Events matching tag "health"
Friday, March 7
“One of my tricks for generating startup ideas is to imagine the ways in which we'll seem backward to future generations. And I'm pretty sure that to people 50 or 100 years in the future, it will seem barbaric that peopl…
Intermediate
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Dr Dennis Schmuland, Dr Gautam Gulati, Morgan Gress, Naimish Patel
Following on the success of the 2012 and 2013 Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSHbooty), 2014 will mark the 3rd consecutive year of the event that provides education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health…
Intermediate
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Ryan Olohan, Shwen Gwee, Unity Stoakes
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 …
Beginner
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Ari Stiles
Following on the success of the 2012 and 2013 Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSH), 2014 will mark the 3rd consecutive year of the event that provides education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health tech…
Beginner
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Andrei Zimiles, Sam Zebarjadi, Samer Hamadeh
As anyone who cried when Aeris died knows, it’s easy to fall in love with your favourite game character. One of gaming's biggest strengths is the ability to allow players to form deep emotional bonds with characters. Emp…
Intermediate
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Michelle Hamilton-Page, Miriam Verburg
Following on the success of the 2012 and 2013 Social Health Startup Bootcamp (#SXSH), 2014 will mark the 3rd consecutive year of the event that provides education, inspiration, and funding advice for (social) health tech…
Intermediate
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Dwayne Spradlin, Jody Holtzman, Katya Hancock, Thomas Tsang
Saturday, March 8
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
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 …
Beginner
Presenters
Bea Love
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
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
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
Have you or anyone you know been feeling over-medicated lately? Under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry and related entities that capitalize on human fears and emotions, more than 45% of U.S. adults are taking mu…
Intermediate
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Elizabeth Gibson, Linda Hunt
With the explosion of wearable devices, the quantified self is not just for data junkies anymore. Connected fitness starts with tracking activity and collecting data. It raises our awareness and helps us get off the couc…
Intermediate
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Arthur Markman, Christopher Glode, Martha Wofford, Tim Roberts
Sunday, March 9
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…
Beginner
Presenters
Bea Love
Consumer adoption of wearables and mobile sensors is set to skyrocket in 2014 and beyond, with increasingly complex devices bringing about the true realization of ‘the quantified self’. The impact these sensors will have…
Intermediate
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Gadi Amit
From health trackers, like the Basis band and Nike Fuelband, to communications devices including Google Glass and the widely-anticipated iWatch, the wearables market is poised to top $12 billion by 2018. This growth prom…
Intermediate
Presenters
Bonnie Cha, Jef Holove, Rodrigo Martinez, Yijing Brentano
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 …
Beginner
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Melodie Tao
From tablets to 3D printers to smartphones, Star Trek has given life to some of today’s hottest technologies. 40 years after the show’s launch, technology has finally advanced to where we are able to live in the future, …
Intermediate
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Rod Roddenberry, Sam De Brouwer
A multifaceted look at the NFL's current state of concussions, providing the view of former players, medical experts and those in charge of advancing the technology to improve player safety. This session is part of the b…
Advanced
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Chris Nowinski, Craig Anderson, Domonique Foxworth, Will Brinson
Imagine every cancer patient's genome being sequenced to design proteins that bind to the mutations of that patient in order to destroy their tumor. This idea is not impossible. And soon these paradigms will become the…
Advanced
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Riley Ennis
Current figures from the American Diabetes Association show that 8% of the U.S. population, or 25.8 million people, have diabetes. This is a large percentage of the populace that needs to manage a chronic health issue. …
Intermediate
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Brian Sherwell
Mobile apps and health devices on the market today claim to help you adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors fast — but just because the technology is available, that doesn’t guarantee you a success story. Fixing bad health h…
Intermediate
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John de Souza
Monday, March 10
In 2009, Toni Carey and Ashley Hicks created Black Girls RUN! ® to tackle the growing obesity epidemic in the African American community. The mission of BGR! is to encourage black women to make fitness and healthy living…
Intermediate
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Ashley Hicks, Felicia Harris, Toni Carey
Scanadu Founder Walter de Brouwer is an academic and scientist who sees the future of healthcare in smartphones. With advances in sensors, imaging and mobile technology allowing us to examine, and see, the human body lik…
Intermediate
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Walter De Brouwer
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…
Beginner
Presenters
Neal Pollack
With its unflinching, uncensored approach to the kind of health problems that people just don’t talk about, Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies is the most provocative medical series on British TV. Beyond broadcast, the sho…
Intermediate
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Nick Lockey
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 …
Beginner
Presenters
Jenni Bevill
Sometimes we all hit a wall in our careers, in our startups, or even just in life. It happens to everyone. Increasingly, people who have felt burned out with life have turned to alternative ways to connecting, centering,…
Intermediate
Presenters
Allie Phillips, Julie Germany
As it stands today, we have a massive chronic health crisis affecting our country from the inside out. There is plenty of support for the coming revolution of the health care system but how do we get people to act upon t…
Intermediate
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Michael Olaya, Taylor Pechacek
Public health officials are challenged with managing, and reversing, the continued growth of America's waistline. Since the current rate is not sustainable, how can entrepreneurs, public entities, and academia work toge…
Intermediate
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Jason Donahue, Manuel Rosso, Robyn Metcalfe, Ryan Shadrick Wilson
On Independence Day 2011, the first-ever #BCSM tweetchat for those affected by breast cancer took place. Less than two years later, the group had attracted thousands of participants, spawned a website and a YouTube chann…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alicia Staley, Deanna Attai, Jody Schoger, Xeni Jardin
A fireside chat with Internet / IP Communication (The FCC's Pulver Order) and startup investor, Jeff Pulver, on his very public journey on losing 100+ pounds, transforming his body, and rebooting his life. Without surg…
Beginner
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Alan Weinkrantz, Jeff Pulver
We spend a lot of time working: sitting for hours slumped over our keyboards, precariously squeezing the phone receiver between our shoulder and ear, squinting at our screens, drinking way too much caffeine. We work late…
Beginner
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Chris Boyce
Quantified Self has become all the buzz at the intersection of technology and the health and fitness worlds, but are consumers really benefiting from the huge amount of data they are now tracking? Sarah Robb O’Hagan, Pre…
Intermediate
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James B Maas, John "Ivo" Stivoric, Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Sasha Digiulian
Fitness wearables are currently one of the hottest items on the market right now. And, it’s amazing all of the data they can track – from deep sleep patterns to calories burned. But how does a user even begin to make sen…
Beginner
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Jennifer Grenz, Jin Lee
Environmental politics are broken. The root cause, I believe, is that "the environment" is now viewed as an abstraction, a set of circumstances remote from many people's everyday lives and experiences. We used to count o…
Intermediate
Presenters
Ken Cook
Tuesday, March 11
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…
Beginner
Presenters
Jennilyn Carson
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/IAP27289 Ra…
Intermediate
Presenters
Jeff Hammerbacher, Joel Dudley, Konrad Karczewski
By 2050, there will be 2 billion more people on the planet and food security experts say that at today's rate of production, there won't be enough protein for everyone. Innovators are racing to find solutions to the loom…
Intermediate
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Andrew Brentano, Daniel Imrie-Situnayake, Harman Singh Johar, Megan Miller
Friday, March 14
Everybody wants a place they can call home—a place where they’re accepted, loved, and healed. But for musicians—often traveling, working nights and weekends, finding and keeping community can be a challenge. Discuss thes…
Presenters
Greg Garrett, Matisyahu , Patrice Pike, Merrill Wade
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