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.…

Intermediate

Presenters

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

We live in a constantly connected world, where people move seamlessly between multiple devices, and the definition of mobile is evolving beyond a set of devices. This always-on lifestyle provides an additional set of sig…

Intermediate

Presenters

, , , Rich Lesperance

Take your eyes off the bright shiny CE objects for a second and you will see that mobility is about changing consumer behaviors, not the technology. At every stage, from mobile shopping to at-home use to tweeting snarky …

Intermediate

Presenters

Mike Proulx, Rob Griffin, Thom Kennon, Tina Unterlaender

Brand marketers are currently in the midst of dealing with the implications of the most revolutionary shift in the history of communication. Social media has upended the entire landscape, shifting the balance of power fr…

Intermediate

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Jeffrey Dachis

One of the latest innovations coming out of Facebook is its search graph, which allows users to overlay their Facebook friends with other data, such as interests and location. This union of the social graph and the inter…

Intermediate

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, Chase McMichael, Max Kalehoff, Paul DeJarnatt

The Appys honor extraordinary Applications on all platforms: mobile, social and web-based. The Appy Awards are unbiased to App's format, platform or device; instead we focus on the best apps in a diverse range of categor…

Beginning

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Steve Smith

The Appy Awards pays tribute to the world’s best apps in every imaginable category. The cocktail party celebrates winning work of year and the growing App industry.……

RSVP Required - All too often writing HTML and CSS is an afterthought. Its the work that happens after design is finalized and the product has been developed. Its a necessary task in the process to building a website. Wr…

Intermediate

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Darby Frey, Shay Howe

RSVP Required - If your website has user-generated content or social media, you've likely gotten comments from people in crisis. Not only is this scary, but it can drain resources, raise legal issues, and create a PR nig…

Intermediate

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Ashley Womble, Christopher Gandin Le, Earnest Mazique, Jennifer Battle

RSVP Required - Why doesn’t your software look and work right? Early designs painted an interface paradise filled with exotic features, but something went terribly awry and nothing quite works the way you thought it woul…

Intermediate

Presenters

Hendrik Mueller, Ian Gunn, Jonathan Yu, Vance Vagell

RSVP Required - Over half of TV consumers today use their mobile devices while watching TV (Pew Research, http://goo.gl/dkbXf). With the attention shifting away from the big screen, new ways to keep TV viewers engaged ar…

Intermediate

Presenters

Horia Ciurdar, Jarek Wilkiewicz, Les Vogel, Ossama Alami

RSVP Required - Getting accepted to present at South by Southwest means nothing if you do a crap job of it once you get here. Cranky Talk Workshops are dedicated to eradicating mediocre conference presentations and we’re…

Intermediate

Presenters

Adam Polansky, Dan Willis, David Panarelli, Laura Creekmore

RSVP Required - This workshop is now FULL. If you did not RSVP, you will NOT have a seat. We teach design thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, aka “the d.school.” Our process is user-centered a…

Intermediate

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Aaron Huey, Justin Ferrell, Sarah Stein Greenberg, Susie Wise

RSVP Required - One of the most critical issues facing entrepreneurs is deciding if and when it makes sense to raise outside capital. In today's entrepreneurial environment, there are many funding options and competitive…

Beginner

Presenters

Arie Abecassis

Matthew E. May will appear at the South by Bookstore to sign copies of “The Laws of Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything” following his Book Reading session. Matthew E. May is the auth…

RSVP Required - Calling all hackers: Join the Amazon Web Services developer team for a deep dive into building sophisticated web and mobile apps on Amazon Web Services. We’ll discuss best practices for availability, scal…

Intermediate

Presenters

Simone Brunozzi

RSVP Required - I have used Apple's Keynote for mocking up UI while working at Apple and at Netflix. I use Keynote 95% percent of the time and use Photoshop and Illustrator on occasion but only for specific tasks. Keynot…

Intermediate

Presenters

Joel Beukelman, Ted Boda

RSVP Required - The user interface is changing. So, lets adapt to those changes. HTML5 makes new and exciting web interfaces possible. We'll look at some examples and do a step-by-step code walkthrough of some of the mos…

Advanced

Presenters

Matt Null

RSVP Required - Models mean different things to different people, but they are basically a simplified representation of a system built to support predictions and/or decision making. In this class, we’ll talk about first …

Beginner

Presenters

Michael Robson

RSVP Required - If you're running a tech start-up, it's essential that you familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of web development. Ultimately knowing how to "talk to the talk" will help you communicate better with…

Beginner

Presenters

Ben Sigman, Chris Castiglione

RSVP Required - Extraterrestrial travel is within our (civilian) grasp and it’s time for designers, dreamers, and wannabe astronauts to come together to imagine the future. Using pen and paper, we’ll sketch our ultimate …

Intermediate

Presenters

Jill Nussbaum

RSVP Required - Pick an element, any element. Style it. Manipulate it. No IDs. No classes. No jQuery necessary. We’ll learn all the new features of selectors tin CSS and JavaScript hat enable you to select this DOM node,…

Intermediate

Presenters

Estelle Weyl, Tab Atkins

RSVP Required - General purpose web frameworks don’t usually make for great tools when trying to build fast and scalable Hypermedia APIs. What we need is a dedicated API framework -- one that natively speaks HTTP, suppor…

Intermediate

Presenters

Eric Marden

RSVP Required - You want to write a bunch of mobile applications, but you dread learning the Objective-C of iOS, the flavors of "bastardized Java" for Android and BlackBerry, or the C#/Visual Basic of Windows Phone. Neve…

Intermediate

Presenters

David Becher

RSVP Required - Bill will help attendees develop an HTML5 app optimized for mobile devices. HTML5 apps are web apps on steroids, providing awesome touch interactions, hardware-accelerated graphics, and the ability to wo…

Advanced

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Bill Fisher

RSVP Required - Learn the essential Ruby and Rails needed to transform your designs into working web applications. Doing so will inform your design decisions, improve your ability to collaborate with back-end developers,…

Beginner

Presenters

Jeff Cohen, Neal Sales-Griffin, Raghu Betina

RSVP Required - I-9. W-4. IRA. Budget. Policy. Reimbursement. Invoice. Payroll . . . These are not exactly the words that inspire entrepreneurs. Yet the Startup Genome Project reported that most companies fail because of…

Beginner

Presenters

Carin Zinter, Liz Jones-Dilworth, Mikalina Kirkpatrick

RSVP Required - Community Manager (CM) is one of the most buzzworthy job titles in the online media industry. There are countless variations of the job, and little clarity on where it falls in the organizational hierarch…

Advanced

Presenters

Natalie Rodic Marsan, Nick Cicero, Tim McDonald

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…

Intermediate

Presenters

Gerald Coley, Jason Kridner

RSVP Required - By now you know that Node.js is the most downloaded repository on GitHub, but you are not sure how to get started. How do you set up the servers, what's an optimal development environment, and...what exac…

Intermediate

Presenters

Jim Snodgrass

RSVP Required - The c-suite has just approved your strategy to leverage networks and social media for your mission. But, if your internal culture is not a social one how can you possibly expect to be successful? This w…

Intermediate

Presenters

Beth Kanter, Danielle Brigida, Laura Fitton, Rachel Weidinger

RSVP Required - The wireframing and prototyping techniques, tools and software we use have a legacy problem. Much of it is very button-centric. And many of the great apps, games and experiences we create live on touch de…

Intermediate

Presenters

Sara Summers

RSVP Required - Experience design is hard. Design compositions are inconsistent with the final rendered product and interactions are complicated to communicate. As an experience design lead on an HTML/CSS/JS based applic…

Intermediate

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Garth Braithwaite

RSVP Required - Building fast, scalable systems is about more than just the speed at which a request can be serviced. We must take into account how we scale a system’s throughput, persisted data size, hardware, contribut…

Advanced

Presenters

Andrew Headrick

RSVP Required - User-centered design can be characterized as a multi-stage problem solving process that not only requires designers to analyze and foresee how users are likely to use a product, but also to test the valid…

Advanced

Presenters

Tyler Wilson, Vincent Higgins

RSVP Required - The strategy of responsive design has long since been accepted as the way to deal with creating web sites that appear custom-tailored to any and every device. Media queries, responsive image strategies an…

Advanced

Presenters

Erin Sparling, Joe Kendall

RSVP Required - Epic Games is hosting an all-day workshop to help SXSW Interactive attendees make great mobile games using the award-winning Unreal Engine technology. The Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of…

Intermediate

Presenters

Zak Parrish

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,…

Intermediate

Presenters

Andrew Kuklewicz, Anne Wootton, Bailey Smith, Dave Rice

RSVP Required - The founders of Modit will discuss their vision for a future in which game development is democratized by turning game players into game creators. Browser-based game development and distribution will emp…

Intermediate

Presenters

Alex Sutherland, Alexander Sheive, Sam Workman, Shantanu Dhaka

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…

Intermediate

Presenters

Carie Lewis, David Neff, Katie Paine

RSVP Required - Using an API doesn't begin and end with a request and a response. Before third-party developers write a line of code, there's a desire to leverage your product and connect with your users. How you enable …

Advanced

Presenters

Brian Smith, Jeremiah Cohick, Neil Mansilla, R. Kevin Nelson

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…

Advanced

Presenters

Carri Bugbee, Mark Williams

RSVP Required - Ambitious web applications are about more than your favorite JavaScript framework. You'll need a system of responsive, reliable and malleable components that can scale independently as your user base grow…

Intermediate

Presenters

Jonathon Morgan

RSVP Required - Apps are king. Or, for some, god. Either way, they are the future of not only how we play, but how we work and therein lies opportunity. In order to take advantage of this, there are several strategic ste…

Intermediate

Presenters

David Brutman, John Wargo, Paul Goh, Sam Thambu

RSVP Required - Configuring, deploying, and managing Big Data infrastructure, Hadoop in particular, is time consuming and expensive. Infochimps’ Ironfan is an open source systems configuration suite for the cloud, quick…

Advanced

Presenters

Amanda McGuckin Hager, Nathaniel Eliot, Ryan Miller, Tim Gasper

RSVP Required - BAM! POW! Beloved superhero Daredevil squelches his enemies with speed and precision, completely uninhibited by his blindness. Overcoming adversity, discovering superpowers, and saving the world are commo…

Beginner

Presenters

Livia Veneziano, Yvonne So

RSVP Required - Effective mobile design patterns, Agile design principles and practical expert advice: "start with questions and walk away with wireframes": * Create and test paper wireframes for the core pages of your a…

Advanced

Presenters

Greg Nudelman

RSVP Required - The current patchwork of international, national, and state privacy laws is a mystery to developers, especially those at startups with just a few employees. Most simply do what they think makes sense, bu…

Beginner

Presenters

Laura Berger, Mark Blafkin, Morgan Reed, Richard Qiu

RSVP Required - Unity 4 demonstrates the platform's AAA push that levels the playing field between the largest and the smallest studios. It enables anyone, from the most indie game designer to the biggest multinational …

Intermediate

Presenters

Carl Callewaert, Corey Johnson

RSVP Required - The advanced social media monitoring workshop will exist in two parts. The first half will assess the state of the social media monitoring industry from bottom to top. Examples will be given on the holis…

Advanced

Presenters

Alistair Croll, Blake Robinson, Margaret Francis, Susan Etlinger

RSVP Required - Standard ebook publishing requires ramping up on knowledge about various ebook formats, and then becoming familiar with proprietary ebook publishing channels like Kindle, iBooks, etc. Wouldn't it be easie…

Advanced

Presenters

Tessa Silver

RSVP Required - Brand Amplification Programs drive engagement, awareness and revenue for brands and affect purchasing behavior of customers. Large scale influencer relationships can boost ROI and provide cost savings as …

Advanced

Presenters

Ajay Ramachandran, Harry Spitzer, Kenny Lee

RSVP Required - Innovation continues to skyrocket in the mobile space, but many developers don't realize that they're creating apps against a complex -- and often murky -- legal backdrop. This presentation will identify …

Advanced

Presenters

Charles Mudd Jr, Marcia Hofmann

RSVP Required - Mobile devices have changed the way we design and develop products. Every touch and interface design decision has an impact, especially on users with disabilities. We'll talk about how these users interac…

Advanced

Presenters

Victor Tsaran