Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and ...

The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SX...

Formula One racing represents the pinnacle of motorsport where every intricate detail contributes to the overall success of the car and the team. Safety features, tire design and even organization of pit crews have a far...

Intermediate

Presenters

Geoff Moore

The “quantified self” trend of tracking and tweaking physical performance is all the rage in Silicon Valley, especially among type-A data geeks and weekend-warriors hoping to gain an athletic edge. But the most inter...

Intermediate

Presenters

Daniel Wetmore, Dave Asprey, Megan Miller, Michael Scanlon

 

Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique p...

It has become an article of faith that the United States and Europe are declining powers, that power is transferring from West to East, and from North to South. In truth, the far more powerful and important dynamic is th...

Beginner

Presenters

Alec Ross

 

So you’ve developed a loyal consumer-base and built a strong foundation for your business. Now what? Thrillist’s evolving business model has been making headlines: by “mingling content and commerce” (New York Tim...

Advanced

Presenters

Ben Lerer

 

You have the vision, you have the product, and you have the funding; it’s your time to make a splash. How do you turn a brilliant vision into a successful reality? Without the proper launch strategy, even the best idea...

Beginner

Presenters

Alex Constantinople, Brandee Barker, Kira Wampler, Margit Wennmachers

 

Join Startup Village in our inaugural ping pong tourney; you need not be a professional, just register online or at the event (first come first serve) and prepare to have a blast. Each company may select two employees to...

Are you struggling to market your startup? Do you have a great idea, but aren’t sure how to reach your audience and get customers? Even if you have the greatest product, marketing your product may be more difficult t...

Intermediate

Presenters

Krista Neher, Saul Colt

 

Why Invest in Health Tech? Education, Inspiration, and Funding Advice for (Social) Health Tech Startups. This session is sponsored by Health 2.0 and Boehringer Ingelheim......

Beginner

Presenters

Aneesh Chopra, Lisa Suennen, Shwen Gwee

Crowdfunding has come a long way and momentum continues. Seen as a way to stimulate innovation and create jobs, entrepreneurs, funders and regulators are working to address the issues around crowdfunding. We will discuss...

Nobody likes waiting in line, whether for a party or an exclusive beta invite, unless they can skip it or be the “cool kid” who doles out invites to friends. RockMelt tested this theory when their browser initially l...

Intermediate

Presenters

Eric Vishria, Erick Schonfeld, Michael Seibel

How do we take social media off laptops and phones and create real-world devices that surprise and delight? First, we take the top Arduino hackers around the globe and give them a brief: make SXSW smile. Then we watch th...

Beginner

Presenters

David Caygill, Paul Curry

Most startup entrepreneurs, investors and incubators will tell you that two founders are better than one. What they won't tell you is two founders are more likely to try to kill each other - or at least kill their startu...

Beginner

Presenters

Alexandra Cavoulacos, Kathryn Minshew, Orian Marx, Seth Blank, Vivek Sharma

 

Wireless Power is not a new technology. Like Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, it radically changes the way people are able to live their lives, offering new levels of mobility, convenience, and safety. Just think of all the power a...

Advanced

Presenters

Dave Baarman, Menno Treffers

 

Dinner parties are the ultimate social experience that no digital technology will ever replicate. You sit face-to-face with others, sharing an experience that uses all five of your senses. It's the original social networ...

Beginner

Presenters

Mike Lee, Will Turnage

 

Show Me The Money: Where to get funding and what are they interested in? Presentations by VC's, Health Incubators (e.g. Blueprint Health and Startup Health), and other funders. This session is sponsored by Edelman.......

Beginner

Presenters

Brad Weinberg, John Pugh, Michele Polz, Unity Stoakes

The combination of mobile + social + local is a powerful, yet misunderstood, communication channel. When people hear about it, they often conjure up a “Minority Report” world where companies track their every move to...

Intermediate

Presenters

Chris Messina, Jeff Rohrs, Matt Galligan, Scott Kveton

 

Storytelling is one of the most powerful forms of communication you have as an entrepreneur to assist you in starting a company, recruiting employees, raising capital, securing clients and getting press. Stories are univ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Lyn Graft

 

The Prius X Parlee (PXP) bike asks the world to consider: “What if the Prius weren’t a car?” Inspired by the Prius philosophy, the PXP is the latest innovation from Toyota and Saatchi LA, as part of Toyota Prius Pr...

Intermediate

Presenters

Bob Zeinstra, Bob Parlee, Chris Adams, John Watson, Patrick Miller

 

A special reception that shines the spotlight on emerging startups. Enjoy complimentary beer and wine while checking out demos from startup participants, all within the heart of Startup Village on the 4th floor of the Hi...

Get together with other bootstrap experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if y...

Intermediate

Presenters

Bijoy Goswami

Synthetic biology aims to re-engineer living cells to sustainably produce fuels, medicines, and materials. With the promise of a new industrial revolution on the horizon, understanding the language of biotechnology will ...

Beginner

Presenters

Christina Agapakis, Daisy Ginsberg, Jason Kelly, Patrick Boyle

 

Funders vs. Funded... The Rise of Pharma VC's: A discussion with Pharma about their new VC funds. The Funded: A discussion with recently funded health tech startups. This session is sponsored by Edelman.......

Beginner

Presenters

Andy Donner, Geoffrey Rutledge, Jen McCabe, Stead Burwell

You're David, they're Goliath. You're a small company, they are industry giants. You're fast and innovative. They move markets. You just wish they would move those markets in your direction! How do you close that deal? ...

Advanced

Presenters

Alex Barnett, Jay Lee, Pamela O'Hara, Scott McMullan, Sunir Shah

 

Technology startups are beginning to focus on traditional, regulated industries that until now haven’t seen many startup entrants. But taking on archaic, multi-billion-dollar industries isn’t easy. Startups face a va...

Intermediate

Presenters

Adam Oliveri, Aza Raskin, Jessica Scorpio, Matt Harris, Shamir Karkal

 

The MIT Media Lab is a place for making connections: connecting peopleand technology, connecting researchers across diverse disciplines, andconnecting the physical and local to the digital and remote. Mostimportantly, th...

Intermediate

Presenters

Andy Bardagjy, Catherine Havasi, Joichi Ito, Yadid Ayzenberg, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

 

The future of mobile interaction & feedback networks may not be wrapped in a mobile phone interface at all. Let’s talk about what feedback networks and invisible information gathering can mean for mobile experience...

Advanced

Presenters

Fritz Desir, Myriam Joire, Nick Holroyd, Reno Marioni

 

World food systems hang in a balance--the latest tech only hints at what’s coming. Consider the future of social tools with us, using a seafood lens. DNA testing, barcode scanning, big data and ubiquitous computing mea...

Intermediate

Presenters

Nicolas Weidinger, Rachel Weidinger

Equity is the main driver of employee compensation at start-ups, yet a lot of the terminology and machinations around how to manage stock is shrouded in mystery. This session will explore how employees can maximize the r...

Intermediate

Presenters

Justin Fishner-Wolfson

 

What kind of future do you want to live in? What excites or concerns you about the future? Intel Futurist Brian David Johnson poses these questions as part of The Tomorrow Project, an initiative to investigate not only t...

Beginner

Presenters

Brian David Johnson

 

Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and ...

The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SX...

Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique p...

JavaScript is indispensable for even moderate mobile web apps as only scripts enable user interaction and integrate on device capabilities like location, camera, onboard storage or database. But while the SDKs for Google...

Advanced

Presenters

Stephan Haux

 

From Apple to Zynga, privacy and security have dominated the headlines this year. Legislators, regulators, investors, the press, and the public are all tuning into these issues. Get the inside track from ACLU lawyers, ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Elinor Mills, Ki Mae Heussner, Nicole Ozer, Raman Khanna

 

Startups love the cloud. It's lean, it's agile, it's cost-effective for startups. As cloud services proliferate, it has become possible to run your web and mobile applications using 100% cloud services. This has an added...

Advanced

Presenters

Brandon Wiley

With an equally unbridled passion for startups and f-bombs, Dave McClure opens The Lean Startup SXSW in his normal fashion: completely uncensored and ready for more.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Dave McClure

Panelists use “ripped-from-the-headlines” business cases to spur debate on the essential truths of corporate reputation and brand management. This session is sponsored by the Council of PR Firms.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Bob Pearson, Gary Stockman, Kathy Cripps, Mark Stouse, Melissa Waggener Zorkin

Reverse Pitch – organizations focused on women in business pitch their services to a panel of entrepreneurs.......

TechStars, is an elite startup accelerator in the world, and by the numbers, it is harder to get in to than any Ivy League school. One of the hurdles in the TechStars guantlet is the live interview. Come and watch the Te...

Intermediate

Learn different ways to integrate HTML5 into native apps, what tools you can use, and when to build your own. We'll cover achieving high graphics frame rates, touch responsiveness while conserving battery life. Learn th...

Advanced

Presenters

Charles Ying

 

The prevalence of location-based services has been rising over the past few years, but they have yet to venture into the place where people spend 80% of their lives: inside buildings. Startups and large corporations alik...

Intermediate

Presenters

Ankit Agarwal, Ants Maran, Chris Broadfoot, Josh Marti, Nick Such

 

There’s definitely something going on with all of this cloud talk, but what does it mean for you? If you’re involved with a gaming, entertainment or digital company, it could mean the difference of getting your produ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Josh Fraser

 

Appearing at the 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival, IBM is looking for top entrepreneurs to join our Startup Showcase Video Series. We will be in the Startup Village hosting an audience participation session where your ide...

Advanced

Presenters

Claire England, Guy Diedrich, Jani Byrne, Jonathan Libby, Sancia Matthyssen

Startup Case Studies' from Etsy & others on building your product including 'insider tips' on agile development, minimum viable product, and continuous deployment. Hosted by Eric Ries.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Ash Maurya, Chad Dickerson, Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck

Panelists use “ripped-from-the-headlines” business cases to spur debate on the essential truths of corporate reputation and brand management. This session is sponsored by the Council of PR Firms.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Bob Pearson, Gary Stockman, Kathy Cripps, Mark Stouse, Melissa Waggener Zorkin

Ask the average American about NFC and they’ll tell you that the New York Giants are the champs. For all the musing the tech community loves to make about NFC, envisioning a future of smart posters and tap payments, th...

Intermediate

Presenters

James Davies, Rachel Youens

When building applications many technologists instinctively reach for familiar relational tools. NoSQL databases, rising in popularity, have contrasting performance metrics and engineering costs that depend on a number o...

Advanced

Presenters

Gary Dusbabek

 

Open networking with organizations focused on women in business.......

A surprisingly high percentage of entrepreneurs derail their startups because they fall in love with their idea. Emotional attachment to an idea leads to premature scaling and a number of other dangers. But, passion is a...

Intermediate

Presenters

John Bradberry

 

Are you a newcomer to the on-site SXSW Interactive community? If so, maybe you are overwhelmed (don't worry, being overwhelmed is a feature not a flaw). But attending the "SXSW Newbie Meet Up" is a great way to...

Beginner

Presenters

Sweet John Muehlbauer

Get together with other accessibility professionals for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Sharron Rush

Foursquare, Spotify, Zendesk and Smartling share how they leverage today's mega-trends - social, local, mobile, and cloud - to meet the challenges and exploit the opportunities of the New Internet. Users from India to In...

Intermediate

Presenters

Adrian McDermott, Christine Lagorio, Dave Altarescu, Holger Luedorf, Jack Welde

Real-time data can enslave or set you free. It can also make you dumber. The combination of feedback loops and real-time data can cause great shifts in behavior very quickly. The challenge is to align your interests with...

Intermediate

Presenters

Josh Reich

Imagine an imaging chamber placed around an entire community. What if we could, with permission, record and display nearly every facet of behavior, communication, and social interaction among its members as they live the...

Intermediate

Presenters

Nadav Aharony

 

New York is now the #2 startup hub in the country and rapidly rising; however, single most consistent reason given for NYC’s failure to nurture a culture of innovation is Wall Street: it sucks engineers in, drains them...

Advanced

Presenters

Ben Siscovick, Chris Wiggins, Renee DiResta, Roger Ehrenberg, Zach Sims

Talk by legendary startup guru Steve Blank on today's world of tech entrepreneurship, followed by an opportunity to hear from the authors of upcoming startup books.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Manuel Rosso, Patrick Vlaskovits, Steve Blank

The credit card industry in America has backed itself into a corner - the rest of the world moved to EMV while the U.S. drug its feet. The US is now the only G20 country not utilizing chip and PIN or contactless payment ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Gordon Beatty, Jack Jania, Ryan Hughes, Toni Merschen

 

Most people immediately think of “outsourcing” when you mention technology businesses in India. However, there is a reason that Facebook, Zynga, GroupOn, LinkedIn, and a wave of other Web 2.0 businesses have recentl...

Intermediate

Presenters

Anshuman Bapna, Archana Prasad, Nandu Madhava, Sean Blagsvedt, Sonny Caberwal

Internationally-recognized Austin-based game-developer Richard Garriott talks about many of the concepts explored in his documentary film "Man on a Mission." This solo presentation will cover how the commercial...

Intermediate

Presenters

Richard Garriott

 

Brown bag lunch and a fireside chat with Sharp Skirts.......

It's hard to find a co-founder for your startup. Tell us what you are looking for and we will play the matchmaker. In just an hour, you'll meet a dozen potential co-founders hand-picked for you. Please register ahead of ...

Startup Case Studies' from Airbnb, LivingSocial, HubSpot, & Rally Software on measuring success including lessons learned with pivots, metrics, and growth.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Aaron Batalion, Dharmesh Shah, Joe Zadeh, Thomas Korte, Zach Nies

Little squares made up of various black and white boxes, you’ve seen them on bus shelters, inside of mass transit, or in magazines. You’ve probably wondered “what the hell is this?” That, my friend, is a 2D bar c...

Intermediate

Presenters

David Wachs

It seems like just about every other day a new startup accelerator program is hatched. Is this a phenomenon or just a fade? This panel will explore the global startup accelerator explosion and share the latest quality ra...

Intermediate

Presenters

Aziz Gilani, David Cohen, Frank Gruber, Gabriella Draney

You're an engineer & you think biz folks kind of suck, why do you need them? You're a biz person & getting the cold shoulder from engineers & designers. Here from folks in different disciplines on: - Pros/co...

The panel will discuss latest trends and developments on the digital media landscape in Southeast Asia and Singapore, with a focus on social media.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Joachim Ng, Keith Ng, Kelly Choo, Robert Kim, Steven Tong

 

Dynamic pricing is back. In 1845, people walked into price-free stores, and the price was decided then and there. More recently, we’ve seen this with airline tickets, fluctuating in price based on demand. Now, with mob...

Intermediate

Presenters

Sam Altman

Lean Startup' Author Eric Ries hosts a fireside chat with Macon Phillips (Director of Digital Strategy, US White House), Todd Park (CTO, Department of Health & Human Services), and Scott Cook (CEO, Intuit) on how Sil...

Intermediate

Presenters

Macon Phillips, Scott Cook, Todd Park

Get together with other mobile experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry.......

Beginner

Presenters

Nicole Forbes

How can you use DIY strategies to get the media to give your book, blog, or startup attention? What pitfalls can you run into along the way? Join author Jeff Potter (Cooking for Geeks), author and editor Joshua Glenn (H...

Beginner

Presenters

Anindita Sempere, Jeff Potter, Joshua Glenn, Laura Fitton

 

The move to cloud computing is still froth with questions about the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data moved to the cloud. These questions, and their answers, differ depending on the cloud entry point ch...

Intermediate

Presenters

Wade Holmes

 

How can the Foursquare-ification of our world change the way we get access to our favorite products to explore and discover new ones? What can brands learn about highly engaged users in niche markets, like beer enthusias...

Beginner

Presenters

Hanna Laney, John Vajda, Melani Gordon, Mike Schneider, Terry Lozoff

The browser wars panel has been an SxSW institution, and gives us a forum to bring browser vendors to to the table to take stock of new developments on the web. As in years past, we'll bring Mozilla (Firefox), Google (C...

Intermediate

Presenters

Arun Ranganathan, Brendan Eich, Charles Mccathie Nevile, Chris Wilson, John Hrvatin

 

It's hard to find a co-founder for your startup. Tell us what you are looking for and we will play the matchmaker. In just an hour, you'll meet a dozen potential co-founders hand-picked for you. Please register ahead of ...

The popularity of Twitter and Facebook make them attractive targets for attackers. The viral features and open APIs make it an efficient medium for attackers. In this talk, we discuss the scale and history of malicious a...

Intermediate

Presenters

Paul Judge

The non-mobile web has always offered on-demand experiences for users to search for and discover new online content. But with the proliferation of mobile phones that report real-time signals like location, apps and servi...

Intermediate

Presenters

Aaron Parecki, Aston Motes, Ben Carey, Brett Martin, Gabe Smedresman

Your mobile device can tap into an invisible highway, the lifeblood of the digital world, in exciting and wholly unexpected ways. It can show you where you are, let you digitally check in to your location, measure how fa...

Intermediate

Presenters

Brian Selzer, Peter Gould

Startup Case Studies' from Hipmunk, Taskrabbit, Wealthfront, & LUXr including lessons learned in customer development, UX, and marketing.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Adam Goldstein, Andy Rachleff, Ian McFarland, Janice Fraser, Victor Echevarria

Want to meet other MBAs from around the world? Interested in hiring MBAs? Meet up with MBAs at SXSW to build a stronger network.......

Intermediate

Presenters

Jessica Cheng

As the popularity of mobile games continues to experience rapid growth, social elements are emerging as the significant ingredient to successful games - and for good reason. They are the future of mobile gaming.With the ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Eiji Araki

 

Social discovery is the new kid on the block in the startup scene. Glancee, Highlight, Banjo, and Sonar are this year's SXSW hottest darlings. This session will provide a detailed analysis of this space by Andrea Vaccari...

Intermediate

Presenters

Andrea Vaccari

Entrepreneurs often pitch their ideas as “the X of Y”. Match.com for farmers… Foursquare for parking lots… Gilt Groupe for grandparents. It is both efficient and lucrative to take what already works and extend ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Dave Gilboa, Eric Koger, Katia Beauchamp, Peter Coles, Sam Shank

 

Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and ...

The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SX...

Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique p...

Kickoff of pitch competition and more for tech startups with revolutionary ideas.......

Over 100 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day. There are 3.5 billion cameraphones in use around the world. Instagram reached 13 million users in just 13 months. We are nearing the end of what Philip Gourevit...

Intermediate

Presenters

Kevin Systrom, Kristen Joy Watts, Richard Koci Hernandez, Verna Curtis

You're a "product person," the "idea guy," the "business gal."Let's face it: You don't know how to code and it's killing your creativity and your career.Learn from two people who went from &...

Beginner

Presenters

Nate Westheimer, Vinicius Vacanti

 

Make the Kinection! Microsoft Kinect is the technology which is undoubtedly poised to unlock the next generation of digital design and allows us to bridge the gaps between physical and digital. As Kinect becomes more...

Intermediate

Presenters

Amish Patel

 

This session is about the role and form that brain interfaces might take on in coming years. It draws from the science, the facts, the fictions and products currently on the market. As interfaces have evolved they’ve ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Julian Bleecker, Nicolas Nova

 

The start up scene continues to thrive. You may have got funding and you may have an awesome product but how will you make those first key partnerships with clients and ad agencies? This is new territory for many blue ch...

Intermediate

Presenters

David Tisch, James Cooper, John Laramie

 

Need advice on how to kickstart your business? Want feedback on your elevator pitch? Have questions about what a boot camp like DreamIt can do for your startup? Schedule a 20-minute mentoring session with a DreamIt partn...

Zipcar and Netflix signaled its coming, and smart money bets on peer-to-peer platforms like Airbnb, RelayRides, Taskrabbit, ThredUp, and Zimride announced its arrival: the Sharing Economy is here. And while many Intern...

Beginner

Presenters

Christopher Lukezic, Jamie Shea, Neal Gorenflo, Reiko Ann Miura-ko, Shelby Clark

 

Get together with other folks who have a start up in Austin for an hour of brainstorming, idea-building, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the i...

Beginner

Presenters

Bart Bohn

Tech startups have long known that a strong community will amplify a company’s successes, bolster growth, and make work worth waking up for. Today's unstoppable startups understand that putting community first means pu...

Beginner

Presenters

Chrysanthe Tenentes, David Noël, Diana Kimball, Ligaya Tichy

 

The Mobile Revolution has reduced the costs of components and production to the point that the Davids now build and ship their device ideas quicker than the Goliaths. Gadgets are getting faster and smaller and big compan...

Advanced

Presenters

David Merrill, Fabian Hemmert, Leah Buechley

 

Sport by its very nature is social. How do you bring sport and activity to a new level of engagement? How do you motivate people to get moving? What influence does music have on motivation? Do we create more fun if we ma...

Advanced

Presenters

Allyson Felix, Andrew Wilson, Fred Santarpia, Jimmy Fallon, Stefan Olander

Entrepreneur presentations to judges.......

The days of having that lump of a wallet in your back pocket or forgetting your wallet at home are over. Consumers around the world could generate as much as $50 billion in sales through NFC-based mobile payments by 2014...

Intermediate

Presenters

David Berkowitz, David Messenger, Jaymee Johnson, Jeff Miles

From data center architecture to cloud computing software to the way we explore space to even mobile applications, open source has breathed new life into our everyday operations. By creating open dialogue, open source is...

Intermediate

Presenters

Frank Frankovsky, Jonathan Bryce

Do you have an iPhone™, iPod Touch™ or iPad2™? Then there’s a film studio in your pocket! Apple iOS devices are powerful filmmaking tools that have dramatically leveled the playing field and now allow anyone with...

Intermediate

Presenters

Caleb Deschanel, Matthew Dessner, Michael Koerbel, Sean Safreed, Serenity Caldwell

 

Five of the world's top startup-focused executive coaches choose entrepreneurs from the audience who want to volunteer with a problem or area for improvement. In speed coaching sessions, they attempt to make quick and dr...

Advanced

Presenters

David Kashen, Jerry Colonna

We've all heard the story of The Technical Guy and The Business Guy getting together and starting a company. But what happens when a company puts User Experience at the helm? Hint: It doesn't just mean your product will ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Cindy Alvarez, Ian McFarland, Kate Rutter, Zach Larson

 

Get together with other folks from the Austin Technology Council for an hour of brainstorming, idea-building, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of ...

Beginner

Presenters

Katy Dunlap

What do modern day cybersecurity attacks look like? This panel will evaluate of the current state and evolution of cybersecurity, and discuss how big data plays a role in understanding where to dig in and monitor for sus...

Intermediate

Presenters

John Kindervag, Mark Seward

The proliferation of touch-based mobile phones and tablets means that users are accustomed to using touch gestures navigate - but so far primarily on native applications – how about web content? Creating responsive to...

Intermediate

Presenters

Stephen Woods

 

In the evolution of a product, ideas are the seed but the execution is key, and what happens between those two stages can make or break a product's success. Designers are trained to think on their feet, be flexible, and...

Intermediate

Presenters

Alex Rainert, Alexa Andrzejewski, Mike Krieger, Ron Goldin

 

He’s done it all—and with class. Jeff Jordan redefined online commerce as the head of eBay Marketplaces, popularized digital payments by scaling PayPal and brought the restaurant industry into the Internet Age as the...

Intermediate

Presenters

Jeff Jordan, Jenna Wortham

 

There was an article - or 100 - the other day that said something about entrepreneurs being...The life blood of society! The new drivers of our economy! The largest employers of our citizens! The solution to our problems...

Beginner

Presenters

Jesse Draper, Kate Brodock, Kate Dohring, Nicole Glaros, Vanessa Keitges

The mobile shopping revolution isn’t theoretical, it’s here and it's all around us. Innovations abound such as Tesco’s virtual QR grocery store in a Korean subway station, Levi’s digital fitting rooms, Nestlé�...

Advanced

Presenters

Edward Baig, John Boyd, Julia Fitzgerald, Manoj Lamba, Todd Dipaola

Announcement of winners and reception.......

In 1963 Douglas Englebart invented the first mouse prototype. Unfortunately for him, the devices took so long to become widely used that he didn’t get the recognition he deserved and received no royalties for his contr...

Intermediate

Presenters

Alex Olwal, Brandt Westing, Henry Holtzman, Karla Vega, Luis Francisco-Revilla

 

The next generation of photography, light field cameras will unleash capabilities that were never before possible with conventional 2D digital cameras. Lytro’s Eric Cheng will walk participants through the possibilitie...

Advanced

Presenters

Eric Cheng

 

It's hard to find a co-founder for your startup. Tell us what you are looking for and we will play the matchmaker. In just an hour, you'll meet a dozen potential co-founders hand-picked for you. Please register ahead of ...

In the 21st century, we’re experiencing the dawn of a new fuel: Data. Multibillion-dollar industries, from search engines to social networking to online advertising, have been built on the aggregation of personal data,...

Advanced

Presenters

DJ Patil, Owen Tripp

Great! You found your co-founder. Now the fun begins, but its not all rosy. Here from founders on what to expect and watch out for when it comes to: - Equity & vesting - Divvying up responsibilities - Dealing w/ g...

Why do some tech communities thrive while other fail? What can you do to start, fix or grow your city's startup scene?This panel will take a grounded look at the key ingredients of successful startup communities in any g...

Intermediate

Presenters

Andrew Yang, Brad Feld, Marc Nager, Mark Davis, Nick Seguin, Paige Craig, Shane Reiser

All investors are not created equal and the right investor for your startup is just as important as the right team and the right idea. VCs, big bad-ass funds, angels, super-angels, rich uncles, big giant incubators, litt...

Advanced

Moral psychology and data analysis will eventually converge because successful organizations no longer serve physical, but psychological needs. This presentation will show how, in an age where consumption is about value...

Intermediate

Presenters

Ravi Iyer

 

Get together with other social curation experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- o...

Beginner

Presenters

Jason Ford

Ivy League degree? 401K? VP of what? Screw that. Entrepreneurship on a global scale is exploding, facilitated by a growing ecosystem of resources and supporting institutions to help startups succeed. However, there is a ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Ashley Brown, Bjoern Lasse Herrmann, Jacob Mullins, Max Marmer, Shervin Pishevar

 

Imagine getting on a bus with a group of strangers and three days later, while traveling at 60 miles per hour, conceive, build and launch a startup. That's what over 300 people have done for three years, with the cream o...

With a focus on the future of the physical store and the consumer experience inside it, we have put together an intriguing mix of forward thinking panel technologists and retail executives to explore the trends, possibil...

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Carrie Chitsey, Chris Harrison, Ryan Kellogg, Tim Austin

UK Trade & Investment and Thomson Reuters showcase the best of UK technology companies through demos over drinks.......

Most APIs support a company's product, like how a variety of applications can access Twitter content. There's a new breed of API that isn't supporting a product, but instead supporting the entire business. In these cases...

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Adam DuVander, Ben Standefer, Delyn Simons, Rob Spectre, Tim Falls

 

Work is everywhere. In the office, on a plane, in your car, at Peet's Coffee down the street. It's virtually inescapable. And while everyone would love to believe the 4-Hour Work Week is possible, is this the reality in ...

Intermediate

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Doug Marinaro, Georgia Collins, Kate North, Keith Perske, Kevin Purdy

 The cloud juggernaut keeps moving into just about every aspect of business. Well here’s another one Web Access Management…or how to get the right applications to the right people at the right time. So before this w...

Beginner

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Christopher Bartik

The ubiquity of mobile devices gives us an unprecedented view into human mobility. Smartphones of today provide precise information on location, orientation, and trajectories of their users. Study of anonymized, aggre...

Beginner

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Alexander Howard, Chris Volinsky, Chris Osgood, Eric Paulos

 

Yes data is beautiful–but SEXY?! That’s right. It’s powerful, self-sufficient; it can write its own ticket. Data doesn’t need you anymore...or does it?We’re all looking for ways to pull useful information from ...

Intermediate

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Raymond Mooney, Stew Langille

It's hard to find a co-founder for your startup. Tell us what you are looking for and we will play the matchmaker. In just an hour, you'll meet a dozen potential co-founders hand-picked for you. Please register ahead of ...

From Brain.A to Stuxnet: we've been fighting PC viruses for 25 years now. What was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer security expert Mikko Hypponen tells us how we got...

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Mikko Hypponen

 

Imagine getting on a bus with a group of strangers and three days later, while traveling at 60 miles per hour, conceive, build and launch a startup. That's what over 300 people have done for three years, with the cream o...

It doesn't matter if you're a tech startup, ad agency or production company - getting the best talent on board is always key to making good ideas a great reality. How can new technologies help us identify, work with, and...

Intermediate

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Adam Glickman, Brendan McManus, Melanie Myers, Sam Wick

 

Touch technology is all the rage in the consumer electronics market. The proliferation of tablet computers, next generation game consoles, and advanced smart phones are pushing the evolution of human interaction with tec...

Intermediate

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Jeff Whitney, Michael Kern, Saren Sakurai, Thomas Wester

 

Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and ...

The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SX...

Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique p...

If the early years of internet businesses was a triumph of technology, the next ones will be one defined by design and user experience. Users will demand more from their online experience, one which is as much designed a...

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Johan Brand, Julian Ehrhardt, Pru Ashby, Tony Hughes

Normally, we think about businesses as a mere collection of people working together. But, organizations also collectively act as a unit, facing the needs of survival and competing with others for resources. To that end, ...

Intermediate

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Tim Hwang

 

Back in the early 1990’s CD-ROMS were all the rage and an amazing amount of very cool content such as interactive storybooks, immersive games, and multimedia product catalogs were constantly being released. When the w...

Beginner

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Brian Burke, Calvin Carter, Randi Rosenkranz, Steve Glauberman

 

How can you encourage and facilitate innovation across your teams to come up with the best product? Come take a peek under the hood of a great innovation principle called “Visiontyping,” which promotes powerful colla...

Beginner

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Armando Gonzalez, Jake Cressman, Nancy Dickenson, Roseann Stempinski

 

By 2014, more of us will access the Internet with mobile devices than with desktops or laptops. Android phones, iPhones, iPads and other mobile devices are quickly becoming our primary gateways to the Internet. Everyth...

Intermediate

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Josh Levy, Katherine Maher, Nilay Patel, Parul Desai

Ginger Rogers may have said it, but today's female entrepreneurs are proving it. Right now, women are starting and leading new and innovative companies at an unprecedented rate. From e-commerce to healthcare to Internet ...

Intermediate

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Kara Swisher, Michelle Zatlyn, Piya Sorcar, Pooja Sankar, Victoria Ransom

 

Our goal with this session is to make events better for all of us. Events no longer exist in a vacuum. The new ideas and relationships we all seek from events are now available to us across a continuum of ongoing social ...

Intermediate

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Brian Duggan, Loic Le Meur

Dentsu, a Japanese advertising giant has been trying a new frontier of marketing in a society where virtually everybody has high speed mobile Internet connection. In this session, by introducing the cutting-edge Japanese...

Intermediate

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Daito Manabe, Kensuke Sembo, Motoi Ishibashi, Yasuharu Sasaki

 

If you're reading about this panel, you're likely familiar with - or at least interested in - the Microsoft Kinect. The Kinect's RGB camera and "depth" cameras simplify computer vision problems that were previo...

Intermediate

Presenters

Dan Fernandez, John Boiles

 

Mobile advertising spending is poised to top $1 billion in the U.S. for the first time, according to eMarketer. Of that potential billion dollar spend, in-app advertising is expected to double to over $600 million. The d...

Intermediate

Presenters

Brian Bos, Iryna Newman, Kamal Kaur, Krishna Subramanian, Seth Hart

 

With the ready availability of social media, digital databases of ID photos, high-resolution cameras and free, powerful face recognition software that can run on smartphones, we are entering into an unprecedented shift i...

Intermediate

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Bryan Nunez, Harlo Holmes

 

Get together with other smart home experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if ...

Beginner

Presenters

John Dial

Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures) Judges: Mari...

News Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Jim Schachter (New York Times) Judges: Ben Huh (Cheezburger Network), Ton...

Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Scott Weiss (Andreessen Horowitz) Judges: Matt Marshall (VentureBeat), Charlie ...

Digital Advertising is on the rise while consumer engagement with online advertising is on the decline. With so many messages competing for attention, today's consumer expects to be rewarded for their choices. Join an ex...

Intermediate

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Adrian Capobianco, Dave Spinato, Josh Gertz, Michele Edelman, Pepper Evans

Get together with other cloud-related entrepreneurs for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Gary Thompson

At 100 million strong, Millennials are the biggest generation in American history. They possess nearly a trillion dollars in spending power. They're flipping every social custom and convention known to man on its head. Y...

Intermediate

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Andrew Glasgow, Andrew Dinsdale, Anne Hubert, Nick Pudar, Sara Leblanc

Messages tend to exist attached to a surface. Billboards are pasted to sides of buildings, emails come to us on a computer screen, and words in a book are attached to bound pages. What if our information came to us floa...

Intermediate

Presenters

Adam Pruden, Albert Hwang

 

It’s not every startup that revolutionizes an industry, changing and sometimes reversing the direction of a long-standing space. But some, like our panelists, have done just that — Jawbone in re-shaping mobile lifest...

Intermediate

Presenters

Harry McCracken, Matt Rogers, Ren Ng, Travis Bogard

 

The ability of consumer electronics to sense location has no doubt opened the doors to a new dimension of mobile services that include navigation, local search, contextual social connectivity, and mobile advertising/mark...

Intermediate

Presenters

Cameron Clayton, Christopher Peralta, Joe Brown, Louis Gump, Siobhan Quinn

When NASA's budget was drastically cut and the commercial aerospace industry found itself in charge of getting man into space, a group of "space geeks" consisting of web developers, aerospace scientists and eng...

Advanced

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Jon Verville, Sarah Worthy

Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Social Media and Social Networking Technologies Emcee: Br...

News Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Jim Schachter (New York Times) Judges: Ben Huh (Cheezburger Network), Ton...

Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Scott Weiss (Andreessen Horowitz) Judges: Matt Marshall (VentureBeat), Charlie ...

The #140conf events provide a platform to listen, connect, share and engage, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business and on “me” the people. The format at the #140conf ...

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Jeff Pulver

NPR and Toyota share their insights on what it takes to build an App for the connected car. With the launch of Entune, Toyota has entered the world of mobile applications and has created a vehicle app ecosystem. Other ...

Intermediate

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Michelle Avary, Zach Brand

 

Get together with other Big Data professionals for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or...

Intermediate

Presenters

Silona Bonewald

As population density in major urban areas changes, cities across the globe are inputting measures aimed at reducing urban congestion. At the same time, in response to environmental concerns, government regulations, and...

Intermediate

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Amy Todenhagen, Neal Gorevic

With the meteoric rise of Chicago-based Groupon, interest in the Windy City startup scene has spread to both coasts and beyond, bringing new companies and hundreds of millions of VC dollars to the region. This panel fea...

Intermediate

Presenters

Matt Maloney, Melissa Harris, Paul Lee, Tom Ryan, Zachary Smith

 

We move through our days with our smartphone apps in hand and mind, noticing and tracking our ideas and experiences into personal lifestreams of information. Can the data we're recording about our daily progress be used ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Shawn Achor, Steve Brown

 

New mobile technologies are emerging that bring the physical and digital worlds closer than ever. As QR Codes and Near-Field Communication take mobile marketing by storm, navigating the space can become increasingly conv...

Intermediate

Presenters

Antony McGregor Dey, Cara Chirichella, Daniel Switkin, Kulveer Taggar

 

Entertainment Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: MC Hammer (Artist / Wiredoo) Judges: Blair Garrou (DFJ Mercury), Erick S...

Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Christine Herron (Intel Capital) Judges: Mark Hindsbo (Microsoft), Arun...

Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Frank Moss (Bluefin Labs) Judges: Dr. Geeta Nayyar (AT&T for Health), Doug ...

the future of story telling with geo geller and with andy dixon as an example(ExConWithConvictions.com and IAMConvicted.com) is part of what i call a Social Sculpture, a treasure hunt, an exploration of experience, it is...

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Andy Dixon, Geo Geller

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Siok Siok Tan

Access to information, people, and movements via the internet has changed the way we behave, but has it fundamentally changed how we think or how our society thinks in tandem?  ......

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Melissa Pierce

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Alan Weinkrantz, Nan Palmero

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Intermediate

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Eytan Avigdor

So you've worked for months writing code, assembling creative, and testing out your app until it it's finally ready for mass consumption. The App Store has approved it and you are getting solid reviews. But how are you...

Intermediate

Presenters

Ahmed Siddiqui, Jonathan Godfrey, Mike Sax

Get together with other F1 professionals (and enthusiasts) for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement.......

Intermediate

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Kerri Olsen

Start warming up your vocal chords. With an expected growth rate of 13 percent for 2012, voice authentication is going to be the biometric protocol of choice as businesses, government organizations and consumers look for...

Intermediate

Presenters

Dan Miller, Isaac Chapa

 

Co-presentation from Dwayne Spradlin of InnoCentive & Jack Hughes of TopCoder, Inc., leaders in the open innovation market. Led by Jacob Ward of Popular Science magazine, the panel will discuss how open innovation an...

Intermediate

Presenters

Dwayne Spradlin, Jack Hughes, Jacob Ward

 

Start spreading the news...the New York City tech renaissance is underway. ‘Silicon Alley,’ as NYC’s booming tech startup cluster is known, has a vibrant culture with unique competitive advantages. Through its rece...

Intermediate

Presenters

Barry Silbert, David S Kidder, Divya Gugnani, Kristy Sundjaja, Liz Crawford

 

Entertainment Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: MC Hammer (Artist / Wiredoo) Judges: Blair Garrou (DFJ Mercury), Erick S...

Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Christine Herron (Intel Capital) Judges: Mark Hindsbo (Microsoft), Arun...

Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Frank Moss (Bluefin Labs) Judges: Dr. Geeta Nayyar (AT&T for Health), Doug ...

After movie theatres, TVs, PCs, and mobile phones – come learn how your car will become the next screen you embrace. Our cars are already fitted with the most powerful computers that are completing 2,000 decisions per ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Anupam Malhotra, Tina Unterlaender

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Daniel Koren, Steve Greenberg, Yoni Bloch

An early look at some of the startups on Jeff Pulver's "Companies to Watch in 2012" list. Each of these early-stage startups operate in the real-time web. ......

Advanced

Presenters

Eldad Bercovici, Eyal Eldar, Kobi Stok, Sagee Ben-Zedeff, Yair Bar-On

Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and ...

The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SX...

Everyone in a startup should be able to give the "elevator pitch", even the programmers! Having the right pitch can help you land a big customer, attract investors, and just explain what you do to your mom. Lea...

Advanced

Presenters

Jason Cohen, Joshua Baer, Naval Ravikant

 

Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique p...

Using a variety of original source material, Chris Grayson will give an overview of the global network, as envisioned by thinkers at ARPA before the creation of the ARPAnet. Examples include J.C.R. Licklider's "Man-...

Intermediate

Presenters

Chris Grayson, Heidi Hysell

 

Dan and Kay will bust a commonly held myth: that there is some Natural way of interacting with technology, and that simply by changing modality (touch, body tracking, etc) we will eliminate the need for a UI. They will...

Intermediate

Presenters

Daniel Wigdor, Kay Hofmeester

Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law, has recently relocated to Austin (he how serves as Director of Innovation and teaches the "One Semester Startup" course at the...

Intermediate

Presenters

Bob Metcalfe, Kirk Ladendorf

Language is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. When we imagine sharing a world with smart machines, we don't think about logic, or problem solving, or winning at chess. We hear HAL-9000 declining to open the pod...

Intermediate

Presenters

Jason Baldridge, Lillian Lee

 

News Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University) ...

This fun and thought provoking session will look at fundamental issues about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). When is human-level AI likely to emerge? When it does emerge will it be more likely to be friendly, h...

Intermediate

Presenters

Chris Robson, Daniel Wilson, William Hertling

 

If the growth of the internet taught us anything, it is that not everyone welcomes exciting, disruptive technologies. Impacted industries like film and music demanded that Congress protect them from the internet. In the ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Michael Weinberg

 

Human history is punctuated by revolutions in communication. Innovations ranging from the printing press to the mobile phone continually improved our communication across space and time, culminating in the Internet Age. ...

Intermediate

Presenters

Riley Crane

 

Today's technology is changing the world at a quicker pace than any prior period of time. In order to keep up with this transformation, our education system will need to react at a much faster rate to develop new skills...

Intermediate

Presenters

Don Christian, Gregory Fenves, Linda Smarzik, Nathan Green, Terry Hazell

 

Today’s customer is complex, but tomorrow’s will be even more difficult to understand, communicate with, support and please. Tomorrow’s customer will be used to an always-available ecosystem of online, mobile, and ...

Beginner

Presenters

Adam Edmunds, Al Nevarez

 

Social media includes lots of free-form textual data in "natural languages", the languages people speak. Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps you analyze that data. Some NLP problems are very hard, but a num...

Advanced

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Bruce Smith

Get together with other Ruby experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if you ar...

Intermediate

Presenters

David Bluestein II

Software patents have a mixed reputation. They make some millions, are labeled a scourge by others, and are generally just overlooked or misunderstood by the general public. In the end, it's an open question whether they...

Intermediate

Presenters

Laura Sydell, Ruben Rodrigues

 

Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University) Judges...

Always-on, high-speed connectivity is the ticket to doing awesome stuff in technology today. But in a continent like Africa, ‘The Cloud’ is something ‘The Rain’ falls out of. And still, innovation in the techn...

Intermediate

Presenters

Andy Hadfield, Brett Haggard

VC's are clamoring to get in the game, celebrities are throwing money at it, and the media is eating it up. It’s been coined 'collaborative consumption,' and ‘the Airbnb of’ well... anything, really. Peer-to-peer...

Beginner

Presenters

James Reinhart, Joe Gebbia, Lauren Anderson, Leah Busque, Sarah Kessler

For millennia, eastern philosophers have talked about the “interconnectedness of all things;" the idea of an invisible web that links together beings and objects, organic and inorganic. For the first time in human...

Intermediate

Presenters

Sara Ohrvall, Vincent Horn

The public and private sector have employed various strategies to bring more established tech companies as well as more startups to the Central Texas area. Find out what factors have been most successful (and least succe...

Intermediate

Presenters

Gary Cadenhead, Jani Byrne, Jim Butler, Paul Pellman, Susan Davenport

Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University...

Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University) Judges...

It is standard in business to talk about "acquiring," "capturing," "locking in," "owning" and "managing" customers as if they were slaves or cattle.In the Internet Age, s...

Beginner

Presenters

Doc Searls

 

Google+ launched user profiles in June last year and Pages for businesses in November. With 90M users and 1M Pages as of mid-January, this platform is growing strong. Whether you are a newbie thinking about joining Goo...

Beginner

Presenters

Keri Kandel

More and more Austin-based tech companies are getting more and more financing (from sources inside and outside Central Texas). Learn who is investing, what they are investing in and why the area is attracting so much att...

Intermediate

Presenters

Andrew Busey, Jamie Rhodes, Julie Huls, Morgan Flager, Rudy Garza

 

Get together with other single sign on experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or...

Intermediate

Presenters

Mike Schwartz

Entertainment Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)...

In the 1980s, several seeds were planted that led to the entrepreneurial environment Greater Austin enjoys today. Among these seeds were the State’s winning bid for the MCC, the founding of Austin Ventures, and the fou...

Intermediate

Presenters

Bryan Menell, Isaac Barchas, Mark Pannes, Mellie Price, Steve Guengerich

 

In 2005, I started learning about the so-called Semantic Web. It wasn’t till 2008, the same year I started my PhD that I finally understood what the Semantic Web was really about. At the time, I made a $1000 bet with 3...

Beginner

Presenters

Juan Sequeda, Peter Mika

Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (B...

Come mix, mingle and enjoy complimentary appetizers and beverages before the main event gets underway. The 15th annual Interactive Awards never fails to entertain and delight. Featuring soon-to-be-announced entertainment...

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