William Hertling, author of Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears, will read from his new novel, A.I. Apocalypse.
Nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel, and recommended by luminaries such…
RSVP Required - Unity 4 demonstrates the platform's AAA push that levels the playing field between the largest and the smallest studios. It enables anyone, from the most indie game designer to the biggest multinational …
Celebrate and learn about the life and ideals of Aaron Swartz at this special SXSW Town Hall.
In addition to addressing some of the open source principles that shape his philosophies, the session will also cover ongoing…
Beginning
Presenters
David Segal, Jennifer Lynch, Marvin Ammori, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Responsive Design has been much vaunted as the way forward for web and mobile publishing design, flexible and affordable. Whilst a few major brands, Boston Globe, Grey Goose, Barak Obama have begun to explore the possibi…
Meet up and chat with technology enthusiasts and digital creatives interested in universal access to technology for all people regardless of ability. Whether you work in the web or mobile field, government, or education …
What you will Learn:
Whether you're a top-tier chef or "that guy" who couldn't boil water if he tried, Tim Ferriss's radically counterintuitive advice will help you get the most out of your meals – and your life. Desig…
Building new movements is a challenge common to the arts, social change and startup worlds. In each case, barriers to entrepreneurship have fallen dramatically, and as a result, the scarcest commodity has become commitme…
Presenters
Andy Ross, Eli Pariser, James Slezak, Laura Dawn, Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
The power has shifted from Mad Men to Marketing Hackers, so drop the agency... and keep the cocktails. With the increased availability of self-service platforms, start ups now have access to many of the same tools that …
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Berke, Chris Lindland, Joanna Lord, Noah Kagan
By some estimates, up to half of all entrepreneurs have ADD. I'm one of them. And I'm definitely not alone at SXSW. We haven't all been formally diagnosed, but the patterns among us are clear: super intense energy combin…
In many ways, mobile is the new cigarette. Like a pack of Marlboro Reds, this powerful machine of cool fits in our pocket so it can always be activated. Just as smokers have no compunction about going up to someone with …
Historically, innovation in sex-related technology has spurred innovation in mainstream technology. In 2013, is this still the case? If so, what are the trends, memes, patterns and shifts in the adult world that we will …
RSVP Required - The advanced social media monitoring workshop will exist in two parts. The first half will assess the state of the social media monitoring industry from bottom to top.
Examples will be given on the holi…
Advanced
Presenters
Alistair Croll, Blake Robinson, Margaret Francis, Susan Etlinger
Every day people conduct billions of searches on Google, and in the process they create what John Battelle famously called a ‘database of intentions:’ A massive record of the world’s desires that helps the company genera…
A huge opportunity exists for content creators, service providers, brands, and media companies on the continent. In Africa, more people than ever have access to the internet, to the tune of 140 million, but this only rep…
Intermediate
Presenters
Fadzai Makanda, Matthew Dawes, Nadeem Juma, Ngozi Odita
Over the past three years, hackathons have spun up into a hurricane gale of headline and hype for the hacker culture we all know and love.
Builders of every stripe flock to these events held on themes ranging from music…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dave Haynes, Jarod Reyes, Joel Franusic, Kara Silverman
How global is creativity? We decided to swap one of Mason Zimbler’s US art directors with their UK office counterpart to find out and to answer a few other questions we had, like: Do their ideas translate? Do we approach…
David Jones is CEO of Havas, co-founder of One Young World—a non-profit organization described by CNN as the "young Davos"—and author of Who Cares Wins: Why Good Business is Better Business. Over the past decade he’s bee…
Human beings are no longer the only entities posting photos, tweets, checkins and blog posts online. There are other entities moving around us: social bots, emotive shadows of real people, and specifically designed spam…
A spirited conversation with Airbnb's cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky in which we delve into the process of designing and building a platform for sharing homes, explore the company's new push into the travel guide area wi…
Al Gore will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change” following his Featured session.
Purchase a copy of The Future at the SX Bookstore beginning March 8 to reserve your sp…
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and clear-eyed assessment of the emerging forces that are reshaping our world and will continue t…
Much of how we “do work,” has changed in recent years, yet little has changed in how we design organizations. Our antiquated organizational and management models are ill-equipped to marshal the intangible assets so integ…
Amazing Things Will Happen is the new book from C.C. Chapman. It is a no nonsense guide to living a happier and more successful life.
This book reading will give an overview of the philosophy of the book as well as answ…
Amy Webb will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Data, A Love Story: How I Gamed Online Dating to Meet My Mate” following her Book Reading session.
Amy Webb is the CEO of Webbmedia Group, which studies …
Slow down to 33 1/3 rpm and explore the nostalgic technology that has been revamped and made relevant for the 21st century!
Encouraging retrospective & futurist thinking, our Analogue Anonymous Meet Up will bring toget…
Nathan Martin is the CEO of innovation studio Deeplocal, best known for the creation of the Nike Chalkbot street painting robot seen at the Tour de France. Before working for brands, Nathan screamed in a touring metal ba…
And I Am Not Lying is cock-rocking the NPR crowd at SXSW for the second year in a row with a raucous variety show featuring storytelling, standup, burlesque, and sideshow from America's greatest and strangest artists. Fo…
Your ISP is spying on your network traffic, Zuck pwn'd your social graph. Even darling Twitter has thrown indie developers under the bus for the sake of "consistency." You probably know all this, and you still go on usin…
Andrew Hyde will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “This Book is About Travel: A Modern Manual - 15 Countries With 15 Things” following his Book Reading session.
Andrew Hyde has a passion for community,…
The next generation of technology is here: mobile, powerful, versatile, and ubiquitous. User experience has never mattered more.
Android has done extensive research and thinking into what good design means in the 21st …
Andy Smith will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways To Use Social Media to Drive Social Change” following his Book Reading session.……
Video games are part of pop culture. Millions of people game every day. But the process of making a game remains a mystery to most people. The work often comes down to a clash between two opposing forces: logic and emoti…
Anne Balsamo will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work”.
Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship between the culture and technology. This focus i…
Hang out with your people. Join public relations and communication pros here for SXSW Interactive, Film and Music. No agendas, just a friendly way to meet more of your kind.……
Drawing on the leadership he learned on the front lines, decorated military officer and Fortune 500 executive Donovan Campbell moderates a panel on how the training model of the United States military can serve as a foun…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brad Hunstable, Chris Guillebeau, Donovan Campbell
Autism is a complex neurobiological disorder typically characterized by communication, social, and behavioral delays. The market for assistive technology that posits solutions for these challenges burgeons. With current …
Beginner
Presenters
Betsy Furler, Dr Missy Olive, Jennifer Miller, Sami Rahman
Just six years ago, most of us had never encountered an “iPhone app”. Today, we spend the majority of our online time interacting with them. What will mobile apps mean to us in another six years?
The advent of futuristi…
The Appys honor extraordinary Applications on all platforms: mobile, social and web-based. The Appy Awards are unbiased to App's format, platform or device; instead we focus on the best apps in a diverse range of categor…
The Appy Awards pays tribute to the world’s best apps in every imaginable category. The cocktail party celebrates winning work of year and the growing App industry.……
April Peveteaux will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Gluten Is My Bitch: Rants, Recipes, and Ridiculousness for the Gluten-Free” following her Book Reading session.
April Peveteaux is the creator and…
Trained as an architect and a jazz musician, Christopher Janney has been combining these two disciplines for over 30 years. Sometimes trying to make architecture more like music- more spontaneous, more "alive"- Janney ha…
Do you have thousands of rich media files that you can’t make sense of? Do you find yourself breaking into a sweat when you try to find a file? Are you frequently unsure which file is the latest version? Are you secretly…
This session is presented by SXSW Film and is open to Interactive, Film, Gold and Platinum badges.
Armed Response is an action series about a SWAT team battling a Mexican cartel at the Port of Long Beach. The series is …
Presenters
Greg Siegel, Justin Lutsky, Matt Michnovetz, Thomas Bannister
Our daily lives are peppered with annoyance - someone, somewhere was responsible for designing that annoyance and sending off into the world to flourish and vex. It seems preposterous that so many products and services e…
You’ve done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. Potential customers just don’t see the big idea - and it’s keeping them from becoming customers. Your big idea has an expla…
Every business claims to be disruptive. Most startup founders want to innovate the next app or feature to attract more dollars or clicks than the industry standard. Now there’s a new class of rising entrepreneurs inventi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Hayley Barna, Lynn Jurich, Narges Bani Asadi, Tara-Nicholle Nelson
For the past three years, The Art of Akira Exhibit has travelled the globe educating and entertaining fans with original cels, backgrounds and sketches from the legendary anime Akira. Exhibiting selections from the over …
We know that it takes hard work, talent and the occasional dose of luck for someone to make it to the top of their chosen field...but is that all? To find out we asked dozens of extraordinary people including celebrities…
Can a sense of humor be strategic? In the age of hashtag fails and campaign flops, it's crucial to use a dash of humor in your social recipe. How do you incorporate humor from the beginning of a process and not as an aft…
We are fortunate to live in a time where there is a delicious wealth of scientific information available to us online. People now "like" scientists on Facebook, along with the expected rock stars and actors. Unfortunatel…
For whatever reason, you've decided that the time is right for your startup company to exit. You're looking to be acquired, but you have no idea where to start. After all, there's hardly any material online for how to su…
One of the latest genres in New Media art is that of Augmented Reality, or the overlay of digital content onto physical reality through the use of smart phones and computer vision. Marshall McLuhan heralded artists as e…
To many young Asian entrepreneurs, starting a company is an act of rebellion. It means defying the lessons of parents, teachers, and culture, who say: Be proper. Find a stable job. Don’t take risks. It means - in many ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gwendolyn Regina T, Kira Newman, Richard Min, Richard Robinson
The Austin tech scene is booming, more and more companies are considering laying down their roots in the capital city. With a top research university, business-friendly tax incentives, and an awesome startup-friendly cul…
Intermediate
Presenters
Caroline Valentine, Kevin LaHaise, Paul Huggins, Steve Burt
AT&T and American Airlines Travel Hack: Event Kick Off, Team Registration and Presentation of Technology.
AT&T and American Airlines are co-hosting a travel/location challenge. Be the first to program with these unrel…
AT&T and American Airlines Travel Hack: Judging and Winning teams announced
AT&T and American Airlines are co-hosting a travel/location challenge. Be the first to program with these unreleased APIs. Cash and other priz…
AT&T and American Airlines Travel Hack: Team Presentations
AT&T and American Airlines are co-hosting a travel/location challenge. Be the first to program with these unreleased APIs. Cash and other prizes to best apps!…
The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future.
Japanese startups talk of combining “chikara” (power) and “ai,” (love), to succeed in a time when co-operation is as important as ambit…
Presented by the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) & the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), Austin Startup Fast Pitch (ASFP) is a fast pitch competition for Austin-based startups with revolutionary ideas looking for fun…
Today's media-savvy consumers routinely access media from many sources and are growing increasingly impatient with the constraints that plague device-oriented entertainment. The Internet has also changed consumer expecta…
Enjoy a casual breakfast with local startups and tech companies. Discuss living, working and starting a business in Austin. RSVP: http://atxovereasy.eventbrite.com/…
Join The Austin Chronicle at their Annual SXSW Film Bash! Grab a drink and nibble on food from favorite local Austin restaurants, the Roaring Fork & Salty Sow. You must have a pass OR SXSW Film, Interactive, Gold or Plat…
Typography on the web is going from strength to strength. All web browsers proudly boast their typographic capabilities as CSS 3 continues to evolve & stabilise. We’ve seen the arrival of some fantastic fonts specificall…
RSVP Required - Calling all hackers: Join the Amazon Web Services developer team for a deep dive into building sophisticated web and mobile apps on Amazon Web Services. We’ll discuss best practices for availability, scal…
