- Chris Barton used the term delightful a few times and there was something great about hearing him say that about his product. He talks about Shazam being a delight when people use it and it’s so true. Using Shazam for the first time truly equated to having magic in my hands.
- Shazam will name your song in seconds. Use your phone's camera to scan and download the free Shazam app. Available on iOS, Android and more devices. Global Top 200 Top songs being discovered around the world right now. See who made it on the list of the most Shazamed songs worldwide.
- Co-Founder and Board Director, Chris Barton had the idea for identifying music on mobile phones before smartphones and the ease of iPhone apps existed. Barton created Shazam in 1999 at a time when you would have to call a 4-digit number, let the other end listen, and receive a text with the song name and artist.
Chris Barton is a founder and ex-CEO of Shazam, one of the most iconic and loved apps that has ever been built. Shazam amassed over a billion downloads and was acquired by Apple in 2017 for $400 million. Entrepreneur Speaker, Shazam Founder, Former Mobile Strategist for Google and Dropbox. Chris Barton is an entrepreneur speaker, co-founder and former Board Director of Shazam, and expert in mobile applications. At Shazam, he helped guide the music discovery company from idea to profit as co-founder and Board Director.
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Chris Barton – Leading expert in mobile applications, successful entrepreneur and startup advisor
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Chris Barton Speech Topics:
- Breaking the Sound Barrier – Challenges We Faced and Lessons We Learned in Building Shazam
- Shazam’s Early Years: Surviving Difficult Times & The Keys to Startup Success
- Lessons for Entrepreneurs Collected from My Shazam Experience
- Ten Things I Am Grateful for in My Shazam Experience
- Picking the Right Obsession
- The story of Creating Shazam and “Touchy Feely” Lessons for Entrepreneurs
About Chris Barton:
Chris Barton is an entrepreneur speaker, co-founder and Board Director of Shazam, and expert in mobile applications. At Shazam, he helped guide the music discovery company from idea to profit as co-founder and Board Director. He has also worked eight years at Google focused on mobile and at Dropbox as head of mobile operators development. Now he follows his dream of advising passionate entrepreneurs who want to make the world a better place, by speaking on entrepreneurship and advising a handful of startups. In addition, he is embarking on his next startup venture.
Barton co-founded Shazam in 1999 with the original idea to identify songs with a mobile phone. Before smartphones, people would call a number, put their phone up to the radio and receive a text identifying the song.
When the company launched in 2002, Shazam had 2 million songs in its database and took 15 seconds to process a user’s request. Today Shazam’s app has been downloaded by over 1 billion people globally. Now the app takes only a few seconds to identify songs from its database of over 30 million songs.
Shazam’s journey was one of faith and endurance for Barton and his co-founders. The company survived the dot.com bust but the company struggled for many years. Barton left in 2004 to join Google and later Dropbox but continued to serve on the Board throughout. Only in 2008 did Shazam begin its “hockey stick” growth curve once iPhone and Android app stores were introduced to the world.
Today, Shazam is among the most popular apps on both iPhone and Android with over 120 million monthly active users. Shazam’s highly advanced technology and superior customer ratings helped convince Apple to purchase the company for a reported $400 million in December 2017.
Barton holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, a Master’s degree in Finance from Cambridge University, and a BA from UC Berkeley.
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Humans, a Romanian deep-tech start-up, organizes Digital DNA Summit, the world’s first conference on synthetic (AI-created) media, which will benefit from the presence of some of the most visionary minds in the world. Confirmed speakers include Chris Barton (founder of Shazam), Sid Venkataramakrishnan (the European correspondent on technology of Financial Times), Bethanie Maples (Stanford researcher) and Scott Klososky (founder of Future Point of View). The event will take place online, between 10-11 December 2020.
Sabin Dima (photo), founder of Digital DNA Summit and CEO Humans: “Digital DNA Summit is the first international conference covering synthetic (AI-created) media. We aimed at opening the conversation about the AI-generated future and, at the same time, help innovators understand how their ideas would change the world. We are also militating to keep the Digital DNA in an ethical framework, and the Digital DNA Summit is the first step in this direction“.
More than 30 speakers, among which Artificial Intelligence researchers and founders of technology start-ups, will be present on the virtual stage of Digital DNA Summit to talk about how the digital genome will revolutionize extremely diverse industries, from the medical area to the entertainment sector, from education to fashion, from gaming to social media.
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Claude de Loupy, CEO of Syllabs (AI powered content optimisation and text generation): “How can AI boost the media industry? I will present my vision at the Digital DNA Summit, by shedding light on what challenges the media faces today, how can AI help the media respond to these challenges, how could a newsroom work today with the new tools available to it and even how far could media automation go and what is desirable.”
Hao Li, CEO of Pinscreen (creating AI-Driven Virtual Avatars): “In the coming years, we are going to interact more with digital humans than with real ones. Digital DNA summit has assembled an amazing set of speakers with topics ranging from virtual avatar, digital assistants, speech synthesis, deepfakes, ultrasound touch interface, and much more. As the pandemic rages on, virtual connectivity has never been that important.”
The Digital DNA Summit will address two major themes over the two days of the event. The first day is dedicated to the progress in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and the second to the ethical framework around these advances.
The event is organized with the support of UniCredit Bank, partner of the project.
Alexandru Mihalache, Head of Digital Channels, UniCredit Bank: “In a world where interactions are increasingly moving online, it is essential to be able to quickly respond to customer needs and be present where and when they need. The interaction has to be simple and smooth, and what customers need should be available one touch or one call away. UniCredit Romania has always been a promoter of modern technologies, investing in innovation and digitalization – and these values are key factors of our growth. I will present at the Digital DNA Summit the way in which UniCredit integrated AI in its activity for the benefit of our clients”.
More information about the event, including agenda and details about purchasing tickets can be accessed at https://www.digitaldnasummit.com/.