SF MusicTech Summit VIII

SF MusicTech Summit #8 took place on May 9, 2011

Past Speakers

John Adams
Twitter, Operations Engineer

John Adams has worked in computer security, operations, and systems engineering for over 16 years. Prior to Twitter, he has worked at Apple, Inktomi, c|net, and a major video-on-demand site, improving security, performance, and reliability at large scale. Follow on Twitter: @netik

Gabe Adiv
TuneUp Media, CEO

Avid music lover and industry leader, Gabriel Adiv, founded TuneUp Media in 2007, which has since developed the #1 selling plug-in for iTunes, with support for Windows Media Player, and has amassed over 2.5 million registered users worldwide. TuneUp was born out of the personal frustration with the shortcomings of his own digital music library; too many songs titled ‘Track 01’, no cover art, and no easy means of accessing additional album, artist or concert information. Everything he loved about his vinyl & CD collection was lost in translation, as the digital music industry scrambled to catch up. TuneUp not only addresses these issues, but also taps the broader digital and social media universe to create an experience far beyond anything Adiv could have found in his liner notes. Additionally, Adiv has several entrepreneurial ventures under his belt, along with a variety of roles in sales, business development and marketing, including 5 years with Gracenote. Follow on Twitter: @TuneUp

Dave Allen
NORTH, Director, Insights & Digital Media

Dave Allen is the Director, Insights & Digital Media at NORTH, a Creative Brand Agency that forges connections between brands and people using music, film, interactive and design. Some of NORTH’s clients currently include Portland General Electric, KEEN, Regence BlueCross BlueShield and Deschutes Brewing.

As founding member and bass player for the post-punk band Gang of Four, and later a digital music consultant for Fortune Five Hundred companies, Dave Allen has been a frontline player in the music industry. Adjusting with industry evolution, Dave has been band founder, label owner, corporate advisor and a Digital Strategy pioneer. He has worked at companies such as Intel, eMusic and Nemo Design.

Dave is an adjunct professor teaching classes in digital brand strategy the University of Oregon, Eugene, working under the Chambers Distinguished Professor of Advertising, Deborah K. Morrison. Follow Dave on Twitter: @DaveAtNorth

Kevin Arnold
IODA, Founder and CEO

Founder and CEO of IODA, Kevin guides the growth of one of the largest digital distributors of independent music in the world, combining his dedication to independents and his unique understanding of the digital music world to benefit IODA’s global client base. Wearing another hat, Kevin also directs Noise Pop Industries, which produces San Francisco’s internationally renowned Noise Pop Festival, which he founded in 1993, as well as the Treasure Island Music Festival and other Bay Area cultural events.

A terminal music fan and technology geek, Kevin learned about databases during a stint at Oracle then quickly jumped into the bubbling digital music sector early at online music startup Listen.com. As director of Data Services for Listen, Kevin was able to combine his love for music and technology by guiding the growth and development of Listen’s complex music metadata systems, data integration tools, and music royalty data warehouse for the Rhapsody digital music subscription service. While the prospect of creating compelling legal music services that catered to individual tastes was exciting, the realization that they would be focused overwhelmingly on major label music wasn’t. Kevin founded IODA in 2003 to help independents find their way in the new world of digital music. Follow on Twitter: @iodapromonet

Kihong Bae
Musicshake, General Manager

Kihong Bae is in charge of driving the overall business of Musicshake in the US. Previously, he was a Senior Marketing Manager for Microsoft Korea, in charge of devising marketing strategies to increase market share and enhance Microsoft’s global brand in Korea. Kihong grew up in Spain and speaks Korean, English and Spanish. He holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Stanford University and is an MBA candidate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Follow on Twitter: @musicshake

Darryl Ballantyne
LyricFind, CEO

At LyricFind, Darryl is responsible for the overall strategy and direction of the company, including licensing and distribution. Darryl pioneered the digital lyrics space, successfully negotiating the first-ever mass lyrics licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing in 2005.

Darryl Ballantyne originally conceived LyricFind in 2000 with Mohamed Moutadayne and Chris Book at Ontario’s University of Waterloo to be the largest, most accurate destination for lyrics on the Internet. Officially launched in 2004, the company pioneered the licensed digital lyrics space, successfully negotiating the first-ever mass lyrics licensing deal with EMI Music Publishing in 2005. Since then, Darryl has grown LyricFind to be the largest legal, licensed lyrics database in the world, with millions of licensed tracks available and thousands of lyrics sublicensing clients.

LyricFind has established licensing and content relationships with over 2,000 music publishers, AMG, The Harry Fox Agency and Rovi. The company now delivers services to over 1,000 website and mobile applications that want to enhance their music products with lyrics, including Microsoft’s Bing, Rhapsody, Lyrics.com, Slacker, Shazam, Virgin Media UK, Cox Radio, and mSpot. In addition, LyricFind offers two direct to consumer mobile applications, LyricFind Lite and LyricFind Pro for the iPhone, iPad, and Android platforms.

As an authority on licensing and digital content, Darryl has spoken at industry events including SF Music Tech and Canadian Music Week. Before launching LyricFind, Darryl was Manager of Digital Development & Distribution at EMI Music in Los Angeles, where he was involved in deals with companies such as MusicMatch, Napster, and iTunes. Darryl earned a Bachelor of Mathematics with a Business minor from the University of Waterloo. Follow on Twitter: @DBToronto

Vince Bannon
Getty Images, VP, Entertainment Partnerships and Development

Vince Bannon is responsible for the development and management of strategic partnerships integral to the growth of Getty Images‘ presence in digital media. He oversees the acquisitions of premium digital content, including Michael Ochs Archives and Pump Audio, and securing partnerships with content producers such as Gracenote, Rovi, Kobalt, and Sony/ATV.

Bannon has more than 30 years of industry experience. Before joining Getty Images in 2004, Bannon was EVP, Music Worldwide for http://image.net, a leading distributor of digital publicity materials for clients including Universal Studios, Paramount and Disney. Other senior positions include Head of A+R for Redline Entertainment, SVP of Artist Development at 550/Epic Records and President of Concert Company Ritual Inc. where he worked with artists such as Nirvana, The Police, Prince, Oasis, Celine Dion among many others. @pointer8708

Matthew Barkoff
Badgeville, VP Sales, Media & Entertainment

Matthew Barkoff joined Badgeville as VP Sales, Media and Entertainment where he is responsible for driving new business strategy and managing Media and Entertainment. With over 15 years of experience in start-up enterprise and SaaS technology companies, Matthew is working to help media companies drive engagement on websites and mobile using social loyalty techniques.

Before joining Badgeville, Matthew was Vice President of Sales, Media & Entertainment at Clickability, where he led the team to 20x revenue growth. He has served in various business executive management positions at 7 start-ups including Cadabra Inc. (acquired by Overture in 2000 (formerly GoTo.com)) where he was Director of Business & Corporate Development, and Netmosphere (acquired by Critical Path in 1999) where he was Director of Enterprise Sales.

Matthew graduated from UC Davis in 1995 with a degree in Economics and a minor in Computer Science. He was part of a two year program called the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, where he discovered his passion of start-ups, and what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur. Follow on Twitter: @MatthewBarkoff

Gabe Benveniste
SonicLiving, CEO

Gabe Benveniste founded SonicLiving in 2006 out of a desire to provide
music fans with a better way of finding out in advance when their
favorite bands were touring, a convenient way to purchase concert
tickets, and a place to meet up with friends attending shows. Since
the mid 1990s, he has built several websites that blend culture and
technology, of which SonicLiving is the culmination. As the
Internet’s leading concert discovery service, SonicLiving connects
music fans online and in-person through communities created around the
live shows their favorite bands play.

Prior to SonicLiving, Gabe was at Pixar Animation Studios where he
built a particular expertise creating collaborative websites that
streamlined the workflow for many of the acclaimed studio’s
critical functions. During his six-year tenure there he also was at
the forefront in development of Macintosh OS X maintenance and
deployment, a process that was subsequently adopted by firms such
Genentech and others.

Gabe has spoken on behalf of Pixar at the Apple Worldwide Developers
Conference and O’Reilly’s OS X Conference.

Gabe competed in the 2003 World Beard and Mustache Championship, where
his prodigious chops propelled him to sixth place (out of six) in the
first-ever sideburn contest. His work has been featured in Playboy,
MTV and Wired. Follow on Twitter: @gabevidal

Joe Berkovitz
Noteflight LLC / Founder

Joe is the founder of Noteflight LLC, whose groundbreaking music notation platform allows users to create, share and view sheet music in the cloud. Joe has been immersed in the software world for over 30 years, and is also an active composer and pianist. Most recently VP of Engineering at the innovative e-commerce company Allurent, Joe was also Chief Architect at music startup Ruckus Networks, and as a Senior Architect at ATG he led the development of a number of pioneering software products. Joe is a frequent and sought-after speaker at software conferences and has contributed a substantial number of open-source projects to the development community, ranging from pattern-based application frameworks to code coverage tools. Back in the misty dawn of time, he studied at New England Conservatory of Music. Follow Joe on Twitter: @joeberkovitz

Geert Bevin
Eigenlabs, Senior Software Developer

Geert Bevin is a passion-driven singer, guitarist, songwriter and software developer for over 20 years. As a consultant, he has worked for companies all around the world, primarily using or contributing to open-source technologies such as Java, RIFE, OpenLaszlo, Gentoo Linux, EigenD. As a musician he has recorded two albums, first solo and now with his band Flytecase, while actively touring around Belgium. He started playing the Eigenharp Pico since it came out in December 2009 and moved on to the Eigenharp Alpha six months later. Geert joined Eigenlabs in August 2010 as a senior software developer to help create the most expressive electronic musical instrument for live performance. For more info, visit: EigenZone http://www.eigenzone.org. Follow on Twitter:@gbevin

Brandon Boyd
Incubus, Lead Singer

Having sold over 13 million albums worldwide, Incubus‘ extraordinary career has spanned over a decade, and includes six studio albums, which have spawned a total of thirteen Top 10 Rock hits with four singles debuting at #1 upon their release. The multi-platinum quintet’s last studio album Light Grenades debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 (highest charting album debut of band’s career) and has sold over 800k copies to-date in the US.

Hailing from Calabasas, California, Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger and Jose Pasillas formed Incubus in 1991 while they were in high school with Chris Kilmore joining in 1998 and Ben Kenney joining in 2003. The band’s break came in 1999 with the singles, “Pardon Me,” “Stellar” and “Drive,” from their second full-length, double-platinum selling disc Make Yourself. The group’s third album, Morning View, released in 2001, debuted at #2 on the album chart and included the radio hits “Wish You Were Here,” “Nice to Know You” and “Warning.” In 2004 Incubus released A Crow Left of the Murder which achieved platinum status on the strength of the #1 hit “Megalomanic.” Follow on Twitter: @IncubusBand

John Britton
Music Hack Day, Co-Organizer / Twilio, Developer Evangelist

John instigated Music Hack Day NYC and was part of the team that brought it to life. He’s a maker and world traveler living in New York. John is also a core contributor to Peer 2 Peer University, a free online learning community. @johndbritton

Antony Bruno
Billboard Magazine, Exec. Dir., Content & Programming, Digital/Mobile

Antony Bruno joined Billboard in 2005 to cover the emerging field of digital media-including all digital music services, devices, and technologies as well as videogames, mobile and social networking-for both the weekly print magazine and online at www.billboard.biz. He also oversees the programming activities for Billboard’s digital-related conferences and panels. Before joining Billboard, Bruno was Assistant VP of Wireless Internet Development at CTIA-The Wireless Association. Previously, he was Senior Writer with RCR Wireless News, where he spearheaded the trade newspaper’s wireless Internet coverage.

Antony works from his home office in Denver, CO where he lives with his wife and daughter. He provides commentary on the digital entertainment market to media outlets nationwide-such as USA Today, The Washington Post, The Boston Herald, CNBC and NPR-and is a sought-after speaker and moderator at multiple industry events. He holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism. Follow on Twitter: @antonyNBruno

Josh Builder
The Orchard, Vice President of Product Development and Operations

As Vice President of Product Development and Operations at The Orchard, Josh Builder oversees product strategy, product technology design and content management/delivery systems. Prior to The Orchard, Josh managed wireless technology trials at T-Mobile. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon, Josh started a record label, North Street Records, and a music website, Loose Record, which covered live music in 6 cities. He’s been an avid record collector since his early teens. Follow on Twitter: @Jbuildit

Joe Burzinski
Hal Leonard Corporation, VP, Digital Enterrpise Solutions

For the past 13 years, Joe and his talented team have placed Hal Leonard at the forefront of the digital revolution, providing quality, legal content – print music, lyrics, streaming audio & video lessons, trade books and much more – on demand, via every viable new digital delivery channel. Joe is charged with exploiting Hal Leonard’s digital assets by working with in-house staff, as well as third party technology companies, to create new and innovative products.

Joe holds a diploma in computer science from Kentucky Polytechnic and is an accomplished musician, having earned a BM in trumpet performance from Philadelphia’s prestigious Curtis Institute of Music. As a member of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Joe performed under such celebrated conductors as Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta and Andre Previn. After graduation, he was appointed principal trumpet of the National Orchestra of New York and continues to perform today with the Wisconsin Philharmonic and the Festival City Symphony. Follow on Twitter: @halleonardcorp

Jim Cady
Slacker, President & CEO

As the President & CEO of Slacker, Jim has been instrumental in Slacker’s success by not only driving the team internally, but has also been key in securing many of the core strategic relationships. Jim has led two startups to annual revenues of more than $100 million and successfully led established publicly held companies. The majority of Jim’s career has been spent in consumer electronics where Jim was President of Rio Digital Audio, a digital music industry pioneering company whose core technology has been recognized as one of the 100 Most Important Developments by the Consumer Electronics Association. While at Rio, Jim grew sales from zero to over $150 million in a three year period, before selling the company to SONICblue. Prior to Rio, Jim was a group President at Diamond Multimedia, and EVP & COO at Supra Corporation. Jim’s honors include a “Silver Anvil Award” from the Public Relations Society of America for best consumer products marketing campaign for Rio Digital Audio and over 150 best product awards globally during his career. Follow on Twitter: @slackerradio

Bryan Calhoun

SoundExchange, Vice President of New Media and External Affairs

As SoundExchange‘s VP of New Media and External Affairs, Bryan Calhoun is instrumental in reaching out to artists and rights holders, enhancing and strengthening SoundExchange’s role in the music business community. Bryan was once a disk jockey for the University of Georgia’s radio station, and was already active in the music business upon graduation. He went on to found a concert production company (producing Hip Hop shows in the early 90s with Cypress Hill, Tupac, Digable Planets, and many others) before moving into street promotions and retail marketing. In 2003, Bryan founded Label Management Systems, which created business tools for indie labels and artists. He has consulted on new media issues for Kanye West, Ludacris and others including working closely with powerhouse management company Hip Hop Since 1978 (Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Drake and Young Jeezy). Follow on Twitter: @BryanCalhoun

Jonathan Carroll

Gowalla, Music + Community Manager

Jonathan Carroll is the Music + Community Manager at Gowalla, where he helps build a service which inspires people to discover and share amazing experiences with their friends. On the music side, he works with artists and labels to integrate music experiences into Gowalla, not only on at shows and concerts, but also as a means of digital music distribution. He handles all things involving community, including events, the Gowalla blog, interacting with Street Teams, and helping build the user base around the world.

On the personal side, Jonathan is completely obsessed with music and writes about music news for the OneThirtyBPM. He has a penchant for all things fun, including helping Tony Hawk hide skateboards in random places. Jonathan celebrated his 10th wedding anniversary this year and has two kiddos, who have been certified as the cutest on the planet by an independent research council. Follow on Twitter: @joncarroll

Tantek Çelik

tantek.com / Mozilla, open web standards

Tantek Çelik is a well known open web standards advocate and innovator. He is a founder and community leader of GMPG and microformats.org, participates in the World Wide Consortium (W3C) CSS and HTML Working Groups, and works with numerous clients, such as Mozilla and Revision3, on web standards leadership and HTML5 upgrades. He is the author of HTML5 Now: A Step-By-Step Tutorial for Getting Started Today (New Riders: 2010).

Previously he was Chief Technologist at Technorati, where he led the design and development of new standards and technologies and before that he was a representative to the W3C for Microsoft, where he also helped lead the development of the award-winning Internet Explorer for Macintosh. Tantek lives in San Francisco, and has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University, as well as a strong background in human interface and user-centered design from his many years at Apple Computer. He shares his thoughts at tantek.com.

Follow on Twitter: @t

Massimo Ciociola

musiXMatch, Founder and CEO

Massimo (32) is an entrepreneur, technologist, and social music addict. He’s founder and CEO of musiXmatch an exciting startup focusing on combining the power of music and meta-data creating the Largest Lyrics Official Data Base in the world. Before launching musiXmatch, he served as VP Mobile Services at DADA spa (Da.mi) and previously as CEO Iberia & Latin America . Joining in 2000, Massimo helped transition and develop DADA (formerly an ISP) into the leading mobile web media company launching operations in several countries like Spain, Portugal, South Africa, India, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and he contribuited to the JV with Sony Music And Dada Inc. in US.

Prior to DADA, Massimo founded Wireless Solutions spa then bought by Dada in 2003. Wireless Solutions was a leading mobile apps player licensing technology and content to the most important publishers like Disney, BBC, RCS, FOX, Gameloft, and building platform like Odigo IM Sms Gateway or UMTS mobile deck for several mobile oeprators like Vodafone, Telecom Italia, Telefonica.

Today, Massimo serves on the advisory board of awesome startup like Mobnotes, Spreaker, up while he works on plans for his new startup musixMatch. Follow on Twitter: @maxciociola

Richard Conlon

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) / Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media

As Senior Vice President Corporate Strategy, Communications & New Media, Richard
Conlon heads up BMI‘s marketing, advertising, media relations, and planning efforts,
along with its New Media and Strategic Development Group, which manages the
development of revenue streams for BMI’s songwriters and music publishers in the
digital world across all new media applications. The group also spearheads analysis,
planning and strategic development for BMI’s future directions in the media and
entertainment worlds.

Under his direction, BMI’s New Media group has created agreements for a wide variety
of leading digital media properties including Yahoo, MSN, AOL, MP3.com, Napster,
Rhapsody and others. In addition, the team has negotiated royalty agreements with
leading mobile entertainment providers ranging from carriers to aggregators for mobile
TV, ringback tones and other entertainment and information services delivered to cell
phones.

An executive with BMI for over 15 years, Conlon holds a Masters Degree in
Communications Management from the Annenberg School of Communications at the
University of Southern California and B.A. in English from Boston College. @bmi

Tom Conrad

Pandora, Chief Technical Officer & Executive Vice President of Product

Tom Conrad leads the Pandora product organization, which includes product
management, user interface design, software development, engineering development
and testing with partner companies, and network operations. Over the years, Tom has
led numerous engineering and product design teams across a wide range of applications – from operating systems and enterprise software to video games and consumer web
sites. Before joining Pandora, Tom was the Vice President of Engineering at Kenamea,
Inc. where he led the teams responsible for the design and development of an award-
winning Internet-scale messaging system. Tom previously was the Technical Director for
the successful video game series “You Don’t Know Jack.”

Past experience also includes engineering management positions at Berkeley Systems,
Relevance Technologies, Documentum, Pets.com, and Kenamea. Tom began his career
at Apple Computer developing user interface elements for the Mac OS. Tom holds three
U.S. patents and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Tom holds both technology and music close to his heart. His personal music collection
still includes more than 1,000 CDs and he likes to say the only instrument he plays well
is his stereo. Follow on Twitter: @pandora_radio

Jean Cook

Future of Music Coalition, Director of Programs

Jean Cook is a musician, producer and Director of Programs for Future of Music Coalition (FMC), a national nonprofit that works to improve the lives of musicians through research, education and advocacy on policy issues that directly impact the ability of artists to make a living and reach audiences. She is a founder of Anti-Social Music, a New York-based new music collective. She currently records and tours with Ida/Elizabeth Mitchell, Jon Langford, and Beauty Pill. For FMC, she currently project directs initiatives to fix jazz and classical music metadata; understand how copyright impacts indigenous artists in places like Ethiopia, Tajikistan and Australia; and map how US artist income streams have changed in the digital age.
Follow on Twitter: @future_of_music

Dan Crow

Songkick, CTO

Dan joined Songkick at the start of 2011. He’s excited to be back at a startup and helping the company scale. He spent the late 1990s working at Apple on digital media applications and the JavaVM. After that he worked at a series of startups in San Francisco, ultimately co-founding Blurb, which allows you to publish your own books. Most recently he spent five years at Google: three years in New York leading teams working on advanced search projects including Google Squared and two years in London leading ads and mobile projects. Follow on Twitter: @crowquine

Chris Curley

The Harry Fox Agency, Manager, Business Development

Chris Curley is Manager of Business Development at HFA, the nation’s leading provider of rights management, licensing and royalty services for the music industry, representing over 46,000 music publishers. He is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and developing new business opportunities, particularly in the area of digital music technology. This includes navigating rights administration and management issues with some of the most significant players in the digital content supply chain. Curley also oversees the implementation of these new arrangements through HFA’s business processes.

Among his accomplishments at HFA, Curley was instrumental in contracting some of the industry’s most high profile game-changers in the areas of download, streaming, lyrics, and guitar tablature licensing. He was also key in developing HFA’s Administration Services program, which provides outsourced solutions for major digital music services, content aggregators and record labels. In addition, Curley works closely with The Recording Academy to help provide voting members access to its annual GRAMMY listening service.

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In 2002, Curley started his career with HFA in its Licensing Department. He specialized in Label Relations, managing day-to-day relationships with major record labels. Curley was also a principal in the development and implementation of the company’s digital licensing systems, including bulk licensing, eMechanical and Songfile.

Curley studied music and business, with concentrations in computer information systems and marketing at the University of Miami. Follow on Twitter: @harryfoxagency

Jan D’Alessandro

Topspin Media, Inc., Vice President, Business Development and
General Counsel

Jan D’Alessandro, Vice President, Business Development and
General Counsel of Topspin Media, Inc. is responsible for crafting
and negotiating strategic partnerships with labels, distributors,
technology, marketing, management companies, brand advertisers
and anyone else interested in helping artists and fans find each other
in the digital world.

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Jan is a seasoned internet industry executive, who ran West
coast business affairs for AOL from 1995 to 2002. At AOL, her
responsibilities included developing AOL’s music strategy, including
the acquisitions of Spinner and Nullsoft, leading many content,
commerce and technology deals, and launching the philanthropy
portal, networkforgood.org. Follow on Twitter: @jantopspin

Zack Darling

Zack Darling Creative Associates, CEO, Creative Director

Mystic Beat Lounge, Executive Producer

Harmony Festival, Co-Producer

Burning Man Festival, North Bay Regional Contact

Decadance Night Club, Co-Producer

Inflatable Arts, Executive Producer

Promotional & Marketing Designer – Earthdance Festival, Harmony Festival, Sea of Dreams, & others

Zack Darling began his career as an independent event producer in the North Bay and San Francisco, where he cut his teeth in the dynamic underground and later professional rave scenes. In 1999, Zack co-founded the Mystic Beat Lounge, a new kind of production company that merged live concerts, DJ sets and performance theater (ala Cirque du Soleil), with 21st century visual effects, to create large-scale maximum multi sensory concert experiences. In this time, Zack also produced many successful music events in clubs and other smaller venues through his nightclub, Decadance.

Today, under Zack’s leadership, the Mystic Beat Lounge is best known for the Techno-Tribal Dance, a cutting edge production that coincides with the Harmony Festival, the largest music festival in the North SF Bay Area. Over ten years, Techno-Tribal has developed into an annual sold-out 7,000+ attendee, over-the-top production characterized by cutting edge sound and visual technology with live DJs, electronic music producers, bands, fire theater, acrobatic and aerial performances, inflatables, and an interactive live-art zones.

Zack is also the night time production manager of the Harmony Festival, and oversees all of the festival’s after dark productions. Zack works with other producers as an event designer and consultant such as Earthdance Festival, Sea of Dreams, Burning Man, and many others. He has worked for Burning Man festival for 9 years and for the past 5 years, he has served as the North Bay Burning Man Regional Contact.

As a graphic designer and creative director, his highly imaginative, custom creative art for posters, fliers, programs, websites, iPhone apps, and branding has built Zack a reputation as one of the most dynamic visual artists in the music and event industry today. Zack Darling Creative Agency, LLC, specializes in event marketing, concert & artist promotion, e-commerce websites, apparel design, social networking, product creation and branding. He is partnered in Inflatable Arts, which specializes in large, illuminated three-dimensional props that transform venues. Follow on Twitter: @zackdarling

Martyn Davies

Six Two Productions, Creative Technologist

Martyn Davies is a creative technologist and product manager from London specialising in building cool things with open data, music data and APIs through his company Six Two Productions. Previously he was Product Manager for Innovation at Universal Music Group and a producer and product manager at BBC Radio 1, BBC Music and BBC Introducing. Follow on Twitter: @martynrdavies.

Mike Einziger

Incubus, Guitarist

Having sold over 13 million albums worldwide, Incubus‘ extraordinary career has spanned over a decade, and includes six studio albums, which have spawned a total of thirteen Top 10 Rock hits with four singles debuting at #1 upon their release. The multi-platinum quintet’s last studio album Light Grenades debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 (highest charting album debut of band’s career) and has sold over 800k copies to-date in the US.

Hailing from Calabasas, California, Brandon Boyd, Mike Einziger and Jose Pasillas formed Incubus in 1991 while they were in high school with Chris Kilmore joining in 1998 and Ben Kenney joining in 2003. The band’s break came in 1999 with the singles, “Pardon Me,” “Stellar” and “Drive,” from their second full-length, double-platinum selling disc Make Yourself. The group’s third album, Morning View, released in 2001, debuted at #2 on the album chart and included the radio hits “Wish You Were Here,” “Nice to Know You” and “Warning.” In 2004 Incubus released A Crow Left of the Murder which achieved platinum status on the strength of the #1 hit “Megalomanic.” Follow on Twitter: @IncubusBand

Jason Feinberg

Concord Music Group, Vice President, Direct to Consumer Marketing

Jason Feinberg runs digital strategy and development / direct-to-consumer for Concord Music Group, one of the world’s largest independent labels. Jason is responsible for D2C and digital business development for a roster that includes Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, The Cars, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and hundreds more timeless artists. Follow on Twitter: @jasonfeinberg

Bruce Flohr

Red Light Management, Manager

An executive with both record company and artist management background Bruce Flohr started his career with RCA records. As Senior Vice President of A&R Bruce signed the Dave Matthews Band to RCA in 1992 when the band was still playing clubs in the northeast. A few years later he signed the Foo Fighters to RCA and helped bring Dave Grohl and his band to worldwide dominance. In 2002 Bruce traded the record business for the music business and joined Coran Capshaw to help build Red Light Management into one of the industries premiere management companies. Red Light’s roster now includes DMB, Phish, Tim Mcgraw, Alicia Keys, Ben Harper and others. As part owner of ATO Records, Bruce continues to serve as A&R for many of the labels artist such as Gomez and Alberta Cross. Several years ago Bruce and Coran started GreenLight Media which works with major brands such as AMEX, Gillette and Hyundai to develop unique content and music strategies. Bruce is based in Los Angeles.

Eva Galperin

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Activist

A lifelong geek, Eva misspent her youth working as a Systems Administrator all over Silicon Valley. Since then, she has seen the error of her ways and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. She comes to EFF from the US-China Policy Institute, where she researched Chinese energy policy, helped to organize conferences, and attempted to make use of her rudimentary Mandarin skills. Now she works on EFF’s many activism campaigns, with a particular interest in freedom of expression, censorship-circumvention, and privacy. Follow on Twitter: @evacide

Ed Goldfarb

Arranger, Orchestrator, Composer, Music Director, Pianist

Ed Goldfarb has been a ubiquitous presence on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene for more than 20 years, enjoying long-standing collaborations with such local icons as Francis Ford Coppola, the San Francisco Symphony and Beach Blanket Babylon. In demand as a keyboardist, composer and producer, Ed has been an enthusiastic user of multi-touch controllers from the day he first sat down at a piano. At the Summit, Ed will be demonstrating for Hakenaudio, maker of The Continuum. Follow on Twitter: @edgoldfarbmusic

Michael Good

MusicXML, Inventor / Recordare, Founder

Michael Good is the inventor of the MusicXML format for exchanging digital sheet music between computer applications. MusicXML is now supported by over 140 music applications on Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS, including Finale, Sibelius, and Cubase. It has become the most widely used symbolic music format since MIDI. Michael also founded Recordare in 2000 to grow the market for digital sheet music through the creation of a standard notation format. Prior to starting Recordare, Michael held technical leadership roles in computer-human interaction at SAP Labs, Xtensory (an early 90’s virtual reality startup), and Digital Equipment Corporation. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from MIT, with his B.S. thesis work conducted at the MIT Experimental Music Studio.

Michael currently sings tenor with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and the West Bay Opera Chorus. Before starting singing, he was a trumpet player. An alumnus of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, he performed in the MIT Symphony Orchestra’s recordings of music by Copland, Barber, Hanson, and Piston. Follow on Twitter:@MichaelDGood

Lee Hammond

Universal Music Group, Interscope Geffen A&M Records (IGA), Digital

Lee Hammond manages development for the Digital division of Interscope Geffen A&M Records, a part of Universal Music Group. IGA is home to many of the industry’s premier recording artists including Lady Gaga, Eminem, and Dr. Dre. Lee drives IGA’s efforts to develop rich social experiences around an artist and their music. His focus is on developing an enterprise approach to customer data and identity that can be applied within the context of a microsite and the artist’s site. Prior to joining the IGA new media team Lee worked as an art director in the music business. Follow on Twitter: @leehammond

Cortney Harding

Billboard, Music Editor & Indies Correspondent

Cortney Harding is the music editor and indies correspondent at Billboard, where she writes about the intersections between technology and the music biz, among other topics. Prior to joining the magazine, she served as the music editor of the Portland Tribune (Ore.) and has written for the Village Voice, the Associated Press, Bust, Venus, Idolator and a number of alt-weeklies. Harding has a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Wellesley College and a Master of Public Policy from New York University. She worked in politics for several years before becoming a full-time writer. Follow on Twitter: @cortneyharding

Julia Hartz

Eventbrite, Co-Founder & President

Julia serves as Co-Founder & President of Eventbrite and helps direct the overall vision and strategy of the company.

Julia is a reformed Television Network Executive and comes to Eventbrite by way of Hollywood. During her tenure in the television industry, Julia was a creative executive at FX Networks and helped supervise The Shield, Nascar Drivers: 360, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me and It’s Always Sunny in Philidelphia.

Prior to FX Networks, Julia worked in creative development at MTV Networks where she was fortunate enough to work on several prolific shows such as Jackass. Julia brings the creativity and energy of the entertainment business to Eventbrite, leading the company with innovative thinking and a keen sense of the consumer audience. Julia holds a BA from Pepperdine University. Julia lives in San Francisco with her husband, Kevin, and young daughter. Follow on Twitter: @juliahartz

David Haynes

SoundCloud, VP Business Development

Dave Haynes is VP Business Development for SoundCloud, a cloud-based music platform that allows music creators and professionals to easily distribute, share and stream audio over the web. With over a decade’s experience in the music industry, Dave currently works at the forefront of the latest trends in digital music. As well as his work for SoundCloud, he is the organiser of the OpenMusicMedia and Music Hack Day events that take place across the world. This year he was listed as one of UK’s Young Music Entrepreneurs 2010 and is also a frequent speaker at various events from TEDxCardiff to SXSW in Austin. Follow on Twitter: @haynes_dave

Jason Herskowitz

Tomahawk, Open Source Contributor

A self-proclaimed “musictech nerd with a bad social media habit”, Jason has been involved in the intersection of music, software, streaming media, social networks and recommender systems for over 15 years. His music-related career starting during college as a band manager and live sound engineer, then later as a small indie label owner. After discovering he could stream his catalog from the label’s website (at 14.4kbps), he quickly moved into the burgeoning technology side of the business. There he worked on products including MusicNow, Winamp, SHOUTcast, AOL Radio, MyStrands, TotalMusic and LimeWire. In his spare time he experiments with numerous music hacks, tries to learn how to code and “runs” the digital music news aggregator, Mediaor (@mediaor). Most recently, Jason has become heavily involved in the Tomahawk open-source media player project where he contributes wherever he can. Follow on Twitter: @jherskowitz

Ian Hogarth

Songkick, CEO & Co-Founder

Ian is the CEO and co-founder of Songkick.com. Ian graduated from
Cambridge University in 2005 with a first class degree in Engineering, specialising in Machine Learning. He then worked for Bain & Company in Asia and Silicon Valley specialising in technology strategy, before
co-founding Songkick.

Songkick is a site for live music fans, and isnow the second largest live music destination after LiveNation.
Recognized by Billboard Magazine as one of the Top 10 Digital Music
Startups of 2010 and voted Best Innovation in BT’s 2010 Digital Music Awards, Songkick makes it easy for fans to track concerts for their
favorite artists so they never miss them live. Songkick aggregates artist, concert, festival, venue, and ticket information from across
60 countries, so fans can receive personalized alerts for upcoming shows in their town and find the cheapest tickets. Fans can use
Songkick to share concerts on other social networks, and add photos, setlists, and reviews after the show. Songkick’s live music
information is distributed across a network of partners including Bandcamp, The Hype Machine, Topspin, Vevo, Yahoo!, and YouTube through their API. Songkick is
backed by Index Ventures and Y Combinator, as well as angels from the
technology and music industries. Ian was recently listed in Billboards 30 under 30 list and was the UK Young Music Entrepreneur of the year
2010. His first gig was Mogwai and Arab Strap at the Astoria in 1998. Follow on Twitter: @soundboy

David Hyman

MOG, Founder, CEO

David Hyman is CEO & founder of MOG Inc., a next generation music media company founded in 2005. MOG’s award-winning, on-demand subscription music service provides unlimited access to over 10 million songs from over a million albums through its mobile apps, online, & on internet connected TV’s and Blu-ray players. MOG Inc. is also provider of The MOG Music Network (MMN), the premier destination for music content online & largest music advertising network.

Prior to MOG Inc., David served as CEO of Gracenote, the world’s largest music database & music-identification service, selling to Sony for $260 million in 2008. Previously, he was SVP of marketing at MTV Interactive, & co-founded Addicted to Noise, the webzine that pioneered multimedia music reporting & around-the-clock music news. @mogdotcom

Jon Irwin

Rhapsody International, President

Jon Irwin serves as Rhapsody International‘s top executive. He joined Rhapsody America in 2009, serving as the venture’s chief operating officer and chief of staff before planning and overseeing the company’s spinoff into a standalone company earlier this year.

Across his entire career, Irwin has specialized in building strong subscription businesses. Prior to Rhapsody, Irwin held senior positions with a variety of companies in the telecommunications market, including Boingo Wireless, Earthlink, InfoNet Services Corporation, and WorldCom, among others.

Irwin earned an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California Los Angeles. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in systems engineering from the University of California San Diego. Follow on Twitter: @rhapsody

Steve Jang

Schematic Labs, Co-Founder and CEO

Steve is the co-founder and CEO of Schematic Labs, a new startup composed of engineers and designers from imeem, Stumbleupon, SixApart, and Apple. Based in San Francisco, Schematic Labs designs, makes, and delivers social entertainment mobile apps for the real world. The company’s first app launched recently is SoundTracking, which combines music identification, photo-sharing, and location check-ins to enable you to share the soundtrack to your life with friends and followers. Prior to Schematic Labs, Steve was the co-creator of the imeem social music service and headed up product marketing, platform and partnerships before its sale to MySpace/News Corp. Steve is also an advisor and/or investor to Animoto, StackMob, StumbleUpon, and Uber. Follow on Twitter: @stevejang

Justin Kalifowitz

Downtown Music LLC, Partner / Songtrust, Co-Founder

Justin Kalifowitz is a partner at Downtown Music LLC. In his role as President of Downtown Music Publishing and Co-Founder of Songtrust he leads the company’s rights management and music licensing initiatives. Prior to joining Downtown in 2007, Kalifowitz spent six years with Spirit Music Group where he was Head of A&R and previously held positions with RCA and Virgin Records. Follow on Twitter:@JKalifowitz

Jocelyn Kane

San Francisco Entertainment Commission, Executive Director

Jocelyn Kane is Executive Director of San Francisco’s Entertainment Commission, which is charged with ensuring the health and vitality of indoor and outdoor entertainment venues in the City.

In all her volunteer work, Jocelyn’s agenda is to make the lives of Bay Area’s working musicians healthier, easier, and cheaper. To that end, she is working to ensure health care is provided for all musicians living in San Francisco, open up a “welcome center” for newcomer musicians, and create exposure opportunities for musicians, among other things.

Jocelyn currently serves on the boards of Bread & Roses, West Coast Songwriters Association, Site and Sound, and on the Advisory Boards for Musician National Service Initiative, and The Bay Bridged.

Jocelyn is also the founder of Motogirl Productions, an SF-based artist development company. Motogirl Productions works with large and small artists in various genres, to help them understand the “business” of music and how to reach individual goals effectively in one of the toughest industries around. Motogirl Productions co-produced Nadine’s Wild Weekend, a rock festival, was the talent buyer for a rock club in the Mission District of San Francisco, and booked & produced much larger events at music venues around the Bay Area.

Jamie Kantrowitz

Gobbler, Co-Founder

As a trailblazer in the social media and digital marketplaces, Jamie Kantrowitz has worked with thousands of companies and artists to help them integrate new technologies to build their brands and communities. Kantrowitz is credited with launching MySpace‘s music and social entertainment platform and then MySpace’s international business into 30 countries from 2004-9. In 2010, she co-founded Gobbler with her brother Chris. Gobbler is an early stage software company building simple but powerful cloud collaboration, organization and backup tools for media creators. In conjunction with her role at Gobbler, Kantrowitz is an active start-up investor and digital media advisor. For her work at MySpace, Jamie was placed on AdAge’s “Top 50 Marketers” and Billboard Magazine’s “30 Under 30 to Watch”. She is a contributor to Huffington Post and ThinkSocial, and in her spare time she can be found on a food adventure in her home town of Los Angeles. Follow her @jamiesk.

Andrew Keen

Techcrunch TV, “Keen On” Show, Host

Andrew Keen is an Anglo-American entrepreneur, writer, broadcaster and public speaker. He is the author of the international hit CULT OF THE AMATEUR: How the Internet is killing our culture which has been published in 17 different languages and was short-listed for the Higham’s Business Technology Book of the Year award. As a pioneering Silicon Valley based Internet entrepreneur, Andrew founded Audiocafe.com in 1995 and built it into a popular first generation Internet music company. He is currently the host of “Keen On” show, the popular Techcrunch chat show.

Andrew is an acclaimed speaker on the international circuit, speaking regularly on the impact of new technology on 21st century business, education and society. Andrew’s new book about the social media revolution, Digital Vertigo: An Anti-Social Manifesto, will be published by St Martin’s Press in 2012. Follow on Twitter: @ajkeen

Larry Kenswil

Loeb & Loeb LLP, Of Counsel

Larry Kenswil founded and for ten years headed up the digital strategy and development unit of the Universal Music Group, eLabs. A long time denizen of the dark world of the major labels, Kenswil also ran Business Affairs at UMG, and served on the Boards of the RIAA, IFPI, and SoundExchange. Despite persistent rumors of an ongoing bout of PTSD from those decades, Kenswil is currently Of Counsel at the law firm of Loeb & Loeb in Los Angeles, where he helps those who wish to undertake the shock therapy of learning how to deal with entrenched music interests. He’s good at humorous sound bites for the press and conference goers, but he’ll never write a book because of his famous habit of never having written anything down.

Dorothy Kidd

University of San Francisco, Professor, Media Studies Department

Dorothy Kidd is a professor in the Media Studies Department at the University of San Francisco. She is a long-time media producer in community radio, film & video, and web-news. Her research focus is the international movement for democratizing information and communications media, and her work has been published in many academic and trade books and journals.

David Kostiner, Esq.

Counsel LLP, Founding Partner

David Kostiner is a founding partner of Counsel LLP, a boutique entertainment law firm based in San Francisco. David began his career as a professional musician drumming in jazz clubs, later joining Dreamworks artists Creeper Lagoon and recording with other notables such as Matt Nathanson and Patrick Park. He later co-founded the Independent Online Distribution Alliance (IODA), was a sponsorship director for the Noise Pop Music Festival, managed internationally-known artists Rogue Wave and was an associate in the San Francisco office of Davis Shapiro Lewit and Hayes, LLP. David frequently appears as a panelist and public speaker, and has been published by the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal and the Santa Clara High Technology Law Journal.

Mr. Kostiner’s practice includes the representation of musicians, record labels, music producers, songwriters, music publishers, visual artists, digital technology companies, music festivals and executives. He is responsible for negotiating and drafting agreements covering most aspects of his clients’ careers or businesses, as well as providing strategic guidance and informal dispute resolution services. David’s education includes a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of Law, a B.A. in Psychology from Tufts University and studies at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute and the Interlochen Arts Academy. He currently serves as an Adjunct Professor of Entertainment Law at Hastings College of Law.

Paul Lamere

The Echo Nest, Director of Developer Community

Paul Lamere is the Director of Developer Community at The Echo Nest, a research-focused music intelligence company that provides music information services to developers and partners through a data mining and machine listening platform. Paul is especially interested tools for helping people to discover, understand and manipulate music. Paul also authors a blog about music technology called MusicMachinery.com Follow on Twitter: @echonest

Dina LaPolt

LaPolt Law, P.C.

Dina LaPolt is an entertainment attorney at LaPolt Law, P.C. in Los Angeles, California.
LaPolt Law is a boutique transactional entertainment law firm that specializes in representing
clients in the music, film, television, merchandising, fashion, and book publishing industries.
The firm’s clientele include recording artists, songwriters, music producers, music publishers,
managers, merchandising and apparel companies, fashion designers, film production companies,
directors, television producers, screenwriters, actors, authors, and photographers. In addition
to practicing law, Dina teaches “Legal and Practical Aspects of the Music Business” in the
Entertainment Studies Department at UCLA Extension. For more information on Dina or the
law firm please log onto www.LaPoltLaw.com. Follow on Twitter: @dinalapolt and @lapoltlaw

Marcos Lara

Co-Founder, SocialGeni.us, Maker of AudioVroom.

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“When I was 12 years old, I took apart our top loading VCR. To my
mother’s shock and disbelief, it continued to work after I put it back
together again…” Marcos has always enjoyed breaking things and to see
how they work. Tackling tough projects with problem-solving and
engineering skill, he loves designing something totally
new – particularly wireless and location based services… And he has
done just that over the past 15 years since graduation from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute (RPI). In addition to an early SDMI based
music project, Marcos was intimately involved with information
security (receiving his CISSP certification in the process),
technology management (for Ikea & Brooks Brothers back in the mid
’90s) and more recently wireless networking (running 18 public WiFi
networks for NY City Park Department and co-founder of the Bryant Park wireless network in 2002). It was Marcos’s vision and architecture
that brought together the talented group of developers to create
AudioVroom.

In his spare time, Marcos can be found socializing with friends in the
Lower East Side or on his Ducati motorbike somewhere between Manhattan
and Bear Mountain.

Chris La Rosa

YouTube, Music Product Manager

Chris LaRosa is Music Product Manager at YouTube, where fans and musicians connect through video. Since joining YouTube in 2007 he has worked across engineering and business teams building music features into YouTube and licensing music for user-generated content.

Chris is familiar with how technology transforms media industries. Prior to joining YouTube, he was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow who examined how the Internet transformed newspapers in East Africa and Central Europe. He completed Master’s degrees in International Affairs and Computer Science at Georgia Tech and Emory University and earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Hamilton College. Follow on Twitter: @youtube

Ari Levy

Bloomberg / Businessweek Magazine, Technology Reporter

As a technology reporter at Bloomberg, Ari Levy has covered networking, Internet and mobility while following deals and dealmakers in private equity and venture capital. He joined Bloomberg in 2003 as a stock market reporter in New York and moved to San Francisco in 2006 to write about Silicon Valley. He is also a regular contributor to Bloomberg Businessweek magazine. Ari has a master’s degree in business journalism from Baruch College in New York. Follow on Twitter: @levynews

Kenya Lewis

Save KUSF, Volunteer Organizer

Currently an accidental community radio activist, Kenya is normally a freelance writer and marketing strategist with over 15 years of experience creating compelling copy for cool companies, non-profits, and the occasional ad agency. Kenya learned about the “Left of the Dial” from The Replacements (and vice versa) and believes it is worth protecting — in San Francisco and nationwide.

College and community radio plays a vital role not only in the music industry, but as a irreplaceable home to independent voices. 13 of approximately 200 such stations have been lost in the past five years, acquired by companies like Public Radio Capitol who equate them with “beachfront property.” Innovative companies can play a critical role by viewing and valuing these stations as peer-to-peer/social networks, content providers, and hubs of authentic trustworthy voices. Follow on Twitter: @saveKUSF

Roger Linn

Roger Linn Design, Owner

Roger Linn is best known for the creation in 1979 of the first digital drum machine, the LM-1 Drum Computer. The LM-1 and its successors the LinnDrum and Linn9000 were used on countless hit recordings during the 1980s. During the 1990s, his MPC Midi Production Center products for Akai became the industry standard in the production of hip hop music. In the 2000s, his AdrenaLinn guitar processors brought a variety of rhythmic filtering effects to guitar. These days he’s creating an innovative sensor-based musical instrument called the LinnStrument, that promises to capture the subtleties of human performance equal to or better than traditional musical instruments. @roger_linn

Evan Lowenstein

Evan and Jaron / StageIt, Founder & CEO

Evan Lowenstein founded StageIt in Spring 2009 with the goal of creating a web-based platform that would empower artists to deliver and monetize the ultimate, interactive live experience. While overseeing all aspects of this groundbreaking company as CEO, Lowenstein relies on his nearly 20 years of experience in the music industry as a recording artist, award-winning writer and executive.

Most recently, Lowenstein founded and served as President of HookUp Feed, a premier social networking and mobile marketing company whose clients include The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, American Airlines, Domino’s Pizza and Cold Stone Creamery. Lowenstein still remains involved with the company as a senior advisor.

Previously, he hosted USA Network’s Character Road Trip, a weekly series providing viewers with a peek into the greatest “characters” the country has to offer. Lowenstein was also a recording and touring artist with pop/rock band Evan and Jaron who scored three Top 40 hits, including the Top 10 song Crazy For This Girl. Follow on Twitter: @backstageit

Kevin Lyman
4Fini, Inc., President

Vans Warped Tour, Creator

Kevin Lyman began his career booking bands for his university and as a roadie for then unknown acts such as the Untouchables, The Bangles and Bad Religion. Later, he worked as a promoter rep for seminal punk rock and metal bands, working in many of the legendary LA clubs. Lyman is best known as the creator of the Vans Warped Tour, the longest running music and extreme sports festival in the world today. In addition, he is also co-producer of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, Rockstar Energy Drink Taste of Chaos Tour and Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown.

In 2005, Kevin established the Unite The United Foundation, an organization set up to encourage fans, artists and industry leaders from the music, touring and lifestyle worlds to come together through charitable contributions, events and volunteer efforts in order to work toward a positive change in our national community. Since its inception, Unite The United has raised well over $1,000,000 for a variety of causes such as MusiCares, Music Saves Lives, Skate For Cancer, Hollywood Heart, Keep-A-Breast and the Earth Eco Foundation, to name a few. For his philanthropic and eco-friendly efforts, Lyman was recognized as the Billboard Touring Awards Humanitarian of the Year, in 2009.

Larry Marcus

Walden Venture Capital, Managing Director

Larry’s focus is digital media and consumer services. He has been a Director at Pandora since early 2004 when Walden led the “rebirth round” to focus the company on launching a consumer-facing service. Larry is a Director at SoundHound (sound and voice search), Rootmusic (BandPage on Facebook), Telekenex (IP voice and data services ), a Board Observer at PowerCloud Systems and led Walden’s investment in Terayon (acquired by Motorola).

Prior to joining Walden in 2000, Larry was a digital media sell-side Equity Research Analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown where he lead the IPOs of Maxis, Terayon, CBS MarketWatch, Edmark, and Netflix (initial S-1 IPO filing) among other equity and debt financings (Sierra On-line, Excite@Home, Spectrum Holobyte, CBS Sportsline). Prior experience includes Robertson Stephens & Company, Digidesign and General Management in computer services retail. Larry serves on the non-profit Board of the JazzSchool in Berkeley, CA.

Larry received a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. Follow on Twitter: @cyberlar

Rachel Masters

Red Magnet Media, Co-Founder

Rachel Masters is a partner and Co-Founder of Red Magnet Media, a boutique agency that helps creative brands develop and execute
effective social marketing strategies to expand their audience online
and create direct-to-fan channels. Red Magnet Media’s clients include Linkin Park, Duran Duran and Hearst.

Previously, she held the role of Vice President of Strategic Relationships at Ning, managing over 300 branded social networks with partners like 50 Cent, The Collective, Ford Models and Warner Brother’s Telepictures. Prior to Ning, Rachel was the Associate Director of Strategic Relationships and Business Development at Warner Music Group, where she launched new relationships with innovative digital media companies like YouTube. Rachel has also worked as an Associate at StarVest Partners, L.P., a New York-based venture capital fund, and as a television producer at Cablevision, Fox and MTV Networks. She holds a B.A. from Brandies University, where she was named a University Scholar and graduated cum laude and with High Honors. Rachel received her MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Follow on Twitter: @redmagnetmedia / @masters212

Peter Maund

Legato Media, VP Business Development

Peter Maund is VP of Business Development for Legato Media, a leading provider of digital sheet music storage and distribution. Before joining Legato, Peter was Director of Business Development at Sibelius, where in 2000 he led the US launch of their online music publishing technology and oversaw its industry adoption. As a musician, Peter performs and records with early and contemporary ensembles throughout the US and Europe. He appears on more than 60 recordings (from vinyl to video) and has served on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.

Robb McDaniels

INgrooves, Founder, President and CEO

Robb McDaniels is the Founder, President and CEO of INgrooves, a leading digital media infrastructure company that provides audio, video and print content owners with access to a global network of digital retail outlets via its proprietary enterprise software application, ONE Digital. Robb has stood at the forefront of the physical to digital paradigm shift in the media industry and continues to execute upon his vision. Throughout his career, Robb has been an early adopter of new technologies and has been intrigued by the way the internet has changed media consumption and has shifted the power structure away from established media companies, which previously dominated what we heard, watched and bought.

Robb’s education at Trinity College (Hartford, CT) and the London School of Economics prepared him for the opportunities of the new digital media industry. His prior experience as an investment banker required him to focus on maximizing the value of intellectual property for a number of Fortune 500 companies, and he has carried those fundamentals into the INgrooves cost-efficient and transparent business model. @INgrooves

Mike McGuire

Gartner, Research VP, Media

Mike McGuire is a research vice president for Gartner, Inc.’s Media Industry Advisory Services team. Mr. McGuire covers the online content business focusing on how music, movie and TV/video are extending their distribution strategies to the Internet. He has a particular interest in understanding the value of social media and social networks on existing media companies. He also looks after Gartner’s coverage of legal and regulatory issues that effect media companies. Topics include licensing issues, content-protection/DRM issues and changing patterns of media consumption among consumers. Prior to re-joining Gartner in 2000, Mr. McGuire worked with mobile computing start-ups in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California. He was at Dataquest from 1994 through 1997 as senior and principal analyst for the mobile computing program. Prior to that he covered Apple for PC Week after stints in PR and marketing positions at companies such as Octel, GRID and Geoworks. He has a B.A. in journalism from San Jose State University. Follow on Twitter: @m2mcguire

Katie McMahon

SoundHound Inc., Vice President, Sales & Marketing

A mobile industry veteran, Kathleen McMahon is responsible for revenue and userbase growth at SoundHound Inc. She leads the business operations including sales and monetization strategy, strategic partnership development, product marketing, communications, and brand management. Prior to joining the executive management team at SoundHound, Katie was vice president of business development at Shazam where she played an instrumental role in growing revenue, international expansion, and building Shazam’s brand. Prior to Shazam, Katie was the founder and managing director of Westport Communications Inc., a mobile virtual network operator providing mobile data across Japan. In 2002, she was recognized as the first western woman to launch a technology company in Japan. Prior to Westport, Katie worked with the executive management team at Japan Communication Inc. on special projects including IPO preparations and investor relations. She has been named by Mobile Entertainment as one of the “Top 50 Women” in mobile content. @musicpuca

Jolie O’Dell

Mashable, Social Media & Tech Reporter

Jolie O’Dell is Mashable‘s Social Media and Tech Reporter. In the past, O’Dell has worked for ReadWriteWeb, on newspapers, on magazines, for book publishers, for serial entrepreneurs, on startup teams, at advertising and marketing agencies, and for enterprise blogs and websites. O’Dell has a B.A. in Media Studies from Shenandoah University. Follow on Twitter: @jolieodell

David Porter

David Porter is the CEO and founder of 8tracks. Until 2006, he helped lead Live365, the pioneer of “social” internet radio, achieving profitability in 2005. David wrote the plan for what’s now 8tracks during business school at Berkeley, informed in large part by the DJ scene in London of the late 1990s. His favorite band remains New Order. Follow on Twitter: @davidporter

Adam Powers

Rovi, Vice President, Technology

Adam Powers is vice president of technology at Rovi Corporation, where he is responsible for standards and technology initiatives across Rovi’s product lines, including on-screen guides, metadata, Internet content and content sharing. Adam joined Rovi in January 2007 after the company had acquired Mediabolic, where he had served as principal engineer and architect for the Connected Platform. Prior to this, Adam was co-founder and CTO of the IPTV home networking company, Coaxsys. He has served as Chair of the Ecosystem Committee of the DLNA, where he led the efforts of the members of the digital living ecosystem in support of the DLNA’s charter of enabling content sharing between any variety of consumer devices and customer premises equipment. He is also a member of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers, and participates in standards activities at CableLabs and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Adam attended California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo for Computer Engineering. Follow on Twitter: @rovicorp

William Quigley

Clearstone Venture Partners

William Quigley joined Clearstone Venture Partners (formerly idealab Capital Partners) shortly after its formation and concentrates on the firm’s Internet and communications related investments. During his first three years with the firm, he worked out of the idealab! incubator and helped launch and lead investments in many idealab! backed companies including Homepage.com, FreePC, FreeMusic.com and Paymybills.com. A number of his early-stage investments have gone public, including MP3.com, Tickets.com, Emusic PeopleSupport and Meru Networks. William spent seven years in a variety of business planning and operational roles at The Walt Disney Company. His tenure at Disney included finance roles at EuroDisney, the Disney Store retail chain and Disney’s consumer products merchandise licensing division. He oversaw all finance and business planning activities for Disney’s licensing business unit, the world’s largest consumer products licensor. William also co-managed Disney’s merchant banking group where he negotiated and structured equity positions in the company’s strategic licensees.

William is on the board of DealMaker LA, Founder’s Institute LA, and The Venture Capital Alliance of Los Angeles. He received his MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School, and holds a BS in Accounting, with honors, from the University of Southern California. He is a CPA and a Kauffman Fellow.

Steve Rennie

Ren Management, Personal Manager, INCUBUS

Mr. Rennie has worked in the music business for over 30 years. He has a broad range of experience as a concert promoter, record executive, internet entrepreneur, and artist manager. He has also been deeply involved in the intersection of music and technology since the earliest days of the internet. Mr. Rennie has been the personal manager for multi-platinum rock band Incubus for the last 13 years and has guided them from the day they got signed to a record deal to being a hugely successful worldwide record selling and concert attraction. From 1998 -2000, Mr. Rennie was a founding member of one of the early internet music startups, ARTIST DIRECT. From 1994 -1998 he was the Senior Vice President/GM of Epic Records/Sony Music where he worked with artists like Korn, Rage Against the Machine, Ozzy Osbourne, Incubus, and Celine Dion. At Epic Records he was deeply involved in the label’s artist development strategy including touring and the label’s internet and new media strategy. Prior to joining Sony Music he managed a number of Alternative Rock artists including Primal Scream, The The, Dramarama, The Wonder Stuff, and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin. From 1982-1990 he was the Senior VP at Southern California’s #1 concert promoter Avalon Attractions, which is now part of Live Nation, booking shows from clubs on the Sunset Strip to stadium shows at the Rose Bowl and Coliseum.

David Maher Roberts

The Filter, CEO

As The Filter‘s CEO, David led the company’s turnaround from a music playlist app to a world leader in personalisation and relevance services for content – optimising search, navigation and discovery for customers that include NBC Universal, Nokia and Dailymotion. The Filter’s SaaS (Software as a Service) platform now delivers 1 billion recommendations to over 150 million people in over 35 countries every month.

He was Board & Digital Director at US/UK media company Future PLC, founder of award-winning content agency Future Plus, founding partner of consultancy
Digital-dna and sports social network iSporty. David has a proven track record in developing and leading business strategies that create high value returns. David is also co-founder of BathSpark, a pioneering localized social network for technology professionals in Bath, a mentor at the enterprise-boosting initiative Seedcamp, and was recently selected as a judge for the Daily Telegraph’s Start-up 100 awards.

Jason Ross

The Bowery Presents, Head of Media + Sponsorship

Jason Ross is the Head of Media + Sponsorship at The Bowery Presents. TBP is the leading independent concert promoter in New York City. Jason oversees strategic media partnerships and event sponsorship across all TBP rooms and festivals. The Bowery Presents produces over 1,200 concerts at 28 venues in NYC and the surrounding area – six of which are exclusively owned or booked by The Bowery Presents, including Terminal 5, recently rated the #1 ticketed club in the world by Pollstar.

Jason stewards all original content production and programming for The Bowery Presents as Principal and Executive Producer at Show Cobra, a boutique media agency that he founded in 2006. Show Cobra specializes in a range of turnkey production services including live events, live streaming, original television & web series, and documentary films. Show Cobra’s recent clients include: IFC, Porsche, Virgin Mobile, American Express, Converse, Heineken, SPIN, Emusic, and Ketel One.

John Rudolph

Bug Music, Inc., Chief Executive Officer

John Rudolph is the CEO of Bug Music, Inc., the largest independent contemporary music publisher in the world. His diverse career includes the fields of music publishing, copyright statute, technology and global finance. John is a champion of publisher and creator rights and is a member of the Board of Directors of the NMPA.

John previously was CFO of Windswept Pacific, where he was also responsible for strategic planning, international consolidation, technology, online markets and creative signing. During his first year, he engineered the sale of Windswept to EMI for a reported $200 million in what was one of the largest music publishing transactions at the time.

He founded and served as CEO of Music Analytics in 2001, the leading strategic advisor to music publishers and record companies working with a wide range of clients including Warner Music Group, Ryko, Leiber & Stoller and Saban Music Group, as well as numerous estates, artists, private equity and legal firms. Always at the forefront of change, in 1999 John founded Sherpa Ears, LLC, a technology company involving social networks that served as an early predecessor to social networking firms MySpace and Facebook. He began his career in corporate finance with IBM and, subsequently, as a consultant at BDO in Atlanta.

Chris Saad

Echo, VP of Technology

Chris’ background includes co-authoring of the APML specification and co-Founding the DataPortability Project.

Attention Profiling Markup Language (APML) is the industry standard for Attention Profiles. A machine readable presentation of a user’s interests. Used by Digg, BBC, NewsGator, France Telecom and others, APML is the OPML of Interests. The DataPortability project‘s mission is to advocate inter-operable DataPortability for users, developers and vendors. With official participation from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, MySpace, Plaxo and others, the DataPortability project is the organization that turned the data portability conversation into a full on riot.

Chris’ role at Echo is to track trends in the marketplace, listen to and participate in the community and translate those needs into actionable product direction. He co-authored the Backplane spec. @chrissaad

Jaunique Sealey

Atom Digital, EVP, Business Development

Jaunique Sealey is charged with the lead operations and business development role for Troy Carter-helmed Atom Digital. Atom Digital is the team responsible for some of the most ground-breaking digital marketing successes of the most recent years, including Lady Gaga, who is one of the Atom Digital clients, along with numerous other artists, both on major and independent labels as well as various consumer brands, film and other entertainment properties. As a premier digital marketing and promotional agency, Atom Digital leverages disruptive technology solutions and high-level interactive and social marketing strategies to effectively bring its clients into conversation with their audience. Prior to Atom Digital, Ms. Sealey was an executive in the corporate-level digital strategy and business development group within Universal Music Group, and has structured, negotiated and drafted numerous cutting-edge deals to partner technology and entertainment content involving top-tier companies. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Follow on Twitter: @JaUnique

Dean Serletic

Emblem Music Group, President

Dean Serletic has accumulated over 14 years of experience in the music industry with senior positions in artist management, major label A&R, music publishing A&R, and executive label management. Currently, Serletic is the President of Emblem Music Group where he oversees the record label, artist management, publishing and studio divisions.

Prior to Emblem Music Group, Serletic served for four years as the Senior A&R Representative for Virgin Records America and produced more than 2.5 million album sales worldwide, the most new artist sales of any staffer. Prior to Virgin, Serletic was General Manager for Melisma Records and Round Tower Publishing. He helped structure a joint venture label arrangement between Melisma and Arista Records and developed an up-start publishing company that produced two #1 and several Top 10 radio singles.

Serletic discovered Matchbox Twenty, leading to his first industry position as the band’s Tour Manager and Accountant during its breakthrough tour, which helped the band sell over 15 million albums. He was responsible for all day-to-day artist management associated with Matchbox Twenty’s debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You. Serletic attended Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida on both academic and athletic scholarships. Follow on Twitter: @emblemmusic

Matt Serletic

Emblem Music Group, Owner / Music Mastermind, CEO

Matt Serletic creates hits. Formidable as both a music executive and a creative talent, Matt has written, produced, and marketed recordings that have sold in excess of 110 million albums and have generated more than $1 billion in revenue for major label companies. Over a 14-year career, Matt has written and produced records that have earned him multiple GRAMMY, ASCAP, BMI, Billboard, and CMA Awards, and his projects have been licensed by a multitude of major television networks and media companies. Matt produced the most successful Billboard chart single in the rock era to date: Carlos Santana’s “Smooth,” which, since its release, has sold 25 million units.

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Matt’s first music company, Melisma, was founded in 1996 and has sold in excess of 50 million albums with artists like Rob Thomas and Matchbox Twenty. Owing to his success at Melisma, Matt was hired as Chairman and CEO of Virgin Records America, where he became the youngest-ever head of a major label. Over a four-year period, he successfully reorganized operations and improved the bottom line by $240 million. Matt is now Owner and CEO of Emblem Music Group, a recording and publishing company, and Co-Founder and CEO of Music Mastermind, Inc., an entertainment technology company.

Matt earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Music Performance at the University of Miami School of Music, graduating with Honors and earning membership in Phi Beta Kappa. Follow on Twitter: @emblemmusic

Albin Serviant

MXP4, CEO

Digital media entrepreneur Albin Serviant joined innovative interactive music technology developer MXP4as CEO in 2009, sharing the company’s vision of the future of digital entertainment. In his current role, Serviant is responsible spearheading development and adoption of MXP4’s social music gaming solutions.

Under Serviant’s leadership, more than 150 major recording artists including David Guetta, Michael Jackson, Pink, Pet Shop Boys and Britney Spears and major brands including Air France Music and Coca Cola have used MXP4-powered Web and iPhone interactive music apps to build fan engagement, encourage viral distribution and drive sales. MXP4’s first social gaming solution for Facebook, PUMP IT, reaches over 65 million fans across the social networking site. The company’s products have also been integrated into offerings from major media properties like Last.fm.

Serviant brings a strong history of leadership and innovation in entertainment and multimedia services and experience effectively monetizing music to the interactive music technology company. Prior to joining MXP4, Serviant served as Executive Vice President & General Manager at Vivendi Mobile Entertainment. Previously, he held leadership positions in start-ups including Musiwave (sold to Microsoft) and iBazar (sold to eBay) as well as large corporations including PepsiCo and Sony Music. He is a graduate of the prestigious ESSEC (Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) Business School in Paris, France. Follow on Twitter: @AlbinServiant

Vidya Shivkumar

Janrain, Director of Product Management

Vidya Shivkumar runs product management and product marketing at Janrain, the provider of user management solutions for the social web. Janrain works with leading music entertainment sites such as MTV Networks, VH1 and record labels such as Universal Music Group and EMI to power social features for artist sites such as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Keyshia Cole and others. Prior to Janrain, Vidya worked at Aol, iovation and DataMotion where she launched several successful B2C and B2B services such as web search, consumer anti-virus and firewall, email encryption and online device reputation.

J Sider

Rootmusic.com, CEO & Founder

J is currently the CEO & Founder of RootMusic.com which makes the leading music app on Facebook called “BandPage”. He is a musician and music lover at heart, who has performed around the world on the live stage. Most of his knowledge about the music industry was gained after getting into the “business of music” managing bands and venues around the country. This experience opened his eyes to the practical needs of the music community in the digital era, and the lack of a solution. Out of this realization J founded RootMusic.com to provide an honest, social tool to help musicians take the next step, whether that is their first open mic, or on the big stage. All in all, J believes in the future of the music community, and is out to build the most effective solutions for musicians to succeed. Follow on Twitter: @RootMusic / @JSider

Aaron Siuda

Live Nation, Northern California, Vice President of Marketing

Aaron Siuda is the Vice President of Marketing for Live Nation Northern California and has previously worked for Sony Music Entertainment and Bill Graham Presents. He oversees the marketing efforts for more than 200 shows annually at venues such as Shoreline Amphitheatre, The Fillmore and The Mountain Winery and has worked with artists such as Green Day, U2, The Rolling Stones, Jay-Z and many others. Follow on Twitter: @LiveNationSF

Beth Sorensen

MakeMusic, Inc., Vice President of Engineering

For the past 14 years, Beth Sorensen has been a driving force for the creation of the Finale family of notation products. She started at MakeMusic, Inc., as a programmer and engineer, became the product manager for the notation product line in December 2010, and this past February was named vice president of engineering for all of MakeMusic’s product development. MakeMusic is the creator of Finale, the world’s standard in music notation, PrintMusic, SongWriter, Finale NotePad, and the Finale Reader, as well as SmartMusic interactive software, which transforms how students learn and practice music.

Beth completed a master’s degree in violin performance, and after spending a year working as a freelance musician, she returned to school to complete a second degree in computer science. She believes that the abstract language and ideas of music and technology are a natural fit. A fit that provides a foundation to develop products that help musicians fuel what they do, who they are – and most importantly – who they most want to be. @Finale_Music

Peter Su

DCM, Associate

Peter Su is an associate at DCM, focusing on compelling consumer and social experiences on web and mobile. Peter is responsible for sourcing and evaluating early stage investments for DCM. He also works with various DCM portfolio companies like NoiseToys (sourced), Mig33, Vindicia, and AdKeeper.

Previously, Peter was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in their TMT group in San Francisco. At Goldman Sachs, Peter worked on various M&A and IPO transactions in the technology space. His clients included large cap and private tech companies such as Yahoo! ($44B raid defense against Microsoft), Adobe ($1.8B acquisition of Omniture), PGP ($300M sale to Symantec), Rackspace (IPO), and Convio (IPO). Between DCM and Goldman Sachs, Peter worked at Maybe Mars, an indie rock label in Beijing, and at City Weekend as a contributing writer. Peter graduated with High Honors from UC Berkeley, with a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business and a Minor in Music.

Daren Tsui

mSpot, Inc., CEO and co-founder

Daren Tsui is the CEO and co-founder of mSpot, Inc., which he founded in 2004. One of the early pioneers in the cloud-based entertainment field, Tsui led mSpot’s charge to be the first mobile music service in North America to stream a “full format” radio service that includes news, sports, finance, talk and music channels; mSpot continued this forward-thinking philosophy by becoming the first service to stream full-length feature films to mobile phones. Tsui continued to break new ground with the launch of mSpot Music, a first of a kind, music-in-the-cloud service. Today, with more than 6 million paying subscribers, mSpot provides a multitude of entertainment services ranging from radio, music and movies to sports. A veteran of four start-ups, Tsui was previously president and co-founder of SkyGo, a global mobile marketing technology company that provided integrated brand and direct marketing services, which sold to Enpocket in 2003. Tsui has spoken at many leading industry conferences including; CTIA, MidemNet, Digital Music Forum, MusicTech Summit, Digital Hollywood, CES and more.

Neil Vineberg

Thinglink, US Rep
Vineberg Communications, President

Neil Vineberg represents ThingLink in the U.S. He is a seasoned PR guru and strategist, having held management and partner positions with leading communication firms including Vineberg Communications, Middleberg Euro and Golin/Harris. Neil’s successes include pioneering strategic work with visionaries in MP3 digital music, social media, online communities and technology. His experience spans the technology, B2B, consumer, digital entertainment and philanthrophic sectors, including engagements with Webshots, Jaiku, Sprint, MP3.com, eMusic, UNICEF, UNDP, Procter & Gamble, Attention Span Media, United Airlines, IBM and Sony. He has been a featured speaker on digital PR and social media at MacWorld, BlogWorld, and Sun Startup Camp. Also an acclaimed guitarist who performs as Shambhu, his debut CD, “Sacred Love,” was nominated Best Album of the Year and Best New Artist by radio broadcasters worldwide.

Follow on Twitter: @nvineberg, @thinglink, @shambhumusic

Eric Wahlforss

SoundCloud, Founder/CTO

Eric Wahlforss is founder and CTO of SoundCloud, the audio platform that enables anybody to upload, record, promote and share their sounds on the web.

Frustrated by not being able to share music files easily over the internet, Eric along with CEO and co-founder Alexander Ljung, decided to build a truly open platform for audio creators. In his role as CTO, Eric leads the technical development and vision of SoundCloud, including driving usage of its open API by third-party developers. There are currently more than three million registered users and this number is growing exponentially.

Eric’s main area of interest is in emerging web technologies and their applications. Prior to starting SoundCloud he co-founded web consultancy network Strategy & Interaction and co-authored a book on trust in online social spaces. His experience also includes work as an interaction designer for location-based services company gate5.

Eric’s is based in Berlin and is also known as electronic music artist Forss.

Follow on Twitter: @ericw

Stephen White

Gracenote, Senior Vice President, Product and Content Management

White joined Gracenote in 2001 bringing 13 years of demonstrated experience leading teams in the creation, development, and sales of innovative technologies and products. White manages the company’s product and content management teams in the execution of the company’s strategic product vision.

Prior to his current role White led sales teams at Gracenote working with leading media software and services provider customers such as Apple, Yahoo, Real Networks, Napster and America Online.

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Prior to joining Gracenote, White was the VP of development for streaming music start-up Echo.com which was one of the first companies to combine group content streaming and community features such as instant messaging and chat rooms into a streaming audio client.

Prior to that White acted as Sr. Director of Project Management and Executive Producer for new media consultancy CKS.

White holds a BA in Afro-American Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Marcus Whitney

Moontoast, CTO and Co-Founder

Marcus Whitney is CTO and Co-Founder of Moontoast, a Social Commerce platform that serves Musicians, Specialty Retailers, and Celebrities. He and the team at Moontoast are cracking the code of monetizing Social Media channels and writing the new rules of online fan acquisition and capitalization. Follow on Twitter: @marcuswhitney

Brian Zisk

SF MusicTech Summit, Executive Producer

Brian Zisk is a serial entrepreneur and technology industry consultant specializing in digital media, web broadcasting and distribution technologies. Brian is a co-founder of Whobet, is Co-Founder and Technologies Director of the Future of Music Coalition, and a Board Member and/or Strategic Advisor for a wide variety of tech companies and non-profits. Brian was previously a founder of The Green Witch Internet Radio which was sold to CMGI (NASDAQ: CMGI) at the turn of the millennium. He is active in many influential computer-mediated forums, is quoted and published extensively in the media, frequently appears on panels and at industry events domestically and abroad, and is an expert at frenzy whipping, brand awareness, and in creating new business models. Follow on Twitter: @zisk

Shoshana Zisk

SF MusicTech Summit, Co-Producer

Shoshana Zisk is co-producer of the SF MusicTech Summit. Shoshana earned her bachelor degree in Classical Piano performance from the University of Miami School of Music, and is currently serving as Musical Director for “Rent” in Hollywood, California at the Hudson Theater presented by Jerica Productions.
Shoshana is also an accomplished entertainment attorney, whose professional experience incluces Interim COO for In Ticketing, business manager for George Clinton & Parliament / Funkadelic and exec positions with Island Records (A&R Admin), Motown (Copyright Department), and BMG US Latin (Business & Legal Affairs). In her spare time, Shoshana runs Kiddie Village,
which creates award-winning children’s videos and music. Shoshana earned her Juris Doctorate, with honors, from the University of Miami School of Law and is a member of the California, Florida and New York bars. Follow on Twitter: @shoshana

Past Schedule

8:30 – 9:00am	Registration & Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15a Sakura Room	Welcome & Opening Remarks Brian Zisk – Executive Producer, SF MusicTech Summit
9:20–10:20a Sakura Room	Music in the Cloud Daren Tsui – mSpot Larry Kenswill, Esq. – Loeb & Loeb LLP Jon Irwin – Rhapsody Moderator: Antony Bruno – Billboard
9:20–10:20a Spring Room	Investment and M&A William Quigley – Clearstone Venture Partners Larry Marcus – Walden Venture Capital Vince Bannon – Getty Images Peter Su – DCM Moderator: Ari Levy – Bloomberg / Businessweek
9:20–10:20a Osaka Room	Backplane Single Sign On Lee Hammond – Universal Music Group Matthew Barkoff – Badgeville Vidya Shivkumar – Janrain Chris Saad – Echo Moderator:Mike McGuire – Gartner Research *More info: Backplane spec
10:20–10:30a	Coffee & Tea Break
10:30–11:30a Sakura Room	Artist Revenue Streams Bryan Calhoun – SoundExchange Dina LaPolt – LaPolt Law Robb McDaniels – INgrooves Dean Serletic – Emblem Music Group Marcus Whitney – Moontoast Moderator:Jean Cook – Future of Music Coalition
10:30–11:30a Spring Room	Elevator Pitches Starring YOU! Host: Brian Zisk – SF MusicTech Summit All are welcome to stand up and present an up to 1-minute pitch about their company or idea, to connect with others who may want to work with you.
10:30–11:30a Osaka Room	TechCrunch TV “Keen On” Interviews Host: Andrew Keen – TechCrunch TV Evan Lowenstein – StagIt Jaunique Sealey – Atom Digital Matt Serletic – Emblem Music Group Brandon Boyd & Mike Einziger – Incubus
10:30–11:30am Garden Room A	Community Conversation: Location Based Services (LBS) and Music Host: Jonathan Carroll – Gowalla Host: Steve Jang – Schematic Labs All are welcome to join an enlightening discussion with industry thought leaders for a productive exchange of ideas and opinions.
11:45–1:00p	Lunch Break
1:00–2:00p Sakura Room	New Product & Technology Demos Tantek Çelik – Mozilla Jason Herskowitz – Tomahawk Kihong Bae – Musicshake Albin Serviant – Bopler Games Jamie Kantrowitz – Gobbler Host: Cortney Harding – Journalist
1:00 – 2:00pm Spring Room	Live Music Marketing Moderator: Kevin Lyman – 4Fini/Vans Warped Tour Gabe Benveniste – Sonic Living Julia Hartz – Eventbrite Ian Hogarth – Songkick Zack Darling – Zack Darling Creative Associates Aaron Siuda – Live Nation
1:00 – 2:00pm Osaka Room	Digital Sheet Music, Notation & Tablature Joe Berkovitz – Noteflight Michael Good – Recordare / MusicXML Joe Burzinski – Hal Leonard Corporation Beth Sorenson – MakeMusic Peter Maund – Legato Media Moderator:Shoshana Zisk – SF MusicTech Summit
1:00–2:00pm Garden Room A	Community Conversation: State of Music Apps Host: David Porter, 8Tracks.com All are welcome to join an enlightening discussion with industry thought leaders for a productive exchange of ideas and opinions.
2:00 – 3:00 PM Sakura Room	New Product & Technology Demos Marcos Lara – AudioVroom Katie McMahon – SoundHound Paul Lamere – Music Hack Day Jan D’Alessandro – Topspin Media Host: Cortney Harding – Journalist
2:00 – 3:00pm Spring Room	Discovery & Recommendation David Hyman – MOG Jim Cady – Slacker David Roberts – The Filter Gabe Adiv – Tune Up Adam Powers – Rovi Moderator:Kevin Arnold – IODA
2:00–3:00pm Osaka Room	Lyrics Services Darryl Ballantyne – LyricFind Max Ciociola – musiXmatch Stephen White – Gracenote Moderator: Chris Curley – The Harry Fox Agency
2:00–3:00pm Garden Room A	Community Conversation: Save KUSF Host: Kenya Lewis, Savekusf.org Host: Dorothy Kidd, USF, Media Studies Program All are welcome to join an enlightening discussion with industry thought leaders for a productive exchange of ideas and opinions.
3:00 – 3:30 PM	Afternoon Snack Break Featuring a Live Musical Performance by: *The Mowgli’s
3:30 – 4:30pm Sakura Room	Tools for Your Band J Sider – Rootmusic Jaunique Sealey – Atom Digital Josh Builder – The Orchard Christopher LaRosa – YouTube Neil Vineberg – Thinglink Moderator: Jolie O’Dell – Mashable
3:30 – 4:30pm Spring Room	The Future of Publishing Justin Kalifowitz – SongTrust John Rudolph – Bug Music Richard Conlon – BMI Moderator: Dave Kostiner – Counsel LLP
3:30 – 4:30pm Osaka Room	Music Hack Day David Haynes – SoundCloud John Britton – Twilio Martyn Davis – Six Two Productions Moderator: Paul Lamere – The Echo Nest
3:30–4:30pm Garden Room A	Community Conversation: SF Issues Host: Eva Galperin, Electronic Frontier Foundation Host: Jocelyn Kane, SF Entertainment Commission All are welcome to join an enlightening discussion with industry thought leaders for a productive exchange of ideas and opinions.
4:30 – 4:45pm	Afternoon Break
4:45 –5:45 PM Sakura Room	Strategic Partnerships Dave Allen – NORTH Jason Feinberg – Concord Music Bruce Flohr – Red Light Management Steve Rennie – Ren Management Moderator: Jason Ross – The Bowery Presents
4:45 – 5:45pm Spring Room	How to Scale Dan Crow – Songkick, CTO Eric Wahlforss – SoundCloud, CTO John Adams – Twitter, Operations Engineer Moderator: Tom Conrad – Pandora, CTO
4:45 – 5:45 PM Osaka Room	Radical High-Tech Musical Instruments, In Demonstration Geert Bevin – Eigenlabs Ed Goldfarb – Hakenaudio Moderator: Roger Linn – Roger Linn Design
4:45 – 5:45 PM Garden Room A	Community Conversation: Using Social Media Host: Rachel Masters, Red Magnet Media All are welcome to join an enlightening discussion with industry thought leaders for a productive exchange of ideas and opinions.
5:45 –8:00 PM Imperial Ballroom	Cocktail Party! Sponsored by: LyricFind / Greater Purpose: Wine With a Cause
8:00PM –10:00PM Yoshi’s Jazz Club	Official After Party! Sponsored by: Eventbrite