SanFran MusicTech Summit Blog

Hi Everyone,

When we put together the SanFran MusicTech Summit, we do it a little differently than other conferences. We have a general idea of which topics are hot, confirm the most interesting folks we can find, and then figure out which panels will be most appropriate considering the folks we have confirmed. So please excuse the delay in posting the panels. We are very proud of the schedule we are pulling together, and realize that not having the panels up until the last minute prevents some folks from deciding to attend. But for those who have faith, it will be worth it.

Now, almost two weeks before the Summit, we’re ready to start posting a few of these panels.

One panel we are extremely proud of is Recording Studios of the Future, featuring some of the leaders envisioning and actually creating the recording studios of the future. This panel includes Bill Putnam Jr. of Universal Audio, David Gibbons of Avid, Mark Either of iZotope, and will be moderated by Mark Wherry of the legendary Remote Control Productions.

All of the panels will be great, but another one which we are particularly thrilled about is on Monetization, Idealism in Practice, featuring Celia Hirschman as the moderator, and such awesome panelists as Ian Rogers from TopSpin, Jim Griffin from Choruss, David Ring from Universal Music Group, Tony Van Ween of Disc Makers, and Fred Von Lohmann of the EFF.

Finally for what we are announcing right now is a great panel on the Future of the Music Industry, featuring Terry McBride of Nettwerk Music Group, Bob Kohn of RoyaltyShare, Antony Randall of TourPro, Robb McDaniels of INgrooves, Kristin Thomson of The Future of Music Coalition, moderated by Heather Rafter, the former General Counsel of DigiDesign.

Of course, everything is subject to change, but we’re all extremely excited about what’s shaping up to be the best SanFran MusicTech Summit yet.

Hope very much to see you there

All the best,

Brian Zisk

http://www.sanfranmusictech.com

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We are excited to announce the next SanFran MusicTech Summit is on Monday 5/18/09.  We created a VERY GENEROUS early bird special, for those hardest hit by the economy.  This is our gift to you. So register quickly at http://www.sanfranmusictech.com/register.html before prices go up.  This event will likely be our only Summit in 2009 due to the time requirements of our ultra-hot search startup, so we’re aiming to make this the best summit ever.  If you are interested in sponsoring, let us know ASAP. We will promote our partners heavily at SXSW and other spring industry events. We’d love to include your company and brand in the marketing push.  Summit speakers and panel topics will be announced soon.  So stay tuned for the latest info!

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To welcome folks coming in from out of town, and to bring together those of us who are in town, we will be having a get together on Sunday October 19th between 5 pm and 7 pm (with people hanging out later) at the O Izakaya Lounge at 1625 Post. The O Izakaya Lounge is located inside the Hotel Kabuki where the SanFran MusicTech Summit will take place the next day. Rated one of the top 100 Restaurants in San Francisco, there is a full menu, as well as a limited happy hour menu which allows folks to reasonably sample some of O Izakaya’s fine food and drinks on a no-host basis. This get together is open to everyone, and if for some reason you are from San Francisco and not attending the Summit, this is a great chance to meet all sorts of out of town (and local) Music/Technology Luminaries. Plus, after you see how fabulous the crowd is, (despite all advance purchase discounts having expired) you might just decide to join us the next day at the Summit.

Look very much forward to seeing you there.

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We are very excited that the State Bar of California has approved the SanFran MusicTech Summit for 2 CLE Credit Hours for attorneys, one of which is an Ethics Credit Hour. For more information, please visit our home page at http://www.sanfranmusictech.com . Hope very much to see you at the Summit!

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We are thrilled to announce that the next SanFran MusicTech Summit will take place at the fabulous Hotel Kabuki on October 20th, 2008. We will gather together the best and brightest developers in the Music/Technology Space, along with the musicians, entrepreneurial business people, and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce. We will meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment. All sorts of fabulous panelists are in the process of being confirmed, though some of the folkswho have let us know they will appear include:

Dave Allen - Nemo Designs / Pampelmoose Blog and Label / Ex-Gang of Four Bass Player

Alex Barkaloff - Lionsgate, Executive Producer for Digital Media

Jonathan Blaufarb, Esq. - Davis Shapiro, Partner

Marc Canter - Broadband Mechanics, Founder / Pioneer of Computer Based MultiMedia

Elliot Cahn, Esq. - Law Offices of Elliot Cahn / Elliot Cahn Management

Ted Cohen - TAG Strategic, Founder

Joyce Dollinger, Esq. - Dollinger, Gonski & Grossman

Gary Greenstein, Esq. - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

Ian McFarland - Pivotal Labs, VP of Technology

Lucas Gonze - XSPF

Peter Gotcher - Topspin, Co-Founder & Chairman / Director of Pandora Media, Dolby Laboratories, Line 6, Avnera Corporation and Dash Navigation

Bob Heyman - Mediasmith, Chief Search Officer

Steve Jang - imeem, CMO & Head of Business Development

Ethan Kaplan - Warner Music Technology, Vice President

Rachel Masters - Ning, VP of Strategic Relationships

Jack Moffit - Speeqe, CEO / Chesspark, CEO & Lead Developer / IceCast Streaming Media Server, Creator / Xiph Foundation, Co-Founder

Ian Nieves - DYSCO.dj, Founder

Sean O’Connell - Music Allies, Founder & CEO

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

Heather Rafter, Esq. - DigiDesign, General Counsel

Dave Rosenheim - Jambase, CEO

Paris - Guerilla Funk Recordings

Christopher Sabec, Esq. - Tea Leaf Green, Manager

Dawn Silva - Funk Singer, Brides of Funkenstein / Parliament Funkadelic / Sly & The Family Stone / The GAP Band

Dave Ulmer - Motorola, Sr. Director Multimedia Products and Services

Carnet William - Sprout, Co-Founder & CEO

We had 400 folks at the first Summit, 500 at the second, and are expecting 600 at this, the third. We will be doing everything we can to make this even better than the last one, and are optimistic that we will be able to pull this off.

We hope very much that you will be able to attend, and that we will get a chance to see you at the Summit!

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Videos from about 1/3 of the  sessions at the last SanFran MusicTech Summit are now available online at http://www.sanfranmusictech.com . More will be coming soon, but Copyright Issues in Music Law, Cash Flow, Funding, the interview of Tim Ferriss by Derek Sivers, Social Networks Platforms and Music, Streaming, the Mobile Strategies Panel and more have all made it online, with a bunch more to follow shortly. Very psyched to watch these and recall how great the sessions were, in addition to the phenomenal networking…

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Wanted to personally thank everyone who made the SanFran MusicTech Summit such a smashing success. Among the most important (out of many) were three groups of folks who helped ensure that we were able to provide hosted treats at the after Summit party.

First off, we can’t say thank you enough to Craig Austin Becker and David Zurowski of Michael Austin Wines / Somerston Winery. Somerston Winery has recently obtained several thousand acres in Napa, and is dedicated to growing the finest quality grapes, which was easily confirmed by the fabulous wines which they were pouring. The spectacular 2005 Michael Austin “Bad Habit” Red Wine, a blend of Petite Sirah, Syrah, and Grenache was a stunner, and the 2005 Michael Austin “High Flyer” Lodi Viognier was so delicious that we have plans to make this our summer cool down wine.

We have also been lucky enough to have become friends recently with 5th generation winemaker and 1st generation music impresario Karl Wente. After finishing his participation on the Marketing Panel, Karl was pouring some of his Wente Vineyard wines. We’ve tried a number of their wines recently, and have found their small lot Pinot Noir which we picked up at a recent visit to the winery to be especially and notably delicious. Thank you so much Karl and your family, and also to Heidi Richman and Karen Sundell who first connected us with the Wente’s.

And what would a SanFran MusicTech Summit be without Sake2Me Lightly Sparkling Sake Cocktails? We don’t know, as we’re all lucky enough that they were back to provide for the 2nd straight event. Thank you so much to Jeffrey Smith, Tad, and rest of the Sake2Me crew who made this happen.

All in all, the Summit was a smashing success, and the cocktail party was the icing on the cake. It would not otherwise have been nearly as great an event, so we especially want to thank Craig, David, Karl, Jeffrey, and all the other folks involved, and want to urge any and all of you who enjoyed their beverages to buy some for your at home consumption, or almost even better, to ask your local beverage shop whether these brands are being carried, and if not, to urge them to do so.

That would likely be the best way to thank these folks for what they added to the Summit, and would be very much appreciated by both them, and by us. Thanks again to all of you…

Brian Zisk

http://www.sanfranmusictech.com

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Looking forward to seeing several dozen folks tonight between 5 and 7 at O
Izakaya, 1625 Post Street, San Francisco, inside the Hotel Kabuki to
sample Izakaya, Japanese small plate dishes. Last time folks averaged
just under $20 including tax and tip, pretty reasonable for one of San
Francisco’s top 100 restaurants. Everyone pays their own way, but if you’d
like to participate and that is undoable, shoot me an email (or
ping me at the event) and we will arrange a simple way for your tab to be
covered. everyone is invited.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/o-izakaya-lounge-san-francisco?rpp=40&sort_by=rating_desc

We’re looking very much forward to seeing a bunch of folks there, and are
totally psyched that tomorrow’s SanFran MusicTech Summit (with over 400
folks registered) is looking so good. Looking forward to seeing a bunch of
you tonight, and tomorrow….

Brian Zisk
http://www.sanfranmusictech.com

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Though it’s still only tentative, we are thrilled to mention that the tentative schedule for the SanFran MusicTech Summit is now online at http://www.sanfranmusictech.com/SanFranMusicTech_schedule.pdf .

We’ve still got a number of invites out to some top notch folks, and even have a surprise or two who we believe will be participating, but since they’re known to be flaky, we’re going to pass on letting folks know until we actually see them at the summit.

Look very much forward to seeing you there…

http://www.sanfranmusictech.com

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Lawyers will be psyched that we are offering 2 Continuing Legal Education credits in conjunction with the ABA Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries for our “Lawyers in the Morning” sessions, “Legal Issues in Searching Linking & Blogging” and “Copyright Issues in Music Law”.

Lawyers, techies, musicians, entrepreneurs, press, investors, service providers, organizations…

We have something for everyone at the May 8th SanFran MusicTech Summit.

http://www.sanfranmusictech.com

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