Events matching tag "technology"
Friday, March 7
Crowdfunding is grassroots community engagement. Its powerful approach to fundraising and brandraising leverages the speed and reach of the Internet -- as well as advocates’ networks -- to acquire more donors and raise m…
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David Neff, Miriam Kagan
Carmelo Gordian (Partner at Andrews & Kurth), John Edge (a UK Entrepreneur), Lefteris Douanoglou (CEO at Schoox) and Angelos Angelou (Angelou Economics) will identify and address the major issues and challenges internati…
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Angelos Angelou, Demetris Gerogiannis, John Edge, Tony Defalis
Africa has a population set to double by 2050, and along with population growth, the continent is reaping the benefits of expansion in the country’s information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure. In Sub-…
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Claude Migisha Kalisa, Fred Mweetwa, Gertjan van Stam, Jessica Colaço
SXSW provides a fascinating opportunity for higher ed technologists to network and learn about an array of new interactive technology ideas and discoveries. At this meet-up, Penn State IT tech enthusiasts invite you to j…
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Cynde Fleagle, Patti Fantaske
In 2010, I took the stage at an entrepreneurship competition. While I stood up there, I didn’t notice that the other four finalists were male until the organizer gave us our awards. Along with a plaque, they gave me a ma…
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Catherine Cook
Sesame Workshop, Qualcomm and Two Bulls recently partnered to develop a new type of gaming experience for preschoolers. Using Qualcomm’s AllJoyn technology combined with the Unity SDK, this multi-screen game prototype s…
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Brian Vogelsang, Jessie Hopkins, John Cameron, Noah Harlan
digitalundivided (DID) is a tech based social enterprise founded by black women, that is leading the charge to develop a model for tech entrepreneurship and education created by the community, for the community. 25% of t…
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Ashley Scott, Elisa Camahort Page, Tobias Wright, William Crowder
In the near future, humans will increasingly rely on robots to manage agriculture, infrastructure, transportation, healthcare, manufacturing and security. Advanced human-robot interaction will transform industries and ch…
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Dawn Tilbury, Elena Messina, Heather Knight, Henrik Christensen
The idea of making isn’t just reserved for handmade bikes, artisan pickles, and Arduino helicopters. The future of making is a product of our human needs and the possibilities we create through technology. This is about …
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Joie Ito, Tim Brown
Saturday, March 8
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.…
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Aldea Douglas, Andres Castillo
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…
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DL Byron
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
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
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
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
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…
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Arvin Poole, Elizabeth Vandewater PhD, Francesco Cardoletti, Keree Brannen
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
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
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 …
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Andrew Cleland, Clay Walker, Daniel Shlossman, Marquise Goodwin, Stephania Bell
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
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…
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Keith Butters, Toby Boudreaux
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…
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Jill Iscol, Josh Nesbit, Leila Janah, Lisa Weinert
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…
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Angel Chernoff, Craig Jarrow, Marc Chernoff, Mike Vardy
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 …
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Christina Gagnier, Erica Johnstone
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…
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James Kirkham, Paul Kemp-Robertson
Sunday, March 9
How do you bring a travel destination to life using technology and digital storytelling? In 2010 direct spending by resident and international travelers in the U.S. averaged $2 billion a day, $86.6 million an hour, $1.4 …
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Dylan Thuras, Jimmy Keown, Leslie Guettler, Seth Kugel
Technology has fundamentally changed the way we think about knowledge, and classrooms are inevitably going to undergo deep structural changes in the next decade to reflect this. No policy will be able to prevent this. In…
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Connor Zwick
Today’s disruptive consumer isn’t a tech-savvy millennial or a millionaire taking the first space tour. It’s a farmer in rural India, gaining access to consumer products for the first time. A woman in Africa whose repack…
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Mitchell Habib
What if you could instantly download a new set of skills simply by plugging your brain directly into the Internet? This “Matrix like” capability will soon be a reality for robots, creating scalable machines without the l…
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Anthony Levandowski, Ayorkor Korsah, James Kuffner, Ken Goldberg
Join us as we examine the new economy that rewards entrepreneurship, creativity and connectedness like never before. More opportunities than ever are gained or lost through the digital marketplace. Hear from Ice-T about …
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Rayna Verbeck, Wheeler del Torro
SXSW is a place of creative convergence, so why not use it meet creatives from other disciplines? Whether you are interested in telling a story through film or spreading the story of your brand you will be able to meet…
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Amy Dotson
Advancements in wearable technology are leading to a cultural tipping point – constant connectivity will fundamentally change the way humans relate, interact and behave with each other. We're at the very beginning of thi…
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Elise Hu, Patrick Miller, Perry Fair, Timothy Jordan
Industrial Revolution II is a different kind of garment company. Social advancement for our workers, their families and our neighbors is equally important to us as delivering our customers the highest quality products an…
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Joey Adler, Rob Broggi
Monday, March 10
It is fairly obvious by now that technology advances have changed the world. But occasionally, it comes into question whether that change has been for good or bad. Often, the innovation coming out of Silicon Valley has b…
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Ben Coffey Clark, Reshma Saujani
Emerging markets face unique challenges when it comes to technology innovation and adoption: poverty, cultural obstacles, lack of supporting infrastructure. But in some cases, these so-called third world markets are usin…
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Carla Echevarria
The Constitution calls for a patent system to “promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” …
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Julie Hopkins, Lee Dunn, Reihan Salam, Russ Merbeth
New technologies are transforming the orchestral industry, empowering entrepreneurial musicians and giving strong advantages to minimally staffed upstarts. Learn how it is increasingly possible for a single person, with …
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Richard McKay
Is it possible to bring about a world where billions of people are directly empowered to change their lives and communities by 2015? The answer is yes. It might sound implausible, but it is actually achievable with the r…
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Amanda Kloer
Reducing Social Isolation of LGBT Seniors and Youth Through Technology, Centers and Libraries From homeless LGBT youth to LGBT seniors who have been rejected by their families, this panel will explore the range of issue…
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Dr Imani Woody, Jama Shelton, John Chrastka, Robert Espinoza
As humans live longer and the global population ages and expands to 10 billion people, the world will face an unprecedented healthcare crisis. In this session, you’ll discover how robot and augmented reality assisted the…
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Allison Okamura, Catherine Mohr, Katherine Kuchenbecker
The studios have slowly but surely abandoned movie development, finance and production. Their physical plant is no longer necessary and the last bastion of their control over business - the collective monopoly on distrib…
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Janet Brown, John Sloss, John Pierson, Ross Fremer, Ryan Werner
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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Anushka Ratnayake, Meighan Stone, Meryl Stone, Rose Beaumont
There have been incredible advancements in both film and startup ideology in the last 10 years. Yes! Everyone should read the Lean Startup and apply what tech founders have learned to film productions. But what might tec…
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Emily Best
To build the Obama campaign (and other campaigns up and down the ballot), a corporation's worth of technical infrastructure had to be built in a fraction of the time. From deep targeting across channels to community orga…
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Amy Gershkoff, Andrew Bleeker, John Lee, Rayid Ghani
In today’s mobile-centric world, our lives have been transformed to expect to discover and share almost every aspect of our lives on the go. With these discoveries come personal reactions through photos, videos, social …
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Cameron Clayton, Gary Klassen, Giorgos Zacharia, Tara O'Donnell
What happens when you have too much of a good thing, too quickly? While it is natural for a well-planned business to want to succeed and grow, careful attention must be paid to how the business plans to grow and at what …
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Donna Boyer, Ingrid Vanderveldt
With automotive, traffic and parking data becoming more open and big data now more prevalent, the acceleration of new technology and apps are engaging the users with their car in a much more meaningful manner. Studies ha…
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Gal Melamed, Gretchen Effgen, Sam Friedman, Scott Sedlik
While the use of drones on the battlefield is shrouded with public controversy, unmanned systems have changed the face of modern day warfare. Robots offer incredible functionality versatility and flexibility that can dra…
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Ardy Williams, Helen Greiner, Noel Sharkey, Robin Murphy
As the technology becomes a natural augmentation of our physical relationships, virtual interactions are becoming less of a substitute for physical proximity and rather a mechanism to extend and augment intimacy (play/en…
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Carl Hastrich, Heather Vescent Schlegel, Karen Oikonen, Zahra Ebrahim
Tuesday, March 11
What happens when you combine ideas from one of the oldest art museums in the US with one of the world's edgiest research labs? Sensors bringing eighth-century Tang dynasty Chinese tomb guardians to life? Foldable electr…
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Juliette Fritsch, Stacie Slotnick
With the advances in smartphones and imaging technology, cameras are everywhere, but is software keeping pace with the massive increase? One of the most intriguing and promising new technologies is facial and object reco…
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Caroline Tien-Spalding
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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Gregory Green
With the advances in smartphones and imaging technology, cameras are everywhere, but is software keeping pace with the massive increase? One of the most intriguing and promising new technologies is facial and object reco…
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Caroline Tien-Spalding
The process of designing a great experience and physically building a great experience have begun to merge. This shift radically changes the fundamental roles of designers and technologists. Today, we iteratively build t…
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Jai Dandekar, Randall Elliott
More and more studies show how yoga and meditation can improve brain function, productivity and memory, not to mention help desk dwellers de-stress, focus and stretch their console-curved bodies. Essentially yoga and med…
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Jennilyn Carson, Karl Wente, Kelle Walsh, Poornima Vijayashanker
Bruce Sterling's annual closing rant at SXSW Interactive is always unexpected, invented on the fly, a hash of trends, trepidations, and creative prognostication. In 2013, Sterling focused on "disruption" (one of the big …
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Bruce Sterling
Thursday, March 13
Ok so...you're in the music business, and the tech business, so all is great right? No, not really. Because music people don't now tech and tech people don't know music. But they're soooo related and intertwined. Just as…
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Julie Pilat, Kenna , Michael Cerda, Tom Conrad
Thanks to the drop in both pricing and complexity of the traditional methods for making music, more and more individuals now have a chance to project their artistic voices. Creating music instills an appreciation and res…
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Ean Golden, Mate Galic, Matthew Adell, Mike King, Tommie Sunshine, Tristan Jehan
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