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Friday, March 7
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
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
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Jennifer Selke
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
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Diana Rothschild, Stacey Delo
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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Jeff Diana, Luca Bonmassar, Nikhil Abraham, Vivienne Ming
Saturday, March 8
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
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…
Beginner
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James Allworth, Joan Williams, Sarah Green, Stew Friedman
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…
Intermediate
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Chanelle Henry, Rashid Zakat
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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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Chade-Meng Tan
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Alexis Duffy, Aynne Valencia, Jenny Tsai, Sandra Lloyd
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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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Cathryn Posey, Sophia Wong
Sunday, March 9
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
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 …
Advanced
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Brian Janosch, Colin Raney, Erin Clift, Scott Aukerman
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Liz Gross
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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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Danya Cheskis-Gold, Lori McLeese, Mischa Nachtigal, Patti Chan
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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Alexis Madrigal, Clara Jeffery, Mat Honan, Michael Sippey
Monday, March 10
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
Presenters
Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
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 …
Beginner
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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…
Beginner
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Liz Harper, Pam Scheideler
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…
Beginner
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Russ Unger
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…
Intermediate
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Patricia Korth-McDonnell
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 …
Beginner
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Burghardt Tenderich, Matthew Eby, Rowan Benecke, Steve DelBianco
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…
Intermediate
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James Costa, Matt Herron
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,…
Intermediate
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Bryce Maddock, Chris Van Pelt, Frank Gruber, Richard Pearson
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…
Intermediate
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William Colgrove
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. …
Intermediate
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Michael Lazerow
Tuesday, March 11
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, …
Beginner
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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…
Advanced
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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…
Beginner
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Eric Glatt, Heather Carmichael, Tiffany Grady
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…
Intermediate
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Drew Clemens, Neil Renicker
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 …
Beginner
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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…
Beginner
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Jennilyn Carson, Karl Wente, Kelle Walsh, Poornima Vijayashanker
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…
Beginner
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Marlin Page, Marlo Rencher
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