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7:00 AM
Want to know how LeBron beats Kevin Durant off the court? Join us at the MVPindex Sports Lounge to engage with a platform that measures real-time digital brand value of athletes, teams and leagues and learn how top athle…
7:30 AM
Rise and shine! Join Brooks for a morning run, with a SXSW twist. A live DJ will lead the pack, spinning beats to move your feet. Register early at www.brooksrunning.com/sxsw.……
9:00 AM
Festival-goers can once again count on festival favorite, Catch A Chevy, to beat the heat and help them navigate the busy streets of Austin. Why walk when you can catch a complimentary ride in a wrapped Chevrolet Impala …
Test drive a 2014 Chevrolet Volt, Sonic, Camaro, Impala, Spark, Equinox, Tahoe, Cruze Eco, or Malibu. Find Chevrolet on Trinity St. between Cesar Chavez and 2nd St. from Friday, March 7 through Saturday, March 15.……
Kick start your SXSW day by grabbing free breakfast at the Java Monster Café. Stop by to get revved up and energized with a Java Monster - we'll even provide some tunes to start your morning right!……
9:30 AM
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…
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Gabe Karp, Matt Wise
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP24635 To…
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Tyler Wilson, Vincent Higgins
A multicultural specialist and partnership specialist discuss how AARP educates and communicates with their members via social media on everything from changes to healthcare, creating livable communities to sex after 65.…
Intermediate
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Aldea Douglas, Andres Castillo
Though the numbers are on the rise, the discrepancy in the amount of Black women in the tech startup space as compared to their general market counterparts is alarming. According to 2012 figures, African American women h…
Intermediate
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Aaron Saunders, Marissa Jennings, Stacey Ferguson, Xina Eiland
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
It's great to be a thought leader when your perceived allies are on your side. But how do you stay true to your ideals when allies decide you are a traitor to "the cause" and throw you to the wolves? Whether you are a f…
Intermediate
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Jehmu Greene, Joanne Bamberger, Sally Kohn
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25239 As…
Intermediate
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Jay Wilson, Jenessa Carder, Kevin Pound
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP17366 Co…
Intermediate
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Cleve Gibbon, Rachel Lovinger
Cyber security journalist Kim Zetter will speak about Stuxnet and the launch of the world’s first digital weapon. She explores the story of the virus that destroyed Iran’s nuclear centrifuges—and how it ushered in a new …
Beginner
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Kim Zetter
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP26899 Th…
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Blake Robinson, Israel Mirsky, Margaret Francis, Marshall Kirkpatrick
From a grocery store parking lot in Tucson, AZ to a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. From a teenager named Trayvon Martin to the children of Sandy Hook Elementary. The narrative about gun violence in America has chan…
Beginner
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Mark Glaze, Peter Ambler, Shannon Watts, Stephen Geer
Technology is beginning to democratize book publishing by giving authors control over the entire process -- from content to distribution, marketing and sales. This session will go beyond discussion to demonstrate (live a…
Beginner
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Babette Pepaj, Erik Deutsch
52,000: The number of texts sent every second around the world. The proliferation of texting has exploded, starting with basic SMS in the late ‘90s, evolving to advanced iMessages and Emoji (picture characters) used to i…
Intermediate
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Ben Zimmer, Sam Huston
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
It's time to slim down our Web and mobile apps. Some features only clutter the interface, distract our users and waste our precious time. The only problem: Which ones can be removed? How do you decide whether a feature b…
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Jeremy Tunnell, Malcolm Ong, Mat Mullen, Matas Petrikas
Staying healthy while traveling can be tough, especially while you're partaking in all of the festival fun. Face it: it's hard to turn down breakfast tacos. Thankfully, Austin is home to amazing running trails and studi…
Beginner
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David Garza, Jeff Mckinney
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
The myth that there are no successful tech companies run by people of color is just that, a myth. Meet three successful tech-enabled companies that have raised over $4 Million dollars in angel and seed funding, won prais…
Intermediate
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Darlene Gillard Jones, Heather Hiles, Nichelle McCall, Nicole Sanchez
Fruit Ninja is the number 2 most downloaded app of all time. Since its launch in 2010, it has racked up 500 million downloads and is played by 70 million monthly active users. Australian developers Halfbrick and their en…
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Hugh Walters, Phil Larsen, Sam White, Susan Swinburne
Biometrics. When you hear that word your mind probably jumps to thoughts of Jack Bauer in 24. Possibly Tom Cruise’s character in Minority Report. Or Daniel Craig as James Bond. Regardless of what hero comes to mind, we t…
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Skooks Pong
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
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…
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Jay Leiderman, Joseph Fionda, Tor Ekeland, Vivien Lesnik Weisman
Our collective perception of the human brain and its potential is constantly evolving. The intersection of technology and our “wet computer” provides a means to accelerate the ways that we measure, map and affect cogniti…
Intermediate
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Andrew Smith Lewis , Anthony Ha, Ariel Garten, Jan Plass
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
Beginner
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Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
We can bet you've been appalled and underwhelmed by the level of customer service you've received by a company. Have you ever been pleasantly surprised and delighted by a brand's customer service? Engineer a surprise & …
Intermediate
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Jacki Halas, Tom Zellman
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
Ocupop has maintained an authority position as a design resource for everyone from the W3C to Google to countless startups; we've navigated hundreds of design reviews while avoiding the bullshit and bastardization most d…
Intermediate
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Michael Nieling
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
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP26748 A …
Intermediate
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Brandi Grissom, John Burnett, Lise Olsen
This week, if you find yourself saying, "That's great, but I don't work at a startup," then you'll want to join this unique meetup that brings together those of us who work at large enterprises, government organizations …
Beginner
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Noah Kuttler
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
The last year has seen a flurry of conversation about women, work, and success. Missing from much of this? The other 50% of the population. Research shows that Millennial men feel more conflicted than women about work-fa…
Beginner
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James Allworth, Joan Williams, Sarah Green, Stew Friedman
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Adam McCrimmon
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Intermediate
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Beth Katz
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Dan McKernan
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Josh Inglis
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Rachel Wilkerson Miller
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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William Hulsey
Ongoing revelations about NSA surveillance have heightened awareness about the security vulnerabilities in our mobile devices. Most consumers don’t know how their favorite devices work and are inclined to fear the worst …
Intermediate
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Jaclyn Louis, Jonathan Godfrey, Sonny Sinha
It’s hard to face the tragedies of the past year—Newtown, the Boston Bombing, Oklahoma Tornado and the Prescott Hotshots Wildfires. In the immediate aftermath, Americans are increasingly turning to Facebook, Twitter and …
Intermediate
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Michael Bellavia, Paula Veale, Pete Giencke, Shayne Adamski
MySpace Co-Founder Chris DeWolfe sits with Mashable's Chief Strategy Officer Adam Ostrow to publicly discuss for the first time his challenging transition from leading the web's former social media giant into disrupting …
Intermediate
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Adam Ostrow, Chris DeWolfe
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
The model of amateurism in college sports is slowly dying. It is being destroyed by the central contradiction of college sports: unpaid student labor earning greater and greater profits for coaches and administrators wit…
Intermediate
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Andy Staples , Chris Del Conte, Emmanuel Acho, Spencer Hall
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23039 Le…
Beginner
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Arjun Venkataswamy, Mike McGee, Sandor Weisz
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20614 Yo…
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AJ Self, Darby Frey, Shay Howe
Robots soon will change how we work; how we feed ourselves; how we heal; and how we relate to each other. Few emerging technologies have the power to disrupt our world on quite this scale. But with these enormous opport…
Intermediate
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Carl Bass
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
From grandpa's box score in the Sunday morning newspaper, to today's visualizations of real-time statistics, sports just don't look the same anymore. In this core conversation, John T. Meyer, Founder of Statographics and…
Intermediate
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John Meyer
User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designers face the challenge of designing software applications for different screen sizes. Most consumers have smartphones, tablets, and large Smart TVs that allow them to en…
Intermediate
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Ana Karen Ramírez, Anjuan Simmons
A startup is born everyday. With the growing trends in technology, the key is finding innovative ways to fund these companies for longevity. Typical startups go through several rounds of funding. During each round, compa…
Intermediate
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Dennis Campbell, Edria Fleming, James Martin, Wayne Sutton
After television contracts, ticket sales represent the largest portion of a team’s revenue. However, most ticketing decisions, and pricing approaches in particular, are made using outdated practices. While data collectio…
Intermediate
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Barry Kahn, Grey Ivry
Yoga was developed thousands of years ago as a way to prepare the mind and body for enlightenment. What better way to prepare yourself for all the new ideas, insights, and people you will encounter at SXSW? This is an al…
Beginning
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Melodie Tao
ATTENTION: This is a DROP-IN workshop. You may come at any time between 9:30am-6:00pm. Participants will get creative reinterpreting letters inspired by street signs and signage from around the world. Physical play …
Intermediate
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Sarah Hyndman
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
Intermediate
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Jonathan Nielsen, Mike Lowe, Richard Ting, Scott Kveton
From G.I. JOE to The Walking Dead and The Simpsons, many of our favorite franchises in comics, books, film, music, and television are finding new homes and rejuvenated lives on mobile devices. Game developers and publish…
Intermediate
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David Phan, Margaret Wallace, Terry Redfield
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
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23795 A …
Beginner
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Aaron Britt, Jacqui Watts, Justin Ferrell, Sean Hewens
9:50 AM
Kim Zetter will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign book plates for her soon to be released book "Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon".…
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Kim Zetter
10:00 AM
"MAXED OUT: American Moms on the Brink," (Seal Press, Sept. 2013) tells a deeply personal story about “having it all,” failing miserably, and what comes after. The author, a former user experience principal for an award-…
Intermediate
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Katrina Alcorn
Come join us again for the good time you always find at LANFest! Expect the FreePlay Area, awesome games, and Raffle. And of course some of the most fun PC tournaments in the Austin area. If you are new, welcome and prep…
10:20 AM
Katrina Alcorn will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink".…
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Katrina Alcorn
10:30 AM
Just as we took our cues from MBAs and the military in casting the ideal CEO of the 20th century, we can look to design - in its broadest form - to model our future leader, the DEO. DEOs look at every business challenge …
Beginner
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Christopher Ireland, Maria Giudice
10:40 AM
Nancy Duarte will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences".…
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Nancy Duarte
10:50 AM
Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design".…
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Christopher Ireland, Maria Giudice
11:00 AM
A meet-up to talk about SXSW. Discuss how to get through a day of panels and parties and still keeping your particulars. Tips on how to make the most of SXSW during one of the busiest panel sessions offered at a conferen…
Beginner
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Sweet John Muehlbauer
Executives from several leading 24-hour sports networks talk about how to program in the age of bite-sized, disposable content. This session is part of the brand new SXsports programming at SXSW 2014.…
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David Nathanson, Eric Weinberger, Jon Miller, Kaylee Hartung
In the next 20 years, the number of adults in the US age 65 and older will nearly double, which means the elderly are the fastest growing demographic in the country. Today, people are living longer than ever before, with…
Intermediate
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Eric Baczuk, Lindsey Mosby
Join aGLIFF for the annual Filmmaker Brunch! aGLIFF is the Southwest’s oldest and largest LGBTQI film festival and runs September 10 thru 14. Kindly RSVP at brunch@agliff.org.……
The goal of the panel is to discuss some of the emerging trends in the agritech space that are driving food production yields needed to feed a population of over 10 billion people. This will include precision agriculture…
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Caleb Harper, Marion Swaybill, Mohammad Jhaveri
The Alligator Director: Alexandra Barsky Two creatures are trapped together in a swamp. Tension escalates between them when an alligator haunts the waters outside. Caveirão Director: Guilherme Marcondes "Caveirão" imagi…
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
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Alan Murray, Erich Stuntebeck, Fahmida Rashid, Grayson Milbourne
Created by AT&T in collaboration with VICE's Motherboard, this three-day interactive showcase celebrates young innovators by elevating mobile innovations to new heights. Come experience apps in amazing new ways, enjoy ou…
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…
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Benjamin Israelite, Bill Aulet
Every year, People selects its World’s Most Beautiful People, Time dubs its Person of the Year and Rolling Stone crowns its Albums of the Year. But, does having a small elite choose the best make sense when the barriers …
Intermediate
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Anna Deavere Smith, Jordan Roth
As we look at what’s ahead for technology leaders, it’s clear that we’ll need more than good ideas, products and experiences to stay at the forefront. If we want to continue to transform how people look at the world, sim…
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Stephen Kim
In the space where the outdoors meets tech, adventure awaits. This core conversation will discuss wearables, apps, and cameras used on and around the bike. It’ll continue with how the quantified self produces big data, h…
Beginner
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DL Byron
Aimee Roundtree will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Computer Simulation, Rhetoric, and the Scientific Imagination: How Virtual Evidence Shapes Science in the Making".…
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Aimee Roundtree
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon Bombing, the subReddit group /r/findbostonbombers was launched, tossing a dragnet across the internet and catching both good and bad information in the process. The crowdsourcing e…
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Bill Jensen, Michelle McNamara
Media technologies (TV, video, games, Internet, music, mobile phones) have brought about a substantial change in the experience of childhood in our society. These changes leave many parents, particularly one-parent homes…
Intermediate
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Arvin Poole, Elizabeth Vandewater PhD, Francesco Cardoletti, Keree Brannen
With nearly $250 million raised for important causes all over the world combined, RYOT News, (RED) and Omaze set the standard for collaboration in the social entrepreneurship space, and how incredibly important it is for…
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Bryn Mooser, Chrysi Philalithes, Ian Somerhalder, Ryan Cummins
Third-party JavaScript widgets (think Facebook Connect or Twitter Widgets) add functionality and enhance user experience, at very little cost to you. Unfortunately, much of the existing third-party JavaScript currently …
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Kent Brewster
As more cities start to realise the benefits of using technology to improve their neighborhoods, Cinemacity, co-produced by the franco german broadcaster Arte and the parisian native transmedia studio Small Bang, provide…
Beginning
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Michel Reilhac, Pierre Cattan
There are panels on the legal side of the advertising and tech world, and plenty of panels that people in the legal and business affairs arenas are interested in regarding emerging technologies. However, due to the sheer…
Intermediate
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Jenn Kennedy
Who cares about online privacy? Online interactions now permeate every layer of our society, changing the way people learn, communicate, buy, sell, search and interact. We are now more "track-able" than ever, and entit…
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Blair Reeves
There is an ever-increasing number of devices available to us, and an equally large number of ways to interact with them. We want to examine the role of gestures in interaction: how we've moved forward from mice and keyb…
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Allison Sigrist, Amber Heinbockel
Attend an interactive workshop with the team responsible for bringing new apps to Chevrolet. Learn how to build apps for vehicles, discuss developer opportunities within Chevrolet, and demo a sample of in-vehicle apps. …
Aaron, a young misfit in a remote Scottish community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local supersti…
In the last century, visionary media theorist Marshall McLuhan predicted the emergence of the Internet and coined the phrase "the medium is the message," to highlight the role of the communication medium itself and its e…
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Ben Huh
More than a decade ago, in the summer of 2002, I broke my 7th Freediving World Record with a dive to 160m/525ft in the "No Limits" discipline. I would go on to break 3 more WRs, but this one still stands. I dearly wish i…
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Paul Streeter, Tanya Streeter
What is the future of responsive web design? With screen sizes and shapes evolving by the month, if not the moment (iPad mini, the 13-inch tablet, Google Glass), designers, developers and marketers need to rethink how th…
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Chris Saint-Amant, Kerry Bodine, Mike Norman, Tim Hayden
Sean, a retired literature professor and civic activist, writes a letter to his estranged son, Tennessee, a ranch hand. Tennessee is uncertain how to respond, but knowing he should see his aging father, he decides to go …
In mid-2013, protests erupted around Brazil, initially sparked by a public transport cost hike but quickly emerging into a broader social movement to address a litany of social issues. Causa Brasil was launched in respon…
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David Slayden, Tiago Ritter
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…
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Don Christian, Donald Tracy, Nathan Green, Nick Parker
Ghostwriters get a first-hand look into the minds of many of today’s great thinkers, innovators, and storytellers. We write bestsellers, yet never see our names on the bestseller list. We spend our days verbally poking a…
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Stephanie Land
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…
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Dries Buytaert, Tom Erickson
**Extended Q&A to follow screening From AMC Studios, "Halt and Catch Fire" captures the rise of the PC era in the early 1980s, during which an unlikely trio – a visionary, an engineer and a prodigy – take personal and p…
As the mobile audience continues to grow at an exponential rate and App Stores become increasingly cluttered, game companies are challenged to develop games that will stand out against the competition in a crowded market…
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Aaron Loeb, Callum Rowley, Ethan Einhorn, Tim Fields
Dazed and confused, consumers and brands alike are trippin’ on hashtags. As one of the most iconic social symbols of our time, media campaigns are increasingly laced with hashtags to increase engagement while also inspir…
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Eric Bader, Scott Fischler
There are many trends in videogames and technology today that will influence and even dominate the next ten years. What happens when multiple trends collide to create heretofore-unknown results? For example imagine takin…
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Starr Long
Two extraordinary scientists struggle to create eternal youth with medical breakthroughs in a world they call “blind to the tragedy of old age.” Bill Andrews is a lab biologist and famed long-distance runner racing again…
The days of the abacus are long gone - replaced by abacus apps. Stuffed animals are being replaced by app pals like Calls from Elmo. For better or worse, the way children play and learn has changed and privacy remains a …
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Elana Zeide, Lorraine Akemann, Sara Kloek
In June 2013, a discussion was had between friends of who we admire in the tech/entrepreneur space. Included in those were the 'usual suspects'–Kevin Rose, Tim Ferriss, etc. Before long, we were lamenting around it being…
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Chanelle Henry, Rashid Zakat
Bringing geeks into government won’t make a difference if they can’t crack the code on bureaucracies (and the politicos and government workers who run them). A hyper focus on technical problem solving by newcomers to th…
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Jed Sundwall, Richard Boly
Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn’t yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been…
By 2050 Hispanics will be 1/3 of the U.S. population. The assumption is that the digital divide will become non-existent or even reversed as more Latinos become digitally dependent. Since 2009, the number of Latinos onli…
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Julie Diaz-Asper, Kety Esquivel, Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Mitch Kapor
What’s it like to develop both digital and paper-based games and what does each have to teach you about the other? Designing interactions and creating rich game spaces is a complicated affair. This panel of indie game de…
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Adam Saltsman, George Royer
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…
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John Yembrick
Global memes add snark and commentary to politics. Memes have helped citizens around the world express political support and dissent: from the meme that helped a cat run for office in Mexico, to the goats that parodied O…
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Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Ben Valentine, Elena Agapie, Katy Pearce
Webb most recently directed the smash hit The Amazing Spider-Man starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, and Sally Field which grossed over $750 million worldwide. Upcoming, he helmed the latest chapter in the Spider-Man l…
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Logan Hill, Marc Webb
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Cedric Giorgi
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Charlie O'Donnell
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Dave Fowler
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Leah McDougald
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related counsel from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Sabrina Parsons
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Taya Pocock
Learn about the nuts and bolts of the all-important packaging, marketing and selling of your film. Who you are selling to? How do you land that buyer? Who picks up the tab? Find out here. Sign Up Here: http://mentor…
Beginner
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Annick Mahnert, Benjamin Braun, Dan Fisher, Hailey Wierengo, Kate Hurwitz, Peter Trinh, Peter Van Steemburg, Ryan Kampe
From activity trackers to Google Glass, wearables are all the rage. But who should get access to the data? Unfortunately, just because you wear a device doesn't mean that you get access to your data. As a data scientist,…
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John Wilbanks, Rachel Kalmar
Sophia Amoruso, the founder, CEO, and chief troublemaker of Nasty Gal, grew her fashion enterprise from a one-woman vintage store on eBay to an online retail haven for “badass girls” around the globe. The Los Angeles-bas…
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Christine Lagorio, Sophia Amoruso
Given the arise of Jawbone, Google Glass, iWatch, and a whole array of wearable devices, people will soon be able to communicate even faster and more frequently than ever before in an increasingly more connected world. W…
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Christina Mercando, Koichi Yamamoto, Marco Tempest, Takahito Iguchi
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…
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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 …
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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…
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Beverley Bryant, Gregory Downing
Part 1 - Join DELL, XO Group, IEEE and Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) as we celebrate the innovation and contribution of women in business and technology. We’re combining two individual women’s meetups into a single, integ…
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Carley Roney, Jennifer "JJ" Davis
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
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Elizabeth Robillard, Peter Roybal, Scott Goldberg, Scott Michaels
According to the USDA, a “food desert” is any part of the United States where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain, either due to low household income or poor accessibility. In order to close the gap between f…
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Kel Smith
If you want to know how people feel about something, just give them a questionnaire, right? Nope. This panel is about tapping into people's thoughts, feelings, and opinions more directly, in real time. Our thoughts an…
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Gary Kazantsev, Martin Salo, Philip Resnik, Rana el Kaliouby
Youth sports is nearly perfect as a strategy to create a better world. Kids love to play and participation teaches them essential lifelong values - teamwork, setting and reaching goals, perseverance, managing adversity, …
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Grant Garrison, Ryan Eckel
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…
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Neal Cabage, Sonya Zhang
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…
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Sadie Smythe, Stirling Gardner
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…
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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…
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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…
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Casper de Clercq, Laurie Segall, Sonny Vu, Thomas Ball
FACES OF AUSTIN is a short film exhibition showcasing the work of Austin filmmakers and their works that reflect the many diverse faces, voices, and experiences that make up Austin’s unique identity. Faces of Austin is …
Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …
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Bea Love
Several years ago, roughly 350,000 residents in the city of Detroit were either directly or indirectly employed in the industrial manufacturing industry supporting our country's automotive industry. Since then those 350,…
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Erin Teague, Lauryn Hale, Marlon Nichols, Ted Serbinski
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 …
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Dave Knox
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 …
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Henry Copeland, JB Hopkins, Matthew Diffee
It’s easy to assume that social media is a recent development. But the exchange of media within social networks goes back centuries. I think it can be traced back to Roman times, when members of the elite shared and copi…
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Tom Standage
With recent disclosures about online surveillance, Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, continues his dedication to the pursuit of individual privacy and transparency. Labeled everything from martyr, anarchist, whist…
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Benjamin Palmer, Julian Assange
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
Distracted at the office? You’re not alone. Studies show 3 of 4 employees feel they aren’t effective at work with distractions pulling their focus to anything but the task at hand. But in a modern world seemingly custom …
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Ben Waber, Gloria Mark, Janet Pogue, Rachel Silverman
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…
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Chad Hutson, Jarrett Smith, Sougwen Chung, Tony Romain
In May of 2013, WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell conceded his clients were wasting 15-25% of their advertising dollars, only he didn’t know which 25% exactly was being wasted. This statement resurrected a similar comment made by…
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Joseph Jaffe, Maarten Albarda
11:15 AM
Over the past year, the Voice of America set out to to create a universal mobile and tablet application for its global news services in 43 languages from Affan Oromoo (Let me Google that for you: it's used primarily in E…
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Will Sullivan
Crystal Director: Chell Stephen Cursed with a real crumby attitude and a boring-ass hometown, 17-year-old Crystal relies on her passion for dance to escape the mundane life of rural Ontario and pursues her outsized dream…
I'm not a reader. I somehow made it through school (including time in a philosophy PhD program) without being a reader. This fact has made me apologetic, embarrassed, and above all thankful for the explosive growth of on…
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Ed Castillo
11:20 AM
Kel Smith will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Digital Outcasts: Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind".…
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Kel Smith
Maarten Albarda and Joseph Jaffe will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Z.E.R.O.: Zero Paid Media as the New Marketing Model".…
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Joseph Jaffe, Maarten Albarda
11:30 AM
Whose job is it to imagine the way that technology functions in society? Over the past century, science fiction has played a crucial role in imagining what the future looks like and what devices / technology make each im…
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Yashoda Sampath
If you are fascinated by AI and robotics, and interested in how you can create and customize your own 3D printed plastic pal, then “21st Century Robot” by Brian David Johnson is for you. As an author and Intel futurist, …
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Brian David Johnson
Today, China is already the world's largest Internet, smartphone and e-commerce market. Yet, most people outside the "Great Firewall" would have difficulty naming even 3 Chinese technology brands. Furthermore, there are …
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Justin Tsang
On June 12, 1970, Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates. In 137 years of professional baseball, it's the only no-hitter tossed while the pitcher was tripping on LSD. Dock lived the expression “Black is …
Fiercely independent and in her mid-30s, Ronah works as a sexual surrogate in New York City, teaching her clients the very thing they fear most -- to be intimate. Her life unravels when she starts working with a volatile…
11:40 AM
Tom Standage will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years ".…
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Tom Standage
11:45 AM
Quantified Self only gets someone the data. It's descriptive, not prescriptive: "All these numbers, now what do I do?" Now imagine, from your data, you could learn exactly what your body needed, and most critically, how …
Intermediate
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Chris Matthews
You can’t innovate without diversity. Period. Yet most of the proposed solutions to increasing diversity in tech involve people of color moving to Silicon Valley (leaving their social and supports networks) or exposing b…
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Kathryn Finney
11:50 AM
Brian David Johnson will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "21st Century Robot".…
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Brian David Johnson
12:00 PM
What are the 100 objects that future historians will pick to define our 21st century? A javelin thrown by an 'enhanced' Paralympian far further than any normal human? Virtual reality interrogation equipment used by polic…
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Adrian Hon
Into The Pixel is an annual art exhibit showcasing video game artwork and concept artwork. The exhibit is sponsored by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA). Each collection features 16 pieces which were selected…
Come check out virtual reality games, films, and music on the latest Oculus prototypes. Also, enjoy happy hour on both days from 5:00 - 6:00pm.……
At Pennzoil®, we reimagined synthetic motor oil by creating it from natural gas. Now we’re using our commitment to innovation and technology to reimagine Mario Karting, a unique racing experience like no other exclusivel…
Redbox content experts will host two "Learning Lunch" sessions educating filmmakers about opportunities to engage with Redbox and their massive audience of movie-lovers. In addition to the lunch sessions, filmmakers ca…
Join the conversation about the future of the digital agency, with reflections from industry luminaries including Andrew O’Dell (CEO and Co-Founder of Pereira & O’Dell), Gaston Legorburu (Global Chief Creative Officer at…
Surf the Airwaves! Bring your screen and catch some TV at Aereo’s Surf Party. Join Aereo for free food, drinks and exclusive Aereo access. Get the inside scoop during a rooftop chat between Aereo CEO/founder Chet Kanojia…
The SXSW Gaming Expo brings the excitement of video games to March in Austin, mixing this energy with many other well-loved elements of geek culture. Featuring exhibitors, panels, rocking parties and exceptional demos, t…
ComiXology presents the hottest names in video games, comics, movies, TV, tech and more exclusively at the Geek Stage! Come see the biggest announcements of the SXSW Gaming Expo! SXSW Geek Stage presented by comiXology …
The Indie Corner is where you’ll get time with some of the best indie titles the previous year had to offer and some that haven’t even hit release yet. Come play games and vote on which one you think should be winner of …
Learn to Play Magic: The Gathering- FREE. Check out Duels of the Planeswalkers. Drafts and League all weekend long. And are you a hard core table top gamer or just getting started. We can help navigate the experience wit…
See the fantastic world of eSports and watch as teams take each other on in some of the most intense matches in gaming. SXSW Tournament Stage presented by Monster and Logitech is open to the public with free Guest Pass …
The Videogame History Museum was established to document, preserve, and archive the history of the Videogame industry. After over ten years of exhibits at the world-famous Classic Gaming Expo, the 501(c)(3) non-profit Vi…
12:20 PM
Adrian Hon will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "A History of the Future in 100 Objects ".…
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Adrian Hon
12:30 PM
Watch this fast-paced experiment where four strangers come together to launch a product in an hour. One supercoder will launch the back-end for an e-commerce website. One design guru will bang out stylesheets and logos. …
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Bill Hogan, Jess Morse, Pippin Williamson, Shiloh Daniel
Wherever there are challenges, African creative minds thrive on building inventive alternative solutions. Westerners can learn a lot from their focus on a utility model, where disruptive ideas and applied technology re-i…
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Fourie Du Preez
Problem: Waste. I hate waste! Assets and resources in our society are under-utilized, wasted, and thrown away. We have a lot of non-profit organizations who need resources (services, items, funding) and don't know where …
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Joshua Vaughan
The process of registering to vote has changed remarkably little in the last 150 years. But everything else has changed?! Thank you internet for changing how we communicate, how we shop, and how we inform. How do we us…
Intermediate
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Gayatri Bhalla, Heather Smith
We are seeing a new era of collaborative projects that have the power of making and we are one of them. The formula looks very simple: work by passion. But the day by day is hard and has some little tricks as, for exampl…
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Marcelo Pimentel, Marina Bortoluzzi
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
Jonah Berger will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Contagious: Why Things Catch On".…
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Jonah Berger
There's too much contention in our society. From a gridlocked Congress to neighborhood disputes, it seems like we spend too much energy fighting and not enough figuring how we can work together. Online discussion and deb…
Intermediate
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Christopher Fry, Elizabeth Rosenzweig
Whether it's Nike+ reminding you to be more active, Mint judging you for going over budget last week, or Gmail telling you which emails are important, every day we're interacting with products and services that attempt t…
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Matt Danna
The University of Texas is a leader regionally and nationally as a collegiate "brand" - the question going forward is how to sustain that brand and mission, evolve it to reflect the emerging issues in sports generally an…
Advanced
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Ellis Prince
Ever feel a little bit like Goldilocks in the world of cameras? Wandering among all of your options in an attempt to figure out which one is “just right” for you? Just like the age-old tale, filmmakers today need to know…
Intermediate
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Bob Caniglia
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
Tilda Swinton, a native of Scotland, started making films with the English director Derek Jarman in 1985, with Caravaggio. She gained international recognition in 1992 for her starring role in Orlando, directed by Sally …
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Tilda Swinton, Eugene Hernandez
This talk will break some of the myths regarding pre-processors, and explain how they have help us to be more efficient when coding CSS. There are very influential people in the industry that have put down Sass, Less and…
Intermediate
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Ramon Lapenta
With so much going on at SXSW each day, it’s easy to miss some important bit of information that could end up changing the world. Join SXSW senior staff and special press guests to get their take on the important events,…
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Jeffrey Dachis, Kathleen Maher, Loic Le Meur
A generation ago, “cyberspace” was just a term from science fiction. Today, our entire modern way of life, from communication to commerce to conflict, fundamentally depends on the Internet. And the security issues that r…
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PW Singer
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
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Caitlin Doughty, Chanel Reynolds
College football has evolved into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Drones have become more than spy machines that patrol the skies. Now, in a strange twist, the two are working together to shape the future of the sport…
Beginner
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Ryan Baker, Ty Hildenbrandt
“As a use of sensing and big data, cutting needless energy waste isn’t as sexy as, say, using a snippet of your DNA to create a genetically linked familiar that will stay with you your entire life...But it’s a whole lot …
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Brittany Heyd, Craig Isakow, Grant Allen, Roderick Morris
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…
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Ross Atkin
In fashion, perhaps more than anywhere else, branding is everything. Many fashion brands have spent decades building up a unique but delicate brand image: they often rely on staying enigmatic, using aspirational photogra…
Intermediate
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Pieter Jongerius
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear, John Trigonis of…
Beginner
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Elisabeth Holm, John Trigonis, Nicolas Gonda
Big Data is a game changer for storytelling. Increased pressure to find meaning in mounds of data—in real-time and at scale—has given rise to technology that analyzes and turns individual data points into bite-sized pros…
Intermediate
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Eric Shoup, Francois Ajenstat
It is the vanity of every age to believe they live at the turning point of human civilization. Having said that, we must acknowledge we are living at the great turning point of human civilization. Technology isn't just …
Intermediate
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Byron Reese
There is growing distrust over Internet data. Consumers fear how their information is collected and used, and companies struggle to maintain control over their data when transacting with third parties. This FUD is amplif…
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Joseph Galarneau
The Indie development movement has leveled the playing field for getting a good idea to market. This also means there are more titles fighting for a finite number of "gaming hours". With 20% of the US population having a…
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Mark Barlet
Is responsive web design the wrong paradigm? Do you architect & design for devices, browsers or end users? Let’s challenge how we think about responsive design. This session fosters the exploration of the current ratio…
Beginner
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Graham Lambertson
After a decade of using social network sites like MySpace and Facebook, teens have glommed on to countless new apps, from Instagram to Snapchat to Vine. They share tremendous amounts of content, but encode it so that par…
Beginner
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Danah Boyd
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
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Asif Khan, Ben West, Chris Marley, Jason Burby
Technology is everywhere. It makes things easier, we can’t live without it. But in the pursuit of faster, better and more, when does the involvement of smartphones, tablets, self-trackers, real-time messaging, etc. get t…
Beginner
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Chade-Meng Tan
ESPN launched Grantland based on the writings and vision of Bill Simmons. The company recently hired Nate Silver and acquired his site, FiveThirtyEight. As a company known for sports, Simmons and Silver will discuss the…
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Bill Simmons, Nate Silver
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on casting with Vicky Boone, the casting director of Tree of Life and AIn't them Bodies Saints, and Kerry Barden, the casting director for Se7en and American Psycho. This is an o…
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Kerry Barden, Vicky Boone, Sarah Green
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
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Eric Seufert
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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John Roa
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Linda Simensky
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Mark Stephen Meadows
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
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Marta Voda
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Do you need a publicist? Maybe so, and maybe no. Come get some hands-on information about the modern role of the PR person, and how that impacts filmmakers today. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session …
Beginner
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Gerilyn Shur, Jim Dobson, Marian Koltai-Levine, Rene Ridinger, Sylvia Desrochers, Ursula Liang, Weiman Seid, Whitney Kimmel
What do 500 million smiles look like? In today’s mobile ecosystem, brands have the power to produce this volume of happiness in consumers, but are squandering the opportunity to do so by opting for annoying and often ang…
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Brian Wong
We tend to think of creativity in terms reminiscent of the ancient muses: divinely-inspired, unpredictable, and bestowed upon a lucky few. But when our jobs challenge us to be creative on demand, we must develop novel, u…
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David Burkus
NASA wanted to attract more interest to its Asteroid Redirect Mission and Kerbal Space Program, an indie space agency sim, was ecstatic bring this real-world mission into its virtual world. NASA scientists and KSPdevelop…
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Bob Holtzman, Chad Jenkins, Felipe Falanghe, Jason Townsend, Jason Kessler
The landscape of interactive documentaries is exploding, so where are all the interactive narrative films on the web? Right here. ITVS, Murmur, Storycode & Ted Hope will discuss the emerging genre of interactive narrativ…
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Aina Abiodun, Karim Ahmad, Mike Knowlton, Ted Hope
On Thursday, June 6, 2013, the PRISM story broke, shattering any trust we had in the US government with regards to online privacy. At a pinnacle point in technological advancement, the tech industry is now faced with the…
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Brad Burnham, Matthew Prince, Nicholas Merrill, Trevor Timm
Learn secrets of the trade from the organizations that have been doing crowdfunding the longest - charity: water, Donors Choose, Kiva and Global Giving. Combined these brands have raised hundreds of millions of dollars o…
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Katherine Woo, Katie Bisbee, Kevin Conroy, Paull Young
Part 2 - Join DELL, XO Group, IEEE and Women Innovate Mobile (WIM) as we celebrate the innovation and contribution of women in business and technology. We’re combining two individual women’s meetups into a single, integ…
Beginner
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Kelly Hoey, Mary Ward-Callan
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 …
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Guy Krief, Michael Collins
Biometric, motion, and audio sensing can digitally augment live music to enhance the audience experience and deliver more entertainment value while generating new interest in and preserving the positive cultural impact o…
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Robert Tuttle
Are we witnessing the end of an era with a free and open web? Increasingly each innovation in social media and mobile is making your private data public and hidden from you. New gatekeepers are emerging that are making t…
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Michael Maness, Paul Steiger, Sue Gardner, Tim Wu
The wealth gap in America has widened. Exposure, education and investment in high tech and high growth companies founded by minorities, people of color and women provide definitive solutions to decreasing and mitigating …
Intermediate
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Faruq Hunter, Jervis Hough, Michael Grayson, Suzanne Malone
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…
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Marty Weiner, Yash Nelapati
Just 1 in 14 tech employees in Silicon Valley is African American or Latino yet the number of young urban americans who want to start a business has never been higher. The question must be asked: are African/Latino Ameri…
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Amy Schapiro, Andre Briggs, Jason Smikle, Ryan Stoner
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…
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Aileen Lee, David Tisch, Kevin Colleran, Matt Mazzeo
Americans seem just as obsessed with food as they are technology, but how is our near constant state of connectivity influencing what chefs put on the menu? How is our geographical density and propensity for moving from …
Beginner
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Addie Broyles, Andy Potter, Brian Bordainick
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…
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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…
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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…
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Andrew Hanelly, Tina Kelly
You've experienced the goal of many platforms - unchecked exponential growth in your user base. People have a genuine passion for your product and that passion is rapidly expanding organically. But what does this mean fo…
Intermediate
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Brendan Codey, Cindy Au, Jenna Meister
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
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
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
Presenters
Casper de Clercq, Laurie Segall, Sonny Vu, Thomas Ball
Familiar with SXSWedu? SXSW extends its support for the art of engagement beyond musicians, actors, and technologists, to include society’s true stars...educators. One of the newest components of the SXSW Family of Conf…
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Ron Reed
Today's investors not only want a financial return on investment, but also social, economic and environmental returns. Impact investing has emerged as the next step in matching socially conscious investors with capital-s…
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DJ Paul
Join Telltale Games President and Co-Founder, Kevin Bruner, along with his team of designers and storytellers as they discuss their vision of the future of entertainment from both inside and outside of the studio walls. …
Beginner
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Brian Walton, Kevin Bruner
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…
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Andrew Revkin, Doug Ellison, Michael Greene, Veronica McGregor
Over the course of their lifetime, the average American will spend 90,000 hours at work. Shouldn't we enjoy the place where we spend such a significant portion of our lives? That's the philosophy we live by at Mass Relev…
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Brian Dainton, Michael Pazienza
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
The UX Meetup is an opportunity for all types of User Experience pros to get together for an informal, relaxing meet -and- greet. Come meet like-minded UX practitioners, designers, testers, researchers, UX-oriented produ…
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Beverly May
How will wearables change the world? What’s the “killer app”? Context. In this session, we'll look at how wearables benefit from context, and how the two will inevitably be linked in the very near future.…
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Myriam Joire
Fantasy Sports long ago became "mainstream" for several reasons--technology that enabled fantasy leagues to rapidly expand online, fans never ending appetite for more information on their favorite sports, and pro sports …
Intermediate
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Andrew Cleland, Clay Walker, Daniel Shlossman, Marquise Goodwin, Stephania Bell
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
12:45 PM
It is awesome that I am a white American male working for Ushahidi, a Kenyan tech firm, in Silicon Valley. That didn’t happen 3 years ago. I was also one of the first Presidential Innovation Fellows at The White House an…
Intermediate
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Nathaniel Manning
Fake images are everywhere. You know that. You know that Kate Upton doesn't really look like this (spoiler: she has pores just like you). You know that your burger isn't going to look like this. And all this wouldn't be …
Advanced
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Rose Eveleth
12:50 PM
David Burkus will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Myths of Creativity: The Truth About How Innovative Companies and People Generate Great Ideas".…
Presenters
David Burkus
1:00 PM
Byron Reese will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Infinite Progress: How the Internet and Technology Will End Ignorance, Disease, Poverty, Hunger, and War".…
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Byron Reese
Sport is simple. It typically involves a single ball but sometimes just the athletes themselves. But sports is big business too and pushing the boundaries of experience with more and more technology and data. Is that a g…
Embeddables will have significant consequences for the delivery of digital services as monolithic screen-focused devices start to be enhanced with distributed computation. A more ambient kind of experience in which senso…
Advanced
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Andy Goodman
In the last 3 years, there has been a unprecedented rise in the availability and adoption of technology in the Middle East and Africa. This sudden access to information, the ability to voice opinions and communicate to a…
Beginner
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Amit Vyas
From abject poverty to becoming a ten time boxing world champion and history’s first boxing congressman, international icon Manny Pacquiao is the definition of a Cinderella story. In the Philippines, he first entered the…
BBC reporter Matt Danzico explains the science behind the flexibility of time and how he lived the longest perceived year on record in human history by fighting boxers and riding bicycles blindfolded.…
Intermediate
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Matt Danzico
1:15 PM
This isn’t a pessimistic rant about the lagging US economy, sad projections for domestic innovation, or lamentation of our declining cultural influence as a country. Instead, it is a celebration of all the cool, rad and …
Beginner
Presenters
Max Lenderman
When I became a Professional Dominatrix at the starry-eyed age of 22 I thought I was looking ahead at a short but exhilarating job of make-believe. That job turned into a passionate mission and career. Now, more than a d…
Intermediate
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Kali Williams
1:20 PM
Andy Goodman will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign galley copies of "Embeddables: The next evolution of wearable tech".…
Presenters
Andy Goodman
Ben Waber will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "People Analytics: How Social Sensing Technology Will Transform Business and What It Tells Us about the Future".…
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Ben Waber
1:30 PM
Elizabeth Streb is not just a choreographer; she is an extreme action architect. "Born to Fly" traces the evolution of Streb’s movement philosophy – she pushes herself and her company from the ground, to the wall, to the…
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in America has risen to record highs. The median wealth of white households is 20 times that of black households and 18 times that of Hispanic households, according to a Pew Resea…
Intermediate
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Deirdra Burgess, Judy Robinett, Natalia Oberti Noguera, Rodney Sampson
Join Marvel Entertainment- home to The Avengers, Spider-Man, Guardians Of The Galaxy, X-Men & more- in the first ever Your Universe panel at SXSW. Featuring exclusive announcements and reveals from Marvel’s comic book, d…
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Arune Singh, Axel Alonso, Kristin Vincent, Ryan Penagos, TQ Jefferson
Baby Mary Director: Kris Swanberg An eight-year-old girl living on the west side of Chicago finds a neglected toddler and decides to take her home. CADET Director: Kevin Meul “If it were easy, everyone would do it” FUN…
Ukraine’s topless feminist sensation FEMEN have stirred up a press frenzy across Europe. Outraged by the world's image of Ukrainian women as either brides for sale or commodities of sex tourism, Femen bare their breasts …
1:40 PM
P.W. Singer will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know".…
Presenters
PW Singer
Nate Silver will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don't ".…
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Nate Silver
1:45 PM
The story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz's help in the development of RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his fingerprints are all over the internet. But it was Swartz's groundbre…
2:00 PM
So you made your film. You did your festival run. Now what? If you’re like the vast majority of independent filmmakers, you’re faced with the choice of taking a bad distribution deal or launching into the dread world of …
Intermediate
Presenters
Don Downie
Today's gamers generate enormous amounts of information every time they launch a game. That time you blew yourself up accidentally? Publishers and developers saw it. Those 20 minutes you wandered around lost with no idea…
Intermediate
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Chris Morris , Jeremy Ballenger, Lenin Gali, Tom Hess
With “Bad Words,” his audacious feature directorial debut, Jason Bateman expands an already packed career portfolio with this subversive comedy that critics are calling a smart, uproarious and exuberant crowd-pleaser. We…
Beginner
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Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor
Come join Paul Qui and other notable chefs for this talk around the growing trend of the DIY scene in food. Meaning, smaller, personable, minimal frill -- primary focus on food and flavors, and not on pretense. As people…
Intermediate
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Laura Sawicki, Meghan McCarron, Ned Elliott, Paul Qui
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear Chris Horton, Ben…
Beginner
Presenters
Benjamin Crossley-Marra, Chris Horton, Jillian Longnecker
The HollyShorts annual festival in LA showcases short films from around the globe. From the Dailymotion venue at the Hideout Theater, HollyShorts will screen a handful of their past selections. (http://hollyshorts.com/)…
This hands-on workshop setting will allow participants to work individually with top Casting Directors on their audition technique. Participants will prepare their own material and will have ten minutes with a Casting Di…
Intermediate
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Beth Sepko, Matthew Lessall, Rochelle Rose, Sarah Finn, Susan Shopmaker
From the Producer of ‘Searching for Sugarman’, The Legend of Shorty goes after the leader of the biggest drugs cartel in history. Spurred on by specially composed songs by Jackson Scott, and Tyrone Power as Zorro, the …
Photography is changing at a rapid pace: never before have we been able to share so quickly with so many people, and with such frequency. Exploring our photographic interests today and the technology we currently have at…
Intermediate
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Dan Rubin
Join us for a very special edition of Meet the Insiders. Hosted by Rose Vincelli Gustine of IFP this Meet the Insiders session will allow the audience to interact with eight of the top grantmakers and gatekeepers from th…
Intermediate
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Anna Rose Holmer, Eleanor Whitney, Iyabo Boyd, Jim Sommers, Juliana Steele, Lois Vossen, Rahdi Taylor, Rose Vincelli Gustine
There are countless legal pitfalls inherent in the world of film and video. Meet one on one with legal specialists for invaluable information to save you from costly problems in the future. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.…
Beginner
Presenters
Charles Prince, Dan Satorius, Deena Kalai, Emilio Nicolas, George Rush, Jason Janego, Michael Saleman
Nash spends a year drawing into himself, becoming troubled by his work and disillusioned with his romantic prospects—until a return home forces him to confront his inertia. Through pulsing dance floors, flooded basements…
Video games are a major cultural force worldwide, but reflect only a tiny fraction of our culture. They can be fun, exciting and immersive, but why are so few heartbreaking, inspirational, personal, or subversive? Zoe …
Beginner
Presenters
Alexander Sheive, Zoe Quinn
As a young man, US-born Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. He followed the mysterious sounds back to the Central African rainforest, found his music with the Bayaka pygmies – and never ca…
An engaging and hands-on workshop for filmmakers — you’ll get to shoot in 6K with an EPIC DRAGON, ingest footage and apply camera settings using Surface, pull stills from footage and manipulate them using Adobe Lightroom…
ShortCase is a short film program presented annually at SXSW Film and Interactive Festival by the Austin Film Society. ShortCase 2014 includes a diverse slate of shorts made by AFS members, and was curated by a jury incl…
What does unbranded content about blind coffee roasters, feral pigs, and electric bikes have to do with selling groceries? The team at Dark Rye, Whole Foods Market’s online magazine, thinks there’s a connection. Dark Rye…
Intermediate
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Caitlin Riley, Ira Chute, Jacob Ellenberg
Don't miss David Pogue's daily chats and interactive demos with industry trailblazers, featuring Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit.……
2:15 PM
Best Sound Director: Josh Polon Trent and Chris go on a sonic journey. The High Five Director: Michael Jacobs The story behind the classic celebratory gesture and its unsung originator. Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Gra…
2:30 PM
Mojang’s Director of Fun, Lydia Winters, will be your guide as you explore how the world is using Minecraft. Did you know it has been featured in world renown museums? That some Minecraft parodies have more views than th…
Presenters
Lydia Winters
3:00 PM
Dr danah boyd will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens".…
Presenters
Danah Boyd
Neal Cabage and Sonya Zhang will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Smarter Startup: A Better Approach to Online Business for Entrepreneurs".…
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Neal Cabage
Stop by the Dell and NVIDIA Green Room for complimentary drinks daily from 3-5 PM. Also, join them for coffee every morning.……
Attend an interactive workshop with the team responsible for bringing new apps to Chevrolet. Learn how to build apps for vehicles, discuss developer opportunities within Chevrolet, and demo a sample of in-vehicle apps. …
Veronica Mars has put Neptune and her amateur sleuthing days behind her on the eve of graduating law school. While interviewing at high-end law firms, Veronica gets a call from her ex-boyfriend Logan who has been accused…
3:30 PM
In today’s digital age, the success of a video, image or news story is determined by its ability to go social. Rarely does such a topic survive one news cycle, let alone two, and the idea that a social phenomenon would s…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Turtle, Kevin Bacon
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23825 Ed…
Intermediate
Presenters
Julian Sanchez, Robert Chesney, Susan Landau, Timothy Edgar
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25757 I…
Intermediate
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Amelia Showalter
Mike Wilson Partner & Funslinger at Devolver Digital, who also founded and served as CEO for Gathering of Developers and Gamecock Media Group, talks about the continuing philosophy of putting the talent in control and ho…
Presenters
Mike Wilson
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Sarah Best-Wilson
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP23340 Do…
Advanced
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Dorice Piraino, Mark Williams
The Latina perspective has long been absent from many mediums until most recently with the growth of online communities. Bicultural Latinas are defining their voice in this space and generating much needed content. In th…
Intermediate
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Nicole Presley, Paulina Artieda, Sara Calderón, Stephanie Guerra
Chade-Meng Tan will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)".…
Presenters
Chade-Meng Tan
Toby Barlow will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Babayaga".……
Presenters
Toby Barlow
Almost everyone and everything has an app now, but whether those apps get traction with users and perform well for developers depends on a special blend of brains (backend functionality) and beauty (UX). As with dating, …
Advanced
Presenters
Ilya Sukhar
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP20591 Th…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ian MacDowell, Katrina Bekessy
Gigabit fiber means more than just faster Internet. Low latency, virtual networks and frictionless online experiences enable a new world of possibilities. Next generation Internet applications are challenging from both a…
Intermediate
Presenters
Aaron Deacon, Bob Metcalfe, Will Barkis
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
Presenters
Dana Oshiro, Diane Tate, Lane Becker, Nicole Sanchez
With the growth of Asia there is an ever growing need to foster cooperation among organizations, entrepreneurs, innovators & to go beyond gender to develop and scale up service and education initiatives in the region. Ev…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bernise Ang, Grace Clapham
Some of the most transformative new ideas and products are being created in both the skunkwork labs of tech giants and by digital artists, hackers, and other collectives; and in some instances the two sides are joining f…
Intermediate
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Danielle Strle, Doug Carmean, Jonathan Hunt, Mike Germano
Community support is an essential component to any successful event, and successful events can benefit their communities for years to come. This meet-up seeks to unite event organizers and community leaders to share idea…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeff Cuellar
Do you have a favorite tool that you’d like to let other people know about? Then come to the first official SXSW Cool Tools Show & Tell! Bring your favorite tool (hand tools, maps, how-to books, vehicles, software, speci…
Beginner
Presenters
Mark Frauenfelder
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP27840 Le…
Intermediate
Presenters
Erin Symons, Grace Kim
Animated words and pictures behind touch-sensitive glass is no longer enough to amaze digital natives. Now more than ever, digital installations and other interactive experiences require inspired technological creativity…
Intermediate
Presenters
Keith Butters, Toby Boudreaux
We are incessantly, almost compulsively drawn to gatherings of intelligent, creative people. While we are looking to learn ways to change our professional and personal lives for the better, on a deeper level, we're compe…
Intermediate
Presenters
Denise Jacobs
One of the cool things about SXSW is that you can spend all week in Austin without spending a dime. Everywhere you look, someone or something is handing out free breakfast tacos, beer, t-shirts, even piggyback rides. Jus…
Intermediate
Presenters
David Tishgart
Over the next twenty years in India, an estimated 220 million people will move from the countryside to cities with many resettling in urban slums. With migration comes increased demand for utilities, including the need …
Intermediate
Presenters
Gaurav Bhushan, Jennifer Lee Fuqua
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
Presenters
John Lunn
Mark Duplass (actor, producer), Rob Corddry (actor), Jennifer Lafleur (actress, producer) and Ross Partridge (director) premiere and discuss their new web series, Wedlock. While Corddry is known for bringing Children’s H…
Advanced
Presenters
Corey Moss, Jennifer Lafleur, Mark Duplass, Rob Corddry, Ross Partridge
How do you succeed and change the perception of viewers in a non traditional sport? We all play sports as kids but It's extremely difficult to not only play the games we love at the professional level never mind have it…
Advanced
Presenters
Anson Carter
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
Presenters
Elizabeth Gibson, Linda Hunt
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP22152 Th…
Advanced
Presenters
Lindsey Simon, Lorin Beer
People don’t take spin class because they want to ride crappy trainers. They go because misery loves company and, for 60 minutes, someone’s there to hold them accountable. From Pilates to Plyometrics, people know that wo…
Intermediate
Presenters
Florian Gschwandtner
New to the Film Conference this year, Future 15s are short, intense salvos with each speaker delivering a 15-minute solo performance before being immediately replaced by the following speaker. Come hear Charlie Phillips,…
Beginner
Presenters
Charlie Phillips, Emily Best, Keith Leopard
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
Presenters
Jessica Richman
Love wine? Hate Snobs? This is the Meet Up for you. Come to where old & new world wines and tech collide. Time to Geek Up and Drink Up! Ask the experts, share your knowledge, and enjoy the Wine Meet Up at SXSW!…
Intermediate
Presenters
April Wright Collins, Craig Collins MS
API design is an important component of developer experience. REST and Hypermedia introduced Web concepts to API design that made integrations easier than the RPC and SOAP style APIs before them. While useful, the patter…
Advanced
Presenters
Jeremiah Cohick
It’s no secret that the transportation industry is changing in big cities. The days of simply hailing a cab are limited, with applications such as Uber, Sidecar and Getaround entering the marketplace – and giving traditi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Beth Stevens, Padden Guy Murphy, Ryan Lawler
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP25445 Wh…
Beginner
Presenters
Megan Miller, Rebecca Throne, Silvia Stephenson
Obesity. Excessive energy consumption. HIV/AIDs prevalence. Many of the most frustrating, seemingly intractable problems of the 21st century are driven by human behavior. To address these challenges, we’ll need to unders…
Intermediate
Presenters
Anna Mohan, Jitinder Kohli, Jonathan Zinman, Shrupti Shah
Instagram pictures of your island vacation, Facebook well wishes on the birth of your first child, an email from your father, Vine videos from your son’s graduation. There are no more diaries, letters or scrapbooks. Our…
Intermediate
Presenters
Mary Snauffer
How does technology fuel social change? Panelists Jill Iscol, Leila Janah, and Josh Nesbit, will discuss how technology has revolutionized social activism. They will examine how new technologies are causing us to re-e…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jill Iscol, Josh Nesbit, Leila Janah, Lisa Weinert
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
Presenters
Alice Brooks, Dylan Tweney, Eric Gradman, Mitch Altman
Come learn the basics of action and stunt fighting from legendary stuntman, stunt coordinator and director for over 35 years, Bobby Sargent, who has performed many of the most spectacular stunts in motion picture history…
Beginning
Presenters
Bobby Sargent, Val Gameiro
How do you make technology emotional and innovative-cool at the same time? A good start is developing the technology to its full potential before any big idea comes along. This panel will show how Finch and Reactive inve…
Intermediate
Presenters
Emad Tahtouh, Tim Buesing
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Cindy Wu, Daniel Grushkin, Ethan Perlstein, Jacob Shiach
What does it take to compete at the highest levels of college football? What if your program is out-muscled financially and reputationally? What innovative schematic, cultural and organizational advantages could you crea…
Intermediate
Presenters
George Schroeder, Kliff Kingsbury
Famed "Saturday Night Live" head writer and anchor of the show’s wildly popular "Weekend Update," Seth Meyers is host of NBC's "Late Night," where he brings his signature wit, jokes and satire to the weeknight scene. Joi…
Beginner
Presenters
Mike Shoemaker, Olivia Munn, Seth Meyers
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
Presenters
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
Presenters
Mark Hatch
The NFB recently produced and released the McLaren Workshop app. The app combines a catalogue of innovative animation work by Norman McLaren with the tools to create your own films using McLarens very own techniques. Ou…
Intermediate
Presenters
Lorne Price, Mivil Deschenes, Nick Alt, Patrick Doyon
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track with digital media entrepreneurs Col Needham, founder of IMDB and Kerry Trainor, CEO of Vimeo. This is an open forum to ask these insiders anything.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Col Needham, Kerry Trainor, Scott Macaulay
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Dante Chinni
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Esther Kuperman
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
George Smith
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Joy Banner
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Rohit Bhargava
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Scott Porad
Learn about the nuts and bolts of the all-important packaging, marketing and selling of your film. Who you are selling to? How do you land that buyer? Who picks up the tab? Find out here. Sign Up Here: http://mentor…
Beginner
Presenters
Alex Nohe, Bob Berney, Camille Bertrand, Glen Basner, Joe Amodei, Michael Lerman, Mike Goodridge, Richard Abramowitz
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alyssa Meritt, Chris Marley, George Mudie, Michael Griffith
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
Presenters
Brian Solis, Zach Ware
Good old mom, the holder of purse strings, the target of so many CPG brands and retailers, the prize everyone has their eye on. With more and more clients asking for “a cool mobile idea that targets mom in store” it’s …
Intermediate
Presenters
Leyla Dailey, Molly Garris
Digital design tools and the rise of fabrication have empowered ordinary citizens to build urban provocations in the dynamic context of abandoned and underused spaces sprinkled throughout cities. It is through a network …
Intermediate
Presenters
Aaron Gutierrez, Julia Cerrud
The idea that technology can revolutionize STEM education is not new. However, research suggests that some of the emerging new technologies, software, and platforms available have been shown to change the way students an…
Intermediate
Presenters
Kim Magloire
How did Notre Dame Athletics use Spotify playlists to sell tickets to their games, increase viewership on UND.com, and show Notre Dame fans and recruits the personalities behind their favorite teams and coaches? In this…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christianne Harder, Jordan Gremli
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
The greatest lesson I ever learned was this: I am a Problem Solver. Problem solvers look for (and often find) problems even when they don't exist. The real problem is that most "problems" are not, in fact, problems. With…
Intermediate
Presenters
Harry Max, Jim Meyer
As designers, we use UX and information architecture to take messy systems and turn them into organized, pleasant experiences. I don't know about you, but my house (and life in general) could certainly use a bit of that…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexis Duffy, Aynne Valencia, Jenny Tsai, Sandra Lloyd
These interactive bilingual (ASL and English) storybook apps for iPad are unique and different from any other storybook apps currently available because they were designed and developed based on research in visual learni…
Intermediate
Presenters
Melissa Malzkuhn, Melissa Herzig
Steve Case has worn several hats over the years: as an entrepreneur he co-founded America Online and brought the Internet to the masses; as a venture capitalist, he invests in people and ideas that are changing the world…
Intermediate
Presenters
Emily Chang, Steve Case
We will entertainingly chronicle the development of The Banner Saga from conception, through preproduction, Kickstarter campaign, production, and finally launch of the game. We will show plenty of behind the scenes mult…
Beginner
Presenters
Arnie Jorgensen, John Watson
Get together with other folks in the search marketing industry for an hour of brainstorming, idea-building, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Paid Search, SEO, Content Marketing, Search + Social, even Bin…
Intermediate
Presenters
William Leake
ATTENTION: You must signup in advance to attend this workshop. You will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To reserve your seat, please go here: https://sup.sxsw.com/schedule/IAP19943 Fo…
Beginner
Presenters
Craighton Berman, Eva-Lotta Lamm, Mike Rohde, Patrick Ashamalla
This panel discussion investigates how local and organically grown produce shapes Austin cooking and dining. Speakers will talk about the growth of organic markets and farm-to-table practices and discuss if / why the qua…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brenton Johnson, Megan Giller, Sam Hellman-Mass, Sean Henry, Tolly Moseley
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
Presenters
Brian Singerman, Renata Akhunova, Tim Rowe
As deeply enmeshed as technology has become in our lives, there is one place where we still squint to read small labels, strain to hear static-filled audio guides, and wrestle with disorienting paper maps: the art museum…
Intermediate
Presenters
Leslie Wolke
The growing number of three-dimensional motion and natural gesture-controlled consumer electronics on the market bring new challenges for user experience designers. This is especially true with regard to devices that ar…
Intermediate
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Kelly Goto
In an increasingly collaborative world, consumers are not only more powerful, but increasingly skeptical and demanding - continually questioning and rethinking their relationships with brands. In this scenario, the proce…
Beginner
Presenters
Lia Bertoni, Pedro Cruz
As data become more readily available, we are lulled into believing “the numbers don’t lie.” However, the human data collection methods and process, the various motives of the people involved, the political or social sys…
Beginner
Presenters
Grace Rodriguez, Jake Porway, Jonathan Schwabish, Kim Rees
How do the shows you love end up on television? Who are the men and women in charge of programming our latest TV viewing addictions? Come meet the gatekeepers of today's most popular cable networks.…
Intermediate
Presenters
Benjamin Davis, Gina Balian, Joan Boorstein, Kathleen McCaffrey, David Carr
Digital literacy is the future of communication and commerce and creates learning experiences that develop students' capacities for critical thinking, creativity, imagination and innovation. Digital communication require…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bruce Pennycook, Doug Dempster, Jennifer Ransom Rice, Warren Spector
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
Presenters
Benoît Marini
3:45 PM
Crowdsourced art is an increasingly popular practice where artists use the Internet as a participatory platform to directly engage the public in the co-creation of art. In view of its reliance on the artistic contributio…
Intermediate
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Ioana Literat
Across the country, Gen Y talent and innovative companies are abandoning the suburbs in favor of the city. In the collaboration economy, individuals want to help shape their built environment, but the dialogue and invest…
Beginner
Presenters
Kenneth Shin
4:00 PM
You have one moment to grab your audience and engage them in your Facebook content. What are the tools you need to create a compelling headline, draw in readers and force them to click through to your content? Leila Bril…
Beginner
Presenters
Leila Brillson
Sandy Carter will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Get Bold: Using Social Media to Create a New Type of Social Business".…
Presenters
Sandy Carter
Get your copy of “The Official SXSW 2014 Interactive Cookbook” at the SX Bookstore. Created in partnership with Cookbook Create, check out all the delicious recipes by some of our most loved past and present SXSW Interac…
Presenters
Amy Millman, Baratunde Thurston
Free drinks, free food, free swag, and free fun! The Spazmatics take the stage at 4:30! Dinner starts at 7:00!……
On March 5th, 2013, San Francisco’s skyline was transformed by an amazing sight: 25,000 LED lights that, for perhaps the first time save the 1989 earthquake, caused people to consider the Bay Bridge instead of her iconic…
There are concepts found within architecture and industrial design, fields that have exists for hundreds of years, that carry over to the relatively still fetal stage of interaction design. Considering and looking into t…
Intermediate
Presenters
Michael Senkow
SXSW is awesome. You are awesome. The Texas Association of Film Commissions wants to show you how awesome Texas can be. Panelists and filmmakers are invited to network over food, drinks and fine Texas hospitality. Learn …
4:15 PM
If your index finger hurts from swiping through online dating profile photos on your phone, you’re not alone. According to a recent study, half of all singles report using mobile online dating websites or applications. T…
Intermediate
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Gregory Liberman
A thousand personal photographs lost for sixty years and then found, in a secondhand store. Lost and Found tells the story of an anonymous couple's past. Who are these people? Why were their photographs abandoned? If a…
Beginner
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Jeff Phillips
Barri and Noah, a newly engaged Brooklyn couple, are disheartened by the death of their elderly downstairs neighbor, Sylvia. Though Noah sees nothing unusual about the old woman's death, Barri suspects foul play and sets…
4:30 PM
At 26 years old, Craig (Harry Lloyd) seems to be doing pretty well for himself. He has job stability, a supportive family, and is about to start a wonderful new chapter with his girlfriend. With big life changes on the…
Elizabeth Streb will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action Hero".……
Presenters
Elizabeth Streb
Free & open to the public! Top grossing digital comics platform ComiXology electrifies the SXSW GEEK Stage in this not-to-be-missed event! Join comiXology’s David Steinberger (co-founder & CEO) & John D. Roberts (co-foun…
Presenters
Chip Mosher, David Steinberger, John D. Roberts
**Extended Q&A to follow screening Based on the classic cult film, “From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series” is a supernatural crime saga centered on bank robber Seth Gecko (Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Rich…
"Take Care" is a comedy about a woman (Leslie Bibb), who returns home from the hospital after getting hit by a car, only to realize no one wants to take care of her. After being brushed off by her sister, (Nadia Dajani)…
A Wrong Note Director: Josh Leftwich Some things happen at the worst of times As We Get Older Director: Silas Connolly A short film following Jack, a lost and lonely high school boy, for one weekend. It reflects the emp…
Dick Miller is the last of the great American character actors. Whether sharing the screen with Nicholson, DeNiro, Schwarzenegger or The Ramones, Dick has been stealing scenes since his screen debut in 1955. He has worke…
Open the box. Dump out all the pieces. And scramble for your lives. Because this is competitive jigsaw puzzling. And it turns even the mildest of mannered Midwesterners into stone-cold competitors. Every January, the top…
4:40 PM
Jill Iscol, Leila Janah and Josh Nesbit will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Hearts on Fire: Stories of Today's Visionaries Igniting Idealism into Action".…
Presenters
Jill Iscol, Josh Nesbit, Leila Janah
5:00 PM
Members, makers, and entrepreneurs of the 3D printing and greater hardware community are all welcome to hear and explore what's next in 3D printing. This will be an informal panel Q&A from featured guests in the business…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bartley Gillan
The hype about Big Data is all around us and it seems the data is busy at work solving the world's problems. Big Data is being used to stop crimes, find cures to cancer and organizations like Maplight.org are using data …
Intermediate
Presenters
Elissa Fink
The manner in which an API is managed once it is launched is just as critical to its success as the design of the API, and the features it offers. This session will offer a balanced look at the reality of managing a popu…
Intermediate
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Thor Mitchell
Argentine companies’ global projection is expanding as one quarter of its production is exported to international markets. In recent years the software and IT industry has registered a higher exportation percentage than …
Intermediate
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Cesar Donofrio, Daniel Deodato, Guillermo Bodnar, Silvina Moschini
With the rise of social media, sports and culture are tied together like never before. And there are no lines between where the sports world ends and where the creative world begins. Understanding how culture can influ…
Intermediate
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Jon Wexler, Lia Vakoutis
If abstinence education can’t stop teens from getting pregnant, why are we preaching digital abstinence as the cure for information overload and online distraction? In this session we’ll dig into our digital and personal…
Intermediate
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Lauren Bacon, Rohan Gunatillake
Mark Hatch will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers".…
Presenters
Mark Hatch
Last year, PBS KIDS took on the daunting task of redesigning the brand for the modern media landscape including a complete overhaul of the Webby-award winning PBSKIDS.ORG. During this process, a small internal team took …
Advanced
Presenters
Chris Bishop, Miguel Montanez
Cat videos are no longer just an entertaining distraction between emails and facebook posts; they are now an economic force. In just the past year cat video "cat-lebrities" have inked movie and book deals, inspired touri…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Lashes, Grace Suriel, Scott Stulen, Will Braden
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
Presenters
Arthur Markman, Christopher Glode, Martha Wofford, Tim Roberts
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
After spending a long day enjoying SXSW, kick back with some video eye candy and an adult beverage courtesy of video-sharing site Dailymotion. Come watch the best videos uploaded by Dailymotion’s creative community and m…
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
Presenters
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
With the return of The Walking Dead in October 2013, AMC’s digital team set out to make the premiere a pop culture phenomenon online and re-enlisted director Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead’s Emmy Award-winning executive…
Beginning
Presenters
Greg Nicotero, Mac McKean, Rob Moynihan
Digital painting is everywhere. Do you finger-paint on your iPad? Are you overly attached to your Wacom tablet? Do you dream in HSB? You might be a digital painter. Early adopters of digital painting have been creatively…
Beginner
Presenters
Leah Davis
“Innovator” can be the worst word for a job description in the history of corporate America. This meet up is for those of us who make it their daily mission to innovate in an established company with a huge track record …
Stop by to recharge, play games, and enter to win a Kindle Fire HDX or gaming headset. And don’t miss happy hour daily 5:00 - 7:00pm: free drinks and music by DJ Pinky. Dolby Sound Exchangei s open to the public with fr…
Wait, are people still saying women aren't funny? Internet trolls aside, fearless and hilarious women are trailblazing and transforming the way readers connect with digital content -- and that (obviously) includes humor.…
Beginner
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Issa Rae, Jane Pratt, Kristina Wong, Mandy Stadtmiller
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
Presenters
Rachael Chong, Seth Bannon, Tabreez Verjee
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
Gamers grow up and become parents. But societal values make gamers feel bad about time spent gaming, prompting players to retire controllers once babies are born. But gamers do not have to choose between parent and gamer…
Intermediate
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Carla Fisher
"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
Have an idea for a killer gigabit app? Want to chat with fellow developers about what it's like to build for gigabit platforms? Join your fellow gig dreamers and some members of the Google Fiber team for an "App-y" Hour …
Beginner
Presenters
Josh Baer, Mellie Price
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…
When no one knows who you are, you can finally be yourself. That's the promise of Secret, a fast-growing anonymous sharing app. In this discussion, Secret's co-founder David Byttow and TechCrunch's Josh Constine will exp…
Intermediate
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David Byttow, Josh Constine
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
Presenters
Aydin Acar, Elizabeth Scherle
"Remedy Entertainment on how game development is like Breaking Bad: Cook, Deal, become the Kingpin." Remedy Entertainment, developers of Max Payne, Death Rally, Alan Wake and their upcoming Xbox One title Quantum Break h…
Intermediate
Presenters
Matias Myllyrinne
The smartphone has changed every element of research over the past few years – from the way consumers want to respond to inquiries (some 40% of research surveys are opened and completed on a mobile device) to the tools a…
Intermediate
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Andrew Campbell
South American countries are playing an unexpected role in the debate triggered by the disclosure of confidential documents by Wikileaks and Edward Snowden. Both Julian Assange and Snowden have been offered asylum by So…
Beginner
Presenters
Emiliano Rodriguez Nuesch
The most influential community on Twitter is the “Black Twitterverse”. Using the microblogging tool as a platform, Black Twitterverse continues to influence pop culture and political discussion in power shifting ways. It…
Intermediate
Presenters
Janel Martinez, Kelechi Anyadiegwu, Kimberly "Dr Goddess" Ellis, Tatiana King-Jones
Washington, DC -- the place where innovation goes to die. The place where The Man walks the halls of Congress in Gucci loafers. It’s easy for disruptors to ignore the political game. Or if they do play the game, play it …
Intermediate
Presenters
Maura Corbett, Patrick Ruffini
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
Presenters
Ivan Cash
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
Join Team KitchenAid for free cocktails & learn about their innovative new products at The Blackheart from 5-7pm CST on 3/8/14!……
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Alicia Dixon
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Bobbie Carlton
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Caroline Bruderer
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Kristy Stromberg
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Martin Waxman
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Presenters
Pamela Pavliscak
We live in a world that interrupts us every five minutes. Those interruptions steal our focus and shift our mindset to accomplishing more rather than on what matters more. And that's a big problem. These interruptions a…
Beginner
Presenters
Angel Chernoff, Craig Jarrow, Marc Chernoff, Mike Vardy
Mobile apps continue to pour in for games, navigation, education, collaboration, content creation - there seem to be no limits. While mobile apps are easy to develop, they can be challenging to manage, and more difficu…
Intermediate
Presenters
Peter Bahrs, Sean Sundberg
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
Intermediate
Presenters
Arlie Sisson, Brent Hieggelke, Kevin Hurst, Ted Schadler
Why do we produce charts, infographics, reports or, indeed, any kind of media? We do it to change the world and to influence people. Are you succeeding in doing that in your role? We've chosen the 5 most influential vis…
Beginner
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Andy Cotgreave
Internet pioneer, billionaire, angel investor, NBA team owner assesses the current state of technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship in a no BS session with Silicon Valley veteran Guy Kawasaki. The fun and in-depth c…
Intermediate
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Guy Kawasaki, Mark Cuban
You've posted your morning selfie & inspirational quote but have you actually done anything to elevate your personal brand? Are you building a personal brand that will ultimately lead you back to the bank? In today's me…
Intermediate
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Leigh Davenport, Reagan Gomez Preston
Over the past decade there have been 424 hurricanes worldwide, resulting in 165,000 fatalities. Ten of the 12 most costly hurricanes in U.S. history occurred during this time period—including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 an…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrea Basora, Corey Pieper, Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Wendy Harman
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
Presenters
Aaron Koblin, Jessica Hobbs, Louise Glasgow, Will Chase
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
Presenters
Bill Poston
A spirited discussion between and among some of the best creators of sports-related content in today's multi-platform, genre-hopping media landscape. This session is a part of the brand new SXsports programming at SXSW …
Intermediate
Presenters
Connor Schell, Danny Meiseles, Jonathan Hock, Mike Tollin
"Space Station 76" is a comedic drama about a group of people (and several robots) living on a space station in a 1970’s-version of the future. When a new Assistant Captain arrives, she inadvertently ignites tensions am…
Want to know how LeBron beats Kevin Durant off the court? Join us at the MVPindex Sports Lounge to engage with a platform that measures real-time digital brand value of athletes, teams and leagues and learn how top athle…
People from all facets of the sports media world get together to discuss this constantly changing industry. All the tools, tips, to-dos and best practices in one place during SXSW. This session is part of the brand new …
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew McNeill, Dave Abbott
#SXsingle, it's not just a hashtag, it's a lifestyle. Over the years, the term "what happens at South By, stays at South By" has become part of the vernacular for veteran attendees. In some instances, this means exactly…
Beginner
Presenters
Kathryn Irwin, Sean Henry
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
Presenters
Brian Singerman, Renata Akhunova, Tim Rowe
Head to the beautiful Intercontinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel Terrace Bar for nightly happy hours. Hosted by Blackmagic Design, the event this evening will give attendees the opportunity to check out the Blackmagic ca…
After their whirlwind announcement on the Geek Stage relax and grab a FREE drink with co-founder and CEO David Steinberger in an all-drinks-paid Happy Hour brought to you by the revolutionary digital comics platform – co…
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
Presenters
Daniel Hill
More and more of what we do, see, and create is collected digitally resulting in what might be thought of as a digital body. Unlike the physical or social body, the digital body remains intact after death, leaving behind…
Beginner
Presenters
Melissa Martin
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show that the NSA is engaging in an unprecedented breach of our privacy, gathering data about every telephone conversation and online transaction it can. But don't worry, says President…
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Conley, Evan Greer
Don’t let SXSW be a blur. These six tips can help you take SXSW from being a blur of an event to a transformative experience. This is my fifth consecutive SXSW Interactive festival (the first three I attended and partic…
Intermediate
Presenters
Cathryn Posey, Sophia Wong
With car2go..we are using visualization mapping software based on daily trip and member data to give us insight on how a city moves. With over 600,000 members worldwide using our service, it is very important to show c…
Beginner
Presenters
Paul DeLong
Imagine a future where a driverless street sweeper cleans your street or a small drone delivers your mail. For the last decade, discussions about the government use of autonomous or remotely operated technologies have fo…
Intermediate
Presenters
Matt Caccavale, Samra Kasim
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
Presenters
Felice Frankel, Jennifer Jongsma
The Internet is abuzz with talk of Google Glass, and rumors of an impending "iWatch" from Apple have fanboys trembling with anticipation. Is all of this excitement hype or will this new genre of computing devices catch o…
Advanced
Presenters
Alison Lewis, Chick Foxgrover, Gilly Segal, Sean White
The tech story of 2013 – the PRISM revelations and their fallout – wasn't broken by technology journalists. Why was that? Are most tech reporters too wrapped up in simple tasks like rewriting press releases about new app…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alexia Tsotsis, Jemima Kiss, Kara Swisher, Martin Bryant
Across the country, there is an increasingly widespread problem of abusers and perpetrators posting images and video footage online as a tactic of abuse, harassment, bullying and extortion. The images and videos may be …
Beginner
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Christina Gagnier, Erica Johnstone
Join us and make amazing things happen for our 800 million users worldwide. Learn how Yahoo! is innovating and bringing great products to market and how you could be a part of it.……
Be popular. Don’t miss out on the party. Figure out what’s cool before it’s, well – not anymore. Social media today has the familiar symptoms of a high school classroom; but now, instead of obsessing over what our classm…
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Cunningham, Mea Cole Tefka
5:15 PM
Brands used to be able to check off the ‘social’ box by maintaining a Facebook page. Today, brands have made social content the center of their global marketing strategies – creating, distributing, and measuring content …
Intermediate
Presenters
Jim Rudden
5:30 PM
Seth Olenick will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Funny Business".……
Presenters
Seth Olenick
What happens when you take a photo of every fragment of your life? All those micro moments that are recorded and analysed. Has your visual existence been enhanced? What would you learn from your signature photographic a…
Intermediate
Presenters
David McNamara
In today's hyper-connected, always-on, and always-now era brands operate in a state of perpetual tension, fearful of when their next blunder will crescendo into a tidal wave like publicity disaster. This is limiting, and…
Advanced
Presenters
Adam Abrahami
Connect with the Startup Community at the fifth annual Startup Meatup, and enjoy a casual, relaxed atmosphere for networking with BBQ and beer! RSVP at http://ow.ly/uhlTW……
Join the award-winning studios Gearbox Software and Telltale Games as they unveil the first ever details surrounding their new episodic game series, Tales from the Borderlands, premiering for download later this year. L…
Presenters
Anthony Burch, Emily Gordon, Harrison Pink, Kevin Bruner, Kumail Nanjiani, Matthew Armstrong, Randy Pitchford
5:40 PM
Brian Solis will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "What's the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences ".…
Presenters
Brian Solis
5:45 PM
Keeping user-created content quality high is challenging as a community grows, but Quora has managed to do it while riding significant growth. Come hear and learn from Marc Bodnick, who leads the business and community t…
Intermediate
Presenters
Marc Bodnick
Mostly known for his volume suggesting lettering work, Dado was once regarded as a "3D type magician" by renowned typographer Ale Paul—even though, perhaps more impressively, all his designs are made entirely in 2D. At S…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dado Queiroz
6:00 PM
Join ESPN’s Jon Gruden, actor Michael B. Jordan, Olympian Sanya Richards-Ross & others for cocktails, live music and an exclusive sneak peek of a new documentary produced by Tribeca Digital Studios as we celebrate the la…
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Few names are as synonymous with improv as Matt Besser. Founding member of the Upright Citizens Brigade and a regular performer in the world-famous show ASSSSCAT, Matt has brought his talents to this fully improvised pod…
Presenters
Adam Pally, Jon Gabrus, Matt Besser
Smart people. Big ideas. New connections. Meet McCombs faculty, alumni, local entrepreneurs and other interactive attendees passionate about entrepreneurship.……
The Mix at Six Party always delivers as one of the top networking events of all of SXSW Interactive. We provide the food and drinks. You bring the business cards and the energy to mingle with hundreds of fascinating digi…
Bringing together a full day of award-winning speakers, from the worlds biggest brands, to share their winning mobile strategies. Hosted by Urban Airship……
6:10 PM
Art Markman will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Smart Change: Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others"…
Presenters
Arthur Markman
Kristina Halvorson will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Content Strategy for the Web, 2nd Edition".…
Presenters
Kristina Halvorson
Will Braden will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Henri, le Chat Noir: The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat".……
Presenters
Will Braden
6:15 PM
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already en…
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. Conferences and large gatherings can be a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All ar…
6:30 PM
Come discuss the future of virtual reality (VR) and the Oculus Rift with members of the Oculus team including Palmer Luckey, founder, and Nate Mitchell, co-founder, and Ryan Brown, hardware architect. We’ll give a short …
Presenters
Aaron Davies, Nate Mitchell, Palmer Luckey, Ryan Brown
When it started two decades ago, SXSW Interactive was a couple hundred participants and a handful of panel discussions, all crammed into a few rooms at a Hyatt in Austin. Today, it has become a launching pad for startups…
Beginner
Presenters
Baratunde Thurston, Danah Boyd, Gary Vaynerchuk, Guy Kawasaki, Hugh Forrest, Lane Becker, Molly Steenson, Robert Safian
6:45 PM
In "Things People Do", Bill Scanlin loses his job and, unable to tell his wife Susan for fear of losing his family, embarks on a life of crime. He befriends a detective, Frank, who has chosen to uphold the law for a livi…
7:00 PM
What happens when you take twenty handpicked creatives, give them each two minutes and the same question to answer before a live audience? Crowds have been finding out for fourteen years now: join us as our twenty take t…
Join Knight Foundation for a massive demo party- check out exciting projects about journalism and the web.……
Join Yahoo Sports as we celebrate one of the biggest rivalries in college basketball, Duke vs. UNC. We’ll have beer pong, drinks, and a feast fit for the game!……
Cody and Virginia start talking while he’s in Brooklyn and she’s in Berlin. It’s a romance that could only happen online, and they’re happy together—except they’ve never really met. But Cody’s questions about Virginia’s …
2014's iteration of the much-beloved EFF/EFF-Austin afterparty featuring Gareth Branwyn, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, William Barker (Schwa) and Jon Lebkowsky. Come see us at the AdPeople office, 19th floor of the Capi…
Dean is an inventive yet unorthodox scientist who uses his technical expertise to create grand romantic gestures for his girlfriend Lana. After an anniversary weekend goes terribly wrong, a guilt-ridden Dean is spurred t…
Whit and Drew, film raunchy pranks and stick them online. To try and attract more views they recruit a girl, Rosa, to appear in their videos. They BOTH fall for her and begin a series of insanely embarrassing and outrage…
Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne lead the cast of "Neighbors", a comedy about a young couple suffering from arrested development who are forced to live next to a fraternity house after the birth of their newborn baby…
Patrick is a warm, open, twenty-six year old virgin schizophrenic. Pills and his mother’s protection mean he is no threat to himself or anyone else. Until he falls in love. The object of his desire is Karen, a suicidal f…
Join us for innovative and inspiring sculptures of light at the SXSW Eco Light Garden. The park has been curated with art from around the world, and this event is free and open to the public. Pieces include: Huckleberr…
Join us at our inaugural ceremony presented by Intel and iam8bit, hosted by iJustine and SMOSH with halftime entertainment courtesy of Cirque de Soleil, which will honor the year's best major studio games, as well as rec…
U-M alums unite! Advance RSVP required at sxsw.rsvp@umich.edu Send your name, degree, year and guest. Free food, drinks, 21+ please.……
She experiments with vegetables while masturbating and thinks body hygiene is greatly overrated. She shocks those around her by speaking her mind in a most unladylike manner on topics that many people wouldn’t dare to th…
7:30 PM
Former Governor and wrestling legend JESSE VENTURA is on the ground in Austin and he’s assembled a team of investigative experts to uncover some explosive information that will unravel the biggest conspiracy yet. The New…
Presenters
James Adomian, Kate Berlant, Matt Besser, Mike MacRae
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Science Channel makes its SXSW debut at legendary Stubb’s Bar-B-Q on Saturday night with the provocatively-titled event, I F-ING LOVE SCIENCE CHANNEL, inspired by the Facebook phenomenon, I F*cking Love Science (IFLS). …
?uestlove is the unmistakable heartbeat of The Roots, Philadelphia’s most influential hip-hop band. Beyond that, this Grammy award-winning musician's undisputable reputation has landed him musical directing positions wit…
The Returners are a five-piece video game cover band based in Austin, Texas. We play a huge range of music from the SNES, Sega Master System, Playstation, PC and more. We’re a little metal, a little symphonic, and a lot …
Presenters
Andrew Dangerfield, John Pike, K Hawes-Domingue, Lauren Liebowitz, Mike Villalobos
Join us for our 5th annual Startup Celebration featuring the nations hottest early stage startups, cocktails and more!……
7:45 PM
Jimmy Price (Jeremy Sisto) is a reckless man-child on the last leg of his career as a doubles tennis player. When his latest partner drops him, he realizes he’s officially burned all of his bridges on the pro circuit. He…
8:00 PM
Celebrate innovation with Deloitte at the Hangar Lounge in downtown Austin. Kick off Interactive with cocktails, live music, and connections. Space is limited; visit sxsw.deloitte.com for RSVP info.……
The Grawlix is a live comedy show featuring Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl and Ben Roy that incorporates stand-up, videos and sketch comedy, all sprinkled with occasional bickering. Based out of Denver, the Grawlix…
Presenters
Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, Ben Roy, Matt Braunger, Matt Besser
The second annual SXSW Eco Launch Party celebrates the start of the SXSW Eco season and unites SXSW attendees interested in creating a better future. Join the SXSW Eco staff and friends for drinks, entertainment and to d…
8:30 PM
Created by AT&T in collaboration with VICE's Motherboard, this three-day interactive showcase celebrates young innovators by elevating mobile innovations to new heights. Come experience apps in amazing new ways, enjoy ou…
9:30 PM
Paranoia forces small-time scam artist, Marty to flee his lousy temp job and hide out in his co-worker's basement. Once the sugar high wears off, the horror metal slacker crashes hard, fleeing to Detroit with nothing but…
Looking for work, Aaron (Patrick Brice) comes across a cryptic online ad: $1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated. Low on cash and full of naiveté he drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town w…
Amidst quarter-life crises, Allie struggles to prepare for the Peace Corps, while Harper awaits checks from her father to fund her artistic dreams. But the two friends quickly shun responsibilities for the day when a pai…
"Harmontown" is a documentary film starring TV writer and producer Dan Harmon (NBC's "Community", Adult Swim’s “Rick and Morty”) as he takes his popular podcast of the same name on a calamitous cross-country tour. Much …
Rob is facing the biggest day of his life. He needs to nail a college interview ensuring his admittance to his parents’ beloved alma mater, keep his cool when life-long crush Angela (nicknamed ‘After School Special’ for …
The all-stars of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre's Touring Company bring you an hour of never before seen improvisational comedy, taking inspiration from executive producer Stage17’s hilarious indie webseries, Terri…
Presenters
D'Arcy Carden, Jon Gabrus, Michael Kayne, Nicole Byer, Shannon O'Neill
"Yakona" is a visual experience through the crystal clear waters of the San Marcos River and its headwaters at Spring Lake. Follow the river on an impressionistic journey from its point of view as it flows from source to…
9:45 PM
Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a house that seems like a bunker in a post-catastrophic world. Outside is a threatening landscape. Once they were a perfect love triangle, with strong bonds of friendship, but toda…
10:00 PM
Box Room Director: Michael lathrop A strange and solitary boy discovers a seductive creature growing in his bedroom wall. Chocolate Heart Director: Harrison Atkins Owen never learned about sex or relationships from his …
"Predestination" chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignmen…
From Paul Provenza and Troy Conrad, Set List: Stand-Up Without A Net is currently a TV series on Sky Atlantic in the UK starring Robin Williams, Maria Bamford, Gilbert Gottfried, Greg Proops, Fred Willard, Drew Carey, Re…
Presenters
Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Kronberg, Greg Proops, Jonah Ray, Kate Berlant, Matt Braunger, Nate Bargatze, Paul Provenza
10:15 PM
Viago (Taika Waititi), Deacon (Jonathan Brugh), and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement) are three flatmates who are just trying to get by and overcome life’s obstacles—like being immortal vampires who must feast on human blood. …
10:30 PM
It’s the first night of SXSW Comedy, and we’re kicking our week off with a party presented by NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers.……
11:45 PM
10 years ago tragedy struck, leaving the lives of siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the murder of their parents. Now in his 20s, Tim is released from protective custody and wants to move o…
11:55 PM
Wanting to unwind after hitting the nightly parties or spending the day in the theaters? Swing back by the InterContinental Bar to check in on the action.……
11:59 PM
David is the perfect guest. Friendly and helpful, this young soldier arrives on the doorstep of the Peterson family, claiming to be a good friend of their beloved son who died in action. The Petersons welcome David into …
Determined to make it as an actress in Hollywood, Sarah Walker spends her days working a dead-end job, enduring petty friendships and going on countless casting calls in hopes of catching her big break. After a series o…
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