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Driskill Hotel
604 Brazos Street
Friday, March 9
People want to confess who they are to someone, anyone. And they want to discover who they are through that dialogue. Bonding occurs through disclosure and empathetic acceptance of that disclosure, as a result of confess...
Intermediate
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Julie Gillis, Mia Martina, Rosie Q, Sadie Smythe
The 90’s introduced people to the wonders of dial-up internet, screen names, and the pursuit of digital romance. The only problem was, we never really knew who was on the other end of the screen. Today, there’s a hig...
Intermediate
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Shon Mogharabi
You've updated LinkedIn. Created your about.me profile. Nailed your elevator pitch. Congratulations! You finally landed that elusive interview. Now what? Demand for talent in the tech industry is supposedly at an all-tim...
Beginner
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Beth Davidz, Jayna Wallace
Join Shift & Reset author, Brian Reich, for this live podcast kicking off the discussion about the big themes of the 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival. Brian will talk with some of SXSW's hottest speakers about the bes...
Intermediate
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Brian Reich
Saturday, March 10
We've had data visualisation. We've had data journalism. But there's a missing layer that sport has ignored. Only the most passionate of fanatical sporting statisticians can get joy from the data that accompanies the wor...
Advanced
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Richard Ayers
I was tired of terrible first dates. When I decided to try online dating, I wasn’t going to let my profile mugshot and a few lines about me decide my fate. Instead, I did what any enterprising young woman in my positio...
Intermediate
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Amy Webb
It's common to call the printing press revolutionary. But the printing press did not eliminate handwriting. To this day, we have Moleskine notebooks, Post-It Notes, hipster PDAs. Similarly, the digital revolution will no...
Beginner
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Frazier Fritz Blaw, Nathan Kreuter, Travis Hartman, William Burdette
Each year, thousands of technophiles descend upon Austin, bringing Internet-connected laptops, phones and tablets with them, and most of them think very little about keeping their personal communications secure. Open wir...
Advanced
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Darren Kitchen
Thanks largely to digital innovation, being a sports fan has never been so emotionally charged, or fun, as it is today.
Fans no longer just watch. They participate, analyze, critique, deconstruct, fantasize and connec...
Intermediate
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Kyle Bunch, Richard Ting
Earlier this year, United Nations special rapporteur Frank La Rue overwhelmingly declared access to the internet as "an indispensable tool for realizing a range of human rights, combating inequality, and acceleratin...
Advanced
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Christian Sandvig, Ed Lee, Jason Rockwood, Michealene Risley, Nick Szuberla
Four years ago, The Solid Verbal was a little-known, low-rent college football podcast started by two guys in different states who had never met. Now, after an incredible journey, hosts Ty Hildenbrandt and Dan Rubenstei...
Beginner
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Dan Rubenstein, Nick Fotis, Ty Hildenbrandt
Where people used to just run, now they are now denigrated as heel-strikers or running around barefoot. Serious bikers use algorithms, and hours, to figure out silly things like how high to adjust their seats. The more w...
Intermediate
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Henry Abbott, Jay Dicharry
Today, The Basketball Jones is a daily NBA podcast, award-winning blog, and television show. Five years ago, it was a money-losing passion project recorded in a kitchen. The story of what happened in between is partly ab...
Beginner
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Jason Doyle, JE Skeets, Matt Osten, Tas Melas, Trey Kerby
Fantasy sports began in the 1960s as a way for sports junkies to "interact" more with their favorite sports by selecting their own rosters and competing against like minded sports junkies. Until the mid-1990s, ...
Intermediate
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Bill Squadron, Clay Walker, Greg Jennings, Jason Kint, Stephania Bell
Sunday, March 11
From New York to Los Angeles, Korean barbecue to waffles, food trucks are popping up across the country and taking the nation by storm. Kicking storefronts to the curb, chefs and entrepreneurs are hitting the pavement to...
Intermediate
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Bob Madden, Daniel Shemtob, James DiSabatino, Stephanie Morgan
In his role as General Manager of the San Antonio Spurs RC Buford has enjoyed being part of four NBA Championship celebrations. In his work with kids in Africa and the Middle East Buford has literally changed hundreds of...
Intermediate
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Alexis Wangmene, Anne Buford, Laura Dixon, Rc Buford, Taylor Smiley
In this presentation, I will share the story of a groundbreaking pedagogical experiment that quickly gained national and international attention: teaching “Cultures of Basketball” at the University of Michigan. Insp...
Advanced
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Yago Colás
Could Brooklyn be to food what Seattle was to music --- a hotbed of creative people doing new things? There are tons of artisans finding new businesses and launching new products in the biggest NYC borough whether it be ...
Beginner
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Christina Tosi, David Crofton, Erica Shea, Jessica Applestone, Peter Meehan
There is an explosion in the number of services created to help people make better choices about how we produce, consume, and interact with food. Challenges related to the accuracy and completeness of data hamper the rat...
Intermediate
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Anthony Nicalo, Britta Riley, Chacha Sikes, Chacha Sikes, Danielle Gould, Danielle Gould, Niles Brooks, Niles Brooks
Boxcutters is a podcast all about television. It's the only Australian podcast to ever be invited to do a live show at SXSW and this live episode will be the 300th edition of the show. Kyle Killen, Austin native and crea...
Beginner
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Brett Cropley, Glenn Peters, Josh Kinal, Kyle Killen
Ron Prince went from being a disgraced former Kansas State head football coach to being the internet's first job candidate for everything from coaching vacancies to the Presidency of Libya. How did this happen? Via the c...
Beginner
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Spencer Hall
Whither the cookbook? It’s a question that publishers, authors, agents, just about anyone in the industry is asking. Questions around content generation, monetization opportunities, and new media all have prompted grea...
Intermediate
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Adam Salomone, Bruce Shaw
Until quite recently, there was a single source of record for your favorite sports team: The beat writer. For decades, the local paper determined what sports fans would consume and how they’d consume it.Not until the ...
Intermediate
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Johnny Ludden, Jonathan Abrams, Kathleen Hessert, Kevin Arnovitz, Tom James
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Beginner
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Charles Bryant, Josh Clark
Monday, March 12
Niburu! Comet Elenin! Asteroid YU55! It's not the end of the world, really. NASA and Discover's "Bad Astronomer" Phil Plait are here to explain why. This panel discussion will take on the Internet factor in the...
Beginner
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Don Yeomans, Phil Plait, Stephanie Smith, Veronica McGregor
Slowly, but increasingly definitively, our technologies and our devices are learning to see, to hear, to place themselves in the world. Phones know their location by GPS. Financial algorithms read the news and feed that ...
Intermediate
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Aaron Cope, Ben Terrett, James Bridle, Joanne McNeil, Russell Davies
From bicycle-powered mobile phone chargers to a helicopter built from an old Honda Civic and the remains of a crashed 747, Africa has been producing a unique strain of innovators long before the maker movement started tr...
Beginner
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Anita Pyke, John Kidenda, Juliana Rotich, Steve Daniels
Slightly over a year ago we had this idea of trying to launch a ballon into the stratosphere (~100,000 feet) with a couple of cameras and get it back down safely.
Since then we've launched 6 balloons and successfully re...
Intermediate
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Celso Martinho, Fernando Afonso
The Technology and Fashion session shows the language of art and design expressed through the intertwining of technology and fashion. Using recent and new technologies, amazing things are happening to clothes: face masks...
Intermediate
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Alison Lewis, Janet Hansen, Kathleen Maher, Ping Fu, Sheridan Martin
The relationship most adults have with science is one of observation: watching government agencies explore on behalf of us, but not actually exploring it ourselves. Science should be disruptively accessible – empowerin...
Intermediate
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Ariel Waldman, Jeremy Keith, Matt Bellis
As the Internet has become an increasingly integral part of our daily lives, it's transformed virtually everything about how we live--from how we communicate with friends and family, how we get our jobs done, and, yes, h...
Intermediate
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Lena Chen, Lux Alptraum, Maureen O'Connor, Mike Dacks
Acclaimed “talk show in game space” This Spartan Life will conduct live interviews “under fire” in the videogame Halo, projected on the screen before the audience. Dodging virtual bullets in the mixed reality of ...
Intermediate
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Chris Burke, Josephine Dorado, Paul Marino
Show the world what you make at Make: Live’s SXSW Maker Show and Tell! Editors from MAKE Magazine, makezine.com and producers from Maker Faire will be on hand to interview SXSW makers, and talk about their projects....
Intermediate
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Brookelynn Morris, Joe Christensen, Nat Wilson-Heckathorn, Sabrina Merlo, Sean Michael Ragan
In the future, we aren't going to fight the robots, we're going to become the robots. In fact, it may be even sooner -- like, now. We’ll have an AI-powered panelist taking questions from the audience.Oh, we'll have som...
Beginner
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Bruce Duncan M Ed, John Romano, Stephen Reed
Self-hacking is about self-awareness, pattern spotting and behaviour change. It focuses on the end result of data collection: understanding and action. As important is "data literacy" i.e. data expertise at ind...
Advanced
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Adriana Lukas
Tuesday, March 13
Founders can plan all they want, but sometimes the most significant drivers of growth are unexpected. The trick to sniffing out the (unexpected) secret sauce is observing trends—both among users and throughout the grea...
Intermediate
With the developments in social shopping such as real time social shopping sites, Facebook shopping, and location-based check-ins, recommendations, and deals, the fashion industry is catering to the customer like never b...
Intermediate
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Caroline Waxler
The traditional cycles of fashion trends, consumer buying patterns and clothing manufacturing no longer exist in the fashion industry – fashion is ‘now’ in all its capacity and its current pace brings with it a var...
Intermediate
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Anthony Santagati, Chris Morton, Imran Amed, Michelle Sadlier, Nikolas Badminton
The merging of the physical and digital into a blended reality is a profound change to our world that demands examination. In this session we will explore this concept through the lenses of technology, anthropology and c...
Advanced
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Gene Becker, Sally Applin
In 2015, analysts estimate worldwide sales of 3 million hybrid and electric cars and light trucks – and almost 100 million electric scooters and bikes. EVs represent more than just a different way to turn the wheels o...
Intermediate
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Mike O'Toole, Robert Davis, Scott Monty
Digital democracy has been and gone; at the end of the day, we only want fashion that looks good. Which is, for the most part, highly produced, edited and featuring a well-known model. Fashion social media has had quite ...
Beginner
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Angela Buttolph, Roisin Kiberd
A new generation of social curation communities have risen over the past year with the mission of enhancing shopping and product discovery across retailers. These services provide an easy way to create wish lists and cur...
Intermediate
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Cannon Hodge, Dave Surgan, Elizabeth Canon, Hilary Peterson, Rachel Tipograph
Writer of the award-winning blog, Cupcakes and Cashmere (and soon-to-be-published book under the same name), Emily Schuman shares how she got her start in blogging and how she turned it into a successful business. She e...
Intermediate
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Emily Schuman
