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Demo Listening Sessions offer a unique opportunity for selected musicians to get direct feedback from music professionals, those who listen to demos as part of their job. This year, we can accept digital submissions for…
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Bob Lugowe, Eric Lilavois, Jaime Neely, Steve Robertson
Demo Listening Sessions offer a unique opportunity for selected musicians to get direct feedback from music professionals, those who listen to demos as part of their job. This year, we can accept digital submissions for…
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Billy Jones, Isaac Heymann, Sarah Mroue
Talent discovery through the web has become common place. A new era of A&R has emerged. Indie labels scour the Internet on a daily basis and talent scouts no longer spend late nights hanging out in bars and nightclubs; t…
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Blaise DeAngelo, Diana Kimball, Mike Smith, Nathan McLay
Demo Listening Sessions offer a unique opportunity for selected musicians to get direct feedback from music professionals, those who listen to demos as part of their job. This year, we can accept digital submissions for…
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David Jacobs, Julia Willinger, Michael Goldberg
How has the launch of Beats Music impacted the existing landscape of the streaming service industry? We'll take a look at the various streaming players, how they have adapted, how pricing and curation fit in, and how the…
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Darryl Ballantyne, Fred McIntyre, Ted Cohen
Hackerspaces Unite! is a meetup and workshop for people interested in starting a hackerspace, people who have started a hackerspace, and people who are members of hackerspaces to pool ideas and share experiences. It's a …
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Martin Bogomolni
Covering topics such as manufacturing in America vs China, The Manufacturing Future, and patents in the age of makers.…
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Jonathan Placa
For folks of all disciplines interested in biohacking: Calling all biologists, DIYers, engineers, artists, coders, designers, and any others who are bio-curious. Join us! This SXSW Create session at the Long Center is F…
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Karen Ingram
Good work is all about process, yet we tend to only share the products of that process, and not the process itself. Learn how opening up and sharing your process brings you closer to an audience, adds value to your work,…
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Austin Kleon
Do you dream of perfect serifs, swashes and ligatures? Interested in marketing your newest typeface? Want some feedback on your creative endeavors? Or maybe just have the desire to catch up on the latest gossip in the Ho…
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Jim Kidwell
The ideology of open source is simple: Share what you make, collaborate with others to improve it, and repeat. This started out in software, but has exploded into all areas of creativity. Hardware, art, music, and even c…
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Tom Callaway
Jeremiah Owyang has shown that the future of business lies in the Collaborative Economy, “an economic model of shared ownership and access between people, startups and corporations all working together.” There’s been a …
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Andrew Barton, Anousheh Ansari, Bob Richards, Ruben Nunez
Do you love your toys? Does your desk resemble a small museum to your most passionate pop culture obsessions? Even if your collection isn't complete, we want to hear about it. Join toy lovers, creators, and innovators …
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Lizzy Newsome
China is often portrayed as an enormous factory that pumps out products invented elsewhere. But as global "maker culture" is transitioning from a hobby into a profession, China is playing a significant role in changes to…
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Silvia Lindtner
Democratized innovation is fuelling a new industrial revolution. Traditional brands need to disrupt themselves before someone else does it for them. Smart CEOs know that innovation doesn't happen at head office any more…
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David Caygill
It goes without saying that ultimately, the success of Interactive Media depends on its ability to engage human brains. It also goes without saying that, in principle, brain science could potentially inform Interactive …
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Alfredo Fontanini, Jim Bower, Veronica Galvan
Creativity allows us to break through monotony and express the inexpressible. As creators and builders, we push ourselves to the limits in all respects, driving change through our ideas. Carrying this responsibility requ…
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Gopika Prabhu
The technological era presents a major challenge to poetry: brains accustomed to digital speeds are trained to consume information quickly, to scan through lists and posts looking for usable content—to PLUCK instead of t…
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David O'Brien, David Shook, Mandy Kahn
The goal of the panel is to discuss some of the emerging trends in the agritech space that are driving food production yields needed to feed a population of over 10 billion people. This will include precision agriculture…
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Caleb Harper, Marion Swaybill, Mohammad Jhaveri
In the space where the outdoors meets tech, adventure awaits. This core conversation will discuss wearables, apps, and cameras used on and around the bike. It’ll continue with how the quantified self produces big data, h…
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DL Byron
Remember when the public had to watch Walter Cronkite and the evening news to learn what NASA was doing? Yeah, neither do we. Today, using technology you can connect and collaborate with NASA and astronauts directly from…
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John Yembrick
This will be a compelling interactive conversation where all are invited to share a personal story, secret, confession or apology. Public storytelling is an ancient art form that has experienced resurgence in our cultu…
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Sadie Smythe, Stirling Gardner
At the beginning of almost any creative venture -- whether it's a New Yorker cartoon or a Fortune-500 product launch -- sits a blank page and a person holding a pen. This panel brings together two masters of the art of …
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Henry Copeland, JB Hopkins, Matthew Diffee
Digital design is becoming more fluid and less tethered to the desktop or smart phone. Visual communicators and artists are seeking bigger and bolder ways to crossbreed the real world and the boundless universe of the i…
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Chad Hutson, Jarrett Smith, Sougwen Chung, Tony Romain
If you are fascinated by AI and robotics, and interested in how you can create and customize your own 3D printed plastic pal, then “21st Century Robot” by Brian David Johnson is for you. As an author and Intel futurist, …
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Brian David Johnson
What are the 100 objects that future historians will pick to define our 21st century? A javelin thrown by an 'enhanced' Paralympian far further than any normal human? Virtual reality interrogation equipment used by polic…
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Adrian Hon
The 'Internet of Things' is finally here. Every week a new 'connected device' appears with a slick video and a remarkably trivial application. Why are these devices so consistently failing to fit into our lives in meanin…
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Ross Atkin
Is responsive web design the wrong paradigm? Do you architect & design for devices, browsers or end users? Let’s challenge how we think about responsive design. This session fosters the exploration of the current ratio…
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Graham Lambertson
There is no doubt that words are powerful, but how can the application of big data impact the effectiveness of the way our human language is perceived? There are infinite variations to express one message, and the exact …
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Guy Krief, Michael Collins
Believe it or not, Pinterest is a whole lot more than just DIY and mason jars. There is some big technology being built behind a fast moving, and majorly scaling service. Pinterest grew to billions of page views per mon…
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Marty Weiner, Yash Nelapati
Americans seem just as obsessed with food as they are technology, but how is our near constant state of connectivity influencing what chefs put on the menu? How is our geographical density and propensity for moving from …
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Addie Broyles, Andy Potter, Brian Bordainick
Exploring how to build a localized media that supports and strengthens independent artistic and maker communities through digital content and commerce free of commodification. The sum of honest subjective expression amon…
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Nicole Brydson
NASA isn't just sending rovers to Mars and astronauts to the International Space Station. Find out how the space agency is studying our home planet and why it's working to make the Earth science data it collects understa…
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Andrew Revkin, Doug Ellison, Michael Greene, Veronica McGregor
How will wearables change the world? What’s the “killer app”? Context. In this session, we'll look at how wearables benefit from context, and how the two will inevitably be linked in the very near future.…
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Myriam Joire
Come join Paul Qui and other notable chefs for this talk around the growing trend of the DIY scene in food. Meaning, smaller, personable, minimal frill -- primary focus on food and flavors, and not on pretense. As people…
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Laura Sawicki, Meghan McCarron, Ned Elliott, Paul Qui
Photography is changing at a rapid pace: never before have we been able to share so quickly with so many people, and with such frequency. Exploring our photographic interests today and the technology we currently have at…
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Dan Rubin
Do you have a favorite tool that you’d like to let other people know about? Then come to the first official SXSW Cool Tools Show & Tell! Bring your favorite tool (hand tools, maps, how-to books, vehicles, software, speci…
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Mark Frauenfelder
The Founding Fathers were do-it-yourselfers, from Jefferson's explicit idealization of the self-sufficient yeoman farmer to Franklin's intrepid experimentation with electricity. Over the centuries, a return to this kind …
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Alice Brooks, Dylan Tweney, Eric Gradman, Mitch Altman
So you want to be an inventor? You have the talent, means and desire to make things. Maybe you have even invested in the right paintbrushes, digital programs, circuit boards and power tools? But wait...agencies are in th…
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Ed Brojerdi, Matt Powell
An increasing number of brave researchers are venturing out from the ivory towers of academia to pursue their own independent research. This new culture of indie science attracts investigators with the freedom to develop…
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Cindy Wu, Daniel Grushkin, Ethan Perlstein, Jacob Shiach
The United States was founded with maker spirit – fix what you have, make what you need and work together to achieve the best outcome. The maker movement is now rekindling those ideals in this generation. TechShop, a nat…
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Mark Hatch
As deeply enmeshed as technology has become in our lives, there is one place where we still squint to read small labels, strain to hear static-filled audio guides, and wrestle with disorienting paper maps: the art museum…
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Leslie Wolke
Immersive experiences were invented in the theater where performers and set designers transport audiences to different times and places. Merging theater with 3D technology extends the experience by removing constraints o…
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Benoît Marini
Crowdsourced art is an increasingly popular practice where artists use the Internet as a participatory platform to directly engage the public in the co-creation of art. In view of its reliance on the artistic contributio…
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Ioana Literat
There are concepts found within architecture and industrial design, fields that have exists for hundreds of years, that carry over to the relatively still fetal stage of interaction design. Considering and looking into t…
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Michael Senkow
A thousand personal photographs lost for sixty years and then found, in a secondhand store. Lost and Found tells the story of an anonymous couple's past. Who are these people? Why were their photographs abandoned? If a…
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Jeff Phillips
Members, makers, and entrepreneurs of the 3D printing and greater hardware community are all welcome to hear and explore what's next in 3D printing. This will be an informal panel Q&A from featured guests in the business…
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Bartley Gillan
Digital painting is everywhere. Do you finger-paint on your iPad? Are you overly attached to your Wacom tablet? Do you dream in HSB? You might be a digital painter. Early adopters of digital painting have been creatively…
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Leah Davis
Contagious Magazine Co-Founder Paul Kemp-Robertson and Leo Burnett Global Head of Social and Mobile James Kirkham take a look into their crystal ball, offering SXSW attendees a head-start on the most significant technolo…
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James Kirkham, Paul Kemp-Robertson
Sexy technology, elegant UX, and savvy media buys are all of secondary importance when it comes to crafting engaging, social experiences. The most valuable digital currency for creating participatory content is in fact, …
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Ivan Cash
How do organizations such as Burning Man, Google, Maker Faire and The Flux Foundation enable people to consistently make such incredible inventions? What can businesses learn from these wildly creative and successful gro…
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Aaron Koblin, Jessica Hobbs, Louise Glasgow, Will Chase
Following the success of the Design and Science: More than a Pretty Picture panel at SXSW 2013, we hope to continue the conversation about the creative side of discovery and the new approaches to communicating science t…
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Felice Frankel, Jennifer Jongsma
What happens when you take a photo of every fragment of your life? All those micro moments that are recorded and analysed. Has your visual existence been enhanced? What would you learn from your signature photographic a…
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David McNamara
Mostly known for his volume suggesting lettering work, Dado was once regarded as a "3D type magician" by renowned typographer Ale Paul—even though, perhaps more impressively, all his designs are made entirely in 2D. At S…
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Dado Queiroz
People imagine space software to be sleek and modern. But the tools NASA use today look nothing like their Star Trek counterparts. Instead, they're text-based, neon-colored, and complicated with age. This is a shame, but…
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Sam Hashemi, Steve Hillenius
In the age of social media, everyone is a curator (or at least they think they are). Media-rich networks have empowered anyone with an interest in art to both disseminate and publish their own creative images and groupin…
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Jennifer Yin, Kathryn Jaller, Sarah Bailey Hogarty, Willa Koerner
Digital technology can be a powerful tool for solving real problems in the communities and societies in which we live. Come network, mingle and brainstorm with people who share your interest in promoting the social good…
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David Waldron
ATTENTION: THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULL. Please choose another session to attend. Thank you. Whether it’s scribbled on a cocktail napkin, strikes like lightning, or wakes you up in the middle of the night, inspiration can …
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Alexander Braden, Breyna Fries, Courtney Tye
The future of libraries is here for the making. Library Machines is the time and space to get folks together to imagine, design and market new Library Machines. What’s a Library Machine? They follow a little formula, …
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Jeff Goldenson, Sidsel Bech-Petersen
The handmade economy is a vibrant and growing sector, with increased online and in-person platforms to help makers and creatives build their businesses and sell their work. As events like the Renegade Craft Fair and Mark…
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Courtney Klossner, Eleanor Whitney, Rena Tom, Sharon Fain
In just three years, Humans of New York has amassed an audience of millions and become a #1 NYT bestselling book. In this talk, Brandon Stanton will cover everything he's learned about audience building, crying alone i…
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Brandon Stanton
In just three years, Humans of New York has amassed an audience of millions and become a #1 NYT bestselling book. In this talk, Brandon Stanton will cover everything he's learned about audience building, crying alone i…
Serendipity happens when we stumble upon an unknown book or album tucked away on the shelves... and it thrills us. In this session, we will use the online music community What.CD as a model for thinking about how to mea…
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Paul Vinelli
The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s most ambitious scientific experiment. It is the successor to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, and will be 100x more powerful. The Webb Telescope, taller than a four-story…
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Alberto Conti, Amber Straughn, Blake Bullock, Natalie Batalha
Who gives a f*ck about techies? We don’t. We prefer to consider those at the fringes of life. Yes, we’re talking about incapacitation and death. It’s not fun. It’s not sexy. And it certainly won’t inspire the next wave o…
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Evan Carroll, Virginia Ingram
Circumnavigating the globe sounds exclusive to Magellan – but it’s shameful to think that type of go-anywhere travel isn’t accessible to everyone in the year 2014. What’s keeping you from traveling to the destinations of…
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Lee Abbamonte
Do traditional arts forms inform gaming and new media art? John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, stated: "It is not about the old and the new. It is about what is good." How do today’s game develop…
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Chris Solarski, Paul Toprac, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Sheldon Pacotti
Is DNA the programming language of the future? What role do genetics and personalized medicine play in the healthcare revolution? Can big data and community unlock secrets to a healthier life? Join Anne Wojcicki, CEO and…
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Anne Wojcicki
Manufacturing is experiencing a renaissance thanks to advancements in 3D Printing and 3D design software. Now, anywhere in the world, individuals have access to world-class manufacturing without the traditional barriers…
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Peter Weijmarshausen
Attention all Burners (and potential Burners!) We're hosting a Burning Man meetup at SXSW! Join Burning Man's communications, ticketing and tech teams from our San Francisco Headquarters to chat about the future landscap…
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Megan Miller
During New York Fashion Week in February 2012 - and in the middle of the year's biggest snowstorm - Hearst Magazines teamed with AngelHack, organizer of the world's largest hackathon competition, for its 1st Fashion Hack…
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Phil Wiser, Sabeen Ali
We're now living in the collaboration economy where the values of shared ownership and open access to ideas are celebrated. Yet, how many major brands openly promote hacking into their products to make them better? Boing…
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David Pescovitz, Eric Mcclellan, Liz Boone, Mark Frauenfelder
alt title: “Robots eating b@nker$: The digital future of m0ney” Financial Services are being rapidly digitized. iPads are replacing branches and bankers. Connected cars buy insurance by the mile. Automatic portfolio man…
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Dan Kimerling, Robert Schwentker
Most people have had some experience prototyping in one form or another and could likely describe it and its value with little effort. However, after years of prototyping from dotcoms to IBM to frog design and now cultiv…
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Jeff Wilson
This presentation will outline a. what we know about typical brain development and environmental effects, with emphasis on the adolescent period and the social brain, b. changes in the social environment during adolescen…
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Kate Mills
I propose to speak about my experience directing both a virtual research effort that resulted in my discovering the cause of my daughter's genetic illness and unrelated effort to prosecute the pre-clinical and clinical d…
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Hugh Rienhoff
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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Gordon Thomas
The purpose of this SXSW talk is to explore questions about our food system that require experimentation, nontraditional approaches, and multidisciplinary ways of thinking. Using the innovation of 3D printing chocolate, …
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Daniel Heron, Levi Lalla
66 million years ago, the dinosaurs had a very, very bad day thanks to an asteroid at least 10 km wide. Since 1998, NASA has led the global effort to find potentially hazardous asteroids, and has successfully found 95 pe…
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Jason Kessler, Jenn Gustetic
Improving our world and quality of life—from increasing energy and food production to developing new drugs and treatments to managing environmental crises—requires advances in science across numerous, connected disciplin…
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Arfon Smith, Mark Hahnel, Maytal Dahan, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
Never let the resources of one individual limit the potential of the community as a whole. We want to establish Washington, DC as THE location for live concerts in your living room. But hosting a show in your house requi…
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Catherine Woodiwiss, Nicholas DePrey
ATTENTION: This workshop is FULL. If you do not have a CONFIRMED seat, you will not be able to get in as space is very limited. Those with a confirmed seat must arrive by 9:25am or their seat will go to someone waiting o…
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Heather Willems, Nora Herting
The internet revolution is democratizing science. No longer limited to conventional laboratories science is taking to the streets as amateur and professional scientists around the world are conducting extraordinary exp…
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Elise Andrew, Hakeem Oluseyi
For more than 40 years, Moore's Law has held astonishingly accurate as the number of transistors, and along with it the processing power, of personal computers has doubled roughly every two years. Soon, however, as the v…
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Joshua Turner
Why would an esteemed, multinational ad agency let two young creatives go rogue and "make stuff" for a summer? Beats us. I guess our pitch was convincing. See, last year was Y&R's 90th anniversary, and because of this …
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Dave Pittman, Matt Colangelo
Our culture has transitioned from the top-down consumer culture of the 80s, 90s and early 00s to a one-to-one DIY culture focused on Making. Younger consumers are growing up in an era where they can immediately influence…
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Mike Senese, Richard Goldsmith
They say everyone has a book in them. NYT bestselling author Joni Rodgers notes that everyone has a spleen too, but it takes a special skillset to get it out and make it something you'd want to display on a shelf. A prof…
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Jerusha Rodgers, Joni Rodgers
How does science, which prizes openness and peer review, operate in the secret world of national security? While much today is known about the role of scientists during the Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons are only one…
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Sharon Weinberger
Expression of any kind begins with an impulse. Impulses that have been nurtured within safe spaces flow with greater freedom. Those impulses that were squelched by unsafe spaces have difficulty finding expression. Today,…
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Humberto Perez, Mark Olsen
Historically, inventors and technical innovators have worked well away from creative’s. Both sets of people operate in very different worlds – worlds that are very far apart. But there is a sub culture growing that is se…
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Andy Varley, Seth Jackson, Sybil Bell
Since the 1980s Roy Peter Clark and Mario Garcia -- an influential writing coach and world-class designer -- have collaborated on a creative concept called WED, an acronym that stands for the marriage of Writing, Editin…
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Mario Garcia, Roy Peter Clark
Bacteria. Brands. DNA. Consumers. Biomimicry. Marketing. Sustainability. Virality. Biohacking is a growing extension of the DIY and Maker movement, but also marketing. This session will provide background into biohackin…
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Simeon Spearman
Hackathons are getting out of control. However, this flood of 48 hour frantic coding sessions are spawning national and global collaborations resulting in not just new apps and projects (and a job opportunity in the case…
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Mike Zuckerman, Nicholas Skytland
This session will show how to use smartphones spy proof. As a former member of the German Parliament I was a target of espionage. To protect my communication in states like Afghanistan, Russia, China or any other country…
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Jimmy Schulz
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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David-Michel Davies
Dan Fletcher was Facebook's managing editor and the co-founder of BEACON, and Tanja Hollander has been traveling the country photographing each of her Facebook friends as part of a photography project, "Are You Really My…
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Dan Fletcher, Tanja Hollander
Building innovative physical gizmos in the real world has a unique set of challenges that makes it difficult to prototype ideas fast and iterate at lightning speed. If you want to have impact and get shit done, designing…
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Bartley Gillan
The popularity of hobby robotics and the maker movement is soaring, inspiring innovations in micro manufacturing and sparking creativity in DIYers worldwide. For me, it all began when I built my son a toy robot for his 4…
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Matthew Schiffman
It is one of our enduring enigmas: iconic endeavors—from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts—are often not achievements, but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.…
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Sarah Lewis
Bob Thacker is one of the most respected marketers in the country, a driving force behind bringing Michael Graves to Target, and OfficeMax's Elf Yourself and “A Day Made Better." Working on both sides of the agency/clie…
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Bob Thacker, Dan Khabie
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/IAP20303 So…
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Adrian Fernandez, Gerard Sequeira, Kipp Bradford, Pascal Nelson
Art and branding don't usually mix well. But what does it look like when the two work together harmoniously? George Zisiadis and Hillary Andujar are artists and designers who create engaging, interactive experiences a…
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George Zisiadis, Hillary Andujar
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/IAP21180 Ea…
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Christine Renaud, Laura Martini, Matthew Tiews, Michael Turri
What happens when you combine ideas from one of the oldest art museums in the US with one of the world's edgiest research labs? Sensors bringing eighth-century Tang dynasty Chinese tomb guardians to life? Foldable electr…
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Juliette Fritsch, Stacie Slotnick
Before the internet changed everything, we discovered new music by sending self-addressed stamped envelopes to record labels found in ‘zines and searching record stores for bands we first heard in skateboarding videos. T…
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Nathan Martin
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/IAP24674 Th…
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Adam DuVander
As designers, whether we’re creating packaging, products, or places, we usually think first of human purpose and pleasure. Nature’s elegance inspires us with beautiful forms, folds, spirals, patterns, shapes, layers, ma…
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Jane Fulton Suri, Tim McGee
Nelly Ben Hayoun is Designer of Experiences at the SETI Institute. In 2012, Ben Hayoun assembled the world first International Space Orchestra (ISO) composed of space scientists from NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Insti…
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Jasmina Tesanovic, Nelly Ben Hayoun
From the company that brought you the provocative presentation about the, “ROI of Happiness” at SXSW Interactive 2013, Plasticity (Formerly, The Smile Epidemic) is back to help companies seek better engagement, productiv…
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Jennifer Moss, Jim Moss
Wondering about the methods and benefits of integrating sound from the very beginning of a production? Want to learn how to remove the language barrier between you and the composer and sound designer in order to achieve …
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Chanel Summers, Patrick Pennefather
The talk is designed to show participants how easy it is to practice random acts of social kindness, and how each act creates a ripple effect of social good. In April 2013, I generated $64,000 in crowd sourced donations…
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Erin DeRuggiero
Blood, brains & biochemistry. How can human physiology inform the next generation of marketing and effective storytelling in the digital world? Explore the latest science from the emerging field of neuromarketing and wha…
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Dr Paul Zak, Uwe Gutschow
With a career spanning five decades, George Takei is known around the world for his founding role in the acclaimed television series Star Trek, in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise. Takei s…
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George Takei, Matthew Segal
In this session, Yoni Bloch, founder and CEO, of Interlude will share what’s next for film and music in the world of interactive videos. Attendees will discover just what makes this art form so compelling, how technolo…
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Yoni Bloch
How does a photo of an onion in Delhi translate into countrywide price inflation? Conversely, how can a video from 500 miles above the Earth’s surface shed light on a humanitarian crisis unfolding in West Africa? From th…
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Ching-Yu Hu, David Soloff, Harper Levine
Civic tech, engaged artists, and makers are doing amazing things in their own silos, but what can happen when neighbors and creators step out of their spaces and collaborate? On a grassroots, neighborhood-by-neighborhood…
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Emily Wright, Jake Levitas, Paul Davis
Borrowing the words of New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman who wrote that "public space is more important than social media" when discussing this summer's turmoil in Taksim Square, we hope to highlight t…
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Melissa Mongiat, Mouna Andraos
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A creative collaboration between The Heavy Projects (Los Angeles) and PublicAdCampaign (New York City), Re+Public is born out of a mutual interest in democratizing access to our shared visual environment. Re+Public uses …
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Heavy Biermann, Jordan Seiler
This presentation teaches techniques for pushing the human body to its limits, for getting superhuman results without superhuman genetics. It will include some of the most insane takeaways from The Tim Ferriss Experiment…
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Tim Ferriss
Self-driving cars on the cheap. Inductive charging units in dashboards. Oldsmobiles that can be controlled with a phone. See what else kids and twenty-somethings are doing with cars, and why these hackers and makers are …
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Jason Torchinsky, Rob Edwards
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how much is a video worth? Consumption of moving images, GIFs, and video on mobile devices is exploding. Experts in the social visual marketing space discuss what's now and what's …
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Jennie Smythe, Lindsay Gabler, Megan Healy, Scott Perry
“Branding” has become a ubiquitous term that many people use, but few understand…let alone, know ways to build one. Brands and artists need each other more than ever. These relationships must be crafted in a way that aut…
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Bruce Kalmick, Gannon Jones, Paul Jankowski
Music is an economic engine that drives how a city positions itself to attract business, young professionals and artists. Notable cities have created multiple entities to steward their cities growth in music and the arts…
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Hank Locklin, James Keblas, Kellie Goldstein, Pat Worley
Whether through social media, TV spots, or festival partnerships, fashion brands are using music to connect with consumers now more than ever before. And as the music and fashion worlds continue to collide, brands, music…
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Danny Clinch, Micah Nelson, Bruce Flohr, Stephen Niedzwiecki
Stems are the isolated instrumental or vocal tracks from a specific recording, and they're commonly used for two things: Remix contests for bands and video games. Until recently, creating remixes with stems was done exc…
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Brandon Martinez, Christian Castle, Erik Ashdown, Lane McCray, Kahlil Ashanti
Explore the impact of in-store radio on customer's shopping experiences and how this exposure can lead to fan acquisition for emerging acts. Retail playlists reach a captive audience - no one can turn the channel. Hear a…
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Adam Farrell, Julia Cummings, Richard Jankovich, Steven Pilker
Melbourne, Austin and Berlin sit at “far corners of the world with different cultures, climates and distinct sounds”, but each has one major thing in common – they are branded as three of the most supportive cities for l…
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Christian Morin, Don Pitts, Nick O'Byrne, Andrea Dr Baker
People may not think that brands and music go hand-in-hand like peanut butter and jelly, however, music is used daily as a way to enhance sales for many companies through TV commercials, television shows, feature films, …
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Brian Frank, Gina Collins, Ro Shon Fegan, Ken Hertz
Webb most recently directed the smash hit The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Sally Field which grossed over $750 million worldwide. Upcoming, he helmed the latest chapter in the Spider-Man l…
Beginner
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Logan Hill, Marc Webb
Tilda Swinton, a native of Scotland, started making films with the English director Derek Jarman in 1985, with Caravaggio. She gained international recognition in 1992 for her starring role in Orlando, directed by Sally …
Beginner
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Tilda Swinton, Eugene Hernandez
With “Bad Words,” his audacious feature directorial debut, Jason Bateman expands an already packed career portfolio with this subversive comedy that critics are calling a smart, uproarious and exuberant crowd-pleaser. We…
Beginner
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Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor
In over a decade, Jon Favreau has established himself as a prolific writer, director, producer, and actor with his eclectic body of work. Jon Favreau began his career as a writer with Swingers, in which he starred, and …
Beginner
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Ben Lyons, Jon Favreau
"We need to develop a sustainable investor class that supports the artists and benefits from doing so." - Ted Hope, Executive Director, San Francisco Film Society Traditionally, Investments in Independent Film are a high…
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Adam Collis
Ralph Steadman began his career as a cartoonist satirising the British social and political scene of the 60s. In the 1970s, responding to what he called ‘the screaming lifestyle of America’ he teamed up with Hunter S. Th…
Beginner
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Ralph Steadman, Doug Brinkley
Legendary comic actor Jeffrey Tambor (The Larry Sanders Show, Arrested Development) returns to SXSW for another edition of his Acting Workshop. Over the past four decades, Tambor has been an inspiration both on and off-s…
Beginner
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Jeffrey Tambor
Have you put together a trailer for your new film or video and don't know if it's working? Come to Trailer Park and show your trailer to a team of experts--i.e,, a film critic, a fellow filmmaker, a festival programmer, …
Intermediate
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Gerald Peary
Lena Dunham stars in the HBO series, GIRLS, which she created and serves as executive producer, writer, and director. Dunham won two Golden Globe Awards for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy…
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Lena Dunham
Nicolas Cage is one of the most prolific actors of our time. He leapt into the American consciousness as the quintessential LA teen in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and VALLEY GIRL and has continued as a leading man for …
Beginner
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David Gordon Green, Nicolas Cage
The studios have slowly but surely abandoned movie development, finance and production. Their physical plant is no longer necessary and the last bastion of their control over business - the collective monopoly on distrib…
Intermediate
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Janet Brown, John Sloss, John Pierson, Ross Fremer, Ryan Werner
One of the legends of '70s cinema, a vanguard of the midnight movie, and just as famous for films he didn't make as the films he did, Jodorowsky is not an artist whose body of work can be easily described. Cineastes arou…
Beginner
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Alejandro Jodorowsky, Drew McWeeny
Have you put together a trailer for your new film or video and don't know if it's working? Come to Trailer Park and show your trailer to a team of experts--i.e,, a film critic, a fellow filmmaker, a festival programmer, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Gerald Peary
In 2011, Patagonia partnered with scientist Matt Stoecker and filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel to make DamNation, a powerful film premiering at SXSW about removing obsolete dams and restoring rivers. Now Patagonia…
Beginner
Presenters
Jeremy Boxer, Joy Howard, Nancy Schafer, Travis Rummel, Yvon Chouinard
This presentation is designed to help you guide your clients through the murky waters of public stunts, no releases, hidden cameras, errors and omissions insurance, and more.…
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Michael Donaldson
One of Hollywood's most distinguished, popular, and versatile actors, Robert Duvall possesses a rare gift for totally immersing himself in his roles. The legendary actor has been nominated for six Academy Awards, winning…
Beginner
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Robert Duvall, Leonard Maltin
The panel will use the SXSW 2013 feature documentary BEFORE YOU KNOW IT as a case study looking at how the film was created with the subjects living in three different cities as well as the producer living in North Carol…
Beginning
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Jimmy LaValle, Kyle Henry, Mike Simpson, PJ Raval, Sara Giustini
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on casting with Vicky Boone, the casting director of Tree of Life and AIn't them Bodies Saints, and Kerry Barden, the casting director for Se7en and American Psycho. This is an o…
Intermediate
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Kerry Barden, Vicky Boone, Sarah Green
This hands-on workshop setting will allow participants to work individually with top Casting Directors on their audition technique. Participants will prepare their own material and will have ten minutes with a Casting Di…
Intermediate
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Beth Sepko, Matthew Lessall, Rochelle Rose, Sarah Finn, Susan Shopmaker
Ever feel a little bit like Goldilocks in the world of cameras? Wandering among all of your options in an attempt to figure out which one is “just right” for you? Just like the age-old tale, filmmakers today need to know…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Caniglia
In this session, Adobe Worldwide Evangelist Jason Levine will cover a video workflow from capture and logging, to building rough cuts and grading your footage through delivering your content anywhere, including Behance, …
Beginning
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Jason Levine
Meet with other adventure-seeking filmmakers during this one hour event in the Meet Up Pavilion. Discuss the latest gear, hear tips from experienced travelers or even swap stories from your latest filmmaking adventures…
Ready to be inspired? Join Adobe and SoulPancake for a conversation about collaborating to create inspirational, thought provoking content while developing community. Learn how today's new creative is bypassing traditio…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bayan Joonam, Ben Shelton, Meagan Keane, Shabnam Mogharabi
This panel will explore the future with wearable technology, putting focus on smart glasses and the impact this could have on content creation and content consumption. Huge amounts of content generated from wearable dev…
Intermediate
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Brian Friedman, Erick Miller, Gaia Dempsey, Julien Blin, Kip Fyfe
Mingle with representatives from Interlude and join the conversation on Transmedia Filmmaking. During this one hour meet up, share your own experiences with cross-platform storytelling and bounce your newest narrative i…
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear Charlie Phillips,…
Beginner
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Charlie Phillips, Emily Best, Keith Leopard
How do the shows you love end up on television? Who are the men and women in charge of programming our latest TV viewing addictions? Come meet the gatekeepers of today's most popular cable networks.……
Intermediate
Presenters
Benjamin Davis, Gina Balian, Joan Boorstein, Kathleen McCaffrey, David Carr
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear Thomas Benski, Ma…
Beginner
Presenters
Jigar Mehta, Mark Shapiro, Thomas Benski
Festivals and markets are as vital as ever in today's filmmaking scene. Learn what to do - and more importantly, what not to do - when it comes to festival submissions, festival attendance, and beyond for narrative films…
Beginner
Presenters
Alonso Aguilar-Castillo, Carl Spence, Dosin Pak, Heather Rae, Jeff Ross, Landon Zakheim, Linda Olszewski, Stuart Brown
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear Dan Berger, Owen …
Beginner
Presenters
Dan Berger, Owen Egerton, Stephanie Trepanier
It’s harder to get your work noticed now more than ever before. That’s why having a loyal audience that supports your endeavors has become crucial to success. Filmmakers Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco (who work with…
Beginning
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Patrick Epino, Stephen Dypiangco
Media has been disrupted. Now what? We all know (and have heard a thousand times) that new tools for creation, funding, and distribution have empowered content creators like never before. But the truth is that with these…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Udovich, Jen Yamato, Micki Krimmel, Monty Miranda, Patty West
Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers in our Narrative Filmmaker Mentor category. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open to al…
Presenters
Alexandra Saks, Hannah Fidell, Nathan Zellner, Sandra Adair, Ted Geoghegan, Yen Tan
Lincoln Lopez, VP of social for Turner Entertainment, and Fred Graver, Head of Entertainment for Twitter, share how Frank Darabont’s Mob City and Steven Spielberg’s Falling Skies were adapted for Twitter to let fans part…
Intermediate
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Fred Graver, Lincoln Lopez
Viewers are finding a whole new world of drama on TV that was once only found in theatricals. With producers like Michael Bay, Howard Gordon, and Dreamworks now creating projects for TV, a panel of the entertainment ind…
Beginning
Presenters
Alex Cary, David Eick, Hank Steinberg, Rob Moynihan, Steven Kane
Casey Neistat is a New York-based filmmaker. He is the writer, director, editor, and star of the series The Neistat Brothers on HBO and won the John Cassavetes Award at the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards for producing th…
Presenters
Casey Neistat
'Latitudes' is the first Brazilian film project to be released simultaneously online (through an original partnership with Google/YouTube), on TV (on TNT Latin America) and in movie theaters. Starred by two major Brazili…
Beginning
Presenters
Eduardo Fraga, Felipe Braga
Austin: the Breakfast Taco Capital of the World? Hell yeah it is! And why not? The people of Austin love their breakfast tacos; they love them in the morning, for lunch, when they’re hungover, at midnight, on the streets…
Beginner
Presenters
Mando Rayo
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:…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jon-Paul Jacques, Lizz Linabury, Scott Mills, Stuart O'Neil
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/IAP26451 In…
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Byron Sorrells, Chris Doyle, Guy Oron
The doughnut and croissant have operated alongside each other for years, each awesome in their own way. Until one day, you bring them together and witness the magic unfold – The Cronut. Content and Commerce is the next e…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Lerer
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:…
Intermediate
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David Murphy, Doug Stovall, Helen Ectors, Jim McArthur
LEGO fans make up one of the most enthusiastic online fan communities in existence. We don’t mean kids within the product target group; we mean the teen and adult fans. That’s right: Adult fans! By nature, these fans bu…
Advanced
Presenters
David Robertson, Frederikke Hoff, Glen Wadleigh, Sara Moore
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/IAP24603 A …
Intermediate
Presenters
Marty Coleman
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
Presenters
Margot Bloomstein
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
Presenters
Stephen Land
Real-time storytelling allows the audience to actively participate in the making of a story or advertisement. A recent example of ours, “Remote Control Tourist,” exemplifies this concept. For this, we used Twitter and Fa…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dustin Callif, Jason Nickel, Jason Zada
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:…
Intermediate
Presenters
Toby Barlow
The hilarious tweets written by funny people Megan Amram @meganamram, Jenny Johnson @JennyJohnsonHi5 and Josh Hara @yoyoha have not only attracted hundreds of thousands of followers, they've also landed these social medi…
Beginner
Presenters
Jenny Johnson, Josh Hara, Matt Silverman, Megan Amram
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
Presenters
Russ Somers
A panel of highly successful digital media professionals (who in no way set out to be highly successful digital media professionals) discuss their views on career paths, success, failure, and professional satisfaction. …
Intermediate
Presenters
Laura Lee, Lauren Zalaznick, Michael Slaby, Steven Waldman
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/IAP17366 Co…
Intermediate
Presenters
Cleve Gibbon, Rachel Lovinger
Technology is beginning to democratize book publishing by giving authors control over the entire process -- from content to distribution, marketing and sales. This session will go beyond discussion to demonstrate (live a…
Beginner
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Babette Pepaj, Erik Deutsch
52,000: The number of texts sent every second around the world. The proliferation of texting has exploded, starting with basic SMS in the late ‘90s, evolving to advanced iMessages and Emoji (picture characters) used to i…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Zimmer, Sam Huston
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/IAP26748 A …
Intermediate
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Brandi Grissom, John Burnett, Lise Olsen
Every year, People selects its World’s Most Beautiful People, Time dubs its Person of the Year and Rolling Stone crowns its Albums of the Year. But, does having a small elite choose the best make sense when the barriers …
Intermediate
Presenters
Anna Deavere Smith, Jordan Roth
In the last century, visionary media theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the emergence of the Internet and coined the phrase "the medium is the message," to highlight the role of the communication medium itself and its e…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Huh
Ghostwriters get a first-hand look into the minds of many of today’s great thinkers, innovators, and storytellers. We write bestsellers, yet never see our names on the bestseller list. We spend our days verbally poking a…
Beginner
Presenters
Stephanie Land
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
Presenters
Taya Pocock
Sophia Amoruso, the founder, CEO, and chief troublemaker of Nasty Gal, grew her fashion enterprise from a one-woman vintage store on eBay to an online retail haven for “badass girls” around the globe. The Los Angeles-bas…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christine Lagorio, Sophia Amoruso
ESPN launched Grantland based on the writings and vision of Bill Simmons. The company recently hired Nate Silver and acquired his site, FiveThirtyEight. As a company known for sports, Simmons and Silver will discuss the…
Advanced
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Bill Simmons, Nate Silver
What do 500 million smiles look like? In today’s mobile ecosystem, brands have the power to produce this volume of happiness in consumers, but are squandering the opportunity to do so by opting for annoying and often ang…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Wong
Are we witnessing the end of an era with a free and open web? Increasingly each innovation in social media and mobile is making your private data public and hidden from you. New gatekeepers are emerging that are making t…
Intermediate
Presenters
Michael Maness, Paul Steiger, Sue Gardner, Tim Wu
So you made your film. You did your festival run. Now what? If you’re like the vast majority of independent filmmakers, you’re faced with the choice of taking a bad distribution deal or launching into the dread world of …
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Downie
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/IAP25757 I…
Intermediate
Presenters
Amelia Showalter
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/IAP23340 Do…
Advanced
Presenters
Dorice Piraino, Mark Williams
Some of the most transformative new ideas and products are being created in both the skunkwork labs of tech giants and by digital artists, hackers, and other collectives; and in some instances the two sides are joining f…
Intermediate
Presenters
Danielle Strle, Doug Carmean, Jonathan Hunt, Mike Germano
Famed "Saturday Night Live" head writer and anchor of the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," Seth Meyers is host of NBC's "Late Night," where he brings his signature wit, jokes and satire to the weeknight scene. Joi…
Beginner
Presenters
Mike Shoemaker, Olivia Munn, Seth Meyers
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
Presenters
Dante Chinni
Cat videos are no longer just an entertaining distraction between emails and facebook posts; they are now an economic force. In just the past year cat video "cat-lebrities" have inked movie and book deals, inspired touri…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Lashes, Grace Suriel, Scott Stulen, Will Braden
Wait, are people still saying women aren't funny? Internet trolls aside, fearless and hilarious women are trailblazing and transforming the way readers connect with digital content -- and that (obviously) includes humor.…
Beginner
Presenters
Issa Rae, Jane Pratt, Kristina Wong, Mandy Stadtmiller
Have an idea for a killer gigabit app? Want to chat with fellow developers about what it's like to build for gigabit platforms? Join your fellow gig dreamers and some members of the Google Fiber team for an "App-y" Hour …
Beginner
Presenters
Josh Baer, Mellie Price
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
Presenters
Martin Waxman
The tech story of 2013 – the PRISM revelations and their fallout – wasn't broken by technology journalists. Why was that? Are most tech reporters too wrapped up in simple tasks like rewriting press releases about new app…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexia Tsotsis, Jemima Kiss, Kara Swisher, Martin Bryant
Great journalism can take many forms: a deeply reported investigative piece, a captivating yarn, a compelling story that starts a real discussion. The content and medium may differ, but the impact does not. What about t…
Intermediate
Presenters
M Scott Havens
During this panel we will hear from leading innovators and digital natives on the evolution of the digital news platform. First came print, radio, and then television and each of these mediums have their own list of best…
Beginner
Presenters
Andy Carvin, Drake Martinet, Lara Setrakian, Nishe Modoyan
"Print is dead" is so last year. 2013 alone saw the arrival of nearly 900 new titles. From Pitchfork to Style.com to Dr. Oz to Modern Farmer to allrecipes to Politico: across the media, in every niche, viable new magazin…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ann Marie Gardner, Jessanne Collins, Michael Renaud, Paul Carr
Imagine if you had a direct connection with thousands of readers who loved reading your work and those readers eagerly awaited the launch of your next project. How would that direct relationship with your readers change …
Intermediate
Presenters
Tim Grahl
These days, reporting the news effectively and competitively would be virtually impossible without the powerful contributions of amateurs who witness major news developments — especially the ones that happen where profes…
Advanced
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Eric Carvin, Mandy Jenkins
If Winston Churchill had it right--a joke is actually a “very serious thing.” And social good marketers are on board. Increasingly, nonprofits are breaking through the tried-and-true PSA fray by startling us with humor.…
Beginner
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Baratunde Thurston, Jon Flannery, Mike McCamon, Sheri Klein
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
Presenters
Stacey McLeod
SXSW is a place of creative convergence, so why not use it meet creatives from other disciplines? Whether you are interested in telling a story through film or spreading the story of your brand you will be able to meet…
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Dotson
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/IAP27586 Mo…
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Doug Vann
Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act is responsible for the shape of the Internet as we know it today, by freeing website operators from needing to conduct a legal review of each and every user communica…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ari Shahdadi, Eric Goldman, Jeff Hermes
Films are finding success abroad today - how do you make your film viable abroad, find the right distributor and capitalize on International markets? Find out here. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session…
Beginner
Presenters
Anais Clanet, Andy Whittaker, Diana Holtzberg, Diego Marambio, Inge de Leeuw, Juliana Ortiz, Michael Bremer, Soo Jin Hwang
How can brands break through clutter, find an audience and forge lasting relationships? The secret is addictive storytelling, with characters, voices and content that surprise, entertain and engage. Learn how the pro…
Presenters
Bob DeBitetto, Joanna Coles, Jonathan Perelman, Terry Wood, Troy Young
The best copywriting seems effortless. Seems. Behind that deceptively simple veneer lie crippling decisions and endless revisions. Don't be intimidated: the power to captivate consumers is within your grasp. Led by TE…
Presenters
Daniel DiGriz, Gregory Lewis, Jean Tang, Lucy Dotson
Why do crazy stories that aren't true get so much traction, while really important actual facts sink into oblivion? Algorithms influence almost all the information you consume, from news stories, to social media updates,…
Advanced
Presenters
Gilad Lotan, Kelly McBride
Instagram and other social media tools are transforming the way photographers, journalists and everyday users are documenting news around the world. In 2013, David Guttenfelder, the AP’s chief Asia photographer, won over…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dan Toffey, David Guttenfelder, Kira Pollack
Brands want to be loved. Consumers seek happiness. Brands that make consumers happy will be more loved. Sport is an inspirational power for good. Sport enhances the lives of individuals, communities, countries and the en…
Intermediate
Presenters
Lisa Murray
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/IAP26403 Co…
Intermediate
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Lauren Fritsch, Victoria Prozan
Thanks to the Internet, the proliferation of low-cost publishing has changed what journalistic integrity means to digital content, affecting the quality—and ethical integrity—of online “news.” With bad—and wrong—online …
Advanced
Presenters
Gail Marie 2, Kristina Eastham, Mike Schmidt, Robert Hernandez
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
Presenters
Zach Richardson
Is your “always on” made by those who are actually always online? Or is it made by the same folks who tried to newsjack the Harlem Shake two weeks after digital natives moved on to something more interesting? Perhaps it’…
Intermediate
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Jon Burkhart, Nadya Powell
Gellman is one of three reporters entrusted by Edward Snowden last May with top secret NSA archives. In December, he was the first to interview Snowden face to face in Moscow. Nine months after breaking the PRISM story i…
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Barton Gellman, Cory Doctorow
Best selling author Dave Evans along with co-author Joe Cothrel will present their latest book on enterprise social media and its impact on customer service. Published by Wiley (ISBN: 9781118826102, due out 3/1/2014), "…
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Dave Evans
On April 23, 2012, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press and posted a tweet proclaiming that President Obama had been injured in a terrorist attack. The stock market took an immedi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Austin Powell, Cole Stryker, Parmy Olson, Tom Cochran
Political fact-checking is expanding around the world, with new ventures popping up in South Africa, Australia, Germany, Chile and many other countries. But as the websites take root, the fact-checkers are facing new pre…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Adair, Martin Kotynek, Mona Chalabi, Peter Fray
Lifestyle and fashion bloggers love sharing their loves with their readers, no matter if it's a new favorite recipe or their newest night out shoes. Best of all, they love meeting new people: peers, readers, and potentia…
Beginner
Presenters
Camille Styles, Indiana Adams
The medium is the message. Blah blah. Old news. Think again: McLuhan’s famous statement isn’t a full frontal attack on content. It’s about the change a specific medium can cause. It’s about impact. When Forrester’s Dr. J…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jen Grogono
A typed journal from WWI passed on through generations fuels a young man's dreams of time travel and allows us to explore the power of personal stories and photos. Together with archival collections, these items take us…
Intermediate
Presenters
Heather Champ, Johan Oomen, Jon Voss, Rachel Frick
Viral content is content that can last for days or even years. We all have those viral videos we go back and watch from years ago and they still resonate. Viral content is highly sought after but not many companies and b…
Intermediate
Presenters
Josh Jones-Dilworth, William Leake
Québec is known as a hotbed of creativity in music, film and interactive. Join creative industry experts from Québec who will showcase innovative approaches to engaging customers and delighting audiences across multipl…
Hans Rosling, professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, recently stated that despite the wide availability of data in the world, there is a significant gap in local access to this knowledge. In this pa…
Intermediate
Presenters
Eliza Anyangwe, Kara Andrade, Sean Mcdonald, Trevor Knoblich
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/IAP20623 Ea…
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Presenters
Tara-Nicholle Nelson
This session is hosted by TEDx organizers from two of the largest and most successful TEDx events in the world: TEDxKC and TEDxAustin. Learn how to license and design a badass TEDx (or similar) event for your community …
Beginner
Presenters
Mike Lundgren, Nancy Giordano
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
Presenters
Elizabeth Tashik
Comedian Pete Holmes, host of the hit podcast You Made It Weird, has recently found new success as a talk show host on TBS. The Pete Holmes Show, produced by Conan O'Brien, blends stand-up, sketch, interviews, and offbea…
Beginner
Presenters
Karen Kilgariff, Nick Bernstein, Oren Brimer, Pete Holmes
The idea is hidden in there somewhere; a little creative whittling will reveal it. Successful content employs wholly-formed, multi-tiered concepts that communicate their messages with impressive efficiency. No doubt it m…
Intermediate
Presenters
Aaron Wells
It's a cartoonist's job to make jokes. What happens when the audience picks the punchline? Each week, The New Yorker provides its readers with a cartoon in need of a caption. Readers submit captions, the publication cho…
Intermediate
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Bob Mankoff
At Upworthy, Eli Pariser has designed a hella fast growing news site, using careful curation, point of view and crafty headline arts to engage people in serious news. We'll talk about the nature of viralness, feedback a…
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David Carr, Eli Pariser
The way we design and publish content for the web puts all of the focus on the newest material. For many sites, this means that an article only lives for a few hours or days before it is sent to the archives - not nearly…
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Ben Brown
Kids today don’t care about old, moldy literature. Girls don’t watch web video. Social media is only good for brands who want to engage their customers. ALL LIES! The Emmy Award-winning series "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries…
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Bernie Su, Jay Bushman
The rise of online video is disrupting nearly every facet of the TV industry, from programming to distribution to audience. As this shift becomes more prominent and media platforms battle for viewers, the industry is fac…
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Roy Sekoff
Today's companies are faced with the task of producing videos and new media. The question is, should you make a video or buy it? Many are making the shift to in-house video teams made up of not only of producers and vi…
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Andy Garibay, Rene Lego
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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Sherrilynne Starkie
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/IAP25031 Mo…
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Sara Wachter-Boettcher
The maker movement has inspired many hearts and minds worldwide to reconsider their role in the community and their connections to one-another. Sharing online has its limitations, so people globally are rekindling their …
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Chris Meyer
Earlier this year, a federal appeals court threw out the FCC’s open Internet rules, effectively killing Net Neutrality. What does this decision really mean for Internet users, and what comes next? In this session, Crai…
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Andrew Rasiej, Craig Aaron
Whether it’s your product, company or rock band, the naming is inevitably the hardest part. Hunched over the screen typing URL after URL into GoDaddy, you cross your fingers that your seven-hundredth attempt will finally…
Beginner
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Victor Pineiro
ATTENTION: This workshop is FULL. If you do not have a CONFIRMED seat, you will not be able to get in as space is very limited. Those with a confirmed seat must arrive by 9:25am or their seat will go to someone waiting o…
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Alex Cuthbert
Fanfiction is mainstream - in some sectors and to some creators. Whether that's good for fans, creators, publishers, tv networks or social media companies - and their lawyers and investors - is a question that unfolds ev…
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Anne Jamison, Heidi Tandy
35 years after the first Sony Walkman shipped, today's music player still has essentially the same set of controls as that original portable music player. Even though today's music player might have a million times more…
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Paul Lamere
In early 2013, comics writer Greg Pak and internet superstar musician Jonathan Coulton launched a Kickstarter for "Code Monkey Save World," a graphic novel written by Pak, drawn by Takeshi Miyazawa, and and based on Coul…
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Drew Westphal, Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton
The Future of TV in a Digital World: A Conversation with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts and Richard Wolffe In this day and age, news consumers are increasingly turning to digital sources. How does a cable TV news network reinve…
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Richard Wolffe, Thomas Roberts
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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Don Levy
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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Jenny Magic
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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Kelly Maclean
Magazine people think media consumers want carefully prepared packages filled with stories and photographs: in other words, magazines. But newspaper owners and record label executives thought the same thing about their p…
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Evan Ratliff, Jake Silverstein, Mangesh Hattikudur
Dr. Bhowmik will be talking about how natural user interfaces are fast becoming a reality in computing devices, including PCs and Tablets. He will show how Intel is adding eyes and ears to its technology so that our devi…
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Achin Bhowmik
CLE. Music is the product, substance, bait, wallpaper, and incidental portion of much on-line promotion and commerce. It’s used and abused. This presentation reviews what’s legal, what’s not, what should be, what shouldn…
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Ken Abdo
3D printing is poised to change entire industries. From transportation to manufacturing, fashion to education, this technology has huge implications for how the world will run now and in the future. And food is no except…
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Bonin Bough
Award-winning IFC series Portlandia is one of the smartest comedies on the air and SXSW is getting a special look at their latest season. Preview clips from the upocming fourth season of Portlandia, followed by a discuss…
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Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, Matt Braunger
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Have you always wanted to have your own exclusive mobile radio experience to offer to your fans? Want to be on a cutting-edge platform that can connect you with new fans and supporters? Avenue Live is a new voice-power…
There are countless legal pitfalls inherent in the world of film and video. Meet one on one with legal specialists for invaluable information to save you from costly problems in the future. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.…
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Charles Prince, Dan Satorius, Deena Kalai, Emilio Nicolas, George Rush, Jason Janego, Michael Saleman
The music industry was the canary in the coal mine. Changing technology/audience expectations wrecked the music industry. Now it’s the film industry’s turn. Yet music independents such as the artists and performers have …
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Dan Satorius
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
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/IAP25597 Fo…
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Daniel Wilson
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/IAP25173 Wh…
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Ian Varley
Come learn how Adobe's Innovation Pipeline team goes from just an idea to a functional prototype ready for testing with real users in a matter of weeks for their newest web authoring tools. During this interactive sessio…
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Devin Fernandez, Winsha Chen
Exceptional design doesn't always have to come from the design department. In fact, designers often play by simple guidelines they follow intuitively that anyone can learn. In this session you will learn the techniques d…
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Paul Trani
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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Aaron Smith, Christine Jones, Michele Silvestri
The web has become a rich creative platform. It's so ubiquitous that it's hard to imagine any game changer not being a part of the web. We're reaching a point where ideas we could only dream of in the past from interacti…
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CJ Gammon
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/IAP24940 Yo…
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Carol Gibson, Susan Hewitt
I'm going to show you how to make your customers happy using techniques that are normally employed by the lowest of the low; con-men, pick-up artists, used car salesmen, and as-seen-on-tv marketers. You'll learn that it'…
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Chris Nodder
User experience has become a ubiquitous buzzword in the tech and design field. Equally as ubiquitous is the association of "user experience" with the title "designer". Which is irritating. This talk is about my journey …
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Morgan Burton
HTML is a powerful platform for weaving a story of data through interactivity and motion. What could otherwise be dry, stale, or rather boring information suddenly becomes vibrant, engaging, and entertaining. Interactive…
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Sarah Hunt
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/IAP22681 So…
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Scott Lenger
As product design, user interfaces and frameworks are all converging to humanize technology and make it all about the complete user experience, valuable, relevant content is the currency of the new digital economy. Users…
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Jon Setzen
The idea of making isn’t just reserved for handmade bikes, artisan pickles, and Arduino helicopters. The future of making is a product of our human needs and the possibilities we create through technology. This is about …
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Joie Ito, Tim Brown
Achieving financial bliss, or even organizing everything in one place, is no easy task. There are many obstacles to maintaining stability like: How much am I spending on necessities? What’s the best way to handle debt? A…
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Vince Maniago
Estimating digital & software projects has long been considered a dark art. Many luminaries have written books, articles, blog posts, and rants on the subject. Steve McConnell, the guru of project estimation, has suggest…
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Brett Porter, Deborah Hanamura, Joshua Philips, Trevor Kale
What do iOS, Android, and the Internet all have in common? They were all built using source code editors driven by talented people. It’s often said that the editor is the most powerful tool in the arsenal of a develope…
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Jonathan Dunlap
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/IAP24635 To…
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Tyler Wilson, Vincent Higgins
It's time to slim down our Web and mobile apps. Some features only clutter the interface, distract our users and waste our precious time. The only problem: Which ones can be removed? How do you decide whether a feature b…
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Jeremy Tunnell, Malcolm Ong, Mat Mullen, Matas Petrikas
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
Ocupop has maintained an authority position as a design resource for everyone from the W3C to Google to countless startups; we've navigated hundreds of design reviews while avoiding the bullshit and bastardization most d…
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Michael Nieling
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/IAP23039 Le…
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Arjun Venkataswamy, Mike McGee, Sandor Weisz
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/IAP20614 Yo…
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AJ Self, Darby Frey, Shay Howe
Robots soon will change how we work; how we feed ourselves; how we heal; and how we relate to each other. Few emerging technologies have the power to disrupt our world on quite this scale. But with these enormous opport…
Intermediate
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Carl Bass
User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designers face the challenge of designing software applications for different screen sizes. Most consumers have smartphones, tablets, and large Smart TVs that allow them to en…
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Ana Karen Ramírez, Anjuan Simmons
ATTENTION: This is a DROP-IN workshop. You may come at any time between 9:30am-6:00pm. Participants will get creative reinterpreting letters inspired by street signs and signage from around the world. Physical play …
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Sarah Hyndman
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/IAP23795 A …
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Aaron Britt, Jacqui Watts, Justin Ferrell, Sean Hewens
As we look at what’s ahead for technology leaders, it’s clear that we’ll need more than good ideas, products and experiences to stay at the forefront. If we want to continue to transform how people look at the world, sim…
Intermediate
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Stephen Kim
Third-party JavaScript widgets (think Facebook Connect or Twitter Widgets) add functionality and enhance user experience, at very little cost to you. Unfortunately, much of the existing third-party JavaScript currently …
Intermediate
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Kent Brewster
There is an ever-increasing number of devices available to us, and an equally large number of ways to interact with them. We want to examine the role of gestures in interaction: how we've moved forward from mice and keyb…
Intermediate
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Allison Sigrist, Amber Heinbockel
What is the future of responsive web design? With screen sizes and shapes evolving by the month, if not the moment (iPad mini, the 13-inch tablet, Google Glass), designers, developers and marketers need to rethink how th…
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Chris Saint-Amant, Kerry Bodine, Mike Norman, Tim Hayden
Watch this fast-paced experiment where four strangers come together to launch a product in an hour. One supercoder will launch the back-end for an e-commerce website. One design guru will bang out stylesheets and logos. …
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Bill Hogan, Jess Morse, Pippin Williamson, Shiloh Daniel
Whether it's Nike+ reminding you to be more active, Mint judging you for going over budget last week, or Gmail telling you which emails are important, every day we're interacting with products and services that attempt t…
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Matt Danna
This talk will break some of the myths regarding pre-processors, and explain how they have help us to be more efficient when coding CSS. There are very influential people in the industry that have put down Sass, Less and…
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Ramon Lapenta
With so much going on at SXSW each day, it’s easy to miss some important bit of information that could end up changing the world. Join SXSW senior staff and special press guests to get their take on the important events,…
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Jeffrey Dachis, Kathleen Maher, Loic Le Meur
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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John Roa
The UX Meetup is an opportunity for all types of User Experience pros to get together for an informal, relaxing meet -and- greet. Come meet like-minded UX practitioners, designers, testers, researchers, UX-oriented produ…
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Beverly May
Almost everyone and everything has an app now, but whether those apps get traction with users and perform well for developers depends on a special blend of brains (backend functionality) and beauty (UX). As with dating, …
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Ilya Sukhar
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/IAP20591 Th…
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Ian MacDowell, Katrina Bekessy
Gigabit fiber means more than just faster Internet. Low latency, virtual networks and frictionless online experiences enable a new world of possibilities. Next generation Internet applications are challenging from both a…
Intermediate
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Aaron Deacon, Bob Metcalfe, Will Barkis
Animated words and pictures behind touch-sensitive glass is no longer enough to amaze digital natives. Now more than ever, digital installations and other interactive experiences require inspired technological creativity…
Intermediate
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Keith Butters, Toby Boudreaux
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/IAP22152 Th…
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Lindsey Simon, Lorin Beer
API design is an important component of developer experience. REST and Hypermedia introduced Web concepts to API design that made integrations easier than the RPC and SOAP style APIs before them. While useful, the patter…
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Jeremiah Cohick
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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Esther Kuperman
These interactive bilingual (ASL and English) storybook apps for iPad are unique and different from any other storybook apps currently available because they were designed and developed based on research in visual learni…
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Melissa Malzkuhn, Melissa Herzig
The manner in which an API is managed once it is launched is just as critical to its success as the design of the API, and the features it offers. This session will offer a balanced look at the reality of managing a popu…
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Thor Mitchell
Last year, PBS KIDS took on the daunting task of redesigning the brand for the modern media landscape including a complete overhaul of the Webby-award winning PBSKIDS.ORG. During this process, a small internal team took …
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Chris Bishop, Miguel Montanez
The smartphone has changed every element of research over the past few years – from the way consumers want to respond to inquiries (some 40% of research surveys are opened and completed on a mobile device) to the tools a…
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Andrew Campbell
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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Pamela Pavliscak
Mobile apps continue to pour in for games, navigation, education, collaboration, content creation - there seem to be no limits. While mobile apps are easy to develop, they can be challenging to manage, and more difficu…
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Peter Bahrs, Sean Sundberg
Why do we produce charts, infographics, reports or, indeed, any kind of media? We do it to change the world and to influence people. Are you succeeding in doing that in your role? We've chosen the 5 most influential vis…
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Andy Cotgreave
When it started two decades ago, SXSW Interactive was a couple hundred participants and a handful of panel discussions, all crammed into a few rooms at a Hyatt in Austin. Today, it has become a launching pad for startups…
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Baratunde Thurston, Danah Boyd, Gary Vaynerchuk, Guy Kawasaki, Hugh Forrest, Lane Becker, Molly Steenson, Robert Safian
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
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/IAP18081 Ef…
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Greg Nudelman
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/IAP23253 Co…
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Ethan Muller, Jeremy Mack, Rob Tarr
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/IAP17712 Ta…
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Dana Bauer, Everett Toews, Ken Perkins, Kyle Rames
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/IAP27138 At…
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Adrienne Huesca, Joel Yarmon, Leslie Miley, Patrick Murck
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/IAP25753 C…
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Aren Kaser, Sean Murphy, Steve Lowe
When designers share their work under an open license, they invite others to build upon and transform their designs without asking for permission, sometimes even using them commercially. A few years ago, the idea of lett…
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Elliot Harmon, Eric Stover, Scott Belsky, Sofya Polyakov
Designers have a growing toolbox, It used to be that all we needed was a good pen and access to Photoshop. Now, we’re writing code, using a huge suite of tools, and getting our hands dirty in ways we never imagined. One…
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Bushra Mahmood
Why is it important to focus on accessibility on your website? We'll show you how one highly dynamic and video-rich website was brought to life and then adapted for mobile—all while adhering to Section 508 compliance to …
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Jordan Sheckman
Consumer adoption of wearables and mobile sensors is set to skyrocket in 2014 and beyond, with increasingly complex devices bringing about the true realization of ‘the quantified self’. The impact these sensors will have…
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Gadi Amit
1. Collect all the data. 2. Design all the data with integrity. 3. ??? 4. Achieve universal knowledge and understanding. When Edward Tufte tweets mockingly of the leaked NSA slides, he does so as the self-anointed king o…
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Gabriel Schaffzin
How do we design experiences that are intrinsically baked with success? Experiences that force users to learn new tricks and as a by-product modify behavior and become addictive. How do we reward attention rather than de…
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Pete Trainor
In this talk Spencer Hewett will discuss some of his novel approaches to RFID localization that yield 20x increases in accuracy over conventional methods.……
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Spencer Hewett
Every day we are overwhelmed with a barrage of information in the world around us. To make sense of this onslaught of data, we look for patterns, and we make decisions every moment based on the patterns we recognize. Of …
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Robert Stribley
With ABI forecasting that global original equipment manufacturer (OEM) connected car system penetration will increase from 11.4% in 2012 to 60.1% in 2017, automotive manufacturers are under significant pressure to keep p…
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Ali Abaye
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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Jason Costa
With continuously changing technology, and fast-paced product cycles, we as designers no longer have the luxury of laboriously debating every pixel. I will be discussing how product design & innovation is tackled at a gl…
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Joel Beukelman
We used to go to our desks to connect to the Internet, now the Internet is in our pockets. Next year, it will be common to access online information on our wrists, from our eyeglasses, and inside our cars. By 2017, 'mobi…
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Alfred Lui
Computing is going through one of the most exciting moments in its history: people are increasingly adopting phones, tablets and newer type of devices. And this spread of technology has the potential to make a positive i…
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John Battelle, Sundar Pichai
The most basic technology and process we use today to fish was introduced 40,000 years ago. While human factors and user experience (UX) are more recent sciences, they are more similar to fishing than you may think. Let…
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Jon Kohrs
Google, Netflix, Square, Adobe. These are companies known for creating incredible software products and services. And yet, they are boldly pushing into new territory by creating hardware. But why? Google’s investment in …
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Julia Hu, Matt Rolandson, Michael Gough, Robert Brunner
Our lives’ are full of choices, and the number of choices we get slammed with every day is overwhelming. Especially as the human experience increasingly moves into the digital space – e.g. digital ads heralding four diff…
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Brad Nunnally
What can 3 billion geotagged Tweets collected over 18 months tell us about the world? We mapped this huge data set, taking a look at Twitter's userbase in incredible detail – revealing demographic, cultural, and social …
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Eric Gundersen, Ian Cairns
Digital screens are now as thin as paper, as we often wished for and ultimately expected. These paper-thin displays are referred to as AMOLED and are currently used in some mobile devices and televisions. In this present…
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Brandon Schmittling
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/IAP19077 Th…
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Stephen Wendel
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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Ben Satterfield
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are in their early stages of being developed for delivery of educational content. Current structural limitations inhibit everything from sophisticated game based learning to simple ema…
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Dawn Zimmaro, Donna Kidwell, Janet Walkow, Ross Strader
Today we are still using our mobile devices like the way we used to on old computers with a mouse. We have limited ourselves to only scrolling up, down, left, and right in most of our mobile experiences, when our touch…
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Sung Kim
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/IAP19539 Se…
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James Wickett, Karthik Gaekwad, Matt Johansen
Some say responsive web design means a different content strategy between different devices based on the context of use. Others say responsive web design means getting the same content no matter what device and context. …
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Amanda Krauss, Caryn Lusinchi, Chris Wiegman, Hawk Thompson
How you design web pages is changing — rapidly. Part of being a great web designer is understanding the medium you are designing for, recognizing its weaknesses and pushing its strengths. It's no longer enough to show a …
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Jason CranfordTeague
We live in a cross-platform world, with users now expecting the data they create to follow them across various devices, browsers and even offline. Consumers’ data sync demands range from simple needs (i.e. accessing the …
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Leah Culver
Currently, there is a major disconnect between the multi-year development cycles of automakers and consumer expectations for smart devices. Automakers can’t keep pace with the fast-moving software updates brought about b…
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Peter Skillman
This panel looks at a wide range of intersections between interaction design and the performing arts, from narrative to puppetry to dramatic theory. The performing arts may be characterized by the expression of emotion a…
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Allucquere Stone, Brenda Laurel, Emma Westecott, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
We all know the next wave is mobile, it's been beaten into our brains. But, what does a company do when they want to get on that wave, but the core of their business is still on the Web. How do you architect experiences …
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Andrew Vilcsak, Mark Smallcombe, Martin Destagnol, Sean Coady
Building advertising campaigns using traditional models doesn’t translate to today’s environment, where success requires listening, agility, and even - shock, horror - accepting failure as a part of the process. Creating…
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Aman Govil, Ben Malbon
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/IAP20315 Th…
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Ben Callahan, Jeremy Loyd
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/IAP17442 …
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Chuck Greb, Matt Smollinger
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/IAP25067 Su…
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Aaron Sedley, Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge
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/IAP20403 A …
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Abby Kallgren, Dan Abramson, Nate Maggio
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
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/IAP18106 D…
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Chelsey Delaney, Chris Trew
There's untapped magic in the gap between gadgets. Multi-screen design is a preoccupying problem as we try to fit our content into many different screens. But as devices proliferate, the opportunity is less about designi…
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Josh Clark
Let’s face it, as designers we’ve all been guilty of carelessly adopting popular usability and design conventions from time to time. Usually, we get the benefit of someone else’s thoughtfulness and research - no effort r…
Intermediate
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Michael Boeke
Struggling to have the impact you want? Win the hearts of your teammates and stakeholders with this simple recipe for Deep Collaboration! We’ll share the techniques we used to transform naysayers into UX advocates whil…
Intermediate
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Alissa Briggs, Raman Hansi
User experience design typically focuses on creating meaningful experiences that will affect as many people as possible. Startups covet reaching critical mass; success for larger companies is often measured in tens of mi…
Intermediate
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Joseph Medwid, Kevin McMillin
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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Daniel Harvey
Quality Assurance (QA) has quickly become a required discipline in today's digital world. As agencies strive to produce flawless digital content, they're struggling with how to establish QA teams to support process, and …
Intermediate
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Ben Currie, Jim Spillson, Kt Mcbratney, Michael Morowitz
Dynamic Web Environments, (a term I dubbed last year) are websites that change and mold much like how responsive websites mold to a device, but this time to a users needs. The trick is to change the website to deliver co…
Intermediate
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Jesse Friedman
Nearly everything we do is being mediated by technology, and that has turned us all into "walking data generators" - each individually throwing off exponentially more data than we were a decade ago. How can business owne…
Beginner
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Rajat Paharia
What’s old is new again. Content delivery systems that push static, or ‘flat’ HTML files are back. Jekyll, Middleman, Prose.io, GitHub Pages have led a new wave of sites — particularly in government — that are being depl…
Intermediate
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Ben Balter, Danny Chapman, Jessica Teal, Julie Herron
It's uncomfortable for me to admit this: Analysts aren't paid for the elegance of their Python, the resplendence of their R, or even the complexity of their CSV files. But after years of leading social analytics and rese…
Intermediate
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Eric Swayne
Mobile today means more than handsets in pockets. Welcome to digital ubiquity. Always-on cross-channel services add new dimensions of complexity to the job of user experience strategy and product design. So, yes, “mobi…
Intermediate
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Abi Jones, Christian Crumlish, Paul McAleer
Join leading technology insiders as they share the latest and hottest trends in tech innovation, consumer electronics, services, social media and startups – and unveil a top-level view of what’s coming in the near and lo…
Intermediate
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Gary Shapiro, Kevin O'Malley, Robert Scoble
In today’s mobile-centric world, our lives have been transformed to expect to discover and share almost every aspect of our lives on the go. With these discoveries come personal reactions through photos, videos, social …
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Cameron Clayton, Gary Klassen, Giorgos Zacharia, Tara O'Donnell
What does it mean to collect Art when digital technology has made the cost of copying zero? Is scarcity obsolete? As a creator, how do you assert authenticity when your work can be copied and transmitted thousands of tim…
Intermediate
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Chris Messina
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/IAP24553 Ke…
Intermediate
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Ted Boda
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/IAP20100 It…
Beginner
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Rick Mason
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/IAP25709 Le…
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J Nathan Matias, Sarah Szalavitz
Web and app developers: Want to make connected, intelligent consumer electronics but aren’t sure where to start? This session’s for you. We’ll share our approach to hardware and software design, and the hard lessons lear…
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Andy Carle, Peter Hoddie
Come meet front-end engineers, designers and other UI enthusiasts from the Chicago HTML5 Meet Up for networking and discussion of the growing ubiquity of the open web. Tablets, smart phones and desktops are just the beg…
Intermediate
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Mattie Langenberg
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/IAP27136 Di…
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Mat Hale, Todd Moyer
Customers increasingly expect retailers to understand their preferences so they can deliver personalized service. That’s why people love to shop on Amazon; Amazon uses insights about each customer to provide a seamless, …
Intermediate
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Marc Freed-Finnegan
Recent advances in technology that support the creation of interactive virtual reality, and breakthroughs in the tools of non-invasive human neuroscience have now resulted in a collision of these two exciting worlds. Phi…
Intermediate
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Adam Gazzaley, Philip Rosedale
Come see human-centered design teams led by IDEO.org and the Stanford d.school present their findings from three days of design research, brainstorming, and prototyping during SXSW. Read the workshop description and si…
UI design practices have evolved over the years. Too much or too little design documentation can create a gap between designers and engineers, but there is an easier way. Today’s solutions allow designers to communicate …
Intermediate
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Brian Peppler, John Goff
Interaction designers the world over often work at their desks solo, headphones on, working deep inside their own head. When they come out of their bubble to show their work, they're often surprised at the response. Coop…
Intermediate
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Christopher Noessel, Suzy Thompson
I’ve been working on product design for big corporations, for small companies and for my own startups. Each time I come to a point where I need to know more about how the users behave. Why are they not using a new featur…
Intermediate
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Tue Andersen
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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Jon-Eric Steinbomer
Consumers and technology play a major role in the evolution of omni-channel retailing. As retailers and advertisers, we can’t deny shoppers' quest for the best available product at the best possible price. How do you cre…
Beginner
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Ly Tran, Tim Lakin
Love it or hate it, the adult entertainment industry has played a major role in shaping the digital landscape. Porn websites, in particular, have often been at the forefront of meeting the shifting needs of users. These …
Beginner
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Steve Johnson
The Ruby on Rails Meet Up is an opportunity for Rails developers and businesses who use Rails to come together to compare notes on Rails development, how the Rails market is, and what people are developing in Rails.…
Beginner
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David Bluestein II
You’ve seen them. The blinking, pulsing eyesores. Animations used by developers and designers who think “Because I can” is a good excuse. It’s not. On the web, there should be a reason for everything. Every transition, t…
Intermediate
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Gabe Martin, Robby Grant
Over the past decade the record industry has seen a monumental shift in the way creators make and distribute their product to fans. The same thing is about to happen to the design and manufacturing of all physical goods.…
Advanced
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Zach Kaplan
At its heart, presenting personalized data and experiences for users is simple. But transferring, delivering and serving this data at high scale can become quite challenging. In this session, we will speak about the scal…
Advanced
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Rohan Singh, Sriram Malladi
Have you noticed not much has changed in digital communications standards (e.g., email and IM) in the past decade? Email and other standard digital communication methods haven't kept to meet the needs of 2014 technologie…
Intermediate
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Trevor Linton
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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Brian Wallace
The Texas Tribune deals with government data ranging from thousands to millions of rows and every data set has one thing in common: there's next to nothing in common. This talk shows you the process for consuming govern…
Beginner
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Travis Swicegood
While talks on theory and the promise of Gamification run rampant, very few of them provide the necessary tools to turn knowledge into action that deliver a strong Return on Investment for companies. As a Gamification Pi…
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Yu-kai Chou
Cultural design aesthetics have become less isolated and influence each other to evolve a global design standard as technology spreads. Differences between countries in aesthetics and interactions continue to meld. What …
Beginner
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Elizabeth Jensen
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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Akil Franklin
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/IAP24483 Do…
Intermediate
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Ed Schipul, Rachel Magario
Typefaces help you share, rant, tweet, post, publish and sell. They are the behind-the-scenes stars that portray your thoughts in visual language. Cast in the wrong role they may underperform or fail at this task yet ma…
Intermediate
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Blair Brown, Steve Matteson
Dogbert says to Diibert: "Information is gushing toward your brain like a firehose aimed at a teacup!" An extremely effective way to make sense of all this information is to find stories in the data and visualize them, w…
Beginner
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Fernanda Viégas, Graham Roberts, Karl Gude, Ronnie Lipton
As responsive design and progressive enhancement become mainstream design practices, the decades old approach of using Adobe Photoshop to comp up page designs for clients is becoming increasingly irrelevant. A quick sear…
Intermediate
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Jeremy Fuksa
Can a great company stay great after losing its visionary leader? For her new book "Haunted Empire," former Wall Street Journal Apple reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane interviewed nearly 200 company insiders, experts and busi…
Intermediate
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Geoffrey Fowler, Yukari Iwatani Kane
The process of designing a great experience and physically building a great experience have begun to merge. This shift radically changes the fundamental roles of designers and technologists. Today, we iteratively build t…
Intermediate
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Jai Dandekar, Randall Elliott
Quips like, “that’s over my head”, “her looks could kill” or “he’s cold-hearted” reveal deep connections between our physical senses and our emotional experiences. Today scientists are discovering new truths about viscer…
Intermediate
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Michael Hendrix
As interaction designers, we design how people spend their time. Judging by the amount of distracted multi-tasking, stress from information overload, and struggle for work-life balance, we're doing a pretty bad job of ke…
Intermediate
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Boaz Gurdin
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/IAP20731 Ma…
Intermediate
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Andrew Sanderson, Denis Bohm
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/IAP23435 Si…
Intermediate
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Brandy Porter, Jeff Heaton
Pablo Picasso was a prolific artist. He produced over 150,000 pieces of art, which equates to delivering seven finished pieces of art each day of his career. Picasso also delivered in different mediums: paintings, scul…
Beginner
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Brian Sullivan, J Schuh
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/IAP25092 Re…
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Alec Plumb, Brad Marsh, John Gustafsson, Robert Tomb
What were the top talks, tweets, trends, start-ups and parties? It’s impossible to absorb everything at SXSWi. So we dropped three energetic "beholders" into the field, documented their every move with borderline Orwelli…
Beginner
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Jesse Suchmann
Wave Harder: What happened when we experimented with Motion Computing in a physical retail environment? Utilizing motion computing presents a lot of possibilities at retail, we wanted to explore what technologies to use,…
Advanced
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Juuso Myllyrinne, Steve White
Join representatives from Warner Music, Sony Music, and Microsoft to learn about the new CME media format based on open web standards like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and common media formats like MP3 and h.264. The CME…
Presenters
Brad Spahr, Howie Singer, Michael Scherotter, Prabhu Anbananthan
As more cities start to realise the benefits of using technology to improve their neighborhoods, Cinemacity, co-produced by the franco german broadcaster Arte and the parisian native transmedia studio Small Bang, provide…
Beginning
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Michel Reilhac, Pierre Cattan
The landscape of interactive documentaries is exploding, so where are all the interactive narrative films on the web? Right here. ITVS, Murmur, Storycode & Ted Hope will discuss the emerging genre of interactive narrativ…
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Aina Abiodun, Karim Ahmad, Mike Knowlton, Ted Hope
What does unbranded content about blind coffee roasters, feral pigs, and electric bikes have to do with selling groceries? The team at Dark Rye, Whole Foods Market’s online magazine, thinks there’s a connection. Dark Rye…
Intermediate
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Caitlin Riley, Ira Chute, Jacob Ellenberg
Mark Duplass (actor, producer), Rob Corddry (actor), Jennifer Lafleur (actress, producer) and Ross Partridge (director) premiere and discuss their new web series, Wedlock. While Corddry is known for bringing Children’s H…
Advanced
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Corey Moss, Jennifer Lafleur, Mark Duplass, Rob Corddry, Ross Partridge
The NFB recently produced and released the McLaren Workshop app. The app combines a catalogue of innovative animation work by Norman McLaren with the tools to create your own films using McLarens very own techniques. Ou…
Intermediate
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Lorne Price, Mivil Deschenes, Nick Alt, Patrick Doyon
With the return of The Walking Dead in October 2013, AMC’s digital team set out to make the premiere a pop culture phenomenon online and re-enlisted director Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead’s Emmy Award-winning executive…
Beginning
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Greg Nicotero, Mac McKean, Rob Moynihan
In just over two years, The New York Times’s Op-Docs has become one of the most successful destinations for online short films, releasing more than 100 short documentaries (including “Notes on Blindness,” SXSW 2014 short…
Intermediate
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Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Jason Spingarn-Koff
Paul Shoebridge and Michael Simons (The Goggles), are the award-winning interactive directors of the acclaimed documentary, “Welcome to Pine Point,” a project which showed how digital stories could be made more immersive…
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Michael Simons, Paul Shoebridge, Swanna MacNair
We will be discussing the evolution of the award-winning short film project Our Lady Of Lourdes and how it was adapted to a changing market, while in active production. When deciding to release the short online after a …
Intermediate
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Peter Szewczyk
How can we bridge the gap between cinema and interactive storytelling? Or between neuroscience and art? During this session, IDFA DocLab founder and curator Caspar Sonnen and Brent Hoff, media artist and director of prog…
Intermediate
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Brent Hoff, Caspar Sonnen
Shot in 10 countries over the course of 4 years, Eline Jongsma & Kel O’Neill’s acclaimed documentary project Empire (NYFF 2013, IDFA 2012) is an epic investigation into the legacy of Dutch colonialism. It is also a one-o…
Beginning
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Eline Jongsma, Kel ONeill
Is it possible to compete with Pixar and Dreamworks from Argentina? I will describe the five years process and challenges we faced to produce the biggest film in South America. How did we succeed in developing a project…
Intermediate
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Diego Rosner
Interspersing conversation with lo-fi power point presentations and live music performance; three protagonists responsible for bringing American Interior to our screens, stereos, bookshelves and tablets will bring you th…
Advanced
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Catryn Ramasut, Gruff Rhys, Nathan Hull
A discussion with RSA Films and Scott Free London on their recent brand-related experiments, from Youtube's 'Life In Day' and the Parallel Lines film series for Philips, to the groundbreaking virals for Ridley Scott's 'P…
Intermediate
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Caspar Delaney, Jack Arbuthnott
CANAL+, premium global media company, based in France, will launch a brand new video experience in January 2014: the Social Player. The Social Player is a revolutionary video platform with two key features social and u…
Beginning
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Fabienne Fourquet, Marie Mustel, Marwan Mazloum
There’s a divide between filmmakers and "Youtube personalities." The idea of quality filmmaking is at odds with our perception of giant Youtube channels. However, we need each other - now more than ever. While Youtube st…
Beginning
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Beverly Reynolds, Chris Denson, Deniese Davis, Amy Rubin
Jon has a problem. He was born in the wrong place to become a rock n roll hero. Living in a seaside town where people go to retire, his only connection with the 'real' world is Twitter. FRANK has been described as "The…
Beginning
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Anna Higgs, Hugh Garry
Last Hijack Interactive is an online transmedia experience that allows you to explore the hijacking of a ship in Somalia. Exploring both sides of the story, Last Hijack Interactive allows you to uncover the complex reali…
Intermediate
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Femke Wolting
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear Chris Horton, Ben…
Beginner
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Benjamin Crossley-Marra, Chris Horton, Jillian Longnecker
Meet with industry professionals who can give advice and answer questions about distribution, distribution options, and more for narrative films. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open to …
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Austin Francalancia, David Reilly, Gabriel Cowan, Matt Cowal, Nicholas Ogiony, Peter Goldwyn
So you've made your film and you've been accepted into a Film Festival That Matters, such as SXSW. What now? This panel, moderated by Elizabeth Sheldon, SVP at Kino Lorber, will explore how best to get the attention of t…
Beginning
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Arianna Bocco, Dori Begley, Josh Braun, Elizabeth Sheldon
Directors/producers, Lisanne Pajot & James Swirsky give a first-hand look into 2 years of marketing & distributing their Sundance award-winning feature doc, Indie Game: The Movie. Building on their popular online case s…
Intermediate
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James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot
It’s widely acknowledged that indie film distribution is undergoing a sea change. With such evolution afoot, great deals get harder to find -- if you can find one at all -- and many filmmakers are scrambling to adapt to …
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Klaff, Mike Morasky, Mike Wilson, Stephanie Tinsley Schopp, Will Turnbull
Festivals and markets are as vital as ever in today's filmmaking scene. Learn what to do - and more importantly, what not to do - when it comes to festival submissions, festival attendance, and beyond for Documentary Fil…
Beginner
Presenters
Basil Tsiokos, Christine Davila, Courtney Sexton, Curran Nault, David Nugent, Greg Rhem, Lesli Klainberg, Martijn te Pas
Meet with industry professionals who can give advice and answer questions about distribution, distribution options, and more for Documentary Films. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open t…
Presenters
Bec Smith, Daniel Braun, Julie Parker Benello, Kristen Konvitz, Lois Vossen, Matt Grady, Molly Thompson, RJ Millard, Sean Berney, Steven Beer
Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers in our Documentary Filmmaker Mentor category. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open to …
Beginner
Presenters
Amy Grappell, Andrew Garrison, Asher Goldstein, David Hartstein, David Magdael, Keith Maitland, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, PJ Raval
Through his work on both independent and studio films, Pete Horner has developed an approach to film sound that explores the unique language of each film. In this presentation, Pete will share clips illustrating the pote…
Intermediate
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Pete Horner
Learn about the nuts and bolts of the all-important packaging, marketing and selling of your film. Who you are selling to? How do you land that buyer? Who picks up the tab? Find out here. Sign Up Here: http://mentor…
Beginner
Presenters
Annick Mahnert, Benjamin Braun, Dan Fisher, Hailey Wierengo, Kate Hurwitz, Peter Trinh, Peter Van Steemburg, Ryan Kampe
Come learn the basics of action and stunt fighting from legendary stuntman, stunt coordinator and director for over 35 years, Bobby Sargent, who has performed many of the most spectacular stunts in motion picture history…
Beginning
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Bobby Sargent, Val Gameiro
Learn about the nuts and bolts of the all-important packaging, marketing and selling of your film. Who you are selling to? How do you land that buyer? Who picks up the tab? Find out here. Sign Up Here: http://mentor…
Beginner
Presenters
Alex Nohe, Bob Berney, Camille Bertrand, Glen Basner, Joe Amodei, Michael Lerman, Mike Goodridge, Richard Abramowitz
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on the industry with Dean Silvers, author of the new book "Secrets of Breaking into the Film & TV Business" and Anne Thompson, creator of the popular blog "Thompson on Hollywood"…
Beginner
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Anne Thompson, Dean Silvers, Holly Herrick
Your film is complete, you’ve had a great premier, and you’re in deep negotiations with a distributor, so what’s the problem? Perhaps it’s that you’ve stretched your budget as thin as possible to make it this far and now…
Advanced
Presenters
Caroline Mckenzie, Emily Eddey, Jason Tobias
Filmmakers wear multiple hats, learn new skills under fire and juggle many jobs at once. We take these skills for granted as par for the course in getting a film made, but they also create a powerful arsenal of expertise…
Intermediate
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Erin Essenmacher, Erin Stam
Filmmakers are increasingly using digital marketing tools to make their films "sticky". Social media and contests and sweepstakes drive traffic to the filmmakers' sites. Solicitation of user-generated content keep fans i…
Beginning
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Anne Moebes
An artist's work is never limited by boundaries, but legal realities sometimes beg to differ. Among other legal concerns, professional artists who work internationally must consider their immigration status in the countr…
Intermediate
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Sharon Brenner
Come and meet the UK film industry in Austin! An informal meet-up opportunity for the world to meet the UK and for the UK to meet the world. If you've ever wondered who funds films in the UK, what audiences like watc…
Beginner
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Charlie Phillips
Have a question about beginning a project? In the middle and stuck? Meet with industry professionals who have experience aiding artists every step of the way. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signu…
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Christian Zak, Heather Collier, Holly Herrick, Mike DesRoches, Nancy Schafer, Stephanie Trepanier, Steven Beckman, Teresa Hollingsworth
Social change advocates are savvy about the power of media, often partnering with film and media artists to advance their missions. This climate offers new opportunities, but artists may find themselves in the political …
Intermediate
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Andrea Black, Deborah Esquenazi, John Fiege, Shaady Salehi
Synopsis: This presentation was designed for anyone who ever looked at a fantastic adventure or science fiction movie, or an amazingly complex and rich computer game, or a TV commercial where cars or gas pumps or biscuit…
Intermediate
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Jon Peddie
This session will bring together a diverse contingent of professional athletes, sports figures and LGBT and ally activists discussing LGBT visibility and allyship in sports. Presenters will use their personal experiences…
Beginner
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Brittney Griner, Hudson Taylor, LZ Granderson
Tricked-out home entertainment systems and rising ticket prices make it easier than ever for sports fans to skip the stadium and watch from home. It's increasingly difficult to compete with the creature comforts of a 70-…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Morgan, Bryan Srabian, John Ourand, Jordan Maleh
Drawing on more than 40 years as a Hollywood executive and his current roles as co-owner of the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Peter Guber discusses why sports content “isn’t just programming, it’s pa…
Intermediate
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Peter Guber
"Stop your tweeting and focus!" Sports stars have incredible power through social media - often more than clubs or other organisations. It is a new frontier of fan and brand engagement - but the rough comes with the smoo…
Intermediate
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Johny Hendricks, Richard Ayers
Sports matter. Their marquee events -- the Olympics, various world championships, most prominently the World Cup in soccer, the Super Bowl,the World Series, the UEFA Champions League Final, the NBA and NHL finals, the Am…
Beginner
Presenters
Andrei Markovits
Brands want to be loved. Consumers seek happiness. Brands make consumers happy by creating strong emotional connections to the things consumers are most passionate about. Sport is an inspirational power for good. Sp…
Intermediate
Presenters
Simon Wardle
With millions of dollars on the line, sports teams are demanding the latest technology to maximize their players' performance. Whether it's wearable sensors with GPS capability or motion-tracking cameras capable of captu…
Intermediate
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Adir Shiffman, Ben Alamar, Brian Kopp, Kirk Goldsberry
Award-winning investigative sports journalists Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports and Pete Thamel of Sports Illustrated will discuss how the digital age has transformed their roles as hell-raisers, um, hard-nosed reporters…
Intermediate
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Charles Robinson, Pete Thamel
The model of amateurism in college sports is slowly dying. It is being destroyed by the central contradiction of college sports: unpaid student labor earning greater and greater profits for coaches and administrators wit…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andy Staples , Chris Del Conte, Emmanuel Acho, Spencer Hall
From grandpa's box score in the Sunday morning newspaper, to today's visualizations of real-time statistics, sports just don't look the same anymore. In this core conversation, John T. Meyer, Founder of Statographics and…
Intermediate
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John Meyer
After television contracts, ticket sales represent the largest portion of a team’s revenue. However, most ticketing decisions, and pricing approaches in particular, are made using outdated practices. While data collectio…
Intermediate
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Barry Kahn, Grey Ivry
Executives from several leading 24-hour sports networks talk about how to program in the age of bite-sized, disposable content. This session is part of the brand new SXsports programming at SXSW 2014.…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Nathanson, Eric Weinberger, Jon Miller, Kaylee Hartung
More than a decade ago, in the summer of 2002, I broke my 7th Freediving World Record with a dive to 160m/525ft in the "No Limits" discipline. I would go on to break 3 more WRs, but this one still stands. I dearly wish i…
Intermediate
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Paul Streeter, Tanya Streeter
Youth sports is nearly perfect as a strategy to create a better world. Kids love to play and participation teaches them essential lifelong values - teamwork, setting and reaching goals, perseverance, managing adversity, …
Intermediate
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Grant Garrison, Ryan Eckel
The University of Texas is a leader regionally and nationally as a collegiate "brand" - the question going forward is how to sustain that brand and mission, evolve it to reflect the emerging issues in sports generally an…
Advanced
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Ellis Prince
College football has evolved into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Drones have become more than spy machines that patrol the skies. Now, in a strange twist, the two are working together to shape the future of the sport…
Beginner
Presenters
Ryan Baker, Ty Hildenbrandt
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
Presenters
Linda Simensky
Fantasy Sports long ago became "mainstream" for several reasons--technology that enabled fantasy leagues to rapidly expand online, fans never ending appetite for more information on their favorite sports, and pro sports …
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Cleland, Clay Walker, Daniel Shlossman, Marquise Goodwin, Stephania Bell
Community support is an essential component to any successful event, and successful events can benefit their communities for years to come. This meet-up seeks to unite event organizers and community leaders to share idea…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeff Cuellar
How do you succeed and change the perception of viewers in a non traditional sport? We all play sports as kids but It's extremely difficult to not only play the games we love at the professional level never mind have it…
Advanced
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Anson Carter
What does it take to compete at the highest levels of college football? What if your program is out-muscled financially and reputationally? What innovative schematic, cultural and organizational advantages could you crea…
Intermediate
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George Schroeder, Kliff Kingsbury
How did Notre Dame Athletics use Spotify playlists to sell tickets to their games, increase viewership on UND.com, and show Notre Dame fans and recruits the personalities behind their favorite teams and coaches? In this…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christianne Harder, Jordan Gremli
This panel discussion investigates how local and organically grown produce shapes Austin cooking and dining. Speakers will talk about the growth of organic markets and farm-to-table practices and discuss if / why the qua…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brenton Johnson, Megan Giller, Sam Hellman-Mass, Sean Henry, Tolly Moseley
With the rise of social media, sports and culture are tied together like never before. And there are no lines between where the sports world ends and where the creative world begins. Understanding how culture can influ…
Intermediate
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Jon Wexler, Lia Vakoutis
A spirited discussion between and among some of the best creators of sports-related content in today's multi-platform, genre-hopping media landscape. This session is a part of the brand new SXsports programming at SXSW …
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Connor Schell, Danny Meiseles, Jonathan Hock, Mike Tollin
People from all facets of the sports media world get together to discuss this constantly changing industry. All the tools, tips, to-dos and best practices in one place during SXSW. This session is part of the brand new …
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Andrew McNeill, Dave Abbott
WWE has been making TV history since ’85 when Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon took the gamble of a lifetime on an unprecedented closed-circuit make-it-or-break-it TV event dubbed “WrestleMania.” Today, WWE has not only c…
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John Cena, Michael Cole, Perkins Miller, Stephanie McMahon
Nate Silver said that "drafting and developing talent properly still represents the greatest value-add to a sports organization." Mark Cuban agreed, saying "The top 10 guys (in the NBA) are easier to spot. How do we impr…
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Avi Stopper, Kai Sato
A one-on-one panel discussion with Mindy Kaling, creator and star of Fox's The Mindy Project, about the new guard of female showrunners conquering television and what that means for its future. What do changes in the com…
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Adam Pally, Anne Fulenwider, Ike Barinholtz, Mindy Kaling
Love Digital Content? For web series creators, actors, directors, writers, producers and digital executives, this Meetup is the opportunity to network with your peers from across the country. You will have the opportunit…
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Sandra Payne, Tim Street
A multifaceted look at the NFL's current state of concussions, providing the view of former players, medical experts and those in charge of advancing the technology to improve player safety. This session is part of the b…
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Chris Nowinski, Craig Anderson, Domonique Foxworth, Will Brinson
Coming off the most successful year in team history, the U.S. Men's National Soccer Team will enter the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil this June with lofty goals amid high expectations. Led by head coach Jurgen Klinsmann,…
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Jürgen Klinsmann, Roger Bennett
Reuters estimates that sports betting is a TRILLION Dollar worldwide industry. Until recently, the massive demand for sports betting content was simply ignored by the mainstream media (due to a combination of pressure fr…
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RJ Bell
Voice acting has always been a fascinating career. Guys like Mel Blanc and Don LaFontaine were masters of the craft and made an incredible living with their voices. What used to be an almost "secret world" is now more ac…
Beginner
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Tara Tyler
In recent years, professional sports have become a testing (and proving) ground for the latest innovations in digital media, technology and social. Three of the brightest – and most influential – sports marketing minds w…
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Howard Handler, Jackson Jeyanayagam, Melissa Rosenthal Brenner, Steve Phelps
Over the past two decades 3D printing has radically shifted the way that many industries design new products. The medical field uses the process for creating bespoke hearing aids and aerospace companies use it to design …
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Jeff Beckham, Mike Vasquez
Have all the distractions at a game, social media, blasting ‘who let the dogs out’, mascot races, sponsorship contests and t-shirt bazookas replaced traditions. Has this been a bad thing for sporting events, fans and gam…
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Mark Drosos, Mark Pannes
Best known for its broadcast graphics like the bright yellow 1st and 10 line for football and strike-zone box in baseball, Sportvision has been instrumental in changing the ways fans watch sports while creating the next …
Intermediate
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Hank Adams
Cited by People Magazine as one of the ‘Top Ten most successful young people in Hollywood’ and featured on the covers of magazine’s such as Complex and Black Enterprises’ 40 Under 40, Nick Cannon, 32 years old is a succe…
Beginner
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Mary Pryor, Nick Cannon
Fresh off the ice, the National Hockey League, Chicago Blackhawks and Coors Light, share an insider’s perspective of an ambitious 2014-15 NHL season, inaugural Coors Light NHL Stadium Series and Stanley Cup Championship …
Intermediate
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Adam Dettman, Brian Jennings, Dean Matsuzaki, John McDonough
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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Amanda Cevallos
How can you make a difference, and make it entertaining at the same time? As lines continue to blur between fiction and non-fiction, education and entertainment, gaming and movies, and the corporate and non-profit secto…
Intermediate
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Caitlin Burns, Lina Srivastava, Liz Nord, Morra Aarons-Mele
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:…
Intermediate
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Diego Luna, Jonathan King, Logan Hill, Margaret Brown
In a multi-platform, decentralized, fast-growing marketplace, how can traditional television networks evolve to remain relevant? Viewers are demanding more choices, more content and more convenience, which is pushing med…
Intermediate
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Brian Stelter, John Skipper, Kevin Conroy, Paula Kerger
Next Generation Recommendations: We live in a world where search is dead. Consumers are most responsive to personalized, content-driven and curated experiences and are no longer as willing to take the time to search and …
Intermediate
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Hayley Barna, Katrina Lake, Ruzwana Bashir, Todd Yellin
There have been incredible advancements in both film and startup ideology in the last 10 years. Yes! Everyone should read the Lean Startup and apply what tech founders have learned to film productions. But what might tec…
Intermediate
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Emily Best
All of a sudden, the distinction between publishers and platforms on the web is hazy. Twitter is a publisher now? Gawker, a platform? Figuring out the difference reveals a lot about how content is made and consumed on th…
Advanced
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Zach Seward
Come and meet the UK film industry in Austin! An informal meet-up opportunity for the world to meet the UK and for the UK to meet the world. If you've ever wondered who funds films in the UK, what audiences like watc…
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Charlie Phillips
The best night of television in the summer 2013 wasn't TV at all. Rather, it was a livestream of the ultimate reality TV – an old-school, 11-hour filibuster in the Texas Senate. Nearly 200,000 concurrent viewers from 187…
Advanced
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Rodney Gibbs
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:…
Intermediate
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Evan Shapiro, Jacob Soboroff, Michael Davies, W Kamau Bell
A viewing revolution is afoot and video has hit the ground running. Nearly everyone is streaming and now a shift in public sentiment towards on-demand gratification is making traditional viewing habits a thing of the pas…
Intermediate
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Ran Harnevo, Scott Rosenberg
Over the last few years, YouTube has seen a radical transformation, becoming a legitimate platform for professional content creators to engage with viewers. A new breed of companies are thriving on YouTube and gathering …
Beginner
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Peter Kafka, Ynon Kreiz
Austin Music People (AMP) is the trade association and lobbying group for the brands, bands, and fans that make Austin the Live Music Capital of the World. If you care about the Austin music scene, please join us to net…
Beginner
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Jennifer Houlihan
Driving Facebook engagement for a premium TV show entering its final season can be an epic battle. This past year, the Starz digital marketing team faced this very dilemma: how to inspire its Spartacus Facebook community…
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Erin Dwyer, Mike Rooney
A veteran with PTSD may watch the hands of strangers for weapons and attempt suicide six times. She may also be the best brand ambassador for the biggest veteran’s nonprofit in the country. Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) …
Intermediate
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Abby Reiner, Angela Peacock, David Modigliani, Shane Santiago
BREAKING NEWS: Every day there is a lot of new news, and because of that, it's harder than ever to get noticed on the www. From hoaxes to reddit to everything Florida is doing wrong, how can comedy content compete? J…
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Allison Hord, Bryan Safi, Darryl Gudmundson, Dashiell Driscoll, Erin Gibson
As the live music capital of the world, Austin’s music scene can be difficult to navigate. The Good Music Club provides a sampler of Austin’s rich musical talent at monthly live concert tapings. This series, curated by L…
Beginner
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Laurie Gallardo, Richard Whymark
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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Celina Rollon
Came for SXSW Interactive but staying for SXSW Music? Going to SXSW Music but are trying to step up your tech game? Want to check in on the future of music technology? Come drink, dream, and develop with the artists, fo…
Beginner
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Austin Soldner
"Copyright" laws are complicated, and they're often the reason why your videos, mobile apps, and other content may get taken down. "Fair use" is complicated, but it's often the reason you can get your content back up. Le…
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Art Neill, Jonathan McIntosh, Shaun Spalding, Teri Karobonik
Here's the problem: You create great digital content (maybe an app, or video) that goes viral. Then someone rips it off. On the flip side, maybe someone else created great digital content that you want to "borrow". (…
Intermediate
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Bradley Gross
Ownership of user-generated online content remains a hot topic. "User" can denote anyone from an author or photographer to a teenager who creates a meme that ends up on t-shirts. How can intellectual property law cover s…
Beginner
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George Eid, Greg Kidd, Kevin Burton, Paul Cloutier
Judi Cutrone from The VIA Agency, will compare and contrast marketing, social mores and technologies from then and now as seen through the framework of one of America’s most popular sitcoms ever – Seinfeld. A humorous …
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Joshua Gondelman, Judi Ann Cutrone
The Hip Hop Entrepreneurial Spirit affectionately known as "The Hustle" has elevated Hip Hop from a back room subculture to a world changing phenomenon. Breakbeats, once only heard on underground mix-tapes now provide …
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Annie Lin, Dan Charnas, Guy Primus, James Lopez, Mykel Mitchell, Rashidi Harper, Theda Sandiford
A nexus of discovery and collaborative energy, SXSW Film kicks off in high gear with their annual Beginner's Guide. Answering questions like how do I get around Austin during the fest? When should I arrive to get into my…
Beginner
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Brian Kelley, Jette Kernion, Kelly Williams, Kimberley Jones, Neil Miller
Kick off SXSW Film right on Day One by getting insider tips, strategies and advice you can use to maximize your time at the film fest, straight from some of today’s most influential film pundits. Offering up a “sneak pre…
Beginning
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Anne Thompson, Dave Karger, Eugene Hernandez, Meredith Borders
Still can't decide which films you wanna check out this week? OR Have a film in the festival and want to get the word out? Then come to this informative and fun SXSW Filmmaker Pitch Session! Filmmakers - Come pitch your…
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Owen Egerton
People are often so caught up on the business & networking aspect of film festivals that they completely miss the opportunity to deconstruct the emotional journey filmmakers are thrust into. Going from cutting your teeth…
Beginner
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Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Ryan Coogler
Meet the Insiders is an opportunity to participate in vital discussions on the innovations and developments in the world of film across varying topics. Moderators will start by introducing and getting to know the Insider…
Beginner
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Carl Spence, Danny Sangho Rhee, Cullen Conly
Join us for a very special edition of Meet the Insiders. Hosted by Rose Vincelli Gustine of IFP this Meet the Insiders session will allow the audience to interact with eight of the top grantmakers and gatekeepers from th…
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Anna Rose Holmer, Eleanor Whitney, Iyabo Boyd, Jim Sommers, Juliana Steele, Lois Vossen, Rahdi Taylor, Rose Vincelli Gustine
Music discovery used to be simple. Tastemakers, usually DJs, introduced us to new artists. Times have changed. Some argue that the advent of collaborative filtering and data mining has made it easier to find and discover…
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Chris Becherer, Eric Bieschke, Ian Rogers, Marc Ruxin, Tim Quirk, Stephen White
Broad stylistic categories can be completely unfair to artists who strive for a unique voice, even as they are necessary for marketing and promotion. Hear how different corners of the industry view the challenges of "cro…
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Carissa Stolting, Cathleen Murphy, Kevin Sylvester, Dan Coleman
Today, video games and internet are surpassing TV and radio as the #1 source of entertainment. This has led to increasing popularity of sub-genres such as chiptune, nerdcore hip-hop and more. Learn about the beginnings o…
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Damian Hess, Eugene Ahn, MC Lars, Jesse Dangerously, Raheem Jarbo
Presented by NPR Music's Alt.Latino……
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Ana Tijoux, Felix Contreras, Jasmine Garsd
Mainstream media outlets have begun acknowledging the existence of heavy metal, even in its more extreme forms. Some of them have even taken a shine to it,. Somewhere along the course of its forty-odd raucous years, heav…
Presenters
Brandon Stosuy, Chris Grigg, Emilie Friedlander, Fred Pessaro, Kim Kelly
Electronic Dance Music continues to take the world by storm – and with it comes a new generation of music fans that sit at the nexus of music and technology. More than other genres, the EDM fan is digitally engaged with …
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Donnie Estopinal, Kerri Mason, Martina Wang, Senthil Chidambaram
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 …
Advanced
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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 …
Intermediate
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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?…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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-…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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David Neff
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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,…
Advanced
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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
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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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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…
Beginner
Presenters
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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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 …
Advanced
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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…
Advanced
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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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
Presenters
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
Presenters
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 …
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
Presenters
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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José-Manuel Bassat
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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.……
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Ken Cook
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Jefferson Graham, Marcia Stepanek
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, …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Matthew Desjardins, Zach Boisi
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…
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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 …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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
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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Kalli Meisler
Since that famous “Oreo Moment” that turned a Super Bowl blackout into a dubious marketing trend, more brands seem to have failed than succeeded at riding the real time zeitgeist. From Kenneth Cole to AT&T to Urban Outfi…
Intermediate
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Bryan Jones, Natanya Anderson, Noha Abdalla, Rick Wion
Jeff will read an excerpt from his book, Lean UX: Applying lean methods to improve user experience. Specifically, Jeff will discuss how product design and user experience has to adapt to fit in an agile and lean world. …
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Jeff Gothelf
“One of my tricks for generating startup ideas is to imagine the ways in which we'll seem backward to future generations. And I'm pretty sure that to people 50 or 100 years in the future, it will seem barbaric that peopl…
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Dr Dennis Schmuland, Dr Gautam Gulati, Morgan Gress, Naimish Patel
Join Dave Asprey, Veronica Belmont & Maneesh Sethi as they discuss automating your life while running your business. Running a startup is an intense, all-consuming undertaking and new entrepreneurs have a hard time keepi…
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Dave Asprey, Maneesh Sethi, Stephanie Burns, Veronica Belmont
Marketers are confronting an “omnichannel” world where consumers consult multiple sources and screens, sometimes making buying decisions in minutes. Brands need to be in customer pockets to capture those impulses at all …
Intermediate
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Keith Nyhouse, Pamela Naumes, Rachel Pasqua, Scott Carlis
You've heard about rewards based crowdfunding (the Kickstarters, and Indigogos) of the world, but do you know about equities crowd funding? With the anticipated Title III new regulations of the J.O.B.S (Jumpstart Our Bu…
Intermediate
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Chris Tyrrell, Jessica Randazza
Every startup raves about innovation, but how does it work within a large company? As technology changes and consumer demand shifts, it’s vital for companies big and small to question and re-evaluate their strategies. Ad…
Intermediate
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Greg Tseng, Hetal Pandya, Mike Isaac, Ryan Magnussen
Michael Dell, founder and CEO of Dell, will host a panel of successful entrepreneurs for an insightful discussion about starting and scaling a business, innovating beyond the startup phase, corporate reinvention and lead…
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Carley Roney, Jeff Housenbold, Michael Dell, Steve Kaufer
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/IAP18020 Ho…
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Andrew Sanderson, Eric Shelton, Quintin Henry, William Lowe
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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Rena Tom
There has been a proliferation of accelerators across the globe, and now across various "verticals" like energy, finance, hardware, etc. But there is another emergent theme of mission-driven accelerators who marry a publ…
Intermediate
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Corey Ford, Jake Shapiro
The mobile social media titans Facebook and Twitter have declared war over the branded video space. In this corner Instagram with 15 second spots that mirror TV, the medium agencies love. In the other corner vine, 6-seco…
Intermediate
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Brad Walters, Dave Marsey, Katrina Craigwell, Mark W Smith
Sensors, apps, and social networks are converging with new expectations to create better care and an improved user experience. 3-D printing and robotics are moving into the mainstream and must be convenient and accessibl…
Advanced
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Andy Palmer, Scott Stropkay
In 2010, I took the stage at an entrepreneurship competition. While I stood up there, I didn’t notice that the other four finalists were male until the organizer gave us our awards. Along with a plaque, they gave me a ma…
Intermediate
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Catherine Cook
Start-up executives must sell. You are your company's greatest advocate as well as the one best positioned to understand your company's capabilities and value proposition. In this Meet-up, we will gather start-up exec…
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Jason Hochman
Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …
Beginner
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Ari Stiles
Adam Nash, CEO of Wealthfront – the largest online financial advisor – and Dr. Pat Basu, Chief Medical Officer of Doctor on Demand – a virtual medical practice that allow patients to access physicians 24/7 – will discuss…
Intermediate
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Adam Nash, Pat Basu
Cloud Economics Inside the Firewall -for many CIOs, data privacy, data residency, and compliance requirements will ensure that certain enterprise applications remain on premise for some time. This doesn't mean the infras…
Intermediate
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Adam Carter
Should women in business be funny? It’s proven (2011 psychology study) that men are funnier than women. Women shy away from humor in the work place, and (yet another study) men are not attracted to funny women. Till now,…
Intermediate
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Amy Harrison
Coding is a skill that is traditionally held by a select group of individuals within a company. We know them as developers, computer science students, programmers, hackers… and in a few rare cases (perhaps too few), CEOs…
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Lew Cirne
When Karen discovered she had a life threatening heart condition, the last thing she expected was to have to worry about software. Now, with a heart device implanted in her body, she has come to understand not only how v…
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Karen Sandler
Digital Health is a burgeoning space, with relatively few prolific angel and venture investors, but entrepreneurs are getting creative about finding capital. This presentation will dissect the funding options for variou…
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Andrew Farquharson, Breanna DiGiammarino, Halle Tecco, Sarah Kessler
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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Rick Timmins
It is not just app ads and direct marketing come ons. Mobile has already generated some wildly creative uses of the small screen and mobile technology’s unique attributes. We ask senior mobile ad execs to show us campaig…
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Drew Neisser, Rob Griffin, Webster Lewin
Quickly connect with an entire room of LGBT professionals in various fields and backgrounds from all over the country! Speed-networking is your opportunity to have multiple one-on-one brief introductions, talk about your…
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Christopher Wood
Accelerator programs are here to stay. Or are they? As the startup ecosystem evolves and as mainstream industries incorporate technology in everyday systems and products, what is the best way to support early-stage busin…
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Paul Smith, Tristan Watson
In the era of Kickstarter, we have become trained to believe being the first and fastest to market is better than patiently developing an idea. It seems the days of five years of toil in a garage are gone. This “early bi…
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Austin Carr, Boris Sofman, Matt Rogers
Last year, we spent the equivalent of 1 million years watching cat videos online, uploaded ½ million different versions of Harlem Shake and took more pictures of what we ate for dinner last night than who we ate dinner w…
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Abigail Posner
Created in 1935 on a kitchen table, Monopoly has been played more than 1B times, available in 111 countries in 43 languages and sold more than 275M games. The goal was to reinvigorate the fan base, utilize a medium to c…
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Victor Lee
The theory of the traditional purchase funnel has been debunked. And consumers now believe each other more than advertising. As such, a new breed of marketer is emerging. One with the competence to leverage new tools and…
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Chris Kneeland
Join Dr. Leslie Saxon in a compelling discussion of body computing and the future of wearable and embedded technology. Find out what happens when networked humans dynamically connect to better control and manage their h…
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Leslie Saxon
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/IAP26899 Th…
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Blake Robinson, Israel Mirsky, Margaret Francis, Marshall Kirkpatrick
Staying healthy while traveling can be tough, especially while you're partaking in all of the festival fun. Face it: it's hard to turn down breakfast tacos. Thankfully, Austin is home to amazing running trails and studi…
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David Garza, Jeff Mckinney
Evidence-based medicine and patient-centered outcomes research share an assumption: Give patients and providers the information in plain language and you’ll improve their capacity for making good decisions. Not so. Resea…
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Aimee Roundtree
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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William Hulsey
Until recently, collaborative consumption primarily revolved around peer-to-peer transactions. In the past year, smart companies have taken notice of the possibilities for their businesses to take part as consumers in th…
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Andrew Reid, Mark Gilbreath
A startup is born everyday. With the growing trends in technology, the key is finding innovative ways to fund these companies for longevity. Typical startups go through several rounds of funding. During each round, compa…
Intermediate
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Dennis Campbell, Edria Fleming, James Martin, Wayne Sutton
Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…
Beginning
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Melodie Tao
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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Jonathan Nielsen, Mike Lowe, Richard Ting, Scott Kveton
When we look at Silicon Valley, it’s clear that new technology receives continuous support from many different directions to push it forward. Speed to market, significant funding sources and the public markets all contri…
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Amy Millman, Joan Fallon
Companies that are led by women or have diverse teams are shown to outperform those without women on the team, and yet private investments in these companies is far below what would be expected. Investors maintain that …
Intermediate
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Adam Quinton, Joshua Henderson, Lauren Flanagan, Trish Costello
Just as we took our cues from MBAs and the military in casting the ideal CEO of the 20th century, we can look to design - in its broadest form - to model our future leader, the DEO. DEOs look at every business challenge …
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Christopher Ireland, Maria Giudice
It all starts with the hacker. You’ve got the coding chops, passion, great hair, instinct, and an idea that’ll set the world on fire. Pounding code from day to night, you bring your idea to reality and demonstrate its ga…
Intermediate
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Dries Buytaert, Tom Erickson
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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Dave Fowler
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related counsel from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Sabrina Parsons
There have been persistent discussions in the entrepreneurship and technology spaces in the past several years about the need to increase funding for women-led startups. However, an increase in the actual numbers and dol…
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Christine Osekoski, Jesse Draper, Kate Brodock, Megan Quinn
Barriers between corporates and startups are coming down. Relationships defined by competition and distrust are being transformed through new collaborations; no more guess work for entrepreneurs on how to build products …
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Abigail Comber, Duncan Logan, Gina Bianchini, Gregg Alpert
The US and UK governments have put open data at the heart of current health reforms. In both countries, transparency has become a focal point for improvements in clinical quality and the cost effectiveness of services. T…
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Beverley Bryant, Gregory Downing
Part 1 - Join DELL, XO Group, IEEE and Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) as we celebrate the innovation and contribution of women in business and technology. We’re combining two individual women’s meetups into a single, integ…
Intermediate
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Carley Roney, Jennifer "JJ" Davis
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:…
Intermediate
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Elizabeth Robillard, Peter Roybal, Scott Goldberg, Scott Michaels
Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …
Beginner
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Bea Love
Why do some products and ideas catch on while others fail? What drives word of mouth? How does the audience people communicate with (e.g., small versus large), and the channel they communicate through (e.g. online versu…
Beginner
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Jonah Berger
High hopes are building for Bitcoins, and those are only buoyed by the endless speculations by the entrepreneurs, investors, regulators and others about its potential. From 2009 to 2013 the market cap of Bitcoin went fro…
Intermediate
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Constance Choi, Jeremy Liew, Tony Gallippi
There are so many talented roboticists in the world, but so few of them are conveying their breakthrough robotic technologies where they can really make a difference; out of the research labs and into our homes! What is …
Intermediate
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Dmitry Grishin
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:…
Intermediate
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Asif Khan, Ben West, Chris Marley, Jason Burby
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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Marta Voda
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
We tend to think of creativity in terms reminiscent of the ancient muses: divinely-inspired, unpredictable, and bestowed upon a lucky few. But when our jobs challenge us to be creative on demand, we must develop novel, u…
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David Burkus
Several top Internet and technology seed investors come together for the first time on one stage to tell their stories and answer your questions about best and worst practices in raising venture capital for start-up comp…
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Aileen Lee, David Tisch, Kevin Colleran, Matt Mazzeo
Can drinking wine help you live longer? Imagine an entire community voluntarily adopting healthy behaviors to improve the quality of life for everyone. Isobar and Healthways found a way to create a digital experience th…
Intermediate
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Colt Whittall, Greg Stielstra
Behavior change is hard. Doctors, trainers and clinicians have struggled for years to get people to take their medication, track what they eat, and increase their physical activity. And it's failed. While behavior chang…
Intermediate
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Andrew Rosenthal, Elliot Cohen, Ryan Panchadsaram, Yifan Zhang
B Corporations (or B Corps for short) are a new type of company that have a triple bottom line of people, planet and prosperity. Gather with staff from other B Corporations or get some information on how your company can…
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Sarah Best-Wilson
With the pace of globalization today, international expansion is not something that can be put off until later in a startup’s life. Join John Lunn, Global Director of the PayPal Developer Network to learn how to take you…
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John Lunn
Have you or anyone you know been feeling over-medicated lately? Under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry and related entities that capitalize on human fears and emotions, more than 45% of U.S. adults are taking mu…
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Elizabeth Gibson, Linda Hunt
Did you want to be a scientist when you grew up? Think you'll never get a chance to be a part of exciting discoveries in science? Citizen science allows all of us -- even those who are not "official" scientists -- to b…
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Jessica Richman
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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Joy Banner
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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Rohit Bhargava
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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Scott Porad
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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Alyssa Meritt, Chris Marley, George Mudie, Michael Griffith
Steve Case has worn several hats over the years: as an entrepreneur he co-founded America Online and brought the Internet to the masses; as a venture capitalist, he invests in people and ideas that are changing the world…
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Emily Chang, Steve Case
Get together with other folks in the search marketing industry for an hour of brainstorming, idea-building, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Paid Search, SEO, Content Marketing, Search + Social, even Bin…
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William Leake
With the explosion of wearable devices, the quantified self is not just for data junkies anymore. Connected fitness starts with tracking activity and collecting data. It raises our awareness and helps us get off the couc…
Intermediate
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Arthur Markman, Christopher Glode, Martha Wofford, Tim Roberts
David Allan, Managing Editor at the BBC.com, would interview David Allen, the author of the international bestseller Getting Things Done and the guru of personal productivity. Allan would also experiment implementing All…
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David Allen, David G Allan
"In order to succeed into today's competitive digital landscape, companies must leverage mobile enterprise technologies while engaging in social media cross-channel in agile content marketing blah blah blah." Sorry, mark…
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Kristina Halvorson
Reviews proliferate across the web - from purchase-based hubs, to collected aggregations of millions of products, to marketers' own websites. Consumers are talking about brands, about products, about what they love, and …
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Aydin Acar, Elizabeth Scherle
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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Caroline Bruderer
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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Arlie Sisson, Brent Hieggelke, Kevin Hurst, Ted Schadler
Internet pioneer, billionaire, angel investor, NBA team owner assesses the current state of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in a no BS session with Silicon Valley veteran Guy Kawasaki. The fun and in-depth c…
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Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban
One of the hardest questions for anyone selling a product is 'how much should I charge?' This question becomes even harder when you're selling highly unique items: rare collectables, time, tasks, journeys, space. For dis…
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Daniel Hill
We are at the beginning of a historic era for innovation in health care delivery in the US due to the convergence of proliferation of mobile technology and changing health care delivery models toward value rather than vo…
Intermediate
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Andrey Ostrovsky, James Merlino, Jennifer Joe, Krishna Yeshwant
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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Deborah Estrin, Doreen Lorenzo
Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…
Beginner
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Bea Love
For the first time in 50 years, the health care industry is facing a major disruption and is moving toward an at-risk/ACO model where opportunities are driven by transition. With the growing aging population and increase…
Intermediate
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Jack Young, Jenna Rose, Malay Gandhi, Ted Maidenberg
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/IAP26606 …
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Stephen Fraga
From health trackers, like the Basis band and Nike Fuelband, to communications devices including Google Glass and the widely-anticipated iWatch, the wearables market is poised to top $12 billion by 2018. This growth prom…
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Bonnie Cha, Jef Holove, Rodrigo Martinez, Yijing Brentano
The potential for Crowdfunding lies outside the USA. Emerging markets that have been cut off from the capital markets stand at a point in time to access billions of dollars of capital that will fundamentally challenge t…
Intermediate
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Jason Best, Sherwood Neiss
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/IAP25782 Ma…
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Connie Zheng
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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Brian Lemond
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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Natalie Currie
Our cell phones are literally an extension of us. We rely on them to keep us connected to friends, colleagues and the online community we've never even met. They tell us where to shop, where to eat, where to drive, when …
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Asif Khan, Damien Patton
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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James Anstey, Karen Untereker, Kip Havel, Paull Young
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/IAP22959 Ev…
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Mike Pacchione, Nancy Duarte, Paul Brown, Ryan Orcutt
Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …
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Melodie Tao
SXSW V2V is back in Las Vegas this July for its second year, uniting startups, innovators and creatives for four days of inspirational speakers, great networking, a pitch competition, workshops, mentoring, and more. We h…
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Christine Auten, Gabriel Shepherd
From tablets to 3D printers to smartphones, Star Trek has given life to some of today’s hottest technologies. 40 years after the show’s launch, technology has finally advanced to where we are able to live in the future, …
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Rod Roddenberry, Sam De Brouwer
If you want to understand the human mind and behavior, look at another animal. People, for example, aren't the only animals to lose their minds. Plenty of other creatures do too--from compulsive dolphins to depressed dog…
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Laurel Braitman
Adolescents with congenital heart disease are known to have reduced exercise activity. Despite this, regular exercise has multiple health benefits for this population. Exercise can be prescribed in the same way as medici…
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Ally Stuart, Craig Williams, Graham Stuart
On August 20th, 2012 a product called “Instacube” was nothing more than a rendering. By the evening of August 21st, Instacube had raised over $100,000 in it's first day on Kickstarter and earned over 3,000 media hits. S…
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Savannah Peterson, Tom Miale
Elite athletes must focus on more than physical training to win. Startup CEOs also have an inner game to master on the way to success. Yet many hidden challenges to being a startup CEO aren't talked about enough. Among o…
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Dale Larson, Marcy Swenson
While the first wave of e-commerce was focused on getting access to products, and the second wave e-commerce was centered around recommendations, a third wave has begun to emerge. Taking the best elements of brick and mo…
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Ethan Song, Hicham Ratnani
With the advancement of wearable and soon, implantable technologies, patients’ health will be monitored by computers 24/7. What will this mean for the doctors of 2025 and how will patients interact with their personal he…
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Delian Asparouhov
Approached correctly, science is a systematic and objective inquiry into the nature and working of things. But sometimes, science merely produces trends-- which are disproved by a more comprehensive inquiry. We'll disc…
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Riley Drake
Imagine every cancer patient's genome being sequenced to design proteins that bind to the mutations of that patient in order to destroy their tumor. This idea is not impossible. And soon these paradigms will become the…
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Riley Ennis
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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Althea Erickson, Anthony Marino, Natalie Foster, Noah Karesh
For decades, government has been the primary funder of robotics and AI initiatives – from NASA projects to DARPA challenges and autonomous driving research. But recently, large companies such as John Deere and Amazon hav…
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Dror Oren, Hanns Tappeiner, Liz Gannes, Tony Stentz
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/IAP19922 A …
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Jessica Lawrence, Rasanath Das, Vipin Goyal
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/IAP23343 “G…
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Stephanie Staidle
The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is sweating through the night when the dream turns into a nightmare. Minimizing politics. Firing friends. Sustaining a CEO mentality. Surviving the Struggle. While m…
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Ben Horowitz, Nas
How did a team of two scientists make more progress on an exciting category of drug candidates in 11 months than the top 20 pharmaceutical companies have in 23 years? It all started with Tumor Paint. Join Jim Olson, inve…
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Jim Olson
The emergence of cheap genome sequencing and commercialized testing (23andMe) has pushed many important legal and ethical questions to the forefront. Should parents be allowed to check for serious genomic defects in thei…
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Samuel Volchenboum
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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Jason Shah
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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Stacy Spikes
Libraries as the epicenter of innovation, technology and economic recovery? You bet your assets they are! By finding creative ways to bring together techies, entrepreneurs, makers, and sometimes even angel investors, tod…
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Janie Hermann, Venu Moola
Your health story has gone from a scatter of hand-written notes with a sketchy plot to a digital digest with volumes yet to come. And for the first time, you’re one of the authors. Your story is comprised of electronic h…
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Jeffrey Benabio, Madhu Nutakki
The Paris startup ecosystem has been silently churning out $1 Billion companies since the 1970s; however, its anti-Anglophone history, anti-business government, and the language barrier has influenced international opini…
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Cedric Giorgi, Frederic Montagnon, Liam Boogar, Pierre-Simon Ntiruhungwa
Artificial hearts, bionic eyes and audio implants are all very real and medically relevant. What about the questionable fringe? Welcome to biohacking. Fascinating examples of the merger of man and machine keep popping u…
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Jason Levy
When our daughter was born she lost too much of her birth weight too quickly. So we started keeping a log of everything she consumed and, inevitably, expelled. It started with a simple spreadsheet to track the exact amou…
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Amy Webb
Current figures from the American Diabetes Association show that 8% of the U.S. population, or 25.8 million people, have diabetes. This is a large percentage of the populace that needs to manage a chronic health issue. …
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Brian Sherwell
I've just returned from a 5 month nationwide bus tour for my book on internet entrepreneurship, Without Their Permission, and I've met founders as well as college students (77 universities!), all fired up about creating …
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Alexis Ohanian
It’s an uncomfortable and often avoided subject, but at some point in our lives we will all have to deal with one thing: death. The emotionally complex experience of End of Life (EoL) planning can be confusing and legal …
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Navit Keren
Every healthcare organization must evolve its commercial strategy within a transformed health system that rewards prevention and punishes waste, and patient engagement is critical to this shift. Additionally, with more p…
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Charles Saunders, Fred Trotter, James Mault, Michele Polz
Healthcare technology is rarely designed with the patient in mind and designing a better experience is a daunting task. To make an impact, designers need to arm themselves with a mission, passion, and a patient mindset. …
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Abbe Don
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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Ligaya Tichy
What if the world's best software entrepreneurs used all their resources to take on big projects beyond the Web like schools, hospitals and factories? Software engineers are already making real-world goods and services, …
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Glenn Kelman
Transition is an inevitable part of every startup and successful business – at some (or several) points in time it becomes necessary to evolve in order to be competitive and maintain relevance. But, identifying the right…
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Ilya Fushman , Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Mobile apps and health devices on the market today claim to help you adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors fast — but just because the technology is available, that doesn’t guarantee you a success story. Fixing bad health h…
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John de Souza
Healthcare is extremely fragmented. There are over 30 medical disciplines, and dozens of job classes. Each person knows their domain area of expertise, but these days, it's rare that any one person can diagnose and treat…
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Kyle Samani
Humans’ increased focus on personal fitness has been met with consumer electronics and apparel companies producing wearable devices that track every step, sit-up, sleep pattern and more. The era of tracking your personal…
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Rafael Mena
In the future, virtual health care won’t be a luxury for the wealthy, but a necessity as the demand for quality and timely care rises and health organizations go under more pressure to deliver better patient outcomes and…
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Daphne Kis, Dr Timothy Bickmore PHD, Mitch Lawrence, Stacey Higginbotham
Aaron Levie launched the online file sharing company BOX from his college dormroom in 2005. Nine years later, the company is valued at $2 billion and counts over 25 million users. Nearly every Fortune 500 company is a cu…
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Aaron Levie, Jessi Hempel
Internal tools aren't known for their beautiful consumer UI, or extreme ease of use, but they are what keeps any company humming. But this is changing. Airbnb and Etsy are among a handful of companies leading the way in…
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Daniel Schauenberg, Harrison Shoff
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/IAP24279 Ec…
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David Sherwin, Diego Depetris, Patrick Kalaher, Steve Selzer
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/IAP20738 61…
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Allison Yost, Andrea Ippolito, Zen Chu
The internet needs a justice system, just like the face-to-face world. But the courts are too tied to geography and physical enforcement to provide fair redress online. The most effective approach to building this new …
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Beth Trent, Colin Rule, Jin Ho Verdonschot, Joseph Markowitz
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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Aristides Ioannides
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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Mary Juetten
Scanadu Founder Walter de Brouwer is an academic and scientist who sees the future of healthcare in smartphones. With advances in sensors, imaging and mobile technology allowing us to examine, and see, the human body lik…
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Walter De Brouwer
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 Gebhardt, Lori McMahon, Tom Scott
Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…
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Neal Pollack
In the tradition of Naked Economics and The Undercover Economist, Stanford economist Paul Oyer offers a provocative, informative, and entertaining view of modern microeconomics-- using the lens of online dating. Oyer arg…
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Paul Oyer
Sometimes we all hit a wall in our careers, in our startups, or even just in life. It happens to everyone. Increasingly, people who have felt burned out with life have turned to alternative ways to connecting, centering,…
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Allie Phillips, Julie Germany
Lost amidst today's swell of content marketing, mobile app development, and social media mayhem is a simple fact: there's more competition for consumer attention than ever before. As a result, "build it and they will co…
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Jeffrey Rohrs
With its unflinching, uncensored approach to the kind of health problems that people just don’t talk about, Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies is the most provocative medical series on British TV. Beyond broadcast, the sho…
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Nick Lockey
This is a meetup for Health IT developers, investors, beginners and mere enthusiasts is hosted by Health IT rockstar Fred Trotter (heard of DocGraph?) Are you interested in meeting with other Health IT experts? Join this…
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Fred Trotter
The Constitution calls for a patent system to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” …
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Julie Hopkins, Lee Dunn, Reihan Salam, Russ Merbeth
Sound is the second most memorable sense, after smell. Is your company/brand/video taking advantage of this, or focusing solely on the visuals? Using sound in your media, whether it's a 2-second logo, a jingle or a film …
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Cheryl Engelhardt
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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Cassie Lancellotti-Young
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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Kevin Planovsky
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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Mariano Suarez Battan
In 2013, the ban on general solicitation of accredited investors was lifted, causing the largest change to securities laws in decades. While everyone from startups to hedge funds will enjoy new liberties in investor mark…
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Douglas Ellenoff, Joy Schoffler, Judd Hollas, Judy Robinett
Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …
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Jenni Bevill
Social media has changed the game for salespeople, who can no longer survive without adopting new technologies. Today’s buyer is more informed and more connected than ever before, and this change has forced salespeople t…
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Jason Suen, Patrizio Spagnoletto
New technologies are transforming the orchestral industry, empowering entrepreneurial musicians and giving strong advantages to minimally staffed upstarts. Learn how it is increasingly possible for a single person, with …
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Richard McKay
Over the past few years, Venture Capitalists have become micro-celebrities, with public profiles that often exponentially eclipse the entrepreneurs they back. Many struggling entrepreneurs religiously read certain VCs bl…
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Geoff Lewis
American Express is a 163 year-old organization known for trust, security and delivering world-class customer service. Three years ago, Amex created a new division to operate like a startup inside the company to broaden…
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Dan Schulman
“The problem is not that most towns kill startups. It's that death is the default for startups, and most towns don't save them. Instead of thinking of most places as being sprayed with startupicide, it's more accurate to…
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Donna Harris, Josh Baer, Maria Adamian, Steve Collens
Years of discussion and debate have come to a close and a historic expansion of the Internet is underway. The domains we've become accustomed to since the Internet’s birth – extensions like .com, .net and .org – are no l…
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Jeremiah Johnston
Returning from a decade of war, emerging military leaders had been required to innovate their way through countless cross-cultural interactions while deployed overseas. Stateside life has proved otherwise, as bureaucrat…
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Ben Kohlmann, Lindsay Rodman, Nate Fick, Victor Glover
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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Shari Foldes
Presented by Philips - Antonio Hidalgo, Chief Innovation, Marketing and Strategy Officer, Philips Consumer Lifestyle With innovations like the Philips Hue, Smart Air Purifier and Connected Kitchen devices, Philips is t…
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Antonio Hidalgo, Ben Jones, Paul Rand
The average consumer’s online identity is segmented across the web on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and WordPress. about.me co-founder and CEO Tony Conrad and his team recognized the need for…
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Evelyn Rusli, Tony Conrad
As it stands today, we have a massive chronic health crisis affecting our country from the inside out. There is plenty of support for the coming revolution of the health care system but how do we get people to act upon t…
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Michael Olaya, Taylor Pechacek
In the SXSW 2013 opening keynote, Bre Pettis said, "When you combine friendship plus tools, you can make anything." He did that in his NYC loft. By the time this year’s event begins, Lowe Campbell Ewald will have moved 5…
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Iain Lanivich
As humans live longer and the global population ages and expands to 10 billion people, the world will face an unprecedented healthcare crisis. In this session, you’ll discover how robot and augmented reality assisted the…
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Allison Okamura, Catherine Mohr, Katherine Kuchenbecker
Fact: There are over 20 million small businesses in the United States. Collectively, these small businesses represent a multi-billion dollar market opportunity. However, in the last five years alone, over 100 companies h…
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Benjamin Rubenstein
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Inc Magazine created a list of 30 strategy books that all managers should own. This short list, drawn from 70 years of management thinking, included the global bestseller Green to Gold,…
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Andrew Winston
It’s a fine line that marketers can cross in the new era of big data analytics. You can go from “cool” to “creepy” in a blink of an eye if you don’t truly know who you are targeting. And, if they don’t know they are bein…
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Graeme Noseworthy
There’s a ton of data out there, but what does data really mean? People don’t consume data. We consume knowledge. But how do we get from data to knowledge? How do we navigate a galaxy-wide playing field of information an…
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Stan Humphries
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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Anushka Ratnayake, Meighan Stone, Meryl Stone, Rose Beaumont
BBC's Peter Bowes will tell the story of his 2-year quest for a healthier, longer life. While walking at a modified treadmill podium, to make a not-so-subtle point about how sitting is killing us, Peter will relay his ex…
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Peter Bowes
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/IAP20347 Ev…
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Natalie Rodic Marsan, Nick Cicero, Tim McDonald
A fireside chat with Internet / IP Communication (The FCC's Pulver Order) and startup investor, Jeff Pulver, on his very public journey on losing 100+ pounds, transforming his body, and rebooting his life. Without surg…
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Alan Weinkrantz, Jeff Pulver
On Independence Day 2011, the first-ever #BCSM tweetchat for those affected by breast cancer took place. Less than two years later, the group had attracted thousands of participants, spawned a website and a YouTube chann…
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Alicia Staley, Deanna Attai, Jody Schoger, Xeni Jardin
As a global society we are currently facing crises across every imaginable sector including economic, climate and humanitarian issues. What is the one common thread in all these crises? The solution lies in the power o…
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Chase Jarvis
Historically the global economy is assembled with corporations as primitive units. Their foundational building blocks are monolithic structures that contain a full stack of internally facing services to produce their end…
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Khris Loux, Werner Vogels
This is the SXSW meet-up for tireless Houston area entrepreneurs, investors, start-up community leaders, and badass party starters. If you’re looking to swap night before stories, chat about new ideas, or complain about…
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Brian Lang
Every minute, millions are voluntarily sharing their hopes, wants, needs, dislikes and disappointments too. But who is listening? Chevrolet is. And we want to take this customer relationship to the next level. In m…
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Andrew Dinsdale, Rebeca Harris, Richard Choi
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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John Arrow
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/IAP25525 Th…
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Alisa Hughley, Damon Davis, Ivor Horn, Kimberly Bryant
Everyone has a great idea but do you have a story? Sign up your start up for a Speed Branding Session with the BETC Start Up Lab. Entrepreneurs gets access to the expertise of the Lab during 20 minute crash courses in …
At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, Cody Wilson talked about the possibilities of 3D gun printing. A year later, this controversial Texan gives more of his insights on the collision between technology, government and …
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Cody Wilson
Every business must manage a fundamental conflict between individuals who control the means of production and individuals who operate those means to a profit. Roger Martin outlined this struggle in the classic HBR articl…
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Peter Kim
The Internet of Things is not coming, it's already here. On January 13th, Google acquired Nest for a whopping $3.2b -- making it clear that Intel's estimate of 31bn connected devices by 2020 may be too conservative. Bef…
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Ayah Bdeir
Quantified Self has become all the buzz at the intersection of technology and the health and fitness worlds, but are consumers really benefiting from the huge amount of data they are now tracking? Sarah Robb O’Hagan, Pre…
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James B Maas, John "Ivo" Stivoric, Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Sasha Digiulian
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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Paolo Privitera
Move over Silicon Valley - let's let the real pirates and gangsters play. In this panel, we'll hear stories about innovation from economic outlaws. What can we learn as entrepreneurs from pirates? From street hustlers an…
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Alexa Clay, Catherine Hoke, Jean-Philippe Vergne, Jose Vasquez
Perhaps you already have a Meet Up, searching for ways to grow the member base; perhaps you are planning on founding a Meet Up group. Let's get together and discuss what makes a Meet Up successful and drives members. We…
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Johan Borge, Stefan Brunner
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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Christie Dames
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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Michele Stewart
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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Nelson "Rudy" Garza
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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Tom Lasorda
Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…
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Jennilyn Carson
"The Promise of a Pencil" is the memoir of Adam Braun, Founder & CEO of Pencils of Promise ("PoP"). Adam traded a lucrative career in finance to found Pencils of Promise, the groundbreaking organization founded in 2008 t…
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Adam Braun
Bitcoin has skyrocketed in price (up more than 6000 percent), popularity and controversy in the past year. Join us for the first-ever Bitcoin meetup at SXSW, where BitAngels (www.bitangels.co) co-founder Michael Terpin …
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Michael Terpin
On Super Bowl Sunday, the insurance company Esurance purchased the first commercial after the game. In this ad, actor John Krasinski announced that Esurance saved $1.5 million by purchasing this first spot and was going …
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Jesse Dillow, John Ploumitsakos, Josh Raper, Nancy Abraham
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/IAP27289 Ra…
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Jeff Hammerbacher, Joel Dudley, Konrad Karczewski
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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Gregory Green
Join Twitter co-founder, Jelly co-founder and author of 'Things A Little Bird Told Me,' Biz Stone, with Steven Johnson, celebrated author and now host of PBS' How We Got To Now', in conversation about our connected socie…
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Biz Stone, Steven Johnson
Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. Christina has spent her career attacking impossible tasks: at Yahoo, taking on the giant Google at search; at Linkedin, bringing people to participate daily at a site about resum…
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Christina Wodtke
Pam Grossman, Director of Visual Trends at Getty Images, joined forces with Sheryl Sandberg's nonprofit, LeanIn.org, to launch a library of powerful female imagery in February this year. The Lean In Collection immediatel…
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Pam Grossman
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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Bryan Menell
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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Rosa L McCormick
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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Tina Cannon
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/IAP25233 Wh…
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Erik Wolf
Founder of TOMS, Blake Mycoskie, believes that “doing it different” is as important to success as “doing good.” This belief has caught on across the business sector and continues to make a huge impact on the world. At SX…
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Blake Mycoskie
As an artist, healthcare may be one of the last things on your mind, or something that seems nearly impossible to understand or afford. During this hour session, speak with ambassadors from the Health Alliance for Aust…
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Alex Maiolo, Christopher Alberts, Harold Owens, Heather Alden
Jerry Garcia—head of the Deadheads—inadvertently formed the most social band of all time before the advent of social media. In an effort to combine the two, discover how the unconventional life of a legend informs the im…
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Amy Haiar, Marc Allan, Trixie Garcia, Mark Silverman
Paul Williams started Crawdaddy: The Magazine of Rock in January 1966 in his dorm room, a year and a half before Rolling Stone began. Crawdaddy and Paul Williams, who passed away March 2013, were the true Almost Famous s…
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Ann Powers, David Fricke, Ed Ward, Paula Mejia, cindy lee Berryhill
For a half century, the Rolling Stones have defined rock & roll’s wildest side and most raucous sound. As part of the Grammy Museum’ Musical Milestones series, this panel will explore the ongoing legacy and influence of …
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Craig Inciardi, David Fricke, Ian McLagan, John Doe, Wayne Kramer, Bob Santelli
Born of pop, punk, and new wave, and flirting with hip hop, disco, even avant garde, Blondie encapsulated emerging movements in modern American music from their inception in 1974. And now as they celebrate their 40th Ann…
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Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Debbie Harry, Nic Harcourt
Funny, profane and wise, Martin Atkins offers experience and encouragement to artists looking to make a racket in public and on tour. In his talks and books, he surveys the current scene and recommends unique ways to ful…
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Martin Atkins
Musicians from all backgrounds have scored movies, but that doesn't mean the transition from songwriting to scoring is easy. Understand how to prepare for the vast differences between working on a film or television proj…
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Blake Neely, Erin O'Hara, Michael James, Brad Shenfeld
Recently, brands began appointing music agencies to their rosters to work alongside the other marketing and ad agencies already in the mix. What does a music agency do and why do major brands demand their services? What …
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Daniel Jackson, Eric Sheinkop, Nils Leonard
Every day, "music houses" are hiring composers, musicians, singers and engineers to create custom songs and scores for a diverse list of advertising and marketing clients. The big secret is that the doors are now unlocke…
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Morgan Thoryk, Nan Wilson, Ravi Krishnaswami
It seems like everyone in the music biz was in a band at some point. Take a close look at music industry executives that successfully made the transition from band to biz. Learn about their current jobs and jobs that wer…
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Josh Rabinowitz, Marc Emert-Hutner, Scott Sellwood, David Hoffman
Is music discovery dying? The streaming charts are full of pop hits, festival lineups could be copy-pasted from week to week, hundreds of bloggers post the same track from the same PR email blast every day and satellite …
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Andrew Jervis, David Greenwald, Greg Katz, Marion Hodges
Creating great music is just the beginning. In order to succeed, you’ve got to sell it, too. That requires a skill set that doesn’t come naturally to many artists, some of whom waste thousands of dollars in expenses—and …
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Rod Picott, Tamara Saviano
Take a fascinating look at songwriting with GRAMMY winning troubadour Rodney Crowell. His timeless songs have been covered by luminaries such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and George Strait, among many others. His 2011…
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Rodney Crowell, Scott Goldman
Artists compose music directly for brands through music companies, publishers, labels, or even direct to client. Explore how a writer/producer can break into the field of composing for ad music as well as the many facets…
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Erica Driscoll, Jack Bradley, Peter Gannon, Ryan Fitch
According to a recent survey, US-based artists are less likely to have health insurance than the general public. They are also unsure about the Affordable Care Act and need advice about how to navigate this new health ca…
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Andy Bernstein, Hannah Byam, Jane Henderson , Jon Langmead, José Sanchez, Renata Marinaro
There is a sea of acronyms: SESAC, BMI, ASCAP, AARC, SRCO, PRO and more. The world of collecting all the royalties due to you is murky and unorganized at best. Why do artists need to sign up for these organizations? Putt…
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Alex Holz, Jeremy Peters, Joe Conyers, YiPei Chen-Josephson
Online music has failed to deliver truly social & connected music experiences. As access-based, streaming music becomes more mainstream, the current failure and huge potential of social music is becoming clearer. A varie…
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Jim Lucchese
Walk through the creative process, business, and legal aspects of obtaining a song placement on major recording artist albums. The music producer will discuss building relationships with fellow songwriters and recording …
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Rico Brooks, Sandra Brown, Sonny Corey Uwaezuoke, Travis McFetridge
Ever wonder how independent online content creators are able drive revenue with other people's work? How does this material transfer from the label, artist/band, or sponsors to sites like Transistor Six, Daytrotter, and …
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Cory Llewellyn, Sean Moeller, Steven Appleyard
Focus on fresh, non-traditional approaches to deal making in today’s music industry with the artist in mind. Learn to creatively distribute both physical and digital products. Explore the options of cross branding, coope…
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Carl Verheyen, Jimmy Roc, John Bradley, Mark Hornsby
In today's rapidly changing music business, musicians are often caught between old and new business models. Many musicians care deeply about their communities and social justice issues, offering their services via benefi…
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Joseph Voss, Lyle Hysen, Mac McCaughan, Rebecca Gates
Your back is going to hurt one day, and crashing the floor of an apartment in Asheville isn’t going to cut it. Pizza will not be the most desirable of breakfast foods. Our panelists know this; they’ve been there, and hav…
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Christen Greene, Jesse Cannon, Joe Gittleman, Josiah Albertsen, Scott Booker
Promoting gigs with posters, t-shirts and other material can be expensive. Explore, in a hands-on environment, how to get started on the cheap. As bands mature and tour, the production and sale of gig posters and printed…
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Clay Ferguson, Jared Connor, Mark Pedini, Andy MacDougall
How do you build the right team around your music, brand & business? Whether you are an emerging artist or an industry veteran, take a crash course on the different aspects of the business, what purpose they serve and mo…
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Amy Zaglauer, David Goldsen, Justin Bridgewater, Marisa Fair, Nani Stoick
Join a frank conversation on the difficulties of maintaining a profitable bottom line, and an open heart and mind in an industry that, in its rush to compete, frequently forgets the simple decencies of respect, kindness,…
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Eliza Gilkyson, Ellis Paul, Ralph Jaccodine, Val Denn
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Alastair Somerville
The next great media tech wave is already here, and it fits like a glove, a watch, eyeglasses, a bracelet, a pendant or maybe a hat or a band-aid. Wearable technology promises a seamless interface of body and machine and…
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Bachir Zeroual, Rob Garner, Shiv Singh, Sloane Kelley
Online retail is evolving from a simple shopping cart transaction to an end-to-end emotional engagement with one’s consumer base. While this is true for most industries, it is even more so the case when it comes to consu…
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Ciara McKenna, Kim Knowles, Liz Bacelar, Liza Kindred
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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Dave Knox, Heidi Browning, Scott Lange, Sefi Grossman
MailChimp.com enables its 3 million users to send 5 billion email newsletters each month. The site is key to many nonprofits’ and small businesses’ efforts to stay in conversation with their audiences. MailChimp's succ…
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John Foreman
It may come as a surprise, but on average five countries write new constitutions every year. The people who write these documents are often outgunned and under-resourced as they try to search and analyze constitutions fr…
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Juan Sequeda, Robert Shaffer, Zachary Elkins
Can you use data to spot a liar? The answer may not be found in what a person says, but rather in how he/she says it. Prepared liars are always conscious about their spoken content and details, but often overlook the wor…
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Noah Zandan
In the next era of computing, the coming “plague” will bring an elaborate network of devices, sensors and radios that will talk with each other, and collect, store and analyze overwhelming amounts of data. It will delive…
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Tony Salvador
Wearable technology, smart meters, and networked devices have generated an environment of abundant digital chatter. It’s now socially acceptable to compete with your FuelBand, send a text to your thermostat, and argue wi…
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Jennifer Dunnam
In an increasingly connected world, our devices will become an extension of ourselves, embracing elements of ambient intelligence, voice and natural language understanding to not only deliver desired information, but und…
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Vlad Sejnoha
Is there a formula for making content go viral? Is it just plain luck? While there’s not a lot to explain the weird virality of LOLcats and "Charlie bit my finger!" videos, there is a formula, honed and mastered by the I…
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Courtney Buie, Henri Mazza, James Moody
In the near future, humans will increasingly rely on robots to manage agriculture, infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing and security. Advanced human-robot interaction will transform industries and ch…
Intermediate
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Dawn Tilbury, Elena Messina, Heather Knight, Henrik Christensen
My car gives me feedback on my driving. My bracelet helps me understand my sleep patterns. Smartphone apps monitor my mood, diet and social life. We're entering a Quantified Self revolution, as every product we interact …
Intermediate
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Ben Essen
Artificial intelligence has advanced to the point where it’s no longer just science fiction. Computers now perform intelligent tasks such as collect bridge tolls, drive cars, deliver newspapers, make and serve food, and …
Intermediate
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George John
Biometrics. When you hear that word your mind probably jumps to thoughts of Jack Bauer in 24. Possibly Tom Cruise’s character in Minority Report. Or Daniel Craig as James Bond. Regardless of what hero comes to mind, we t…
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Skooks Pong
Our collective perception of the human brain and its potential is constantly evolving. The intersection of technology and our “wet computer” provides a means to accelerate the ways that we measure, map and affect cogniti…
Intermediate
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Andrew Smith Lewis , Anthony Ha, Ariel Garten, Jan Plass
In the next 20 years, the number of adults in the US age 65 and older will nearly double, which means the elderly are the fastest growing demographic in the country. Today, people are living longer than ever before, with…
Intermediate
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Eric Baczuk, Lindsey Mosby
From activity trackers to Google Glass, wearables are all the rage. But who should get access to the data? Unfortunately, just because you wear a device doesn't mean that you get access to your data. As a data scientist,…
Intermediate
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John Wilbanks, Rachel Kalmar
Given the arise of Jawbone, Google Glass, iWatch, and a whole array of wearable devices, people will soon be able to communicate even faster and more frequently than ever before in an increasingly more connected world. W…
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Christina Mercando, Koichi Yamamoto, Marco Tempest, Takahito Iguchi
There's too much contention in our society. From a gridlocked Congress to neighborhood disputes, it seems like we spend too much energy fighting and not enough figuring how we can work together. Online discussion and deb…
Intermediate
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Christopher Fry, Elizabeth Rosenzweig
In fashion, perhaps more than anywhere else, branding is everything. Many fashion brands have spent decades building up a unique but delicate brand image: they often rely on staying enigmatic, using aspirational photogra…
Intermediate
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Pieter Jongerius
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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Mark Stephen Meadows
Biometric, motion, and audio sensing can digitally augment live music to enhance the audience experience and deliver more entertainment value while generating new interest in and preserving the positive cultural impact o…
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Robert Tuttle
Embeddables will have significant consequences for the delivery of digital services as monolithic screen-focused devices start to be enhanced with distributed computation. A more ambient kind of experience in which senso…
Advanced
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Andy Goodman
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/IAP27840 Le…
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Erin Symons, Grace Kim
It’s no secret that the transportation industry is changing in big cities. The days of simply hailing a cab are limited, with applications such as Uber, Sidecar and Getaround entering the marketplace – and giving traditi…
Intermediate
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Beth Stevens, Padden Guy Murphy, Ryan Lawler
The celebrated companies changing how we move in a city take the fundamentals of an old system and make it slightly better. Uber makes taxis better, Lyft makes becoming a driver easier, Zipcar makes car ownership easier.…
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Brian Solis, Zach Ware
Digital design tools and the rise of fabrication have empowered ordinary citizens to build urban provocations in the dynamic context of abandoned and underused spaces sprinkled throughout cities. It is through a network …
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Aaron Gutierrez, Julia Cerrud
The growing number of three-dimensional motion and natural gesture-controlled consumer electronics on the market bring new challenges for user experience designers. This is especially true with regard to devices that ar…
Intermediate
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Kelly Goto
DARPA was created to avoid technological surprise. But in many cases, the surprise is due to the fact that our awareness is driven by our expectations. In other words, we see what we expect to see - not necessarily wha…
Beginning
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Daniel Kaufman
With car2go..we are using visualization mapping software based on daily trip and member data to give us insight on how a city moves. With over 600,000 members worldwide using our service, it is very important to show c…
Beginner
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Paul DeLong
Imagine a future where a driverless street sweeper cleans your street or a small drone delivers your mail. For the last decade, discussions about the government use of autonomous or remotely operated technologies have fo…
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Matt Caccavale, Samra Kasim
The Internet is abuzz with talk of Google Glass, and rumors of an impending "iWatch" from Apple have fanboys trembling with anticipation. Is all of this excitement hype or will this new genre of computing devices catch o…
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Alison Lewis, Chick Foxgrover, Gilly Segal, Sean White
In February of 2013 Google launched the #ifihadglass Google Glass Explorer selection program. For those lucky enough to have been chosen, we are not only the first people to wear Glass, we are the very first to explore a…
Intermediate
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Mark Horvath, Serena Ehrlich
Join Dean Kamen, a master inventor, engineer and humanitarian, compared to Edison for his contributions to humanity, for an unforgettable and insightful hour. Inventor of a host of groundbreaking inventions like the Auto…
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Dean Kamen
The history of computing boils down to this: someone enters data; a computer spews out data. We enter data by keyboard, or mouse, or touch screen, or even facial gestures, and a computer responds. But the world is about …
Intermediate
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Gadi Shamia, Mike Abbott, Monica Rogati, Quentin Hardy
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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Kelly Callahan-Poe
“Innovation as a Dutch experience” Daan Roosegaarde, creative director of the social design lab Studio Roosegaarde. With studio’s in Rotterdam and Shanghai, he develops innovative, interactive landscapes that are accompl…
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Daan Roosegaarde
Between 3D printing and e-commerce sites, fashion-tech seems to be an umbrella term that defines anything at all. This short talk highlights how the worlds of fashion and technology truly collide and where innovation wit…
Intermediate
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Madison Maxey
How do you bring a travel destination to life using technology and digital storytelling? In 2010 direct spending by resident and international travelers in the U.S. averaged $2 billion a day, $86.6 million an hour, $1.4 …
Intermediate
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Dylan Thuras, Jimmy Keown, Leslie Guettler, Seth Kugel
As the kick off to our events in the Meet Up Pavilion, this meet up will showcase the development of wearable devices and technologies. Explore what this industry has to offer- be it for fashion, health or other purpos…
What if you could instantly download a new set of skills simply by plugging your brain directly into the Internet? This “Matrix like” capability will soon be a reality for robots, creating scalable machines without the l…
Intermediate
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Anthony Levandowski, Ayorkor Korsah, James Kuffner, Ken Goldberg
Imagine a future where there's no distinction between code and data. Where computers are operated by programming languages that work like human language, where knowledge and data are built in, where everything can be com…
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Stephen Wolfram
In the next few years, as wearable technology gets more powerful and sensor capabilities explode, smartphone screens are going to become less and less central to our digital lives. Our devices will stop forcing us to loo…
Intermediate
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Cliff Kuang
Why does death relate to sex more than being an inevitable part of life? We'll openly discuss interplay between life, ego, consciousness, relationships, orgasm, sex, death, technologies, internet and singularities -- inc…
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Reese Jones
Imagine a transportation system where cars can see things that you can’t. Such cars could warn of a potential crash or icy roads ahead, advise of a traffic jam ahead, or help find a parking space. Imagine if buses could …
Intermediate
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James Pol, Mike Pina
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Adam Brown, Ashley Brown, Judy Ko, Michael Zuna
And you thought getting a solid mobile strategy out the door was tough. The retail landscape is evolving at a rapid pace and while the future is unclear, one thing is certain: if you don’t embrace a digitized future, you…
Intermediate
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Bryan Wolff, Emily Lacivita, Healey Cypher , Zita Cassizzi
Industrial Revolution II is a different kind of garment company. Social advancement for our workers, their families and our neighbors is equally important to us as delivering our customers the highest quality products an…
Intermediate
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Joey Adler, Rob Broggi
As technology inhabits nearly ever aspect of our public and private lives it offers vast potential for new products, services, and interfaces. What happens when technology meets the body? Is the future of wearable tech…
Presenters
Francesca Rosella, Ryan Genz
Retail brands are incorporating technology and digital concepts to change the consumer experience: from virtual fitting room and apps to new payment options and RFID-tagged merchandise. As technology develops and consume…
Advanced
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Jen Rubio, Kristina Simmons, Rachel Arthur, Will Young
Are brilliant ideas enough to fix a broken transport system? As a BBC reporter who writes about advanced transport technologies, Jack Stewart has spent years investigating how we will move around in the future, speaking …
Intermediate
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Jack Stewart
Shaquille O'Neal was one of the first big-name celebrities to embrace social media -- witness his more than 8 million followers on Twitter. He's now turned a lot of his attention to wearable technology, which looks to be…
Intermediate
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Rick Valencia, Shaquille O'Neal
These days content is popping up in subtle, unexpected places, extending far beyond the blogs magazines and newspapers we traditionally rely on. As more and more retailers are creating new mediums to directly interact an…
Beginner
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Jeff Pyatt, Mollie Chen
Technology is moving out of hands and onto our bodies. Whether it's the integration of Google Glass into your daily routine or the sleek elegance of the Pebble e-ink watch, technology is transitioning beyond simply being…
Intermediate
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Billie Whitehouse, Jay Morgan, Nicole Forbes, Q Manning
What are the biggest technological challenges facing today’s computer scientists? What new research is on the horizon, how will it change the way that we use computers, and what will the digital landscape look like in 10…
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Andrew Lo, Daniela Rus, Russ Tedrake, Tim Berners-Lee
This panel will bring together a handful of breakout designers across various industries to navigate the trade-offs and challenges that arise when designing wearable tech products that must be both functional and attract…
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Aza Raskin, Dieter Bohn, Eric Migicovsky, Steven Eidelman
Media and agencies are plagued with tunnel vision. They are stuck thinking about mundane use cases for wearables like Glass that are reminiscent of first phase mobile apps. Wake up. Wearable tech has the potential for …
Intermediate
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Jen Quinlan, JP Gownder
Influencers have been a disruptive force in the fashion and beauty industry. As these influencers fame and position has evolved brands (namely tech) are growing and adapting while the publishing industry and television i…
Intermediate
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Alisa Gould Simon, Jaclyn Johnson
An app on your phone knows you’re getting married before you do. Your friends’ tweets can help data scientists predict your location with astounding accuracy, even if you don’t use Twitter. Soon, we’ll be able to know h…
Intermediate
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Patrick Tucker
Robotics has become a major part of our day to day life, it has enabled us not only to speed up industrial processes, but solve mobility and transportation issues for travelers with vision impairment and others. In recen…
Intermediate
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David Bevly, Mohammed Yousuf, William Bluethmann, YingLi Tian
Smart glasses, smart watches and activity monitors are hitting the market in droves, and many of the biggest consumer electronics companies are expected to launch more wearables over the next year. Are wearables simply p…
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Anna Jen, Sean McCracken
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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Tom Fowler
In 2007 the iPhone mapped the frontier for smart devices; since then we’ve seen extraordinary devices pushing limits on how we interact with technology. From the release of tablets to smart cameras and more, the world ha…
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David Rosales, Kieran Barr, Soulaiman Itani
This talk will guide the audience through the social platforms most effective for fashion and beauty brands—in March 2014—to drive engagement, and, if relevant, sales. Beyond that, it will explore the meaning of influenc…
Intermediate
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Caroline Waxler
Rapidly evolving vehicular technologies, including the advent of autonomous vehicles, may forever reshape travel behavior. Several states have already passed legislation allowing these vehicles to travel on public roadwa…
Beginner
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Chandra Bhat
Beauty, periphery and meaning are three of the principles that will facilitate the adoption of wearable technology devices, according to Artefact designer and wearable tech expert Jennifer Darmour. But how do you apply t…
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Jennifer Darmour
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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Clay Crenshaw
Think you’ve heard it all? Betcha you haven't! When you consume content — TV shows and movies, commercials and YouTube videos, Grand Theft Auto and Candy Crush… — you’re used to sounds coming from your left and right, b…
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Geir Skaaden, Roberto Baibich, Scott Persson, Veronique Larcher
Fitness wearables are currently one of the hottest items on the market right now. And, it’s amazing all of the data they can track – from deep sleep patterns to calories burned. But how does a user even begin to make sen…
Beginner
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Jennifer Grenz, Jin Lee
With automotive, traffic and parking data becoming more open and big data now more prevalent, the acceleration of new technology and apps are engaging the users with their car in a much more meaningful manner. Studies ha…
Beginner
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Gal Melamed, Gretchen Effgen, Sam Friedman, Scott Sedlik
There are apps on your phone that can tell you more about your surroundings than your car. Think about that- the complex piece of machinery and technology that takes you from place to place is almost incapable of allowin…
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Helen Xiao, Pradyumna Mishra, Steve Schwinke, Trak Lord
It almost sounds like the beginning of a stale joke: What do a designer brand, a regional non-profit focused on supporting local manufacturers, a platform where American “designs are shared, celebrated and sold”, a topno…
Intermediate
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Bridget Russo, Erica Wolf, Kate Sofis, Micha Thomas
We’ve seen this before – incredible technology is released to the consumer and a flurry of unimaginative, low impact uses and applications are associated with it. Anyone remember the early days of the app store? Google G…
Intermediate
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Sam Gaddis
With the advances in smartphones and imaging technology, cameras are everywhere, but is software keeping pace with the massive increase? One of the most intriguing and promising new technologies is facial and object reco…
Intermediate
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Caroline Tien-Spalding
All over the world governments & tech companies are investing in smart cities, using networks & sensors to join up services & collect data. But the emphasis is often a drive for efficiency – Are we in danger of rendering…
Intermediate
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Ben Barker, Clare Reddington
The hardest problem to solve in many aspects of civic infrastructure — from telecom to utilities to postal service — is the so-called Last Mile: How do you efficiently connect homes, offices and other individual "endpoin…
Intermediate
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Jeff Yang, Josh Hon, Peter Treadway
CLE. This session will explore the legal and policy implications of the Internet of Things. It will be a legal primer on dealing with everything we touch being connected to the Internet, logged, analyzed, and improved. T…
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Gerard Stegmaier
Star Trek's Geordi La Forge piqued our imagination on what head mounted computing might be. That future is here today with new developments of in virtual retinal display technology - a unique system that beams high resol…
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Yobie Benjamin
Whether you’re operating from the midtown high-rise of a corporate media giant or running a Wordpress blog out of your bedroom, growing an online publication comes with a complex set of branding, production, and growth c…
Intermediate
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Mick Harper, Naomi Nevitt
The fashion industry can give thanks to the recent leaps and bounds of technology and production for making fast fashion possible. But while fast fashion brings fast commerce, it’s come at a cost to individual style and …
Beginner
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John Frechette, Martin Hosking, Michael Tavani, Shannon Whitehead
This panel will focus on the next-generation of eCommerce. The first wave was Amazon and Zappos - focused on customer service and low price for commodities. The next wave of eCommerce companies now understand that in ord…
Intermediate
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Allison Beal, Brian Garrett, Mike Gammarino, Xander Oxman
For most of us, the idea of what is and isn't a robot is based in science-fiction and cartoons. The humanoid machines from "The Jetsons," "Terminator" and "iRobot" are typical of what many perceive as a robot. A broader …
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David Reeves
The event cinema business is a rapidly growing sector in theatrical exhibition. Rock concerts - live and recorded - are increasingly receiving global theatrical releases and being marketed as special events for one night…
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Grant Calton, John Rubey, Kymberli Frueh-Owens
Digital music companies operating in Africa, China and Japan successfully leverage their on-the-ground knowledge to provide a localized music catalog and deliver it to consumers in the best possible way. Look at how expe…
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Andrea Leonelli, Christoph Martius, Elie Habib, Taishi Fukuyama
Come hear from the pioneers and leaders of the new east meets west music scene with tales from the underground of listening to Led Zeppelin and The Doors during the early Taliban-banned music era, to stories of staging r…
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Raby Adib, Robin Ryczek, Siddique Ahmad, Sulyman Qardash
Geographical borders and barriers to music distribution are shifting with the evolution of the music industry online. Will the next Rolling Stones be from Brazil? Is internet music technology enhancing the ability of art…
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Axel Dauchez, Claudio Vargas, Daniel Glass, Oisin Lunny, Scott Cohen
Numerous musicians and DJs are emerging from across Africa, enriching the global music scene. They reflect a new generation of socially networked artists who are just as comfortable in the tough areas of Africa's largest…
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Elom "EL" Adablah, Moses "Buddha Blaze" Mbasu, Ovie Ofugara, Rickie Davies, Russell Kenya, Rab Bakari
How a small country like Sweden has achieved international success in the music business - past, present and future.……
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Dennis Lyxzén, Jonas Bjälesjö, Pia Kalischer
A new way of listening is changing a continent. Music in Africa is booming in unexpected places. Come hear why cassette tapes are still big in Nigeria; why traditional models don't work; why the next innovation in music …
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Eric Idiahi, Toby Shapshak, Yoel Kenan, Catherine Luckhoff
Delve deep into ways to increase revenues by looking abroad. Every label and artist must promote widely and create revenues from multiple sources via sales and streams to get a river of dollars, pennies and micro-pennies…
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Cathy Bauer, Eric Tobin, Garry West, Tor Hansen, Richard Bengloff
The value of revenues from performance rights is increasing steadily, and shows no sign of declining. In the U.S., these rights are managed by SoundExchange, while overseas the options are more complex. What if your trac…
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Colin Rushing, Eanna Casey, Jim Mahoney, Mathew Reiffe
In 2013, 34.6% of the recorded music sales in the U.S. belonged to independent labels and artists. Hip-hop played a huge part. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Tech N9ne, Danny Brown and Mac Miller are just a few of the artists …
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Damien Ritter, DJ Skee, Murs , Travis O'Guin, Wendy Day
The rapid growth of online video has established YouTube as the go-to source for new music and music-based content. Lean how YouTube is the new breeding ground for music’s future stars.……
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DJ Skee, Russell Simmons, Steve Rifkind, Shira Lazar
Join the intellectual property experts at Fish & Richardson for artist, developer, and entrepreneur-focused breakouts to stoke your IP IQ. Patents? Trademarks? Copyrights? Licenses? Distribution? Funding? We’ll cover…
Remixes and mash-ups proliferate online. Learn the differences between a "remix", a "mash-up", and a "cover song", and how that will impact what licenses they need to secure for video and audio postings of their creation…
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Dean Serletic, Sean Kinney, Christiane Kinney
A GoldieBlox ad featured an unauthorized parody version of the Beastie Boys song "Girls," gaining press and attention. With legal activity brewing between the involved parties, an important debate has been sparked within…
Intermediate
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Amy Rosen, Leslie Frank, Rhett Miller, Tom DeSavia
Artists who work internationally must consider their immigration status in the countries where they plan to work. Review the U.S. immigration process for musicians. Discover the procedures, timelines, and expenses associ…
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Jonathan Ginsburg, Laya Kushner, Linda Rose, Sharon Brenner
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. This Mentor Session specifically focuses on immigration options for international musicians and industry profession…
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Jonathan Ginsburg, Laya Kushner, Linda Rose, Sharon Brenner
When Plaintiffs form a class in a concerted effort to seek relief, the result can alter the course of jurisprudence. This panel will review mega-issues through mega-litigations and report on their impact.…
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David Given, Howard Hertz, Richard Wolfe, Tim Matson
Digital distribution and related compensation is now the rule, not the exception. The de-centralization of publishing money sources requires the identification and payments from those sources. A dollar here, a quarter …
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Andrew Sparkler, Danielle Aguirre, Kris Munoz, Bob Donnelly
Music by the people and for the people often requires the political dance in the making of policy and legislation. The panel will discuss major policy initiatives, their status and impact.…
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Jacqueline Charlesworth, Rachel Stilwell, Peter Strand
With so much effort spent to protect creative works from infringement, the role of existing works in the creation of new ones is often overlooked. As a result, artists typically face significant challenges when attemptin…
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Carlos Affonso, Kristelia Garcia, Tyler Walker, Margot Kaminski
Entrepreneurial entertainment lawyers often ride the fine line between what might be considered permissible and impermissible conduct under the Rules of Professional Conduct.But, how does this behavior look to jurists an…
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Steve McConnico, Wallace B Jefferson, Lawrence Waks
As artists “break” from non-traditional music events such as television contests, the assignment of rights and income participations are now migrating beyond record company 360 deals. This mutation and/or evolution is d…
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Lynn Morrow, Paul Friedman, Susan Abramovitch, Paul Bezilla
In these times, the responsibility for artist development often falls on . . . the artist. More than ever, the developing artist may need to be as adept at business as they are at art. The panel reviews essential busines…
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Janine Small, Monika Tashman, David Lessoff
Music, music everywhere . . . and where’s my money? What are the sources, rates and scale in subscriptions and other streamed music?…
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Colin Rushing, Kenneth Steinthal, John Simson
Been there, seen that, done that and now what? How will lawyers survive and thrive in the current and future music industry paradigm?…
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Joseph Serling, Ken Abdo, Ron Wilcox, Scott Goldman
Your music is earning royalties when it's used in streaming and video online, you’re just not getting it. Everything they never wanted you to know and more about how to maximize and collect revenue related to streaming m…
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George Howard, Jeff Price
In fifteen years, not a single music service has ever posted an annual (much less cumulative) profit. Is it possible, as content owners claim, that this is due solely to mismanagement by digital music services and their …
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Paul Fakler
Section 203 of the Copyright Act gives authors a 5-year window to reclaim the rights to their works by terminating transfers or licenses they executed in or after 1978, starting 35 years after they granted the licenses. …
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George Clinton, KJ Greene, Lita Rosario, Owen Sloane, Bartees Cox
Online music service royalties have become one of the hot topics of the day--from the debate over interactive streaming payouts from services like Spotify to online radio royalties paid by Pandora or the new iTunes Radio…
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Casey Rae, Chris Harrison, Greg Barnes, Kristelia Garcia, Jodie Griffin
The moment an artist records a frame, draws a line, or writes a word, data is created. Digital Service Providers send that creation as data to the world and the world pays them. But how do they know who to pay? By you te…
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Adam White, John Rudolph, John Gibbons, Robert Clement, Howell O'Rear
Sync licensing is a primary revenue source for many artists. Coming up with creative ways to stand out can be daunting. Whether you're doing it on your own or with a team of pitching partners, you must learn the best tac…
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Chris Lakey, Joe Rudge, Paul Greco, Jennifer Newman Sharpe
It is the dream of many artists and bands to write that perfect song that will find itself on a high profile commercial that runs in heavy rotation. What’s the new reality that bands and artists should expect when licens…
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Jessica Shaw, Michael Freeman, Michael Paoletta, Theresa Notartomaso
Success in the UK can break your act worldwide - it's one of the most influential, creative and fast-changing musical environments in the world. Gain insight into the idiosyncrasies of the UK and how acts like Calvin Ha…
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Chloe Melick, Elinore Giles, Jos Watkin, Jules Parker
There has been a dramatic change in the power and leverage in the music business away from the major labels primarily controlling an artist's career and towards the increasingly powerful manager. Top artist managers have…
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Bruce Flohr, Matt Pollack, Michael McDonald, Jeff Pollack
There is a new generation of content creators who are the captains of their own vessels, leveraging their talents and technological savvy to build healthy careers for themselves in ways that were previously not possible.…
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Andrew Maury, Josh Roth, Rebecca Zeller, Seth Kallen, John Manganilla
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear, John Trigonis of…
Beginner
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Elisabeth Holm, John Trigonis, Nicolas Gonda
Join our discussion with Hollywood movie studio experts who'll share tips on how movies use social media to reach and engage fans. We'll discuss how top Hollywood studios use Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, influ…
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Bettina Sherick, Ethan Applen, JP Richards, Maria Pacheco, Kevin Winston
There has a been a lot of talk about engaging Millennials, with a lack of focus on "how to do it." REVOLT has embarked on a massive ethnographic project, traveling across the country interviewing young people, talking to…
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Javier Farfan, Kevin Kusatsu, Kevin McGurn, Jake Katz
Do you know who your super fans are? Passionate fanbases have been influential for decades, but the expansion of digital and social media has changed how you connect with them, and how they connect with each other. How d…
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Danielle Strle, Jackie Indrisano, Shana Krochmal, Rae Votta
In the touring world, learning how to rise above all the competition (touring acts, Hollywood blockbusters, sporting events, Broadway theatricals, outdoor music festivals, etc.) is everyone's biggest challenge today. Exp…
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Amy Morrison, Harvey Cohen, Jamie Loeb, Jeff Chabon, Jim Lewi, Dan Steinberg
Artists, managers and marketers embrace and seek out new technologies, social media strategies and online marketing campaigns to catapult their artists into the now. With the resurgence of legacy artists online, reunions…
Presenters
James Blades, Jason Feinberg, Jeff Jampol, Nick Lippman, Rynda Laurel
There are more ways than ever for music to find its audience. Many of these avenues are start-ups – companies dedicated to sharing their passion for great tunes with others. What exactly are the ways that start-ups and …
Presenters
David Shing, DJ Bunny Ears, Megan West, Vincent Lynch
There are tons of music apps to play with, but how should the music business be working with these applications to market music? This panel will include an overview of the latest apps and a series of case studies to illu…
Presenters
Allison Schlueter, Justin Dreyfuss, Ryan Johnson, Theda Sandiford
Engaging your fans is best done by utilizing customer care. What tools are out there for established artists? How do new artists get on board? What lessons can the music industry take away from some of the bigger compani…
Presenters
Dan Silver, Magen Tracy, Suzanne Vega, Liz Leahy
Music and advocacy have been natural allies in instigating change. ONE launched agit8 in 2013, a music-driven campaign using the power of protest songs to demonstrate the impact of using your voice. In the age of digital…
Presenters
Jeff Davidoff, Maureen Traynor, Vivien Lewit
The amount of available fan data is so staggering, that old-school analytic techniques struggle to keep up. To find the signal hidden in all the inevitable noise, savvy technology companies are adapting to be able to ana…
Presenters
Alex White, Julien Mitelberg, Kristina Wallender, Nate Auerbach
In recent years visual media has become recognized as a potent platform to provide exposure for a band. But how can the brands who are licensing these songs better leverage music? What steps can they take to be more proa…
Presenters
Alisann Blood, Duffy Patten, PJ Bloom, Todd Porter, Michael Frick
Branded entertainment and sync licensing have become the norm for bands and brands. Along the way, bands, brands, music publishers, music supervisors, and ad agencies have become the new A&R departments. Melissa Etheridg…
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Jeannette Perez, Melissa Etheridge, Susan Credle, Bonny Dolan
With a myriad of ways to discover music, fans of bands and brands alike are finding common ground when the two collide. Learn ways brands curate the music experience for their audiences through authentic partnerships acr…
Presenters
Brenden Miller, Kerry Doyle, Raul Ruiz, David Hargis
How do you grow your online fanbase using creative ideas that stay true to your identity as an artist? What are the best tools out there for you to use to establish yourself in the digital space? Online marketing is tak…
Presenters
Doug Barasch, Robbie Mackey, Valeri Travagliante, Marni Wandner
Remixes can be used as a marketing device to help reach a wider audience, a tool for fan engagement, or as a platform to launch a career. Whatever the original motivation, remixes have evolved into an art form that has b…
Presenters
Clark Warner, Dan Zaccagnino, Kush Arora, Matthew Dear
We all know that social media is ubiquitous (you DO know that, right?), and everyone is aware that they need to be effective in the social space to have a viable music career. But how do artists (or for that matter, mana…
Presenters
Adam Wexler, Chris Trovero, Katy Kirby, Dez Dickerson
How do you create such hype around a record, without the artist being there to hype it for you? Or create such interest around a project that just keeps growing and growing, long after its actually happened? Learn about …
Presenters
Emmy Parker, Gary Walker, Will Hermes, Eric Welles Nystrom
There's certainly no shortage of album reviews out there on the Internet, but has this surplus of musical opinion led to an increase in effectiveness as well? In a recent interview, Jay Z said it's the immediacy of the I…
Presenters
Anthony Fantano, Daniel Gill, Myke C-Town, Ryan Lynch
Podcasting vets share strategies they've used in growing their audiences, the best way for musicians to get their music featured in this modern version of radio, and how musicians can use podcasting themselves to develop…
Presenters
Chuck Loesch, Godless , Johnny Goudie
At a radio station, the programming staff meets regularly to decide which new songs they're going to add to their playlist. At these "music meetings," songs are presented that many of the participants are hearing for the…
Presenters
Bob Waugh, David Dye, Jim McGuinn, Norm Winer, Rita Houston, Sean Coakley
Survey the radio landscape of 2014 and beyond with notable executives. Satellite continues to grow steadily, streaming services battle for legitimacy and fans, and terrestrial radio still has the largest audience. What l…
Presenters
Daniel Glass, Jacent Jackson, Jim Richards, Mark Hamilton, Troy Hanson, Mike Jacobs
Musician Ben Arthur and Acoustic Cafe's Rob Reinhart present a panel about songwriting, collaboration, and the pressure of social media on production schedules. During the previous days of the festival, Ben will write an…
Presenters
Elizabeth Ziman, Rob Reinhart, sage francis, Ben Arthur
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track with digital media entrepreneurs Col Needham, founder of IMDB and Kerry Trainor, CEO of Vimeo. This is an open forum to ask these insiders anything.……
Intermediate
Presenters
Col Needham, Kerry Trainor, Scott Macaulay
From Interactive programs, to digital marketing - the digital age runs the gamut of directions filmmakers can go to bring their films to the masses, take the audience deeper, etc. Talk to those at the forefront of their …
Beginner
Presenters
Andy Signore, Brian Behm, Eric Stein, Ingrid Kopp, John Bernstein, Kerrin Sheldon, Logan Mulvey, Rebecca Sosa, Zachary Soreff
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear Jim Cummings, Ale…
Beginner
Presenters
Alex Winter, Jim Cummings, Ralph Echemendia
British comedian, actor and tech lemming, Adam Buxton looks within the soul of his laptop and considers how we present ourselves in the net age (translation: he reads out comments from internet users and shows funny vide…
Beginner
Presenters
Adam Buxton
The Norwegian digital music market is the world’s most advanced, with a 78 % digital market share of recorded music. Most artists and labels regard streaming as positive and that substantial revenues are being generated,…
Presenters
Arnt Maaso, Hedvig Mollestad Thomassen, Inger Elise Mey, Kjartan Slette, Trond Tornes
Is your website's store just a digital lemonade stand? It could be a powerful revenue driver if it's designed & managed effectively. Get insights from e-commerce and merchandising experts on how to build & run a profitab…
Presenters
Heather Lewis, Jay Coyle, Rick Gonzalez, Jason Spitz
Financing shouldn't be a dirty word. It's an integral part of the music business, and perhaps the most overwrought topic facing the industry as traditional models give way to 360, equity investments, crowdfunding, self-f…
Presenters
Ben Cary, Benji Rogers, John Strohm, Eli Ball
Are you a coder who doesn't know what a gaffer does? Are you a filmmaker who doesn't know what HTML means? Then get ready to play...The Smartest Dumbass: Interactive vs. Film! It's not just a panel. It's a game sh…
Beginning
In 2012, the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events launched a plan to guide the city’s future cultural and economic growth. The goal of this initiative was to establish Chicago as a global d…
Presenters
Michelle Boone, Rahm Emanuel, Brad Keywell
Rock legend and SXSW Music Keynote alumnus Neil Young sits down for an interview to discuss his streaming audio brainchild, a high-quality music service called Pono. Young has long been an advocate for studio-quality mus…
Presenters
Mike Snider, Neil Young
"Accountants To The Stars" spill the beans on the latest in royalty recovery tactics and emerging income streams. Protect your financial future and increase your income.……
Presenters
Gerri Leonard, Laura Merry, Lynise Levine, Cedar Boschan
To grow the music business in a world of only 300 million music buyers, we must tap the 5 billion who do not buy music. How do we do this? The only way is to include all of the world’s music in every connected device, mo…
Presenters
Dave Allen, Jonathan Dworkin, Michael Huppe, Vivien Lewit, Tom Silverman
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Adam Bauer, Brian Beck, Christie Dames, Howie Weinberg, jenni Sperandeo, Josh Rosenfeld, Mary Jurey, Nick Bodor, Stephanie Shim
Jarvis Cocker presents an illustrated selection of his lyrics detailing his development as a songwriter and provides useful tips for aspiring songsmiths. Cocker was one of the founding members of Sheffield, England-based…
Presenters
Jarvis Cocker
From internet radio, to streaming on demand, back to internet radio; the cycle has shifted again. Why is this happening now? Explore this curious phenomena. How sustainable will it be? Can we expect a new wave of targete…
Presenters
Andrew Hampp, Daren Tsui, Tim Herbster, Tommy Page
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Ashley Capps, Davis McLarty, Eddie Gomez, Glenn Max, Jennifer Masset, Jesse Lauter, Michael Starr, Nancy Fly, Paul Adams, Robin Danar
According to The Awl, St. Vincent's new record "St. Vincent" is a "spectacular thing." St. Vincent aka Annie Clark sits down with Ann Powers of NPR Music for a SXSW Interview. With lyrical topics ranging from a creation…
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Ann Powers, St. Vincent
SXSW V2V is back in Las Vegas this July for its second year uniting startups, innovators and artists for four days of inspirational speakers, great networking, a pitch competition, workshops, mentoring, and more. We had …
Presenters
Christine Auten, Jessica Cox, Sean Glass, Shawn O'Keefe
Music libraries have long been considered the last resort for supervisors in finding music for TV, games and advertising. Recently, more artists are working directly with libraries. Demanding a large and consistent suppl…
Presenters
Adam Taylor, David Rockwood, Eric LaBrosse, Kevin Wilson, Steve Knill
Music curation demands a global approach. What can we learn from international success stories? For example, museum music events such as Kraftwerk at the Tate Modern, the programming at the Barbican, and the fact that st…
Presenters
Danny Rogers, Huston Powell, Katie Schlosser, Mark Kates
Audience members submit their websites and then each site's design, organization, content and functionality will be assessed. How does the website fit with the artist's overall online strategy, and how successfully does …
Presenters
Andrew Salmon, Brian Felsen, David Dufresne, Emily White, Michael Schneider
In the last few years, several large music listening platforms have emerged as leaders – giving iTunes a serious run for its money. BandPage, SoundCloud, Pandora, and Spotify have achieved record growth in listeners, but…
Presenters
Alex White, J Sider, Mike Herring, Hany Nada
Hear from Grammy nominated and Grammy winning performers about their path to music’s biggest honor. Also learn about the many ways in which artists and professionals alike can benefit and contribute to the music communit…
Presenters
Dave Alvin, Gavin Lurssen, Jeffrey Greenberg, Christine Albert
Success in songwriting involves both creativity and business and financial know how. Go through the entire checklist of everything you need to know and do to write a successful song. Discuss all the money making opportun…
Presenters
Jeffrey Brabec, Ralph Murphy, Todd Brabec
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Barbara Mitchell, Darren Hill, James Evans, Joan Myers, Jordan Kurland, Mahmood Shaikh, Mara Schwartz, Olivia Harrington, Roger Cramer, Tim Palmer
A freewheeling conversation about the creative process, collaboration and the business of music with the most talented group of songwriters ever assembled for one panel in the history of SXSW (says their moderator). Last…
Presenters
Bob Mould, Jeremy Messersmith, Matthew Caws, Steve Wynn, Karen Glauber
Artists have to change the way they think about how to make money, so lawyers and business people should change the way they think too. The 360 deal is a giant sledgehammer applied where a conceptual artist with precisio…
Presenters
Damon K Wayans, Melinda Lee, Rick Goetz, Steve Savoca, Steven Masur
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Brandon Haas, Brian Rosenblatt, Dave Clemmons, Jacob Daneman, Jody Stephens, Matt Hanks, Michael Goldstone, Printz Board, Richard James Burgess, Ron Burman
Join guitarist and singer-songwriter Rusty Anderson, as he shares his stories, techniques, and creative process. Perhaps best known as lead guitarist in the Paul McCartney band since 2001, he's played with acts as divers…
Presenters
Jody Denberg, Rusty Anderson
Who owned the 80's? Spandau Ballet, and they're back to play their first US show in nearly three decades, screen the documentary 'Soul Boys Of The Western World,' and to sit down for a SXSW Interview at the Music Confere…
Presenters
Gary Kemp, John Keeble, Lori Majewski, Martin Kemp, Steve Norman, Tony Hadley
Most of the growth in Finnish music export originates from the success of Finnish metal music. Bands like Amorphis, Nightwish and Children of Bodom have been touring and selling records globally since late '90s. These ar…
Presenters
Laura Laaksonen
The thrill of discovery and sense of ownership experienced by finding a new band now applies to finding a new small batch bourbon, pop-up restaurant, or food truck. And we’re loyally evangelizing small batch food and dri…
Presenters
Michael Mast, Nils Bernstein, Rick Mast, Tom Monday, Josh Wittman
Best known for his work as front man and creative force behind Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Alex Ebert discusses not just music-making, but his growing horizons beyond music. He'll detail his new tech venture, rec…
Presenters
Alex Ebert, Jim DeRogatis
Join all Music & Platinum registrants who work in College Buying and College Radio for this unique networking opportunity. This meeting is an opportunity for like-minded professionals to meet and exchange ideas and sugge…
Presenters
Kelly Benini
Follow the rock-to-tech-to-rock journey of American composer, guitarist, producer and electronics engineer, James Williamson, contrasted with the enduring career of heavy music titan Buzz Osborne of the Melvins. Williams…
Presenters
Buzz Osborne, Jack Boulware, James Williamson
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Elizabeth Cohen, Erica Krusen, Jordan Burger, Juan Cristobal Losada, Mitchell Davis, Rachel Barnhard, Shawn Nolan, Steve Nice, Suzanne Cadgene, Zach Hundley
Rock biographies -- and memoirs -- are hot. Yet, not all subjects pique the interest of publishers. How do you choose your pop-music book topic, then successfully pitch it to an agent and/or publisher? Once you get your …
Presenters
David Ritz, Denise Oswald, Parke Puterbaugh, Holly George-Warren
Young indie artists with promising careers find themselves signing away their album and publishing rights or other assets in order to propel themselves forward. Most music services for indie artists require a fee for “pr…
Presenters
Anina Moore, Chris Douridas, Christopher Tyng, Peter Schwinge
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Judy Tint, Kevin Wommack, Lawrence Gelburd, Marc Lipkin, Michele Clark, Randy Alexander, Stuart Sullivan, Vincent Wilburn Jr, Zach Hinkle
The music industry continues to change at a rapid pace given the proliferation of streaming content, high mobile device penetration, social sharing, the app economy, and more. What’s less clear is what this means for the…
Presenters
David Macias, Gregory Mead, Simon Wheeler, Steve Savoca, Yinka Adegoke
Hear from top level women executives in the music business. who share anecdotes of their personal journeys. Explore their successes, challenges and sacrifices. Gain tools and advice on how to achieve equality in the work…
Presenters
Julie Pilat, Karen Kwak, Lisa Worden, Michele Harrison, Sharon Dastur
Cee Lo Green’s distinctive voice was first heard as part of the Goodie Mob, a central group in the Atlanta rap explosion of the ‘90s. He went on to top the charts with Gnarls Barkley’s ‘Crazy’ and as a solo artist with ‘…
Presenters
CeeLo Green, Frannie Kelley
Mentor Sessions provide an opportunity to receive more personalized input than a larger panel can offer. Sessions are scheduled in ten-minute increments. Online sign-ups for Mentor Sessions will close the day before they…
Presenters
Brian Bloom, Jo Lenardi, Leah Selvidge, Mark Spier, Russell Baltera, Tim Kolleth, Trevor Gale, Tyler Middleton, Will Hoffman
How can data analysis help identify the next wave of emerging music acts before they break out? How can insights drawn from data can help artists maximize their commercial potential? Explore the interrelationship between…
Presenters
Christopher Tynan, Steve Ritter, Victor Hu, William Gruger
Join Belle & Sebastian lead singer and songwriter, Stuart Murdoch, as he discusses not just his music, but his feature directorial debut, "God Help the Girl," which will screen at SXSW Film. He'll explore how the coming-…
Presenters
Jason Cohen, Stuart Murdoch
With organizations like BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, SoundExchange and others fiercely tracking music royalties for artists, songwriters, producers and publishers, and online music distribution growing exponentially, royalties hav…
Presenters
Barry Massarsky, Bob Rice, Ramona Simmons, Sean Peace
Maverick female leaders helped to pave a way for women to work in the music industry. Yet there is still a huge shortage of females in leadership positions in our business. Power diversity breeds a healthy, invigorating…
Presenters
Heather Moosnick, Michele Olton, Neeta Ragoowansi, Wende Crowley
Although debates about how to protect copyright online might seem so 2010, they certainly haven't abated. The current conversations aren't as contentious as the SOPA skirmishes, but that doesn't necessarily mean consensu…
Presenters
David Lowery, Jill Lesser, Sherwin Siy, Casey Rae
United States Congressman Michael McCaul calls Austin home and loves music. He is also the most powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives on matters of Homeland Security (as Chairman of that Committee). At SXS…
Presenters
Daryl Friedman, Michael McCaul
Jason Blum is the founder and CEO of Blumhouse Productions, a multi-media production company that has pioneered a new model of studio filmmaking- producing high-quality micro-budget films for wide release. Since its laun…
Beginner
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Jason Blum, John Horn
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track in the industry with Julie Fallin, the digital marketing coordinator for Cinedigm, and Michael Barker, of Sony Pictures Classics. This is an open forum to ask these insiders anyt…
Beginner
Presenters
Julie Fallin, Michael Barker, Vanessa Hope
Rarely seen in the daylight, these filmmakers are the ones who create your nightmares. What will they say!?! What will they do!?! What's in the box!?!!…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Wingard, Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Daniel Stamm, Dennis Widmyer, Jerome Sable, Julien Maury, Kevin Kolsch, Leigh Janiak, Mike Flanagan, Nacho Vigalondo, Nicholas McCarthy, Scott Weinberg
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on short films with Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff. This is an open forum to ask these filmmakers anything about short films.……
Beginner
Presenters
Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein, Bryan Poyser
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on production with Jay Van Hoy, producer of Beginners and Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and Karen Murphy, producer of Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap. This is an open forum to ask…
Intermediate
Presenters
Holly Jeter, Karen Murphy
"How NOT To Produce Movies" will make seasoned producers laugh with empathy and give young up-and-comers a glimpse at the chaos that comes with the most unsung job in the movies, being a Producer. Hear from four veteran…
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Lo, Kim Sherman, Michael Tully, Matthew Mills
Film production runs the gamut from pre to post. Learn from industry professionals who have experience in the wide range of experiences film production entails. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session sig…
Presenters
Deborah McIntosh, Ginger Sledge, Hugues Barbier, James M Johnston, Kelly Williams, Kevin Iwashina, Lindsey Dryden, Nick Case
The novelty of actually being in production motivated us to present this panel. Join co-stars Jason Schwartzman and Tunde Adebimpe, along with their writer-director Bob Byington and producer Seana Flanagan to discuss the…
Beginner
Presenters
Bob Byington, Jason Schwartzman, Seana Flanagan, Tunde Adebimpe
Film production runs the gamut from pre to post. Learn from industry professionals who have experience in the wide range of experiences film production entails. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session sig…
Presenters
Adam Donaghey, Dominic Buchanan, Jason Wehling, Megan Gilbride, Mike Woolf, Susan Kirr, Suzanne Weinert
Do you need a publicist? Maybe so, and maybe no. Come get some hands-on information about the modern role of the PR person, and how that impacts filmmakers today. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session …
Beginner
Presenters
Gerilyn Shur, Jim Dobson, Marian Koltai-Levine, Rene Ridinger, Sylvia Desrochers, Ursula Liang, Weiman Seid, Whitney Kimmel
As a filmmaker, the press can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Learn how to make nice. Or, if you're an aspiring journalist, learn how to make a living. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session…
Presenters
Agnes Varnum, David Hudson, Jette Kernion, Kim Voynar, Mark Peranson, Robert Koehler, Stephen Saito
Keep up with developments in journalism and what publicity practices and technology get the best results. Start with basics like how to craft a story, etiquette for contacting the press, and strategies for staying organi…
Presenters
Andy Adelewitz, Rey Roldan, Sarah Avrin, Dmitri Vietze
Publicists, or artists doing their own publicity, find themselves in a unique situation nowadays having to communicate with multiple generations of content providers (formerly known as journalists, editors, producers and…
Presenters
Amy Yates , Bob Boilen, Heather West, Michael Roffman, Howard Wuelfing
In the olden days, we had listening parties and enjoyed spinning vinyl on hi-fi stereo systems and booming speakers. Over the course of the digital revolution, the dedicated home stereo largely disappeared in favor of mo…
Presenters
John Hamm, Noam Meppen, Tim Grimsditch, Vickie Nauman
How does the artist stay connected to fans beyond posting to their Facebook page or meeting people after a show at the merch table? One answer is to focus on the super-fan, the ones that know all about the artist, go to …
Presenters
Kevin Wortis, Mike Jones, Mike Fiebach, Tim Bierman
For all the talk of how declining physical music sales are killing independent retail, nobody is mentioning the rise of the niche record stores from coast to coast. While the chains continue to let their market share sl…
Presenters
Adam Downey, Carrie Colliton, Stephen Judge, Hank Stockard
Welcome to the 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival. We're excited that you'll be joining us for 5 days of amazing panel content and networking events. SXSW is a community event, so we invite you to come kick off the event wit…
Intermediate
Presenters
Hugh Forrest
In our increasingly digital and technology-driven world, human social relationships are being transformed by data. Your previous online behavior is dictating the news reports, friends’ updates, products and advertisement…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Colborn, Dinkar Jain, Maria Bezaitis, Oren Michels
Anyone launching a new brand today hopes that their product, service or solution will become the darling of the industry--the thing that goes viral because people love it. Veteran brand strategist Laurence Vincent will s…
Intermediate
Presenters
Larry Vincent
SXSW Interactive is an amazing event where you can make life and career changing connections. But, do you have a clear strategy for success for the five days and nights ahead? In this session, entrepreneur and social med…
Beginner
Presenters
Gary Vaynerchuk
Enough of the pontificating panel! In a rapid and fast paced (gameshow like) session, we put the audience (that means YOU) in the hot seat as the experts on the future of social. A combination of format (lightning round …
Intermediate
Presenters
Sam Decker, Sean McDonald
We write 3.6 trillion words online -- every single day. How is this explosion of online expression changing the way we think? In this talk, based on my book "Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds f…
Advanced
Presenters
Clive Thompson
Since Google published its first “transparency report” in 2010, many other Internet companies large and small have started issuing there own reports on government demands for user data. And now, in light of recent revela…
Beginner
Presenters
Bart Volkmer, Dorothy Chou, Kevin Bankston, Ryan Budish
A meet-up to talk about SXSW. Discuss how to get through a day of panels and parties and still keeping your particulars. Tips on how to make the most of SXSW during one of the busiest panel sessions offered at a conferen…
Beginner
Presenters
Sweet John Muehlbauer
As anyone who cried when Aeris died knows, it’s easy to fall in love with your favourite game character. One of gaming's biggest strengths is the ability to allow players to form deep emotional bonds with characters. Emp…
Intermediate
Presenters
Michelle Hamilton-Page, Miriam Verburg
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
Presenters
Dan Hou
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
Presenters
Elijah May
The privacy landscape evolves dramatically every day. It is a legal, governmental and humanitarian soap opera. Most data privacy conversations to date have done little more than make consumers suspicious and often parano…
Intermediate
Presenters
MeMe Jacobs Rasmussen, Shaina Boone
One of the foremost issues today in connected technologies is privacy, and more specifically, who controls personal data – the individual who uses the technology, the company that produced the technology or the governmen…
Intermediate
Presenters
Anna Laitin, Catherine McCullough, Cora Han, Harold Ford Jr
It’s the absolute worst word that can come out of someone’s mouth. Whether a colleague, boss, client, or a doctor, if you hear the word “viral” you’re in trouble. Someone probably read "The Tipping Point" but skipped "Th…
Beginner
Presenters
Craig Key
Social media analytics can help you understand the active members of your social media audience, but what about the people who aren't posting? How do you fill in the gaps in your analytics with insight into your customer…
Beginner
Presenters
Alexandra Samuel, Beth Kanter, Colby Flint, Jeremiah Owyang
As U.S. citizens, we have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But do we have a right to data privacy? Or is privacy just an illusion? Privacy has become a touchy subject (see: NSA); consumers want to f…
Intermediate
Presenters
Barrie Vanbrackle, Greg Cohen
The answer: Yes. The question: Could you hijack my yacht? The backstory: It all started at SXSW. After hearing professor Todd Humphreys report in his 2013 SXSW Interactive panel that he had brought down an unmanned aeria…
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew Schofield, Jahshan Bhatti, Kenneth Himschoot, Todd Humphreys
Orgasm is different than what we've been taught. What is Orgasm? Science shows Orgasm is a vital nutrient to the body. It activates the parasymapthetic and the sympathetic nervous systems, simultaneously. As a result, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Nicole Daedone
What's it like starting a company with your significant other? Your work and home life will lose separation. Some VCs won't fund you as a matter of principle. But at the same time, you get to obsess about work together, …
Beginner
Presenters
Alexander Moore, Aye Moah, Derek Langton, Mendel Chuang
Moderated by Bravo’s Andy Cohen, host of Watch What Happens Live, this panel will bring together two of YouTube’s hottest stars—Tyler Oakley and Grace Helbig—with BuzzFeed’s EVP of Video, Ze Frank, to spark a discussion …
Beginner
Presenters
Andy Cohen, Grace Helbig, Tyler Oakley, Ze Frank
Twitter changes everything. That’s especially true for events. So do smart phones, tablets, Instagram, YouTube, Vine, and lots of other new tools and technologies. Please join us for our 3rd annual Interactive Core Conve…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Duggan, Tom Spano
A multicultural specialist and partnership specialist discuss how AARP educates and communicates with their members via social media on everything from changes to healthcare, creating livable communities to sex after 65.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Aldea Douglas, Andres Castillo
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/IAP25239 As…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jay Wilson, Jenessa Carder, Kevin Pound
Cyber security journalist Kim Zetter will speak about Stuxnet and the launch of the world’s first digital weapon. She explores the story of the virus that destroyed Iran’s nuclear centrifuges—and how it ushered in a new …
Beginner
Presenters
Kim Zetter
In a world where attention is increasingly fragmented, it becomes more challenging for companies to truly connect and inspire people. According to Gallup, 70% of employees in our country are disengaged from their jobs. A…
Intermediate
Presenters
Kat Mandelstein
We can bet you've been appalled and underwhelmed by the level of customer service you've received by a company. Have you ever been pleasantly surprised and delighted by a brand's customer service? Engineer a surprise & …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jacki Halas, Tom Zellman
Ongoing revelations about NSA surveillance have heightened awareness about the security vulnerabilities in our mobile devices. Most consumers don’t know how their favorite devices work and are inclined to fear the worst …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jaclyn Louis, Jonathan Godfrey, Sonny Sinha
It’s hard to face the tragedies of the past year—Newtown, the Boston Bombing, Oklahoma Tornado and the Prescott Hotshots Wildfires. In the immediate aftermath, Americans are increasingly turning to Facebook, Twitter and …
Intermediate
Presenters
Michael Bellavia, Paula Veale, Pete Giencke, Shayne Adamski
A meet-up to talk about SXSW. Discuss how to get through a day of panels and parties and still keeping your particulars. Tips on how to make the most of SXSW during one of the busiest panel sessions offered at a conferen…
Beginner
Presenters
Sweet John Muehlbauer
There are panels on the legal side of the advertising and tech world, and plenty of panels that people in the legal and business affairs arenas are interested in regarding emerging technologies. However, due to the sheer…
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Jenn Kennedy
Who cares about online privacy? Online interactions now permeate every layer of our society, changing the way people learn, communicate, buy, sell, search and interact. We are now more "track-able" than ever, and entit…
Intermediate
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Blair Reeves
Dazed and confused, consumers and brands alike are trippin’ on hashtags. As one of the most iconic social symbols of our time, media campaigns are increasingly laced with hashtags to increase engagement while also inspir…
Beginner
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Eric Bader, Scott Fischler
The days of the abacus are long gone - replaced by abacus apps. Stuffed animals are being replaced by app pals like Calls from Elmo. For better or worse, the way children play and learn has changed and privacy remains a …
Intermediate
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Elana Zeide, Lorraine Akemann, Sara Kloek
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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Cedric Giorgi
If you want to know how people feel about something, just give them a questionnaire, right? Nope. This panel is about tapping into people's thoughts, feelings, and opinions more directly, in real time. Our thoughts an…
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Gary Kazantsev, Martin Salo, Philip Resnik, Rana el Kaliouby
With recent disclosures about online surveillance, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, continues his dedication to the pursuit of individual privacy and transparency. Labeled everything from martyr, anarchist, whist…
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Benjamin Palmer, Julian Assange
Big Data is a game changer for storytelling. Increased pressure to find meaning in mounds of data—in real-time and at scale—has given rise to technology that analyzes and turns individual data points into bite-sized pros…
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Eric Shoup, Francois Ajenstat
There is growing distrust over Internet data. Consumers fear how their information is collected and used, and companies struggle to maintain control over their data when transacting with third parties. This FUD is amplif…
Advanced
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Joseph Galarneau
After a decade of using social network sites like MySpace and Facebook, teens have glommed on to countless new apps, from Instagram to Snapchat to Vine. They share tremendous amounts of content, but encode it so that par…
Beginner
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Danah Boyd
On Thursday, June 6, 2013, the PRISM story broke, shattering any trust we had in the US government with regards to online privacy. At a pinnacle point in technological advancement, the tech industry is now faced with the…
Intermediate
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Brad Burnham, Matthew Prince, Nicholas Merrill, Trevor Timm
You've experienced the goal of many platforms - unchecked exponential growth in your user base. People have a genuine passion for your product and that passion is rapidly expanding organically. But what does this mean fo…
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Brendan Codey, Cindy Au, Jenna Meister
In today’s digital age, the success of a video, image or news story is determined by its ability to go social. Rarely does such a topic survive one news cycle, let alone two, and the idea that a social phenomenon would s…
Intermediate
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Brian Turtle, Kevin Bacon
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/IAP23825 Ed…
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Julian Sanchez, Robert Chesney, Susan Landau, Timothy Edgar
One of the cool things about SXSW is that you can spend all week in Austin without spending a dime. Everywhere you look, someone or something is handing out free breakfast tacos, beer, t-shirts, even piggyback rides. Jus…
Intermediate
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David Tishgart
People don’t take spin class because they want to ride crappy trainers. They go because misery loves company and, for 60 minutes, someone’s there to hold them accountable. From Pilates to Plyometrics, people know that wo…
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Florian Gschwandtner
Love wine? Hate Snobs? This is the Meet Up for you. Come to where old & new world wines and tech collide. Time to Geek Up and Drink Up! Ask the experts, share your knowledge, and enjoy the Wine Meet Up at SXSW!…
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April Wright Collins, Craig Collins MS
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/IAP25445 Wh…
Beginner
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Megan Miller, Rebecca Throne, Silvia Stephenson
Obesity. Excessive energy consumption. HIV/AIDs prevalence. Many of the most frustrating, seemingly intractable problems of the 21st century are driven by human behavior. To address these challenges, we’ll need to unders…
Intermediate
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Anna Mohan, Jitinder Kohli, Jonathan Zinman, Shrupti Shah
Instagram pictures of your island vacation, Facebook well wishes on the birth of your first child, an email from your father, Vine videos from your son’s graduation. There are no more diaries, letters or scrapbooks. Our…
Intermediate
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Mary Snauffer
Good old mom, the holder of purse strings, the target of so many CPG brands and retailers, the prize everyone has their eye on. With more and more clients asking for “a cool mobile idea that targets mom in store” it’s …
Intermediate
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Leyla Dailey, Molly Garris
As data become more readily available, we are lulled into believing “the numbers don’t lie.” However, the human data collection methods and process, the various motives of the people involved, the political or social sys…
Beginner
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Grace Rodriguez, Jake Porway, Jonathan Schwabish, Kim Rees
Across the country, Gen Y talent and innovative companies are abandoning the suburbs in favor of the city. In the collaboration economy, individuals want to help shape their built environment, but the dialogue and invest…
Beginner
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Kenneth Shin
You have one moment to grab your audience and engage them in your Facebook content. What are the tools you need to create a compelling headline, draw in readers and force them to click through to your content? Leila Bril…
Beginner
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Leila Brillson
If your index finger hurts from swiping through online dating profile photos on your phone, you’re not alone. According to a recent study, half of all singles report using mobile online dating websites or applications. T…
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Gregory Liberman
The hype about Big Data is all around us and it seems the data is busy at work solving the world's problems. Big Data is being used to stop crimes, find cures to cancer and organizations like Maplight.org are using data …
Intermediate
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Elissa Fink
If abstinence education can’t stop teens from getting pregnant, why are we preaching digital abstinence as the cure for information overload and online distraction? In this session we’ll dig into our digital and personal…
Intermediate
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Lauren Bacon, Rohan Gunatillake
When no one knows who you are, you can finally be yourself. That's the promise of Secret, a fast-growing anonymous sharing app. In this discussion, Secret's co-founder David Byttow and TechCrunch's Josh Constine will exp…
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David Byttow, Josh Constine
#SXsingle, it's not just a hashtag, it's a lifestyle. Over the years, the term "what happens at South By, stays at South By" has become part of the vernacular for veteran attendees. In some instances, this means exactly…
Beginner
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Kathryn Irwin, Sean Henry
More and more of what we do, see, and create is collected digitally resulting in what might be thought of as a digital body. Unlike the physical or social body, the digital body remains intact after death, leaving behind…
Beginner
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Melissa Martin
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the NSA is engaging in an unprecedented breach of our privacy, gathering data about every telephone conversation and online transaction it can. But don't worry, says President…
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Chris Conley, Evan Greer
Across the country, there is an increasingly widespread problem of abusers and perpetrators posting images and video footage online as a tactic of abuse, harassment, bullying and extortion. The images and videos may be …
Beginner
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Christina Gagnier, Erica Johnstone
Be popular. Don’t miss out on the party. Figure out what’s cool before it’s, well – not anymore. Social media today has the familiar symptoms of a high school classroom; but now, instead of obsessing over what our classm…
Intermediate
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Andrew Cunningham, Mea Cole Tefka
Brands used to be able to check off the ‘social’ box by maintaining a Facebook page. Today, brands have made social content the center of their global marketing strategies – creating, distributing, and measuring content …
Intermediate
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Jim Rudden
In today's hyper-connected, always-on, and always-now era brands operate in a state of perpetual tension, fearful of when their next blunder will crescendo into a tidal wave like publicity disaster. This is limiting, and…
Advanced
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Adam Abrahami
Keeping user-created content quality high is challenging as a community grows, but Quora has managed to do it while riding significant growth. Come hear and learn from Marc Bodnick, who leads the business and community t…
Intermediate
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Marc Bodnick
The beauty of community driven brands is the natural order of customer focus. Hear from three brands that have built - and recently launched - brands centered around artistic communities. Instagram, the preferred image …
Intermediate
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Bailey Richardson, Duann Scott, Jenny Dearing, Josh Karpf
Cloud technologies have transformed startup and business IT, but the benefits haven't filtered down to our personal use. What if I could mapreduce my home energy use, secure my accounts with the hundreds of sites that ha…
Intermediate
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Dave Sanford, Jeff Kramer
In creating social messaging, marketers often depend on some purported truths in communication. Focus on short-form content. Write in your audiences' native language. Such maxims assume that our communities have rigid an…
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Roland Smart
Are today's rewards programs actually building consumer loyalty or are we simply preconditioned to act/react based on last year's model around some trending buzzword? Loyalty needs to be more than this…collectively, we c…
Advanced
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Drew Lewis, Joshua Forstot
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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Emi Hofmeister
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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Mary Henige
Mobile computing and open government are bringing more people into government than ever before. As government managers develop requirements for app developers to create the tools that citizens will use to participate in …
Intermediate
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Gadi Ben-Yehuda
With so much going on at SXSW each day, it’s easy to miss some important bit of information that could end up changing the world. Join SXSW senior staff and special press guests to get their take on the important events,…
Intermediate
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Erin Griffith, Hugh Forrest, Joshua Rubin, Michele Skelding
As attacks against digital systems evolve, so too are security approaches undergoing several notable paradigm shifts in their defense of the tremendously high-value assets stored in and accessed by these systems. Studies…
Beginner
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Geoff Gentry
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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Brian Holt
Women have been finding a sense of community through message boards and online groups before the rise of the blog. In communities like TheKnot.com, TheNest.com and TheBump.com, their conversations transition from STDs (S…
Intermediate
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Terri Koen
The NSA scandal is far from over. Not only do new revelations keep popping up, the ramifications for legislation, politics and businesses are still not entirely clear. Especially in Europe, trust in US internet companies…
People say "It's not what you know, it's who you know." But what if you don't know anyone? What if you didn't go to the right school? What if you're so outside the club, you didn't even know there *was* a club? As much a…
Beginner
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Nilofer Merchant, Rachel Sklar
Every marketer wants to get the most out of their paid media, targeting consumers that will engage with their content, share it with others, and talk about it across social channels like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. W…
Beginner
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Baba Shetty, Kate Sirkin, Marty Baker, Seraj Bharwani
When a brand commits a gaffe or implodes on social media, we watch with a mix of horror, schadenfreude, and – perhaps strongest of all – relief that we’re not the ones under fire. But you don’t really know what a social …
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Chapin Clark, Kristen Joy Watts, Neal Mann, Wendy Harman
Sometimes Twitter and Facebook feeds sound like one big group therapy session. Consumers know that complaining online gets results, and companies are so terrified of going viral for the wrong reasons (see: the Amy’s Baki…
Intermediate
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Kam Desai
Mobility is driving innovation that makes our personal and professional lives more efficient and productive. Mobile devices are a hub of information, specifically how they interact between individuals and other devices. …
Intermediate
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John Marshall
Nobody was ever supposed to read my goofy little blog about strongman training and Tourette Syndrome. But then Seth Godin found it, and by this point the blog has become a book. The book The World's Strongest Librarian …
Intermediate
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Josh Hanagarne
Join Dana Brunetti, producer of The Social Network, House of Cards and forthcoming 50 Shades of Grey film and Randi Zuckerberg, former Facebook exec, Founder of Zuckerberg Media and New York Times Bestselling Author, as…
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Dana Brunetti, Randi Zuckerberg
Technology continues to have a profound effect on how and what we eat. In the 365 days since last year's meetup alone, much has happened in the Food + Tech world: 3D printing, crowdsourcing restaurants, robot line cooks…
Beginner
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Sharon Mays
Advancements in wearable technology are leading to a cultural tipping point – constant connectivity will fundamentally change the way humans relate, interact and behave with each other. We're at the very beginning of thi…
Intermediate
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Elise Hu, Patrick Miller, Perry Fair, Timothy Jordan
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/IAP26192 No…
Intermediate
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Adam Mordecai, Joseph Lamour, Rebecca Eisenberg
The central problem facing many businesses today is not a lack of data, but a lack of a clear vision and actionable roadmap for what to do with the data. This is particularly the case for social data. Over the past few y…
Intermediate
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Marjan Baghaie, Serena Cheng
In 2012, then U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta warned that “the next Pearl Harbor we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our power systems, our grid, our security systems, our financial systems…
Intermediate
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Derek Jinks, Kristen Eichensehr
Right now Social Media is disrupting more than just how companies engage with customers, its driving the transformation of Corporate Social Responsibility. As transparency has been increasing over the last decade, organi…
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Jason Wolcott, Ruben Taborda
In an era when living publicly is becoming the default, people are coming up with creative ways to carve out private spaces in their lives. Rather than rejecting today’s ubiquitous social media and sharing tools outright…
Beginner
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Ann Mack
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/IAP22156 In…
Intermediate
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Andrew Grenville, Tyler Douglas
The war for winning dominance over social networks and using that dominance to advantage is already underway. James Carafano presents an extremely timely analysis of the techno-future of information and the impact of soc…
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James Carafano
Our lives are mobile-everything. Our stuff is increasingly sensor-laden. And the services that give us access to our data, people, and things are, by definition, collecting massive volumes of data about us. It's impossib…
Intermediate
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Fatemeh Khatibloo
We are currently moving out of a period of “Peak Privacy,” and into an era of “Peak Surveillance.” Encryption and other protective capabilities previously available only to governments, the super-rich, and hackers are no…
Intermediate
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Andrew Delamarter
As social connection apps and mobile technology evolve, instant gratification is now expected when it comes to new people and information. We’ll tackle the new norms of meeting people via app, diving into the lifecycle o…
Beginner
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Colin Hodge, Joel Simkhai
A conversation between consultant Jonathan Bailey an online publishing consultant and plagiarism expert and attorney Katie Sunstrom. Jonathan will share his experiences assisting victims of revenge porn and online defam…
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Jonathan Bailey, Katie Sunstrom
Children are 51 times more likely to have their identities stolen than adults. Now that children have a digital footprint at an early age, identity thieves have found an easier route to take advantage of children’s unuse…
Beginner
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Chris Crosby, Clay Nichols
Ever worried you’re too tied to tech? Then come power down for an hour and meet people face to face! I Am My Own Social Network is the rallying cry for a movement of individuals who want to become more aware of their rel…
Beginner
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Dave Hepp
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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Anil Chawla
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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Jenn Deering Davis
Whether you're a lurker, someone who up votes or just a die-hard redditor, we hope you join us for a chance to hang out with your fellow redditors in a casual and fun setting at SXSW! Come discuss everything from /r/one…
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Logan Youree, Victoria Taylor
If you work in style + tech or just have a general interest in the mashup of this space, then this Meet Up is for you! Join SXSW Interactive's Publicist and Style Programmer, Kelly Krause for her 3rd annual Meet Up on th…
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Kelly Krause
91% of hiring managers now look at social media profiles when screening job applicants, and one in 10 young job applicants has been denied due to their online reputation. Companies are concerned with employees’ personal …
Beginner
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Bryan Hjelm, Parry Aftab
Ever see a Yelp sticker in a restaurant window? Or maybe you noticed a few Pinterest logos on clothing items on your last shopping trip? If not, there’s a good possibility you will soon, because there is increasing evide…
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Megan Wintersteen
Did you know that in less than 60 minutes you can turn a $20 router into an attack platform that is capable of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of data? Did you know that this can be done with very little …
Intermediate
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Adam Tyler
As you use more social networking sites, your social identity becomes a blend of publicly shared and personal information. Based on the upcoming book, see firsthand how innocuous things you share can be used to gain acc…
Intermediate
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Chris Miller
Join Chicago-based coders, creatives and assorted other techies for a meet-up at SXSW Interactive! We'll talk about what's going on in Chicago's technology scene, what we're up to personally and what we've learned so far…
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Andrew Huff
All the world’s a stage, and today everyone is using their social networks to play the part and edit the perfect version of their lives. Posting selfies from only their good side, checking in to only the coolest hangouts…
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Cynthia Samanian, Paul Davison
In 2009, Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks created Black Girls RUN! ® to tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the African American community. The mission of BGR! is to encourage black women to make fitness and healthy living…
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Ashley Hicks, Felicia Harris, Toni Carey
Online dating has become the #1 most common way that people meet their romantic partners. Yet the typical online dating experience is - for most people - painful. Women get too many spammy messages ("hey sexy" is a class…
Intermediate
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Elissa Shevinsky
Cyber security harkens to mind the hardening of networks, the deployment of code, and the fast typing fingers of armies of hackers and anti-hackers, all mixed into a war-like ecosystem of digital penetration and defense.…
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Chris Hadnagy, Chris Dufour, Jon Iadonisi, Nicole Tatrow
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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Richard Botto
This is a reading of my new book: "Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age" (Yale 2013). This book is a down-in-the-trenches look at tech culture-- the good, the bad, and the ugly. I spe…
Intermediate
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Alice Marwick
This meetup will be geared towards those who live at 5,430 feet above sea level. If you live in Boulder or have questions about our great town please feel welcomed. Lets talk about what we can do to cultivate the commun…
Beginner
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Andrew Hyde
Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and the Snowden/ PRISM revelations pulled back the curtain on the specific workings of a technology based surveillance culture that continues to expand globally every day with significant socie…
Intermediate
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Adam Harvey, Colin Nagy, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Kyle McDonald
In the core conversation "Is Facebook Making Houses of Worship Go Extinct?" we plan to discuss how social media has changed the role of the religious meeting place. Using the model of the synagogue as a case study, we no…
Intermediate
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Rebecca Saidlower, Susanne Goldstone Rosenhouse
We are witnessing a profound transformation in the way that people are able to learn about a dizzying variety of life experiences. Anonymous sites are transforming discourse in how people are able to learn - from the mor…
Beginner
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Fruzsina Eordogh, Kristine Smith, Marta Gossage, Nika Nour
The Internet can be the voice of a revolution, a community for kindred spirits and a bridge that spans the global divide. At times it can be transcendent, a vast network of global knowledge and human connectivity, and at…
Beginner
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Mordechai Lightstone, Paul Miller
This is a simulcast room. Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them…
Advanced
This is a simulcast room. Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them…
Advanced
This is a simulcast room. Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them…
Advanced
Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them, in bulk. Likewise, the mo…
Advanced
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Ben Wizner, Christopher Soghoian, Edward Snowden
Art means something unique to each of us, but the invitation to participate in art has never been extended. In fact, the art world can feel like an elitist club—exclusionary and intimidating. Meanwhile, social media is t…
Intermediate
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David Stocks, Victor Samra
Do you know who your SuperFans are? Passionate fanbases have been influential for decades, but the expansion of digital and social media has changed how you connect with those fanbases, and how they connect with each ot…
Intermediate
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Caty Burgess, David Hayes, Michael Tritter, Rae Votta
At the intersection of technology and capitalism—mediation and competition—parents are raising children in a world that is much different than it was 20 years ago. This panel features David McCullough Jr., a high school …
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David McCullough Jr
In 1791, when Jeremy Bentham designed the panopticon prison system, he considered it a mechanism of power that acted directly on individuals, granting its controller “the power of mind over mind.” In the panopticon priso…
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Ceren Paydas
If you think you are in the marketing business, think again. You’re in the people business. It’s people not products and not programs that drive sales. It’s people who make an unknown brand known. It’s people who work to…
Intermediate
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John Moore
The privacy debate is far from over. Instead of skirting the issue or declaring the death of privacy, let's instead wisen up to the realities of a mobile world and debate balance -- consumers want personalization, but do…
Beginner
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Damien Patton
A decade ago, the only communication a reader could have with a print magazine was either a bland phone call to customer service or a letter to the editor, which were seldom responded to. Thanks to the mass adoption of s…
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Elizabeth Holmes, Eva Chen, Jane Larkworthy, Stella Bugbee
The government is tracking who you call and when. Snoops are reading your emails. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are working with companies you’ve never heard of to compile deep, secret profiles of m…
Intermediate
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Josh Levy, Kade Crockford, Nadia Kayyali, Nathan Freitas
The informal nature of social media conversations makes it a ripe environment for the spreading of rumors and potential falsehoods. Defamation law has aimed to strike a balance between free speech and protecting the repu…
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Catherine Cameron, Ellyn Angelotti
Soon we will have the ability to know where everyone is all the time. We will have some fun seeing how people are dealing with that today, and think practically how we use that opportunity for good in the future. Our p…
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Julian Green, Tyler Bell
While the use of drones on the battlefield is shrouded with public controversy, unmanned systems have changed the face of modern day warfare. Robots offer incredible functionality versatility and flexibility that can dra…
Intermediate
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Ardy Williams, Helen Greiner, Noel Sharkey, Robin Murphy
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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Martin Harrison
Year after year, Portland, Oregon, sends a significant number of developers, UXers, and startup types to Austin for SXSW. Many of us consistently use this trip as an excuse to spend time with our fellow Portlanders, away…
Beginner
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Rick Turoczy
Mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, sexual health, financial debt—many of the critical topics Americans face are not ones they want to be publicly associated with and tied to online. So how then should nonprofits,…
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Bob Filbin, Deb Levine, Emily O'Brien, Meg Rushton
The emergence of social media several years ago changed the way brands communicated with and to consumers – forcing them to completely change their approach to marketing products and services not only online, but offline…
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Justin Garrity, Kendra Bracken-Ferguson
It’s an age old problem: how do you prove your identity? It’s the reason governments started issuing id cards. Since the advent of the Internet, identification has gotten even harder. To a website, you are a stream of el…
Intermediate
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Michael Schwartz
The majority of people no longer talk on their phones to connect, instead they tweet, pin and post to communicate with the world. So if everyone is building their own online profiles that are public domain, and the vast…
Beginner
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Moj Mahdara
Are you tired of hearing "What's wrong with you?" from well-meaning co-workers? Do you feel like your peers just talk and talk just to hear themselves speak? Have you been accused of being anti-social or a loner? You're …
Beginner
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Alisa March, Erin McHam, Jayna Wallace, John Malhinha
Our identity is increasingly defined by digital data, only a fraction of which is within our control. Welcome to the social age, where we're getting intimate about our habits, health, wealth and behaviors. Businesses are…
Intermediate
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Christopher Sundermeier, Jeffrey Liu, Phyllis Newhouse, Todd Davis
The social media marketing space is booming. More and more advertisers are entering the space and social platforms are evolving quickly to catch up. It’s not easy being an entrepreneur in such a volatile space, but it su…
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Laura O'Shaughnessy, Tim O'Shaughnessy
Authenticity and deception - two constructs at the root of all interest in social media. Am I credible online? Am I really engaging my audience? How can I weed out fakes and troublemakers? How can I identify valued long-…
Intermediate
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Cindy Chung, Jeff Hancock, Kate Niederhoffer, Ken Cho
We spend our day sharing. Collectively, we upload 35 hours to YouTube every minute. In that that very same minute, we post 135,849 photos to Facebook. Even if we consider ourselves private sorts, chances are we're still …
Intermediate
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Maude Standish, Stacy Fuller
The SoFlo Brunch Series presents INFLUENCE :: The New Currency What does “influence” really mean when it comes to digital interactions? Are you an influencer or tribe leader? How can you grab the attentions of like-mi…
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Donnet Bruce, Jason Francis
So your company sent you to SXSW and you're here to talk business? Great, there are plenty of business development opportunities around every corner, coffee line or taco stand. However, sometimes you need to unplug and…
As the internet has increasingly become more social, the value of individual reputations has risen, and a new currency based on reputation has been created. This means that not only are companies tracking what an individ…
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Josh Klein
Social media has made finding love easier: reconnecting with your college sweetheart on LinkedIn, broadcasting emotions on Twitter and maybe even finding our soul mate on a mobile app. But dating sites & social outlets f…
Intermediate
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Andrea Miller, Helen Fisher, Ian Schafer, Julia Allison
We live in a world of data overload. When it comes to keeping up with the news, people don't want more content – they want what they need to know. To stay current and up to date, people need distilled, coherent informat…
Intermediate
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Jim Spencer, Steve Rosenbaum
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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John Robert Reed
Many of us carry smartphones wherever we go. Increasingly, we are leaning on them as active and passive gathering devices of data and images. Google Glass and other recording devices bring the question further front an…
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Gigi Johnson
The Wrong Side of History - The Worst Technological Innovations of the Past, Present, and Future will explore the top 10 worst technologies through unfiltered debate between Heather Hinton, PhD (CTO, IBM) and Josh Alexan…
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Bob Blakley, Heather Hinton, Josh Alexander
Based on 2014 book: What Happens in Vegas Stays on YouTube Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying. Don’t let it happen to your company, your team, or your family. Learn the art and science behind why digital reputations…
Advanced
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Erik Qualman
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/IAP19692 Ho…
Intermediate
Presenters
Anne Taillandier, Kristin O'Halloran
It's always been difficult for nonprofits to wedge their way into the viral internet marketplace, but now that large companies are getting into the fray, the field is the most competitive it's ever been. Every day, big m…
Intermediate
Presenters
Liam Cronin, Nick Agich, Rafael Casal, Roxane Philson
In the age of the open API, it’s easy to take your own data for granted. So when three of the major airlines decided to cut off third party access to reward point data, it was a tough pill to swallow for travelers. They …
Intermediate
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Darren Bauer Kahan
We will tell the compelling story of how data science created not only a multi-million dollar business, but also one of the greatest single sources of love on earth. OkCupid is responsible for 40,000 first dates every si…
Advanced
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Christian Rudder, Sam Yagan
Context is the key to finally delivering truly one-to-one digital experiences to consumers, but those personalized experiences that we all want (and deserve) come at a price…a bigger slice of our privacy. Is it worth it?…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christopher Barcelona, Dan Shust, Erik McMillan, Jeremy Liebowitz
Social media has become the most all-consuming online craze now but how well is it being used by musicians, labels and PR companies? Most of it is still noise, competing with millions of others through dozens of social m…
Presenters
Lindsey Kronmiller, Nils Bernstein, Sean Hallarman, Jason Gross
Over the past decade, the startup community has joined together to help create roadmaps for creative ideas to be financially and socially rewarding for everyone involved. What has emerged is an empowered generation of …
Presenters
James Belfer, Matthew Hooper, Mynette Louie, Ryan Delk, Ryan Koo
Hollywood has traditionally been slow to adopt new technologies, and tech startups have hit roadblocks in attempts to change the way the entertainment industry produces and releases content. However, in the past year, co…
Presenters
Amra Tareen, Brad Pelo, Christina Warren, Count Eldridge, Lawrence Antoine, Tony Goncalves
Get behind the scenes details from the filmmakers and stars of SXSW World Premiere, Print the Legend. This doc captures the individuals and entrepreneurs racing to bring 3D printing to your desktop, documenting the “Ma…
Presenters
Clay Tweel, Luis Lopez, Maxim Lobovsky, Michael Curry, Steven Klein
ReleaseIt will give companies a head start on launching a new product or service at SXSW Interactive. Participants will do a short pitch about of their product in front of a live audience of SXSW Interactive, Gold and Pl…
Intermediate
With several global retailers testifying before congress and the new guard from Silicon Valley taking the NSA to task, illusions around data security and privacy are collapsing, and consumers have a front row seat. As …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jon Swartz, Kelly McGinnis, Neville Letzerich, Vinny Lingham
ReleaseIt will give companies a head start on launching a new product or service at SXSW Interactive. Participants will do a short pitch about of their product in front of a live audience of SXSW Interactive, Gold and Pl…
Intermediate
Come see 10 of Austin's startups pitch at the Capital Factory Demo Day. Austin's startup scene is booming, and we meet every one of them. The best ones join our community and are matched up with successful entrepreneur…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gordon Daugherty
Carmelo Gordian (Partner at Andrews & Kurth), John Edge (a UK Entrepreneur), Lefteris Douanoglou (CEO at Schoox) and Angelos Angelou (Angelou Economics) will identify and address the major issues and challenges internati…
Advanced
Presenters
Angelos Angelou, Demetris Gerogiannis, John Edge, Tony Defalis
Following on the success of the 2012 and 2013 Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSHbooty), 2014 will mark the 3rd consecutive year of the event that provides education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ryan Olohan, Shwen Gwee, Unity Stoakes
Building a startup is hard. Really hard. It's a whirlwind experience that requires boldness to win in today’s market. The latest technology companies understand what it takes to win and are adapting their go-to-market s…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jay Hallberg, Susan Etlinger, Tad Hunt, Todd Krautkremer
Five international startups engage in a live pitching event to impress venture capitalists, angels and entrepreneur experts. Startups get up and close to the real challenge of engaging potential investors and customers. …
Intermediate
Following on the success of the 2012 and 2013 Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSH), 2014 will mark the 3rd consecutive year of the event that provides education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health tech…
Beginner
Presenters
Andrei Zimiles, Sam Zebarjadi, Samer Hamadeh
We don’t need to convince entrepreneurs to move to Austin - almost every day we receive emails from people deciding to do that on their own! Maybe it’s because Austin is the most cost-effective place to launch a startu…
Advanced
Presenters
Andrew Busey, Gordon Daugherty, Kip Mcclanahan, Mike Maples Jr
Five international startups engage in a live pitching event to impress venture capitalists, angels and entrepreneur experts. Startups get up and close to the real challenge of engaging potential investors and customers. …
Intermediate
After a startup wins a $50,000 investment to move to Austin and the 10 best Austin startups compete for the top spot, you can meet them and mingle with other entrepreneurs and investors. The drinks are on us! Please reg…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gordon Daugherty
I will talk about the steps startups can take to raise venture capital quickly and successfully. Our startup, Speek, raised $2.8m in less than 2 months - and outside Silicon Valley. I have 8 steps that are crucial to rai…
Intermediate
Presenters
Konrad Waliszewski
Following on the success of the 2012 and 2013 Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSH), 2014 will mark the 3rd consecutive year of the event that provides education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health tech…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dwayne Spradlin, Jody Holtzman, Katya Hancock, Thomas Tsang
You have a breakthrough concept. Soundboarding with advisers yields a patronizing “good luck with that” and pleas to pursue something more practical. Time to re-start and the place to start is at the end, where success h…
Intermediate
Presenters
Peter Burrows
Everywhere we turn, bigger companies are buying scrappy startups. While they don’t all launch with a clearly defined exit strategy, founders often think about it and want it to happen sooner rather than later. Detroit-ba…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gabe Karp, Matt Wise
Let's face it, watching TV with a 2nd screen has become a way of life for the avid media consumer. Join Greg Consiglio, Viggle's President & Chief Operating Officer, and Jesse Redniss, Chief Strategy Officer at Mass Rele…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gregory Consiglio, Jesse Redniss
Presented by The University of Texas at Austin, the Longhorn Startup Showcase is a fast pitch competition for UT Austin-based student companies with revolutionary ideas looking for funding to scale their innovations. In…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Dyer, Ken Demarest, Nelson "Rudy" Garza, Rob Warren
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
Presenters
Dan McKernan
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
Presenters
Josh Inglis
Startups often experience quick growth as they dive into a problem and work towards creating a competitive solution. The goal is for a company to achieve product market fit, find an innovation-driven entrepreneurial adv…
Advanced
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Benjamin Israelite, Bill Aulet
This session is about supply and demand. As Austin and the tech industry grows, how will our local schools (K-16+) adapt their education to the needs of the workforce and the city? The session will also cover Govt regul…
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Christian, Donald Tracy, Nathan Green, Nick Parker
Imagine if you could predict whether a startup was likely to succeed, before investing considerable time and money to build and test even a minimally viable product. Many of the biggest challenges are predictable and the…
Intermediate
Presenters
Neal Cabage, Sonya Zhang
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chip Hazard, Chris Dannen, Garry Tan, Mohanjit Jolly, Paige Craig
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Dodge, Harry McCracken, John Malloy, Kevin Carter, Maria Thomas
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Casper de Clercq, Laurie Segall, Sonny Vu, Thomas Ball
Are you an entrepreneurial-minded brand marketer with a passion for innovation? At this meet-up, Dave Knox, co-founder of startup accelerator The Brandery & CMO of digital agency Rockfish, leads a networking session for …
Intermediate
Presenters
Dave Knox
Startup Grind presents three diverse views of what makes Austin a more successful startup town than some larger cities. The panel will present perspectives from the City of Austin, an economic development consultant fro…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andi Gillentine, Bill Boebel, Jon Roberts, Matt Wensing
Selling to big companies as a startup is one of the hardest jobs around. Your product is still being built. You’ve only got a few bucks in the bank. And to top it all off, 24-7-365 access to information and competitive d…
Intermediate
Presenters
Matthew Bellows, Sanober Mukadam
Let’s discuss the constantly evolving consumption behaviors of today’s consumer and how (and how well) brands are keeping up with today’s progressive digital audience. We see trends like real-time content, social commerc…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Hanelly, Tina Kelly
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chip Hazard, Chris Dannen, Garry Tan, Mohanjit Jolly, Paige Craig
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Dodge, Harry McCracken, John Malloy, Kevin Carter, Maria Thomas
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Casper de Clercq, Laurie Segall, Sonny Vu, Thomas Ball
US market entry can be difficult for all entrepreneurs, both for US citizens, and more so for international entrepreneurs. In this panel you will hear the stories of four entrepreneurs that chose to enter the US market …
Beginner
Presenters
Jae Lee, Jerry Tian, Kevin Koym, Ricardo Jimenez
Unbeknownst to many in the tech industry, there are a number of programs focussed specifically on technology designed to improve the web, community and society in general. If you're interested in using your skills to hel…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dana Oshiro, Diane Tate, Lane Becker, Nicole Sanchez
Join us for pitches and beers! Why is Ireland the home of so many amazing start ups? Come and check out why Forbes magazine recently named Ireland as the best start up ecosystem in Europe. Watch an exciting gro…
Advanced
Presenters
Bob McCooey, Mike Butcher, Sean Devlin, Stephen O'Shea
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Harry McCracken, Karin Klein, Kay Koplovitz, Ralph Simon
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Laurie Segall, Lisa Suennen, Nina Kjellson, Stacy Feld
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Singerman, Renata Akhunova, Tim Rowe
Over the past few years we've seen a tremendous rise in social good for-profit enterprises. This session, which includes leading social good entrepreneurs and impact investors, will examine why we're seeing this boom and…
Intermediate
Presenters
Rachael Chong, Seth Bannon, Tabreez Verjee
Join us for pitches and beers! Why is Ireland the home of so many amazing start ups? Come and check out why Forbes magazine recently named Ireland as the best start up ecosystem in Europe. Watch an exciting gro…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gregory Osberg, Jesse Gurevich, John Lunn, Rob Malin
As shareholders continue to demand growth year-over-year, our largest public companies are facing diminishing returns on cost-saving and margin-enhancement initiatives. In this continuous struggle to satisfy shareholder …
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Poston
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Harry McCracken, Karin Klein, Kay Koplovitz, Ralph Simon
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Laurie Segall, Lisa Suennen, Nina Kjellson, Stacy Feld
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Singerman, Renata Akhunova, Tim Rowe
Austin Technology Incubator, Silicon Hills News and the Central Texas Angel Network are teaming up for a pitch competition among Austin startups, looking for companies that not only know how to woo investors but also int…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gary Forni, Laurence Patrick Noonan, Monique Maley, Susan Lahey
Oh, the irony - a stagnant and decades-old financing model has long controlled the cutting edge of innovation and tech. Welcome to venture capital, an industry where the median venture investment loses money on funded st…
Beginner
Presenters
Alex Mittal
Steady growth, political and economical stability; along with social inclusion and development have helped Brazil achieve new world status beyond its long-standing fame as a vast and bountiful land. The country is workin…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bernardo Portugal, Gustavo Caetano, Pedro Waengertner, Rafael Moreira
We’ve all heard the stats - Advocacy & Word of Mouth are more authentic and effective than traditional paid media. The challenge is scaling Advocacy so that you can reach as many people as mass media marketing does. In …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jim Larrison
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, David S Rose, Eric Hellweg, Scott Weiss
This is the final round of a pitch competition hosted by Austin Technology Incubator, Silicon Hills News and the Central Texas Angel Network for Austin startups. We’re looking for the top five companies that not only kn…
Advanced
Presenters
John Stockton, Kyle Cox, Tom Chederar, Venu Shamapant
Meet 11 hand-picked startups from across Brazil in a speed-dating round designed primarily for members of the VC/entrepreneur/finance/business communities interested in Brazilian entrepreneurship and innovation opportuni…
Intermediate
To bolster our startup communities, strong collaboration is required for success. Policymakers at the local, state, and federal level can be a powerful partner for advancing startup ecosystems. One of the major problems …
Intermediate
Presenters
Brandon Pollak, Darrell Issa, Gregory Ferenstein, Suzan Delbene
As the average student loan debt rises over $30,000 and options such as starting a company become more feasible for college-aged entrepreneurs, more young people will consider dropping out of college altogether. This pan…
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew O'Hara, Cam Houser, Connie Bourassa-Shaw, Michael Gibson
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, Cynthia Ringo, Ross Fubini, Shirley Bergin
All you can drink mimosa's and bloody mary's! Presenters include: - Michael Chasen (Founded Blackboard and sold for ~$2 billion) - Bennett Richardson (Director of Biz Dev at POLITICO & former CMO at mobile dating app …
Beginner
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Danny Boice, Michael Chasen
Journey entrepreneurship is a unique path which results from the "journey capital" of the founder. Your journey capital is the sum of experiences, relationships, knowledge, passions, skills and capabilities accumulated t…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bijoy Goswami
Meet 10 hand-picked startups from across Brazil in a speed-dating round designed primarily for members of the VC/entrepreneur/finance/business communities interested in Brazilian entrepreneurship and innovation opportuni…
Intermediate
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
Presenters
Amado Guloy
Owen Thomas is the editor-in-chief of ReadWrite, one of the most widely respected and read technology sites on the Web. But before he got there, he spent 17 years working in the trenches of technology journalism, from th…
Beginner
Presenters
Owen Thomas
Today’s disruptive consumer isn’t a tech-savvy millennial or a millionaire taking the first space tour. It’s a farmer in rural India, gaining access to consumer products for the first time. A woman in Africa whose repack…
Intermediate
Presenters
Mitchell Habib
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, Joan Gillman, Pike Powers, Theresia Gouw
Technology has bridged us globally, and with this infrastructure in place we are seeing movements and innovations take place before our eyes. With the rise of Big Data and mobile access to the developing world we now hav…
Beginner
Presenters
Asha Curran, Larry Irving, Luke Kyohere, Parker Harris
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, Erick Schonfeld, Ethan Kurzweil, James Park
Austin has created a reputation as a national hotbed for start-ups, entrepreneurs and innovation. This session will explore the elements that contribute to the creation of a community like Austin and how can entrepreneur…
Beginner
Presenters
Chelsea McCullough, Whurley
The Lean Startup method is now being used by entrepreneurs and social enterprises of all levels to create scalable, sustainable models for social impact. According to Eric Ries, Author of the Lean Startup and Founder …
Beginner
Presenters
Brant Cooper, Jeremiah Gardner, Jon Kolko, Leanne Pittsford
In this panel the #xNordics crew opens it all up about the success of startups coming from the Nordics, Finland, Sweden and Norway. This is yet another SXSW channel for the Nordic startups to pitch, not only to investors…
Advanced
Presenters
Jostein Svendsen, Maria Rankka, Peter Green, Peter Vesterbacka
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, David Tisch, Evan Lowenstein
Presented by Austin Energy and Austin Technology Clean Energy Incubator Get a rapid-fire introduction to investment opportunities in cleanweb, greentech and social impact at this fast paced pitch event featuring three-m…
Intermediate
Presenters
Mitch Jacobson
Smartphones have quickly become our most intimate devices. They help connect us, inform us, and guide us. Yet our phones only give us what we want when we dig into our pockets and ask them -- disrupting our real-life exp…
Advanced
Presenters
Chris Fagan, John Boyd, Laura Kelso, Todd Dipaola
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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Trey Shelton
Money Talks features a panel discussion of active investors discussing the different types of capital funding for entrepreneurial businesses, including Angel, VC, and institutional funding. Panel participants are seasone…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bryan Allinson, Krishna Srinivasan, Laura Kilcrease, Rosa L McCormick
This presentation puts a new spin on an old idea. In a world of seed rounds, exit strategies, and failing fast, entrepreneurs today are forgetting what it's like to run a business and your life in a way that a both are r…
Beginner
Presenters
Mario Lurig
The courage to step out and do something different is tough enough, but when there is no other option and lives are on the line its interesting how we all know the right thing to do. These entrepreneurs have committed th…
Beginner
Presenters
Carl Dorvil, Erine Gray, Jose Alejandro Flores, Sean Carasso
SXSW Accelerator pitch event presented by Oracle is a platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Benjamin Ling, Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, Christine Herron
Animation legend Fred Seibert (Frederator Studios, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Hanna-Barbera) and producer Dana Brunetti (“House of Cards,” “Captain Phillips,” “Fifty Shades of Gray”) join Fast Company senior writer Ch…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chuck Salter, Dana Brunetti, Fred Seibert
Just like your mother told you, venture capital doesn’t grow on trees. But, at the same time, it’s not impossible to find either. You just have to look for it in the right places and with the right tools and goals. Look…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Golec, Stacey Bishop
Bring your tablets and your ideas to an interactive discussion with leading experts as we debate how to make your start up social from the ground up. Learn how to use crowdsourced employee input to outsmart your bigger, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Bryan Kramer, Kodi Foster, Maria Winans, Susan Emerick
There is a reason that office Culture is a buzzword today: Little has more power to influence you and your team than the environment in which you work. In fact, research has shown that positive Culture yields positive …
Intermediate
Presenters
Eric Falcao, Jeffrey Schutte, Liz Elam, Matt Chasen
In a traditionally male-dominated industry, women entrepreneurs are making waves in the startup scene. They are starting companies based around the desires and needs of women and couples; they are uncovering new investme…
Intermediate
Presenters
Danielle Weinblatt, Jennifer Fleiss, Karen Griffith Gryga, Terry Chase Hazell
HATCH pitch is the revolutionary competition for tech startups making life better. Join our well-connected audience as the first group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepre…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam DAugelli, John Frankel, Missy Krasner, Rami Essaid
Have you ever created an AMA for your CEO to answer softball questions? Have you ever followed some idiot’s advice and turned your brand into a meme for Reddit? Has your brand ever made it to the r/hailcorporate subreddi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Garrett Tillman, Rohit Thawani
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
Intermediate
With millions of sellers online and huge marketplaces like Amazon, can small merchants still compete? eCommerce sales in North America saw double digit growth and hit $364 billion in 2012. This number is expected to grow…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Youderian, Billy Murphy, Naruby Schlenker, Sean Work
Startups need the support of experienced entrepreneurs and professionals who have "been-there, done-that"; also known as mentors. Mentors help guide burgeoning entrepreneurs through the in's and out's and growing pains o…
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Ford Keohane, Andrew Ackerman, Keya Dannenbaum, Rob Arbittier
HATCH pitch is the revolutionary competition for tech startups making life better. Join our well-connected audience as the second group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepr…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alan Ying, Kerry Rupp, Neal Murthy, Unity Stoakes
For the first time, IBM has made its IBM Watson technology available as a development platform in the cloud, to enable a worldwide community of software application providers to build a new generation of apps infused wit…
Intermediate
Presenters
Stephen Gold
Seed accelerators (such as YCombinator, Techstars) have recently received much attention both in the US and across the globe. While accelerators appear to be proliferating quickly, little is known regarding the value of …
Intermediate
Presenters
Yael Hochberg
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
Intermediate
Game changing innovation begins with a grand challenge, which must be championed by leaders looking to build product teams to change the world. In order to empower teams to achieve awesome, companies must change how deci…
Intermediate
Presenters
Scott Cook
HATCH pitch is the revolutionary competition for tech startups making life better. Join our well-connected audience as the last group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepren…
Intermediate
Presenters
Aya Zook, Balaji Gopinath, Nicole Glaros, Rick Pleczko
Meet Catalyst, the SoftLayer startup incubator. Catalyst is core to our mission to enable next generation technologies and empower the entrepreneurs that will bring them to market. As a former startup ourselves, we know …
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Rigby, Josh Krammes, Justin Johnson, Samar Birwadker
Public health officials are challenged with managing, and reversing, the continued growth of America's waistline. Since the current rate is not sustainable, how can entrepreneurs, public entities, and academia work toge…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Donahue, Manuel Rosso, Robyn Metcalfe, Ryan Shadrick Wilson
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
Intermediate
Calling all the ladies! Attend this mentoring and networking session – hosted by DreamIt Ventures – and take advantage of seven minutes of direct, one-on-one, career related council from more established and experienced …
Intermediate
Presenters
Erica Duignan Minnihan, Jacqui Boland, Kathleen Utecht, Tania Yuki
Are you a fly on the wall, a snoop, or a nosey interloper? When it comes to social media, you need to do more than look and listen. And you can by using big data analytics to power predictions on buying behaviors. Ther…
Intermediate
Presenters
Burke Powers, Karen Galiger, Mark Heid, Robert Johnson
Science fiction explores our wildest dreams and biggest fears about the future of technology, spurring us on to greater ideas and grander possibilities. But sci-fi is equally concerned with the challenges of the present.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Daniel Suarez, Warren Ellis
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
Presenters
Megan Adams
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
Presenters
Ryan McCarthy
What happens when you have too much of a good thing, too quickly? While it is natural for a well-planned business to want to succeed and grow, careful attention must be paid to how the business plans to grow and at what …
Intermediate
Presenters
Donna Boyer, Ingrid Vanderveldt
To build the Obama campaign (and other campaigns up and down the ballot), a corporation's worth of technical infrastructure had to be built in a fraction of the time. From deep targeting across channels to community orga…
Intermediate
Presenters
Amy Gershkoff, Andrew Bleeker, John Lee, Rayid Ghani
Student Startup Madness (SSM) is the only nationwide tournament for college student digital media startups, culminating with the “Entrepreneurial Eight” national finals at SXSW. This year’s tournament was open to student…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Cohen, Melinda Emerson, Patrick Ambron, Sandy Khaund
Common mistakes most entrepreneurs make along the way and how you can avoid them. The team at Napkin Venture will share with you the pitfalls and obstacles you can avoid in your own startup or business, saving you time a…
Beginner
Presenters
Raul Calvoz, Tina Cannon
In 2012, two small teams set out to deliver on massive expectations for "failure-is-not-an-option" projects with extraordinarily limited time and resources. Both teams nailed it: every space geek in the world saw the Mar…
Intermediate
Presenters
Miles Ward
We read stories of business failures every day—foolhardy CEOs driving a company into the ground, or startups never finding their footing. As an entrepreneur, failure will inevitably make an appearance in your story, too.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Evan Baehr, Lawson Boothe, Nate Little, Robin Bruce
Science fiction explores our wildest dreams and biggest fears about the future of technology, spurring us on to greater ideas and grander possibilities. But sci-fi is equally concerned with the challenges of the present.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Daniel Suarez
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
Presenters
James Sinclair
Student Startup Madness (SSM) is the only nationwide tournament for college student digital media startups, culminating with the “Entrepreneurial Eight” national finals at SXSW. This year’s tournament was open to student…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Cohen, Melinda Emerson, Patrick Ambron, Sandy Khaund
Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as a meritocracy, where anyone can show up with a suitcase and a great idea and get funded. But that's not really how it works. Most venture cash flows to entrepreneurs with a prov…
Intermediate
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Sarah McBride
Interested in mobile but not sure where to start? Do you have a mobile strategy but not sure you're getting the most bang for your buck? Realizing the full potential of mobile requires creating a successful mobile strate…
Intermediate
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Antonio Arocha, Jeremy Siewert, Jordache Johnson, Mickey Ristroph
Have you got the cojones to be a change agent and lead your company in the age of the digitally enabled, socially connected customer? Do you have what it takes to become the 21st century CMO? It’s not easy being a market…
Intermediate
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John Ellett
In recent years, a huge amount of money has flowed into projects focused on digital health, fueled by the knowledge that the needs of patients and physicians have historically been poorly served by online tools and syste…
Intermediate
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Jane Sarasohn-Kahn , Marc Monseau, Marco Smit , Robert Stern
Startups are great, right? Passionate people, working around the clock to launch ideas they know can change the world. Some get lucky and take off, going from tiny startup to mid-sized company in the blink of an eye. But…
Intermediate
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Gregory Gunn
In a rapid-fire repartee, million-dollar crowdfunding comedian Adam Carolla and FundAnything founder, Bill Zanker, will detail how crowdfunding is disrupting the way movies are financed and produced. Adam will explain ho…
Intermediate
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Adam Carolla, Bill Zanker
Research has shown that increased gender diversity on boards leads to better boards and more productive companies with higher earnings. Only 11 women serve on the boards of Fortune 500 companies, even though in many cate…
Intermediate
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Fran Maier, Jody Greene, Rachel Pike, Theresia Gouw
In today’s highly competitive landscape, success often depends on the vitality of the creative process. From music to entertainment to technology, creativity is essential to producing and maintaining a competitive edge. …
Beginner
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John Maeda, Robert Safian
For perspective on the future of online behavior, marketers look to the 18- to 24-year-old Millennial group - the “digital native generation” born around the same time as Google. However, Millennials do not wholly repres…
Intermediate
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Roe McFarlane
How do you 'stand out' in a sea of startups, especially when over 40 million people in the US are involved in an entrepreneurial activity? Join Lyn Graft, producer and entrepreneurial storyteller, who has filmed over 400…
Beginner
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Lyn Graft
Every leading brand recognizes the necessity of social marketing to reach and engage customers, but so far this activity has mostly focused on listening and response. It’s reactive rather than proactive. But new real-tim…
Intermediate
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Adam Blumenfeld, Bill Ingram, Nihal Mehta, Selcuk Atli
This panel will present an engaging and balanced discussion about the impact of open data on the real world of information usage and consumption. The panelists each have years of experience in harnessing open data for th…
Intermediate
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Aman Bhandari, Ashish Patel, Michael Atkin, Susan Strausberg
Get together with other bootstrap experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if y…
Beginner
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Bijoy Goswami
Funded in Austin features Founder/CEO’s of three technology startups who have pursued and secured investment in their entrepreneurial ventures – one from crowdfunding, one from angel funding, and one from venture capital…
Intermediate
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Cotter Cunningham, Josh Kerr, Shari Wynne Ressler, Utz Baldwin
Are you a mobile company, or a software company? An advertising company, or an analytics company? In today’s world, it just doesn’t matter. We don’t ask great brands what they are because we already believe in why they a…
Beginner
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Kathy Savitt
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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Lane Becker
Whether you painstakingly work to keep your personal information offline, “lay it all out there” on the digital plain, or hold concerns for your children online, there are an array of options that can help you protect yo…
Intermediate
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Eve Maler, Joni Brennan, Karen Reilly, Robin Wilton
A panel of business reporters and editors from a variety of media outlets, including Inc.com and MSNBC, will talk candidly about how and why they write about startups and other companies. Attendees will learn how to pitc…
Beginner
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JJ Ramberg, Laura Lorber, Rieva Lesonsky
Looking for ways to develop or expand your corporate philanthropy? Want to give back more often in ways nobody else does? This presentation will share how your business -- no matter how big or small -- can create a corpo…
Intermediate
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Dan Graham
Cities “come of age”, just like people do and Austin is a city of the 21st century. Austin is regularly ranked as one of the top cities in the US in terms of growth, job creation, cost of living, and quality of life. In …
Beginner
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Carol Thompson, Jeff Genung, John Arrow, Kim Overton
In any music recording scenario many choices are made that affect the outcome. Given the myriad ways in which one can approach an album project these days, consider the benefits of hiring professionals and studios and/or…
Presenters
Kevin Augunas, Patrick Sansone, Vance Powell
Thanks to the drop in both pricing and complexity of the traditional methods for making music, more and more individuals now have a chance to project their artistic voices. Creating music instills an appreciation and res…
Presenters
Ean Golden, Mate Galic, Matthew Adell, Mike King, Tommie Sunshine, Tristan Jehan
Strong communities are currently built URL vs IRL (Online vs In Real Life). The process of creating and perfecting one record can involve anywhere from five to fifty individuals. Today, it is the norm for these coworkers…
Presenters
Ariel Borujow, Bryan Fryzel, Just Blaze, Ricardo Gutierrez, Juliet Lerman
Despite the industrial infiltration of low-grade listening, the mastering field has maintained its relevance and progress of precision. Without this finalizing step from birth of an idea to its sonic realization, the ene…
Presenters
Andrew Mendelson, Chris Athens, Joe Palmaccio, Michael Romanowski, Gavin Lurssen
Since the advent of broadcast commercials, artists and labels have made money by licensing music. With the widespread use of smart devices, there are more opportunities for licensing and a faster time frame. Examine how …
Presenters
Christopher Mollere, Lori Feldman, Thomas Benski, Will Mills
With licensing fees for television and film in continued decline, trailer placements are more desirable than ever for recording artists, composers, music publishers, and record labels. Top music supervisors who live in t…
Presenters
Angel Mendoza, Natalie Baartz, Sanaz Lavaedian, Toddrick Spalding, Steven Scharf
The new Music Licensing Pitch Sessions offer all registrants and artists direct feedback from licensing, sync, and music supervision experts. They will offer you a glimpse at the viability of licensing your music for dif…
Presenters
Jonathan Palmer, Julia Henry, Manoj Gopinath
Are you interested in composing music for commercials? Music for spots is not about the music itself, its about music supporting a branded message. It’s about telling a story and making an idea better. Here is an opportu…
Presenters
Daniel Kuypers, Eric Hillebrecht, Fritz Doddy, Mike Boris
The new Music Licensing Pitch Sessions offer all registrants and artists direct feedback from licensing, sync, and music supervision experts. They will offer you a glimpse at the viability of licensing your music for dif…
Presenters
Danny Zook, Jackie Shuman, Laura Katz
Composing original music for a film, TV show or ad involves a revolving door of professionals beyond just the music creator. Directors, music supervisors, producers & company execs often play a role in crafting the creat…
Presenters
Alan Wilkis, Colton "DJ Cheapshot" Fisher, Ian Moore, Lysandra Woods, Rebecca Rienks
In the fast-paced world of television production, many key creative decision makers are involved in crafting the score for the show. Many different deal structures come into play. This collaborative effort includes produ…
Presenters
Darren Drew, David Ries, David Vanacore, Pat Weaver
Some musicians aspire to fame and glory, and some aspire to being known and respected within the industry, but most of us just want to pay our bills without having to get a day job. Teaching music lessons and playing gig…
Presenters
Amanda Krieg Thomas, Jerry Pilato, Josef Peters, Ron Mendelsohn
The new Music Licensing Pitch Sessions offer all registrants and artists direct feedback from licensing, sync, and music supervision experts. They will offer you a glimpse at the viability of licensing your music for dif…
Presenters
Joel C High, Jordan Passman, Nikki Lynette
The UK has over 400 television channels which, in total, broadcast in excess of one million items of music per week. UK television placement can significantly raise the profile of artists, generate revenue and create hit…
Presenters
Adrian Cooke, Julian Deane, Peter Bradbury, Mark Gordon
After years of speculation the next generation of gaming consoles have arrived, but does gaming's future belong to traditional publishers producing AAA games or have indie and mobile game creators and the advent of new b…
Intermediate
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Ben Howard, Casey Lynch, John Davison
Video game development is a fast-paced and competitive industry. Having real-time access to the right data lets you turn on a dime and capture market trends you might otherwise miss. This session discusses how PlayStatio…
Intermediate
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Tyler Gaede, Zane Mumford
Ernie Cline, author of the New York Times and internationally bestselling novel Ready Player One, discusses his eagerly anticipated new novel Armada, including the surprising inspirations for the novel and how deeply it …
Beginner
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Ernie Cline
Some of the most creative and successful video game marketing campaigns have tapped into the power of original music production to raise awareness of the game, to expand its creative universe, and to feed fans' insatiabl…
Beginner
Presenters
Jason Menkes, Ravi Krishnaswami, Steve Perkins
'Press start to begin' is the message gamers have been greeted with since the early days of interactive entertainment. Hitting that start button is typically the player’s first interaction with a game after putting in th…
Intermediate
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David Sinclair, Michael Dunn, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Ron Burke
In this presentation, we will show some beginning basics to get you started, give student examples, and show how Scratch can be applied across the curriculum. You will discover how to get students interested in basic gam…
Beginner
Presenters
Carl Hooker, Juan Orozco, Todd Gratehouse
Do you have to be a programmer to have a career in the gaming industry? Join James Lopez as he discusses alternative careers in the gaming industry with gamers who have taken their gaming passion and have created busines…
Beginner
Presenters
Anthony Frasier, Cj Peters, James Lopez, Jarvis Brown
In May 2013, creative studio and game developer Fuel Entertainment was officially granted permission to excavate within a 100-acre landfill in the Alamogordo, New Mexico desert. The goal? Search for the fabled Atari E.T…
Advanced
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Jonathan Chinn, Mike Burns
It takes more than a few good uppercuts to fight your way to the top of the entertainment industry. From a #1 selling video game franchise, to an animated and live action feature film success, to an Internet meme generat…
Beginner
Presenters
Craig Skistimas, Josh Kocurek
Sesame Workshop, Qualcomm and Two Bulls recently partnered to develop a new type of gaming experience for preschoolers. Using Qualcomm’s AllJoyn technology combined with the Unity SDK, this multi-screen game prototype s…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Vogelsang, Jessie Hopkins, John Cameron, Noah Harlan
Gaming is an advertising medium which is driven by engaging content and cross-platform solutions and, increasingly, brands are taking notice with higher advertising spending across console, social and mobile. During thi…
Intermediate
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David Berkowitz, Jack Koch, Michael Flamberg, Susan Borst
Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA, will sit down in a fireside chat to talk about his background in game development, what he's learned about developing immersive game experiences and how he will use that to inform his vision for…
Intermediate
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Andrew Wilson, Noah Robischon
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…
Advanced
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Eugene Hsu
Mobile and tablet devices are critical platforms for communicating social good messages with young children and their parents. But in this decidedly new frontier, what are the rules? The youngest generation is a captive…
Intermediate
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Alison Bryant, Anastasia Goodstein, Judith Beauregard, Scott Traylor
Poster Designer meet up will consist of local and international artists and designers getting together to hang out and network. Designers of all mediums and skill level are encouraged to attend. Free screen printed poste…
Beginner
Presenters
Bobby Dixon
Mobile Game User Acquisition is becoming a virtual war zone with the App Store, Google Play and other marketplaces proving to be a vicious battle ground where the strongest survive and reap billions of dollars in revenue…
Intermediate
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Jo Wightman
Fruit Ninja is the number 2 most downloaded app of all time. Since its launch in 2010, it has racked up 500 million downloads and is played by 70 million monthly active users. Australian developers Halfbrick and their en…
Intermediate
Presenters
Hugh Walters, Phil Larsen, Sam White, Susan Swinburne
MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe sits with Mashable's Chief Strategy Officer Adam Ostrow to publicly discuss for the first time his challenging transition from leading the web's former social media giant into disrupting …
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Ostrow, Chris DeWolfe
From G.I. JOE to The Walking Dead and The Simpsons, many of our favorite franchises in comics, books, film, music, and television are finding new homes and rejuvenated lives on mobile devices. Game developers and publish…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Phan, Margaret Wallace, Terry Redfield
As the mobile audience continues to grow at an exponential rate and App Stores become increasingly cluttered, game companies are challenged to develop games that will stand out against the competition in a crowded market…
Intermediate
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Aaron Loeb, Callum Rowley, Ethan Einhorn, Tim Fields
There are many trends in videogames and technology today that will influence and even dominate the next ten years. What happens when multiple trends collide to create heretofore-unknown results? For example imagine takin…
Advanced
Presenters
Starr Long
What’s it like to develop both digital and paper-based games and what does each have to teach you about the other? Designing interactions and creating rich game spaces is a complicated affair. This panel of indie game de…
Intermediate
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Adam Saltsman, George Royer
The Indie development movement has leveled the playing field for getting a good idea to market. This also means there are more titles fighting for a finite number of "gaming hours". With 20% of the US population having a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Mark Barlet
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…
Intermediate
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Eric Seufert
Join Telltale Games President and Co-Founder, Kevin Bruner, along with his team of designers and storytellers as they discuss their vision of the future of entertainment from both inside and outside of the studio walls. …
Beginner
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Brian Walton, Kevin Bruner
Today's gamers generate enormous amounts of information every time they launch a game. That time you blew yourself up accidentally? Publishers and developers saw it. Those 20 minutes you wandered around lost with no idea…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Morris , Jeremy Ballenger, Lenin Gali, Tom Hess
Video games are a major cultural force worldwide, but reflect only a tiny fraction of our culture. They can be fun, exciting and immersive, but why are so few heartbreaking, inspirational, personal, or subversive? Zoe …
Beginner
Presenters
Alexander Sheive, Zoe Quinn
We will entertainingly chronicle the development of The Banner Saga from conception, through preproduction, Kickstarter campaign, production, and finally launch of the game. We will show plenty of behind the scenes mult…
Beginner
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Arnie Jorgensen, John Watson
Digital literacy is the future of communication and commerce and creates learning experiences that develop students' capacities for critical thinking, creativity, imagination and innovation. Digital communication require…
Intermediate
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Bruce Pennycook, Doug Dempster, Jennifer Ransom Rice, Warren Spector
Gamers grow up and become parents. But societal values make gamers feel bad about time spent gaming, prompting players to retire controllers once babies are born. But gamers do not have to choose between parent and gamer…
Intermediate
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Carla Fisher
"Remedy Entertainment on how game development is like Breaking Bad: Cook, Deal, become the Kingpin." Remedy Entertainment, developers of Max Payne, Death Rally, Alan Wake and their upcoming Xbox One title Quantum Break h…
Intermediate
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Matias Myllyrinne
Is your dream job to work in the video game industry? There are job opportunities not just in design, programming, and art – but for testers, marketing and PR, office culture, trade show coordinators, social media, custo…
Beginner
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Andy Swanson, Felicia Williams, Julian Gerighty, Sarah Fuchs
A group of pros show off the first games they ever developed, so you can learn from their successes, failures, and hilarious life advice. These brave souls will drop their trousers (not really) and give live demos of the…
Beginner
Presenters
David Bisceglia, Ichiro Lambe, Noah Heller, Seth Sivak
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
Presenters
Nathan Hanners
Get together with fellow mobile app developers for an hour of brainstorming, tip-sharing, networking and friend-making. Already making cloud-powered mobile apps? Curious about using cloud services to speed up development…
Intermediate
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Patrick Curry
Can we game our way to better health? In 2013 HopeLab released Re-Mission 2, the follow-up to its groundbreaking video game for young people fighting cancer. Learn how brain science, an unconventional development model, …
Intermediate
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Fred Dillon, Richard Tate
As we work to support women in technology, it’s essential that we provide inspiration and role models for the youngest generations to aspire to the sciences. There's much celebration that girls make up 47% of gamers, but…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jennifer Oxley, Lindsey Shepard, Ryan Kelley, Sara DeWitt
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
Presenters
Mike Phillips
Video games have come a long way since the early days of Pac-Man. The graphics are crisper, the scores more powerful and the consoles more inter-connected with other household devices. Yet for all these advances, the bas…
Intermediate
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Mark Palatucci, Sean Levatino
It has been more than 42 years since the general public first got their hands on video games. Today there are more people gaming than ever before, via traditional platforms from Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and PC to dev…
Intermediate
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Chris Wiseman, Patrick Scott Patterson, Rachel Lara
No longer a rainy-day pastime, board games are enjoying a huge resurgence of interest lately, a golden age of rich and engaging face-to-face entertainments driven by unique characteristics of design and publishing. As ga…
Intermediate
Presenters
Cory Jones, Kristin Looney, Mark Wallace, Mark Kaufmann
This informal conversational session features Jade Raymond, managing director of Ubisoft Toronto and co-creator of the award-winning Assassin's Creed franchise. The Assassin’s Creed Franchise is adored by fans all over t…
Beginner
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Geoff Keighley, Jade Raymond
Phil Spencer leads Microsoft Studios and oversees creative teams around the world developing games, entertainment and premium content experiences for Microsoft’s family of devices including Xbox One, Xbox 360, Kinect, Su…
Intermediate
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Geoff Keighley, Phil Spencer
The debate surrounding narratives in games generally centers around player agency and interactivity. Some believe narratives enrich games, while others wish for purely system-based experiences. What is the future of narr…
Intermediate
Presenters
Davey Wreden, John Warren, Jordan Mallory, Shay Pierce
Mr. Layton’s presentation, titled “Racing in Reverse: The Quantitative Relationship Between Overtime, Defects and Project Slippage,” discusses the downsides of overtime as it relates to productivity, ways to accelerate p…
Intermediate
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Mark Layton
This panel will provide a high level overview of what the Indie MEGABOOTH is, how it got started and what types of challenges we faced. This includes anecdotes about changing career paths, grassroots community building,…
Intermediate
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Christopher Floyd, Kelly Wallick
Video games are a unique medium. Players assume roles, interact with worlds, and experience situations in ways that simply aren't possible in any other entertainment format. When it comes to character and situation desi…
Beginner
Presenters
Beth Elderkin, Develon Douglas, Samantha Lopez
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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Jim Galis
There are Rumors of Apple TV’s integration of gaming, an Amazon’s set top console, and multiple other Big Players entering the market. Let’s talk about what this means for gamers and game developers. Is gaming just a ca…
Intermediate
Presenters
Clay Hillhouse, Mark Gerberman
Stand up and present an up to 1-minute pitch about a music/technology related company or idea, to connect with others who might be interested in collaboration. Preparation is not necessary - but is definitely encouraged.…
Presenters
Brian Zisk
Music tech companies continue to pop up and provide musicians new ways to connect with fans. These same companies continue to offer ways to discover new music. Business as usual. But the reactions of musicians and labels…
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Chris Wiltsee, Ethan Kaplan, Paul Resnikoff, Todd Tate
Live music field recordings can be stunning, vital, unique - and messy. It’s hard to figure out what the songs are, who’s performing, and how to sort out the rights of performers and songwriters, particularly when the r…
Presenters
Paul Conway
On a DJ mixer, the crossfader allows for seamless transition between two separate pieces of music. Explore this master control for merging sound: its technical history, its role in shaping hip-hop, and its potential as a…
Presenters
J Period, Josh Kun
Screens are everywhere, but the music listening experience has not significantly evolved beyond the simple play button and static image of an album cover. Artist related images and contextual information about the artist…
Presenters
Bill Wilson, Chris Frankenberg, Maureen Droney, Vince Bannon
The social aspect of music has been digitalized, and people can easily share songs with their friends via social media or create group playlists with apps. Explore the changes in how people share, discover and consume mu…
Presenters
Casey Newton, Erik Hartwig, Ime Archibong
Live performance has emerged as the main way for artists to make money. As such, converting one-time concertgoers into loyal fans that travel with the band and buy merchandise can be the key to earning a good living as a…
Presenters
Aaron Clark, Ben Bennett, Chris Williams, Matt Annerino
With just a couple of clicks, it's possible to hear almost anything that's ever been recorded. This is a boon to consumers, but it can be difficult for developing artists who have to compete not only with thousands of ne…
Presenters
Jack Isquith, Maria Sciarrino, Scott Plagenhoef, Tom Erlewine
Snoop Dogg, Public Enemy & Lil Wayne have all posted content on web platforms, and now we’re seeing up-and-coming rappers like Death Grips and Angel Haze use these mediums to engage with fans all over the world as well. …
Presenters
Eric Henry, Ted Suh, Nathan Olivarez-Giles
Rhythm is a dominant feature of the universe, originating with the Big Bang. It is everywhere, and is observable at every level; from the vibrations of atoms to the movement of the galaxies. Take a fascinating tour of rh…
Presenters
Adam Gazzaley, Mickey Hart
Ok so...you're in the music business, and the tech business, so all is great right? No, not really. Because music people don't now tech and tech people don't know music. But they're soooo related and intertwined. Just as…
Presenters
Julie Pilat, Kenna , Michael Cerda, Tom Conrad
What will future entertainment look like – and how will we consume it? How will the distribution, sharing and enjoyment of music be changed by driverless cars, wearable technology and computers, sensors, 3d printers, cu…
Presenters
Gary Shapiro, Kevin O'Malley, Robert Scoble
As the audio experience moves forward, how do we ensure that we don’t leave behind audio quality? What changes are coming in music creation and production, as well as audio technology to ensure that we still hear music t…
Presenters
Chris Ludwig, Henry Bzeih, Joe Hahn, Brian Hernandez
Here's your chance to see the finalists and their creations from the SXSW Music Hackathon Championship, held the previous day. Using their programming know-how and our collection of music-tech APIs, teams will have had …
Presenters
Alex Ebert, Ian Rogers, Jermaine "Mack Maine" Preyan, Stephen White
The live streaming sector is exploding with music events seeing massive audience reach & audience engagement times. Music festivals have audience engagement times of over 35 minutes for their digital broadcasts. As brand…
Presenters
Caroline Burruss, Hank Neuberger, Karl Rogers, John Petrocelli
Marketing and branding are central to the live music business today. Promoters look first to marketing strategies when trying to increase ticket sales. Booking agents and agencies are increasingly taking the lead role in…
Presenters
Ardie Farhadieh, Doug Croy, Matt Shay, Michael Bishop
Juxtapositions of contemporary art and contemporary music have resonated with audiences and critics alike. The exploding popularity of museum performances—as seen, for instance, in Kraftwerk's residency at MOMA, or in Ja…
Presenters
Steve Parker, Veronica Roberts, Adam Bennett
The Grateful Dead were pioneers in the touring world, and while many acts have followed in their footsteps, perhaps none have been able to take those lessons and expand upon them like today's biggest DJs. They interact …
Presenters
Don Strasburg, Lee Anderson, Rich Schaefer, Sam Hunt
Touring is a daunting task for most independent bands because the monetary loss can be substantial. It's a lose-lose scenario unless done correctly. Find out the common mistakes that bands make touring, and learn unconv…
Presenters
Randy Nichols, Tom Windish, Victoria Camera, Peter Sotos
Everybody wants a place they can call home—a place where they’re accepted, loved, and healed. But for musicians—often traveling, working nights and weekends, finding and keeping community can be a challenge. Discuss thes…
Presenters
Greg Garrett, Matisyahu , Patrice Pike, Merrill Wade
Touring is no longer simply a means to promote a record; it has now become the main source of income for most artists. Whether a band struggling to make ends meet on the road, or a career artist looking to maximize earni…
Presenters
Javier Reyes, Josh Mihlek, Laurel Stearns, Mike Mowery, Mark Scribner
Music festivals are hugely popular, but have immensely complicated challenges. Hear from a collection of specialists in different areas of festival management who will get into the nuts and bolts of running a festival wi…
Presenters
Brett Mosiman, Gary Richards, Kevin Lyman, Shawn Kent, Todd Sims
Colleges offer an important and big-ticket business within live music. Understand why artists play colleges and the process behind working with college students to ensure a successful show.……
Presenters
Kelly Benini, Meredith Jones, Zach Iser, Harry Roberts
Gain understanding of Performing Arts Centers (PACs) and how these venues fit within the touring industry, and the touring mix of an artist's career. Discuss the similarities and differences between PACs and commercial v…
Presenters
Bill Bragin, Michael Blachly, Patrick Brogan, Larry Kosson
Getting artists, their team and the venue staff to work together is the most effective way to have a great show. Talk to industry veterans, hear some horror stories and shine light on easy things any artist can do to mak…
Presenters
Damon Lange, Elle Mahoney, Josh Siebert, Mike Manewitz, Todd Hartman
Every minute, millions of new videos are uploaded and viewed. Music plays a crucial part for almost 75% of these videos. How is this music being used and paid for? What are the benefits and pitfalls to these emerging vi…
Presenters
Elliott Walker, Josh Builder, Rich Stumpf, Melissa Goodman
Multi-channel networks are hot news. Labels and artists sign to them to get the double-whammy of accessing channel management expertise plus higher ad revenue. Take a look at the pros and cons of collaborating with taste…
Presenters
Caroline Bottomley, Del Dias, Patrick Walker, Zac Vibert
We all know what creative sound design for film means--we've heard it in movies like GRAVITY and AVATAR and JURASSIC PARK. But what can sound design and mixing do for my web project? Join a discussion sponsored by the Do…
Advanced
Presenters
Glenn Kiser, James Shaughnessy, Steven Cahill
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/IAP22986 Mi…
Beginner
Presenters
Greg Stock, Lauren Titterud, Miles Parroco
It’s true – studies show people prefer working from an office, but the growing list of today’s unusual perks (onsite haircuts, slides and bowling alleys) do little to address the real plight of today’s office worker: an …
Intermediate
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Lisa Ross
We have become adept at applying design thinking and methodologies to the design of products and customer engagement experiences. Isn’t it about time we apply this same thinking to our own work environments? We all recog…
Advanced
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John Hagel
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/IAP25626 It…
Beginner
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Amadeus Stevenson, Barry Whyte, Elizabeth Lukas, John Ridpath
Professor Amy Cuddy’s fascinating experimental research reveals how your nonverbal behavior not only affects how others see you; it also affects how you see yourself, your testosterone and cortisol levels, risk tolerance…
Intermediate
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Amy Cuddy
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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Ben Thoma
The Millennial generation, born between 1980-2000, is moving into manager and leadership positions rapidly with a desire to excel. They have a workplace style that is vastly different than their predecessors. Raised in a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jennifer Selke
SXSW provides a fascinating opportunity for higher ed technologists to network and learn about an array of new interactive technology ideas and discoveries. At this meet-up, Penn State IT tech enthusiasts invite you to j…
Beginner
Presenters
Cynde Fleagle, Patti Fantaske
The last year has seen an explosion of examples of women helping women—in business. From women founding companies at 1.5 times the rate of men, to businesses specifically focused on helping women navigate their careers a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Diana Rothschild, Stacey Delo
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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Cesar Vazquez
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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Michael Robin Manning
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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Nazli Yuzak
If you walk into the office of a tech startup, from B2C to B2B businesses, chances are you'll see a room full of men and maybe one or two females. There is a lot of great work being done to promote women in tech, but oft…
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Adena DeMonte, Casey Taylor
Online learning has been around long enough that the effects on the workplace are starting to become clear. Anyone with patience and an internet connection can advance their career and skill set. For developers, web foru…
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Jeff Diana, Luca Bonmassar, Nikhil Abraham, Vivienne Ming
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
This week, if you find yourself saying, "That's great, but I don't work at a startup," then you'll want to join this unique meetup that brings together those of us who work at large enterprises, government organizations …
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Noah Kuttler
The last year has seen a flurry of conversation about women, work, and success. Missing from much of this? The other 50% of the population. Research shows that Millennial men feel more conflicted than women about work-fa…
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James Allworth, Joan Williams, Sarah Green, Stew Friedman
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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Adam McCrimmon
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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Rachel Wilkerson Miller
"MAXED OUT: American Moms on the Brink," (Seal Press, Sept. 2013) tells a deeply personal story about “having it all,” failing miserably, and what comes after. The author, a former user experience principal for an award-…
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Katrina Alcorn
In June 2013, a discussion was had between friends of who we admire in the tech/entrepreneur space. Included in those were the 'usual suspects'–Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss, etc. Before long, we were lamenting around it being…
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Chanelle Henry, Rashid Zakat
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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Charlie O'Donnell
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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Leah McDougald
Distracted at the office? You’re not alone. Studies show 3 of 4 employees feel they aren’t effective at work with distractions pulling their focus to anything but the task at hand. But in a modern world seemingly custom …
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Ben Waber, Gloria Mark, Janet Pogue, Rachel Silverman
Technology is everywhere. It makes things easier, we can’t live without it. But in the pursuit of faster, better and more, when does the involvement of smartphones, tablets, self-trackers, real-time messaging, etc. get t…
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Chade-Meng Tan
Part 2 - Join DELL, XO Group, IEEE and Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) as we celebrate the innovation and contribution of women in business and technology. We’re combining two individual women’s meetups into a single, integ…
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Kelly Hoey, Mary Ward-Callan
Over the course of their lifetime, the average American will spend 90,000 hours at work. Shouldn't we enjoy the place where we spend such a significant portion of our lives? That's the philosophy we live by at Mass Relev…
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Brian Dainton, Michael Pazienza
The greatest lesson I ever learned was this: I am a Problem Solver. Problem solvers look for (and often find) problems even when they don't exist. The real problem is that most "problems" are not, in fact, problems. With…
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Harry Max, Jim Meyer
As designers, we use UX and information architecture to take messy systems and turn them into organized, pleasant experiences. I don't know about you, but my house (and life in general) could certainly use a bit of that…
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Alexis Duffy, Aynne Valencia, Jenny Tsai, Sandra Lloyd
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/IAP19943 Fo…
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Craighton Berman, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Mike Rohde, Patrick Ashamalla
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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Alicia Dixon
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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Bobbie Carlton
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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Kristy Stromberg
We live in a world that interrupts us every five minutes. Those interruptions steal our focus and shift our mindset to accomplishing more rather than on what matters more. And that's a big problem. These interruptions a…
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Angel Chernoff, Craig Jarrow, Marc Chernoff, Mike Vardy
Don’t let SXSW be a blur. These six tips can help you take SXSW from being a blur of an event to a transformative experience. This is my fifth consecutive SXSW Interactive festival (the first three I attended and partic…
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Cathryn Posey, Sophia Wong
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
This is not a panel about “Aha! moments.” There will be no talk of lightning getting caught in a bottle or any other receptacle. We’re pretty sure that would kill you. This is a conversation about process. While plenty …
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Brian Janosch, Colin Raney, Erin Clift, Scott Aukerman
Twenty-something, suit-clad, and upwardly mobile, Joshua Fields Millburn thought he had everything anyone could ever want. Until he didn’t anymore. Blindsided by the loss of his mother and his marriage in the same month…
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Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus
When companies overemphasize business processes over people, they push speed or scale, and limit variations or changes. They become process factories, robotic and unimaginative. It creates wasteful meetings, rigid manage…
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Ayelet Baron, Rawn Shah
Clay Shirky has said that the only institutions that will thrive in the Internet age are those born of the Internet. We have built an ecosystem to advance digital startups: accelerators and incubators, mentors, curriculu…
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Brian Bannon, Harper Reed, John Bracken, Laura Ramos
Do you ever wish there was a support group for people like you who are solely in charge of an organization’s social media program? Whether you are a social media professional who has been hired by a company to start thei…
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Liz Gross
Join other solopreneurs and aspiring enterprenuers for casual conversations on starting and running your own business. Discuss the balancing act of everyday tasks along with the challenges and benefits of being your ow…
We are Washington-based speechwriters who helped to run the speechwriting boiler room at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. But politicians aren't the only folks who need to develop strong public speaking skills …
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Andy Barr, Sarada Peri
There's a misconception about distributed companies: that in order to work for one you have to work remotely, or alone. While there may be thousands of miles between you and your colleagues, it is our belief that these c…
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Danya Cheskis-Gold, Lori McLeese, Mischa Nachtigal, Patti Chan
Join us for this rare opportunity to meet SXSW Featured Speaker, world-renowned inventor and humanitarian, Dean Kamen, one of the most prolific inventors of our time, Founder of DEKA Research and FIRST® (For Inspiration …
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Dean Kamen
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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Alexia Tsotsis
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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Rob Gonda
Creative is a broad term that describes us. CEOs, HR staffers, and small business owners hire us for our specialized talents that bring ideas to life in a variety of formats. We navigate industries almost seamlessly, whe…
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Ian Joulain
For anyone who has ever felt overworked but underutilized or always busy but never productive, comes ESSENTIALISM, a system for achieving more by doing less; a strategic framework for discerning what is essential, elimin…
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Greg McKeown
Are you the kind of dad who only knows his kid through Facebook? Should your kid even be on Facebook? Men, especially in technology, are taught to work hard, define ourselves by our careers, and eagerly embrace new techn…
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Alexis Madrigal, Clara Jeffery, Mat Honan, Michael Sippey
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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Jesús Gorriti
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
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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Rod Paddock
For a book on success, "The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well," we found that the highly successful people we interviewed—in the arts, business, media and tech—failed and failed …
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Camille Sweeney, Josh Gosfield
Women in Digital: succeeding as a woman in digital agencies or in digital arms of agencies. Our Core Conversation will be a exploration of gender roles in digital agency leadership. We want to discuss if digital agencie…
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Liz Harper, Pam Scheideler
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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Cecy Correa
I've worked for a lot of idiot managers in my career. And then, one day, after I had become a manager, it dawned on me: Now I'm the idiot! Most of my career has been an exercise in “trial by fire” and this process worked…
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Russ Unger
I Met My Agency @ SXSW is a presentation and networking event that helps link recruiters, potential clients and agencies with the top-notch talent coming to SXSW. On Monday, March 10th hear from a variety of creative a…
I Met My Agency @ SXSW is a presentation and networking event that helps link recruiters, potential clients and agencies with the top-notch talent coming to SXSW! Following the Next Stage pitches on Monday, March 10th, …
Hang out with your people. Join public relations and communication pros here for SXSW Interactive, Film and Music. No agendas, just a friendly way to meet more of your kind.…
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Owen Sexton
It's easy to talk about being innovative, but producing industry-changing design requires abandoning the status quo and embracing uncomfortable new ways of working together. Though change can be scary, breaking the rules…
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Patricia Korth-McDonnell
Never has the spotlight shined so brightly on a single generation. But in today's transformational workplace, Generation Y not only gets the light, they have the might and through their social media expertise, they clai…
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Joanna Coles, Olivier Fleurot, Pete Cashmore
The globalization of human behavior & increasing the channels where people can voice opinions is forcing transparency & openness to its peak. In a world where there’s no place to hide, how do organizations transcend the …
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Burghardt Tenderich, Matthew Eby, Rowan Benecke, Steve DelBianco
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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Ashley Meyers
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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Jessica Tunon
Last year, Yahoo announced that they were banning working from home. The reasoning? According to the memo: "Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and imp…
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James Costa, Matt Herron
‘Notdesign – what you don’t know’ only concerns real life; not some perfect studio, no studio is perfect. Best never to trust a studio with a perfect paint job – it’s usually covering up rust. We all know there are no …
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Jonty Sharples
Your job will not exist in the coming years. Entire industries and careers will continue to be eliminated by technological innovation. The future of work will consist of highly optimized workforces comprised of internal,…
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Bryce Maddock, Chris Van Pelt, Frank Gruber, Richard Pearson
We spend a lot of time working: sitting for hours slumped over our keyboards, precariously squeezing the phone receiver between our shoulder and ear, squinting at our screens, drinking way too much caffeine. We work late…
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Chris Boyce
The best mashups are creative collages of seemingly disparate elements, that when combined, create an innovative and more powerful whole. In order to thrive in an increasingly cross-discipline, cross-platform, blurred wo…
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Felicia Pride
Mentorships provide an opportunity for individual growth, allowing mentors and mentees to not only be better at what they do, but to also be happy. And when individuals are happy, they have a greater sense of fulfillment…
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David Avalon
Being a creative and working day in, day out at an agency can be a lot like being on the run from hordes of ravenous flesh-eating zombies. Do you have what it takes to survive either? Drawing on the rich tapestry of sur…
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William Colgrove
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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Jan Triplett
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 …
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Scott Hanselman
As kids, we are taught to be normal. To just fit in. Pay attention in school and don't draw too much attention. Dress appropriately. Mind your manners. Attend a good school. Be a productive, normal citizen. Get married. …
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Michael Lazerow
Since 2011, over 5 million people around the world have signed up for Coursera.com - a leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider. One-third of the users are from the U.S., 30% are from Europe, and the rest are s…
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Michael Mayrath PhD
Start a design-thinking movement within your company - without anyone knowing about it! As a designer, innovator, or creative we often wonder how to push our teams and organizations to create better products and services…
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Bennett Blank
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/IAP25985 Th…
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Lauren Vargas, Vanessa Rhinesmith
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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Tom Hudson
We spend around a third of our lives at work – whether that’s in an office, in a coffee shop, or in your living room, the right work environment can dramatically impact productivity and happiness. Companies like Google, …
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Scott Chacon
It's no secret the economy sucks, caused in large part by a rapidly shrinking middle class combined with job cuts across industries. Join Technology Veteran, Ed Schipul, and UX Strategist, Sarah M. Worthy, as they sho…
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Sarah Worthy
When Eric Glatt sued Fox Searchlight Pictures and won, the media took notice. More than a dozen lawsuits quickly followed from disgruntled interns at other companies. Some employers have responded by cancelling their int…
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Eric Glatt, Heather Carmichael, Tiffany Grady
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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Steli Efti
The web industry needs to grow talent—not just consume it. For the would-be web developer, getting started in the trade can be an intimidating process. The traditional education system has been unable to keep pace with…
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Drew Clemens, Neil Renicker
The huge debate that took place in 2013 when Yahoo! ended its flexible work policy suggests that office workers have strong conceptions of how a workplace should be structured. My presentation, drawn from my book CUBED: …
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Nikil Saval
It doesn't take a creative to inspire creativity. So, what does it take? An all company Freaky Friday perhaps?! Swaps roles for the day and gain invaluable perspective. Turn your CEO into a developer, your Accountant i…
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Megan Coffey
People inside the bellies of corporate, government, healthcare, NGO and educational beasts are rising up and trying to save organizations from imploding from inertia and massive outside forces. Many of these individuals …
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Lois Kelly
More and more studies show how yoga and meditation can improve brain function, productivity and memory, not to mention help desk dwellers de-stress, focus and stretch their console-curved bodies. Essentially yoga and med…
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Jennilyn Carson, Karl Wente, Kelle Walsh, Poornima Vijayashanker
There are 3 simple rules for making an extraordinary presentation: 1) Tell the truth 2) Tell it with a story 3) Tell the story with pictures Dan Roam's new book illuminates these essential ideas through quick visual exam…
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Dan Roam
While women make up 46.7% of the U.S. workforce, they represent less than 25% of S.T.E.M. Workers. Want to get more women involved in technology careers and bridge the gender gap? Throw away the boring power point pr…
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Marlin Page, Marlo Rencher
Music delegates from around the globe will be on hand to meet and talk shop with bookers, promoters, digital buyers and label A&R staff interested in exploring international music opportunities.……
Musicians must keep track of and analyze an increasing amount of data. While countless online platforms exist to serve musicians, everything from remembering passwords to downloading sales information impacts how artists…
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Eleanor Whitney, Courtney Klossner
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…
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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…
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Denzil D'Sa, Jenviev Azzolin
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Ed Castillo
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…
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Yashoda Sampath
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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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Rose Eveleth
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.……
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Jon Lebkowsky, Patrick Lichty
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Andras Forgacs, Ethan Brown, Josh Tetrick, Robert Rhinehart
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, …
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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…
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Carl Hastrich, Heather Vescent Schlegel, Karen Oikonen, Zahra Ebrahim
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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Bruce Sterling
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