Complete event listing for
Omni Downtown
700 San Jacinto
Friday, March 7
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…
Intermediate
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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 …
Intermediate
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Andrew Barton, Anousheh Ansari, Bob Richards, Ruben Nunez
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…
Intermediate
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Silvia Lindtner
Saturday, March 8
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 …
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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David O'Brien, David Shook, Mandy Kahn
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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Chad Hutson, Jarrett Smith, Sougwen Chung, Tony Romain
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…
Intermediate
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Ross Atkin
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 …
Intermediate
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Guy Krief, Michael Collins
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Andrew Revkin, Doug Ellison, Michael Greene, Veronica McGregor
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 …
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Cindy Wu, Daniel Grushkin, Ethan Perlstein, Jacob Shiach
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…
Beginner
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Benoît Marini
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…
Intermediate
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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, …
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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Felice Frankel, Jennifer Jongsma
Sunday, March 9
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Jennifer Yin, Kathryn Jaller, Sarah Bailey Hogarty, Willa Koerner
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, …
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Courtney Klossner, Eleanor Whitney, Rena Tom, Sharon Fain
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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Evan Carroll, Virginia Ingram
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…
Advanced
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Chris Solarski, Paul Toprac, Richard Garriott de Cayeux, Sheldon Pacotti
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…
Intermediate
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Peter Weijmarshausen
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Advanced
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Hugh Rienhoff
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, …
Intermediate
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Daniel Heron, Levi Lalla
Monday, March 10
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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Catherine Woodiwiss, Nicholas DePrey
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…
Advanced
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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 …
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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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,…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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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…
Advanced
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Intermediate
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Jimmy Schulz
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Advanced
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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.…
Beginner
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Sarah Lewis
Tuesday, March 11
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…
Intermediate
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Bob Thacker, Dan Khabie
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…
Intermediate
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George Zisiadis, Hillary Andujar
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…
Intermediate
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Juliette Fritsch, Stacie Slotnick
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Beginner
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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…
Advanced
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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 …
Advanced
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Dr Paul Zak, Uwe Gutschow
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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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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…
Intermediate
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Melissa Mongiat, Mouna Andraos
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 …
Beginner
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Jason Torchinsky, Rob Edwards
Wednesday, March 12
Hotel Second Play Stage. Free performances in our hotel lobbies. Open to the public and delegates……
Thursday, March 13
Friday, March 14
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