Thomas Dolby. Dolby has had a long illustrious career as a muscian. In 1985, he appeared at the Grammy Awards along with Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. All four musicians were successful keyboard and synthesizer experts in the mid-1980s music scene. That same year, Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie's band. Dolby is best known for his groundbreaking techno hit, “She Blinded Me With Science," but that is far from the biggest hit of his lifetime. Most notably, since 2001, Thomas Dolby has acted as Musical Director of The TED Conference, an annual event in Long Beach, California that attracts some of the world's foremost thinkers, inventors, and speakers. In this capacity Dolby provides live musical introductions to sessions, sometimes with an eclectic TED House Band, as well as helping secure guest musicians and entertainers for the event.  

Jack Buser is the Director of PlayStation Home, which is a 3D virtual world and social game platform on the PS3.  Home recently underwent a major redesign, and we’re eager to hear about the new benefits and features.  Jack Buser is also responsible for driving business initiatives and activities for the 3D community-based social gaming platform, overall and was previously the Director of Worldwide Technology Evangelism at Dolby Labs, so he has a keen understanding of the impact of tech on real-world applications, like gaming and entertainment.  PlayStation Home is filled with with hundreds of games – everything from pool tables and dart boards to full-on space shooters like Novus Prime: Escalation, zombie slashers like Dead Island Zombie Survivor, and massive online racing games like Sodium 2: Project Velocity. 

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. This is a space to meet to discuss the evolving music/business/technology ecosystem in a proactive, conducive to dealmaking environment. The summit is an effort to bring together musicians, technologists, entrepreneurs and the press to look for new solutions to the issues that face musicians and the industry that surrounds them. In this interview, Brian Zisk discusses the history of the music business and explains how new business models are evolving out of new technologies, and what they will mean for both consumers and artists.  Listen in to hear about a bunch of fascinating new ideas coming to one of the leading events in music and technology!  Brian Zisk is also the moderator of the SXSW Music Panel, and he also created the Future of Money and Technology Summit.

Dave Cool is the “voice” of Bandzoogle. Dave writes Bandzoogles blog, inspiring and  supporting Bandzoogle’s #1 mission: To make Direct-to-Fan a very real accomplishment for artists and bands everywhere. Dave Cool (and yes, that's his real name!) is perhaps best known for having directed and produced the documentary film "What is INDIE? A look into the World of Independent Musicians" which documented the experience of being an independent artist in the music industry. He's a friend to indie artists everywhere. A big inspiration in the world of musicians and bands, Dave inspires artists to keep control of their content on as many levels as possible and to maximize their fan outreach and merchandising.  If you are a musician, this is a must. 

Azeo Fables is the creator of the Newest Gadget for Gen Z, VizLingo! Not long ago, entrepreneurs Todd Younggren and Azeo Fables created hatched the idea to use the latest revolution in tech, mobile, to create a new way to communicate, and VizLingo was born.  Simply put, VizLingo is a messaging tool that translates words into video. The UI is exactly what the new generation of users demands, fun and easy! The user simply types any message into VizLingo to see each word of their message illustrated by a 1-2 second video.  If you’re thinking “I don't get it" that’s actually a good thing.  It’s one of those subtle mechanisms that has to be experienced, like poetry for instance. VizLingo is definitely a sort of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" medium - a new form of visual poetry, if you will. It's not only who it plays TO, but also what the "writer" puts into their work.

Gary Goldstein produced one of the most iconic cultural expressions of the last generation: Pretty Woman -- along with many other blockbuster hits, like Under Siege, The Mothman Prophecies, and others. He has gone on to mentor many of the leading creative voices in the music, film and technology sectors.  He is an author, a speaker, an innovator, a philanthropist, and above all, an all around great guy.

Gerd Leonhard is a media futurist, writer, keynote speaker and strategist with 25 years in the tech and entertainment industries in all major markets. Leonhard's focus is on new technologies in content, media and technological convergence, and he’s just published his newest book on Kindle, “The Future of Content.” http://gerd.fm/focbook Leonhard’s intent to publish this eBook via Amazon Kindle, exclusively, at this very low price, is to make these ideas and concepts as widely available as possible while still trying to be an example of what digital, paperless distribution can look like, going forward.  Definitely a GREAT investment at $2.99. Gerd Leonhard has been writing about the future of content (i.e. music, film, TV, books, newspapers, games etc.) since 1998. He has published 4 books on this topic, 2 of them on music (The Future of Music, Music 2.0). For the past 10 years, Leonhard has been deeply involved with many clients in various sectors of the content industry, in over 17 countries. This Kindle book is a highly curated collection of the most important essays and blog posts Leonhard has written on this topic, and even though some of it was written as far back as 2007.

Marina Jacoby-Leonard, Marina J, as she is affectionately called, crafts women to become the goddess of every part of her life and men to become the rock stars of their life. She coaches clients in Australia, the UK & in the United States and runs regular workshops & courses. She regularly writes about her work for newspapers and magazines. Her co-authored book "Healthy, Wise & Amazing Women" reached #1 on the Amazon Best Seller list in hours. She has over 13 years experience leading clients to transform their whole lives, seven years as a Certified Life Coach, 13 years as a Japanese Yoga Instructor, and holds certificates in Life Coaching, Yoga Teaching, Wholefood as Medicine, Meridians & Zen Shiatsu.  She is also a member of the International Association of Women in business Coaching & the International Institute for Complementary Therapists. 

Thomas Reemer, CEO of 88tc88.com, is an absolute force in the international music world. 88tc88.com is an online service that, among other things, translates western titles and artists, enabling access for Western Music to the vast Chinese mobile market, including direct access to China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom – the trifecta of the Chinese tech industry. 

Musician Thomas Dolby. Dolby has had a long illustrious career as a muscian. In 1985, he appeared at the Grammy Awards along with Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, and Howard Jones. All four musicians were successful keyboard and synthesizer experts in the mid-1980s music scene. That same year, Dolby performed at the Live Aid concert in London as part of David Bowie's band. Dolby is best known for his groundbreaking techno hit, “She Blinded Me With Science," but that is far from the biggest hit of his lifetime. Most notably, since 2001, Thomas Dolby has acted as Musical Director of The TED Conference, an annual event in Long Beach, California that attracts some of the world's foremost thinkers, inventors, and speakers. In this capacity Dolby provides live musical introductions to sessions, sometimes with an eclectic TED House Band, as well as helping secure guest musicians and entertainers for the event.