The VERY FIRST SanFran MusicTech Summit!
Monday, February 25, 2008

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This conference provided 2 hours of CLE credit, sponsored by the American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment & Sports Industries.

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Speakers

Kevin Arnold – Founder, IODA, and NoisePop

Kush Arora – Innovative Artist & Producer, Kush Arora Productions, Surya Dub

Balance – West Coast Rapper / Main Urban Buyer, Rasputin Music

John Perry Barlow – Grateful Dead Lyricist, Harvard Fellow, EFF Co-Founder

Jonathan Blaufarb, Esq. – Partner at Davis, Shapiro, Lewitt & Hayes

Dave Benson – Program Director, KFOG 104.5 FM San Francisco / 97.7 San Jose

Tony Berman, Esq. – BEAT-LAW – Founder

Katina Bishop – Electronic Frontier Foundation

Whitney Broussard, Esq – Selverne, Mandelbaum & Mintz, LLP

Glenn Otis Brown, Esq. – YouTube

Matt Burrows, Esq. – Apple’s iTunes Division – Senior Counsel

Marc Canter – Broadband Mechanics Founder – Father of Computer Based MultiMedia

Ann Chaitovitz, Esq. – Future of Music Coalition, Executive Director

Ted Cohen – TAG Strategic, CEO, Mobile Entertainment Forum Americas, Chair

Tom Conrad – Pandora, CTO

Jeff Daniel – Rock River Music, Founder & CEO

Brian Dear – Eventful, Founder & Chairman

Corey Denis – Rumblefish, Director of Marketing

DJ Disk – Champion Turntablist / Founder, Invisible Skratch Picklez

Mike Doernberg – Reverb Nation, CEO & Founder

Stephen Fortner – Technology Editor, Keyboard Magazine

Andy Gadiel – Jambase, Founder

Bill Goldsmith – Radio Paradise, Founder/Coder

Lucas Gonze – Yahoo! Music

Kurt Hanson – RAIN Radio and Internet Newsletter, Founder/CEO

Jerry Harrison – Talking Heads

Maureen Herman – Babes In Toyland and Fuzz

Rusty Hodge – SomaFM – Founder

Ariel Hyatt – CyberPR, Founder

Rob Kaye – MusicBrainz – Executive Director/Lead Geek

Dave Kostiner, Esq. Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP / Ex-Creeper Lagoon

Rob Lord – CEO, Songbird

Sharky Laguana – Musician and Founder/CEO, Mixpal/Bandago

Cecily Mak – Senior Counsel, Legal and Business Affairs, RealNetworks

Benjamin Masse – Double V3

Mike McGuire – Research VP, Gartner

Paul Lamere – Sun Microsystems – Principal Investigator – Search Inside the Music Project

Samantha Murphy – Singer/Songwriter/SMtvMusic.com

Ali Partovi – iLike – CEO

Sandy Pearlman – McGill Professor, Over 15 Gold and Platinum Records, Producer for Bands Such as The Clash and Blue Oyster Cult, Digital Distribution Guru

Claudio Prado – Brazil’s Ministry of Culture – Digital Policy Coordinator

Jeremy Riney – Project Playlist, Founder

Jordan Ritter – True Believer

Michael Robertson – Mp3Tunes

Theda Sandiford – Internet Marketing Consultant

Paul Schreiber – Apple, and House Concert Impresario

Raj Singh – ToneThis, Founder

David Spark – Spark Media Solutions

Andrew Stess – Music IP, CEO

Michael Troiano – matchmine, CEO

Cydney A. Tune, Esq. – Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Colette Vogele, Esq. – Stanford Center for Internet & Society

Steve Weisz – In Ticketing, CEO

Shoshana Zisk, Esq. – Entertainment Attorney – Award Winning Video Producer – Classical Pianist

Brian Zisk – Future of Music Coalition – Co-Founder and Technologies Director