Bandwidth 2007 Recap:
August 17 & 18, 2007
The Regency Center
San Francisco

Speakers/Schedule

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Thursday, August 16

Kickoff Party at the Mars Bar, 798 Brannan at 7th

Sponsored by Bandwidth Conference and

Friday, August 17

9:00 am - Registration Opens

Click on Speaker name for more info... more to be added shortly. *

10:00 am - Lodge Room

Conversation with: Jordan Kurland, Zeitgeist Artist Management

11:10 am - Lodge Room

The Mobile Panel: Faster Than The Speed Of Sound

Music and the mobile device - the little portable device that aims to be your everything.

Moderator: Antony Bruno, Billboard Magazine
Tim Bucher, Zing
Tom Constabile, Verizon Wireless
Seamus McAteer, M:Metrics
Jessica Stoner Steel, Pandora

11:10 am - Suite Room

E-Merging Labels: The Shape of Things to Come

Not your grandma's record label - the evolution of the label, and the new company it keeps.

Moderator: Kimberly Chun, SF Bay Guardian
Ted Kartzman, RealNetworks
Tim Mitchell, IODA
Lydia Popovich, Quannum Projects
Jeff Yasuda, Fuzz

12:05pm to 12:45pm - Lunch Break

12:45pm to 1:35pm - Lodge Room

See me.  Feel Me.  Hear Me.  Love Me.

Music discovery now.

Moderator: Chris Rolls, MP3.com, CNET Networks
Beni B, ABB Records
Joe Mohen, SpiralFrog
Jesse Reiner, Linden Lab
Stephen White, Gracenote

12:45pm to 1:35pm - Suite Room

I Should Have Been A Panelist

Double gosh darnit it! Once again those stupid Bandwidth producers have overlooked the genius that is yours! Your chance to be on a panel - show up, and you might very well be brought up to the dias to tell us a thing or two or three.

Moderator: Jonathan Blaufarb, Davis Shapiro Lewit & Hayes, LLP
Panelists: Maybe you

1:50pm - Lodge Room

Space Age Marketing.

The new-fangled ways of reaching out and bringing together.

Moderator: Christina Eichelberger, SONYBMG Music Entertainment
Yobie Benjamin, GoodStorm
Jason Feinberg, On Target Media Group
Lizzie Garlinghouse, Listen Up PR
Dorrian Porter, Mozes

1:50pm - Suite Room

(Web)Masters of the Universe

Those that run the fan clubs - their take on keeping the fans involved, happy and loyal.

Moderator: Jon Luini, Chime Interactive
Anthony Batt, Buzznet
Jason Hall, Fat Wreck Chords
Bill Rousseau, Noise Pop Industries
Vickie Strate, Metallica HQ

3:00pm - Lodge Room

Conversation with: Peter Standish, Sr. VP of Marketing, Warner Bros. Records

3:00 pm - Suite Room

Behind The Velvet Rope...

The technologies changing the fan experience, and what's coming down the pike.

Moderator: Mike McGuire, Gartner
Jack Buser, Dolby Laboratories
Chuck Fishman, Cisco Media Solutions Group
Nick Tabbal, comScore
Others to be announced

4:00pm - Lodge Room

Ka-ching! Revenue Review 2007

Yeah, yeah, we get it - you love music. But business is business, and that means money has to come into it somewhere. A look at the current methods and models of generating income from music.

Moderator: Bobby White, Wall Street Journal
Dean Hudson, Sub Pop Records
Dan Kasin, Dan Kasin Management
Bill Nguyen, Lala.com
Alex Rofman, SNOCAP

4:00pm - Suite Room

On The Road and Online

The internet and touring - from online blogs to planning shows to new streams of revenue - tour technology is now more than a tour bus with a Pegasus spraypainted on the side.

Moderator: Gary Bongiovanni, POLLSTAR
Tom Chauncey, Partisan Arts
Jordan Glazier, Eventful
Matt Nathanson, Singer/Songwriter
Allen Scott, Another Planet Entertainment

5:00pm - Vertigo

Cocktails!

A chance to schmooze.... you do it so well.

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Saturday, August 18

9:30 am - Lodge Room

Conversation with: Alejandro Escovedo

Interviewed by Jaan Uhelszki

10:30am - Lodge Room

The Jet Sets: Social Networking

The kid down the street has an online posse... music and the social networker.

Moderator: Mark Glaser, PBS MediaShift
Maureen Herman, Babes In Toyland and Fuzz
Steve Jang, imeem
Rachel Masters, Ning
Tim Stevens, Doppelganger, Inc.

10:30am - Suite Room

I Should've Been a Moderator

Now those Bandwidth producers have really done it. Not only should you have been on a panel, you are a leader, and they have failed to see that. We have five industry experts ready to engage upon any subject you deem interesting. A few of you will get a chunk of time to engage our panelists into what truly matters. And only you know what that is.

Moderator: Maybe You
Andy Gadiel, Jambase
David Katznelson, Birdman Recording Group
Nick Tangborn, BitTorrent, Inc.

11:30am - Lodge Room

The DRM Panel

The current state of Digital Rights Management.

Moderator: Mike Linksvayer, Creative Commons
Emily Griffin, Zune/Sanguine Recordings
Dave Jaworski, PassAlong Networks
Matt Laszuk, IRIS Distribution
Tuhin Roy, Digital Music Group and Digital Rights Agency

11:30am - Suite Room

Hi-Speed Fan

Fan behavior in warped speed - the fan-driven music culture.

Moderator: Kurt Wolff, CNET Download.com Music
Kevin Barenblat, SpotDJ
Aric Berquist, Synchronicity Live
Roland Deal, KaDoink
Chris Marstall, Tourfilter

12:30-1:00pm - Lunch Break

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1:00 pm - Lodge Room

The Streaming Rates Panel

A rather timely topic, wouldn't you agree?

Moderator: Ben Fong-Torres
John Simson, SoundExchange
Tim Westergren, Pandora

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2:10 pm - Lodge Room

Sue Me, Sue You, Sue Everybody!

Litigation is everywhere -- how it is affecting (pro and con) the industry, fans, and industry evolution.

Moderator: Jess Hemerly, Institute for the Future
Larry E. Feldman, Leflaw.com/Dmusic.com/boycott-riaa.com
Jason Schultz, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Eric Steuer, Creative Commons
Others to be announced

3:20 pm - Lodge Room

Tomorrowland! The Crystal Ball Panel

Where our esteemed panelist of bigwigs gaze into the future and confabulate on all things music/technology...

Moderator: Brian Zisk, Future of Music Coalition
David Hyman, MOG
Nancy Miller, Wired
Chuck Prophet

4:30 pm - Lodge Room

Cocktails!

And you barely need to move more than a dozen yards to pick up your beverage and schmooze some more.