Please join AbelsonTaylor for a Texas style brunch at SXSW Interactive! Gain a better understanding of how to utilize the iPad for business presentations, and join in our discussion on smart digital creativity.......
Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and ...
AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW.
Austin Conventio...
AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW.
Austin Conventio...
Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival by hosting a nine-day lounge at the Driskill Hotel for all to enjoy. The lounge is designed to celebrate Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Complimentary rides around town! Yeah, we thought that'd get your attention. See a Chevy. Catch A Chevy. At the Convention Center or anywhere downtown 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Take a break, and let us do the driving.
Sli...
Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang.
Austin Conventi...
Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang.
Austin Conventi...
Dell delivers innovative technology and services that give you the power to do more this SXSW. Stop by to unwind, discover the latest from Dell and tell them how they can help you do more.
Austin Convention Center: 1st ...
The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SX...
How Socially Forward is your Business? Want to find out? Stop by the IBM Future of Social Lounge during SXSW Interactive for a social assessment, see where Social Business is headed, listen in on live Conversations with ...
Visit the Isis Lounge (West Hall) or our Tradeshow Booth (#444) to see the Isis Mobile Wallet in action. Don’t miss our live presentation by cyberillusionist Marco Tempest in the Lounge on March 9th.
Austin Convention...
Today’s consumers expect applications that are optimized for all their devices – including phones and tablets. Visit the Microsoft Lounge to see how to create impressive multiscreen experiences.
Austin Convention Ce...
This year, the PepsiCo Pavilion is going to highlight the intersection of analog and digital. Tune in, take notes and help them make sense of it all!
Austin Convention Center: 1st floor, Palazzo, SW Corner......
This year, the PepsiCo Pavilion is going to highlight the intersection of analog and digital. Tune in, take notes and help them make sense of it all!
Austin Convention Center: 1st floor, Palazzo, SW Corner......
5th Year Anniversary Celebration! For the last four years, the Blogger Lounge at SXSW has served as a central hub for celebrating friendship, innovation and collaboration. We are proud to announce that TechSet is once ag...
Samsung will unveil their latest news, cutting-edge products and their stunning, engaging media wall which will highlight everything you need to know about what’s hot at Samsung and SXSW.
Austin Convention Center: 1st...
SXcycles is a complimentary bike share program for Platinum, Gold, Interactive and Film registrants. Tern is providing their "Link D8" bicycles for daily use. Registrants can pick up a bike with helmet, locks a...
SXcycles is a complimentary bike share program for Platinum, Gold, Interactive and Film registrants. Tern is providing their "Link D8" bicycles for daily use. Registrants can pick up a bike with helmet, locks a...
Located conveniently in the Austin Convention Center, the Filmmakers Lounge is the perfect place for SXSW's filmmakers to relax, enjoy complimentary hospitality and massages in a comfortable atmosphere.......
Recharge your batteries and your brain in our lounge, and find out about our lounge's Flash Mob Happy Hours by following us on Twitter (@AmericansElect) and via #sxaelounge.
We'll have charging stations, classic board ...
The Beacon: Lounge With a Conscience returns as THE spot for cause-focused people to hang out with the best & brightest non-profit Geekerati. The WiFi will be speedy, the noms & drinks plentiful, the couches comf...
Once again, the fun-filled big top circus that is the Mashery Lounge will be back at SXSW 2012 in March. With great furnishings and flowing refreshments, the Circus Mashimus is a great place to talk API shop with Mashery...
Need to recharge? iPhone or Tablet going dead? Feet hurting? Come relax in the iTriage Power-Up Lounge. Plug in your electronics at the charge stations and grab a healthy snack to refuel! And while you're recharging on t...
*up to 100 available*
Follow @girlsHBO to find out how to eat and drink for FREE at SXSW #mistakesGIRLSmake
Here's how:
1) @girlsHBO will tweet out key images at the start of every deal
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A collegiate digital media startup tournament, beginning with a kickoff pitchfest and announcement of the 2012-13 Student Startup Madness national event.......
Co-authors Melanie Mathos and Chad Norman will share a preview of the recently released book 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits, which is available in the SXSW bookstore. This book provides nonprofits 101 ways to en...
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
Presenters
Don Yeomans, Phil Plait, Stephanie Smith, Veronica McGregor
Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique p...
From high-tech to high-touch: are wired hospitals losing the patient connection? This panel of nationally recognized leaders in healthcare has applied technology solutions to enhance quality of patient care across discip...
Intermediate
Presenters
Angelo Volandes MD, Joseph C Kvedar MD, Paul Griffiths
Making a story social isn't all about marketing. It's also about helping to build a better narrative – extending and enriching the story, whether your story is driven by a fictional character or a brand. We'll examine ...
This workshop will introduce you to affordable user experience design methods for getting user input and feedback throughout your design and development process. These methods, like guerrilla research, gamestorming, and ...
Beginner
Presenters
Brynn Evans, Fred Beecher, Krista Sanders, Russ Unger, Todd Zaki Warfel
Brand journalism is often defined by what it isn’t. It’s not just blogging, it’s not PR, but it isn’t traditional reporting either. This session will focus not only on defining brand journalism, but also will go ...
Beginner
Presenters
Ann Handley, Erica Swallow, Jesse Noyes, Karen Wickre
The Whole World is Watching: From Tahrir Square to Homs to Zuccotti Park, citizen journalists and ordinary people are using social media, video and cell phones to document their stories and revolutions. New York Times re...
Advanced
Presenters
Eric Carvin, Jennifer Preston, Jigar Mehta, Tim Pool
2008 was the first Election in American History where bloggers and vloggers helped shape the political narrative and carry President Obama to the presidency. 4 years later, the Administration has not nurtured these pop c...
If the early years of internet businesses was a triumph of technology, the next ones will be one defined by design and user experience. Users will demand more from their online experience, one which is as much designed a...
Intermediate
Presenters
Johan Brand, Julian Ehrhardt, Pru Ashby, Tony Hughes
Normally, we think about businesses as a mere collection of people working together. But, organizations also collectively act as a unit, facing the needs of survival and competing with others for resources. To that end, ...
HTML5 and CSS3 are hot, driven by an explosion of new, Internet connected devices. While they offer many new features that should allow you to do the types of things that you previously did in Flash, actually making it h...
There are over 500 group buying sites today, with more popping up every week. Although most of these reach the mass market, there has been very little traction by any group buying site in the fastest growing demographic...
A discussion about how technologies that are often built in the west are being used around the world in extremely dangerous situations. Often there isn't an idea of how to protect individuals and their human rights when ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Conley, Deanna Zandt, Mark Belinsky, Sabrina Hersi Issa
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom B
9:30AM -10:30AM
For every brand turning on a new listening program or focusing on engaging their users online there is a lot of attention on the topic of social media strategy. Brands that don't have one are desperately chasing one - ye...
You know who you are: Your clients are large and their marcom departments, though not as highly funded as the advertising departments, need rich media to get the job done. Both big budget ads and small B2B marketing effo...
Is it too early for filmmakers to start building HTML5 into their production plans? One side says if it's not too early for advertisers (check out iAds) it's not too early for filmmakers. Another side says that until the...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Moskowitz, James Burns, Luisa Dantas, Pat Aufderheide, Xavier Facon
Is it too early for filmmakers to start building HTML5 into their production plans? One side says if it's not too early for advertisers (check out iAds) it's not too early for filmmakers. Another side says that until the...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Moskowitz, James Burns, Luisa Dantas, Pat Aufderheide, Xavier Facon
Over the last decade, so called "Hyperlocal" websites, apps and services have been "the next big thing." Now quick: Name one super-successful company in that space. Now name ten in the graveyard.This ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cory Bergman, Lisa Williams, Mark Briggs, Mike Orren, Shawn Williams
Back in the early 1990’s CD-ROMS were all the rage and an amazing amount of very cool content such as interactive storybooks, immersive games, and multimedia product catalogs were constantly being released. When the w...
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Burke, Calvin Carter, Randi Rosenkranz, Steve Glauberman
What's the relationship between visualized data and the story we want to tell? Living in the eternal now, surrounded by our tweets, facebook posts and other copious amounts of social and highly personalized informatio...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex Graul, Burt Herman, Drew Harry, Jenn Thom, Nicola Hughes
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
Presenters
Aaron Cope, Ben Terrett, James Bridle, Joanne McNeil, Russell Davies
How can you encourage and facilitate innovation across your teams to come up with the best product? Come take a peek under the hood of a great innovation principle called “Visiontyping,” which promotes powerful colla...
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
9:30AM -10:30AM
Years ago, it was porn sites always pushing the envelope on graphics, interactivity, engagement, commerce, and stickiness (ewww). Now, it’s social media that’s getting lucky and monetizing eyeballs. In just the past...
Advanced
Presenters
Dave Evans, Jason Falls, Jeremiah Owyang, Katie Paine, Lisa Joy Rosner
Digitization is transforming the media and entertainment industry full stop. But is the industry evolving quickly enough to meet consumer demands—demands that differ greatly from one generation to the next? In this dis...
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
Presenters
Anita Pyke, John Kidenda, Juliana Rotich, Steve Daniels
There are deep-running problems in the way current software systems are structured. Perhaps the most visible symptom is an unacceptably high barrier to creativity (programming). To produce anything significant, redundant...
Open government and transparency activists asked for it: data available through open APIs and digital formats. Now that we have some of it, the dark spots on the sun are beginning to appear. The data are sometimes poor c...
If photography is your vocation, your avocation, or simply an iPhone obsession, you won't want to miss SXSW's first-ever, day-long PhotoCamp. To give you the opportunity to meet other photo-minded folks, discuss the topi...
This is a “come as you are” session meant to accommodate mixed levels of experience with minimal need for special equipment or previous experience (read: no mats or yoga clothing required.) Special emphasis is placed...
Lawyers who file mass copyright suits against defenseless persons who copied from copyrighted text for the most innocent of reasons, such as to disclose an illicit practice, or to criticize or endorse an idea, are called...
As mobile purchasing becomes increasingly prevalent, online marketplaces need to offer apps that help both buyers and sellers. But which is better, a single app that facilitates both sides of the transaction? Or separate...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Vilcsak, Michael Shim, Rob Veres, Tamara Mendelsohn
Most experienced IT folks have faced the choice of freelancing versus working for an established business. Freelancing offers creative autonomy but not necessarily steady income. A job with a larger company provides a ...
Beginner
Presenters
Andi Shively, Drew Stephan, Jack Aponte, Poonam Whabi, Raeanne Young
Ready to throw out the heavy textbooks and jump into the world of mobile learning? Yes, but how do you do it? Are you on the mobile learning train but feel the content and teachers aren't quite there yet? This panel will...
Intermediate
Presenters
Angela Maiers, Katherine Burdick, Matt Federoff, Tom Wolf
How do you get reliable information about elections? Many voters get their information about who is running for election and what the issues are from friends and family. Increasingly, those friends and family are online,...
Advanced
Presenters
Dana Chisnell, Dean Logan, Jared Marcotte, Jeannie Layson, Lee Rainie
Ask anyone at a digital agency, from account directors, strategists, designers, writers, and engineers, if they’d rather work on selling more of product X or work on something that provides a social good. The answer is...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew O'Dell, Angele Beausoleil, Carl Panczak, DJ Edgerton, Tom Beck
Executing a new media strategy for a large-scale, worldwide event is a daunting task. How do you account for dozens of languages, promote multiple platforms, and manage your brand, all while remaining relevant to all us...
By 2014, more of us will access the Internet with mobile devices than with desktops or laptops. Android phones, iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices are quickly becoming our primary gateways to the Internet.
Everyth...
Free-space optical communications stand to fundamentally change how humans use wireless networks. Whereas fiber-optic communications enabled the formation of the global network, free-space optical communication will faci...
The recent wave of social and mobile games has been a boon for the game industry by making games more accessible to new players. However, this has only intensified fragmentation, making it difficult for developers to de...
Social Media has come a long way from the early days of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We have all felt its impact in marketing and public relations, but the pace is accelerating and the drive to harness social tools for...
Social media "feed" providers including Rdio, Instagram, Soundcloud, and many more are paired with interactive installation artists to bring their unique feed to life with live SXSW data. #FEED will be made mor...
Canon is proud to be a part of the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and inspire all filmmakers to imagine more. That was the story behind Project Imagin8ion, the first photo contest to inspire a Hollywood film. After receiving 96...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
For four days, all three conferences converge at the SXSW Trade Show. This is the center of commerce at SXSW. Attendees can network and discover the technology and new developments that will propel their business.
For t...
Wanna meet the tech team behind March Madness Digital, Falling Skies, and Anderson Cooper? We’re Turner Broadcasting and we're changing the way you watch TV. Get to know us, pitch our start-up investors, and learn abou...
Ginger Rogers may have said it, but today's female entrepreneurs are proving it. Right now, women are starting and leading new and innovative companies at an unprecedented rate. From e-commerce to healthcare to Internet ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Kara Swisher, Michelle Zatlyn, Piya Sorcar, Pooja Sankar, Victoria Ransom
The movie poster is dead! Long live the movie poster! Such are the proclamations that have cycled through the decades as movie poster design has ebbed from art form to dumbed downed marketing piece. Sometimes it rises to...
Beginner
Presenters
Akiko Stehrenberger, Justin Ishmael, Justin Erickson, Sam Smith, Roger Erik Tinch
Eyebeam Art & Technology Center provides a context for creative collaboration and the cross-pollination of ideas & practice. In our lab at any given time, there are up to 20 resident artists onsite at our 15,000 ...
While moving 40 kids, all by himself, across six New York City blocks, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. A lone black balloon in the bunch learns that humans are complicated creatures wit...
Director(s): Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Narrative Short
21 min
We are announcing something completely new ‐ Adobe will be unveiling a new product for web designers and developers to help with their mobile web workflows. Come to the see the live demo and check it out for yourself!...
Procter & Gamble recently commissioned Flow Nonfiction to create a documentary film capturing one of its signature cause programs: Pantene Beautiful Lengths. PBL has donated over 272,000 ponytails for real-hair wigs ...
Advanced
Presenters
David Modigliani, Lisa Pearson, Sarah Montante, Stephanie Smirnov
Procter & Gamble recently commissioned Flow Nonfiction to create a documentary film capturing one of its signature cause programs: Pantene Beautiful Lengths. PBL has donated over 272,000 ponytails for real-hair wigs ...
Advanced
Presenters
David Modigliani, Lisa Pearson, Sarah Montante, Stephanie Smirnov
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom B
11:00AM -12:00PM
Your idea is hot. You have killer technology. You have angel investors on speed-dial. Your product mashes up the coolest APIs and you managed to navigate the shark-infested waters of content licensing without being eaten...
Media theorist Marshall McLuhan famously envisioned a cultural “global village,” a collective identity shaped by the media we share. To a remarkable extent he foresaw how social media would change the game of culture...
Inspired by real events and featuring non-actors, A Chjàna (The Plain) follows Ayiva, an African migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history....
Director(s): Jonas Carpignano
Narrative Short
20 min
When a police officer tells you to do something, you do it. Right?
On a busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that a pretty young em...
There's a stark contrast between “owning” an idea versus collaborating in an open structure. It's often the root of the divide between “traditional” and “digital/new media” people. Because good ideas evolve i...
While Second Life and other online worlds have propagated virtual economies with their own "millionaires", 2011 saw virtual currencies break into the marketing mainstream. Facebook Credits were launched with th...
Advanced
Presenters
Ellie Wheeler, Jeremy Nusser, John Corpus, Ren Reynolds, Vincent Higgins
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.”
-Eric Schmidt-
As the amount of data in the world explodes, the abil...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Kantrowitz, Frank Gillett, Jade Mcqueen, Jon Healey
We've drawn together a group of the most well respected and active designers in the field to guide participants through the process of designing games for documentary that people actually want to play. Let's share early ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ashley York, Cindy Poremba, Peter Brinson, Susana Ruiz, Tony Walsh
Since when did university become places to churn out mindless working drones for BFC’s (Big F**kin’ companies)? The verticals that have been built in universities that are based on profession have completely deviated...
Film4 is a developer and co-financier behind films such as KILL LIST, THE IRON LADY and ATTACK THE BLOCK and is known for working with the most innovative talent in the UK. This session will take Film4’s first multipl...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex Fleetwood, Hilary Perkins, Lottie Davies, Margaret Robertson, Anna Higgs
Our goal with this session is to make events better for all of us. Events no longer exist in a vacuum. The new ideas and relationships we all seek from events are now available to us across a continuum of ongoing social ...
What would happen if the entire world could share a single Starbucks card? For a week in the summer of 2011, Jonathan's Card attracted international attention attempting to find out. Join Jonathan for a behind the scenes...
Dentsu, a Japanese advertising giant has been trying a new frontier of marketing in a society where virtually everybody has high speed mobile Internet connection. In this session, by introducing the cutting-edge Japanese...
Digital health is an emerging industry at the intersection of technology and health, radically changing how we access and use personal health information. It unites smartphones/tablets (new means of 24/7 access to inform...
Intermediate
Presenters
Halle Tecco, Jeffrey Pollard MD, Linda Avey, Rebecca Woodcock, Ryan Panchadsaram
New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson discusses her vision for the future of The Times in the digital age in a session moderated by Texas Tribune editor Evan Smith. Does Abramson's leadership at The Times present...
If there's one thing geeks know, it's movies. But how do you raise your geeky kids to watch the right movies? Join writers from Wired's GeekDad.com (named one of the top 10 Best Blogs of 2010 by Time Magazine) and GeekMo...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrea Schwalmstolz, Anton Olsen, Nicole Wakelin, Ruth Suehle
If you're reading about this panel, you're likely familiar with - or at least interested in - the Microsoft Kinect. The Kinect's RGB camera and "depth" cameras simplify computer vision problems that were previo...
An NFL star live tweets his own traffic stop. An accidental DM reveals a shocking trade rumor. Instead of press releases, Tiger Woods breaks news about Tiger Woods by having @TigerWoods share a link to TigerWoods.com. Th...
Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) use various types of social media to influence and manipulate public opinion. At the most basic level, DTOs regularly post videos to Youtube of interrogations, beheadings ...
Most things in our lives are now custom fit. If we want coffee, we can order it 50 ways. If we want to watch a movie, we can choose between Netflix, iTunes, On Demand, etc. If we need a restaurant review, we have Open...
Intermediate
Presenters
Joe Trippi, Marci Harris, Mark McKinnon, Matt Bai, Nathan Daschle
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
11:00AM -12:00PM
The social web lets us send out a constant stream of Facebook likes, Twitter tweets, Foursquare check-ins, social commerce reviews, and other recommendations about things we’ve experienced and want to share with our fr...
Intermediate
Presenters
AJ Vaynerchuck, Edward Boches, Farrah Bostic, Jeff Janer
"How to Remember Anything" shows how a radically improved memory can add real value in life and in business and can help build your career. Mark Channon, Actor, Hypnotherapist, Product Manager and author of Tea...
In 2005, the State of Texas signed a contract worth close to $900 million dollars with an alliance of private firms to manage the eligibility process for applying for Food Stamps, TANF, Medicaid and Children’s Health I...
Mobile advertising spending is poised to top $1 billion in the U.S. for the first time, according to eMarketer. Of that potential billion dollar spend, in-app advertising is expected to double to over $600 million. The d...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Bos, Iryna Newman, Kamal Kaur, Krishna Subramanian, Seth Hart
Dean Kamen is a prolific inventor who has been compared to Edison for his contributions to humanity. Perhaps best known for inventing the Segway, Dean has also invented ground breaking medical technologies that benefit l...
Africa is more than AIDS, poverty, civil strife and safaris. With the ever-increasing access to digital tools Africans on the continent and all over the world are using the web to farm a new vision of Africa in the 21st...
Do you share your number?
You know the classic assumption: they all want to be the first. They might understand if one or two didn't work out, but they're scared if you've had a lot of those. But some people know the s...
Grammar is like K-Y Jelly — when used correctly, everyone benefits. But copywriters and art directors find equal pleasure wreaking grammatical havoc, the results of which Strunk and White deemed “the mutilation of la...
A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film 'La Jetee', the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew) rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for...
Director(s): Jillian Mayer, Lucas Leyva
Narrative Short
12 min
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
Meet with industry professionals who can give advice and answer questions about distribution, distribution options, and more for Documentary films.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge hold...
Beginner
Presenters
Chris Horton, Greg Rubidge, Jeff Tamblyn, Joel Heller, Joseph Amodei, Molly Thompson, Orly Ravid, Sean Farnel
The documentary tells the story of Mustafa, a 16-year-old boy who works as a pastry shop apprentice in Gaziantep, the "Capital of Baklava", in Eastern Turkey. His dream is to become a famous pastry chef in Ista...
Director(s): Angelos Abazoglou
Documentary Feature
83 min
Thomas has moved to a remote countryside cabin in search of solitude. He fills his days with mundane chores to deaden his feelings, but as he reflects, a question arises: Will he ever be able to disappear completely... e...
The Black Balloon
Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
In New York City, a lone black balloon, once part of a huge 100-balloon bouquet, learns that humans are complicated creatures with extreme highs and lows. Part Sci-Fi...
In order to thrive online as individuals -- and for the health of the online commons -- we need to understand literacies of attention, crap detection, participation, collaboration, and network awareness. I believe that t...
The lines between the digital world and the music world have blurred. Every minute a band signs up for Twitter, posts something on Facebook or updates their website reaching millions of adoring fans around the world (aka...
The lines between the digital world and the music world have blurred. Every minute a band signs up for Twitter, posts something on Facebook or updates their website reaching millions of adoring fans around the world (aka...
The lines between the digital world and the music world have blurred. Every minute a band signs up for Twitter, posts something on Facebook or updates their website reaching millions of adoring fans around the world (aka...
An editor, researcher, and program manager walk into a bar. They are looking to help talented people who have personality and technical chops. As they down a Shiner, they look for a coherent story that tells who you are,...
Beginner
Presenters
Carla Borsoi, Jennifer Jongsma, Kevin Lawver, Kristy Duncan
This talk will expose the slight of hand tricks used by government agencies to make them appear more transparent than they are. "Transparency" is a common buzz word that suggests that government operates in a m...
For a long time the business of media was all about buying people’s attention. Not so long ago, “spontaneous media” (whatever it really means) stepped in. But the growing fragmentation of media landscape and more ...
Beginner
Presenters
Cristina Monteiro, Lucas Mello, Mauro Silva, Ricardo Guerra
Astronomer Phil Plait signs his books ‘Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"’ and ‘Death From The Skies: The Science Behind the End of the World’ ...
There is a lot of talk at the government, industry, and producer level about the promise of games in education, but has anyone really proven true educational outcomes from informal gaming? In this presentation, Sara and ...
Smart policies and practices for managing data and protecting your users’ personal information are good for business. It doesn't have to be a zero-sum game where you sacrifice privacy for usability, functionality or se...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ilana Westerman, Keith Enright, Michelle Bruno, Natalie Fonseca
With the ready availability of social media, digital databases of ID photos, high-resolution cameras and free, powerful face recognition software that can run on smartphones, we are entering into an unprecedented shift i...
Told from the point of view of a dying shark, 'Reinaldo Arenas' metaphorically captures the current state of the aging Cuban-American exile community, many of whom have still not come to terms with the Communist Revoluti...
REMAINS is a film about a man's memories of his wife. We see snapshots of these memories; we are a fingertip running through hair, a foot plunging into the ocean, a swaying tree branch. The film is comprised of sound des...
Director(s): Jeremiah Zagar, Nathan Caswell
Narrative Short
8 min
Over the past 20 years, less-than accurate geographic maps have been developed at enormous cost with no system in place to keep them up to date. Without this kind of realtime progress, people are at the mercy of these of...
Experience the process of restoring, archiving and curating a centennial of movie magic with Universal¹s Jeff Pirtle (Director of Archives and Collections), Jeanne Cordova (Vice President, Marketing, Publicity and Speci...
Through a visceral, visually striking sequence of events, Sea Meadow reinvents the thriller genre using dance, choreographed gesture and pop mashups to investigate the themes of identity, mortality and memory. A young wo...
A large number of scalable web businesses are built upon two-sided markets: Square, OkCupid, Groupon, eBay, and Google AdWords are a few of them. This talk examines the seeding and scaling strategies of two-sided markets...
People have certain fundamental wants and desires that drive them to take actions every minute of every day. Businesses, to be successful, must understand their consumers’ wants and desires, and must be able to subtly ...
"Seeking Asian Female" is an eccentric modern love story about Steven and Sandy – an aging white man with “yellow fever” who is obsessed with marrying any Asian woman, and the young Chinese bride he finds...
Director(s): Debbie Lum
Documentary Feature
80 min
Gas prices are up, suburban areas are adopting near-transit, mixed-use philosophies of development, and everyone wants to get to work on time. It's no surprise that use of public transportation is rising. With the ubiqui...
Beginner
Presenters
Amy Snyder, Brian Ferris, Eugenia Chien, Laura Oppenheimer, Ravi Pina
Through the Freak’s musings, this film chronicles the last days of the iconic and abrasive Coney Island attraction Shoot the Freak. Remaining in masked anonymity, the nihilistic teen indulges in drug-induced daydreams...
Director(s): Bradford Willingham
Narrative Short
6 min
There's been a near-explosion in the desire for visual language to be incorporated into sales, presenting, innovating and prototyping. But how do you use visual language if you're not an artist? We'll show you how to tak...
Get together with other smart home experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if ...
We’ve seen multiple examples at SXSW in years past of consumer brands successfully leveraging social media and aligning to business objectives to generate ROI, many of which have millions of consumers interacting with ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Duane Schulz, Jeanette Gibson, Melissa Chanslor, Shanee Ben-Zur, Susan Emerick
Starting with an overview of Sony's professional grade 35mm cameras, this informative presentation will focus on the FS100 and F3; those optimized for the independent filmmaker. Choosing the tools to employ for any proje...
In Washington, there is no such thing as a sure thing. Still at one point, passing the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP (PIPA) seemed like a cakewalk. Both bills were aimed at curbing access to so-called “r...
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...
Are you a designer, maker, mover & shaker selling your goods online or off? If so, then stop by the first-ever SXSW CraftCamp to meet like-minded souls. With a full day of programming specifically developed for creat...
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures)
Judges: Mari...
News Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Jim Schachter (New York Times)
Judges: Ben Huh (Cheezburger Network), Ton...
Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Scott Weiss (Andreessen Horowitz)
Judges: Matt Marshall (VentureBeat), Charlie ...
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
Presenters
Alison Lewis, Janet Hansen, Kathleen Maher, Ping Fu, Sheridan Martin
In the last decade, Facebook and other social networks have focused on mapping and documenting our existing relationships. The recent rise of Twitter and Foursquare has transitioned the emphasis to what is happening righ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Aaron Strout, Ben Bloch, Jyri Engestrom, Kathryn Tucker, Rene Pinnell
"when you find me" tells the story of two sisters whose childhood bond is tested by a tragedy they are too young to understand. Alternating between past and present, "when you find me" is an emotional...
Director(s): Bryce Dallas Howard
Narrative Feature
40 min
"WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, W...
Director(s): Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Documentary Feature
65 min
If you’re an artist or work for a young arts organization, you run a start-up. A start-up where the product is culture, the audience is becoming more and more segmented by age, and the metrics for success are hard to c...
Brands have been diving head first into Facebook over the past few years but their social reality has failed to live up to their lofty expectations. Guided by a sea of experts who can say "social" but can't do ...
A comedy about two brothers, a girl with a broken heart, a sex tape, an angel and a pig...
Frank (CHARLIE HUNNAM) has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated -- usually on film -- by his brother Bruce (CHRIS O'DO...
Director(s): Jordan Roberts
Narrative Feature
87 min
Entrepreneurship has been growing exponentially, Teen Entrepreneurship has been rising alongside. What motivates teens to start their companies at such a young age? I would like to share the statistics of successful teen...
Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. "Girl Model" follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambi...
Director(s): A. Sabin, David Redmon
Documentary Feature
77 min
"Sun Don't Shine" is a subtly cryptic story driven by the powerful performances of its lead actors and its eerily poetic setting. The film follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audle...
In today's interconnected and even morally interdependent world, we rise and fall together. The way to forge a better, more sustainable path of growth and progress lies in the realm of human behavior- HOW we do what we d...
Social sharing about all topics is now commonplace, and the trend of increasingly open sharing about historically “private” aspects of our lives reflect changing standards about what’s appropriately public informat...
"Starlet" explores the unlikely friendship between 21 year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway), and 85 year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her...
The startup scene preaches hustle more than anything. It's all fun and great. You have to make sacrifices, yes. It's risky, yes. You're bound for failure, yes. It's freaking awesome while you're doing it, yes.
Then you ...
When the Web unites millions of users into large networks around creative and free new media practices, how does this "open source culture" challenge assumptions about the production of content and the use of o...
Entrepreneurs are throwing their money at solutions to the wrong problems -- they aren't using metrics to drive what really matters to their strategy. I'll talk about how inDinero has wasted a huge chunk of its investor...
You are invited to attend this meet up and network with career seekers in the advertising, PR, and media fields Monday, March 12 from 12:00pm-1:00pm.. SXSW draws top talent and agencies, and this is an opportunity to mee...
You are invited to attend this meet up and network with career seekers in the advertising, PR, and media fields Monday, March 12 from 12:00pm-1:00pm.. SXSW draws top talent and agencies, and this is an opportunity to mee...
You are invited to attend this meet up and network with career seekers in the advertising, PR, and media fields Monday, March 12 from 12:00pm-1:00pm.. SXSW draws top talent and agencies, and this is an opportunity to mee...
Want to make 2012 the year that you learn how to 3-D print or wield a blow torch? Then roll-up your sleeves and come by the GE Garage to meet our experts, who will teach you how to make manufacturing magic. All fellow SX...
Unwind toward the end of the SXSW Interactive Festival and break bread with friends, new and old. Test drive our video booths, enjoy family-style food, and listen to live music from bands playing on an interactive stage....
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Asia cultivates a very lively and active gaming community. Known for their strengths in MMO and RPG style games, they have made large strides in mobile gaming as well. As US companies look to the East to integrate best p...
New technology is paving the way for journalists to tell amazing stories in a cinematic way. At the crossroads of creativity and innovation, Cinematic journalism at SXSW takes a moment to discuss style, tone, and qualit...
New technology is paving the way for journalists to tell amazing stories in a cinematic way. At the crossroads of creativity and innovation, Cinematic journalism at SXSW takes a moment to discuss style, tone, and qualit...
New technology is paving the way for journalists to tell amazing stories in a cinematic way. At the crossroads of creativity and innovation, Cinematic journalism at SXSW takes a moment to discuss style, tone, and qualit...
Dan Roam signs his books ‘Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work’, ‘Unfolding the Napkin: The Hands-On Method for Solving Complex Problems with Simple Pictures’ and ‘The Back of the Napkin: Solving P...
3-2-1 Publish: Fine-tuning Your CMS, Digital Staff & Social Feedback Loops for D-Day: You can’t predict an earthquake, flood, or tornado, or revolution, but you can plan for major news events – like the World Ser...
Intermediate
Presenters
Eleanor Hong, Joel Abrams, Meredith Artley, Sheigh Crabtree, Tim Ruder
Partially blinded by an unknown illness at the age of 4 and sent out to work on the tough streets of Kano in Nigeria at the age of 9, Aisha Sani Abdullahi's life chances were not great. However, a chance encounter sent A...
Director(s): Orlando von Einsiedel
Documentary Short
10 min
Digital Advertising is on the rise while consumer engagement with online advertising is on the decline. With so many messages competing for attention, today's consumer expects to be rewarded for their choices. Join an ex...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adrian Capobianco, Dave Spinato, Josh Gertz, Michele Edelman, Pepper Evans
Instead of guns and knives, the revolutionaries who descended upon Tahrir Square on Feb. 1 packed a potent arsenal of technological tools that ended the corrupt, 30-year reign of President Hosni Mubarak. Their weapons of...
Intermediate
Presenters
Aasil Ahmad, David Gorodyansky, Jamal Dajani, Neal Ungerleider, Sonja Gittens-Ottley
Bad personas can make your skin crawl. The ones that offer no real insight into an audience and play make-believe with random facts are not useful in any context. Good personas theoretically inspire and guide innovation,...
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Lomography, a film camera community and company, has faced annihilation from not only digital photography, but now from mobile photo-sharing applications. We will talk about why, as a brand, they still grow and succeed; ...
Surveys regularly show 80% of Americans consider themselves religious or spiritual. How do religion and faith play out online, and how are organizations trying to engage diverse faith audiences? In this panel, 3 highly s...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adrienne Baker, Daniel Pawlus, Mathew Tombers, Patton Dodd, Paul Drohan
A towering figure in the art world, standing at 6'7", John Baldessari's epic career crammed into 5 and a half frenzied minutes...narrated by Tom Waits.......
Director(s): Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Documentary Short
5 min
In 1967, Brute Force had just released his first album on Columbia Records and was on the brink of becoming a star. The Beatles championed his next single, "King of Fuh," to be released on Apple Records. But dr...
Director(s): Ben Steinbauer
Documentary Short
12 min
Do you believe the geek shall inherit the earth? Technology is changing our world and geeks are reaping the benefits. This innovation is built on a foundation of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Presiden...
Intermediate
Presenters
Allison Rich, Jon Dudas, Kumar Garg, Lori Donaldson, Tessie Topol
You've seen his films, bought his DVDs and followed him on Twitter.
You know him as an actor, writer, director and founder of View Askew Productions and the SModcast Podcast Network. He's also the author of bestselling ...
You've seen his films, bought his DVDs and followed him on Twitter.
You know him as an actor, writer, director and founder of View Askew Productions and the SModcast Podcast Network. He's also the author of bestselling ...
Lets skip over the bluster and the bragging of social media storytelling. Instead, lets talk about the kinds of stories that get people’s respect and attention. When you think of the leading voices who are crushing it ...
Get together with other cloud-related entrepreneurs for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry ...
What do pirates, terrorists, computer hackers, and inner city gangs have in common with Silicon Valley? Innovation.
In this talk, you’ll be exposed to emerging forms of underground innovation happening in the informa...
Star of upcoming films John Carter, 4:44 Last Day on Earth and The Hunter (SXSW 2012), Willem Dafoe is an Academy Award nominated film, stage and voice actor as well as a founding member of the experimental theatre compa...
One of the great failures of any company - for that matter of a capitalist economy - is ecosystem failure. Great companies build great ecosystems, one in which value is created not just for a single company or group of i...
Perhaps no segment of interactive marketing is as provocative as crowdsourcing, a rapidly emerging approach to media creation that can cut traditional production costs by as much as 90% and is having profound effects on ...
At 100 million strong, Millennials are the biggest generation in American history. They possess nearly a trillion dollars in spending power. They're flipping every social custom and convention known to man on its head. Y...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Glasgow, Andrew Dinsdale, Anne Hubert, Nick Pudar, Sara Leblanc
CrowdTV is steaming ahead with the next iteration of crowd-sourcing, and is asking viewers to collaborate in deciding the direction and content of the documentary. For our pilot we gave the online community bare bones to...
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom B
12:30PM - 1:30PM
Over the past year, 90% of businesses have been hit by at least one IT security breach. What does this mean? Businesses should consider breaches a statistical certainty and be prepared. Breaches are not the only thing to...
Beginner
Presenters
Joe Ross, Joseph DeMarco, Michael Bruemmer, Monika Jedrzejowska, Terry Hemeyer
Data visualization is everywhere! It’s in your health records and in the advertising section of your morning news paper (if you still read such things.) It makes us laugh, it makes us wonder and it can make us outright...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dylan Lathrop, Irene Ros, Jer Thorp, Robert Kosara, Rosten Woo
In this presentation I will tell the story of the Scratch Online Community, a website where kids from around the world learn to program, share, and remix their own video games and animations. Today, the community has mor...
Messages tend to exist attached to a surface. Billboards are pasted to sides of buildings, emails come to us on a computer screen, and words in a book are attached to bound pages. What if our information came to us floa...
Aisha's Song
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Musically lush and stunningly shot, Aisha's Song is a touching and uplifting story of female
empowerment from a part of the world where women are all too often overlooked.
A ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has been defending your rights in the digital world for 22 years! Meet up with EFF and others who are dedicated to cyber liberties advocacy for an hour of networking, brainstorming, an...
Nowadays, everyone seems to be focused on China as the worlds 'next' market. However, the European Union has a larger combined economy than the US, with the largest markets within it being Germany, France, the UK and Ita...
Get together with other fashion experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.......
Garrett Gee will be speaking on the 7 FACTORS that can make you fundable in the eyes of the world's top investors. Hear the unique story that took him from small-town boy playing collegiate soccer at BYU in Utah, to succ...
Using personal home video footage, this documentary follows how a young boy's attempts to avoid a poor mark on a school assignment in 1990's Sarajevo, may have contributed to a civil war.......
Director(s): Igor Drljaca
Documentary Short
09 min
This panel and interactive discussion will look at how cities around the world are approaching innovation that serves the public. From hackathons to apps competitions, open data to social media, practitioners will discus...
Intermediate
Presenters
Abhi Nemani, Chris Vein, John Tolva, Nigel Jacob, Rachel Sterne
This panel will offer an in-depth look into the rise of financial tools available in the cloud and on mobile. It will discuss the idea of how these services have changed the way consumers deal with money and how it is af...
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Clerico, Dan Rosen, Dave Boyce, David Lee, Patrick Collison
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...
The digital era has taken media in Latin America by surprise. While some media groups jumped in right away, others are still trying to decide how to (or if they should) join the digital and Social Media sphere. At the sa...
Pop culture stereotypes may not accurately depict members of minority groups. Whether it's the rich depiction of family on The Cosby Show or the gay men who transform lives in everything from Queer Eye to Will and Grace,...
A conversation between Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor covering technology for the New Yorker, and computing pioneer Jaron Lanier. They'll discuss the virtues of technology, but also the ways it has made us less imagi...
Shot cinematically, IT AIN'T OVER is a visually stunning documentary that follows Dr. Edward Dobson, a man accustomed to counseling people through suffering, as he comes to grips with the unusual disease eating away his ...
According to IBM’s 2010 CEO Survey, the pace of change is accelerating and next-generation businesses must thoughtfully build and sustain the right corporate culture to remain relevant through turbulent times. Too ofte...
It’s not every startup that revolutionizes an industry, changing and sometimes reversing the direction of a long-standing space. But some, like our panelists, have done just that — Jawbone in re-shaping mobile lifest...
Intermediate
Presenters
Harry McCracken, Matt Rogers, Ren Ng, Travis Bogard
The ability of consumer electronics to sense location has no doubt opened the doors to a new dimension of mobile services that include navigation, local search, contextual social connectivity, and mobile advertising/mark...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cameron Clayton, Christopher Peralta, Joe Brown, Louis Gump, Siobhan Quinn
The Stanford MRI Lab hosts the world's first ever love competition, in which seven contestants have five minutes to neurochemically love someone as hard as they can.......
B2B Marketers unite and connect! Come to the Marketers Meet Up and join other marketers who share your passion for everything marketing. Chat with guest social media and marketing technology experts. Learn how to make th...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
Meet with industry professionals who can give advice and answer questions about distribution, distribution options, and more for Narrative films.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum badge holder...
Beginner
Presenters
Cristina Garza, Dan Guando, Evan Husney, Keith Leopard, Laure Parsons, Robert Rock, Steven Beckman
This documentary is a portrait of the band TV on the Radio as they transition from indie darlings to a major label success. We watch as they struggle to come to terms with the business side of music while trying to maint...
Director(s): Chioke Nassor
Documentary Short
29 min
The rise of smartphones, tablets and social gaming has led to an explosion of mobile gamers. Just as Angry Birds and Farmville took mainstream gaming away from the console, the rise of mixed and augmented reality – whe...
How many books on management have your read and how many parenting manuals and apps have you downloaded since your kids arrived on the scene? How much of what you’ve learned has been “on the job” of parenting — a...
Intermediate
Presenters
Lourdes Alba, Margaret Stewart, Maria Giudice, Mike Tschudy
The US and UK have joined forces enough over the years, so with tweet-powered comedy, we Brits are going it alone. Sorry Team CoCo and Fallon. This talk’s all about what’s happening in the Mother Country when Twitter...
Responsive web design is changing the definition of a "page," as it aims to address the growing variety of device form factors and locations where content is consumed. Additionally, as the web evolves, rules an...
From a format that was invented to shoot home movies in the 1960’s, Super 8 filmmaking continues to grow as an irreplaceable production medium to filmmakers who want to demonstrate “analog filmmaking” in a digital ...
Wondering how to stay relevant in today's 24x7 media environment? You're not alone.
Today, brands aren't built just through carefully orchestrated ad campaigns or splashy publicity stunts. Perceptions are also formed ...
"Social" isn't something new on the web, but its design and implementation are. Great products and services depend on their users having great experiences. As the Internet continues to mimic the interactions we...
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
Presenters
Lena Chen, Lux Alptraum, Maureen O'Connor, Mike Dacks
During "Sex, Lies, and Cookies: Web Privacy EXPOSED!", panelists look into the world of data collection and privacy on the internet, asking tough questions about what “tracking” really entails. The discussi...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andy Kahl, Berin Szoka, Christopher Soghoian, Lorrie Cranor, Lydia Parnes
We'll take a close look at best practices for working with verified facebook and google+ apps to drive philanthropy and increase fan loyalty. How do you increase online giving, what are the do's and dont's for contests ...
If the advent of social media platforms causes brands to become publishers then what do publishers become? Whether the ultimate role reversal or just a momentary identity crisis, brands and publishers know that they don...
Intermediate
Presenters
EB Boyd, Halle Hutchison, Justin Merickel, Kevin Barenblat, Sarah Smith
When NASA's budget was drastically cut and the commercial aerospace industry found itself in charge of getting man into space, a group of "space geeks" consisting of web developers, aerospace scientists and eng...
Is Twitter the Borg? Will social media help solve our global challenges? Who's the better captain -- Kirk or Picard? We'll answer these and many other questions from Professor Rotolo's course, "Star Trek and the Inf...
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies
Emcee: Br...
News Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Jim Schachter (New York Times)
Judges: Ben Huh (Cheezburger Network), Ton...
Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Scott Weiss (Andreessen Horowitz)
Judges: Matt Marshall (VentureBeat), Charlie ...
Special needs communities unite! This brainstorming session will take a look at how some people have been able to harness the power of online community to bring special needs parents together. We will look at what social...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jen Lee Reeves, Kate Canterbury, Robert Rummel-Hudson
More than 500,000 babies are born prematurely and an estimated 28,000 children die before their first birthday each year in the U.S. Text4baby, the first free health text messaging service in the U.S., addresses this iss...
Advanced
Presenters
Jennifer Benz, Kimberly Bassett, Paul Meyer, Sarah Ingersoll, Susan Can
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 ...
The greatest filmmakers of the 20th Century long maintained that there was nothing comparable to watching an epic story told on a screen that enveloped our frame of vision..but they didn’t have smartphones, tablets or ...
Beginner
Presenters
Jordan Levin, Larry Tanz, Mike Rosenstein, Erin McPherson
In the United States, only 50% of people vote in presidential elections. That drops to 40% for midterm elections, and 10% for primary, local and special elections. Worldwide, we rank 138th in voter turnout. The Internet ...
We’re all seeing this happen – friends in healthcare, film and finance to name few catching what can only be dubbed “the startup bug”. John Battelle even said it himself back in July 2011, “the whole world is a...
Besides the Great Depression, we are living in what I believe is the hardest time to be a student. The reason for this is that we are going through a revolution. For the last 150 years we have lived in an industrial econ...
Ten years ago, we had this idea to make a product that'd keep our coffee and chips fresher. We researched, designed, and manufactured it all with sweat equity and many late nights on the Internets. Today people call that...
People have always been the primary vehicle by which music spread around the world – from the days of the wandering minstrels to the heyday of radio DJs and then on to tight-knit circles of fans rallying together aroun...
Nardwuar the Human Serviette conducts a live interview with Harley from the legendary Epic Meal Time cooking show! http://www.epicmealtime.com/ Oh and who is Nardwuar ? Only Vancouver, B.C., Canada, could produce a med...
Nardwuar the Human Serviette conducts a live interview with Harley from the legendary Epic Meal Time cooking show! http://www.epicmealtime.com/ Oh and who is Nardwuar ? Only Vancouver, B.C., Canada, could produce a med...
Nardwuar the Human Serviette conducts a live interview with Harley from the legendary Epic Meal Time cooking show! http://www.epicmealtime.com/ Oh and who is Nardwuar ? Only Vancouver, B.C., Canada, could produce a med...
"Tchoupitoulas" is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-...
Director(s): Bill Ross, Turner Ross
Documentary Feature
80 min
Why are some of the brightest, most passionate and innovative young people in America dropping out of college? 20u.org, a web-based film series, follows the personal journeys of four brilliant young entrepreneurs throug...
Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer’s block and can...
Director(s): Jonathan Lisecki
Narrative Feature
89 min
Schiller said there is a watcher at the gate of the mind, and it is the watcher that prevents creativity, because creativity and insanity are almost the same thing.
The ventriloquist’s doll can kill off the watcher of ...
Director(s): Nina Conti
Documentary Feature
59 min
Luca and Gustav have to decide: should they stay in Italy, or leave it, like so many of their friends have done already? Looking for reasons not to do the same, the two Italians jump into their old Fiat 500 and go on a e...
Director(s): Gustav Hofer, Luca Ragazzi
Documentary Feature
75 min
Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression, Australian sex worker Rachel Wotton has become highly specialized in working with clients with disability. Rachel’s philosophy, that human touch and sexual intimacy can b...
Director(s): Catherine Scott
Documentary Feature
70 min
Too bland, too bored, too busy? Why women fail to rule social networks.
Women see themselves as "social" by nature, they claim to have better communication skills than men do - and mostly they are right. They ...
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most win...
Director(s): Katie Dellamaggiore
Documentary Feature
101 min
Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses migrate from the United States to Guatemala, where they are repaired, repainted, and resurrected as the brightly-colored camionetas that bring people to work each day. Sin...
Director(s): Mark Kendall
Documentary Feature
71 min
Nonprofits are different by definition, but they have no less lofty goals and dedicated leaders than the other businesses at SXSW. Come network with other nonprofit professionals
Monday, March 12 from 1:30pm-2:30pm.......
Nonprofits are different by definition, but they have no less lofty goals and dedicated leaders than the other businesses at SXSW. Come network with other nonprofit professionals Monday, March 12 from 1:30pm-2:30pm.......
Nonprofits are different by definition, but they have no less lofty goals and dedicated leaders than the other businesses at SXSW. Come network with other nonprofit professionals Monday, March 12 from 1:30pm-2:30pm.......
When Robert's girlfriend dies in a car accident, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo dives into a new hobby - ice hockey - where she gathers the strength to bring her brother back to the land of the livi...
Heimkommen (Coming Home)
Director: Micah Magee
When Robert's girlfriend dies, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo plays ice hockey with the boys, hoping to gather strength to bring her brother back to th...
Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's "Everything will be OK" trilogy.......
Rocky and Lulu live in opposite sides of the planet: they bump into each other in ChatRoulette and decide to stay in touch. They get closer, but we find out more about them that they will never tell each other. It's a lo...
Director(s): Alexis Dos Santos
Narrative Short
24 min
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
The Registrants Lounge presented by MOFILM, located on the corner of 4th and Neches right in front of the Austin Convention Center, is the meeting place for SXSW registrants to network and grab a drink.......
Video On Demand is the fastest changing area of independent film distribution, with new companies and routes emerging every day, but is there money to be made by handling those rights alone? How do you go about it? What ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dylan Marchetti, Eamonn Bowles, Matt Harlock, Nolan Gallagher, Orly Ravid
Sit in on a live-stream of SXSW Interactive's Keynote presentation "Expanding Our Intelligence Without Limit" with Lev Grossman and Ray Kurzweil.
Legendary visionary Ray Kurzweil will join writer Lev Grossman ...
Lost and Sound is a moving creative documentary, made by a partially deaf filmmaker. It weaves its way through a startling world of sound and silence, via the ears and brains of three extraordinary people as they try to ...
Director(s): Lindsey Dryden
Documentary Feature
76 min
Meet with industry professionals who can give advice and answer questions about distribution, distribution options, and more for any film project in our Distribution Open Call.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film,...
Beginner
Presenters
Chad Hartigan, Doug Block, Jeffrey Abramson, Jeph Scanlon, John Bernstein, Matt Grady, Matt Johnstone, Ondi Timoner
Maker Studios is a media company that lives right at the intersection between the online video and entertainment spheres, developing and programming content across more than 200 channels. They have built an audience on Y...
Austin-based filmmaking siblings David and Nathan Zellner will discuss their latest, "Kid Thing." The pair will be joined by another directing duo, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, the married couple behin...
Austin-based filmmaking siblings David and Nathan Zellner will discuss their latest, "Kid Thing." The pair will be joined by another directing duo, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, the married couple behin...
Austin-based filmmaking siblings David and Nathan Zellner will discuss their latest, "Kid Thing." The pair will be joined by another directing duo, Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky, the married couple behin...
Are all film distributors equal? (Of course not!) What do the most successful distributors have in common? How can a filmmaker find out? In A to Z of Distribution (with an emphasis on 'E'), come learn what distinguishes ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Debra Zimmerman, Jeff Tamblyn, Ryan Krivoshey, Elizabeth Sheldon
In the theater, films are optimized to ensure that viewers experience exactly what the director intended. However, when consumers experience the same film at home, that intention is often lost due to how the playback se...
Ginger Baker is known for playing in Cream and Blind Faith, but the world's greatest drummer didn’t hit his stride until 1972, when he arrived in Nigeria and discovered Fela Kuti's Afrobeat. After leaving Nigeria, Ging...
Director(s): Jay Bulger
Documentary Feature
92 min
Michael Margolis, founder of Get Storied signs his book ‘Believe Me: a Storytelling Manifesto for Change-makers and Innovators’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Horror fans won't want to miss this chat. All seven directors behind the Sundance found-footage phenomenon, "V/H/S" (Ti West, Adam Wingard, Joe Swanberg, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid and Radio Silence) will be...
Horror fans won't want to miss this chat. All seven directors behind the Sundance found-footage phenomenon, "V/H/S" (Ti West, Adam Wingard, Joe Swanberg, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid and Radio Silence) will be...
Horror fans won't want to miss this chat. All seven directors behind the Sundance found-footage phenomenon, "V/H/S" (Ti West, Adam Wingard, Joe Swanberg, David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid and Radio Silence) will be...
Marty Beckerman signs his new book ‘The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within, Just Like Papa!’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Join us for Happy Hour and talk with thought leaders in Media and Entertainment. Be first to get your hands on just-released Z1 workstation, powered by NVIDIA® Quadro® graphics solutions. Expand your expertise with fre...
This is a rare opportunity to meet two remarkable inventors with surprisingly common ground. Dean Kamen is the Founder of DEKA and FIRST. Perhaps best known for inventing the Segway, his devices, such as drug pumps, rev...
This is a rare opportunity to meet two remarkable inventors with surprisingly common ground. Dean Kamen is the Founder of DEKA and FIRST. Perhaps best known for inventing the Segway, his devices, such as drug pumps, rev...
This is a rare opportunity to meet two remarkable inventors with surprisingly common ground. Dean Kamen is the Founder of DEKA and FIRST. Perhaps best known for inventing the Segway, his devices, such as drug pumps, rev...
The IFC Crossroads House is back in Austin with a new location at Vice Bar (302 E. 6th Street). Join us for music, comedy, free food and drinks, giveaways and more! Check out ifc.com/sxsw for more details.......
The IFC Crossroads House is back in Austin with a new location at Vice Bar (302 E. 6th Street). Join us for music, comedy, free food and drinks, giveaways and more! Check out ifc.com/sxsw for more details.......
King Kelly is an aspiring internet star who performs webcam stripteases. When Kelly's car - filled with illegal narcotics that she must deliver - is stolen by her bitter ex-boyfriend on the 4th of July, Kelly and her bes...
Thanks to the Internet, a new type of narrative is emerging – one that's told through many media at once in a way that's nonlinear, participatory, and above all immersive. Yet every time a new medium has come along in ...
Thanks to the Internet, a new type of narrative is emerging – one that's told through many media at once in a way that's nonlinear, participatory, and above all immersive. Yet every time a new medium has come along in ...
Thanks to the Internet, a new type of narrative is emerging – one that's told through many media at once in a way that's nonlinear, participatory, and above all immersive. Yet every time a new medium has come along in ...
Oklahoma has independent filmmakers covered: from cash incentives, locations, production companies to art house and indie exhibitors and nationally renowned film festivals. Please join us at Oklahoma’s Buffalo Lounge (...
Director Eva Stotz visited interesting people all over the world, whom she found through online host networks, emerging for a limited time in their everyday life. The film introduces a music-loving Tuareg in Mali, a wild...
The #140conf events provide a platform to listen, connect, share and engage, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business and on “me” the people. The format at the #140conf ...
Thanks to digital and social media, Marketers and Ad Agency folks have gone from having a one-way conversation with customers into a million-way conversation. We’ve added capabilities to create digital work. But that m...
Join Ain't It Cool News' uber-fan Harry Knowles as he leads a panel about the insane machinations that brought the cult TV series Todd & The Book of Pure Evil from a short film to television screens all over the worl...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex House, Chris Leavins, Craig Wallace, Jason Mewes, Harry Knowles
NPR and Toyota share their insights on what it takes to build an App for the connected car. With the launch of Entune, Toyota has entered the world of mobile applications and has created a vehicle app ecosystem. Other ...
In Bahia, Brazil, generations of impoverished families live in palafitas, shacks built on stilts over the ocean bay. When the government threatens to reclaim the bay in the name of ecological restoration, hundreds of fam...
Director(s): Annie Eastman
Documentary Feature
75 min
Brands want a piece of the social media pie. Content creators want to make money without compromising their voice and audience. The Rolling Stones once said you can’t always get what you want. But they were wrong. Big ...
Get together with other Big Data professionals for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or...
Mr. Lee, an adopted stray cat, routinely disappeared from his North Carolina home for days on end. Intrigued by Mr. Lee’s whereabouts, his owner Juergen, a German engineer, created a camera designed to fit around the f...
If you're a storyteller with big ideas, the challenge is often seeking outthe right partners who can support your vision and attract an audience.With the Internet coming of age, independent storytellers have access to ag...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andy Forssell, Morgan Spurlock, Richard Linklater, Timothy "Speed" Levitch
If you're a storyteller with big ideas, the challenge is often seeking out the right partners who can support your vision and attract an audience. With the Internet coming of age, independent storytellers have access to ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andy Forssell, Morgan Spurlock, Richard Linklater, Timothy "Speed" Levitch
In this panel we will hear from the actors who developed, designed, implemented or applied projects that use social media and digital technologies to attempt social change. It is fundamental to evaluate the projects from...
Advanced
Presenters
Jorge Luis Sierra, Lu Ortiz, Miguel Paz, Yesica Guerra
In his 1999 The Age of Spiritual Machines, renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil envisioned education in 2020 to consist of students learning through intelligent software delivered on hand-held computers and interacting with te...
Intermediate
Presenters
Betsy Corcoran, Mitch Kapor, Philip Bronner, Robert Hutter
As population density in major urban areas changes, cities across the globe are inputting measures aimed at reducing urban congestion. At the same time, in response to environmental concerns, government regulations, and...
As social and Internet entrepreneurs search for ways to effect IRL social change by using online tools and platforms, the focus has been on social media. However, while social media has been the Internet's buzzword for s...
“I’m trusted with a pair of scissors and I’m in here for murder”. Prison life in the build up to the annual Scottish Prison Service hairdressing competition. Winning the coveted prize is the ultimate goal, but Fr...
Director(s): Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall
Documentary Short
29 min
Part of being a great web designer is understanding the medium you are designing for, recognizing its weaknesses and pushing its strengths. Understanding this balance as we are thrust into the world of mobile and "...
As one of the largest employers in the country and with a workforce charged with national security, one would think the military wouldn’t take any risks when it comes to communication. However, the U.S. Army is leading...
Intermediate
Presenters
Benjamin Grimes, Greg Swan, Kayley Nammari, Levi Peffer
CatCam
Director: Seth Keal
When a German engineer creates a tiny camera for his newly adopted stray cat to wear, the
photographs reveal more than ever expected.
Cutting Loose
Directors: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall
...
Social media presents countless opportunities to engage target audiences. But many marketers in regulated industries are missing out because they constantly hear “we’re not allowed to” when it comes to social marke...
My new book, The End of Business as Usual, will set the stage for a passionate and engaged conversation March 2012.
SXSW is a celebration of culture, art, innovation, and vision. What if the world of business prioritize...
Being new in a rapidly changing industry is scary. Luckily, as young designers in the web industry we have access to boundless tutorials, resources and mentors willing to share their knowledge. Actually, the abundance of...
We study rhetoric and we think you should too. Here's why:
Internet pundits obsess over the future of online communication. Every new tool and social platform spawns 1,000 predictions, most of them forgotten long before...
The future of cybersecurity is indeterminable. While the threat at times remains ambiguous, its effects are real, affecting government agencies around the globe. At a time when we are met with seemingly innocuous hacking...
Intermediate
Presenters
Christina Gagnier, Lovisa Williams, Sarah Granger, Stephanie Margossian
A recent article in Health Affairs titled: “Games for Health: the Latest Tool in the Medical Care Arsenal” stated that “computer-based simulations and interactive programs are introducing a powerful new force in he...
Beginner
Presenters
Ben Sawyer, Erin Edgerton, Jim Bower, Nina Fefferman
How many times have you seen someone you wanted to talk to, but did not quite know how? This is the question that led to the creation of One, a mobile application that notifies you when there is someone right next to yo...
Research shows that nearly 73% of people who read corporate blogs are in fact people. And one of the strongest connections we can make with another human is to make them laugh. We'll share a few comedy lessons learned f...
The rising amount of data exhaust of the past years has created the need for more and better tools to analyze what lies within this massive amount of raw material. Visualization leveraging the human cognition proves to b...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Bly, Benjamin Wiederkehr, Moritz Stefaner, Robin Richards, Tal Siach
Over the last years, documentary cinema has been one of the most fruitful places for digital innovation and new forms of interactive storytelling. What are some of the best examples and most exciting new genres of intera...
Journalism's future hinges on one thing, and it's not content, readers or devices. It's money. Producing stories, no matter what the form, takes money, and now journalists and media entrepreneurs alike must figure out ho...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ann Friedman, Colin Raney, Justin Ferrell, Justin Ellis
Larger publishers and distributors are often unwilling to take a chance on what they consider "niche." Yet consumers want specialization and more advanced content rather than lowest common denominator material....
Through images of kudzu-covered forms, photographed in black and white, hand processed 35mm CinemaScope and radiating with the luminance of early cinema, this ode to the climbing, trailing, and coiling species Pueraria l...
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
Presenters
Brookelynn Morris, Joe Christensen, Nat Wilson-Heckathorn, Sabrina Merlo, Sean Michael Ragan
Hoarder, Filmmaker, Genius.
The benevolent Mike Sullivan has been shooting a stop-motion robot sex film in his apartment for the last 10 years. Obsessed with constructing the miniature robot porn stars, his apartment no...
Comcast swallowed up NBC. Microsoft scooped up Skype. AT&T tried to take over T-Mobile. What's next? This panel will explore the new face of media consolidation, what it means for the future of the Internet and free ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrea Quijada, Craig Aaron, Michael Copps, Sam Gustin
Get together with other meme experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.......
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
A new addition to SXSW Interactive 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new me...
Film production runs the gamut from pre to post. Learn from industry professionals who have experience in the wide range of experiences film production entails.
Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platin...
The research has shown that employees (and people in general) are motivated by autonomy, mastery, purpose, progress and recognition, yet most jobs are severely lacking on all counts. Games, on the other hand, provide all...
Where many are questioning the best hardware and software for video editing, Marc Loftus of Post Magazine moves beyond the marketing and delves into experiences of real editors switching from Final Cut to Adobe CS5.5. Sp...
The panel will explore the role of digital in selling complex services and products - using financial advisory as an example. For years, financial institutions have sought ways to make true financial advice available onl...
With the meteoric rise of Chicago-based Groupon, interest in the Windy City startup scene has spread to both coasts and beyond, bringing new companies and hundreds of millions of VC dollars to the region. This panel fea...
Intermediate
Presenters
Matt Maloney, Melissa Harris, Paul Lee, Tom Ryan, Zachary Smith
Since the early days of philanthropy, companies have sought to communicate their corporate social responsibility and sustainability accomplishments. Too often these communications are the staid stacks of paper that no o...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Miller, Christine Diamente, Dale Hart, Mitch Baranowski, Nick Aster
The Internet is delivering its next tectonic shift upon society - disruption of the global labor markets. There are 7 billion people in the world, but only 2 billion people on the Internet. The other 5 billion are connec...
We move through our days with our smartphone apps in hand and mind, noticing and tracking our ideas and experiences into personal lifestreams of information. Can the data we're recording about our daily progress be used ...
What can podcasts offer comics that no other medium is able to? How are comedians shaping the evolution of digital broadcasting? Does a comedy-focused podcast need to be “funny”? We’ve got some of the top names in ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Doug Benson, Emily Gordon, Kevin Pollak, Kumail Nanjiani, Scott Aukerman
Get together with other predictive technology and marketing experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment ...
Little White Lies started life as a small-circulation independent film magazine in 2005. Today it has morphed into a creative consultancy, design agency and retail outlet that works with brands around the world. How did ...
Beginner
Presenters
Brent Hoff, Eugene Hernandez, Matt Bochenski, Danny Miller
How much smoke and mirrors does it take to validate interaction models during the software design process? When do you have to stop faking it and start making it? How do you handle the traps of realistic demos slipping i...
New mobile technologies are emerging that bring the physical and digital worlds closer than ever. As QR Codes and Near-Field Communication take mobile marketing by storm, navigating the space can become increasingly conv...
Intermediate
Presenters
Antony McGregor Dey, Cara Chirichella, Daniel Switkin, Kulveer Taggar
Yes there are real people behind those screen names. Get off your laptop and meet your fellow redditors and other social news addicts attending SXSW. Open to all redditors, not just the ones following /r/SXSW. Bring your...
Teens are a powerful force … they don’t just aimlessly watch videos and chat for hours online. They actively participate in meaningful, and at times altruistic, gameplay. Ranging from political activism and charitabl...
Intermediate
Presenters
Anastasia Goodstein, Andrew Slack, Anne Collier, Hilary Baris, Maura Welch
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...
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...
Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, content might as well not exist if there's no one to acknowledge it. Every time you "Like" that cute cat video, tweet the latest controversial current event, or s...
The term “social graph” was coined originally to describe the network of connections we already knew we had such as friends on Facebook or professional contacts on LinkedIn.More recently, graphs that are inferred as ...
Their Story Is Our Story (TSOS) is inspired by witnessing my dad’s fight against cancer. Sharing our experiences helps keep his memory alive, and hopefully, provides comfort and support to those in similar situations....
Jo and Blair on Facts of Life; Cagney & Lacey; Marlene Dietrich and any woman she shared the screen with. Before lesbians were allowed to be part of mainstream pop culture, gay women lived for subtext. As visibility ...
Entertainment Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: MC Hammer (Artist / Wiredoo)
Judges: Blair Garrou (DFJ Mercury), Erick S...
Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Christine Herron (Intel Capital)
Judges: Mark Hindsbo (Microsoft), Arun...
Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Frank Moss (Bluefin Labs)
Judges: Dr. Geeta Nayyar (AT&T for Health), Doug ...
In the fall of 2011 the cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore were the sites for civic hackathons organized by a collective of developers and activists. Separated by one month and roughly 100 miles, each city's event foc...
Utah.gov's recent redesign delivers a fully immersive, search-centric, data-driven, and user sourced experience. Find out how the team in Utah has redefined online government using emerging technology, a cutting-edge lay...
Google, Facebook, and Twitter were all startups once. Today they are some of the world’s most successful companies because they learned the first lesson to succeeding in a digital economy: take care of your users and t...
In 1985 London boiled in a summer of unrest known as the Boardwater Farm Riots. Some 26 years later, last summer's London Riots began under much the same circumstances yet grew to be dramatically more destructive. The pr...
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom A
3:30PM - 4:30PM
Social media marketing is a beautiful mash-up of cultural connection and commerce creation, but it's been walking around with a ball-and-chain: the nagging question "How can you show this has a Return on Investment?...
Intermediate
Presenters
Craig Daitch, Eric Swayne, Liz Strauss, Matt Ridings, Petri Darby
Written in Ink is a documentary about hope. The compelling story of a man trying to regain contact with his sister after 14 years of silence. But can one change what has already been written in ink?
Beautifully shot on...
Copyright and trademark challenges are faced by creative rabble rousers in all media. Participants will get schooled on what they really need to know about fair use and emerge with a better understanding of licensing iss...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jennifer Heitler, Michael Donaldson, Robert Kleinman, Deena Kalai
We love the latest technology. Computers, phones, and cameras can enhance our lives. But are we aware of the true cost? In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a war for access to mineral-rich land is being waged on t...
We work so hard to get people to like us. Buy this! Click here! Love me! So why is it that so many people—and most brands—suck at keeping things lively once they have us on the hook?
Customer service generally stink...
From Jay and Mark Duplass, the writer/directors of the Sundance hits “The Puffy Chair,” “Cyrus” and the upcoming “Jeff Who Lives at Home” comes “The Do-Deca-Pentathalon” - the story of two grown brothers ...
Director(s): Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass
Narrative Feature
90 min
It’s been decades since we first made an organism live longer. What have we done in the interim, and how does it affect you? Can we slow human aging? Covering everything from the secrets of the centenarians to hacked...
Max leaves his lakeside town to live with his father on the fringe of suburban Arizona. Both fever dream and quiet trip, "PAVILION" creates a deep and ethereal world, showing us an innocent way of life coming ...
the future of story telling with geo geller and with andy dixon as an example(ExConWithConvictions.com and IAMConvicted.com) is part of what i call a Social Sculpture, a treasure hunt, an exploration of experience, it is...
My new book, The Big Squeeze, will be coming out from Yale Press after SXSW, and I'll have a chapter for attendees. Did you know that a couple of enormous cable distributors control wired Internet access in America, an...
There is more opportunity today than at every point in the past combined. As technology and innovation drive us forward, the scope of human potential increases exponentially. But the amount of time we have to experience...
Zach, a wealthy, alcoholic divorcee and father, is torn between his past love and present infatuation. His obsession for Rebecca, who he affectionately calls Crazy Eyes, seems to be driving him to the brink of madness an...
Director(s): Adam Sherman
Narrative Feature
95 min
“Degenerate Art” tells the story of glass pipe-making from the origins of the “color-changing” pipe, to the radical emerging art movement it has become today. Despite federal laws, pipe-makers have created a whol...
Director(s): M. Slinger
Documentary Feature
74 min
Join your fellow filmmakers for free cocktails and Lamberts’ modern Texas cooking at the DGA's annual festival party. Reps will be on hand to tackle any/all questions while you escape the Austin sun for some beer and ...
Showcasing DJ and live music performances from the FADER FORT, brought to you by Converse.
Housed in a first-of-its kind structure for SXSW, the 3-domed Nokia Lab located at 2nd and Brazos will give SXSW Interactive att...
Frank Rose signs his book ‘The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Featuring members of Master Pancake Theater, Mascot Wedding Productions, and The Andrew and Matt show; Stag Comedy presents a seamless mix of live and video sketches that are sure to bring a smile to your face and frowns...
Featuring members of Master Pancake Theater, Mascot Wedding Productions, and The Andrew and Matt show; Stag Comedy presents a seamless mix of live and video sketches that are sure to bring a smile to your face and frowns...
Featuring members of Master Pancake Theater, Mascot Wedding Productions, and The Andrew and Matt show; Stag Comedy presents a seamless mix of live and video sketches that are sure to bring a smile to your face and frowns...
Loyalty used to be simple, drink a soda and get rewarded for it. As brands expand their “social currencies” into a virtual Federal Reserve, based around larger partnerships, what will the future look like? Consumer l...
"The Central Park Effect" reveals the extraordinary array of wild birds who grace Manhattan’s celebrated patch of green and the equally colorful, full-of-attitude New Yorkers who schedule their lives around t...
Director(s): Jeffrey Kimball
Documentary Feature
60 min
Calling all marketers: we know it’s key to know how to reach the brains of the future, the social savvy net generation (the millennials). Millennials influence their friends or “followers” into buying decisions, or...
Trends rise and fall in a matter of minutes across the social web as consumers flock from one hot topic to another. Pair that with the savvy and skepticism of today’s consumer, and brands have a huge problem on their h...
Access to information, people, and movements via the internet has changed the way we behave, but has it fundamentally changed how we think or how our society thinks in tandem? ......
Created by and starring Lena Dunham (“Tiny Furniture”), the new HBO series GIRLS takes a comic look at the assorted humiliations and rare triumphs of a group of girls in their early 20s. The cast also includes: Alli...
Are you a social spammer? Is the social sphere simply supplying brands with new and interesting channels in which to spam people? Brands want to be relevant to their audience, but many marketers believe personalization ...
Startup Village brings together the startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and cutting-edge digital tastemakers within the 2012 SXSW Festival. You are invited to come network with others interested in startups Monday, March...
Startup Village brings together the startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and cutting-edge digital tastemakers within the 2012 SXSW Festival. You are invited to come network with others interested in startups Monday, March...
Startup Village brings together the startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and cutting-edge digital tastemakers within the 2012 SXSW Festival. You are invited to come network with others interested in startups Monday, March...
Commissioned by a Middle Eastern Biennial to make a film on the theme of "art as a subversive act," independent filmmaker Caveh Zahedi ("I Am a Sex Addict") goes overboard. Told that he can do whateve...
Director(s): Caveh Zahedi
Documentary Feature
108 min
In the strange new world of micro-entrepreneurship, roaming, independent publishers operate from Buenos Aires and Bangkok. Indian bloggers make $200,000 a year. Product launches from one-man or one-woman businesses bring...
This panel provides a rare glimpse into the multitude of ways African women are applying technology to advance Africa’s development. The panel aims to dispel the myths about African women as breeders and victims -- in...
Pull up a front row seat with Tiger and Cy, two die-hard fans of 'America's Team', as they scramble to preserve their place in "America's Parking Lot". When the Dallas Cowboys move to the first stadium built fo...
Director(s): Jonny Mars
Documentary Feature
73 min
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee's Playhouse TV show which led to work designing some of the most iconic ima...
Director(s): Neil Berkeley
Documentary Feature
88 min
All the major game consoles now have movement sensors, as do most smart phones, and cameras capable of motion detection are everywhere in our daily lives. Taking full advantage of this radical change in input possibiliti...
Intermediate
Presenters
Diane Tucker, Katherine Isbister, Matt Parker, Syed Salahuddin
Blogging is nothing new, however the number of bloggers continues to grow. Mom bloggers, fashion bloggers, food bloggers, and life style bloggers have seemingly taken over Blogger, Wordpress, and Tumblr, and most of thes...
So you've worked for months writing code, assembling creative, and testing out your app until it it's finally ready for mass consumption. The App Store has approved it and you are getting solid reviews. But how are you...
Marketing is social. We're all sold. But how do you maximize your return in social without appearing like a douchebag? One the one hand, top influencers in the social space are the ones who can truly drive action back to...
Intermediate
Presenters
Evan Hamilton, Frank Eliason, Maria Ogneva, Megan Berry
