Complete event listing for
Austin Convention Center
500 E Cesar Chavez StExhibit Hall 5
Thursday, March 8
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...
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 ...
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...
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......
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...
Friday, March 9
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...

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 ...
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......
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...

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.......
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 ...

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...

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...
How do I get around Austin? When should I arrive to get into my movie? Which panels are must-see? How can I be sure to hit the best parties? From navigating Austin to finding the best eats to networking and maximizing s...
Beginner
Presenters
Basil Tsiokos, George Rush, Jette Kernion, Joel Heller, Agnes Varnum

Brands today exist in multiple mediums, defined by multiple voices. The media brands inhabit is iterative, with no beginning, no end, and little permanency. In that context, adherence to a big idea and endless repetition...
Advanced
Presenters
Greg Johnson, Marc Shillum, Robin Lanahan, Walter Werzowa

Quick and effective communication may run afoul of traditional Jewish culture for the “The People of the Book.” Consuming information in 140 characters requires true customization of message. Branding a nonprofit i...
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Watts, Brian Block, Jennifer-Joy Bronk, Leisa Holland-Nelson, William Daroff

In the summer of 2011, New Me, the first technology accelerator focused on African American's was launched. The inaugural class was covered by the CNN documentary "Black in America" along with an exploration of...
Beginner
Presenters
Hajj Flemings, Hank Williams, Jason Samuels, Soledad O'Brien, Wayne Sutton

Human or Machine? Who really knows what videos you're going to like best? Online video curation is in a heated battle between algorithmic curation and human, editorial selection. Let's settle this debate once and for al...
Intermediate
Presenters
Marc Hustvedt, Neetzan Zimmerman

Human or Machine? Who really knows what videos you're going to like best? Online video curation is in a heated battle between algorithmic curation and human, editorial selection. Let's settle this debate once and for al...
Intermediate
Presenters
Marc Hustvedt, Neetzan Zimmerman
The rules have changed. The traditional PR model—sticking closely to a preset script and campaign timeline—no longer works the way it used to. Public discourse now moves so fast and so dynamically that all it takes ...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Meerman Scott

RFPs are like online dating. The WORST KIND of online dating. Imagine an online dating experience where all users have uniform information provided, one picture (and there's no telling how old it is...), a host of clinic...
Intermediate
Presenters
Joe Rinaldi, John Stephens, Todd Nienkerk

Luck favors the prepared. Build it and they will come. Pithy statements like these are recited on the belief that it takes movement to start action. Shortly before the “It Gets Better” campaign took off on Faceboo...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dino Hainline

It takes a lot of money and effort to get to SXSW. Now that you've made it to Austin for the big event, what are the tips, tricks, and best practices you can use to effectively raise your profile?......
Beginner
Presenters
Evan Cohen, Hugh Forrest, Theda Sandiford

The continuing global economic and political crisis should be the wakeup call to the world. We need to rethink and rebuild many of the organizations and institutions that have served us well for decades, even centuries,...
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Tapscott
Bringing together top filmmakers, change agents & digital communicators, this panel will share practical tips, tools & tactics for activists, non-profit pros, volunteers & creatives to affect social change th...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dorothy Engelman, Meghan Warby, Rob Dyer, Sherien Barsoum


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...
Beginner
Presenters
Ari Stiles
Imagine an app that could cut saturated fat from your diet. Or one that could cure gingivitis. Well, while technology has had a big role in making us more sedentary, it also has the potential to make us better informed, ...
Beginner
Presenters
Ina Fried, Mark Bertolini

What is an Electric Health Record (EHR)? In the HITECH Act, the Federal Government both answered the question and rendered it moot. They created a new term, "meaningful use." An EHR is that which can achieve me...
Beginner
Presenters
Fred Trotter


David Meerman Scott signs his book Real-Time Marketing & PR at the SXSW book store.......
Eric Ries signs his book ‘TThe Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses ’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Fred Trotter signs his book ‘Meaningful Use and Beyond: A Guide for IT Staff in Health Care’ at the SXSW Bookstore.......

Join Don Tapscott's book signing after his opening keynote for SXSW Interactive on Friday March 9 from 2:00-3:00pm in Exhibit Hall 5 at the Austin Convention Center. A solo presentation from him will cover how the revolu...

Steve Rosenbaum signs his book ‘Curation Nation’ at the SXSW book store.......
"Black Twitter" has captured the imagination of the online world. In 2010, a Pew Research Study highlighted trends demonstrating Twitter usage was disproportionately Black and female. Next, journalists for Slat...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dr Goddess
Movember is a global movement committed to raising awareness and funds for critical men’s health issues. Over the last seven years, Movember has grown from a handful of friends in Australia to the largest non-governmen...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Garone, Kory Klem
The internet is a never-ending data source. Through it we are able to monitor visitor activity, study traffic patterns, and use these analytics to help guide users in the directions we want. Usability testing gives us be...
Beginner
Presenters
Jane Leibrock, Laurel Hechanova, Naz Hamid, Phil Coffman, William Couch

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, BBC Product Manager and author of Teach Yours...
Beginner
Presenters
Mark Channon
Vic Gundotra will participate in a fireside chat with Guy Kawasaki to discuss the Google+ project. Vic will share how the product has grown since the initial launch, some of the lessons learned and the challenges the Goo...
Advanced
Presenters
Guy Kawasaki, Vic Gundotra

Bing Gordon knows how to spread magic dust: Look anywhere from Amazon to Zynga. A master of disruption, he's blessed with 20/20 vision into all things gaming and social. Go beyond the buzzwords as the former Electronic A...
Advanced
Presenters
Bing Gordon, Brad Stone

In an election year that is as divisive as any in recent memory, a snarky, slightly jaded and unflinching group of funny folk are taking action and making an impact on the political scene. Learn how the internet empowere...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alf LaMont, Carol Hartsell, Greg Proops, Rory Albanese, Sara Benincasa

In this panel, we will focus on queer new media art and philosophy that uses and intervenes into the viral to form a radical politics of revolt and utopia. Viral will be engaged with technically, philosophically, artisti...
Intermediate
Presenters
Micha Cardenas, Pinar Yoldas, Zach Blas

If the conscious mind--the part you consider you--is just the tip of the iceberg in the brain, what is all the rest doing? Neuroscientist David Eagleman, author of the New York Times bestseller Incognito: The Secret Liv...
Beginner
Presenters
David Eagleman

This panel is about the many ways in which modern internet adoption and use mirrors the development of agrarian sharecropping in the South following the Civil War- whereby African Americans provided massive amounts of l...
Beginner
Presenters
Gina Mccauley

When it comes to shaping video content for target audiences, how real-time can we get? Dynamic iMedia allows digital agencies to track who's watching what content, where they're watching it, and for how long. But how can...
Advanced
Presenters
Bryan Mochizuki, John Havens, Mark Hillman, Matt Naylor, Sally Daub
When it comes to shaping video content for target audiences, how real-time can we get? Dynamic iMedia allows digital agencies to track who's watching what content, where they're watching it, and for how long. But how can...
Advanced
Presenters
Bryan Mochizuki, John Havens, Mark Hillman, Matt Naylor, Sally Daub


Discover the rules of thumb for finger-friendly design. Touch gestures are sweeping away buttons, menus and windows from mobile devices—and even from the next version of Windows. Find out why those familiar desktop wid...
Advanced
Presenters
Josh Clark

Has your creative engine stalled out? Don’t worry; you’re in good company. Everyone needs a creative tune-up from time-to-time and this is where you’ll get the tools for the job. Artist/designer Noah Scalin, author...
Beginner
Presenters
Noah Scalin

In the wake of the Japan tsunami disaster derived from one of Japan’s largest earthquakes in record history, over 52.6 million viewers tuned into Ustream to watch the catastrophe in real-time. Viewers around the world ...
Advanced
Presenters
Brad Hunstable


Krista Neher signs her ‘Social Media Field Guide’ at the SXSW book store.......
For creatives in today's workplace, it sometimes feels like the mandate is "make it brilliant, or start working on your resume." At the same time, creativity often seems like some mystical, elusive force that ...
Beginner
Presenters
Todd Henry


Gina Rudan signs her book ‘Unleash Your Practical Genius’ at the SXSW Bookstore.......

Noah Scalin signs his book ‘Unstuck: 52 Ways to Get (and Keep) Your Creativity Flowing at Home, at Work & in Your Studio’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Todd Henry signs his book ‘The Accidental Creative’ at the SXSW bookstore......


Sara Benincasa signs her book ‘Agorafabulous’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
More and more products and services are designed around motivating users and incentivizing change. Products and services in finance, health and the environment, among other areas, are increasingly designed around influen...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Risdon

Passion for social issues has been an American ideal from the start. For hundreds of years, foundations and nonprofit organizations have been forming groups to provide support, comfort, and solutions to some of the worl...
Intermediate
Presenters
Colin Wallis, Dave Dobbins, Kesah Schmitt, Mark Himmelsbach, Scott Orn

In 2009, a mild traumatic brain injury changed the way that game designer Jane McGonigal thought about everything -- literally. She spent a year recovering -- struggling to think clearly, be physically active, and find a...
Beginner
Presenters
Jane McGonigal

Video needs to be accessible too, and both the technology and the legal environment is evolving. Accessible media is already available online at some major media sites and the work done by providers can inform work that...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Kirkpatrick, Craig Cuttner, Glenn Goldstein, Shane Feldman
Mobile social networking apps continue to grow in popularity, a trend that gives emerging technology companies a unique chance to partner with entertainment channels to provide audiences with an enhanced, personalized ex...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jared Hecht, Kimber Myers, Mike Scogin, Paul Chang, Tom Thai

Mobile social networking apps continue to grow in popularity, a trend that gives emerging technology companies a unique chance to partner with entertainment channels to provide audiences with an enhanced, personalized ex...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jared Hecht, Kimber Myers, Mike Scogin, Paul Chang, Tom Thai


Saman Arbabi will use his signature wit to relate how the satirical TV program challenges the oppressive Iranian regime all the while influencing the direction of the country’s political landscape. The program, “Para...
Intermediate
Presenters
Raina Kumra, Saman Arbabi


The Lean Startup debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. This talk draws on stories and insights from the book, explaining the new science of entrepreneurship. Most startups fail. But many of those failure...
Intermediate
Presenters
Eric Ries

Communities of color are never a homogeneous or monolithic group. So developing an ethnically diverse community will require more than focusing on statistics such as income and education levels. Knowing where to find com...
Intermediate
Presenters
Trevite Willis

Always a much-anticipated part of the festival, the 30-second shorts, or bumpers, that play prior to each film can set the tone for an entire festival. They can build excitement, mood, and become talking points in their ...
Beginner
Presenters
Clay Liford, Geoff Marslett, Joseph Nicolosi, Lauren Wolkstein, Zach Anner


An outspoken pioneer in the modern computing era, and best known as the “Father of Visual Basic” and inventor of “personas,” Cooper will share rare insights into the evolution of software and interaction design b...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alan Cooper, Christie Dames, Robert Scoble

Join this fun, interactive core conversation and learn best practices and practical tips for using your social media voice to spark social action in the real world. Whether you care about supporting local schools, raisin...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jessica Kirkwood, Karen Bantuveris
Drawing upon a wealth of leading research, neuroscience, case-studies and personal experience from his new book - Uncertainty: Turning Fear & Doubt Into Fuel for Brilliance - Fields reveals a set of environmental ch...
Beginner
Presenters
Jonathan Fields

Location-based technology has played a significant role in the recent expansion and growth of social media. That role is set to further explode in the coming years. As the leading all-male mobile location-based social ne...
Intermediate
Presenters
Joel Simkhai

Moments of joy... moments of happiness... moments of gratitude. These are all moments that describe our lives. It is very easy to mistake these as only moments that happen in real life. One fundamental key part of how t...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ade Olonoh, Brian Wong, Dave Morin

Melissa Anelli signs her book ‘Harry, A History: The true story of a boy wizard, his fans, and life inside the Harry Potter phenomenon’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Chuck Martin signs his book ‘The Third Screen’ at the SXSW bookstore.......


Come join us at a special AT&T Mobile App Hackathon that will be focused on UI/UX designers and the like. We’ve lined up a special celebrity guest, Chicago Bears 7-time Pro-Bowl LB Lance Briggs, a self-admitted co...

Jane McGonigal signs ‘Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make us Better and How they Can Change the World’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
Saturday, March 10
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...

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 ...
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...

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...
Brands today exist in multiple mediums, defined by multiple voices. The media brands inhabit is iterative, with no beginning, no end, and little permanency. In that context, adherence to a big idea and endless repetition...
Advanced
Presenters
Greg Johnson, Marc Shillum, Robin Lanahan, Walter Werzowa

The Code is a BBC documentary about Professor Marcus du Sautoy's search of a mysterious code that governs our world through numbers, shapes and patterns. It's also a next-generation transmedia treasure hunt aimed at all ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adrian Hon

The Code is a BBC documentary about Professor Marcus du Sautoy's search of a mysterious code that governs our world through numbers, shapes and patterns. It's also a next-generation transmedia treasure hunt aimed at all ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adrian Hon

Women have become the digital mainstream. In the US market, women make up just under half of the online population, but they spend 58 percent of e-commerce dollars. Women are online gamers, shoppers, bloggers, and social...
Beginner
Presenters
Brad Nunnally, Jessica Ivins

On the Internet, sharing is a trap. Today's digital cult of the social - which encourages us all to share our ideas, our habits, our friends, even our possessions on the Internet - is an assault on the individual liberty...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Keen

Getting Tech Savvy in rural Texas – a few of the students will join me as we present how we turned a closed, defunct, dirty library into the happening spot on campus - now including a gaming club, open mic night, libra...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cathleen Ash

With ethnic minorities now representing the largest and fastest growing segments of the consumer economy, the very definition of the general market is being challenged. Multi-cultural agency heads such as Translation’s...
Advanced
Presenters
Carl Settles, Kelli Coleman, Leslie Wingo, Sergio Alcocer

With book sales going digital much faster than music sales did, why is the publishing industry growing, and not imploding? How threatened are publishers & labels as content creators start developing audiences directl...
Intermediate
Presenters
Rob Reid


The role of social media has been instrumental in the more recent political and economic development of Colombia, especially overcoming a devastating period of civil strife and violence. What inspired people to protest a...
Advanced
Presenters
Andrés Traslaviña MS Ed, Daniel Medina MBA

Your browser is the most important program on your computer and until recently there were no built-in, industrial-strength tools available for debugging web pages. As web apps become more sophisticated, so do the debuggi...
Advanced
Presenters
Brandon Satrom, Garann Means, Joe Stagner, Mike Taylor, Paul Irish

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...
Beginner
Presenters
Ari Stiles

From the New York Times to Glamour Magazine, a universal question continues to percolate - why are women underrepresented in the tech industry? Explore the role mentorship plays in building a stronger and more inclusive ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cathryn Posey, Ekaterina Walter, Leslie Bradshaw, Margot Bloomstein, Nilofer Merchant

Come join us at a special AT&T Mobile App Hackathon that will be focused on UI/UX designers and the like. We’ve lined up a special celebrity guest, Chicago Bears 7-time Pro-Bowl LB Lance Briggs, a self-admitted co...
Eve Blossom signs her book ‘Material Change: Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneur’ at the SXSW bookstore......


Margot Bloomstein signs her book ‘Content Strategy at Work’ at the SXSW bookstore.......


Back in the day, the American anime experience was limited to a couple shows on TV and a small selection at your local comic book shop. Now, anime is a multi-million dollar industry, and traditional entertainment outlets...
Intermediate
Presenters
Craig Crossley, Justin Rojas, Margo Yabs, Mike Laidlaw, Ryo Yamaguchi

“Open source” was once a way to describe software code and a collaborative model for its development. It's now a business model, an education model, and the future of government. It's changing our lives through its p...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ruth Suehle

Partnerships in filmmaking can be a blessing or a curse - which is it when your partner is family? Hear from four teams of filmmaking brothers with Films at SXSW this year as they discuss what it's like working together,...
Beginner
Presenters
Benny Safdie, Bill Ross, David Zellner, Kevin McManus, Mark Duplass, Matt McManus, Nathan Zellner, Turner Ross, Christy Lemire
It's been said that 80% of making a movie is casting; no where is that more true than in independent film. This panel, moderated by actress and producer Megan Boone, with casting director Paul Schnee (Winter's Bone, The ...
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Savelson, Carly Hugo, Paul Schnee, Megan Boone
Interfaces and devices are providing more and more power and functionality to people, and in many cases this additional power is accompanied by increasing complexity. Although people have more experience and are more sop...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Hogue

If ever Geekdom was in need of a ringleader, Joss Whedon would be a frontrunner for the position. Best known as the creator behind now iconic and cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly - his arsenal of o...
Beginner
Presenters
Joss Whedon, Adam B Vary

If ever Geekdom was in need of a ringleader, Joss Whedon would be a frontrunner for the position. Best known as the creator behind now iconic and cult series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly - his arsenal of o...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam B Vary, Joss Whedon
The power of data visualization as a tool for social change can no longer be ignored. Successfully illustrating vital data can help advocates maximize the impact of sound science in public debate and policy, whether usin...
Intermediate
Presenters
Desmond Spruijt, Lauren Carmin
As all media becomes increasingly digital, the term ‘transmedia’ may prove as temporary as ‘multimedia’. However, entertainment after transmedia will be built on the currently-emerging best practices of transmedi...
Intermediate
Presenters
Geoffrey Long, Keith Clayton, Zak Kadison
HTML5. It's more than paving the cowpaths. It's more than markup. There's a lot of stuff in the spec about databases and communication protocols and blahdiblah backend juju. Some of that stuff is pretty radical. And it w...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jen Simmons

UNDERGRADS closely follows every aspect of the lives of various undergraduate students at anonymous colleges across the US to present what it’s like to be a college student in America today. Created and executive pr...
Beginner
Presenters
David Bukstein, James Franco, Joy Gohring, Vince Jolivette

Good libraries are community-minded, technologically-aware, devoted to increasing access to information, and interested in preserving the local cultural heritage. Good newspapers aggregate and curate information for thei...
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Buckland, Char Booth, Michael Porter, Nate Hill

Have a question about beginning a project? In the middle and stuck? Meet with industry professionals who have experience aiding artists every step of the way. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum...
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Newman, Bryan Poyser, Cullen Conly, Ingrid Kopp, Nancy Schafer, Rose Kuo, Rose Vincelli

In June 2011, Vivek Wadhwa wrote that we need a black Mark Zuckerberg. But, what about Markia? Is it hard to imagine that the next big thing could come from a Black woman living in an urban environment instead of one of ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Glennette Clark, Shireen Mitchell


Nicole Ozer signs her book ‘Privacy & Free Speech: It’s Good for Business’ at the SXSW book store. ‘Privacy & Free Speech’ analyzes what companies have done right – and wrong- and offers hands on ti...

This solo presentation will cover the culture of fear and the consequences of visibility. Acclaimed researcher danah boyd will weave together the predator panic and bullying phenomenon with the socio-political dynamics a...
Intermediate
Presenters
danah boyd

Services like Facebook and Google+ have ingratiated themselves into our online relationships through our social graphs. The problem is that the methods we use for connecting to each other is so divergent from reality, wh...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jonathan LeBlanc


Renowned entrepreneur and investor Reid Hoffman and entrepreneur/author Ben Casnocha present a new blueprint for managing your career. You will learn the best practices of some of the most successful start-ups on the pla...
Advanced
Presenters
Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman
The Association of PR Professionals in Mexico (ProPR) groups all PR professionals, consultants and agencies. Every year, ProPR conducts and publishes a research on the local industry. This is the first year that a PR2.0,...
Advanced
Presenters
Lorena Carreño, Oscar Rojas


Bravo’s interactive late-night talk show, “Watch What Happens Live,” is coming to SXSW. Meet the on and off-screen digital mavens, including the show’s host Andy Cohen, Tom Colicchio (“Top Chef” judge), Lisa ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Aimee Viles, Andy Cohen, Dave Serwatka, Lisa Hsia, Tom Colicchio

Are you using social media the right way in order to grow your brand? By following Dave Kerpen's 18 ways to succeed, your brand can become irresistible in the social media space. Based on his new book "Likeable Soci...
Beginner
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Dave Kerpen




Ben Casnocha signs ‘The Start-up of You’ at the SXSW bookstore......

Dave Kerpen signs his book ‘Likeable Social Media’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
This panel will discuss how presenting film in new and alternative ways, such as site-specific presentations, installations and in tandem with live events can build audiences and create unmatched cinematic experiences fo...
Intermediate
Presenters
Henri Mazza, Mark Elijah Rosenberg, Mary Magsamen, Mike Plante, Delicia Harvey


The Brazilian Dream project is a qualitative and quantitative research - the first to promote a view that explores what the 18-24 year-old youth thinks about Brazil, and what they think they can do to impact the country ...
Beginner
Presenters
Carla Albertuni

A script may be the core of the filmmaking process but how do screenwriters and producers work together to trigger the ideas, choices and final components that bring a film to life? What impact do producers have on scrip...
Beginner
Presenters
Brunson Green, Jeff Nichols, Sarah Green

In this session, the producers of the award winning documentary film, Hell and Back Again, will demo Condition ONE, the immersive video application they've built based on their experience as filmmakers and photojournalis...
Intermediate
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Takaaki Okada, Christian Pilling
A new movement is gaining momentum in the design world— a movement to expand the applications of high design beyond its elitist client base to solve complex social problems. This panel will engage an array of leaders i...
Intermediate
Presenters
Barbara Brown Wilson, Jess Zimbabwe, John Peterson, Suzi Sosa

The job of a web designer these days includes designing for content that changes, is highly dynamic, and often does not yet exist. Gone are the halcyon days of static, 5 page websites that are just as rigid as a printed ...
Beginner
Presenters
Jared Ponchot

President Obama’s Open Government Directive established a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Federal agencies were required to expand citizen participation, leading to an abundance of dial...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jed Sundwall, Michelle Chronister

Chip Conley is the founder and was the CEO of America's second largest boutique hotel company. Initially, he thought he needed to be superhuman to be successful, but after two dozen years as CEO, he realized that he just...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chip Conley


While many have described the new world of remix culture where “nothing is original,” few have provided practical advice for those of us who find ourselves living and making things in it. Join filmmaker Kirby Ferguso...
Intermediate
Presenters
Austin Kleon, Kirby Ferguson

While many have described the new world of remix culture where “nothing is original,” few have provided practical advice for those of us who find ourselves living and making things in it. Join filmmaker Kirby Ferguso...
Intermediate
Presenters
Austin Kleon, Kirby Ferguson
Libraries, oft loved and honored are under attack from the most unlikely of sources. Book publishers, municipal governments and others seem hell-bent on library destruction, while many wonder if libraries are even releva...
Intermediate
Presenters
Carson Block

The browser vendors love them! The browser fans and cutting edge designers are producing some really remarkable stuff, but what do HTML5 and CSS3 really mean for you, the pragmatic designer on the street? If you sidle up...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Mills

”Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match, find me a find, catch me a catch…”,lyrics from Fiddler on the Roof about finding a perfect partner. Wouldn’t it be great if you could have someone to guide you towards w...
Advanced
Presenters
Amy Jackson, Gina Bianchini, Jason Putorti, Whitney Hess


Jay Baer signs his book ‘The NOW Revolution’ at the SXSW bookstore......

Joe Pulizzi signs his latest book at the SXSW bookstore following his panel appearance.......

John Bradberry signs ‘6 Secrets to Startup Success’ at the SXSW bookstore......
Agents and Managers are a necessary part of the food chain in filmmaking from pre-production through distribution and release. What do they do exactly? How can they serve you? Talk to several industry professionals one-o...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew Mer, Benjamin Kramer, Cristina Garza, Emily Rose, Heather Collier, Kevin Iwashina, Lois Vossen
This workshop session is taught by Black Founders Startup Ventures. Black Founders Startup Ventures was founded to increase the success of black entrepreneurs in tech through educational workshops and events. What is lit...
Beginner
Presenters
Chris Bennett, Hadiyah Mujhid, Monique Woodard, Nnena Ukuku

You've networked like a politician, found your dream job, and nailed the interview. It's crunch time, and the Evil HR Lady leans back and asks: "Sooo… what kind of salary were you looking for?" Salary negotia...
Beginner
Presenters
Jim Hopkinson

Soon after its appearance on the font market more than 20 years ago, the Adobe Original Trajan was embraced by Hollywood. Now it seems to grace more movie posters than any other typeface. Its stately and classic characte...
Intermediate
Presenters
Yves Peters

Low budget independent films. Four words that define most of the films made throughout the world every year. Time and again producers focus on the first two words rather than the last two. The driving force behind a succ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Barry Ryan

Transmedia is definitely a buzzword these days, and forward-thinkers from Madison Avenue to Hollywood are trying to get up to speed about what it is and how to get in on the action. Andrea Phillips will talk about her bo...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrea Phillips


Jim Hopkinson signs his book ‘Salary Tutor: Learn the Salary Negotiation Secrets No One Ever Taught You’ at the SXSW book store......
Looking for like-minded, nonprofit professionals like yourself? Then come to the meetup just for nonprofits and meet some new friends over snacks! To have a chance to win one of three Amazon gift cards, drop off your bus...
Follow @FoundItToday. Watch for clues with the #FoundItSXSW hashtag. Win prizes! It's simple...learn more at www.foundit.net.......

Rebecca Lieb signs her book ‘Content Marketing’ at the SXSW bookstore......


John Peterson, founder of ‘Public Architecture’ signs his book ‘Pro-Bono’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
While the market for professionally crafted online films grows daily, the budgets to create them don't. In this new media landscape, how do production companies continue to produce great work and still run a profitable o...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Dietz, Blake Whitman, Mary Fagot, Mary Crosse, Adam Glickman

Fact Checkers Unit is an award winning web series currently in its second season. Season 1 was produced with NBC and Samsung, featured Jon Heder, Karolina Kurkova, Pauley Perrette, Alex Trebek, Dave Navarro and won a BAN...
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Sacca, Daniel Beers, Peter Karinen, Thomas Bannister
Do festivals represent the future of independent film distribution? Where are the opportunities? What are the risks? This panel will explore emergent models and speculate on ways independent producers (and distributors) ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Horton, Jason Janego, Nancy Schafer, Sean Farnel

Politically-active, technology-loving comedian Baratunde Thurston will spark a thought-provoking discussion about the role of technology, comedy and satire in transforming the world around us.......
Beginner
Presenters
Baratunde Thurston

Sit in on a live-stream of SXSW Interactive's Keynote presentation "How to Read the World" by Baratunde Thurston. Politically-active, technology-loving comedian Baratunde Thurston will spark a thought-provokin...
Beginner
Presenters
Baratunde Thurston
Do you need a publicist? Maybe so, and maybe no. Come get some hands-on information about the modern role of the PR person, and how that impacts filmmakers today. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Pla...
Beginner
Presenters
Cynthia Swartz, Emma Griffiths, Marian Koltai-Levine, Natalie Lent, Ngoc Nguyen, Nicolette Aizenberg, Rene Ridinger, Weiman Seid
* Are you aware of the core evolutionary emotions that drive compelling character development? * Have you factored in the neuroscience of “hedonic forecasting” and emotional rewards in your cinematic or gaming narr...
Advanced
Presenters
Alejandro Salgado, Carlos Velasco, M A Greenstein

Edward Morris signs his book ‘Green Patriot Posters’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Kristina Halvorson signs her book ‘Content Strategy For The Web’ at the SXSW bookstore......


Rainn Wilson signs his book ‘Soul Pancake’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Frank Abagnale’s rare expertise began more than 40 years ago when he was known as one of the world's most famous confidence men. Between the ages of 16 and 21, he successfully posed as an airline pilot, an attorney, a ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Frank Abagnale

Many cities and public agencies are opening up their data to promote accountability, empower citizens, and deliver better services. But just releasing data is not enough to achieve these desired outcomes. Most open gover...
Intermediate
Presenters
Francisca Rojas, Frank Hebbert

In the early days of CSS the web industry cut its teeth on blogs and small personal sites. Much of the methodology still considered best-practise today originated from the experiences of developers working alone, often o...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andy Hume

What makes an experience—any experience—compelling? A well–told story transcends any particular medium and this presentation will focus on principles of narrative—such as plot, setting, and point–of–view—as...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Womack

The Bui Brothers have traveled around the world shooting on DSLRs for the last three years, starting with the Nikon D90 (the first video-capable DSLR) then quickly moving on to shoot the first US nation-wide TV commercia...
Intermediate
Presenters
Vu Bui, Lan Bui

Entrepreneurs often look their own backyard for the right customers and business partnerships to launch their businesses- yet many times, the best opportunity for sales or collaboration are with business people in other ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Kevin Koym, Leonardo Maldonado


The mission: To create a visually impactful, cutting edge online user experience that encourages people to take action for your cause. No sweat, right?For designers working in the non-profit sector, this is the challenge...
Intermediate
Presenters
Eve Simon
The term "social media" is quickly becoming obsolete. The social graph is moving from our computers into the real world, and soon everything we experience will be overlaid with the thoughts and feelings of our ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dennis Crowley, MG Siegler

How do a group of friends go from sitting down for a meal together to creating an EPIC MEAL TIME together? The first ever Epic Meal Time video involved the creation (and subsequent demolition) of a "fast-food pizz...
Beginner
Presenters
Ameer Atari, David Heuff, Harley Morenstein, Josh Elkin, Jonny Goldmaker
How do a group of friends go from sitting down for a meal together to creating an EPIC MEAL TIME together? The first ever Epic Meal Time video involved the creation (and subsequent demolition) of a "fast-food pizz...
Beginner
Presenters
Ameer Atari, David Heuff, Harley Morenstein, Jonny Goldmaker, Josh Elkin
As a filmmaker, the press can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Learn how to make nice. Or, if you're an aspiring journalist, learn how to make a living. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Pl...
Beginner
Presenters
Alison Willmore, Farihah Zaman, John Gholson, Sean O'Neal, William Goss
Read/Write Library is a replicable project that uses local media to examine a region’s creative, political and intellectual interdependencies, creating a visible network of primary sources. We hope to make it available...
Intermediate
Presenters
Nell Taylor

Links are the molecular bonds of our web sites, holding all the pages together. They are the essence of a web site. Yet, what do we really know about them? If you create great links, your users easily find everything ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jared Spool

The advent of free and cheap media tools has created many opportunities for minority music and media makers. Young social media gurus such as the Persian background and Orange County born Mazy Kazerooni (Track.by and Di...
Advanced
Presenters
Korey Coleman, Mazy Kazerooni, Natalie Cofield, Ron Harrison


Not all organizational challenges or objectives are best handled by social communities of employees, advocates, fans, etc. Gartner explains how to determine when a community can get the job done better, when it won’t a...
Beginner
Presenters
Mark McDonald

Reaching millions of fans in the Star Wars galaxy, Stand Up to Cancer’s recent PSA, “Use the Force for Good” has joined the ranks of other incredible star-powered SU2C PSAs that raise awareness in cancer research a...
Beginner
Presenters
Bedonna Smith, Jules Dibiase, Natalie Lent, Victoria Taylor
In today’s jam-packed independent film marketplace, it is not enough anymore to just show up and look pretty. Talent and a good hairdo alone will only get you so far. What strategies, communication techniques, and tr...
Beginner
Presenters
Jonathan Reiss, Rose Vincelli, Tim Sutton
Since its inception, digital distribution has promised independent filmmakers direct access to audiences, but has it delivered? In this panel, three pioneers of digital distribution – Snag Films, Pre Screen, EPIX and F...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jill Burkhart, Jonathan Marlow, Shawn Bercuson, Stephanie Sharis, Richard Lorber
Everyone in marketing is shouting “TELL STORIES!” in perfect unison from their various feeds. But what is a good story? And how can you make yours great? In 60 idea-packed minutes, viral storyteller Jonah Sachs (Stor...
Beginner
Presenters
Jonah Sachs


Mark McDonald signs his book ‘Social Organization’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing—fast. Diamandis will address how progress i...
Beginner
Presenters
Peter Diamandis
Following the success of last years 'From Pen To Paper', AllCity presents award winning UK film distributor Momentum Pictures in the sequel; Beyond The 1 Sheet. Attendees will once again join forces in a brainstorm with ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Hannah Beecham, Lin Zagorski, Charlie Loft
Open source communities pride themselves on the premise of egalitarian communication where every voice is valued, heard and documented. Despite this noble goal, this panel discusses how women and their communication sty...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrea Hickerson, Mairin Duffy, Xanthe Matychak

Through storytelling, classic video footage, and family memorabilia, Kelly Carlin, the only child of iconoclastic comedian George Carlin, chronicles over forty years of her life with her famous father. Kelly, host of Wak...
Beginner
Presenters
Kelly Carlin

Once upon a time at the movies, the noble everyman triumphed at the end while the shady operator got his comeuppance. It was the natural order of things. Then, in 1987, everything changed. Michael Douglas, in the guise...
Beginner
Presenters
Dan Kois, Eliza Skinner, PE Oppenheim, Robyn Sklaren
Forty-time platinum, multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning producer and digital guru Quincy Jones III (QD3) has turned his attention to a new creative movement: the creation of a health and fitness culture born from the ur...
Beginner
Presenters
Crystal Wall, Paul Wall, Quincy Jones III, Shawn Ullman, Slim Thug

The Flesh Life is a Web Series that comes to you from production company Mishnoon and directing brothers Nick and Josh Holden. The Flesh Life follows entrepreneurs Jeffrey and Otto as they attempt to come up with the nex...
Beginner
Presenters
Billy Wise, Josh Holden, Mark Smoot, Nick Holden

A rounded sans-serif with a letterpress look? A chunky slab serif in three-dimensional perspective? Grungy, patterned, or even blurred text? These effects (and more) used to be the domain of print designers or gigantic, ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Sean McBride

Join Director Timo Vuorensola and Producer Tero Kaukomaa as they discuss their film IRON SKY (SXSW 2012) and how they worked to bridge the gap between the film industry and new forms of media. This trend is gaining tract...
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Chirls, Jonathan Gardner, Tero Kaukomaa, Timo Vuorensola
Join Director Timo Vuorensola and Producer Tero Kaukomaa as they discuss their film IRON SKY (SXSW 2012) and how they worked to bridge the gap between the film industry and new forms of media. This trend is gaining tract...
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Chirls, Jonathan Gardner, Tero Kaukomaa, Timo Vuorensola


Joshua Glenn signs his book ‘The Wage Slave’s Glossary’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
With great images, powerful music and rich, authentic stories, videos can influence real change in our world. The question that businesses and organizations have to ask is, "Which stories resonate with our audience,...
Intermediate
Presenters
Mark Horvath, Matt Warren
With films such as Food, Inc. and Waiting For Superman, Participant Media uses film as a vehicle to create communities focused on change. But how do you keep the momentum of a movement after the film has run its course? ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Christie Marchese, Liana Schwarz, Wendy Cohen

Feeling adrift in the film world and need some valuable one-to-one general advice? This is the session for you; "Open Call" features industry insiders that run the gamut of the film spectrum. Whether you're se...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Cassels, Beth Sepko, Keegan DeWitt, Logan Mulvey, Mat Hames, Michael A Behrens, Navid McIlhargey, Thuy Tran

Physical architecture is about how environments interact with people. Interaction design is about the mind moving through abstract spaces. Somehow the two must intersect. This session is aimed at taking two design disc...
Intermediate
Presenters
Leonard Souza, Sean Coulter

The Olympic Games in London promises to be the first truly social Olympic Games in history. Significant digital and social advancements now allow consumers to personally engage with thousands of U.S. Olympic Team athlet...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex Iskold, Lauren Pasquale, Matthew Moller, Shira Lazar, Stephanie Agresta
Ninety-seven percent of all adolescents in the US play video games, & more than half of the adults in this country play video games regardless of their race or income. The military has discovered that video games dec...
Intermediate
Presenters
Mike Langlois

The brainchild of actor Rainn Wilson (Dwight from NBC's The Office), SoulPancake is a movement to "Chew on Life's Big Questions" and tackle art, philosophy, creativity, and spirituality across multiple platform...
Beginner
Presenters
Rainn Wilson

It's easy to get caught up with the horse races of Facebook versus Google or Microsoft versus Apple or record labels versus the Internet. But in nearly 30 years of covering technology I find that the major conflicts are...
Beginner
Presenters
Steven Levy
With the commoditizaion of digital technologies for engagement, organizations are beginning to see the opportunity to go one step further by bridging the gap between the virtual and the physical worlds. Hear how a group...
Intermediate
Presenters
Giovanni Rodriguez, Jose Rico


Thomas Malone signs his book ‘The Future of Work’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Baratunde Thurston signs his book ‘How To Be Black’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Peter Diamandis signs his book ‘Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
Sunday, March 11
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...

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 ...
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...

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...
The genome to create a great startup fast has been cracked. With proper funding and mentoring provided by a series of Lat Am-based accelerators, we can expect that a new wave of brave and savVy Latin American entrepreneu...
Intermediate
Presenters
Bedy Yang, David Weekly, Hernan Kazah, Pedro Torres Picón, Vanesa Kolodziej

Let’s face it—games make our lives more fun, but can they also make a positive impact on the world? At the recent Games for Change Festival, Al Gore said “games are the new normal” and that “the gamification tr...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Bosworth, Gabe Zichermann, George Weiner, Nadya Direkova, Samantha Skey

Are we being seduced by the animation and rich UI capabilities of modern browsers at the expense of the underlying platform of the Web? The Web has entered a new phase in its evolution: The proliferation of a JavaScript...
Intermediate
Presenters
Phil Hawksworth

The Hispanic Persona Project provides innovative insights for marketers eager to tap the ever-expanding Hispanic population and its use of digital technology - Web, social media, mobile - to connect with family, friends ...
Beginner
Presenters
José Villa

Story-telling is a process for healing. As we hold in our hands the technology to address global problems, we can foster a new world of creativity & community through individual expression & shared visions. Globa...
Intermediate
Presenters
Eve Blossom

While the academics preach of the wonders and promise and “mechanics” of “transmedia” storytelling, there are pioneering producers on the ground really doing it. There are good days and bad. There is money and th...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Seth HURST, Dina Benadon, Jon Chu, Lance Weiler, Tracy Fullerton

While the academics preach of the wonders and promise and “mechanics” of “transmedia” storytelling, there are pioneering producers on the ground really doing it. There are good days and bad. There is money and th...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Seth HURST, Dina Benadon, Jon Chu, Lance Weiler, Tracy Fullerton


Decades ago, the mouse and graphical user interface (UI) transformed the computer industry, ushering in an easier and more efficient way to control the user experience. Consumers ultimately abandoned the “conventional...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dan Simpkins


Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is no stranger to controversy. But when attacks on the nation’s leading provider of reproductive health care jumped beyond the usual suspects to include the majority of t...
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Bryant, Gabriela Lazzaro, Heather Holdridge, Nakia Hansen, Stephanie Lauf

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...
Beginner
Presenters
Christa Avampato
You probably never thought you'd want to build an unpopular brand, but branding rules have changed. Considering that every successful brand in history is inherently unpopular with a specific demographic, whom have YOU id...
Intermediate
Presenters
Erika Napoletano


Erika Napoletano signs her book ‘The Power of Unpopular: Building Loveable Brands’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Gabe Zichermann signs his book ‘Gamification by Design’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Leaders from top social networking sites share case studies to discuss the trend of social philanthropy. People around the world are using social media in engaging and creative ways to raise money for the causes that are...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cheryl Contee, Claire Diaz Ortiz, Michaelyn Elder, Ramya Raghavan, Robert Wolfe
A full 70 percent of US tablet owners say they use their devices while watching TV. Companies like Verizon are baking social into their products and enabling users to tweet, watch online videos and update Facebook direc...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Perry, Eric Bruno, Fred Harner, Soraya Darabi
Forget about lengthy reviews that hold for opening night. Many of today’s most popular critics have emerged as 24/7 brands, tweeting instant reactions from the screening room as they simultaneously preside over debates...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alex Iskold, Emily Nussbaum, Film Crit Hulk!, James Poniewozik, Linda Holmes

At the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival, veteran IAC Chairman and media mogul Barry Diller implored the online community to rise up against proposed net neutrality legislation, in support of digital freedom and innovation....
Beginner
Presenters
Ali Velshi, Barry Diller

It's 2015 and over half of the devices in your home are connected to the Internet. On the drive home you consider taking a longer route, but when you ask for directions the GPS system reminds you that you need to get hom...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alison Moore, Gilles BianRosa, Jack Flanagan, Rhonda Lowry

It's 2015 and over half of the devices in your home are connected to the Internet. On the drive home you consider taking a longer route, but when you ask for directions the GPS system reminds you that you need to get hom...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alison Moore, Gilles BianRosa, Jack Flanagan, Rhonda Lowry

Imagine turning one of your city's most beleaguered and notorious neighborhoods into the home of some of the country's most innovative media projects. This panel examines how the Knowle West Media Centre in Bristol achie...
Advanced
Presenters
Carolyn Hassan, Michael Trice
As the creator of Family Guy and one of the co-creators of American Dad!, Seth MacFarlane has brought his boundary-pushing brand of humor to millions each week. Join Seth for a no-holds-barred discussion about his ground...
Beginner
Presenters
Seth MacFarlane
Filmmakers face challenges when raising money for a project. This panel will explore different aspects of the film grants world. Expert panelists from Cinereach, San Francisco Film Society, Chicken and Egg and more will ...
Beginner
Presenters
Dianne Debicella, Ellen Spiro, Judith Helfand, Leah Giblin, Tamara Horowitz

This session explains the basic concepts in browser implementations of core Web document technologies (HTML, XHTML, CSS, and SVG), explains their general performance characteristics and how they interact with Javascript,...
Intermediate
Presenters
L David Baron

In 2010 Brazil elected their first female president, Dilma Rousseff. Not only was she the first female to be elected, she was also unique in being the first candidate in Brazil to connect with millions of voters online t...
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Paryzer

Are programs like the Daily Show with Jon Stewart providing better access to news and current events than traditional news outlets? Why are we subjected to hours of reality TV that portray women as appearance-obsessed ma...
Intermediate
Presenters
Candace Clement, Eddie Geller, Erin Gibson

There are countless legal pitfalls inherent in the world of film and video. Meet one on one with legal specialists for invaluable information to save you from costly problems in the future. Mentor session signup is open...
Beginner
Presenters
Charles Prince, Dan Satorius, David Smallman, Deena Kalai, George Rush, Steven Beer

Visual storytelling has the power to move public policy, influence the direction of war, and alter the course of civil society. During this panel, you’ll learn ways to turn video and photography into great visual story...
Intermediate
Presenters
Aaron Bramley, Ben Henretig, Cara Jones, Kivi Leroux Miller, Nancy Farese

The internet was supposed to allow media outlets not only to display the talent of their writers -- but to capture the intelligence of the audience. Remember that rhetoric? We've abandoned it; the most that publishers ca...
Intermediate
Presenters
Anil Dash, Nick Denton

Everyone knows that if we carry on acting as though we are the last people on this planet, this might just turn out to be the truth. The Carbon Film Quote was initiated on the premise that you will manage what you meas...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jacob Bilabel, Mick Ebeling, Steffen Gentis
Why do some people and companies seem to change easily, while others struggle for years? How do firms like Target, Apple and Proctor and Gamble anticipate (and manipulate) shoppers' habits? Why was the product Febreze a ...
Beginner
Presenters
Charles Duhigg

As the battle between web and TV grows vicious, interactive and multi-platform videos are born. Platforms like XBOX Live and the impending Google TV will transform tv and ads into something we’ve never before experienc...
Beginner
Presenters
Amanda Fox, Jen Grogono, John Papola

During this session, Steve Case, one of America’s most iconic entrepreneurs, and Tim O’Shaughnessy, CEO and co-founder of LivingSocial, will explore the role entrepreneurship plays in launching some of the world’s ...
Beginner
Presenters
Steve Case, Tim O'Shaughnessy


Tracy Fullerton signs her book ‘Game Design Workshop’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Is your usability budget a little leaner than you’d like? Are you confused about the latest testing tools? Have you wondered which approach is best for your project? If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these que...
Intermediate
Presenters
Aviva Rosenstein, John Whalen, Kyle Soucy, Michael Summers, Rebecca Sherrill

Verna Curtis signs her book ‘Photographic Memory’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
These are times of rapid change. Innovative technologies—from the latest social media platforms to high-tech automated warehouses—reinvent the way we do work every day. Globalization and new nonlinear career paths co...
Intermediate
Presenters
Terri Griffith


Charles Duhigg, New York Times staff writer, signs his book ‘The Power of Habit’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Terri Griffith signs her book ‘The Plugged-In Manager’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

This session is a book reading of the forthcoming, The B2B Social Media Book: Become a Marketing Superstar By Generating Leads with Blogging, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Email and More to be released in January of 2012 ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeffrey L Cohen, Kipp Bodnar


Social media gives celebrities powerful new ways to mobilize millions to get involved in social causes – but it’s easy to get it wrong. On World AIDS Day 2010, Alicia Keys and a number of A-listers “digitally died,...
Intermediate
Presenters
Aria Finger, Diana Walker, Kenna Zemedkun, Noopur Agarwal

Christina Tosi signs her book ‘The Momfuko Milkbar’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Stephen Wolfram is a distinguished scientist and inventor who is most recently known for the launch of the computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. Along with the computational software system Mathematica, Wolfram|A...
Advanced
Presenters
Stephen Wolfram
In this panel, you will get to ask questions and be informed about the state of CSS, where we are at, what is pending, what we can look forward to, to some of the working group members who are hard at work to implement t...
Intermediate
Presenters
Boris Zbarsky, Divya Manian, Elika Etemad, Lea Verou, Tab Atkins

Does this proposal piss you off? In recent years, the Internet has honed its use as a platform for righteous rage, from ranting blog posts to Facebook campaigns. Politicized outrage, as opposed to flame wars, usually s...
Intermediate
Presenters
Deanne Cuellar, Irin Carmon, Jay Smooth, Joel Johnson, Sady Doyle


David Crofton of One Girl Cookies signs his cookbook at the SXSW bookstore.......
Imagine if you could weave the sum of all human knowledge seamlessly into your film or documentary. New technologies like HTML5 make this possible. Video, audio and animation no longer need to be in a "black box&quo...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brett Gaylor, Brian Chirls, Jigar Mehta, Ingrid Kopp


Erica Shea and Stephen Valand sign their ‘Brooklyn Brew Shop's Beer Making Book: 52 Seasonal Recipes for Small Batches’ at the SXSW bookstore. ‘Brooklyn Brew Shop’s Beer Making Book’ takes brewing out of the ...
Turin, once the capital of Italian cinema, has created a tech art scene. Turin's "Share Festival" began six years ago as an international fiesta of Internet art, and has since become famous for installations, ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jasmina Tesanovic, Simona Lodi

Years ago, the question was simple: do you shoot your movie on film or video? But these days, with the incredible number of HD cameras now available, how should filmmakers decide which device is right for their project?...
Intermediate
Presenters
Clay Liford, James Laxton, Jody Lee Lipes, PJ Raval, David Lowery
Do you need to raise funds for your creative, cause, or entrepreneurial project? IndieGoGo has distributed millions of dollars worldwide to filmmakers, artists, entrepreneurs, and charitable organizations raising money ...
Beginner
Presenters
Chris Dumas, Slava Rubin, Erica Labovitz
Design is becoming an applied behavioral science, and your art school background is no longer sufficient. Fields like neuroscience are starting to come of age, and are beginning to give us insights into human decision m...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Hreha


You already know that Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, that it will host the 2016 Olympics and the 2014 FIFA World Cup, that it has more than 1 mobile phone per capita, is second in the world ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexandre Kavinski, Cristiano Dias, Willie Taminato

Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development, The Hangover) returns to SXSW with a version of his workshop that film conference attendees have loved for years. By breaking down the performing process, he’s explored the practic...
Beginner
Presenters
Kate Sheil, Matthew Newton, Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development, The Hangover) returns to SXSW with a version of his workshop that film conference attendees have loved for years. By breaking down the performing process, he’s explored the practic...
Beginner
Presenters
Jeffrey Tambor

Jessica Applestone of Fleisher’s Grassfed Organic Meats signs her book ‘The Butcher’s Guide to Well-Raised Meat’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
What secrets does the producer hold, from pre-production to distribution? Get questions answered and learn some of the ins and outs of what the role of producer means. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and...
Beginner
Presenters
Alicia Van Couvering, Andrew Rossi, Christy Pipkin, Dylan Wilcox, Karen Bernstein, Kyle Martin, Megan Gilbride

Storytelling is an inherently key aspect of non-profit business. Donors deserve to know how their gifts are having an impact; potential donors need to know how they can make a difference. But are non-profits truly "...
Intermediate
Presenters
Joe Lambert, Michael Borum, Roger Black

It takes optimism to launch revolutions, to believe that you can end decades of dictatorship and that you deserve freedom and dignity. Why are the people of the Middle East and North Africa - all too aware of the challen...
Intermediate
Presenters
Mona Eltahawy

Witness the launch of an innovative new participatory storytelling project created by Lance Weiler and co-produced with FUTURESTATES, entitled WISH FOR THE FUTURE - an immersive online environment where users are invited...
Intermediate
Presenters
Janine Saunders, Lance Weiler, Matthew Meschery, Karim Ahmad
The digital age has eternalized information that was once fleeting, and the Right to be Forgotten has gained traction in the EU. A controversial aspect of these rights is that truthful, newsworthy information residing on...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jill Van Matre, Meg Ambrose
Dr. A.K. Pradeep signs his book ‘The Buying Brain, Secrets for Selling to the Subconscious Mind’ at the SXSW bookstore......
From 1790 to 1830, the first government-sponsored information revolution hit Europe, an interkingdom highway system of thousands of miles of roads that connected London with her capital cities. How deep a role should go...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jo Guldi

Roger Dooley signs his book ‘Brainfluence: 100 Ways to Persuade and Convince Consumers with Neuromarketing’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Kipp Bodnar and Jeffrey L. Cohen sign ‘The B2B Social Media Book’ at the SXSW Bookstore.......
Follow @FoundItToday. Watch for clues with the #FoundItSXSW hashtag. Win prizes! It's simple...learn more at www.foundit.net.......
Historian Jo Guldi signs her book ‘Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
UX designer Amber Case will share insights from her research in cyborg anthropology and talk about what really makes us human.......
Beginner
Presenters
Amber Case

The process of color correction can not only bring the film's overall look and production value to a higher level, but it also is a powerful storytelling tool to enhance the film you're trying to make. This workshop wil...
Intermediate
Presenters
Brandon Thomas, Daniel Stuyck, Joe Malina, Nick Smith
Many filmmakers are driven by a desire to tell compelling stories in ways that impact public policies and laws. This often brings them to the doors of Congress, where major policies are created and changed. Policymakers ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Paul Stekler, Sonny Sinha, Will Jenkins, Jody Arlington

Frank Warren, founder of ‘Post Secret’, signs his books at the SXSW bookstore.......
We are in the early stages of a massive paradigm shift that will forever change people's attitudes towards “consuming” film and TV. With shelves of books, video and music reincarnated in the Cloud, opportunities for ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Dan Cryan, Jon Zepp, Shawn Bercuson, Tiffany Shlain, Susan Margolin

Sit in on a live-stream of SXSW Interactive's Keynote presentation "Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface" by Amber Case. UX designer Amber Case will share insights from her research in cyborg anthr...
Beginner
Presenters
Amber Case
Learn about the nuts and bolts of the all-important packaging, marketing and selling of your film. Who you are selling to? How do you land that buyer? Who picks up the tab? FInd out here. Mentor session signup is ope...
Beginner
Presenters
Bec Smith, Charlotte Mickie, Deborah McIntosh, Diana Holtzberg, Greg Rhem, John Sloss, Keri Safran
Horror and genre programming has been on the rise, with dramas including "American Horror Story" and "Walking Dead." FEARnet debuts its first original series "Holliston," a new type of horro...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Peter Block, Drew McWeeny

Dr. Stephen Wolfram signs his book ‘A New Kind of Science’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Meryl Cooper signs her book ‘Be Your Own Best Publicist: How to Use PR Techniques to Get Noticed, Hired, and Rewarded at Work’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Colin Shaw signs his book ‘Customer Experience: Future Trends and Insights’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Responding to medical humanitarian crises is filled with a variety of obstacles. Constraints like limited time for aid workers, uneven staff education, lousy internet and mobile phone access, as well as the frantic pace ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ivan Gayton, Kate De Rivero, Pablo Mayrgundter


Emily Pilloton is a designer and builder, disguised as a high school teacher. In this session, she will tell the story of Studio H, a high school design/build curriculum based in Bertie County, North Carolina, the poores...
Intermediate
Presenters
Emily Pilloton

Network with, learn from and be inspired by the honorees for the 2012 Dewey Winburne Community Service Award. If you can't attend this Meet Up, then be sure to attend the Dewey Awards Ceremony at 7:00 pm on Sunday at St....
Beginner
Let go of everything that doesn't make your life awesome! With three key principles and numerous practical tips, Discardia helps you solve specific issues, carve away the nonsense of physical objects, habits, or emotiona...
Beginner
Presenters
Dinah Sanders

Increasingly, filmmakers are becoming directly involved in the distribution and marketing of their own films. Veteran marketing strategist, Marc Schiller, and distribution specialist, Richard Abramowitz, will share their...
Beginner
Presenters
Richard Abramowitz, Marc Schiller

An intimate look into the corruption, lies and deceit that transformed a website started by a video of a foul-mouthed little girl into the largest most powerful media company the world has ever seen! With a special guest...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew Steele, Dick Glover, Mike Farah, Patrick Starzan
An intimate look into the corruption, lies and deceit that transformed a website started by a video of a foul-mouthed little girl into the largest most powerful media company the world has ever seen! With a special guest...
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew Steele, Dick Glover, Mike Farah, Patrick Starzan
The film industry is a difficult business to navigate, and even more so when you are just starting out. There are a lot of questions to be answered and decisions to be made: NY? LA? Internship? Mailroom? Set work? Agency...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Hendricks, Justin Marks, Shay Weiner, Stephanie Hall, Jennifer Cochis
12% of U.S. adults currently own an e-reader; Hispanics are the largest demographic in that group with 15% owning an e-reader. Though there are many Spanish-language options available for this reading community, mainstre...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alvin Hutchinson, Martin Kalfatovic


Mark Schaefer signs his books ‘Return On The Influence’ and ‘The Tao of Twitter’.......
Feeling adrift in the film world and need some valuable one-to-one general advice? This is the session for you; "Open Call" features industry insiders that run the gamut of the film spectrum. Whether you're se...
Beginner
Presenters
Carolyn Meili, Emily Rothschild, Jeanette Scott, Keith Leopard, Molly Thompson, Nick LoPiccolo, Steve Joyner
When money flows frictionlessly, good things happen. Good things for small businesses. Good things for consumers. Good things for the economy as a whole. The game layer and the mobile payments space are on a crash course...
Intermediate
Presenters
Seth Priebatsch

For over 20 years the web has provided continuous deluge of cultural production. Digital artifacts such as websites, images, and videos have much to communicate about our social and cultural evolution, and yet their mess...
Beginner
Presenters
Jason Scott, Kari Kraus, Nick Hasty

Storyworld communities are often treated as marketing and promotional tools, where content creators spend significant time, money and resources building a thriving and engaged fan base around their story, only to abandon...
Intermediate
Presenters
J Craig Williams, Scott Walker, Esther Lim

America's electric power grid hasn't changed much since the days of Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse. Everything else has. Imminent local and global challenges from climate change to global competition make today...
Intermediate
Presenters
Steven Collier

Single sign-on was a great promise: let the big identity providers handle authentication/identity, and your website gets all the benefits of a streamlined registration process for free! Anyone who has ever tried to impl...
Intermediate
Presenters
Cynthia Johanson, Joseph Smarr, Matt Kelly, Matthew Rothenberg

Learn the power of the pitch in The Pitching Palace. Whether you are an indie filmmaker who needs to pitch his idea to investors or a screenwriter who wants to sell their script to Hollywood or a documentary maker tryin...
Intermediate
Presenters
Kat Candler, Suzanne Weinert, Bonnie Orr
Web comedy is more than YouTubes of stand-up sets and GIFs of sleepy cats; the popularity of sites writing about comedy, aggregating web humor and putting a satirical spin on breaking news is skyrocketing. Doree Shafrir ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Frucci, Christine Friar, Doree Shafrir, Jesse David Fox, Sam Reich

There is little compliment for a design greater than saying that it "looks clean." But clean design is much more than just a look. To make a clean design, you have to know how to communicate clearly by using wh...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Kadavy

BOOK READING: The Bygone Bureau (bygonebureau.com) presents their first book, "Oh, the Places You’ll End Up Hanging Around!" (Quirk Books/Random House; due out spring of 2012), an earnest, humorous essay coll...
Beginner
Presenters
Kevin Nguyen


Dinah Sanders signs her book ‘Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Brian Solis signs his book ‘The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

David Kadavy signs his book ‘Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Emily Pilloton signs her book ‘Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
In recent years, movie studios have targeted the horror genre in creating non-stop remakes, reboots and sequels/prequels whether horror fans like it or not and there is no end in sight. Did Hollywood run out of quality o...
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Green, Daniel Farrands, Mark Ward, Scott Weinberg, KW Low

We live in the age of the attention trigger wars: the world’s major sharing services use powerful tactics to instantly snap our attention, keep us hooked, trigger us through emails and push notifications to keep coming...
Intermediate
Presenters
Fred Muench, Joe Edelman, Tristan Harris

In the summer of 2011, Google completely redesigned nearly all of its applications to be more focused, elastic, and effortless. For the first time in Google’s history, hundreds of millions of users could use a suite of...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Wiggins, Evelyn Kim, Jon Wiley, Michael Leggett, Nicholas Jitkoff


This year, Internet advertising turns 18-years-old. And yet despite almost two decades of innovation online, digital ads are still being used to simply inform more than they're being used to connect, engage and entertain...
Beginner
Presenters
Aman Govil, Cecelia Wogan-Silva

This session will feature “Climbing Sacred Mountain”, a digital game based on the documentary film, “Daughters of Everest,” about the inspiring journey of the first Nepalese women’s mountain climbing expedition...
Intermediate
Presenters
Huy Truong, Michella Rivera-Gravage, Susana Ruiz

Network with, learn from and be inspired by the honorees for the 2012 Dewey Winburne Community Service Award. If you can't attend this Meet Up, then be sure to attend the Dewey Awards Ceremony at 7:00 pm on Sunday at St....
Beginner

When you kick the bucket, you'll leave behind a vast amount of digital information: a lifetime's worth of Tweets, emails, blogs, photos, videos and more. They're the product of a creative life well lived. In fact, this ...
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Ostrow, Airdrie Miller, Bill LeFurgy, Evan Carroll, Richard Banks

Find out why funny “works” with consumers from a panel of experts and professional comedy people including: Jim Beiderman, exec producer of The Onion News Network, The Whitest Kids U Know, and Michael and Michael Hav...
Intermediate
Presenters
David Weinstock, Jim Beiderman, Tony Mennuto


Gary Hirshberg signs his book ‘Stirring It Up: How To Make Money and Save the World’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Passion. Purpose. Promise. Pursuit. These are the 4 P’s that create a Map for Awesomeness. Discover how to: embrace your passion, define your purpose, foster your promise, and engage your pursuit. Find out how to do th...
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeffrey Zeldman, Leslie Jensen-Inman


Brazil's Marco Civil da Internet is a proposed new national law regulating the rights and responsibilities of Internet users and service providers. Crafted through an open, participatory process, it sets a new standard f...
Beginner
Presenters
Ronaldo Lemos, Sergio Branco

The sun strikes the earth with as much energy in 14 and a half seconds as all of human society consumes in a day. In 88 minutes it provides as much energy as humanity uses, from all sources, in a year. Our world is h...
Intermediate
Presenters
Ramez Naam


Meg Hirshberg signs her book ‘For Better or For Work: A Survival Guide for Entrepreneurs and Their Families’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Films are finding success abroad today - how do you make your film viable abroad, find the right distributor and capitalize on other markets? Find out here. Mentor session signup is open to all Film, Gold and Platinum b...
Beginner
Presenters
Andy Whittaker, Anna Higgs, Charlotte Mickie, Christine Davila, Hugues Barbier, Michael Hayden, Ryan Krivoshey, Selena Valyavkina

Drew Houston, CEO and Co-Founder of Dropbox, has led Dropbox's growth from a simple idea to a service millions around the world rely on – a modern day Network Effect. From the classic example of the telephone to today...
Intermediate
Presenters
Drew Houston

Nobody foresaw the dramatic impact the iPad would make on us as media consumers. However, it looks like the “giant ipod” is here to stay, and with it comes brand new never before methods and tools for story telling....
Intermediate
Presenters
Daniel Burwen


Nobody foresaw the dramatic impact the iPad would make on us as media consumers. However, it looks like the “giant ipod” is here to stay, and with it comes brand new never before methods and tools for story telling....
Intermediate
Presenters
Daniel Burwen

If you want your film to be found and relevant on the web, it needs to be processed by search engines. The problem is that search engines don't understand video (only text) so textual metadata must be provided such as ti...
Intermediate
Presenters
Oren Nauman, Peter Ward
An examination of the changing face of feature film production in the realm of the non scripted, improvised feature film. Acclaimed director Barry Jenkins moderates a panel discussion with Filmmaker Amy Seimetz, Editor N...
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Seimetz, Benjamin Kasulke, Nat Sanders, Barry Jenkins

Each year there are more than 225 million cases of Malaria, killing around 781,000 people. That's 2.23% of deaths worldwide every year- the majority of them young children. Please stop by this session, because together...
Advanced
Presenters
Matthew Blumberg, Nicolas Maire

The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. SXSW is a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All are welcome to come to the Safe Ha...
PostSecret, BLUEBRAIN and Fireman Creative team-up for an exciting new live multimedia performance. Always innovative, BLUEBRAIN will live score the latest PostSecret video composed of artful, funny, sexual and heart-b...
Beginner
Presenters
Frank Warren, Hays Holladay, Paul Fireman, Ryan Holladay
Monday, March 12
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...

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 ...
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...

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...
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...
Intermediate
Presenters
Chad Norman, Melanie Mathos

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

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...
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexandra Landeros, Boris Portman, Juan Gonzalez
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

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
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

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...
Beginner
Presenters
Sebastien Zany
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...
Beginner
Presenters
Neal Pollack
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...
Intermediate
Presenters
Robert Spanner
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
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...
Intermediate
Presenters
Travis Rich
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...
Intermediate
Presenters
James Simpson
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...
Intermediate
Presenters
Sandy Carter

Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos sign their book ‘101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
Sandy Carter signs her book ‘Get Bold: Using Social Media to Create a New Type of Social Business’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

Pat Aufderheide signs her book ‘Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
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...
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

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 ...
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David Modigliani, Lisa Pearson, Sarah Montante, Stephanie Smirnov
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 ...
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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...
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Jonathan Van
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...
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Alex Fleetwood, Hilary Perkins, Lottie Davies, Margaret Robertson, Anna Higgs

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...
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Jonathan Stark
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...
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Evan Smith, Jill Abramson

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...
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Andrea Schwalmstolz, Anton Olsen, Nicole Wakelin, Ruth Suehle

"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...
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Mark Channon

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...
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Dean Kamen

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...
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Howard Rheingold

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...
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 ...
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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’ ...
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...
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Ilana Westerman, Keith Enright, Michelle Bruno, Natalie Fonseca
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...
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Michal Habdank-Kolaczkowski

Scott Jenson signs his book ‘The Simplicity Shift: Innovative Design Tactics in a Corporate World’ at the SXSW bookstore.......

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...
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Dan Roam, Jessica Hagy, Sunni Brown

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...
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Mike DesRoches
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...
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Cariwyl Hebert
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...
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Shahed Khan

Mark Briggs signs his books ‘Journalism 2.0’ and ‘Entrepreneurial Journalism’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
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...
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Dov Seidman


Jason Falls signs his book ‘No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
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 ...
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Ankit Shah

Mark Channon signs his book ‘Teach Yourself How to Remember Anything’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
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...
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Jessica Mah
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...

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...

Dov Seidman signs his book ‘HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
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...

Sunni Brown signs her book ‘Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers and Changemakers’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
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...
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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,...
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Jill Christ, Stephanie Carter


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...
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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 ...
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Kevin Smith

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 ...
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Kevin Smith
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...
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Willem Dafoe, Eugene Hernandez
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...
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Andrew Mcafee, Tim O'Reilly

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...
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Dylan Lathrop, Irene Ros, Jer Thorp, Robert Kosara, Rosten Woo


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...
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Garrett Gee
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...
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Valdir Ugalde


Howard Rheingold signs his book ‘Net Smart: How to Thrive Online’ at the SXSW bookstore.......
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,...
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Alyssa Rosenberg, Faiz Shakir, Omar Majeed

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...
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Jaron Lanier, Nicholas Thompson

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...
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Lisa Bodell

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...
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Cristina Garza, Dan Guando, Evan Husney, Keith Leopard, Laure Parsons, Robert Rock, Steven Beckman
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...
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Jon Burkhart, Will Saunders