We are thrilled to announce the winners of the 2016 SF MusicTech Summit Startup Competition. View Winners Here! Winners were showcased on stage at SF MusicTech Summit on October 17, 2016.

We will be announcing the 2017 Startup Competition soon. Stay tuned! This competition is about spotting & promoting great companies early, and making sure everyone in our community is tapped in! Is your company among the most interesting startups in music and tech? To enter, at least one member of your team must be registered to attend the 2017 SF MusicTech Summit to be eligible to apply. There is otherwise no charge to enter.

Stay educated and informed. Listen to our complete library of recordings from past SF MusicTech Summits, on virtually every topic!

Listen to the sessions from the 2016 Summit here!

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You can also listen to SF MusicTech Summit panels as podcasts from our iTunes podcast station.

Congratulations to our past Startup Innovators Challenge winner, Bohemian Guitars, who will be joining the 500 Startups Accelerator’s “9th batch.” Bohemian Guitars was a winner at Summit XI on October 9, 2012.

Winners of the May 20, 2014 SF MusicTech Summit XV Startup Innovators Challenge will be announced soon! Stay tuned (pun intended)!

Congratulations to two of our Summit XI Startup Innovators Challenge winners!

Timbre acquired by seatwave.com. Details are here.

Playground.fm acquired by Jawbone. Details are here.

Our contest is a way for promising start-ups to compete for an opportunity to showcase at the SF MusicTech Summit XV on May 20, 2014.

Round 1 complete: Thanks to everyone who submitted by 4/18/14 at 11:59 (PDT).  Those who submitted applications in Round 1 have priority consideration.

Round 2 complete: Thanks to everyone who submitted by 4/28 at 11:50 (PDT).  The contest is now complete, and judging is under way!

The word is out, we were honored with SF Weekly’s 2013 Best of San Francisco Award:

“Best Music Biz Dog-and-Pony Show: Part tech-geek confab, part self-promotion contest, and all good excuse to drink beer and eat brownies while talking to people you’ve never met before, the twice-annual SF MusicTech Summit provides a fascinating window into the tech side of today’s music industry. The highlight of each edition is usually the inevitable shouting match between tech whiz-kids who believe The Internet Rules All and rock codgers who wanna know where their fat royalty checks went. There are always a few fun (and alarming) predictions aired at the daylong event’s panel discussions, too. But for many, the important part of the conference happens in the Hotel Kabuki’s packed hallways, where musicians, code geeks, and grizzled industry types make deals, trade business cards, and otherwise forward this fascinating and sometimes ugly business of music. Whether you’re a music nerd navigating the web wild west, or a tech type looking to get into a new space, the lessons gained from one day at the SF MusicTech Summit are usually worth the price of entry.”