2014 Schedule
Interactive: March 7–11  •  Film: March 7–15  •  Music: March 11–16

SXSW Accelerator: Innovative World Technologies

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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 Capitalists / Angel Investors. Three companies that have advanced from the previous day and earlier round within the Innovative World Technologies category will dazzle a live audience, panel of three judges and co-emcees with their ideas, innovations, product and/or service on Sunday, March 9. A grand prize winner for each
category will be selected at the end of the day as part of the evening SXSW Accelerator Awards Ceremony.

Any creative & innovative technology that does not fit in the another categories can be found here. Such as real-time search, augmented reality, the World Wide Web, sensor, security, space, robotics, artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, recommendations technologies & personalization technologies.

Presenters

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Bob Metcalfe

Professor of Innovation

The University of Texas at Austin

Bob Metcalfe is an Internet Society Hall of Fame Pioneer. He started work on the Internet in 1970 at MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. He invented Ethernet at Xerox Parc in 1973. In 1979, the founded 3Com Corporation, which became part of HP in 2010. Today, more than a billion Ethernet ports ship annually, if you include WiFi, which Bob does. After 3Com, Bob spent a decade as a publisher-pundit and another decade as a venture capitalist. Bob is now Professor of Innovation in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Brad King

Asst Professor

Ball State University

I'm a little bit country; I'm a little bit rock-and-roll. A former Wired and MIT Technology Review reporter, editor, and producer. Co-author of Dungeons and Dreamers. You can find out more about my life as a professor here: http://www.thedudeman.net/2008/02/22/about/.

Joan Gillman

EVP & Chief Operating Officer, TWC Media

Time Warner Cable

Pike Powers

CEO

The Pike Powers Group

Theresia Gouw

Partner

Accel Partners

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