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Hilton Austin Downtown
500 E 4th St
Friday, March 7
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
Join SXSW Startup Village for our third annual SXSW Ping Pong Tournament. Sign up at http://tinyurl.com/svpingpong. Participation is free if with an Interactive, Gold or Platinum badge. You need not be a professional, ju…
“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…
Intermediate
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Dave Asprey, Maneesh Sethi, Stephanie Burns, Veronica Belmont
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
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Jon Swartz, Kelly McGinnis, Neville Letzerich, Vinny Lingham
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
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
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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
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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
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Ryan Olohan, Shwen Gwee, Unity Stoakes
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
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
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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
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Andrei Zimiles, Sam Zebarjadi, Samer Hamadeh
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
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
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
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…
Advanced
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Jason Hochman
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
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…
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Andrew Busey, Gordon Daugherty, Kip Mcclanahan, Mike Maples Jr
A special reception that shines the spotlight on emerging startups. Enjoy complimentary beer and wine while checking out demos from startup participants, all within the heart of Startup Village on the 4th floor of the Hi…
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
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
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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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Andrew Farquharson, Breanna DiGiammarino, Halle Tecco, Sarah Kessler
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
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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
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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
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Dwayne Spradlin, Jody Holtzman, Katya Hancock, Thomas Tsang
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…
Intermediate
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Paul Smith, Tristan Watson
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
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Peter Burrows
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…
Beginner
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Austin Carr, Boris Sofman, Matt Rogers
Saturday, March 8
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
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Gabe Karp, Matt Wise
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…
Intermediate
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Leslie Saxon
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…
Intermediate
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Aimee Roundtree
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
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Kat Mandelstein
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
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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
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Ben Dyer, Ken Demarest, Nelson "Rudy" Garza, Rob Warren
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…
Intermediate
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Andrew Reid, Mark Gilbreath
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…
Intermediate
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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
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
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Don Christian, Donald Tracy, Nathan Green, Nick Parker
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
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…
Intermediate
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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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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Beverley Bryant, Gregory Downing
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Dave Knox
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
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…
Advanced
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Marty Weiner, Yash Nelapati
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…
Beginner
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Aileen Lee, David Tisch, Kevin Colleran, Matt Mazzeo
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Casper de Clercq, Laurie Segall, Sonny Vu, Thomas Ball
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
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
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Jae Lee, Jerry Tian, Kevin Koym, Ricardo Jimenez
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…
Beginner
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Sarah Best-Wilson
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
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Dana Oshiro, Diane Tate, Lane Becker, Nicole Sanchez
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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Jessica Richman
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
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Bob McCooey, Mike Butcher, Sean Devlin, Stephen O'Shea
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…
Intermediate
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Mark Hatch
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.…
Advanced
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Brian Solis, Zach Ware
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
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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
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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
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Brian Singerman, Renata Akhunova, Tim Rowe
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
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
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…
Beginner
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David Allen, David G Allan
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
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Rachael Chong, Seth Bannon, Tabreez Verjee
"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…
Intermediate
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Kristina Halvorson
Dan Harmon will be hosting a special SXSW-edition of his podcast from the Liberty Tavern Bar before the world premiere of his film,“Harmontown.” The live show, recorded & performed every Monday night at the Nerdmelt the…
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 …
Intermediate
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Aydin Acar, Elizabeth Scherle
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
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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
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Brian Singerman, Renata Akhunova, Tim Rowe
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…
Intermediate
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Daniel Hill
Sunday, March 9
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
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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
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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
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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
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Jim Larrison
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
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
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Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, David S Rose, Eric Hellweg, Scott Weiss
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
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
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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
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…
Intermediate
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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
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
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 …
Advanced
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Asif Khan, Damien Patton
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
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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
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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
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Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, Cynthia Ringo, Ross Fubini, Shirley Bergin
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, …
Intermediate
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Rod Roddenberry, Sam De Brouwer
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
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…
Beginner
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Laurel Braitman
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
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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
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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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…
Intermediate
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Ethan Song, Hicham Ratnani
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
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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
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Mitchell Habib
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…
Intermediate
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John Battelle, Sundar Pichai
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
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Bob Metcalfe, Brad King, Joan Gillman, Pike Powers, Theresia Gouw
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
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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
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Chelsea McCullough, Whurley
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…
Intermediate
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Dror Oren, Hanns Tappeiner, Liz Gannes, Tony Stentz
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…
Advanced
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Jim Olson
M2M is on your radar. It will change the world. But it will only be those who are able to solve real human and business problems that will come out on top. And the “M2M experience” is still undefined. It is still new, ha…
Intermediate
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Benjamin Glaser, Peter Blom
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeffrey Benabio, Madhu Nutakki
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
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Cedric Giorgi, Frederic Montagnon, Liam Boogar, Pierre-Simon Ntiruhungwa
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
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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
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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
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Chris Fagan, John Boyd, Laura Kelso, Todd Dipaola
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
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
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. …
Intermediate
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Abbe Don
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
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Bryan Allinson, Krishna Srinivasan, Laura Kilcrease, Rosa L McCormick
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, …
Intermediate
Presenters
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…
Intermediate
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Ilya Fushman , Nathan Olivarez-Giles
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
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
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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
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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
For 2014, SXSW Accelerator welcomes you to the inaugural awards ceremony to honor the hottest new startups that are judged the best of the best. In addition to meeting the winners and the finalists, the SXSW Accelerator …
The SXSW Accelerator Award Ceremony is a celebration to showcase the various winners at the SXSW Accelerator startup pitch event. The Emcee will be Francisco Dao who is the founder of 50Kings, a private community for tec…
Monday, March 10
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
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…
Intermediate
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Daphne Kis, Dr Timothy Bickmore PHD, Mitch Lawrence, Stacey Higginbotham
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…
Beginner
Presenters
Andrew Huff
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Daniel Schauenberg, Harrison Shoff
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
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 …
Intermediate
Presenters
Beth Trent, Colin Rule, Jin Ho Verdonschot, Joseph Markowitz
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
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…
Intermediate
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Walter De Brouwer
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
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
Presenters
Andrew Hyde
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
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Andrew Youderian, Billy Murphy, Naruby Schlenker, Sean Work
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…
Advanced
Presenters
Andrew Lo, Daniela Rus, Russ Tedrake, Tim Berners-Lee
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Nick Lockey
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
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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
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.” …
Intermediate
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Julie Hopkins, Lee Dunn, Reihan Salam, Russ Merbeth
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Douglas Ellenoff, Joy Schoffler, Judd Hollas, Judy Robinett
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
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Suen, Patrizio Spagnoletto
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
“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…
Advanced
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Donna Harris, Josh Baer, Maria Adamian, Steve Collens
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Kohlmann, Lindsay Rodman, Nate Fick, Victor Glover
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
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
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…
Intermediate
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Michael Olaya, Taylor Pechacek
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
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…
Beginner
Presenters
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Allison Okamura, Catherine Mohr, Katherine Kuchenbecker
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
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…
Intermediate
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Peter Bowes
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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alicia Staley, Deanna Attai, Jody Schoger, Xeni Jardin
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
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…
Advanced
Presenters
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Lang
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
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Daniel Suarez, Warren Ellis
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Dinsdale, Rebeca Harris, Richard Choi
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
A special reception that shines the spotlight on emerging startups. Enjoy complimentary beer and wine while checking out demos from startup participants, all within the heart of Startup Village on the 4th floor of the Hi…
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
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…
Intermediate
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Peter Kim
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
Presenters
Bob Mankoff
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…
Advanced
Presenters
Ayah Bdeir
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
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
James B Maas, John "Ivo" Stivoric, Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Sasha Digiulian
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
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…
Beginner
Presenters
Alexa Clay, Catherine Hoke, Jean-Philippe Vergne, Jose Vasquez
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
Presenters
Rick Turoczy
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Antonio Arocha, Jeremy Siewert, Jordache Johnson, Mickey Ristroph
Join us for food and drink to learn about IBM BlueMix and IBM’s Watson Mobile Developer Challenge while listening to Blues music! Register here: http://bit.ly/1i3eWok…
Tuesday, March 11
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Adam Carolla, Bill Zanker
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Johan Borge, Stefan Brunner
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
Presenters
Fran Maier, Jody Greene, Rachel Pike, Theresia Gouw
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 …
Beginner
Presenters
Michael Terpin
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Roe McFarlane
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 …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jesse Dillow, John Ploumitsakos, Josh Raper, Nancy Abraham
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Aman Bhandari, Ashish Patel, Michael Atkin, Susan Strausberg
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
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
Presenters
Bijoy Goswami
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
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…
Intermediate
Presenters
Pam Grossman
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Kathy Savitt
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
Presenters
Eve Maler, Joni Brennan, Karen Reilly, Robin Wilton
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…
Presenters
Chris Wiltsee, Ethan Kaplan, Paul Resnikoff, Todd Tate
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Dan Graham
A new sort of A&R has emerged for record labels and artist managers - evaluating music-tech companies to work with to help their artists connect with fans, generate exposure and make money. Discuss how to best approach a…
Presenters
Bryan Calhoun, Cameo Carlson, Dan Kruchkow, Jon Vanhala, Bill Wilson
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
Presenters
Carol Thompson, Jeff Genung, John Arrow, Kim Overton
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public. Gossling is coming all the way from Australia to open up the Hilton Second Play Stages. Come give her a big Texan welcome. She’s not to be mis…
The centerpiece of the Interactive Evening Events, the Interactive Awards festivities get underway with food, drinks and speculation on award winners. Come see who takes home a coveted Interactive Award in categories suc…
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public. These guys are going to be BIG. Don’t miss this chance to see them in an intimate setting. Get in early!……
Wednesday, March 12
Introducing the first annual SXSW Music Hackathon Championship, where the best minds in music and technology come together to re-invent the music business for artists, bands, and fans. The SXSW Music Hackathon will take …
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public. An excellent chance to see this amazing act in the very cool Liberty Tavern. Get in early for this one……
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public. We love Colin, he’s a real Texan gentleman. Make sure to buy him a rye and settle in for tunes from his exceptional new album, ‘The Wild and H…
Thursday, March 13
Introducing the first annual SXSW Music Hackathon Championship, presented by AT&T U-verse with GigaPower, where world-class hackers and designers will have 24 hours to create new tech innovations in the music space for a…
Introducing the first annual SXSW Music Hackathon Championship, presented by AT&T U-verse with GigaPower, where world-class hackers and designers will have 24 hours to create new tech innovations in the music space for a…
Friday, March 14
Lady Gaga came to prominence in 2008 following the release of her debut album The Fame, which sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Her third studio album, Born This Way, broke the iTunes record for the fastest rise to …
Presenters
John Norris, Lady Gaga
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public. This is a great chance to see this amazing band in a small intimate setting. This will be full. Arrive early!!……
Saturday, March 15
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public. New Zealand band based in NYC. Media darlings. This show will fill up. Arrive early!!……
Hotel Second Play Stage performance. Free and open to registrants and public. Wonderful Brighton UK indie folk. Currently ripping up the UK media and charts. Get in early!!……
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