The second annual SXSW Create brings together local and international members of the SXSW community to share disruptive creations, innovative tools and unique fabrication methods. This free-to-the-public event occurs in…

GPS has its limits. My students and I at the University of Texas Radionavigation Lab work to find them. For 20 years, GPS was so reliable it became navigation and timing crack for engineers. We all got addicted. We p…

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Todd Humphreys

Before Time’s Person of the Year was “You” – a corporate powerhouse was already putting “You” in control. Since 2006, PepsiCo has been at the forefront of crowdsourcing – letting fans produce the Doritos brand’s Super Bo…

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Jen Saenz, Kevin Knight, Shiv Singh

THE CULTURE GAME book is your culture hacking tutorial and reference guide. Culture hacking modifies culture, instead of modifying software. Software hackers in the 1970′s created code for personal use and for others to…

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Dan Mezick

THE CULTURE GAME book is your culture hacking tutorial and reference guide. Culture hacking modifies culture, instead of modifying software. Software hackers in the 1970′s created code for personal use and for others to…

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Dan Mezick

For the first time since the Model T, peråsonal transportation is undergoing a huge disruption. From shared cars and rides, to electric scooters, to computer driven cars, people are beginning to move around in new and di…

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Matt Ewing

Come talk about the latest in the remote control aircraft technology and the different ways it can be used. From stabilized gimbals for film to aerial pictures to automated crop management, come talk about how technolog…

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Justin Edwards

The second annual SXSW Create brings together local and international members of the SXSW community to share disruptive creations, innovative tools and unique fabrication methods. This free-to-the-public event occurs in…

Dan Mezick will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “The Culture Game: Tools for the Agile Manager” following his Book Reading session. Dan Mezick advises leaders, teams and organizations. An expert on cu…

3D technologies of all forms are evolving at a rapid pace and quickly expanding its uses in the Fashion industry. This panel will show, not just discuss, how constant advancements in 3D is revamping the world of Fashion …

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Daniel Stillman, Kimberly Ovitz, Liz Bacelar, Mary Huang

There are dozens of great hardware talks and panels on the SXSW agenda meaning a lot of folks interested in hardware will be in Austin, including members and organizers of Hardware Startup groups from around the world. …

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The Sketchnote Mentoring session will provide one-on-one time with Mike Rohde, author of The Sketchnote Handbook. In these sessions, Mike will listen and share techniques with mentoring students, providing customized tea…

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Mike Rohde

Robotics enthusiasts and builders discuss the future of robotics, kickstarting the robotics revolution, and trade robotics company ideas!…

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Marita Cheng

Human activity – good and bad, legal and criminal, ethical and unethical – has become increasingly bound up in data-driven systems. For organizations of all kinds – government, non-profit, businesses – discovering bad be…

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Greg Ebert, Ray Mooney

In a world where VCs often shy away from funding hardware inventions, entrepreneurs are finding new ways to ensure hardware innovation makes a comeback. Start-ups were afforded new flexibility in how they raise funds whe…

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Adam Ellsworth, Jesse Harrington Au, Mark Hatch, Mitzi Montoya

Local Motors has pioneered how to achieve crowd-powered design and development of complex cyber-mechanical devices. In short, we have crowd-sourced the first production cars in the world. Further, we have pioneered new w…

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John Jay Rogers Jr.

The second annual SXSW Create brings together local and international members of the SXSW community to share disruptive creations, innovative tools and unique fabrication methods. This free-to-the-public event occurs in…

In this session, 19 year old Thiel Fellow Connor Zwick talks about the democratization of hardware over the next decade and what it means for the next generation of Silicon Valley innovators from the perspective of his o…

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Do IP patents hinder innovation in design + fashion? I’ll show you why my co-founder and I decided to quit our jobs designing for fashion houses to create For the Makers, where anyone can learn a new technique, read up o…

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Katie Covington

Discussing the process I went through after discovering 3d printing technolgy (at SXSW in 2009) and how it allows me to express and explore many maker, DIY and geek pursuits all in one place while at the same time solvin…

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John Biehler

Hacking household devices and inventing new products is now within the reach of the everyday tinkerer. Arduino, Raspberry Pi and 3D printing are just some of the tech capturing the imagination of a new generation of inno…

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David Caygill

People with disabilities are often confined to using assistive equipment that is ugly and badly designed for their needs. Wheelchairs, crutches, handrails, vehicles, cutlery - most things in life - are given no aestheti…

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Carrie Bishop, Dominic Campbell

Hacker journalism is going global. The Hacks/Hackers movement has spread around the world, and this panel will bring together organizers from Africa, South America, the Middle East and the U.S. to talk about how the jour…

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Burt Herman, Justin Arenstein, Mariano Blejman

When most people think of "big data" they think of large companies with terabytes of data generated by users and machines. They also think dealing with big data is incredibly expensive and something only of use to compan…

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Ed Hunsinger

From Will Eisner’s PS Preventive Maintenance Monthly magazine created in the 50's for the US Army, to Scott McCloud’s cartoon introduction to Google Chrome, comics have often been used to describe technical material. Com…

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Jody Culkin

Humans have always been makers and inventors. It’s what sets us apart from other animals — we don’t just use tools, we make them. Somewhere along the line, though, we stopped making “things.” What we create now lives in …

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Angie Terrell

The simultaneous rise of social media and open source Maker culture is an unprecedented opportunity for businesses, brands and agencies. However, most of the magic is still found in the basement or the backyard. Figuring…

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Jameson Young

RSVP Required - Want to learn how to build your own robot or real-life superhero costume that works? What about a camera that superimposes a mustache on your face? The co-founders of BeagleBone, a credit-card sized Lin…

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Gerald Coley, Jason Kridner

What is the future of manufacturing, design, and creativity? How are 3D printing and the maker movement shifting the global economy? Mike Senese, Senior Editor at Wired, and Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO and Co-Founder of …

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Mike Senese, Peter Weijmarshausen

Get together with other open source hardware makers 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.…

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Glenn Thomas

Drones often get cast as dystopian killing machines, or Big Brother's newest eyes-in-the-sky. But drones are here to stay -- and coming to a sky near you as soon as September 2015. Will drones live up to the nightmare? A…

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Chris Anderson, Erin Rapacki, Nabiha Syed, Ryan Calo

Bike Hugger's Built is back for SXSW 2013 with another Make and Tell event. This audience favorite features a series of talks by people who create, reveal their design process, and bring their inventions to SXSW.…

Bike Hugger's Built is back for SXSW 2013 with another Make and Tell event. This audience favorite features a series of talks by people who create, reveal their design process, and bring their inventions to SXSW.…

Bike Hugger's Built is back for SXSW 2013 with another Make and Tell event. This audience favorite features a series of talks by people who create, reveal their design process, and bring their inventions to SXSW.…

Around the world, libraries, archives and museums are opening their doors to hackers, makers, enthusiasts and creatives of all kinds. By publishing Open Data, cultural heritage institutions are finding new ways to open …

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Antoine Isaac, Emily Gore, Rachel Frick, Sam Leon

Natural language processing enables new ways for people to interact with computers. Widely-available open source tools are making NLP more powerful and easier to incorporate into your application. This panel will introdu…

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Catherine Havasi

The second annual SXSW Create brings together local and international members of the SXSW community to share disruptive creations, innovative tools and unique fabrication methods. This free-to-the-public event occurs in…

This meetup will focus on how connected devices from our smartphones to our cars and even medical devices are transforming the way we live and work. Whether it’s for personal devices, a social network, a humanitarian eff…

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Kat Mandelstein

Like artists in other fields, the creators of today’s comics and graphic novels face a lively new landscape of publishing and distribution. The internet, new software tools and an array of social media now equip maverick…

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Calvin Reid, Josh Frankel, Karl Stevens

The vast majority of data journalism is based on data collected by the government. What if the government doesn't keep the data you need? What if that data is incomplete or questionable? A few journalists and curious cit…

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John Keefe, Matt Waite, Nadav Aharony, Sarah Williams

A new movement in film making, collaborative film platforms are empowering independent film makers and their local talent pools to collaborate and create! Join other film advocates in our Meet Up Pavilion to network a…

No longer is it necessary to create a mold and make 10,000 of an item in order to get it produced. Today, 3D printing allows almost anyone to create just about design they can imagine. The technology is being used to mak…

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, Alice Taylor, Avi Reichental, Scott Summit

Cody Wilson presents the work and vision of the 3D gun printing collective Defense Distributed. Wilson will cover how Defense Distributed began, as well as the current state of gun printing. He will also address the ques…

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Cody Wilson

With 90 detailed hacks, expert web developers Jesse Cravens and Jeff Burtoft demonstrate intriguing uses of HTML5-related technologies. Each recipe provides a clear explanation, screenshots, and complete code examples fo…

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, Jesse Cravens

With 90 detailed hacks, expert web developers Jesse Cravens and Jeff Burtoft demonstrate intriguing uses of HTML5-related technologies. Each recipe provides a clear explanation, screenshots, and complete code examples fo…

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, Jesse Cravens

Jeffrey Burtoft will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “HTML5 Hacks” following his Book Reading session. Jeff Burtoft, HTML5 Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation, has built a reputation of pushing the b…

Jesse Cravens will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “HTML5 Hacks” following his Book Reading session. Jesse is a Sr. Engineer at Frog where he works with the world’s leading companies, helping them to …

Over the past three years, hackathons have spun up into a hurricane gale of headline and hype for the hacker culture we all know and love. Builders of every stripe flock to these events held on themes ranging from music…

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Dave Haynes, Jarod Reyes, Joel Franusic, Kara Silverman

Slow down to 33 1/3 rpm and explore the nostalgic technology that has been revamped and made relevant for the 21st century! Encouraging retrospective & futurist thinking, our Analogue Anonymous Meet Up will bring toget…