Friday, February 11, 2011

Chamillionaire Teams With Grammys, Foursquare, Pandora Founders For Tech Conference

Houston, Texas rap star and avid technology advocate Chamillionaire will be featured on a panel with some of the world's best known social and new media companies during next week during The Grammy's Social Media Rock Star Summit.

The Social Media Rock Star Summit - Music and Mobile: Beyond The Ringtone take's place during Grammy Week.

The panel will feature Chamillionaire, Foursquare Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai, Pandora's Chief Strategy Officer, Tim Westergren and Facebook Director of Platform Product Marketing, Ethan Beard.

Chamillionaire and the panelists will discus the future of digital downloads, the explosive growth of social networking, the adoption of smartphones and tablets and how this has impacted the way users interact and download music.

The Social Media Rock Star Summit takes place on Friday (February 11th) from 2-3:30PM at The Conga Room at L.A. Live in Los Angeles.

For those that can't attend the conference live, Social Media Rock Stars Summit will be streamed live on Grammy.com and YouTube.com/thegrammys from 5 - 6:30PM.

The news of Chamillionaire's involvement in the Social Media Rock Star Summit comes on the heels of news that The Grammy's will spotlight Hip-Hop music during the "Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey" exhibit, which opened this week and runs until May 4th.

The exhibit features artifacts from Tupac Shakur, LL Cool J., Run-DMC, Grandmaster Flash and others. (All Hip Hop)

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