Complete event listing for
Radisson Town Lake
111 E Cesar Chavez
Friday, March 7
Come learn how Adobe's Innovation Pipeline team goes from just an idea to a functional prototype ready for testing with real users in a matter of weeks for their newest web authoring tools. During this interactive sessio…
Intermediate
Presenters
Devin Fernandez, Winsha Chen
Exceptional design doesn't always have to come from the design department. In fact, designers often play by simple guidelines they follow intuitively that anyone can learn. In this session you will learn the techniques d…
Beginner
Presenters
Paul Trani
The web has become a rich creative platform. It's so ubiquitous that it's hard to imagine any game changer not being a part of the web. We're reaching a point where ideas we could only dream of in the past from interacti…
Intermediate
Presenters
CJ Gammon
HTML is a powerful platform for weaving a story of data through interactivity and motion. What could otherwise be dry, stale, or rather boring information suddenly becomes vibrant, engaging, and entertaining. Interactive…
Intermediate
Presenters
Sarah Hunt
What do iOS, Android, and the Internet all have in common? They were all built using source code editors driven by talented people. It’s often said that the editor is the most powerful tool in the arsenal of a develope…
Advanced
Presenters
Jonathan Dunlap
Saturday, March 8
The battlefield is the Internet. Whoever wins the Internet wins the war. Panelists: Vivien Lesnik Weisman, award winning filmmaker, in the editing stage of The Hacker Wars- a documentary film, Tor Ekeland, who represent…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jay Leiderman, Joseph Fionda, Tor Ekeland, Vivien Lesnik Weisman
We are a nation of smartphone addicts: 7 out of 10 adults keep their smartphone near most of the time. However, as we hold our phones close and protect them from harm, do they return the favor or are they up to no good b…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alan Murray, Erich Stuntebeck, Fahmida Rashid, Grayson Milbourne
In the 21st century, the oldest profession in the world must co-exist with the digital frontier. With this combination, a burgeoning new industry is emerging, a whole new way to understand how we 'do' death in our cultur…
Beginner
Presenters
Caitlin Doughty, Chanel Reynolds
From WordPress themes to all aspects of home and office life, the open source movement is bringing new knowledge and increased collaboration to life for both consumers and developers – and the movement is just beginning.…
Advanced
Presenters
Andrew Brooks, Jason Johnson, JJ Colao, Matt Mullenweg
As members of technological society, we see the world through a computer-mediated eye. We are cyborgs, our experience enhanced by technology. Augmented, pervasive, and cyborg mediations of reality through AR, Drones, and…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jon Lebkowsky, Patrick Lichty
Sunday, March 9
By 2040, humans just might be nearly indestructible, according to Ray Kurzweil and some of the world’s top scientists. Advances in technology and medicine will obliterate the maladies of today, and make life expectancy r…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alyson Shontell, Daniel Kraft, Michael Chang, Tim Chang
It was the social media event of the summer, at one point generating 5k tweets per minute, but how the hell did that happen? For the first time Syfy and Twitter come together to present how, through the power of Twitter…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dana Ortiz, Fred Graver
Making their first appearance at SXSWi, internationally renowned and long dead authors, H.G. Wells and Mary Shelley, join us on the incredible journey of being xHumed. Brought back to life for unique events in London a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jason Jones-Hall, Samara Jones-Hall
As evidenced by the world around us, entertainment and media are evolving, and augmented reality is becoming the next frontier of storytelling. While many have experienced AR to some extent, few have seen more than a pro…
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Mullins, DA Wallach, Katerina Markov, Nick Lippman
Monday, March 10
We are entering a period where the intersection of exploding content and limited consumer attention will intersect, creating an economic shockwave that will render many marketing programs unsustainable. In some markets, …
Intermediate
Presenters
Mark Schaefer
The tech world’s catch phrase du jour is “disruption.” But what’s being disrupted? Uber disrupts taxis, AirBnB disrupts hotels, Twitter disrupts mainstream media, but are these changes substantive or superficial? Beyond …
Beginner
Presenters
Aengus Anderson, Micah Saul
“In 2008, for the first time, half the world's population is living in towns and cities. By 2030, the urban population will reach 5 billion – 60% of the world's population” (UN Population Division.) Nearly all global pop…
Advanced
Presenters
Blake Farenthold, Evan Burfield, Jon Zeitler, Lauren Flanagan
Humans are both generous and selfish. Social Networks prime our collaborative selves. Google has taught us to search, Facebook to make friends, Twitter to be open and smartphones to be always connected. Enterprises and …
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Grill, Jodee Rich, Rand Waltzman
As the technology becomes a natural augmentation of our physical relationships, virtual interactions are becoming less of a substitute for physical proximity and rather a mechanism to extend and augment intimacy (play/en…
Advanced
Presenters
Carl Hastrich, Heather Vescent Schlegel, Karen Oikonen, Zahra Ebrahim
Tuesday, March 11
Working with the immense trove of weather data amassed by The Weather Channel, Vikram Somaya has found some strange and unusual connections between the weather and consumer behavior. In this presentation, hear some of th…
Intermediate
Presenters
Vikram Somaya
The term “processed food” is associated with Twinkies, fluorescent orange cheese, awful additives and heart-attack inducing trans fats, but it doesn’t have to be that way. New technology and advancements in 3D food prin…
Intermediate
Presenters
Glenn Zorpette, Pablos Holman
By 2050, there will be 2 billion more people on the planet and food security experts say that at today's rate of production, there won't be enough protein for everyone. Innovators are racing to find solutions to the loom…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Brentano, Daniel Imrie-Situnayake, Harman Singh Johar, Megan Miller
Food production is increasingly a high-tech job. Today’s farmers are using new innovations to maximize their yields and productivity - including wearable computers capable of displaying real-time weather and environmenta…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dev Shrestha, Jeff Caldwell, Maribeth Gandy, Nathan Wright
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