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

Speakers/Schedule

Below was the schedule for the 2007 event. This is the archive page for that year. Click to learn about Bandwidth 2009.

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.