor.
As environmental and social challenges continue to reshape the world around us, the music industry has its own questions to address. ADE Green brings together perspectives on climate impact, community and the structures behind our industry, creating space to explore what can change and where music can make a difference.
Explore the full ADE Green program here, accessible only with an ADE Pro Pass. See the additions to our program below:
Why Humans Still Need Dance Floors
In an era of loneliness, polarisation and digital connection, what is the role of the dance floor? Artists, clubs, researchers and community builders discuss the social value of the dance floor and its role in fostering well-being, community and social cohesion.
The Road to Low Impact Touring
Can battery tech, slow touring and artists pushing the boundaries of what’s possible help lower the industry’s carbon footprint? Jasper Goossens (Showpower), Chloe Gatignol (Courts Circuits) and Jamal Chalabi (Backlash Productions) explore what is needed to shift towards lower-impact touring practices.
Funding Under Fire: How Scenes Survive When Systems Fail You
As public funding and traditional revenue streams come under pressure, music scenes are finding new ways to sustain their communities. With perspectives from Kyiv, Ramallah and Beirut, this panel explores community-driven fundraising, cultural preservation and the role music spaces can play during periods of crisis.
Prepared? How the Coming Super El Niño Will Affect You
Extreme weather is becoming a more frequent challenge for festivals and events. With a super El Niño on the horizon, understanding how changing conditions could affect your event is more important than ever. Find out how you, your event or your artists can prepare and put countermeasures in place.
Music for Change: Building a More Equitable and Sustainable Industry
Bridges for Music, In Place of War, Tectroit and She Said So come together to explore how music can drive environmental action, gender equity, social justice and community development, and what lasting change looks like in practice.
The full program ADE so far can be found on ADE’s website and the complete program will be announced in the coming month. Individual tickets are available through ADE’s program, and the ADE Pro Pass is available here.
1996—2026: 30 Years of Driving Electronic Music Forward
Over the past three decades, ADE has grown to become the most influential breeding ground for electronic music; building the framework that helped a new genre to be recognised worldwide as an art form and a thriving business, into what is now an immense global industry. More specials, initiatives and events celebrating 30 Years of ADE will be unveiled throughout the coming months.
About the Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation
The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to nurturing electronic music, its culture and its industry worldwide. The organisation devotes itself to stimulating development, innovation and talent, gathering the global industry and laying a foundation for future generations. The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), an initiative of Buma, has grown into the world’s largest and most influential club-based festival and conference for electronic music. The event continues to grow and develop each year, featuring over 3,300 artists throughout 1,200+ events in over 200 venues. The five-day event features every conceivable aspect of electronic music culture, with dedicated conference programming, an extensive Arts & Culture programme, live music and DJ/artist performances, all spread across the city of Amsterdam. More information about ADE can be found here.
ADE – Electronic Music Gathers Here
The Amsterdam Dance Event is organised by The Amsterdam Dance Event Foundation.
Founding partner: BumaStemra | Main partner: Heineken
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