Last week I wrote about the sizable investments (over $58 million) in music technology companies since the beginning of the year, and it seems this activity is spawning conferences like the SanFran MusicTech Summit. Interested? Here's a brief FAQ I put together to help encourage you to attend:

What's the purpose of the summit? The purpose of the summit is to "bring together the best and brightest developers in the Music/Technology Space, along with the musicians, entrepreneurial business people, and organizations.... to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to deal making environment." Sounds brilliant! I'm seriously considering attending this event.

Who will be speaking and/or presenting? Here's a brief sample, or you can view the entire list here. As you can see, it's an impressive group.

• Ann Chaitovitz - Executive Director, Future of Music Coalition
• Richard Conlon - VP New Media & Strategic Development, BMI
• Tim Westergren - Founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Pandora
• Ty Roberts - Co-Founder and CTO, Gracenote
• Derek Sivers - Founder, CD Baby
• Lars Murray - Senior Director Digital Media and Marketing, SONY BMG
• Paul Anthony - Founder and CEO, RumbleFish

How much does it cost? It depends. For students/musicians it's $99.00, developers $199.00 and $299.99 for general admission. Wow, that's inexpensive! You can purchase your tickets here.

Also, here's an interesting video clip discussion on the future of radio from the inaugural music tech summit held just a couple of months ago:

This summit sounds like a great way for indie artists to learn about current and developing technologies they can use to more effectively manage their careers. It also sounds like a good networking event for folks building music tech companies like myself, but I can't discuss any details until we launch, so that will probably prevent me from attending.
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I was listening to The Grateful Dead as I wrote this post.