What happens when accidents become the building blocks of the art-making process? Glitches point toward new ways of seeing the world, an echo or document of the technology, politics and humans that co-produce them. Both …

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Alan Sondheim, Bishop Zareh, Jon Satrom, Jon Cates

What you will Learn: Whether you're a top-tier chef or "that guy" who couldn't boil water if he tried, Tim Ferriss's radically counterintuitive advice will help you get the most out of your meals – and your life. Design…

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Tim Ferriss

Nathan Martin is the CEO of innovation studio Deeplocal, best known for the creation of the Nike Chalkbot street painting robot seen at the Tour de France. Before working for brands, Nathan screamed in a touring metal ba…

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Nathan Martin

And I Am Not Lying is cock-rocking the NPR crowd at SXSW for the second year in a row with a raucous variety show featuring storytelling, standup, burlesque, and sideshow from America's greatest and strangest artists. Fo…

We are fortunate to live in a time where there is a delicious wealth of scientific information available to us online. People now "like" scientists on Facebook, along with the expected rock stars and actors. Unfortunatel…

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Daniel Grushkin, Karen Ingram, Wythe Marschall

One of the latest genres in New Media art is that of Augmented Reality, or the overlay of digital content onto physical reality through the use of smart phones and computer vision. Marshall McLuhan heralded artists as e…

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Jon Lebkowsky, Patrick Lichty

This talk will show you how to brainstorm new ideas, products, campaigns, and services using a technology-first approach. In the past, you might have brainstormed using a blank canvas approach. While this can lead to go…

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Will Turnage

Burning Man loves tech geeks! Meet up with Burning Man's San Francisco HQ leadership & tech teams, and chat about the future landscape of technology and civic engagement related to Burning Man. Discover where and how the…

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Last year, only 45 African American students took the Computer Science AP exam in California, a state known for being a hub of innovation. Hear from the White House and Level Playing Field Institute about innovative ways…

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Brian Forde, Nicole Sanchez

Meet Heather Knight, Electrical Engineer and Roboticist, and her robot, Data. Heather designs unique interfaces between people and machines that incorporate body language, personality, humor, temperament and spectacular …

Come meet and hang out with musicians and artists involved in making Chiptune, music made using video game systems and vintage computers. Hosted by Austin's own chiptune artist Sievert.……

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Jared Blondeau

ConnectiCity aims at gaining deeper understandings about the near future scenarios of cities and citizens. A vision on human-centered smart cities. A narrative experience through experiments, prototypes and services whic…

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Salvatore Iaconesi

Photography is the bread and butter of content. Connecting photographers with a community of other photographers has become one of the most valuable and interesting communities on the web over the past 7 years. Sharing m…

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Alexandra Klasinski, Christopher Berry

The online and offline worlds are now melting together, thanks to smartphones and social media. But as our life shifts into the cloud, we’re starting to realize that 0s and 1s lack the tangibility and permanence of paper…

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Ryan Bigge

The availability of open source libraries and frameworks has spawned rapid explorations in new expressional forms and has provided a common environment for collaboration between artists and creators. Further the wide ac…

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Daitio Manabe, Kaoru Sugano

Creativity is often seen as a light bulb, either on or off, I have it or I don't. When it's off and your job is to apply it, panic strikes and the focuses becomes less on the problem to solve and more on how to get creat…

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Sophie Freiermuth

Inspiration comes to us free of charge. But that’s just the start of the creative process. Making a work of art, launching a business or even starting a career requires a holistic mental and emotional skill set. Josh Go…

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Josh Gosfield

The emergence of incredibly strong and meaningful social relationships being formed by a community through a collective elaboration of meaning, especially when it's related to the pop culture arts and creative collaborat…

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Angelo Sotira, Ron Martino

The publishing industry is evolving as authors, indie app and game creators and musicians are empowered to self-publish and distribute real time, on demand content to millions of potential customers. There are more oppor…

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Aaron Rubenson, John Densmore, Libby Johnson Mckee, Steve Carpenter

From the oogachaka baby to Nyan Cat, the graphics interchange format, better known as the GIF, has come a long way since the days of floppy discs. The modern-day GIF was introduced to the world 25 years ago by Steve Wilh…

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, , Fernando Alfonso III, Lindsey Weber

In the era of today's socially-driven Web, being first to discover breaking trends, opinions and news is a major strategic advantage. But search engines can only show us what has happened in the past; they can not see th…

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Nova Spivack

Chris Ruppel demonstrates some bleeding-edge creative concepts you can achieve using CSS3. Examples aren't as practical as they are inspiring, showing off the possibilities of CSS3 and touching on components like animati…

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Chris Ruppel

The Hidden Room Theatre is proud to present Robin Jones’ mind-bending interactive time-travel pulp play THE GIRL WITH TIME IN HER EYES! Become a volunteer test subject for an emerging technology that allows you to witne…

Enough of caped crusaders, crazed criminals and post-apocalyptic kooks! Despite talk of graphic novels as a maturing, alternative art form, most of the genre is still dedicated to elementary entertainment...but that is c…

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John Boyer, Katie Pritchard

Meet Up and chat about everything from running shoe technology to proper running form. We'll fill you in on some of the best local running routes, too. Hosted by Formula 4 Media and Austin's hometown running store, RunTe…

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Cara Griffin, Paul Carrozza

The first time Buddy Media founder and CEO Michael Lazerow cheated death, he was 18 months old. The second time, he was 19, and was given three hours to live. An emergency heart valve replacement saved his life. This pas…

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Michael Lazerow

Cameras are getting better and better. Auto exposure and auto focus systems are so sophisticated that you can be a photographer without knowing about either as long as you know about composition. A poorly-composed shot o…

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Josh Anon

Combining fresh and pithy life lessons, often just a sentence or two, with deceptively simple diagrams and graphs, HOW TO BE INTERESTING is an inspiring guide that shows you how to lead a richer life. Passionate, positi…

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Jessica Hagy

People spend a lot of time thinking about their ideas. It’s impossible not to. Because ideas live in the same place they are born: inside our heads. In fact, the inside of the creative mind can feel like a sort of or…

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Arthur Jones, Starlee Kine

Join Media Lab research scientist Henry Holtzman, and master’s students Dan Novy and Janice Wang, who will discuss examples of Media Lab work on immersive experiences. Henry Holtzman’s Information Ecology group is crea…

Hagy will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “How to Be Interesting: (In 10 Simple Steps)” following her Book Reading session.……

A geek’s breakdown of the history of comic books and the parallels and principles to modern experience design. From their shared roots in the 1930s and 40s, with Siegel and Shuster’s Superman ushering in a Golden Age an…

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Timothy Parcell

With over 8 million social media followers (G+, FB, Pinterest, Twitter), Trey Ratcliff has been doing something different with photography and sharing over the past six years. He publishes StuckInCustoms.com, which is t…

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Trey Ratcliff

Matthew Inman will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You” and “5 Very Good Reasons to Punch a Dolphin in the Mouth (And Other Useful Guides)” following his Ke…

One of the core missions of the SXSW Interactive Festival is to showcase those who use their creativity and artistic talent to make the world a better place. With this ideal in mind, we are excited to have Matthew Inman …

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Matthew Inman

The way you store, tag and preserve your media is key to the long-term viability of your creative work. And while this is a technical process, it's also intrinsic to the creative process. If it's done well, good media ma…

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Peter Krogh

As an exploration of the intersection of art and technology, the panel will present and discuss several large-scale sculptures that strongly leverage various forms of engineering. Consisting of a mix of artists and engin…

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Heather Shaw, Jen Lewin, John Taylor, Maurice Conti

What do movies like 300 or Zombieland have to do with the writing life or the creative process? According to Erin Feldman of Write Right, everything. Sometimes, a writer has to kick the muse, the angel, inspiration - wha…

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Erin Feldman

Margarita Benitez and Markus Vogl work within a collaborative art praxis called //benitez_vogl. //benitez_vogl concentrates on open source projects such as the development of the open source loom, interactive installatio…

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Margarita Benitez, Markus Vogl

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Brent Baggett

For 2013, we're excited to join forces with Lytro to present PhotoCamp at SXSW Create. With unique sessions on the evolution of photography, digital asset management and a Photographer Meet Up, you won't want to miss thi…

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Since the dawn of music, technology has paved the way for musicians to exercise their creative impulses. From the humble pan pipes to the EWI, the harpsichord to the Kurzweil, the taiko to V-Drums - musicians have found…

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Alec Zopf

Poetry, stories, and speeches aren’t just what we read or what we hear - they're how we make meaning and celebrate history. Hundreds of thousands of spoken text audio files - including poetry readings, American Indian s…

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Paul Vinelli, Tanya Clement

Political cartooning has been around since ancient Rome and is more popular with readers than ever before. Now that print media is being replaced with online distribution channels, however, they're being left behind—and …

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Ted Rall

Are you a poster maker, screen printer, designer, or fan of all things print? Meet up and chat with some of Austin's current poster artists and designers. FREE screen printed poster to the first 50 attendees.…

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Bobby Dixon

In business and in life, we pursue the good stuff and champion people who are known for their good ideas. But when we place too strong an emphasis on just the good, we may neglect to consider the bad ones. In design and …

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Steve Portigal

Complex stories and information can often be difficult to explain. Presented poorly, they can come across as too dense or intimidating to understand. And that can leave you and your audience frustrated. Join our panelist…

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Tristen George, Vanessa Ruiz

In 2005, Etsy made a splash, allowing anyone with knitting needles to reach an audience, and MySpace helped musicians like Adele get their big breaks. While the internet has long aided creators trying to get the word out…

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Claire Mazur, Danielle Strle, Jamie Beck, Jen Bekman

Back by popular demand! Building on last year’s packed Show & Smell showcase combining inspiring emerging technologies and sensory marketing, this hands-on crowd experience of leading edge technologies, continues to defi…

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David Polinchock, Kurt Karlenzig, Warren Kronberger

The Sketchbook Project is a constantly evolving library of handmade artists’ books, contributed by more than 22,000 people from 130+ countries. The Project encourages creative people from diverse backgrounds — working ar…

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Shane Zucker, Steven Peterman

Join Nora Herting and Kelly Kingman of ImageThink, the driving force behind OgilvyNotes in SXs past, for an informal mixer of visual thinkers and sketchnoters. Grab a free sketchbook, geek out over your favorite pens and…

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Kelly Kingman, Nora Herting

If technology is a pimp, our language is its favorite bitch. The tricks that our words are asked to turn on the streets of social media and online publishing are lauded in our dictionaries and style guides. Googling and …

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Gail Marie, Kristina Eastham, Neal Ungerleider, Sean Carton

The Smile Epidemic session will teach us how to shift our limited attention, using an innovative, science-based social sharing tool that increases levels of happiness in individuals and organizations. Pro-athlete and Fou…

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, Jim Moss

The last few decades of the American theater have seen a rapid growth in the number of ‘devising ensembles’—playwrights, actors, directors, and designers working together in collaborative groups to develop plays. It's ag…

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Gwydion Suilebhan

Story is the hot new buzz but it's more than just a word, just a hip term. It's something at the core of our being. Authentic. It's people craving connection. Story. Not just technologically.. not just physically .. aut…

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Lynne Duddy

Today we live in a world where the exponential progression of technology is increasingly shrinking the lag time between what we can imagine and what we can create. We are rapidly converging to become a civilization of n…

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Jason Silva

Tim Ferriss will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life” following his featured session.…

No, it’s not college. But these days, everyone from multinational corporations to renowned medical institutions is getting into bed with unexpected partners. The results are spectacular and surprising: an IT company is h…

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Lincoln Bjorkman

All design requires some speculation—after all, a designer must predict an individual’s uncertain reaction to her work. What of design that teaches by speculating on what our future might look like? Orwell and Huxley hav…

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Gabriel Schaffzin

Over the last year, I've coached thousands of people in creating new habits. Human behavior is not as complicated as most believe. And the received wisdom about habits is often wrong. From my research and my hands-on pra…

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BJ Fogg

What is happening inside our craniums, amongst the cortex, hemispheres, neuroglia, and brainwaves when we feel on fire with creativity and when we don't? To find out, let’s embark upon a fantastic journey to learn in whi…

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Denise Jacobs

Calling all actors! Get ready for the first ever SXSW Casting Calls - a daily series hosted on Next Stage. This new series puts the casting process in the spotlight for all to see. Whether you're an experienced or aspir…

Calling all actors! Get ready for the first ever SXSW Casting Calls - a daily series hosted on Next Stage. This new series puts the casting process in the spotlight for all to see. Whether you're an experienced or aspir…

Vicky Boone Casting is holding an Open Casting Call for actors at SXSW. Are you interested in acting in features films in Austin? If so, please submit your headshot and resume to sxswcasting2013@gmail.com. Vicky Boone …

Vicky Boone Casting is holding an Open Casting Call for actors at SXSW. Are you interested in acting in features films in Austin? If so, please submit your headshot and resume to sxswcasting2013@gmail.com. Vicky Boone …

Celebrate and learn about the life and ideals of Aaron Swartz at this special SXSW Town Hall. In addition to addressing some of the open source principles that shape his philosophies, the session will also cover ongoing …

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, , Jennifer Lynch, Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman

Your ISP is spying on your network traffic, Zuck pwn'd your social graph. Even darling Twitter has thrown indie developers under the bus for the sake of "consistency." You probably know all this, and you still go on usin…

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Dan Phiffer, Harlo Holmes, Isaac Wilder

Anne Balsamo will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work”. Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship between the culture and technology. This focus i…

Being able to visualize large collections of data is absolutely vital in the domain of cultural heritage—both for scholarly work and public consumption. Recent work explores novel and engaging ways to visualize and explo…

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Andy van Dam, Anne Balsamo, Donald Brinkman, Ethan Watrall

As social media platforms evolve and multiply, so too do the instances of online bullying. The epidemic has reached a crisis point in American culture, with nearly one in three kids reporting instances of bullying. The p…

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, Lee Hirsch, Priscilla Natkins, Scott Zumwalt

Writer and disrupter Rachel Sklar talks to assorted high-profile leaders in media, tech & entrepreneurship about the interplay between diversity, meritocracy, privilege and innovation, and how the tech industry is transf…

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Rachel Sklar

Citizen journalism through social media platforms helps deliver truth into mainstream reporting and ensure community safety in places with oppressive regimes. But what happens when, as in Mexico today, truth in reporting…

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Shauna Dillavou

Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…

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Ari Stiles

Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…

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Melodie Tao

Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…

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Neal Pollack

Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…

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Bea Love

Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…

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Jennilyn Carson

Communities like Anonymous and 4chan's /b/ create Internet culture, change politics and make news. But how do they build trust, share work and intervene in the world? How can new groups and movements use anonymity and ps…

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Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Quinn Norton

We now know that technology plays an important role in activism, allowing for ease of communication and the rallying of support, among other things. In the 2009 Iran protests and the current conflicts in Syria and Sudan…

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Ahmed Ghappour, Jillian York, Sahar Sabet, Trevor Timm

The annual Allied Media Conference in Detroit, MI convenes 2,000 artists, activists, educators, and technologists, all sharing media strategies for a more justice, creative, and collaborative world. The Allied Media Conf…

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Mike Medow

Are you ready to have your mind, body and soul transformed, to find transcendence, enlightenment, and inner peace? Well, good for you! This lecture, reading, and discussion, on the other hand, will be about 40 percent fa…

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Neal Pollack

The term “outcast” covers numerous demographic categories. It can represent the 54 million Americans currently living with a disability. It can refer to patients who live in isolation during long-term rehabilitation. It …

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Kel Smith

3D experiences are pushing their way into the classroom as media-savvy students move from textbooks to digital experiences and the technologies they’ve grown up with. As the ultimate time machine, 3D environments can lit…

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Al Bunshaft, Rus Gant

Artists, designers, developers, investors, entrepreneurs, and academics throw around the term “remix,” rarely considering what this indicates about changes in our epistemologies. Although originating with the rise of dig…

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We have greater capacity to change the world today than kings and presidents of 50 years ago. Technologists have astonishing leverage to tackle the biggest problems and take on bold missions. And, facing severe threats t…

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Justin Rosenstein

Kristin and Dannielle, founders of the advice website and youth outreach organization Everyone Is Gay, will discuss the role of cyber bullying in our online communities and share stories from several youth who have expe…

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Dannielle Owens-Reid, Kristin Russo

If there's one piece of advice to keep as much personal data to yourself as possible, it's this: FAKE IT and don't become a datasexual! Separate the professional You from the private You, use pseudonyms, aliases and fict…

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Pernille Tranberg, Steffan Heuer

Gabriella Coleman will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking” following her Book Reading session. Gabriella Coleman is the Wolfe Chair in Scientific & T…

Vinyasa yoga helps focus the mind and awaken the body through a series of yoga postures and movements linked by the breath. It’s a slightly more active class for those looking for a quicker pace. The class is a gentle on…

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Bea Love

Vinyasa yoga helps focus the mind and awaken the body through a series of yoga postures and movements linked by the breath. It’s a slightly more active class for those looking for a quicker pace. The class is a gentle on…

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Bea Love

Group Yoga Practice gives everyone a chance to learn from each other! Jennilyn Carson, of YogaDork fame, will lead the group in a series of poses and help out the beginners in the class. This class structure assumes a ba…

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Guadalupe Correa Cabrera will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Democracy in "Two Mexicos": Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León” following her Book Reading session. Guadalupe Correa Cabrera…

RSVP Required - Join web and mobile experts in an all day Hackathon for Social Good, an awesome opportunity for programmers, UX practitioners and designers meet to work collaboratively to build programs and applications.…

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Brad Smith, Jennifer Jones, Lisa Goddard, Maria Aloy Ciller

Technology is changing the world and enabling people from anywhere to connect and share experiences that create wonder and inspire. Skype’s social good initiative, Skype in the classroom (SITC), is an example of how tech…

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, Andrew Schmidt

Should the news be more like "The Newsroom?" Join this CNN-led discussion on the intersection of news and advocacy. We'll look at ways both news orgs and non-profits are working to engage their digital audiences with sma…

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Amanda Kloer, Ben Montgomery, John Sutter, Jonathan Hutson

I’m an engineer. That doesn’t just describe my training or my job description, it’s who I am. I look at the world through a scientific, analytical lens, and when I identify problems, I prototype ways to solve them. Engin…

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Ryan Martens

UNESCO estimates that of the 6,000 current languages spoken today, more than half will be extinct by the start of the next century, adding that "with the disappearance of unwritten and undocumented languages, humanity wi…

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Kara Andrade, Kevin Scannell, Maite Goñi, Peter Rohloff

Information Literacy is the ability identify an information need and to locate and evaluate appropriate resources to satisfy this need. As more and more information and communication has moved online information literacy…

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Laura Larsell

Panera Bread visionary Ron Shaich has spent his career trying to change the way America eats by focusing on choice and an affordable, high quality experience. Since its founding, Panera has grown to over 1,600 bakery-caf…

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Ron Shaich

Have we all lost our perspective with modern life? The water in our toilets is cleaner than nearly a billion have to drink and we need to do something about it. Sorry it's not about drilling more holes in the ground. It'…

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Mike McCamon

Let's deconstruct & design actionable ideas about why Libraries, Archives, and Museums within the SXSW conversation is important -- beyond rubbing shoulders with meme-enablers and tool creators. You'll leave with new par…

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Amy Buckland

In the last decade, news reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border has been decimated by the closing and downsizing of U.S. media organizations, censorship of Mexican media and the explosion of drug violence on the Mexican sid…

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Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Melissa Del Bosque, Sergio Chapa

Jon’s part of London was ransacked in 2011’s riots, so what did he do on the event’s anniversary? First thought: How do we teach the rioters a lesson? Instead, he answered a less obvious question: What lessons can market…

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Alexandra Goat, Jon Burkhart

Moving hearts and minds, changing attitudes and behavior, takes more than SEO. This session’s speakers and case studies explore how to affect change by evolving the art of digital storytelling. NPR's Michele Norris crea…

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David Modigliani, Joel Johnson, Michele Norris, Susan Feeney

To the millions of travelers with special needs getting from one place to another has been an issue due to inaccessible routes or lack of information about the routes they intend to take. Research in accessible transport…

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, Bill Curtis-Davidson, James Pol, Kamiar Kordari

Non-profits are in a constant state of fundraising to keep afloat and to fund valuable programs that benefit the community. Marketing is key to building a successful enterprise whether the enterprise is a for profit or a…

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Rebecca Gonzales

RSVP Required - This workshop will dramatically demonstrate how the practice of measurement, social media, social change, and networks have evolved over the past 5 years. In 2009, the "Social Media ROI Poetry Slam" SXS…

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Carie Lewis, David Neff, Katie Paine

Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …

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Ari Stiles

Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …

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Melodie Tao

Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …

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Jennilyn Carson

Join Toby Daniels, Co-founder and CEO of Crowdcentric and Shaun Abrahamsom, author of recently published book Crowdstorm for a meetup during SXSW Interactive. This gathering will bring together innovators, thought leade…

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, Toby Daniels

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Elisa Camahort Page

Three million girls a year in Africa alone are at risk of female genital cutting (FGC) and 140 million women worldwide live with the harmful consequences of this human rights violation. FGC is a social norm, and it is ch…

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Ruthie Taylor

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” That sentiment has always applied to the LIVESTRONG Foundation, a cancer non-profit known for its entre…

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Doug Ulman

For decades, conflict prevention practitioners have searched for creative ways to bring about human connections that bridge opposed positions. Public information campaigns, reconciliation conferences and exchanges betwee…

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Anne Kahl, Helena Puig Larrauri, Margarita Quihuis, Patrick Meier

Join other movers and shakers in the Meet Up Pavilion to discuss social and digital media trends in advocacy and how these leaders use the web to mobilize their supporters.…

Human beings are advanced dynamic systems. Each of us interfaces with our emotions differently. Consequently, we interface with each other in desirable and undesirable ways through various access points. My process throu…

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Daniel Buckley

The promise of the cloud is that our environmental impact is lighter as we move from physical to digital products and documents. However, our production of digital content is increasing exponentially. For example, Facebo…

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David Bellona

Sexual commerce has a history of driving technological innovation: porn and early camera adoption, porn and VHS, porn and high-speed internet demand... While sexual media often fuels technological growth, the "oldest pro…

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Sabrina Morgan

How are we, as media-driven consumers, inspired by a cause or motivated towards social change? In this discussion Theo Ianuly and Geoff Stanfield of Gist Lab will bring together musician Ryan Bingham, Peter Glatzer (SHF…

In 2011, Sam Fox, then 24, ran 2,650 miles from Canada to Mexico in 61 days -- the equivalent of 1.5 marathons a day for two months. Inspired by his mother Lucy, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000, his jo…

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We are seeing a paradigm shift in the way users are spending their time online and especially in their online purchases. Consumers are buying and advocating for purposeful brands and not letting their Internet behavior g…

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, , Amaryllis Fox, Ross Geisel

Let's face it, you spend most of your day scouring the "front page of the Internet" like the rest of us. Now is your chance to hang out with your fellow redditors in a casual and fun setting. The people that make up the …

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Logan Youree

Peer-to-peer marketplaces for offline services face a big UX challenge: users' experiences depend on other users, not just the company. But these platforms still live or die on the quality of the experiences they deliver…

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Jeff Miller, John Zimmer

Shaun Abrahamsom will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Crowdstorm: The Future of Innovation, Ideas, and Problem Solving. ”…

On December 10th, 2011, after a week of small-scale demonstrations, Russia saw some of the largest protests in Moscow since the 1990s. Participate in the insight into the role that social media played in the Russian prot…

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Artem Gordin

Providing wireless network connectivity at large gatherings such as SXSW is never an easy endeavor. Attend this session to learn tips for success from the SXSW technical crew. This panel will cover the interesting networ…

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Chase Sadler, Clifford Skolnick, Joe Wargo

Get together with sustainability professionals and other like-minded individuals to discuss solutions to the issues facing our economy, the environment, and civil society. Network, brainstorm, and discover how SXSW Eco …

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Chris Sonnier

 Familiar with SXSWedu? SXSW extends its support for the art of engagement beyond musicians, actors, and technologists, to include society’s true stars...educators. One of the newest components of the SXSW Family of Conf…

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Ron Reed

Dr. Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian cardiothoracic surgeon turned political satirist who launched a wildly popular political talk show on YouTube from his apartment in the wake of the Egyptian revolution in 2011. Youssef,…

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Bassem Youssef, Olivia Ma

OUR STORY. Two years ago at the 1st edition of the Storyworld conference&expo, the world’s first Transmedia Meetup of Meetups was quickly thrown together by members of the forming international Transmedia community. OBJ…

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Karine Halpern

In 2008, at least 6 million Americans didn't vote because they missed or didn't know their voter registration deadline. In 2012, the first-ever National Voter Registration Day set out to fix that, and in the process wou…

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Dan McSwain, Jessica Reeves

Low-resolution displays. Limited input capabilities. Frustrating voice interaction. Distracted users. A neverending array of devices. The mobile environment in 2012? Or is it how users with disabilities have dealt with t…

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Matt May

In conversation with Leslie Wolke, Jake Barton, founder and principal of Local Projects will walk through the case study of "Change by Us," an open source application with its first project up and running for New York Ci…

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Jake Barton, Leslie Wolke

Enjoy some time with other mindful health practitioners, and get the details on what other wellness panels, presentations, and resources are available during SXSW. Bring your ideas for healthy living during the conferenc…

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Ari Stiles, Bea Love, Melodie Tao, Neal Pollack

Like any other large-scale project, Breaking the Guinness World Record for the Longest Barrel of Monkeys chain was not easy. At various points every element broke down: the venue backed out, we didn't raise enough money,…

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Parker Phinney

Historically, innovation in sex-related technology has spurred innovation in mainstream technology. In 2013, is this still the case? If so, what are the trends, memes, patterns and shifts in the adult world that we will …

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Jay Kopita, Sarah Garcia

Andy Carvin will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Distant Witness” following his Panel session.…

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…

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Silona Bonewald

When SXSW Interactive began, blogging was new, people still sent email forwards, and print media stocks were at record highs. The South By crowd knew a big change was coming but the rest of the world didn't. Now the cha…

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Jonah Peretti

On August 30th, 2012 over 10,000 people gathered at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis for the first Internet Cat Video Festival (#catvidfest). What began as a social experiment testing the boundaries of online communi…

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Katie Hill, Scott Stulen

A quick summary of (1) the current Internet standards for identity from the IETF and other relevant organizations, including OAuth2 and OpenID Connect; and (2) adoption trends and market predictions for both consumer and…

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Michael Schwartz

We know that Comedy and the internet go hand in hand but is there more to this marriage than meets the eye? What's really behind the success of Funny or Die? , College Humor, and Cracked? Do Reddit, Tumblr, Facebook an…

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Why do Cheerios generate more word of mouth than Disney World? Which emotional responses prompt a person to share a link to an article? Jonah Berger, a Wharton marketing professor and author of CONTAGIOUS: WHY THINGS CAT…

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Jonah Berger

This panel will discuss copyright in the wake of SOPA/PIPA: how law gets made, how it impacts innovation, and how it interacts with civil liberties, particularly free speech & privacy. It consists of Andrew Bridges, Marg…

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Andrew Bridges, Derek Khanna, Margot Kaminski, Wendy Seltzer

Fair use is a complex area of copyright law. Publishers have a love/hate relationship with fair use because on one hand, it lets them legally repurpose existing copyrighted material. On the other hand, publishers want to…

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Ellyn Angelotti

In many ways, data science is a natural extension of journalism. Traditionally, reporters would conduct a number of interviews and use a qualitative approach to craft a story. Similarly, data scientists look at a set of …

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Zanab Hussain

Every minute, three days worth of content is uploaded to YouTube. Every four seconds, a New York Times story is tweeted or shared. With information overload, how does your brand break through the noise? How do you earn t…

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Ashley Brown, Dustee Jenkins, Gary Goldhammer, Jon Steinberg

George W. Bush & Steven Tyler. Honey Boo Boo & Suri Cruise. What do these pairs of people have in common? Absolutely nothing. But for some reason, marketers continue to aim cookie-cutter marketing at them based on the ou…

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Ann Zimmerman, Bonin Bough, Joe Magnacca, Todd Morris

Steve Jobs was famously quoted as saying “You watch television to turn your brain off and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.” The rapidly evolving field of Social TV is turning the belief that…

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David Beck, Hermione Way, Jason Hoch, Jesse Redniss

Social media has increased the speed with which we communicate. We’re constantly Tweeting, Posting, Liking, Pinning, Instagramming, and checking in. This fire hose of information combined with the 24/7 news cycle has lea…

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CLE. As technology companies develop new products and services that enable consumers to access and consume music and movies in new ways and places, at the time and choosing of the user, are copyright owners being cheated…

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Gary Greenstein

Dharmesh Shah will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs (New Rules Social Media Series)” .…

CLE. This presentation will focus on cutting edge developments in the digital music licensing arena, including a deep dive into trends related to licenses with record companies for digital services, recent changes in U.S…

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Christian Castle

When Louis C.K. released his comedy special "Live at the Beacon Theater" by himself on his website for $5, it was little more than a cautiously optimistic experiment. In just 12 days, it reaped more than $1 million. Alre…

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Nick Nuciforo, Scot Richardson

Now more than ever the power of independent publishing through e-books is advancing! Austin author/musician Jesse Sublett and digital/publishing advisor Nettie Reynolds host this networking session with eBook authors, pu…

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Jesse Sublett, Nettie Reynolds

eatPGH is a blog about Pittsburgh food started by four ladies in 2009. Delicious food and fresh, fun perspective was the name of the game for three years. The gals blogged with the burgeoning Pittsburgh food community an…

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Julia Gongaware, Laura Zorch, Mandy McFadden, Sarah Sudar

YouTube is increasingly a destination for entertainment but when it came to content for Latinos, one company wanted to create a more focused hub. MiTú is one of a few YouTube networks focusing on Latino lifestyle content…

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Beatriz Acevedo

One of the greatest lessons we can teach people as experience designers is that everything is not important. It seems an easy lesson to learn, since after all, it’s our job to sort through huge amounts of information in …

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Robert Stribley

After the Tampa Bay Times won a Pulitzer Prize for PolitiFact, its groundbreaking fact-checking operation, other newspapers wanted to get in the game and start their own PolitiFact sites. Editor Bill Adair had to figure …

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Bill Adair, Steve Myers

A year ago, Forbes introduced Daniel Ek to the world by putting on the cover of its inaugural "30 Under 30" issue. Now the story's author interviews Ek, perhaps the most disruptive force in music right now, about the fut…

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, Daniel Ek

Director of post production at CollegeHumor.com Michael Schaubach and composer Cheryl B. Engelhardt will examine the process of creating online hits like "The Fresh Prince of Downton Abbey" and "Katy Perry Puppet Sex" as…

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, Cheryl Engelhardt

Eric Cheng has been exploring the limits of photography as a world-renowned underwater photographer and founder of WetPixel.com, traveling hundreds of feet underwater to capture rare and beautiful creatures. As the Dire…

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Eric Cheng

Amit Singhal is SVP and Google Fellow overseeing Google Search. He’s currently leading Google's efforts to build more natural, conversational search that understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what …

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Amit Singhal, Guy Kawasaki

As newspapers bolt meters onto their sites and juicy narratives end up locked inside apps, will the village common become segregated into info have-and-have-nots. Will certain kinds of content become a luxury good? The …

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David Carr

What arguably started with the Arab Spring (witnesses participating in the "news" process directly via Twitter and Facebook has only intensified--and evolved, now employing Instagram and social video). This is one step d…

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Andy Carvin, Ayman Mohyeldin, Jim Frederick, Meredith Artley

Guy Kawasaki will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book” following his Featured session. Guy Kawasaki is the author of APE, What the Plus!, Enchan…

Henry Jenkins will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture” and other titles he has authored following his panel “Spreadable Media: Value, M…

You produce data that can help influence positive social change, but you don’t necessarily have personal stories that can illustrate those data in an easy-to-understand way. So how do you get people to care about your da…

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Lauren Carmin

What does a major Hollywood studio look for in a technology provider?As senior digital executives at Warner Bros. Entertainment, Hiram Norman and Bob Mohler get hundreds of queries per year from technology providers. In…

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Bob Mohler, Hiram Norman

Make no mistake, privacy is not dead. If it was, privacy snafus wouldn’t still be making headlines. Failing to build in privacy protections is the quickest way to put your company smack in the middle of a PR disaster. Gi…

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Rebecca Farmer, Rebecca Jeschke

Building a web site doesn't guarantee that it will automatically be loved by search engines. Having some SEO (search engine optimization) savvy can be a big help. But SEO doesn't mean terrible design or black-magic trick…

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Danny Sullivan, Duane Forrester, Matt Cutts

I would like to talk about how to program for the convergence of the Internet and television. In 5 years both mediums will be obsolete. The box we have at home -- call it Intervision -- will service our appetite for en…

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Harvey Levin

Social media has had a dramatic impact on how we watch television, with Twitter leading the way for a social TV revolution. Social television - the term used to describe the symbiotic relationship between social media an…

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Jenn Deering Davis

In the 1960's, advertising went through a creative revolution that changed how brand stories were told. Today, it's happening again. We're in the midst of a second creative revolution, this time driven by art, copy and …

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Aman Govil, Ben Malbon, Kevin Mayer, Winston Binch

Digitas, a digitally led, integrated brand agency, is collaborating with SXSWi to present the real story of SXSWi 2013. By analyzing a variety of data collected before, during and at the end of this year's Festival, Di…

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Beth McCabe, Itai Asseo

Social media and the 24-hour news cycle have pushed the water cooler conversation into hyper-drive. It’s happening around the clock with instantaneous reactions from professional critics and their armchair counterparts a…

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, Peter Lenkov, Tim Surette

The unspoken consensus in media is that in order to “make it,” it’s necessary to spend some time in the East. Because, of course, the financial and governing epicenters are in New York and DC, the East has long been home…

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Adam Rogers, Dylan Byers, Maria Streshinsky, Nicole Allan, Scott Stossel

Jonah Berger will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Contagious: Why Things Catch On” following his book reading session. Professor Jonah Berger, of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania,…

Joshua Green will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture” following his panel “Spreadable Media: Value, Meaning & Network Culture”. Joshua…

The advent of the Web marked the best and worst of times for journalism: Hyper-local and citizen news, the decline of print and rise of pay walls, reporters learning new skills as well as learning how to be "brands." The…

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James Grimaldi, Kevin Helliker, Laura Sturaitis, Liv Buli

Julia Gongaware will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Selling Food Lovers' Guide to Pittsburgh” following her Panel session. Julia Gongaware is an accomplished eater and holds a master’s degree in Jou…

Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder busted by New Zealand police under FBI and US DOJ supervision and awaiting extradition to the United States and a potential 55 years in jail for copyright violation, piracy, conspiracy …

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Charles Graeber

Laura Zorch will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Selling Food Lovers' Guide to Pittsburgh” following her Panel session. Laura Zorch has never met a sugary treat she didn’t like. Fact: Her body is com…

Can great technology and elegant UX solve the problem of how to fully engage audiences with online video while still providing a “lean back” viewing experience? Or are these two modes of experiencing media forever incomp…

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Christian Nelson, Dennis Palmieri

KUT-FM’s Austin Music Map (AMM) is a year-long exploration of the city's abundant and diverse musical subcultures. Blending on-line, broadcast, and street media, it’s one of 10 public media innovation projects that AIR i…

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, Delaney Hall, Kara Oehler

Amanda McFadden will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Selling Food Lovers' Guide to Pittsburgh” following her Panel session. Amanda McFadden has a lifelong goal to eat her way across the continental U…

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Amy McGee

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Bob Stolzberg

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Dana Such

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Evo Terra

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Jennifer Lee

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Jennifer Warren

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Ki Mae Heussner

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Rachel Wilkerson

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Ryan Lawler

Talk one-on-one with Steve Peters about any topic you choose! Second-screen applications, transmedia storytelling, monetization, ARGs, cigars, anything! Questions, suggestions, pitches, advice or just a chat.…

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Steve Peters

A new addition to SXSW Interactive in 2012, Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new…

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Steven Snyder

Have you ever thought about how that double play gets blasted to MLB headquarters in NYC, edited and buzzed back for instant replay on your TV and mobile device? MLB has worked for years to perfect the art of getting cli…

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Isaac Garcia, Rob Boysko

No matter how you do the math, there’s no ROI on a video that doesn’t get any views. So you just have to make your video go ‘viral’, right? But counting on a video to go viral effortlessly is not so different from planni…

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Bettina Hein, Eduardo Tobon, Kevin Doohan, Rob Ciampa

Systems of knowledge such as libraries, universities, publishers, and newspapers are centuries old. And the affordances of a print world have embedded specific practices within these systems. But digital technologies hav…

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David Weinberger, Jason Priem, Lissa Harris, Marguerite Avery

Trust in traditional news sources is at an all-time low. Trust in new start-up newsrooms is even lower. Why is this? Craig Newmark (yes, that Craig Newmark) and Kelly McBride of The Poynter Institute last year gathered s…

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Craig Newmark, Kelly McBride

As maker culture and hardware hackers merge the physical and the digital in new ways, this panel explores the potential for Internet-enabled things to help humans to gather, distribute, and understand news Sponsored by t…

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, Colleen Macklin, Dan Sinker, Jeffrey Warren

As for-profit news organizations struggle to maintain previous levels of reporting, nonprofit news organizations are proliferating to fill the gap in coverage. These new nonprofit media outlets are experiencing the same …

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Cherilyn Parsons, Jonathan McNamara, Meghann Farnsworth, Tanya Erlach

Pandora’s CTO, Tom Conrad, will sit down with MG Siegler from TechCrunch for a no-holds-barred Q&A session focusing on all things music and tech. Nothing will be off limits, and hot topics will include what Pandora is re…

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MG Siegler, Tom Conrad

Throughout its 40-year history, PBS has been a pioneer- taking television content to new heights, bringing audiences to the edge of the universe and back, and encouraging generations of children to imagine the vast vist…

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Paula Kerger

The old model of brand building and product distribution of physical goods has changed. No longer do you need to introduce via traditional media channels (commercials, trade press, long lead placements in magazines) or p…

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Abe Burmeister, Colin Nagy, David Lange, Erica Cerulo

Print is dead. Long live print. Tom Pain's 21st century pamphlet connects to the internet to showcase user generated content from activists in Syria and bloggers in Preston (UK). The web gets physical with Interactive Ne…

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Garrett Goodman, Paul Egglestone, Tom Metcalfe

RSVP Required - Organizing digital content not only makes it easier to find and use — it creates new opportunities. Our thriving media environment would not be feasible without standardized formats such as MP3, CD Audio,…

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Andrew Kuklewicz, Anne Wootton, Bailey Smith, Dave Rice

The copyright laws weren’t written with the internet in mind. As an IP attorney, I often meet people who’ve had their content illegally reproduced on other websites & in print. This presentation will explain your copyrig…

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Ruth Carter

Join us and enjoy a keg of beer while you discover “Avenue Live.” Avenue Live reinvents local radio by providing the sole place for artists, promoters, venues, music blogs and college radio stations to reach new audience…

Through advances in artificial intelligence and data science, Web sites and apps are evolving. There is a new breed of “robot” applications focused entirely on working on our behalf. Search robots like Siri turn mobile d…

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Amit Kapur, Jeff Bonforte

Sam Ford will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture” following his panel “Spreadable Media: Value, Meaning & Network Culture”. Sam Ford i…

Sarah Sudar will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Selling Food Lovers' Guide to Pittsburgh” following her Panel session. Sarah Sudar is passionate about two food groups: cupcakes and french fries, and…

Get together with other folks in the SEO industry 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 industry.…

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Bill Leake

The first wave of web was text. Remember Julie Powell's famous food blog -- and how it had no pictures? Along came a more visual web soon after, and now, anyone can be a visual curator with the help of Pinterest. But the…

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Camille Styles, Christian Remde, Jillian St Charles, Tolly Moseley

Friends are more likely to hit the Like Button if status updates include a photo; Tweets with pictures have a longer shelf life than those with text or links alone. Even news publishers report that the majority of page v…

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Chas Edwards

As social media destroys previous conceptions of reporters, their sources and the "audience," journalism is being re-defined by the minute. It's also letting people on all sides of the equation get away with things they …

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, , Greg Galant, Joe Ciarallo

Can a spoonful of sugar really help the medicine go down? How successful is issue-based “product placement” at motivating consumers to think differently about a social issue or inspire change? In this panel, senior level…

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, Anastasia Goodstein, Lindsay Guetschow, Rick Rey

Official websites are now a major player in the sporting landscape. Sports teams now see themselves as media organizations – offering news that competes with more traditional outlets such as print and television. (And th…

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Richard Clarke

How can we better understand how content circulates within contemporary networked culture? The collective decisions people make about whether to pass along content are profoundly reshaping the media landscape. Many conte…

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Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green, Sam Ford

RSVP Required - Social Media is evolving and storytelling is going to be next great tool to engage customers. Not sure you know what we mean? Most of today’s content strategies involve publishing hundred of bits of cont…

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Carri Bugbee, Mark Williams

The popular perception of digital and social media is that it’s ephemeral. Disposable. Mere one-offs, designed to be consumed and forgotten. But creative people are experimenting with storytelling across digital and inte…

Podcasting allows creators to directly connect with a global audience while avoiding the gatekeepers and bureaucracy of traditional broadcast media. But since iTunes’ native support for podcasting arrived back in 2005, i…

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Colin Anderson, Helen Zaltzman, Jesse Thorn, Roman Mars

With the rise of listicles, photo slideshows, and content farms, the survival of long-form writing on the web seemed bleak. But in fact, there has instead been a renaissance of long-form writing. While traditional outlet…

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Andrew Womack, C. Max Magee, Kevin Nguyen

IFC creates and champions authentic, original comedies that are “Always On. Slightly Off” including the hit series Portlandia, the fan favorite Comedy Bang! Bang! and the upcoming new original Maron. The network is also…

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Chris Gethard, Fred Armisen, Marc Maron, Scott Aukerman

Get together with other travel writers and bloggers for an hour of brainstorming, networking and storytelling. Coolest passport stamp smackdown is optional. Travel and tourism industry reps also welcome.……

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Sheila Scarborough

You’ve created a disruptive new technology that’s going to revolutionize an industry – at least until you can figure out how to explain it to someone. Kira Wampler, VP of Marketing for Lytro, will discuss how to craft a …

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Kira Wampler

Social media has transformed culture, communication, creativity and journalism in every nation on Earth — other than North Korea, of course. Wait — not so fast. What do we really know about social media’s role in the mys…

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Eric Carvin, Jean H. Lee

Currently a self-titled "Government Legislation Analyst," Adam Curry reads legislation, watches C-SPAN, deconstructs the media and reports his findings twice weekly on his listener-supported "No Agenda" podcast. Last sum…

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Adam Curry

In the age of constantly evolving news, newsrooms are confronted by the dilemma of how to archive their content for posterity. This is especially true in the case of breaking news as the stories change rapidly — both whe…

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Eric Price, Margaret Sullivan

With the rapid rise of photo-hungry social networks Pinterest and Instagram (and their subsequent effect on the more-established Facebook and Twitter,) branded content is compelled to become less verbal and more visual. …

For web series professionals, this Meet Up is the opportunity to mingle and network with your peers from across the country. This can be especially helpful for web series creators who would like to establish professional…

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Jenni Powell, Sandra Payne

Many comedians and fans alike consider the comedy stage a sacred place, where the dark, offensive, sacrilegious and even stupid can and should remain uncensored. But what does free speech mean in the age of iPhones, Face…

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Eddie Pepitone, Janine Brito, Joe Garden, W Kamau Bell

William Hertling, author of Avogadro Corp: The Singularity is Closer than it Appears, will read from his new novel, A.I. Apocalypse. Nominated for the Prometheus Award for Best Novel, and recommended by luminaries such…

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William Hertling

In many ways, mobile is the new cigarette. Like a pack of Marlboro Reds, this powerful machine of cool fits in our pocket so it can always be activated. Just as smokers have no compunction about going up to someone with …

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Doug Grinspan, Jeremiah Zinn

April Peveteaux will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Gluten Is My Bitch: Rants, Recipes, and Ridiculousness for the Gluten-Free” following her Book Reading session. April Peveteaux is the creator and…

Do you have thousands of rich media files that you can’t make sense of? Do you find yourself breaking into a sweat when you try to find a file? Are you frequently unsure which file is the latest version? Are you secretly…

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Edward Smith, Jim Kidwell

Bike Hugger is bike culture blogged and we're in town to meet with you about the bike. We'll talk tech, geekery, and the rides we're doing here in Austin. You're welcome to join us on those too.…

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DL Byron

Sarah Reinertsen was the first woman on a prosthetic leg to complete the grueling Hawaii Ironman Triathlon. Since losing her leg because of a bone-growth disorder, she has gone on to set world records in track and compet…

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Sarah Reinertsen

"What are you, crazy?" We've heard this often over the last 18 months in our execution of a strategy that we call "blog to brick." This strategy is leading us from building one of the most popular LGBT media sites in No…

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Kevin Farrell, Nick Vivion

The world of blogging as we once knew it is dead and gone. Independent websites run by single, mostly amateur individuals have given way to large internet media houses featuring re-blogged and syndicated content. Where …

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Simone Smith

Explore the important unanswered questions surrounding key music consumer behaviors, including; how to decode the super fan, what technology savvy consumers use to discover and purchase music,and in what way crowdsourcin…

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Barbara Zack, Benji Rogers, David Bakula, Howard Applebaum, Shawn O'Keefe

Caroline Waxler will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of “Stocking Up on Sin: How to Crush the Market with Vice-Based Investing” Caroline is launching Harkness Hall, a digital marketing strategy and conference …

Chris Hayes will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy”. Christopher Hayes is editor at large of The Nation and host of Up w/ Chris Hayes on MSNBC. From 2…

Chuck Lorre will signcopies of "What Doesn't Kill Us Makes Us Bitter," at the Long Center following his featured session “Chuck Lorre: In Conversation with Neil Gaiman”. One of the most accomplished television comedy wr…

Top TV comedy hitmaker Chuck Lorre ("The Big Bang Theory," “Two and a Half Men,” "Mike & Molly") makes his SXSW debut in a wide-ranging discussion with author Neil Gaiman ("Stardust," "Coraline," and the acclaimed comic …

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Chuck Lorre, Neil Gaiman

After the record industry and the live music industry, it’s time for innovation and constructively disrupting how the music industry operates. It's time to open up the shop and see what outside influences can bring to th…

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Brooke Parrott, Finian Murphy, Jim Carroll

The critically acclaimed host of MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and one of America’s leading progressive voices makes her SXSW debut. The cable news star brings her signature wit and intelligence to this wide-ranging d…

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Rachel Maddow

SXSW Film and Music are excited to present Nick Cave in Conversation with New York based author Larry Ratso Sloman. Nick Cave is an internationally acclaimed author, composer, screenwriter and actor. In recent years, C…

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Nick Cave, Larry Sloman

Yeah, there's Match and OkCupid and HowAboutWe. But the real matches are happening on everyday social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and Instagram. Set aside all the hype about Manti Te'o and "Catfishing" for…

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Brian Stelter, Jamie Shupak

Social media is a pervasive part of our lives – from how we connect with our family & friends to how we consume media. But is it for everyone? How about the macho, foul-mouthed crab fisherman who spend months in the frig…

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Johnathan Hillstrand, Josh Weinberg, Keith Colburn, Sig Hansen

This session presented by SXSW Music. Techno and technology adventurer and world-leading DJ Richie Hawtin engages on-stage with deadmau5 – one of the most globally-renowned electronic artists period. Each are innovators…

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Richie Hawtin

We have become a job-hopping culture. Company ‘lifers’ that maintain a career and knowledge in just one company for most of their working lives are essentially extinct. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, worker…

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Craig Malloy

Our business model is adapting to change. We thrive on disruption. We don't play by the rules. Our clients love us. Our competition doesn't truly understand us. This is a group discussion for entrepreneurs who have built…

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Brad Carleton, Nathan Toups

Mobile is revolutionizing food culture, from soup to Korean Tacos. And we’re not just talking about tweeted photos of pork flavored ice cream. Mobile is the social location-based foundation of the “food truck economy;…

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Nicholas Patrizi, Russ Parsons, Todd Dipaola

Don Peppers will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Extreme Trust: Honesty as a Competitive Advantage ” following his Core Conversation session. Recognized for almost 20 years as one of the leading auth…

Douglas Rushkoff will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now” following his panel session. Douglas Rushkoff is a world-renowned media theorist and the author of a …

Join a round table discussion of the Digital Revolution; how we got here, how the world has changed and what are the best ways forward in these contentious times. With Napster founders Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, musi…

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Alex Winter, John Perry Barlow, Sean Parker, Shawn Fanning, Eugene Hernandez

To bring about a more social experience in the workplace, we created Arnie - the world's first talking beer vending machine. Arnie is fully automated, intelligent and works on the seventeenth floor at Arnold Worldwide. …

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Presenters

Anthony Stellato

Eddie Huang will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “Fresh Off the Boat” following his Solo session. Eddie Huang chef/owner of the award-winning Taiwanese restaurant, Baohaus, in New York City, writer of…

As we spend ever more time in the digital world, what's becoming increasingly valued is the time we do NOT spend online or in front of a screen—the time we spend with real people and real things. As JWT observed in its T…

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Presenters

Ann Mack, Frank Rose, Paul Woolmington