SF MusicTech Summit in San Francisco

The eighth SF MusicTech Summit will take place on Monday, May 9, 2011 at Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. There will be speakers from Billboard, BMI, Pandora, SoundCloud, SoundExchange, Twitter, Universal Music Group, and many more.

The SF MusicTech Summit brings together visionaries in the music/technology space, along with the best and brightest developers, entrepreneurs, investors, service providers, journalists, musicians and organizations who work with them at the convergence of culture and commerce.

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Registration is open and the conference is offering Laughing Squid readers a 10% discount off the normal price. Just enter the discount code “laughingsquidwhen you register.

Below are a couple videos from the last SF MusicTech Summit. First a backstage interview with Ian Rogers, CEO of TopSpin Media, before the panel he moderated on what music labels need from startups:

This feature on the Future of Musical Instruments panel shows the literally hands-on music tech that is also a part of the event:

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Actor, nerd, poet, producer, writer mikl-em made his name short so you wouldn't have to. In addition to his blog you can find his writing in "Hi Fructose" magazine and witness him almost life-sized in various plays at The Dark Room Theater in SF's Mission district.

He tends to write about theater, humor, San Francisco culture and history, and stuff that's just plain weird. He thanks Scott for sharing the keys to the Laughing Squid virtual HQ and promises to uphold whatever it is that the mirthful cephalopod would prefer to be uplifted.