Join Astronaut Ron Garan, Nicholas Skytland, John Yembrick and others from NASA, in the Meet Up Pavilion to socialize and discuss the latest innovations in space technology. Mingle with the pros and exchange stories abou…

Learn about tomorrow from the experts! Futurists, who play an integral role in today's business world, are invited to brainstorm, deliberate, analyze and above all predict the future in our Meet Up Pavilion.……

This panel featuring Peter Hoddie of Marvell, Morgan Knutson of DropBox and Stephen Spencer of MAYA Design will explore the challenges of creating digital devices in a fun way. Rather than sit around and prognosticate on…

This session presented by SXSW Interactive and is open to all badge types. Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder busted by New Zealand police under FBI and US DOJ supervision and awaiting extradition to the United States a…

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Charles Graeber

A year ago at Coachella, 90,000 fans had their collective minds blown when a “virtual” version of the late rapper Tupac Shakur joined Snoop Dogg onstage for a live, original performance. 15 million more viewed the perfor…

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

It’s a complicated new music world for both tech entrepreneurs and artists, one fraught with anachronistic copyright, byzantine royalty structures, and perhaps most importantly, a cultural divide between the two business…

The cloud contains more music than listeners ever dreamed possible, but there is peril in having so much music available: how do you decide what to listen to when you can sample everything? Without a guide, many recordin…

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Katie Schlosser, Maria Sciarrino, Max Weisel, Walter Gross, Tom Erlewine

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in web music companies recently. The integration of social media & geolocation applications with devices, coupled with the low cost of entry thanks to the proliferation …

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, Chris Wiltsee, Ethan Kaplan, Paul Resnikoff, Todd Tate

What is your brilliant idea? Anyone can stand up and present an up to 1-minute pitch about their company or idea, to connect with others who might be interested in working with them. If you would like to participate, pre…

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Brian Zisk

No area of cultural activity is more in need of citizen archivists than music, where entire scenes come and go in the blink of an eye, exiting before documentation of their existence can be thoroughly captured. Artists a…

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Ben Blackwell, Ken Shipley, Spott Philpott, Butch Lazorchak

As music start-ups become bigger (or become part of bigger organizations through an acquisition) the very foundation of the company become under threat: an agile work environment, close relationships with the users, a st…

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Dave Haynes, Josh Builder, Jonas Woost

Seize the mic! District Karaoke, Washington, DC's first-and-only social, team-based karaoke league, is hosting a karaoke competition. DK invites YOU to register as a performer - and when the competition comes, everyone i…

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Christopher Doorley, Geoff Harcourt, Mary-Alice Farina, Jesse B Rauch

Biosensors are now able to measure crowd motion, mood and more. Whether it be live or for streaming digital media, biosensors allow performances to adapt to audiences so that no two are alike, but each is perfect for the…

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Jesse Israel, Ken Hertz, Marco Della Torre, Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

Music tech startups are springing up right and left, with some industry watchers proclaiming a glut of companies and over-funding that will end in a shakeout. But select music tech startups with truly innovative business…

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Steve Rennie, Hany Nada

Music is probably the most social form of entertainment consumption. We all know how important music taste is in communicating own identity, forming social connections and ultimately telling others what we're about. In t…

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Jim Lucchese

The days of exclusive distribution channels are gone. Today there are countless places to sell tickets through multiple channels and at different prices. Can going wide enhance your marketing reach and allow you to compe…

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Jim McCarthy, Larry Martin, Mark Achler, Barry Kahn

It's 2013. The amount of options for bands is endless - do you use Pinterest or Google +? Bandcamp or Itunes? Should you try to be on every platform or focus on just a few? Although options are a great thing to have, the…

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Justin Cornwall, Matt Conn, Mike Wald, Nani Stoick, Zach Hinkle

In the last twenty years, distribution channels have shifted to digital pipelines and consumer electronics devices have led to consumers wanting access to everything everywhere. Gone is the dedicated home stereo and list…

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David Chesky, Gunnar Larsen, Jason Rubenstein, Mike Jbara, Vickie Nauman

In 1998 Shawn Fanning, a teenage hacker and programmer, created the code that would become the basis for all peer-to-peer file sharing. Shortly after, Fanning and his business partner, fellow teenage hacker Sean Parker, …

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Alex Winter, Bill Flanagan, Chuck D, Elizabeth Brooks, J Keyes, Marc Cimino, Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky)

Can co-opetition really work? How is it achievable? The best path to fast-track growth has been through a strong connection to a market leader. This hook-up has been simplified through the use of API's (Application Progr…

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Barry Smith, Darryl Ballantyne, Deborah Sass, Marc Ruxin, Shane Tobin, Ted Cohen

60's legends such as Ringo Starr and Eric Burdon have embraced social media to engage with their audience like never before. Acts from the 90's such as Urge Overkill are self-releasing albums and re-launching their care…

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Beth Winer, Elizabeth Freund, Greta Morgan, Michael Allen, Emily White

Each year festivals around Europe erect city templates with population densities greater than Shanghai's. It is a unique interplay between music, art, architecture, games, and togetherness. The festivals are a metropolit…

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, Fabian Holt, Fruzsina Szep, Mikolaj Ziolkowski, Esben Danielsen