Tech Jam Party 2007 San Francisco Thu, Oct 18, 2007 01:32 PM CDT - Byraf
Tuesday night, I attended the Third Annual Tech Charity Jam Party at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco -- kind of an unofficial opener to the Web 2.0 conference. The event -- which was sponsored by Kompoz, Portfolio.com, and law firm White & Case -- benefited the One Economy organization, a global nonprofit organization that uses innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information to low-income people, giving them valuable tools for building better lives.
Kevin Many (profile, blog) MC'd most of the evening, fronting a killer band led by White & Case managing partner Bill Coats on bass, with John Given from Digidesign on guitar and Andy Stack on drums. As the night wore on, musicians hopped up on stage and joined in, including Don Clark of The Wall Street Journal, journalist Cathy Brooks of LeWeb3, and Music Gremlin CEO Robert Khedouri. Probably 100-plus people came -- CEOs, entrepreneurs, VCs, tech journalists, PR folks.