Complete event listing for
WTF and Beyond
Friday, March 7
If iPad Nation were a country, by the end of 2013 it would be the 7th largest in the world, on its way to being 5th by mid-year 2014. From Kickstarter to Mommy bloggers, never before have so many people had so many cheap…
Intermediate
Presenters
James McQuivey
Author James McQuivey will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation".……
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James McQuivey
Do you love your phone? Do you love your phone so much that you cannot imagine life without it? That the thought of being “disconnected” creates an incredible sense of anxiety? This is THE meet up of SXSW where mobile ad…
Beginner
Presenters
Denzil D'Sa, Jenviev Azzolin
Saturday, March 8
The battlefield is the Internet. Whoever wins the Internet wins the war. Panelists: Vivien Lesnik Weisman, award winning filmmaker, in the editing stage of The Hacker Wars- a documentary film, Tor Ekeland, who represent…
Intermediate
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Jay Leiderman, Joseph Fionda, Tor Ekeland, Vivien Lesnik Weisman
We are a nation of smartphone addicts: 7 out of 10 adults keep their smartphone near most of the time. However, as we hold our phones close and protect them from harm, do they return the favor or are they up to no good b…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alan Murray, Erich Stuntebeck, Fahmida Rashid, Grayson Milbourne
It’s easy to assume that social media is a recent development. But the exchange of media within social networks goes back centuries. I think it can be traced back to Roman times, when members of the elite shared and copi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Tom Standage
In May of 2013, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell conceded his clients were wasting 15-25% of their advertising dollars, only he didn’t know which 25% exactly was being wasted. This statement resurrected a similar comment made by…
Advanced
Presenters
Joseph Jaffe, Maarten Albarda
I'm not a reader. I somehow made it through school (including time in a philosophy PhD program) without being a reader. This fact has made me apologetic, embarrassed, and above all thankful for the explosive growth of on…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ed Castillo
Maarten Albarda and Joseph Jaffe will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Z.E.R.O.: Zero Paid Media as the New Marketing Model".……
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Joseph Jaffe, Maarten Albarda
Whose job is it to imagine the way that technology functions in society? Over the past century, science fiction has played a crucial role in imagining what the future looks like and what devices / technology make each im…
Intermediate
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Yashoda Sampath
Tom Standage will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years ".……
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Tom Standage
Quantified Self only gets someone the data. It's descriptive, not prescriptive: "All these numbers, now what do I do?" Now imagine, from your data, you could learn exactly what your body needed, and most critically, how …
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Matthews
In the 21st century, the oldest profession in the world must co-exist with the digital frontier. With this combination, a burgeoning new industry is emerging, a whole new way to understand how we 'do' death in our cultur…
Beginner
Presenters
Caitlin Doughty, Chanel Reynolds
It is the vanity of every age to believe they live at the turning point of human civilization. Having said that, we must acknowledge we are living at the great turning point of human civilization. Technology isn't just …
Intermediate
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Byron Reese
Fake images are everywhere. You know that. You know that Kate Upton doesn't really look like this (spoiler: she has pores just like you). You know that your burger isn't going to look like this. And all this wouldn't be …
Advanced
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Rose Eveleth
Byron Reese will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War".……
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Byron Reese
BBC reporter Matt Danzico explains the science behind the flexibility of time and how he lived the longest perceived year on record in human history by fighting boxers and riding bicycles blindfolded.……
Intermediate
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Matt Danzico
When I became a Professional Dominatrix at the starry-eyed age of 22 I thought I was looking ahead at a short but exhilarating job of make-believe. That job turned into a passionate mission and career. Now, more than a d…
Intermediate
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Kali Williams
From WordPress themes to all aspects of home and office life, the open source movement is bringing new knowledge and increased collaboration to life for both consumers and developers – and the movement is just beginning.…
Advanced
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Andrew Brooks, Jason Johnson, JJ Colao, Matt Mullenweg
As members of technological society, we see the world through a computer-mediated eye. We are cyborgs, our experience enhanced by technology. Augmented, pervasive, and cyborg mediations of reality through AR, Drones, and…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jon Lebkowsky, Patrick Lichty
Sunday, March 9
By 2040, humans just might be nearly indestructible, according to Ray Kurzweil and some of the world’s top scientists. Advances in technology and medicine will obliterate the maladies of today, and make life expectancy r…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alyson Shontell, Daniel Kraft, Michael Chang, Tim Chang
It was the social media event of the summer, at one point generating 5k tweets per minute, but how the hell did that happen? For the first time Syfy and Twitter come together to present how, through the power of Twitter…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dana Ortiz, Fred Graver
M2M is on your radar. It will change the world. But it will only be those who are able to solve real human and business problems that will come out on top. And the “M2M experience” is still undefined. It is still new, ha…
Intermediate
Presenters
Benjamin Glaser, Peter Blom
Making their first appearance at SXSWi, internationally renowned and long dead authors, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley, join us on the incredible journey of being xHumed. Brought back to life for unique events in London a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Jones-Hall, Samara Jones-Hall
As evidenced by the world around us, entertainment and media are evolving, and augmented reality is becoming the next frontier of storytelling. While many have experienced AR to some extent, few have seen more than a pro…
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Mullins, DA Wallach, Katerina Markov, Nick Lippman
Food is hardware. The ways in which it is typically made currently are wasteful and unnecessary. We should embrace food technology such as nutritional biochemistry, food processing, and biotechnology to improve our food …
Beginner
Presenters
Andras Forgacs, Ethan Brown, Josh Tetrick, Robert Rhinehart
Monday, March 10
We are entering a period where the intersection of exploding content and limited consumer attention will intersect, creating an economic shockwave that will render many marketing programs unsustainable. In some markets, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Mark Schaefer
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/IAP21585 We…
Advanced
Presenters
Christine Outram, Daniel Rosenberg
The tech world’s catch phrase du jour is “disruption.” But what’s being disrupted? Uber disrupts taxis, AirBnB disrupts hotels, Twitter disrupts mainstream media, but are these changes substantive or superficial? Beyond …
Beginner
Presenters
Aengus Anderson, Micah Saul
“In 2008, for the first time, half the world's population is living in towns and cities. By 2030, the urban population will reach 5 billion – 60% of the world's population” (UN Population Division.) Nearly all global pop…
Advanced
Presenters
Blake Farenthold, Evan Burfield, Jon Zeitler, Lauren Flanagan
Our online reputation is becoming more precious, and our identity more complex, as everything that is physical becomes digital, hence liquified. When each atom of our life is being tracked digitally, we are transformed i…
Intermediate
Presenters
Matteo Cassese
Interview with Fred Ehrsam, the co-founder of Coinbase, the largest and in many ways most "legit" start-up in the emerging Bitcoin economy. Coinbase manages Bitcoin wallets and transactions between people who hold the cu…
Beginner
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Fred Ehrsam, Rolfe Winkler
Western culture gears us to conceptually place art and science at opposite ends of a spectrum. When we think of art, we may culturally view it as a field where anyone can make their mark; a place of openness, expressive…
Intermediate
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Adam Savage
Humans are both generous and selfish. Social Networks prime our collaborative selves. Google has taught us to search, Facebook to make friends, Twitter to be open and smartphones to be always connected. Enterprises and …
Intermediate
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Andrew Grill, Jodee Rich, Rand Waltzman
As the technology becomes a natural augmentation of our physical relationships, virtual interactions are becoming less of a substitute for physical proximity and rather a mechanism to extend and augment intimacy (play/en…
Advanced
Presenters
Carl Hastrich, Heather Vescent Schlegel, Karen Oikonen, Zahra Ebrahim
Tuesday, March 11
Working with the immense trove of weather data amassed by The Weather Channel, Vikram Somaya has found some strange and unusual connections between the weather and consumer behavior. In this presentation, hear some of th…
Intermediate
Presenters
Vikram Somaya
The term “processed food” is associated with Twinkies, fluorescent orange cheese, awful additives and heart-attack inducing trans fats, but it doesn’t have to be that way. New technology and advancements in 3D food prin…
Intermediate
Presenters
Glenn Zorpette, Pablos Holman
By 2050, there will be 2 billion more people on the planet and food security experts say that at today's rate of production, there won't be enough protein for everyone. Innovators are racing to find solutions to the loom…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Brentano, Daniel Imrie-Situnayake, Harman Singh Johar, Megan Miller
Food production is increasingly a high-tech job. Today’s farmers are using new innovations to maximize their yields and productivity - including wearable computers capable of displaying real-time weather and environmenta…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dev Shrestha, Jeff Caldwell, Maribeth Gandy, Nathan Wright
Bruce Sterling's annual closing rant at SXSW Interactive is always unexpected, invented on the fly, a hash of trends, trepidations, and creative prognostication. In 2013, Sterling focused on "disruption" (one of the big …
Intermediate
Presenters
Bruce Sterling
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