BAVC Innovation Salon II : Guitar Heroes- How are Bay Area Companies Coming to the Rescue of the Music Industry? June 28, 2007

From how music is produced to how music finds its way to listeners, Bay Area companies have revolutionized the music world. We've watched companies like Digidesign turn nearly every recording studio digital and Apple make it possible to put our entire music library in our pockets. Now add to that IODA, Gracenote, Real Rhapsody, Yahoo, Snocap, MP3.com, Pandora, SonicLiving, INgrooves and IRIS, and the Bay Area becomes ground zero for the future of music.

However, the center of the music industry has always been in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville but will the recent rise of these Bay Area players change that? In this Salon we'll hear from the pioneers and the innovators who will look at these questions:

* Collaboration vs Competition? How are we working together and creating best practices for this emerging industry?
* How are Bay Area digital music companies preparing for the future?
* In what ways does the digital music industry impact the Bay Area, it's artist community, it's job market, and it's image around the world?

Elise Nordling, DJ & Techie Music Guru, Soma FM
Steve Bronstein , Chief Operating Officer, IODA
Jessica Stoner Steel , Vice President of Business Development, Pandora
Dusty DiMercurio, Marketing Manager, Digidesign
Gabriel Benveniste, Founder and CEO, SonicLiving
Moderator: Lydia Popovich, General Manager, Quannum Records
Mixed sounds by DJ Gadget afterwards!
RSVP here: http://www.bavc.org/innovationsalon/rsvp.html

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