Please join us in Silicon Valley as the C2SV TECHNOLOGY +
MUSIC FESTIVAL is celebrating the digital culture explosion right in
its epicenter with Iggy and the Stooges headlining a massive
outdoor concert in the park in Downtown San Jose, plus 70 established and
emerging artist in a dozen other venues over a four-day stretch, Sept.
26-29. The first wave of artists, announced below, also includes the
Lemonheads, the Limousines, the
Coup and Dam-Funk. A second wave of acts will
be announced soon!
On the tech side, keynote
speaker Robert Scoble (Rackspace,
Scobleizer), joins Jeff Stibel (Author of bestseller “Breakpoint”),
Nolan Bushnell (inventor of the first videogame and founder of
Atari), Chris Anderson (3D Robotics, former editor of Wired),
Andre Haddad (CEO, RelayRides),
Steve Westly (venture capitalist and
former California comptroller), Hugh Williams (Ebay) and Steve Kirsch (Infoseek, OneID) to lead more than
200 speakers at the technology conference.
We've made it easy for you to
register for "platinum access" press credentials. Simply follow this
link:
http://c2sv.com/press/press-credentials/
Festival founder Dan
Pulcrano is available for interviews, as are most of the artists and
speakers.
Of special interest is
Stooges guitarist James Williamson, who has
one foot in the music industry and another in the tech side. Not only does he
live in the Silicon Valley, but he worked there for many years in the tech
industry. Ask him about it!
Please let me know how I can best facilitate your
coverage.
I look forward to hearing from
you!
Kind regards,
Randy Alexander
Randex PR for C2SV
856.596.1410 /
randex@randexpr.com
www.c2sv.com
Iggy and the
Stooges to Headline C2SV Festival
in Silicon Valley as Tech Fans and Music Lovers Converge on Downtown San Jose Sept. 26-29, 2013
in Silicon Valley as Tech Fans and Music Lovers Converge on Downtown San Jose Sept. 26-29, 2013
Breakthrough
Event to Showcase Emerging Acts, Advanced Ideas and Disruptive Innovation in a
Festive Urban Environment
SAN JOSE, CA
(Aug. 1, 2013) – Pivotal Silicon Valley innovators will converge on their home
turf with some of the biggest names in music when THE C2SV TECHNOLOGY
CONFERENCE + MUSIC FESTIVAL, headlined by protopunk legends Iggy and the Stooges,
takes over Downtown San Jose to celebrate the digital culture explosion
Thursday, Sept. 26 through Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013.
Early-bird
tickets for C2SV (Creative Convergence Silicon Valley), including multi-venue music passes and technology conference passes
and wristbands, are on sale NOW at www.c2sv.com.
The newly
re-branded festival expands on the success of last year’s inaugural Silicon
Valley Sound Experience to showcase more than 70 emerging and established acts
in over a dozen downtown venues as well as St. James Park, site of the Sept. 28
outdoor concert that will be headlined by Iggy and the Stooges. Other acts on
board for C2SV include ‘90s alt-rock pioneers The Lemonheads,
electro-pop duo The Limousines, Oakland’s The Coup,
featuring Boots
Riley and DJ Pam the Funkstress, and
modern funk pioneer Dam-Funk.
On the tech
side, Robert Scoble (Rackspace, Scobleizer), Jeff Stibel (Author of bestseller “Breakpoint”),
Nolan Bushnell (inventor of the first videogame and founder of
Atari), Chris Anderson (3D Robotics, former editor of Wired),
Andre Haddad (CEO, RelayRides),
Steve Westly (venture capitalist and
former California comptroller), Hugh Williams (Ebay) and Steve Kirsch (Infoseek, OneID) are among the
more than 200 speakers who will share new ideas during presentations and panels
at the technology conference. Scoble will moderate the
keynote session that opens the technology programming which, over the course of three days, will explore a compelling
range of topics such as the sharing economy, augmented reality, artificial
intelligence, transmedia, mobile applications, social
media and societal impacts of rapid technology change.
Many more
acts and tech luminaries will be announced soon.
C2SV provides
an exciting new platform for sharing ideas, discovering new music and, of
course, having a lot of fun in the heart of Silicon Valley, the epicenter of the
global digital revolution and a driving force behind the mega-festival industry.
Technology and music events across the country have become a place to network,
collaborate, launch companies and promote bands. C2SV invites the world to experience live music with Silicon Valley
technology on its home turf.
“With so much
musical and technological talent here, it seemed obvious that there needed to be
a local event for performers and technology innovators to network, collaborate
and get a little crazy,” said C2SV organizer and longtime Silicon Valley
journalist Dan Pulcrano. “Sure there are popular
conference/festivals in Toronto, Portland, Austin and elsewhere. But C2SV will
have a uniquely Silicon Valley stamp on it, with our legendary sunshine overhead
and relaxed urban culture as a backdrop.”
C2SV also is
an opportunity for the valley’s hard working technical workforce to experience a
festival of music and advanced ideas without having to sleep on someone’s couch
in another city. The conference and accompanying expo
will inaugurate the new wing of the San Jose McEnery
Convention Center, a $120 million expansion that will open in September.
Here
is the first round of C2SV acts. More acts will be announced shortly:
OFF!
The
Coup
Black
Milk
Deafheaven
Mondo
Generator
The
Limousines
Torches
Lemonheads
Clawhammer
Fatso
Jetson
DAM
Funk
Media
Contacts:
Randy
Alexander | Randex Communications
Download
hi-rez jpegs here.
@C2SVTech
@C2SVMusic
Facebook.com/C2SVFestival
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