Complete event listing for
Global Impact and Policy
Friday, March 7
Almost every Monday night when the Vh1 reality show Love & Hip Hop Atlanta airs, its black and Latina characters, their actions and the title of the show dominate Twitter’s trending topics (they’re often seven of the 10 …
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Lynessa Williams, Sherri Williams
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP21444 Ca…
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Aaron Bramley, Bill Simmon, Michael Hoffman
Ushahidi is from Kenya; we know how hard it can be to get connected. Those who lack connectivity are at a disadvantage to their more connected peers. Yet the equipment used to connect in Kenya or India is the same as tha…
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Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich, Reg Orton
Pioneering nonprofit 'Projects For All' is democratizing access to education by implementing digital infrastructure (Hello Hubs) in developing countries. Recently, the nonprofit launched ‘Project: Hello World’, an instal…
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Katrin Macmillan, Lane Merrifield, Roland Wells, Sophie Kelly
50% of Americans under the age of 5 are ethnic minorities. Join us as we examine the current and future mind shift from a general market driven approach to a more inclusive total market approach and engaging multicultura…
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Jesse Minton, Kelly Mayfield, Maurice Rivera, Vonn Butler
Crowdfunding is grassroots community engagement. Its powerful approach to fundraising and brandraising leverages the speed and reach of the Internet -- as well as advocates’ networks -- to acquire more donors and raise m…
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David Neff, Miriam Kagan
Trayvon Martin makes the headlines because black men are often portrayed as burdens, rather than assets to their communities. The Knight Foundation worked with Context Partners to help change this script, starting with D…
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Charlie Brown, Donna Frisby-Greenwood, Shaka Senghor, Trabian Shorters
Much of today’s news coverage dwells on images of violence, stories of government instability, and a world in chaos, but there is another story to tell here. Technology is reshaping human society in ways we never imagine…
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Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, Steven Levy
Engaging millennials now takes more than just traditional outreach methods. Innovative approaches such as leveraging celebrity voices and platforms, new technologies and culturally relevant messaging is critical for impa…
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Alex Wagner, Rosario Dawson
Women may make up the majority of online users, trendsetters, and consumers, but we have a long way to go to reach proportionate amounts in the field of technology. A 2009 study indicated that Latinas formed only 5% of e…
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Becky Arreaga, Rebecca Gonzales
With 120% of mobile penetration in the region we are on a tipping point. 700 million users are looking for new forms of entertainment, commerce and services in Latin America. What kind of business relationships are neede…
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Pablo Salazar
As per the recent Pew poll, Hispanics were more than twice as likely to use reddit than other ethnic groups. There is a subreddit dedicated to all the Spanish speaking countries and cities around the world, and bilingual…
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Elianne Ramos, Lia Navarro-Pennington
Innovators face a growing epidemic of litigation from so-called "patent trolls" - companies that do not make or produce products, but sue those who do. Last year the majority of patent lawsuits were brought by such enti…
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Alan Schoenbaum, Hon Hakeem Jeffries, Julie Samuels, Michael Petricone
80% of humanity lives on less than $10/day. If you are part of the world's lowest socioeconomic level you may be living in a house that can barely be called that. It's a collection of sticks, cardboard, plastic sheet. A …
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Jose Briones
The technology industry has reinvented information, commerce, and social connection. But what if we could do more? What if the tech industry, the cornerstone and hope of the new economy, could reinvent business as usual?…
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Ben Rattray
Does the recent explosion of MOOC’s into the education marketplace threaten to destroy traditional post-secondary educational institutions in it’s path? Or is it just another fad in a long history of educational movement…
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Dave Hinger, Jeff Meadows
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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Rebecca Stavick
Africa has a population set to double by 2050, and along with population growth, the continent is reaping the benefits of expansion in the country’s information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure. In Sub-…
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Claude Migisha Kalisa, Fred Mweetwa, Gertjan van Stam, Jessica Colaço
We have witnessed social media’s power to topple governments and change public policy. This shift in political power is enabling the general public to engage in the democratic process like never before. One wonders how c…
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Aasil Ahmad, Estuardo Rodriguez, Melody Gonzales, Paul Chavez
Since most start-ups are operating on a tight budget, hiring a Product Manager is often delayed until the business begins to scale. However, for start-ups to be successful the product management function still needs to …
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Alicia Dixon, Jason Shah, Paul Young, Teresa Torres
What does it mean when low literacy communities are overrepresented on Twitter? When their residents own more cell phones than computers? When their shopping districts have liquor stores and wig shops but no libraries o…
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Candis Best, Sian Morson
digitalundivided (DID) is a tech based social enterprise founded by black women, that is leading the charge to develop a model for tech entrepreneurship and education created by the community, for the community. 25% of t…
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Ashley Scott, Elisa Camahort Page, Tobias Wright, William Crowder
What would you do if you were not afraid? What would the world look like if we took a more "fearless" approach to solving our biggest social challenges - if we were willing to take more risks, create unlikely partnership…
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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, Jean Case
I think the cancer space is broken. By using tech, humor & humans we've managed to challenge the status quo & create a truly different cancer movement. I'll talk about why we've made the decisions we have, how they've ma…
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Yael Cohen
To thrive in 2014 and beyond, Latino entrepreneurs need to go beyond social media and begin to establish their own media platforms based on a content marketing strategy. But this requires a change in mindset. Latino e…
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Fernando Labastida, Manuel Delgado
How CulturEdge are you? Whether Latino or not, you could be on the CulturEdge, that place where cultures mesh, influence and are influenced by one another. It’s not stagnant, it’s a remix of familiar and new. It’s abou…
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Adrienne Pulido, Cristina Garcia Gamboa
This panel will uncover new & exciting ways to use technology to power social change. We will go beyond the basics—sending targeted action alerts & creating online petitions—& discover fresh & innovative virtual campaign…
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Anastasia Khoo, Joel Bartlett, Marah Lidey, Noah Cooper
The number of people utilizing and explicating social media in oversimplified or academic-driven terms far outweighs the number of individuals using these tools in creative ways that are supported by interactivity, perso…
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Adrian Walker, Justin Roberson, Kiana Fitzgerald
It is projected that by 2050 Africa's GDP will be bigger than the GDPs of the U.S and China combined. The continent as a whole has been growing at over 5% annually for close to a decade. This trend if maintained means th…
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Frank Aswani, John Kidenda, Rick Reeder, Takalani Malivha
Many individuals at SXSW stand at the intersection of for-profit, brands, social good startups and nonprofits. This is a session for those like minded folks to come together and talk about what the future holds for the m…
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David Neff
Saturday, March 8
Though the numbers are on the rise, the discrepancy in the amount of Black women in the tech startup space as compared to their general market counterparts is alarming. According to 2012 figures, African American women h…
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Aaron Saunders, Marissa Jennings, Stacey Ferguson, Xina Eiland
It's great to be a thought leader when your perceived allies are on your side. But how do you stay true to your ideals when allies decide you are a traitor to "the cause" and throw you to the wolves? Whether you are a f…
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Jehmu Greene, Joanne Bamberger, Sally Kohn
From a grocery store parking lot in Tucson, AZ to a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. From a teenager named Trayvon Martin to the children of Sandy Hook Elementary. The narrative about gun violence in America has chan…
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Mark Glaze, Peter Ambler, Shannon Watts, Stephen Geer
The myth that there are no successful tech companies run by people of color is just that, a myth. Meet three successful tech-enabled companies that have raised over $4 Million dollars in angel and seed funding, won prais…
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Darlene Gillard Jones, Heather Hiles, Nichelle McCall, Nicole Sanchez
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Beth Katz
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing, the subReddit group /r/findbostonbombers was launched, tossing a dragnet across the internet and catching both good and bad information in the process. The crowdsourcing e…
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Bill Jensen, Michelle McNamara
Media technologies (TV, video, games, Internet, music, mobile phones) have brought about a substantial change in the experience of childhood in our society. These changes leave many parents, particularly one-parent homes…
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Arvin Poole, Elizabeth Vandewater PhD, Francesco Cardoletti, Keree Brannen
With nearly $250 million raised for important causes all over the world combined, RYOT News, (RED) and Omaze set the standard for collaboration in the social entrepreneurship space, and how incredibly important it is for…
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Bryn Mooser, Chrysi Philalithes, Ian Somerhalder, Ryan Cummins
In mid-2013, protests erupted around Brazil, initially sparked by a public transport cost hike but quickly emerging into a broader social movement to address a litany of social issues. Causa Brasil was launched in respon…
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David Slayden, Tiago Ritter
Bringing geeks into government won’t make a difference if they can’t crack the code on bureaucracies (and the politicos and government workers who run them). A hyper focus on technical problem solving by newcomers to th…
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Jed Sundwall, Richard Boly
By 2050 Hispanics will be 1/3 of the U.S. population. The assumption is that the digital divide will become non-existent or even reversed as more Latinos become digitally dependent. Since 2009, the number of Latinos onli…
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Julie Diaz-Asper, Kety Esquivel, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Mitch Kapor
Global memes add snark and commentary to politics. Memes have helped citizens around the world express political support and dissent: from the meme that helped a cat run for office in Mexico, to the goats that parodied O…
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Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Ben Valentine, Elena Agapie, Katy Pearce
According to the USDA, a “food desert” is any part of the United States where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain, either due to low household income or poor accessibility. In order to close the gap between f…
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Kel Smith
Several years ago, roughly 350,000 residents in the city of Detroit were either directly or indirectly employed in the industrial manufacturing industry supporting our country's automotive industry. Since then those 350,…
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Erin Teague, Lauryn Hale, Marlon Nichols, Ted Serbinski
Over the past year, the Voice of America set out to to create a universal mobile and tablet application for its global news services in 43 languages from Affan Oromoo (Let me Google that for you: it's used primarily in E…
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Will Sullivan
Kel Smith will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind".……
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Kel Smith
Today, China is already the world's largest Internet, smartphone and e-commerce market. Yet, most people outside the "Great Firewall" would have difficulty naming even 3 Chinese technology brands. Furthermore, there are …
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Justin Tsang
You can’t innovate without diversity. Period. Yet most of the proposed solutions to increasing diversity in tech involve people of color moving to Silicon Valley (leaving their social and supports networks) or exposing b…
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Kathryn Finney
Wherever there are challenges, African creative minds thrive on building inventive alternative solutions. Westerners can learn a lot from their focus on a utility model, where disruptive ideas and applied technology re-i…
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Fourie Du Preez
Problem: Waste. I hate waste! Assets and resources in our society are under-utilized, wasted, and thrown away. We have a lot of non-profit organizations who need resources (services, items, funding) and don't know where …
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Joshua Vaughan
The process of registering to vote has changed remarkably little in the last 150 years. But everything else has changed?! Thank you internet for changing how we communicate, how we shop, and how we inform. How do we us…
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Gayatri Bhalla, Heather Smith
We are seeing a new era of collaborative projects that have the power of making and we are one of them. The formula looks very simple: work by passion. But the day by day is hard and has some little tricks as, for exampl…
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Marcelo Pimentel, Marina Bortoluzzi
A generation ago, “cyberspace” was just a term from science fiction. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the security issues that r…
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PW Singer
“As a use of sensing and big data, cutting needless energy waste isn’t as sexy as, say, using a snippet of your DNA to create a genetically linked familiar that will stay with you your entire life...But it’s a whole lot …
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Brittany Heyd, Craig Isakow, Grant Allen, Roderick Morris
Learn secrets of the trade from the organizations that have been doing crowdfunding the longest - charity: water, Donors Choose, Kiva and Global Giving. Combined these brands have raised hundreds of millions of dollars o…
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Katherine Woo, Katie Bisbee, Kevin Conroy, Paull Young
The wealth gap in America has widened. Exposure, education and investment in high tech and high growth companies founded by minorities, people of color and women provide definitive solutions to decreasing and mitigating …
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Faruq Hunter, Jervis Hough, Michael Grayson, Suzanne Malone
Just 1 in 14 tech employees in Silicon Valley is African American or Latino yet the number of young urban americans who want to start a business has never been higher. The question must be asked: are African/Latino Ameri…
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Amy Schapiro, Andre Briggs, Jason Smikle, Ryan Stoner
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
Today's investors not only want a financial return on investment, but also social, economic and environmental returns. Impact investing has emerged as the next step in matching socially conscious investors with capital-s…
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DJ Paul
It is awesome that I am a white American male working for Ushahidi, a Kenyan tech firm, in Silicon Valley. That didn’t happen 3 years ago. I was also one of the first Presidential Innovation Fellows at The White House an…
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Nathaniel Manning
In the last 3 years, there has been a unprecedented rise in the availability and adoption of technology in the Middle East and Africa. This sudden access to information, the ability to voice opinions and communicate to a…
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Amit Vyas
This isn’t a pessimistic rant about the lagging US economy, sad projections for domestic innovation, or lamentation of our declining cultural influence as a country. Instead, it is a celebration of all the cool, rad and …
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Max Lenderman
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in America has risen to record highs. The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Resea…
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Deirdra Burgess, Judy Robinett, Natalia Oberti Noguera, Rodney Sampson
The Latina perspective has long been absent from many mediums until most recently with the growth of online communities. Bicultural Latinas are defining their voice in this space and generating much needed content. In th…
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Nicole Presley, Paulina Artieda, Sara Calderón, Stephanie Guerra
With the growth of Asia there is an ever growing need to foster cooperation among organizations, entrepreneurs, innovators & to go beyond gender to develop and scale up service and education initiatives in the region. Ev…
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Bernise Ang, Grace Clapham
We are incessantly, almost compulsively drawn to gatherings of intelligent, creative people. While we are looking to learn ways to change our professional and personal lives for the better, on a deeper level, we're compe…
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Denise Jacobs
Over the next twenty years in India, an estimated 220 million people will move from the countryside to cities with many resettling in urban slums. With migration comes increased demand for utilities, including the need …
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Gaurav Bhushan, Jennifer Lee Fuqua
How does technology fuel social change? Panelists Jill Iscol, Leila Janah, and Josh Nesbit, will discuss how technology has revolutionized social activism. They will examine how new technologies are causing us to re-e…
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Jill Iscol, Josh Nesbit, Leila Janah, Lisa Weinert
How do you make technology emotional and innovative-cool at the same time? A good start is developing the technology to its full potential before any big idea comes along. This panel will show how Finch and Reactive inve…
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Emad Tahtouh, Tim Buesing
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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George Smith
The idea that technology can revolutionize STEM education is not new. However, research suggests that some of the emerging new technologies, software, and platforms available have been shown to change the way students an…
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Kim Magloire
In an increasingly collaborative world, consumers are not only more powerful, but increasingly skeptical and demanding - continually questioning and rethinking their relationships with brands. In this scenario, the proce…
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Lia Bertoni, Pedro Cruz
Jill Iscol, Leila Janah and Josh Nesbit will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Hearts on Fire: Stories of Today's Visionaries Igniting Idealism into Action".……
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Jill Iscol, Josh Nesbit, Leila Janah
Argentine companies’ global projection is expanding as one quarter of its production is exported to international markets. In recent years the software and IT industry has registered a higher exportation percentage than …
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Cesar Donofrio, Daniel Deodato, Guillermo Bodnar, Silvina Moschini
South American countries are playing an unexpected role in the debate triggered by the disclosure of confidential documents by Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. Both Julian Assange and Snowden have been offered asylum by So…
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Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch
The most influential community on Twitter is the “Black Twitterverse”. Using the microblogging tool as a platform, Black Twitterverse continues to influence pop culture and political discussion in power shifting ways. It…
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Janel Martinez, Kelechi Anyadiegwu, Kimberly "Dr Goddess" Ellis, Tatiana King-Jones
Washington, DC -- the place where innovation goes to die. The place where The Man walks the halls of Congress in Gucci loafers. It’s easy for disruptors to ignore the political game. Or if they do play the game, play it …
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Maura Corbett, Patrick Ruffini
You've posted your morning selfie & inspirational quote but have you actually done anything to elevate your personal brand? Are you building a personal brand that will ultimately lead you back to the bank? In today's me…
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Leigh Davenport, Reagan Gomez Preston
Over the past decade there have been 424 hurricanes worldwide, resulting in 165,000 fatalities. Ten of the 12 most costly hurricanes in U.S. history occurred during this time period—including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 an…
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Andrea Basora, Corey Pieper, Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Wendy Harman
Sunday, March 9
Warren Buffett said “Don’t just go for safe projects, take on the really tough problems.” From the global water crisis to female empowerment in Africa to re-defining international development we hope to explore how these…
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Chevenee Reavis, David Rothschild, Manoj Fenelon
In recent years, Agile has impacted the way we create software. Delivering great digital experiences, arriving first to market and staying within budget is a growing dilemma in the technology space. We will talk about Ag…
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Andres Angelani, Pablo Brenner
This panel seeks to provide practical strategies to help attendees become respectful allies to marginalized groups of people and expand the understanding of intersectional diversity. Every year thousands of people exper…
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Adria Richards, Kortney Ziegler
Whether you are thinking of starting a business or already started one, imagine being able to prototype your business using the same tools used by world class startups and innovative 21st Century businesses. During the…
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Jose Caballer
This panel will illustrate how the State Dept is leveraging its social media network to address humanitarian crises. With 30 million fans and followers and over 1,000 social media practitioners worldwide, the Department …
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Hilary Brandt , Joshua Campbell
Everyone talks about the exploding influence Latinos have on society–from population growth to spending power, Hispanics are reshaping the cultural, social, political & economic landscape. Yet when it comes to mainstream…
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Beatriz Acevedo, Doug Greiff
Imagine a future where border crossings occur safely within seconds; humans act as sensors during disaster and emergency response; and we travel freely through a secure airport environment. Augmented Realty technology h…
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Alan Holden, Carmen Medina, Christian Doolin, Vignon Zinsou
We all know stereotyping in the physical world is unacceptable, but should that same lesson extend into the social and digital marketing spheres? What assumptions can I make about someone coming from Univision.com? Wha…
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Lesley Pinckney, Marvin Barksdale
Building a tech product takes a lot of time and focus. Ensuring the market exists to create and sell that product takes just a little more. While what’s happening in Washington is heavily guided by special interests, the…
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Gene Austin, Kevin Callahan, Michael McGeary
We used to have a “first” and “third world.” Political correctness brought us “global north” and “global south,” “developed” and “developing.” The Bright Continent introduces “fat” and “lean.” While wealthy economies li…
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Dayo Olopade
Peter Thiel awarded William LeGate a grant of $100,000 to drop out of school and pursue what he’s passionate about as part of Thiel’s controversial Thiel Fellowship program. Listen to LeGate talk about his experience lea…
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William LeGate
Technology has fundamentally changed the way we think about knowledge, and classrooms are inevitably going to undergo deep structural changes in the next decade to reflect this. No policy will be able to prevent this. In…
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Connor Zwick
Dayo Olopade will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Bright Continent: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa".……
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Dayo Olopade
While some global enterprises have corporate social responsibility departments that create marketing campaigns that highlight social good, some innovative brands are becoming a driving force for true global change and so…
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Corey Neufville, Eliana Murillo, Natalie Cofield, Suzi Sosa
An open dialogue has never been more imperative or more possible than in the digital age when 57% of people are talking more online than they do in real life. The State of Michigan used this to their advantage when th…
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John Paul Farmer, Nicole Sunstrum
The Dewey Winburne Community Service awards brings together people doing good work from all over the world. Come meet the honorees and network with people doing amazing things to help others through technology. Also find…
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Tammy Lynn Gilmore
As massively open online courses (MOOCs) become wildly popular, many have advocated a future of learning without teachers. But great teachers are still critical for learning. In this talk, Charlie Stigler (founder of edu…
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Charlie Stigler
Organizational fitness: Inserting the Innovation Gene into Your company's DNA Technology doesn´t come alone. Accelerated change and increased access to who can innovate will challenge our business and push us to reinvent…
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Guibert Englebienne
New census data reports the population size of Texas Hispanic K-12 students (2,325,000) is greater than the total population of the State of New Mexico (2,082,224), as well as fifteen other states. The Latina point of v…
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Byrdie Franco-Rocha, Laura Donnelly Gonzalez, Leslie Leal-Gauna
Ever wonder what it really takes for a person to bring his or her family out of poverty? Ever ponder why a low-income kid in your city doesn’t just study harder? Why the cashier at the drugstore doesn’t go to school at n…
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Megan Kashner
“No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.” - former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO Admiral James Stavridis, Dean of The Fletcher School How are government…
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Farah Pandith, James Stavridis, Joshua Haynes, Spencer Ackerman
When the Texas Legislature took up abortion legislation, planned and spontaneous social media filled the Capitol with thousands of activists and delivered a global participatory audience. Celebrities tweeted as an 11-hou…
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Eliza Vielma, Erica Grieder, Joe Deshotel, Steven Polunsky
Join us as we examine the new economy that rewards entrepreneurship, creativity and connectedness like never before. More opportunities than ever are gained or lost through the digital marketplace. Hear from Ice-T about …
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Rayna Verbeck, Wheeler del Torro
"I learned Spanish in school for 5 years, but don't speak it." How familiar does this sound? Benny Lewis, National Geographic's Traveler of the Year 2013, who can speak 12 languages, believes that it has nothing to do wi…
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Benny Lewis
Benny Lewis will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World".……
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Benny Lewis
Erica Grieder will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas".……
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Erica Grieder
Join us as we examine where social media has been, where it’s going and how you can create and adapt technology to fit your brand. Hear the highs and lows, tip and tricks of artists and execs on both sides of the camera …
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Adam Argyle, Geoff Walker, Josh Batchelder, Zach Varnell
Europe has some great places to found a startup - from Barcelona, to Hamburg and Berlin, from Paris to London. It also has some regulatory nightmares to offer: founders face barriers not only from the country in which th…
Join us as we sit down with social media managers from a range of fields including celebrity, non-profit and luxury/corporate brands to discuss the value of being authentic across all social platforms as a brand, corpora…
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Daunte Dier, Franchesca Ramsey, Mary Pryor, Stevie Jerome Green Jr
In the past decade there has been a lot of work in changing the image of Colombia, changing people and industries perception from a country that only makes coffee and related to “Juan Valdez”, and also a more common perc…
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Sebastian Gomez
Chile claims to have hacked the system, boosting an innovation hub starting from the government. Dynamic public policies such as Start-Up Chile became key players to cut much of that red tape that is still alive in many …
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Leo Prieto, Maitetxu Larraechea, Paolo Privitera
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Luciana Bazanella
At the crux of all life that we know lies water, the one substance that makes this planet special. Yet, it is largely unexplored and little understood. We are beholden to it for everything but we don't know much about ho…
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Fabien Cousteau
Your personal brand as an entrepreneur is critical and your company needs your identity to survive. Too many entrepreneurs make the mistake of focusing on just their business or just their personal brand. Neither one…
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Mario Armstrong
Can the NSA, the police, and private companies really do that? From PRISM to drones to ‘Stingrays’ that snoop on cell phones, join us at the movies for a close look at how surveillance has caught up with the fables dream…
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Kashmir Hill, Matthew Cagle, Nicole Ozer
Urban Librarians Unite has been able to have a wide ranging and financially huge impact despite having barely any resources. These knife in the teeth librarians have applied social media and tech to traditional activist …
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Christian Zabriskie, Lauren Comito
Much like the public protest of the Civil Rights Era, Black Twitter can be a rallying force that can shut down Juror B37’s proposed book deal in a matter of hours or initiate the career suicide of suspected racists (we s…
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Anslem Rocque, David Dennis, Jamilah Lemieux, Janee Bolden
In the nonprofit world, resources can be scarce. But there’s never a shortage of data. Nonprofits track finances, services, outcomes and external data about their issue areas. Within all that data are stories waiting to …
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Becca Aaronson, Javier De La Torre, Megan Kilgore
Vegans are often looked at as humorless jerks that just want to question the ingredients in hummus and create spectacles like putting topless pregnant ladies in cages, denouncing ex-vegans by sharing their personal infor…
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Laura Beck, Stephanie Bogdanich
For years, Boulder, CO residents pressured their monopoly utility, Xcel Energy, the largest coal-dominated utility in Colorado, to provide cleaner power to no avail. Fed up with stall tactics, Boulder voters approved two…
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Steve Fenberg
Clean energy? We'll drink to that. Join us on the rooftop of One American Center for happy hour with CleanTX, Austin's clean technology cluster group, and E.ON Climate and Renewables, one of the world's leading renewable…
The #GivingTuesday movement generated huge social media buzz, launched the “unselfie”, increased online giving and engaged individuals in the U.S. and around the world in philanthropy. Using new tools and technologies to…
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Henry Timms, Libby Leffler, Rob Reich
Latin America's leading accelerators come together to discuss the state of entrepreneurship and acceleration programs in the region. Argentina and Mexico join on a unique panel that will go inside Latin America to discus…
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Antón Chalbaud, Marcela Gutierrez, Sergio Romo, Ulrick Noel
BuzzFeed's rapid rise to ubiquity -- including 60 million monthly unique visitors -- was built on memes and user-generated content with original reporting content built-in. How can nonprofit news outlets sustain or scal…
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Adam Soclof, Jake Batsell, Joshua Benton, Nicole Hudson
Monday, March 10
Leveraging creativity and innovation for the greater good is an underlying theme of South by Southwest. New for 2014, SXSW will host a social good hub to bring together the digital creatives, agencies, filmmakers and ent…
Are you leveraging age to your advantage? Our youth-centered society promotes the young in pursuit of the "bright shiny object". The current entrepreneurial renaissance reinforces stereotypes that innovation is the domai…
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Christina Vuleta, Sarah Kunst, Susan McPherson , Tereza Nemessanyi
The Backyard Poultry Meetup Group is for people interested in backyard flocks of chickens, ducks, guineas, turkeys, geese, or other poultry for pets, eggs, meat, or exhibition. You just might be surprised at how many peo…
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Michelle Hernandez, Shane Crawford
Over the last 25 years, the feminist movement entered a new era with the emergence of the internet and social media. Despite historic under-representation of women in technology, key advances in software development and…
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Carla Franklin, Kelly Wallace, Maggie Neilson, Tara Hughes
Asian cities, especially megacities (with populations of over 10 million) are centres of chaos. But that very chaos inspires and demands us to seek more creative and innovative solutions to help people manage and enjoy l…
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Tara Hirebet
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F As the Global Program Director for Whole Foods Market's foundation, Whole Planet Foundation, Steve is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of microfinance pro…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Andrew is a Senior Consultant and Business Development Manager at Beaconfire. He has 16 years of experience in website development, strategy, and marketing. …
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Clarisse is 36 and has worked in advertising for 11 years. Originally a copywriter, she soon developed a preference to be involved in the precious process of de…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F As Vice President of Global Partnerships, Jen Kim Field leads partnership efforts to contribute towards the sustainability of the UN Foundation and support the …
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F John is the Chief Design Officer and Co-Founder of Human Design (http://www.beinghuman.is/), a digital agency focused on creating products that move the human r…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Malaka Gharib is the social media manager for ONE.org, a campaigning and advocacy organization of more than 3 million people taking action to end extreme povert…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Micha is a communicator and strategist, by trade and by passion. A behind-the-scenes storyteller, she’s carved out marketing, content, branding and communicatio…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Passionate and committed to helping humanity save the world, Michael Slaby is Managing Partner at Timshel and among the world’s leaders in digital strategy, tec…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Natalie Byrne is an innovative and empowering voice for women and girls. A social impact and brand strategist, she is committed to changing the conversation aro…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F A native Austinite, Sara has held positions in media and entertainment including Executive Director of Interactive Marketing at Paramount Pictures, VP of Digita…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Sarah M. Kauss is the founder and CEO of S’well bottle, the only water bottle that looks great and does good. S’well bottles utilize ThermaS’well™ technology, a…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F WENDY SMITH is a brand and business development strategist with a background in grassroots organizing and politics. For the past 25 years, she has held senior p…
We’ve grown accustomed to ads as part of our lives. But what if they could do more? What if they served a purpose, through form AND function. Several ads have been making waves for responding to their environments and vi…
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Ashley Giombetti, Beth Ellard, David Krupp, Ranvir Gujral, Tim Nudd
In 2012, consumer advocate and Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren built the strongest grassroots digital program in Senate history. The Massachusetts Senate campaign raised more money from small-dollar online donors …
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Amanda Coulombe, Lauren Miller, Mike Firestone, Mindy Myers
Emerging markets face unique challenges when it comes to technology innovation and adoption: poverty, cultural obstacles, lack of supporting infrastructure. But in some cases, these so-called third world markets are usin…
Advanced
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Carla Echevarria
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Chris Jones
It is fairly obvious by now that technology advances have changed the world. But occasionally, it comes into question whether that change has been for good or bad. Often, the innovation coming out of Silicon Valley has b…
Intermediate
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Ben Coffey Clark, Reshma Saujani
On average each of has five "screens" in our lives and we're bombarded with more than 10,000 messages a day (incredible but true). No wonder social entrepreneurs, early-stage brands and non-profits face unique challenges…
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Adam Butler, Deborah D Tucker, Fran Danis, John Weiss, Mitch Baranowski, S. Gail Parr, Tara Roberts, Valinda Bolton, Yoni Bloch
Volunteers, Board Members, & Donors Alike - Learn How You Can Engage & Benefit From the Millennial Generation! Did you know that 75% of Millennials gave money to charities in 2011? What about the fact that in 2013 52% of…
Beginner
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Felicia Bates
Charities are always looking for creative approaches to fundraising. Companies like Airbnb, ZipCar, and Zaarly have created new markets that show how companies can profit from the sharing economy. WebThriftStore turns p…
Intermediate
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Douglas Krugman
Sell programs, not people – you know exactly what we’re talking about and likely have examples in your inbox. It’s the story about a girl named Diana who walks 4 hours a day to get clean water. You're then told your $20…
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Ned Breslin
In today's world, we are all philanthropists. Susan will lead a lively and engaging discussion on how our new social era is enabling such a dynamic. From Razoo to Crowdrise to Global Giving to Catapult, we can all play …
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Susan McPherson
Climbing a smokestack or chaining yourself to a tree is so 20th century (though still awesome!). What can civil disobedience and non-violent direct action look like online? With examples from Aaron Swartz's freeing of …
Intermediate
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Benjamin Simon, David Segal, Molly Sauter, Shahid Buttar
While overseas manufacturing provides inexpensive labor, lower component pricing, and (in some cases) lower development cost, without deeply experienced employees and trusted partners the savings may be not worth it. Bey…
Intermediate
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Rob Bangerter, Sean McBeath
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 media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Christopher Bartik
If you were in Turkey last summer, you would have observed a Twitter revolution. During the #OccupyGezi movement, 1 million new accounts were created in just 1 month. For 3 weeks Turkey was the country with the highest n…
Beginner
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Eda Demir, Yalçın Pembecioglu
Reducing Social Isolation of LGBT Seniors and Youth Through Technology, Centers and Libraries From homeless LGBT youth to LGBT seniors who have been rejected by their families, this panel will explore the range of issue…
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Dr Imani Woody, Jama Shelton, John Chrastka, Robert Espinoza
Is it possible to bring about a world where billions of people are directly empowered to change their lives and communities by 2015? The answer is yes. It might sound implausible, but it is actually achievable with the r…
Beginner
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Amanda Kloer
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
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
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Chris Thomas, Christina Lindstrom, Hugh Evans, Liba Rubenstein
So you want to raise money online and go viral? Whether you are a nonprofit, artist, or an entrepreneur crowdfunding a project, how you tell your story, manage your team and leverage lessons learned from gaming will play…
Intermediate
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Matthew Bishop
Philanthropy has always been a senior’s game – old money, traditional ideas, worn out game plans. Today, there is a new generation of technophilanthropists joining the scene and shaking the world of nonprofits to its cor…
Intermediate
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Tamarah Black
For everyone who is interested in using technology for social good, hear from the World Bank about how they are discovering and investing in innovative ideas to strike poverty around the world. This could be one of the m…
Beginner
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José-Manuel Bassat
Join us at the Social Good Hub for inspiring content curated by The United Nations Foundation! Shining a Light: Partnership between NBC’s Revolution and the United Nations o TV Guide, Michael Schneider o Bad Robot, …
Digital devices and social media sites give us dozens of ways to become more informed, to express ourselves, to have our voices heard as part of the national discussion. Yet while we embrace these new channels, the colle…
Beginner
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Rob Girling
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
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Ken Weber, Patrick Cooper, Scott Roesch, Tom Hayes
Every month, the tech industry adds about 9,600 jobs to the U.S. economy. By 2018, it will have added another 1.2 million new jobs, boasting an average salary of $78,000. But women make up just 22% of the computing workf…
Beginner
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Baratunde Thurston, Laura Weidman Powers, Mario Lugay, Ryan Seashore
When the World Wide Web first became commercially available, researchers and pundits touted a new "cybertopia," a utopic view on how race would no longer "matter" on the Internet and one that some continue to hold today.…
Intermediate
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Jenny Korn
Could your app save someone's life? Internet access is growing rapidly in the developing world. Networked software can help marginalized individuals and communities empower themselves, coordinate limited resources and cr…
Intermediate
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Allie Carter, Brian Doll, Dan Walmsley, Lawrence Grodeska
As a product of a conservative society, the Arab youth found social networking services like Twitter and Facebook great tools to challenge the status quo and shake things up. However, since public and private personas ar…
Intermediate
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Guilherme Rangel
A virtual conversation with Glenn Greenwald on the future of journalism, civil liberties and politics, with Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Media.…
Intermediate
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Glenn Greenwald, Micah Sifry
For decades, the fear of Big Brother has made citizens wary of the ways authorities use technology, skeptical of prying eyes and the invasion of our privacy. Ironically, the proliferation of social media is turning that…
Intermediate
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Ashley Jane Brookes
Frequently the subjects of erotic media, lately sex workers have taken center stage in a lurid tale designed to put them in jail and out of business. Anti-trafficking groups are using culture's fear of (and fascination w…
Intermediate
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Alex Morgan
Research shows that engaging citizens – collaborating with them on common interest topics, issues and problems – builds the strongest communities, fortified against the larger challenges of the country. As a result, many…
Intermediate
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Nick Bowden
The concepts of collaboration and location-based services have become popular not only with wikis, social media, and advertising, but are also changing a notoriously strenuous process: interaction between local governmen…
Intermediate
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Surya Yalamanchili
Superstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are challenging the way people use technology to respond to crisis and conflict. Journalists, hackers and local people are collaborating to better cover, communicate an…
Intermediate
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Adaora Udoji, Josh Stearns, Madeleine Bair, Matt Stempeck
In little over a decade on the issue of same-sex marriage equality, Americans went from deeply opposed to broadly supportive, even among sub-groups of Republican voters. Since the single biggest correlation between suppo…
Intermediate
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Brandon Feldman, Matt Baume
Berlin is Germany’s premier location for creative industries. With office space being plenty and cheap, the city remains a magnet for creative minds from all over the world who gather to embrace new perspectives and deve…
Currently there are limitless mobile technology solutions being created for the poor in developing countries. Yet, this same effort is not being brought for the domestic market, leaving a void in the low-income domestic…
Beginner
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Kenshiro Nakagawa, Kimberly McCollister, Megan Trotter, Salena Bailey
We all know it’s true: our cyber infrastructure is vulnerable to attack and there are lots of holes to plug. It’s a huge problem, one where the deck is stacked in favor of the attacker. Come hear from Dr. Reginald Brot…
Intermediate
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Robert Gold
200 million people across 3.3 million square miles, contributing to $2.4 trillion in GDP. Welcome to Brazil, “the country of the future.” Set to be the sixth largest economy by 2030, Brazil is not only the heart of footb…
Intermediate
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Will Palley
Representatives have a hard time defining the “kitchen table issues”, defining what constituents expect them to do, and communicating issue resolutions. Polling, surveying, and forms of “active information acquisition” a…
Intermediate
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Albert Nichols
Environmental politics are broken. The root cause, I believe, is that "the environment" is now viewed as an abstraction, a set of circumstances remote from many people's everyday lives and experiences. We used to count o…
Intermediate
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Ken Cook
SXSW brings together the tech, film and social good communities to work together to improve communities through action. Join us Monday, March 10th at Bungalow to celebrate a day of social good and learn more about our ne…
Tuesday, March 11
A description of an entrepreneur's two years serving as a senior advisor on innovation and entrepreneurship. The talk will include details on 7 mechanisms created to enable more engagement between the State Department a…
Intermediate
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Rebecca Taylor
Every 20 minutes a child is diagnosed with Autism, a complex neurobiological disorder typically characterized by communication, social, and behavioral delays. Much media attention has focused on the power of tablet techn…
Beginner
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Betsy Furler, Camedra Jefferson, Cristen Carson Reat, Robert Rummel-Hudson
The Black church has been central to every major political and social movement in the African American community. Civil Rights activist, Ella Baker was critical of the male-led, hierarchical and messianic leadership-styl…
Intermediate
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Jamye Wooten, Ralph Watkins
Hacking H(app)iness - Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World. Sensors in your smartphone can measure your location, physical activity, stress levels, and dozens of other attributes that …
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John Havens
If you weren't following Wendy Davis' filibuster and the Texas abortion fight online, you missed the story. Television news and print media caught the highlights, but #TamponGate, “Hail Satan” and the “jars of feces” mys…
Intermediate
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Emily Horne, Forrest Wilder, Rocio Villalobos, Sonia Smith
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP24001 Th…
Intermediate
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Jefferson Graham, Marcia Stepanek
John Havens will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Hacking Happiness: Why Your Personal Data Counts and How Tracking it Can Change the World".……
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John Havens
Kari Dunn Saratovsky will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement".……
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Kari Dunn Saratovsky
Pre-internet-era institutions gave us things like the Clean Air Act, Women's Suffrage, an end to slavery, and the Civil Rights Act. But times have changed and these organizations weren't built to move at the speed of th…
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Erica Kochi, Karina Brisby, Michael Grenetz, Michael Silberman
We all believe in equality for girls and women. #Duh. Yet less than 7% of funding goes to girls and women's causes, and one in four organizations that work on those issues is in danger of closing. To solve that problem, …
Intermediate
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Maz Kessler, Tyler LePard
Purchasing a FEED product is one way to make a difference, but how can FEED motivate its followers to move the needle on ending world hunger in an even more massive way? How can other social good organizations translate …
Intermediate
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Lauren Bush Lauren
In today’s digital world, entrenched incumbents from the past are still bumbling around, getting in the way of creativity. We see music labels get in the way of artists and listeners, internet service providers purposely…
Intermediate
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Ali Sternburg, Elizabeth Frazee, Katie McAuliffe, Rachel Wolbers
A revolution is stirring in America. In the face of federal gridlock, economic stagnation and fiscal turmoil, power in the United States is shifting away from Washington to cities and metropolitan areas. With uncertainty…
Intermediate
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Jennifer Bradley
For more than a decade, "taxation without representation" has been a rallying cry in Washington D.C. But while the District still hasn’t achieved statehood or a vote in Congress, its citizens are being heard in a new way…
Intermediate
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Matthew Desjardins, Zach Boisi
Jennifer Bradley will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of " The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy ".……
Presenters
Jennifer Bradley
As mobile phones spread across the globe, human rights activists are increasingly turning to mobile technology for help in documenting, visualizing, and prosecuting human rights abuses. Unfortunately, human rights violat…
Intermediate
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Christoph Koettl, Harlo Holmes, Sam Gregory
They're coddled, protected, and constantly connected - at least that's what the headlines read. But when it comes down to it, do you really know how to engage a MIllennial? Based on how most organizations market to and …
Intermediate
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Brian Reich, Kari Dunn Saratovsky
We heard from Acting Under Secretary of Arms Control and International Security Rose Gottemoeller at SxSW Interactive 2013, on the significant value placed on bringing citizens both in the US and globally, into the work …
Intermediate
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Brian Nordmann
From government censorship that blocks content to legislation that hinders the Internet from being open and free to monitoring of online communications -- online privacy issues are becoming more complex, not less. There …
Intermediate
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Christian Dawson, Laura Moy, Leah Belsky, Nancy Libin
For many innovators and startups, DC is a world that is ignored or associated with gridlock. In this panel, we’re bringing together folks with on the ground experience - startups that have been to DC and have worked with…
Intermediate
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Josh Mendelsohn, Laurent Crenshaw, Michael Beckerman, Tiffany Moore
Cities, private companies, and public-private partnerships are taking control of their bandwidth destinies by working to ensure people and businesses have access to world-leading Internet connections. This infrastructure…
Intermediate
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Amie Stepanovich, Ellen Satterwhite, Heather Gold, Luther Lowe
Actor Diego Luna has appeared in a number of popular and critically accliamed films, including Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También (2001), Kevin Costner’s Open Range (2003), Steven Spielberg’s The Terminal (2004), Gus Van…
Intermediate
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Charles Ramirez-Berg, Diego Luna, Robert Rodriguez
A lot of the best and most meaningful things that happen on the internet aren't about making something go viral (ew). They're about getting people to genuinely care about a cause, a site, or a product - and build an acti…
Beginner
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Aminatou Sow, Dan McSwain, Laura Olin, Merici Vinton
Given America’ mediocre broadband service, Google Fiber has generated great attention and expectation across the country. From more than 1,100 communities that have applied, Austin is chosen as the second city to experim…
Beginner
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Juanita Budd, Wenhong Chen
Eejot is a non-profit organization that runs computer training centers in remote areas of Nepal which has minimal or no electricity. In last two years, we have taught 100+ primary, middle school and high school students …
Beginner
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Prabhat Jha
Citizen activism is at an all time high, using digital tools such as Twitter, Storify, and Vine to immediately telegraph and signal boost stories from the ground to the cloud. In 2013, the Texas Legislature held two spec…
Advanced
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Jessica Luther, Julie Gillis
The Internet is increasingly the home for communications between sensors and devices that support a variety of applications, across a broad range of industries. This “Internet of Things” operates over unlicensed spectrum…
Intermediate
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David Don, Jim Lansford, Larra Clark, Richard Whitt
From social media to smart phones, activists across the country have a growing number of tools to advance their causes. NationSwell, a new media company focused on American renewal, has teamed up with Ronnie Cho, formerl…
Intermediate
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Charles Orgbon, Greg Behrman, Ronnie Cho, Simone Bernstein