Girls In Tech

As you probably know, the Bay Area hosts many of the top events for innovative new technologies, startups, and social media. We are also a world class music hub.  With venues ranging from The Fillmore to the Great American Music Hall, from the Boom Boom Room to the Red Devil Lounge, and with festivals like Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Outside Lands, and Treasure Island Music Festival, there are few places in the world with a better selection of musical options. However, the specific field of music technology is rarely addressed in major start-up conferences today, despite bands and venues relying more heavily on the amazing local technologies being created regularly to help them grow and market, like Pandora, Blip.fm,  IODA, and BandCamp, just to name a few.
Music Technology is also becoming increasingly female friendly: classes, blogs and events are now being geared toward them. So, this year Girls in Tech is partnering with the premier west coast conference addressing the growing merger of music and technology:

The SF Music Tech Summit! – December 7th at Hotel Kabuki

SF Music Tech Summit draws over 600 musicians, developers, distributors, entrepreneurs, engineers, lawyers, and managers from around the city and around the globe for a full day of informative talks, engaging discussions, and relevant networking in the cooperative fields of music and technology.  At the 5th show on December 7th, we’ll discuss the current challenges with and solutions for online publication and distribution, how social media is affecting music sharing and marketing, how Hollywood and video games are defining a new niche in the space, why mobile technology needs to be taken seriously by musicians, distributors, and marketers, the newest methods of music monetization, and much more.  Expect the leading innovators and executives in the field, including:

• Kevin Arnold; CEO, IODA
• Tom Conrad; CTO, Pandora
• Zoe Keating; Cellist and Composer
• Zahavah Levine; Chief Counsel, YouTube
• Sandy Pearlman; Music Producer, Schulich Chair at McGill University
• Tim Quirk; VP of Music Programming, Rhapsody
• David Ulmer; Director of Marketing, Motorola Media Solutions
• Emily White; Co-Founder, Whitesmith Entertainment
• With more being added to the site daily!

Despite being a multi-billion dollar industry, the meeting of music and technology continues to create unanswered questions and unaddressed problems; it is rife with opportunity for entrepreneurs, PR representatives, marketers, and performers ready to tackle the big issues.  And the decisions that are made will affect not only the musicians, distributors, lawyers, and startups, but also those of us who are the consumers, media producers, and press.  There is no better place than the SF MusicTech Summit to get all the newest music and tech news, see where the industry is headed, and learn what to expect for artists, marketers, distributors, entrepreneurs, and consumers.

AND as a member of Girls in Tech, you can receive 15% off your ticket to this industry-defining event, using the code “GIT” at the Eventbrite link: http://sfmts5.eventbrite.com.

Details:

Hotel Kabuki
1625 Post Street
San Francisco, CA
Monday, December, 7 2009
9am – 6pm + cocktail party