2015 Schedule
Interactive: March 13–17  •  Film: March 13–21  •  Music: March 17–22

SXSW Accelerator: Social Technologies 3

Sunday, March 15
5:00PM - 6:00PM

Hilton Austin Downtown
Salon FG
500 E 4th St

The SXSW Accelerator® pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform for early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and venture capitalists and angel investors.

Three companies that have advanced from the previous day and earlier round within the Social Technologies category, presented by DYN, will dazzle a live audience, panel of three judges and co-emcees with their ideas, innovations, product and or services. A grand prize winner for this category will be announced tonight at the SXSW Acccelerator Award Ceremony at 7:00pm in Salon F&G.

The Social Technologies category includes applications and technologies that enable personal connections. With this category we’re looking for new and interesting uses, cases, products and services, as well as messaging that push the boundaries of how we find, follow and share our lives with others...

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Hashtags

#sxsw #sxswaccel

Presenters

Bob Metcalfe

Prof of Innovation

The University of Texas at Austin

Bob Metcalfe is Professor of Innovation and Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise in The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering.

Dr. Metcalfe was an Inter net pioneer at MI...

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Brad King

Co-Dir Center for Emerging Media Design & Dev

Ball State University

Brad King is an assistant professor in Ball State University’s Department of Journalism, and the co-director of the Center for Emerging Media Design & Development. He earned his Masters in Journali...

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Christine Herron

Dir

Intel Capital

Kevin Colleran

Partner

General Catalyst

Details

Access
Interactive Badge, Gold Badge, Platinum Badge
Type
Pitch Event
Theme
Startup Village and Business
Level
Intermediate

Thanks to our sponsors

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Music sponsor

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