Interested in getting started with Angel Investing? Have you made a few investments already but still haven't formalized your strategy? Learn from the mistakes of experienced Angel Investors who will share their success…

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Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSHbooty): Following on the success of the 2012 bootcamp, join us for another year of education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health tech startups. Learn "Why Health Te…

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Carissa Caramanis O'Brien, Chuck Saunders, Lauren Vargas, Shwen Gwee

Join SXSW Startup Village for our second annual SXSW Ping Pong Tournament. You need not be a professional, just sign up online and prepare to have a blast. Each company may select two employees to represent them in a sin…

Here are 5 Austin startups that are immune to the "Series A Crunch". Tired of hearing about founders who raised $8 million at at $30 million valuation with no revenue? Worried about getting diluted as Silicon Valley val…

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Antonio Arocha, Chris Slaughter, Joshua Baer, Magdalena Szuszkiewicz, Nate Stewart

Trained as an architect and a jazz musician, Christopher Janney has been combining these two disciplines for over 30 years. Sometimes trying to make architecture more like music- more spontaneous, more "alive"- Janney ha…

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Christopher Janney, Ryan Edwards

In the "old days", most people lived a more predictable, structured life. Most consumers aspired to own a home, and a car or two. There were certain days for work and days for play, clothes for work and other clothes for…

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Aileen Lee, Jennifer Hyman

As part of the SXSH Bootcamp, Jason Calacanis hosts a special edition of This Week in Startups: Health Tech Edition live from SXSWi. Join Jason as he interviews 3 health technology startups,……

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Derek Flanzraich, Jason Calacanis, Veer Gidwaney

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

As the nature of diplomacy has changed since the Cold War, the Department of State has embraced new tools and is reaching out to those behind these new tools. Rose Gottemoeller, Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms …

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Daniel Terdiman, Rose Gottemoeller

Meet 5 tech startups that have a clear path to being profitable on less than $1 million in funding. That doesn’t mean they aren’t big ideas, it just means they are capital efficient and the entrepreneurs are scrappy. The…

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, Michael Olaya, Neeraj Mehta, Swetansu Mohapatra

Dave Morin and Path have always maintained that privacy controls should be simple and that your data always belongs to you. Discover why building privacy and control directly into a product from the start is essential; …

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Dave Morin

A panel discussion comprised of representatives from various non-traditional (i.e. not just angels and VC's) funding bodies, such as: Pharma/Healthcare Investment Arms, Health Tech Incubators, Health Innovation Challenge…

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Margaret Laws, Rafael Torres, Unity Stoakes

Session includes the ballers and shotcallers of Uber, Airbnb + GitHub. Come hang with Dave McClure, Eric Ries, & 1,000 tech startups + influencers for a day of tactical case studies & inspiring keynotes about what it act…

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, Eric Ries, Joe Zadeh, Udi Nir

IrelandatSXSW will demo the technologies of our newest and most exciting interactive companies and highlight why Ireland is home to many of the world’s best emerging technology companies in enterprise web solutions, hype…

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Four different views of the Austin Startup Ecosystem share their perspective of the Austin Startup Scene. Successful entrepreneurs, the City of Austin, the Austin Chamber of Commerce and Startup Accelerators will each h…

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Bijoy Goswami, Jim Butler, Kevin Koym, Susan Davenport

Student Startup Madness (SSM) is a nationwide tournament for college student digital media startups, and SXSW is home of the national finals. This year’s tournament opened in the summer of 2012. First and regional round…

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Jim McKelvey, Nicole Glaros, Patrick Ambron, Paul Amsbary

AT&T and American Airlines Travel Hack: Event Kick Off, Team Registration and Presentation of Technology. AT&T and American Airlines are co-hosting a travel/location challenge. Be the first to program with these unrel…

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

Anne-Marie Slaughter will discuss her article in the Atlantic Magazine, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All", the replies to it, and the expansions on the topic that she is considering in her book on the same topic. She w…

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Anne-Marie Slaughter, Jessica Coen

Austin is a town of contradiction and transition. The juxtaposition of a fiercely liberal town set on a conservative backdrop creates the friction that much of the town's creative fire sparks from, and much of its charm.…

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Garann Means, Gerardo Treviño, Mark Phillip, Natalie Cofield

IrelandatSXSW will demo the technologies of our newest and most exciting interactive companies and highlight why Ireland is home to many of the world’s best emerging technology companies in enterprise web solutions, hype…

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Session includes ETSY, MODCLOTH + MEEBO: THE ANATOMY OF A ROCKSTAR PRODUCT CYCLE. Come hang with Dave McClure, Eric Ries, & 1,000 tech startups + influencers for a day of tactical case studies & inspiring keynotes about …

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Nicole Lazzaro, Rashmi Sinha, Seth Sternberg

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

Student Startup Madness (SSM) is a nationwide tournament for college student digital media startups, and SXSW is home of the national finals. This year’s tournament opened in the summer of 2012. First and regional round…

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Jim McKelvey, Nicole Glaros, Patrick Ambron, Paul Amsbary

Like it or not, we live in the age of annoyance. Technology, electronic communications, gadgets, airline travel—as it all gets “easier,” it also seems to get exponentially more annoying. Annoyance is described as an unpl…

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Gavin Jocius

Writers are notorious procrastinators, but as you can imagine, we're also creative at finding ways of delaying sitting down in front of a blank or partially completed page. One of my recent dilatory tactics turned into s…

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Bryna Kranzler

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

As our online actions and behaviors become more and more integrated through the social graph and interest graph, there are opportunities for the nonprofit sector to mine that data and connect people and organizations for…

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Will Grana

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

It takes more than a fancy tuxedo and a social media presence to create a social organization. In addition to building social profiles, businesses must invite the entire company to the online dance and coax people to do …

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Mark Grindeland

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

Presented by the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) & the Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), Austin Startup Fast Pitch (ASFP) is a fast pitch competition for Austin-based startups with revolutionary ideas looking for fun…

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Bril Flint, John Stockton, Kyle Cox, Pat Noonan

The sharing economy. Collaborative consumption. Call it what you will, it is clear that these new social and commercial technologies have collided with macroeconomic forces like the recession and the failure of big hiera…

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Juliet Gorman, Nate Blecharczyk, Shelby Clark, Tim O'Reilly

Building a successful startup and taking it through a successful exit is not easy. Yet David Sacks has done it twice – as the COO of PayPal, he took the company from product launch to IPO and $1.5 billion acquisition by …

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David Sacks, Jason Calacanis

IrelandatSXSW will demo the technologies of our newest and most exciting interactive companies and highlight why Ireland is home to many of the world’s best emerging technology companies in enterprise web solutions, hype…

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Session includes STEVE BLANK'S Startup Lessons, plus KEVIN HALE (WUFOO) on Romancing your users. Come hang with Dave McClure, Eric Ries, & 1,000 tech startups + influencers for a day of tactical case studies & inspiring …

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Kevin Hale, Scott Chacon, Steve Blank, Steven VanRoekel

Student Startup Madness (SSM) is a nationwide tournament for college student digital media startups, and SXSW is home of the national finals. This year’s tournament opened in the summer of 2012. First and regional round…

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Jim McKelvey, Nicole Glaros, Patrick Ambron, Paul Amsbary

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

In the march to a more connected world, technology increasingly helps us to manage our day-to-day lives in more ways. Our behavior is tracked with sensors on smart devices; our social posts and tweets are mined for insi…

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Ben Essen

As we’re in touch with more people, the meaning of those connections is often diluted. This panel addresses how we can leverage and embrace new technologies to maintain strong personal connections with our ever-growing …

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Jeffrey Schwartz, Sara Rodell

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

Social is not about eyeballs. Or shouting at the crowd. Or increasing followers and fans. The real currency of social is conversation, storytelling and 1-to-1 style engagement. Brands and causes alike are beginning to re…

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Ron J Williams

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

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

Thanks to eons of pre-language evolution, we're hard-wired to intuit what's in other people's minds and harmonize our thoughts and emotions. But too often our mind-reading instincts get overridden by a drive to win argum…

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Henry Copeland

This panel will address new types of emerging wearable technologies that control the human body or augment it with new capabilities by building upon our body's electrical properties. Such devices use electrical signals r…

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Olivier Bau

There has to be another way to run a social network. Instead of trapping users inside a walled-garden, could you let users choose how to interact with the network and with each other? This is the App.net experiment. App.…

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Dalton Caldwell

In May 2012 the US Census Bureau reported that for the first time in history minority newborn children outpaced whites, ushering in the new American reality known as "The Minority Majority". For many, the Bureau’s observ…

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Kevin Hartman

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

Be the first to know about the best technology coming from the other side of the pond at the Start-Up Village’s UK Demo Day. Come mix, mingle, and meet those that lead the largest entrepreneurial community in Europe – UK…

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First ever multi-VC mentoring and fast pitch session as part of Startup Village. Venture capitalists focused on mobile, consumer web, software, commerce, enterprise, and big data will meet with entrepreneurs to discuss …

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Cheryl Cheng, Christiaan Vorkink

Session includes VINOD KHOSLA, DAVE MCCLURE, ERIC RIES, & TODD PARK (THE CTO OF THE USA)! Come hang with Dave McClure, Eric Ries, & 1,000 tech startups + influencers for a day of tactical case studies & inspiring keynote…

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Dave McClure, Ross Snyder, Todd Park, Vinod Khosla

Austin and Central Texas are exploding with startups and startup events like Startup Week, pitch competitions and demo days, building an identity as a hub for tech entrepreneurship. What gets covered impacts what succeed…

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Bryan Menell, Colin Pope, Kirk Ladendorf, Susan Lahey

With the next generation of warfighters taking on the face of a video gamer in the States vs. a camouflaged soldier in the battlefield, STEM skills are increasingly important to today's military in order to continue prot…

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Michael Bennett

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

China is on track to become the world’s largest economy – and a huge driver of that growth comes from innovative new companies. Technology startups aren’t just “copying” US companies anymore, but coming up with China-spe…

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Jeff Richards

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

A few years ago, I become a mother and an orphan, almost overnight. Sitting in my house in the woods, grieving with young children, I knew my road to happiness lay in creating and building with technology. But the indust…

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Tereza Nemessanyi

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

The Austin tech scene is booming, more and more companies are considering laying down their roots in the capital city. With a top research university, business-friendly tax incentives, and an awesome startup-friendly cul…

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Caroline Valentine, Kevin LaHaise, Paul Huggins, Steve Burt

Session includes lessons from startup founders of HOTEL TONIGHT, HUBSPOT, THE MUSE + SHARETHROUGH. Come hang with Dave McClure, Eric Ries, & 1,000 tech startups + influencers for a day of tactical case studies & inspirin…

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Dan Greenberg, Dharmesh Shah, Kathryn Minshew, Sam Shank

For this session, Digg founder and Google Ventures partner Kevin Rose will interview YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley. The format will be a fireside chat, in the style of Kevin Rose's Foundation video series (http://found…

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, Kevin Rose

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

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

 Be the first to know about the best technology coming from the other side of the pond at the Start-Up Village’s UK Demo Day. Come mix, mingle, and meet those that lead the largest entrepreneurial community in Europe – …

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First ever multi-VC mentoring and fast pitch session as part of Startup Village. Venture capitalists focused on mobile, consumer web, software, commerce, enterprise, and big data will meet with entrepreneurs to discuss t…

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Balaji Gopinath, Ben Narasin, Harshul Sanghi, Jay Jamison

Landing in The Middle East is the natural progression for brands as they seek to take advantage of this increasingly consumerist society. But this melting pot of cultural contradiction – that just 30 years ago was little…

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Guilherme Rangel

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

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

Marketers are excited about the growing purchasing power and cultural influence of Hispanics, but still rely on traditional user experience and assumptions to inform how they design and market to this key segment. So wha…

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Yashoda Sampath

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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The Greek economy was one of the hottest global news topics of the past year. While international media sparked constant fears of the Euro fallout, local residents faced the instability of transitioning governments and u…

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Nikos Kakavoulis

Digital health is driving revolutionary change across the globe. Health systems are being turned upside down as consumers and healthcare professionals tap into the cloud, big data and EHRs. Traditional structures and b…

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, Brendan Seaton, Dale Gregg, Tiffany Terrier

HATCH: The pitch competition for tech startups with revolutionary ideas. Join our well-connected audience as the first group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepreneur, corp…

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Joel Yarmon, Ken Jones, Kerry Rupp, Marc Weiser

A spirited conversation with Airbnb's cofounder and CEO Brian Chesky in which we delve into the process of designing and building a platform for sharing homes, explore the company's new push into the travel guide area wi…

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Brian Chesky, Jessi Hempel

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

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

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Donald Christian, Nathan Green, Pauline Dow, Richard Rhodes

HATCH: The pitch competition for tech startups with revolutionary ideas. Join our well-connected audience as the second group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepreneur, cor…

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Rahul Sood

Do you have a great idea for an interactive project? If your project displays an exceptional interactive content idea and an original media dissemination strategy – and your pitch stands out above all others in terms of…

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Gavin McGarry, Joe Fingerote, Kelly Robinson, Kerry Stauffer

Few games can match the ubiquity and legacy of Doom, the seminal first-person shooter that ushered in thousands of mods, clones, and successors. Nearly every significant FPS, from Resistance to Half-Life, Call of Duty to…

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John Romero

Did the human race almost go extinct? Can genetics explain a crazy cat lady’s love for felines? How does DNA lead to people with no fingerprints, or humans born with tails? And how did the right combination of genes crea…

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Sam Kean

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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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

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

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

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

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

Access to startup capital has always been a key pain point for female entrepreneurs, but is the angel and venture capital landscape finally changing? Recent research from Babson College says that if female entrepreneurs …

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Ingrid Vanderveldt, Kay Koplovitz

HATCH: The pitch competition for tech startups with revolutionary ideas. Join our well-connected audience as the last group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepreneur, corpo…

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John Frankel, Nate Gross, Rami Essaid

The path to game changing innovation will be realized by radically changing an organization’s approach to leadership and decision making. Moving from politics and PowerPoint to decision making by hypothesis and leadersh…

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Scott Cook

Presented by The University of Texas at Austin, the Longhorn Startup Showcase is a fast pitch competition for UT Austin-based student startups with revolutionary ideas looking for funding to scale their innovations. We w…

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Isaac Barchas, Laura Kilcrease, Robert Warren, Rudy Garza

Canada leads in every major wave of wireless innovation. Hear how you as an investor, developer, entrepreneur or enterprise can leverage this innovation. This panel offers insight from mobile innovators in the Canadian …

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Jeff Musson, Nathan Robinson, Nick Kapov, Wendy Mackinnon Keith

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

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

The web is over, it was a cute lab experiment, the sort of toy that Nature watches her children play with and laughs. Six billion mobile devices. Eight? Ten? Cute as a button. What will happen when we climb the next moun…

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Mickey McManus

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

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

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

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

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

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

AT&T and American Airlines Travel Hack: Team Presentations AT&T and American Airlines are co-hosting a travel/location challenge. Be the first to program with these unreleased APIs. Cash and other prizes to best apps!…

What if the biologic differences between men and women determined their body weight? Most of the recent rise in US obesity is in men; women have stayed stable. Men's average weight has risen from 180# in 1990 to 196# in …

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John La Puma

How many decisions do you make in a day? From what type of coffee you want, to determining the user-interface for your next product, you make hundreds of decisions every day. The important question to ask yourself is thi…

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David Goldberg

PANEL: FINDING and MANAGING CO-FOUNDERS: THE WHO, WHY, WHERE & HOW You’ve been told you need a co-founder, but why? And how do you pick the right one? You’re an engineer & you think biz folks are kind of sucky, why do yo…

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Jesse Pickard, Jonathan Dobbertin, Mike Levinson, Steve Welch

Funded in Austin features Founder/CEO’s of three startups who have pursued and secured investment in their entrepreneurial ventures – one from crowdfunding, one from angel funding, and one from venture capital – totaling…

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Barry Evans, Claire England, Justin Jensen, Matt Cohen

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

Commerce is entering an era of democratization, changing the way people purchase and distribute goods and services. At the heart of this shift is the rise of mobile devices, which have helped revolutionize commerce by pr…

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, Chi-Hua Chien, Harry McCracken, Logan Green

Storytellers are blurring the lines between traditional television and new forms of fiction and Canadian broadcasters are embracing the opportunities - as second screen convergent experiences, standalone web series and i…

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, Amit Breuer, Ghassan Fayad, Pierre-Mathieu Fortin

Setting up the dev shop at a startup is really hard. As the technical leader of the shop, it feels overwhelming. As the non-technical leader, it's scary because you have no idea if things are being done "right". I will…

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Scott Porad

A significant part of the population wants to live and feel better. Unfortunately, most of them don't know what better means and, more importantly, don't want to put too much effort into being better. higi creates consu…

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Khan Siddiqui, M.D.

Many product ideas require hardware for sensing, user interaction, etc. Until recently, it has been difficult & expensive to bring the hardware component of a product to market. Developments such as low cost rapid prot…

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Denis Bohm

Storytelling. Creativity. Emotion. These elements have forever been the backbone of marketing. But now, thanks to the digital revolution, the creative industry finds itself balancing two very different approaches. While …

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Matthew Langie

Part of the problem in changing health and fitness habits comes from a lack of information about where you’re going wrong. Did you burn 800 calories in spin class instead of 1,000? Miss your 10,000-step walking target? H…

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Christine Robins

There are three main qualities required to create a successful social network in health: trust, transparency, and meritocracy. The first element, trust, can be created by connecting people with trusted health information…

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Ron Gutman

The internet of things (IoT) started off as a crazy scifi dream but its basic building blocks: ultra cheap computing and swarm computation are slowly working their way into existing product categories. This tends to conf…

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Scott Jenson

AT&T and American Airlines Travel Hack: Judging and Winning teams announced AT&T and American Airlines are co-hosting a travel/location challenge. Be the first to program with these unreleased APIs. Cash and other priz…

Just a few months ago, The Pebble E-paper Watch project received a record-breaking $10.2 million through Kickstarter in a widespread show of support from a community of 68,000+ micro-funders. And all this support was for…

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Amber Case, Henrik Werdelin, Luke Lagera, Seth Friedman

What better place to find your co-founder than at SXSW where tens of thousands of like-minded people from around the world are mashed up together? Due to popular demand after the success of last year's sessions, DreamIt …

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Mark Wachen, William Crowder

Imagine a developing country where a bandage not only heals a patient’s wound, but also tracks data like bacteria levels and blood pressure with a built-in sensor that can be monitored real-time by a doctor. Visits to th…

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Kerry Mcguire Balanza

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

Smart Canadians at the SXSW Startup Village features Canadian entrepreneurs, big thinkers and notable doers in the digital interactive industry. Programming includes trend-talks, pitch sessions, a networking lounge, B2…

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Jocelyne Le Léannec, Kayla Jeanson, Keith Otto, Meghan Athavale

The current model of drug discovery is broken. Billions of dollars are wasted and it takes far too long to bring a drug to market. Research and development is dependent on the wrong type of models. We need a new way …

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Susan Solomon

In an increasingly fragmented landscape, how do you navigate through all of the new technology and keep your message from getting lost in a sea of communication? This discussion focuses on ways to utilize emerging techno…

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Glenn Stansbury, Maani Safa, Nicholas Oliver, Thomas Fellger

Not only is Austin a cool place to visit for SXSW, it’s increasingly recognized by tech investors as an optimal market for serial, high-ROI investments. Austin’s ample talent, business-friendly environment, low barrier t…

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Adam Lyons, Julie Huls, Morgan Flager

Doing great design is not enough; we need to *lead* our design efforts. We need to negotiate tradeoffs with business partners, design in the context of other product development processes, and work with business partners…

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Craig Peters

Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s admission that she works a 9-to-5 schedule ignited a firestorm in the tech world over work/life balance. Mashable founder Pete Cashmore nailed it when he said, “It’s up to both employers an…

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Anne Reeve

As User Experience professionals continue to tackle the challenges of designing for mobile solutions, the environment of use becomes increasingly important. What do you do when you encounter obstacles to designing an eff…

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Steve Simula

With over 1.2 billion health-related searches on Google every month, there’s a high demand for open access to trusted medical information online. Most information available lives on static repositories such as websites o…

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Jeff Pollard

The term “literacy” usually refers to the ability to read and write functionally. The emphasis is on interaction with the written word - taken for granted as the cornerstone of education. But momentum may be building in …

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Erin Abler

Patient sharing of photos and documents in health is broken. To get documents, pictures, and files to doctors, patients are forced to send faxes, mail packages, hand-deliver documents, or even write letters / submit for…

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Michael Nichols

Not all investors are created equal. Join David Hornik of August Capital and Michael Silverstein of Liquidnet Private Shares as they discuss how to attract “smart money” before going public. In this talk, they’ll cover t…

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David Hornik, Michael Silverstein

The stereotypical product image for seniors entails bigger buttons, bigger text, and bigger screens. When it comes to designing for the elderly, it is not necessary to dumb down technologies. In this talk, we’ll take a d…

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Carina Ngai

Empathic. Collaborative. Constructive. Fast. These are just some of the words that today’s hiring managers use to describe the new New Hire. As our mediums change, so do our expectations for interactive designers. As scr…

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Jared Spool, Leslie Jensen-Inman

Lawyers from Foursquare, Meetup and Etsy explore the legal and business challenges facing tech companies and provide insights on how growing tech companies can navigate legal issues. Along the way, they will reveal: •…

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Brian Chase, David Pashman, Sarah Feingold

In an attention economy where more and more options compete for scarce attention, the ability to attract and retain attention will increasingly determine who creates and captures value. Stories are a powerful way to enga…

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John Hagel

Positive blind spots are the unintended consequence of our culture of self-improvement. Growing up, we’re taught that we can do anything. It feels good to hear, and we’re likely all guilty of actually believing it. Unfo…

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Cameron Lord

Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Ali Velshi Judges: Scott Weiss, Harper Reed, Don Dodge Finalist: Charlie, Desti,…

News Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Tony Conrad Judges: John Cantarella, Vivian Schiller, Andrew Rasiej Finalist: Aud…

Social Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Eli Pariser Judges: Warren Lee, David Aronoff, Kevin Carter Finalist: Click Wit…

From school sports to the workplace, we’ve been conditioned to believe there is no “I” in Team. But that’s a big, fat lie. For years, the preferences of individuals, or “I’s”, have largely been ignored in favor of the T…

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Blaine Mathieu

Well, not yet. While digital personalization has touched most of the marketing mix, the TV spot has continued to hold strong. Interactivity has flirted with those :30s and :60s, but limitations in hardware and software o…

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Matt Walsh

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

When we're born, we start learning how the world works by playing. The Tarahumara running tribe in Mexico play a game as a kids that teaches them how to run as a pack, an essential part of their survival. Often the most…

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Brian Hawkins

An economic downturn, fewer jobs, new expectations for workers — whatever the reason, times are changing. People are realizing the financial burden of student loans and the struggle to find a job after graduation. Meanwh…

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Nicola Smith

While some might consider billboards, bus kiosks and other “signage” to be outmoded or quaint media channels, the fact is outdoor advertising is being driven as hard as any other medium. And it’s never been more relevan…

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Steffan Postaer

Much of how we “do work,” has changed in recent years, yet little has changed in how we design organizations. Our antiquated organizational and management models are ill-equipped to marshal the intangible assets so integ…

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Joe Gerstandt

Whips, chains, & floggers, oh my! Fifty Shades might not make good literature, but it is one hell of a catalyst for conversation. The astounding popularity of the Fifty Shades trilogy has brought kink out into the sunli…

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Kali Williams

Hybrids of sex and technology are flourishing in contemporary culture, from basement workshops where power tools are repurposed as bedroom aids to media genres devoted to robot-human couplings. The mechanical in service …

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Laura G Duncan

As the number of entertainment options available through connected TVs—whether it be shows, videos, movies, and information widgets—increases so does the complexity of finding and deciding what to watch. Let’s face it—no…

Beginner

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Gary Clayton, Ohad Shvueli, Tom Woods, Tom Adams

Scott McNealy is willing and interested in talking about Education, privacy, social media, and entrepreneurship. He wants to incorporate event management and the powerful tool of a one to many conversation (Wayin). The i…

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Scott McNealy

Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Ali Veshi Judges: Scott Weiss, Harper Reed, Don Dodge Finalist: Sprezzat, Syntel…

News Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Tony Conrad Judges: John Cantarella, Vivian Schiller, Andrew Rasiej Finalist: Meo…

Social Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Eli Pariser Judges: Warren Lee, David Aronoff, Kevin Carter Finalist: Present.m…

Companies continually unleash new products & services, looking to move into new markets & evolve their brand w/existing & new audiences. For large corporations this can be overwhelming & complex, how do you become agile …

Intermediate

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Dan Schulman

It’s no secret that consumers are taking back control of their viewing habits, watching only the content that interests them, whenever and wherever they want. Widespread adoption of connected devices and the emergence of…

Beginner

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As information workers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More blogs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for …

Intermediate

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Scott Hanselman

The connected device market has seen a recent boom and is predicted to grow from 87 million to 2.1 billion connected devices in 2020. Sensors and meters are the most common use cases, but what happens when entire cities …

Advanced

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Asad Ali

While some companies harness the power of their employees to create brand advocates and evangelists, most do not. Apple, for example, shows how to make employees into your biggest promoters and supporters. It hands out t…

Advanced

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Jim Larrison

We’re more open than ever before to embracing the latest technologies and content consumption forms. At-home entertainment options can provide a more attractive and economical experience than leaving the couch. The cine…

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Stacy Spikes

Today’s applications have the opportunity to reach a global audience, upset the status quo and transform entire industries. With the arrival of Amazon Web Services, on-demand access to compute, storage and database resou…

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Werner Vogels

Wouldn't you want to know how to adjust your (online) presence in a way that you increase the chance of conversion for each user individually? Persuasion profiles are collections of estimates of the effect of persuasion …

Advanced

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Jay De Groot

Can a sense of humor be strategic? In the age of hashtag fails and campaign flops, it's crucial to use a dash of humor in your social recipe. How do you incorporate humor from the beginning of a process and not as an aft…

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Ben Huh

International Media hails Berlin as the next Silicon Valley! In 2011 The Economist simply wrote: "Music and Technology: Berlin is the future!" Global Venture Capitalists and enterprises are flocking to the city to harves…

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, , Alex Farcet, Nikolas Woischnik

Tech writer Leena Rao in 2012 observed the trend of venture capitalists getting into public relations by providing PR as another service the VC can offer, crediting the increase in seed stage investing by VC firms as one…

Beginner

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Top entertainment and gaming technology startups will pitch their products and services to high profile industry experts in this popular and exciting live venture capital pitch competition. Emcee: Richard Garriott Judg…

Entertainment and Gaming Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Richard Garriott Judges: Blair Garrou, Ryan McIntyre, Nabeel …

Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Jay Parkinson MD, MPH Judges: Nina Kjellson, Stacy Feld, Lisa Suennen Finalist:…

Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Chris Shipley Judges: Brian Singerman, Scott Case,Steve Rosenbaum Finali…

When Ted Murphy introduced paid blogging in 2006, it was so contentious it garnered headlines like "PayPerPost.com offers to buy your soul.” At one industry event, Ted was even called the ‘evilest man' in the room by the…

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Ted Murphy

Sensor-laden wearable devices, with their unique ability to capture data generated by the body, will fuel the next wave of growth and innovation in personal computing—part of a larger phenomenon we call Smart Body, Smart…

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Sarah Rotman Epps

You’ve done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully - but something is missing. Potential customers just don’t see the big idea - and it’s keeping them from becoming customers. Your big idea has an expla…

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Lee Lefever

Kids today have data-points uploaded about them before they are born. Then they create, save and share even more data. They will be able to trace their entire life in data. The more data collected about them the more hol…

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Charlene Zvolanek

Today's media-savvy consumers routinely access media from many sources and are growing increasingly impatient with the constraints that plague device-oriented entertainment. The Internet has also changed consumer expecta…

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Dan Simpkins

Three years after the SEC mandate that registrants file interactive data, we are beginning to see several trends emerging; data quality, increased control over XBRL and data consumption. The XBRL industry is undergoing a…

Advanced

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Steven Posey

Just six years ago, most of us had never encountered an “iPhone app”. Today, we spend the majority of our online time interacting with them. What will mobile apps mean to us in another six years? The advent of futuristic…

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Prerna Gupta

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

Professional designers and developers like us are paid to create smart, badass work for our clients. All too often, however, our hard work fails to get approved simply because we didn’t present it effectively. In short, …

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Megan Mead, Michael Gibson

A Fireside Chat With Jeff Pulver exploring Israel's Startup Economy, investing in people and lessons learned from helping to create a trillion dollar industry. Fireside Chat With Jeff Pulver exploring Israel's Startup Ec…

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Alan Weinkrantz, Jeff Pulver

Move over tech portals — if you want rapid adoption for your startup, it's all about lifestyle magazines and daytime talk shows. In case you haven't heard, women make or influence over 85% of the household purchases, an…

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Top entertainment and gaming technology startups will pitch their products and services to high profile industry experts in this popular and exciting live venture capital pitch competition. Emcee: Richard Garriott Judg…

Entertainment and Gaming Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Richard Garriott Judges: Blair Garrou, Ryan McIntyre, Nabeel …

Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Jay Parkinson MD, MPH Judges: Nina Kjellson, Stacy Feld, Lisa Suennen Finalist:…

Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcee: Chris Shipley Judges: Brian Singerman, Scott Case, Steve Rosenbaum Final…

Join Mando Rayo, a self-appointed Taco Journalist as he shares his unique perspective on the niche food blog, TacoJournalism.com. Mando and the Taco Mafia canvas Austin and beyond to explore all things tacos. From al pas…

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Mando Rayo

Hundreds, maybe up to a thousand, new domain endings will soon join the ones we’re accustomed to like .com, .net and .org. Last summer we learned which companies were seeking which new extensions as this massive change c…

Intermediate

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Jeremiah Johnston

Explore how the widespread proliferation of cheap sensors of all kinds will create a vast collective memory for the planet which will serve as a record of every cause and effect. This data will be scoured for association…

Beginner

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Byron Reese

What if each email you sent earned you $28? Email marketing (yes, STILL) rocks the highest return on investment of any medium. That is, if you do it right. Are you getting your $28 ROI? Ok, do you even *know* your email …

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Jessica Best

James McQuivey, Ph.D., author of the new book Digital Disruption, promotes that accelerated disruption made possible by ubiquitous digital platforms and tools. In his work with companies in nearly every industry, he has …

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James McQuivey

Too many companies build a product, then wonder how to turn traffic into revenue. If that's your plan, you've already lost. I'll share real data on how I monetized my business -- including real test results and surprisin…

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Ramit Sethi

News Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad King Judges: Rob Capps, Sue Gardner, Alberto Ibarguen Finalis…

At an age when most college grads are happily taking orders on the bottommost corporate rung, CEOs Zach Sims and Nikhil Sethi (22 and 23 years-old, respectively) are leading fast growing businesses. Sims heads Codecademy…

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Adam Goldstein, J.J. Colao, Nikhil Sethi

With new startup accelerator programs popping up daily around the country, offering mentorship, funding and an opportunity to build a business, it has raised the question, are all accelerator programs created equal? Thi…

Beginner

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Amy Millman, Andy White, Frank Gruber

Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad King Judges: Freda Lewis-Hall, William Pence, John de Souza…

Many entrepreneurs are at the "make it or break it" point right now. By year four or five, you’re no longer a hot startup; you’re a business that investors expect to make money and break out – or get gone. (Hello Google/…

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Laurie Segall, Megan Quinn, Shervin Pishevar, Tristan Walker

Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad King Judges: Patrick Chung, Ray Bradford, Dave Tisch…

A revolution in early stage finance is taking place. Thanks to the JOBS Act, which opens access to capital through stock sales by non-public companies, a new market is being born that will revolutionize how we think abo…

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Chance Barnett

Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad King Judges: Christine Herron, David S. Rose, John Malloy …

The power has shifted from Mad Men to Marketing Hackers, so drop the agency... and keep the cocktails. With the increased availability of self-service platforms, start ups now have access to many of the same tools that …

Intermediate

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Adam Berke, Chris Lindland, Joanna Lord, Noah Kagan

Amidst a failing national economy, entrepreneurs and consumers are turning to local businesses to fuel job growth, provide access to inventory and boost local economies. Startups like Getaround, Flywheel, and Postmates h…

Intermediate

Presenters

Bastian Lehmann, Jessica Scorpio, Sean Plaice, Steven Humphreys

Top entertainment and gaming technology startups will pitch their products and services to high profile industry experts in this popular and exciting live venture capital pitch competition. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad K…

Entertainment and Gaming Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad King Judges: Thomas Ball, Paige Craig, Er…

Social Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges. Emcees: Bob Metcalfe, Brad King Judges: Maria Thomas, Shervin Pishevar, John Lilly Fin…

The centerpiece of the Interactive Evening Events, the Interactive Awards festivities get underway with food, drinks and speculation on award winners. Come see who takes home a coveted Interactive Award in categories suc…

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……

Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public.……