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SXSW.com | March 8–17, 2019 | Austin, TX

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Absurdity Sells: The Value of Playful Events

Brands & Marketing

Accelerating Your Growth With Private Equity

Startup & Tech Sectors

Accounting for Human Tastes: Marketing and A.I.

Brands & Marketing

Action Intelligence: Is the Intangible, Tangible?

Active AI: Immersive Experiences in Health

Intelligent Future

Addressing Sports’ Concussion Problem with Technology

Advice From Music Supervisors: Live Music Pitch Event

Sync, Stream & License

After PULSE—Creating an LGBTQ+ Alliance in Orlando

Agents of Mass Construction

Agents & Talent Buyers Peer Meeting

Age of Ageless: Cultivate a Life of Reinvention

Agile Activism: Big Change Starts at City Hall

AI and Its Impact on Our Workforce

AI and the Future of Work

AI Creativity in Art, Neuroscience, and the Law

Intelligent Future

AI: Transforming Luxury, Fashion and Beauty

AI x Radical Inclusion

Algae, Not Animals: The Plant-Based Revolution

Algorithms, Unconscious Bias, & AI

Startup & Tech Sectors

Alien Worlds: NASA’s Quest for Life

Intelligent Future

Allies in Equality: How Diversity Shapes a Brand

Brands & Marketing

All These Worlds Are Yours

Intelligent Future

American Innovators in China

Startup & Tech Sectors

America’s Mayors: Fighting for Racial Equity

Amplifying Youth Voices to Redesign Opportunity

Answer with Action: A New Activism Platform

Anyone Can Pick a Winner: Smart Data in Sports

Are We Facing Brand Partnership Saturation?

Making & Promoting Music

AR Gaming: What’s Now, What’s Next

Art Attack: Data as the New Creative Director

Brands & Marketing

Artful Eyes: A View From the Future

Experiential Storytelling

Artist Development in 2018 - Do It Yourself?

Artist Discovery in Social Media Driven Landscapes

Artist Legacy Planning & Protection

Artists & Fans - Serving the Sacred Bond

Making & Promoting Music

Art & Tech: A Classic Experience in a Virtual World

AR Update 2018: Evolution or Revolution?

An Asian American Lens on Diversity in Film

Film & TV Industry

Assistant Director: Why They Are Essential

Making Film & Episodics

Attracting VC Investment Outside of Silicon Valley

Startup & Tech Sectors

Audience Engagement: The New Path to Greenlighting

Film & TV Industry

Austin: A Global Center for Blockchain Innovation

Startup & Tech Sectors

Austin, Y’all! Sustaining a Thriving Music City

Touring & Live Experience

Authentic Storytelling: Designing Narratives Around Cultural Identity

The Authoritarian Playbook: What You Need To Know

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Back-End to the Future: A/B Testing What Counts

Code & Programming

Balancing Brand Building vs. Performance

Brands & Marketing

The Band is With Me: The Art of Team Building

Banking Disrupted: The FinTech Opportunity

Startup & Tech Sectors

Barriers to Innovation for New Music Experiences

Battling Brand Maturity With Innovation

Startup & Tech Sectors

Beauty as a Force for Change

The Beauty Retail Experience with AR & AI Technology

Become an Electronic Artist Using Media & Touring

Touring & Live Experience

The Beginner’s Guide to SXSW Film

Film & TV Industry

Behind The Scenes with Marvel’s Wolverine Podcast

Entertainment Influencers

Better Together: Cult Brand Collaborations

Brands & Marketing

A Better World: Next-Gen Tech for Social Good

Startup & Tech Sectors

Beyond Ads: Become Entertainment

Brands & Marketing

Beyond Bars: Art and Incarceration

Beyond Electronic Medical Records: The Value of AI

Beyond SpaceX: The New Space Ecosystem

Intelligent Future

Beyond SV: Africa & Funding the Next Wave of Unicorns

Startup & Tech Sectors

Beyond the Game: Data-Driven Fan Engagement

Beyond Transparency: Leveraging Diversity Data

Big City Problems, Neighborhood Solutions

The Biggest Threats to Your Brain and Health

Big Legal Battles Over Rights in Bands' Names

Big & Small: How Makers Are Rebuilding America's Cities

Binding Emotion & Memory: Science, Story & Scent

Intelligent Future

Biotech and the Megacity

Bitch Better Have My Money: Financing Indie Films

Making Film & Episodics

Bitcoin and the New World of Programmable Money

Intelligent Future

Black Entrepreneurship Beyond Music and Sports

Startup & Tech Sectors

Black Gotham: Immersive Storytelling & Technology

Experiential Storytelling

Blacks on the Blockchain

Startup & Tech Sectors

Black Women & The Invisible Billion Dollar Startup

Startup & Tech Sectors

Blockchain and the Decentralization of Finance

Startup & Tech Sectors

Blockchain and the Future of Global Governance

Startup & Tech Sectors

Blockchain Meets Reality

Code & Programming

Blockchain Opportunities in Mobility and Logistics

Startup & Tech Sectors

Blockchain Pilots and Learnings

Startup & Tech Sectors

Blockchain & The Crisis in Healthcare

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Blueprint: Digital Video Strategies in Hip-Hop

Sync, Stream & License

Body Computing, Security & Human Safety

Body Politics: The War on Women's Health

Bootstrap Your Startup's Security

Startup & Tech Sectors

Bracing for a New Age of Longevity

Brainy Surgery: VR, AI and Robots in the OR

Branding Transformation In The Age Of Disruption

Entertainment Influencers

Brand Personality and Business Growth

Brands & Marketing

Brands + Artists: Authenticity in Partnerships

Making & Promoting Music

Brand Storytelling in the Digital Age

Brave New World: The Future of Theatre & Tech

Breadcrumbs & Badges: Hacking Workplace Violence

Breaking the 4th Wall: Drone Swarms in Art

Experiential Storytelling

Breaking Thru a Tweet Driven News Cycle & Culture

News & Journalism

Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World

Brands & Marketing

Bringing Big Budget Virtual Production Tools to Indie Filmmakers

Bringing Internet Culture to Linear Television

Bringing VR/AR to People Through Immersive News

News & Journalism

Building a 21st Century Entertainment Brand

Brands & Marketing

Building a Badass Business Against All Odds

Startup & Tech Sectors

Building a Brand Music Strategy

Sync, Stream & License

Building an Ecosystem for Science Startups

Startup & Tech Sectors

Building Communities: URL & IRL

Building Inclusive Cities in Emerging Markets

Building Safe Workspaces for Millennials of Color

Startup & Tech Sectors

Building the Post-Cable Television Network

News & Journalism

Built to Scale: Why “Pause” for a Design System?

Code & Programming

Business Beyond the Ball

Bytes & Barolo: How Tech is Transforming Wine

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CANCELED: Adventures of Disrupted Corporations

Startup & Tech Sectors

Can Data End Veteran Homelessness? Ask Virginia

Cannabis: An Alternative to Opiates in Pro Sports

Can We Create Consciousness in a Machine?

Intelligent Future

The Case for Culture: Art & Tech in UNESCO Creative Cities

The Case for Innovation in U.S. Housing

Startup & Tech Sectors

Casting Your Indie Film

Making Film & Episodics

CELLULOID: Planning, Capturing and Posting With Film!

Making Film & Episodics

Changing Minds: Behavioral Science for Designers

Chasing OJ: The Race For The Next Epic Sports Film

Chatbots & Pixiedust: Extraordinary Service Sells

Brands & Marketing

Chatbots & Robots Give Rise to the “Human” Brand

Brands & Marketing

Childhood Trauma’s Footprint on Health

Choice Architects: Design for Humanity’s Best Self

Choreographing the City: Policy through Performance

CHUCK: 38 Years in the Making

Cities as Incubators for Successful Aging

Clickable Storytelling: Dig Into Your Online World

Experiential Storytelling

Coal to Code: Reimagining a Disrupted Economy

Codeasaurus: Keeping an Edge With Old Tech

Code & Programming

College Booking - How To Book Like the Pros

College Radio Community Building and Fundraising

Colliding Worlds, Shaping the Future of Esports

Comedy Development: TV & Digital

Making Film & Episodics

Communicating in the Era of Constant Crisis

News & Journalism

The Community, Culture & Science of Barbecue

Compassion in Action: Yoga and Mindfulness for Vulnerable Communities

Concierge Marketing: Customer Experience 3.0

Brands & Marketing

Conflicting Visions: The Debate on Net Neutrality

Connected Cities, Connected Countryside

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Connected Future of Sports and Esports

Connecting Continents: VR/AR in the Global South

Connect to End Cancer, Session 1

Connect to End Cancer, Session 2

Connect to End Cancer, Session 3

Cook Out Loud: How to Create the Shift for a Better Restaurant Culture

Corporate Accelerators: What Startups Should Know

Startup & Tech Sectors

Corporate VC: The Firms, The Myths, The Legends

Startup & Tech Sectors

Countering Hate: Understanding & Stopping Extremism

Brands & Marketing

Couples Who Eat, Sleep & Build Businesses Together

Covering Islam as a Muslim in Trump’s America

News & Journalism

Create Additional Revenue as an Artist

Create Magic: 6 Experiential Storytelling Secrets

Experiential Storytelling

Creating a Culture of Wellness On and Off the Field

Creating a Movement Through User Generated Content

Brands & Marketing

Creating a Venture Capital Eco-System

Startup & Tech Sectors

Creating Fearless Designs Through Street Art

Creating New Stories of Immigration

Creative & Financial Aspects of Song Placements

Sync, Stream & License

Criminal Justice Reform at a Crossroads

Critical Conversations: Identity in Podcasting

News & Journalism

Cross-Cultural, Multilingual and Localized Design

Cultivating Digital Independence

Sync, Stream & License

Culture Shock: How Company Policy Slows Innovation

Curation, Collaboration & Community

Cut Red Tape: Startups Help Gov. Drive Innovation

Startup & Tech Sectors

Cyber Extortion: Doing Business With Crooks

Cyberspace Barons: Creators of ICOs & Ransomware

Startup & Tech Sectors

Cyborg Gov: Humans & High-Tech in Public Service

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Data-Driven Storytelling: Perspectives & Paradigms

Data Journalism: We're All News Nerds Now

News & Journalism

The Data Revolution in Music Royalties

Code & Programming

Data Safety Dance: Product Testing for Privacy

Intelligent Future

The Data Scientist Will See You Now

David Attenborough's interactive VR debut - age 91

Making Film & Episodics

Dear HR: Ditch the Pool Table & Pay Student Loans

Death of 2nd Screen? Live Tweets in a Binge World

Film & TV Industry

The Death of Amateurism

Decrypting the Universe: Science and Art at CERN

Default=Health: How Tech Can Refactor Modern Life

Defending Dreamers: Resisting with Art & Activism

Defending the Defenders: Your Rights Online

Democratizing Data Science with Offline First

Code & Programming

The Democratizing Power of Mobile Esports

Demo Listening Session 1

Making & Promoting Music

Demo Listening Session 2

Making & Promoting Music

Demo Listening Session 3

Making & Promoting Music

Demystifying Manifestation

Designers Who Broke the Internet

Designing the Next Wave of Natural Language and AI

Intelligent Future

Designing Urban Ocean Conservation

Designing VR Rx

Designing with Bias

The Digital Campfire: Storytelling on Voice UIs

News & Journalism

Digital Fabrication: Will Robots Build the Future?

Digital Health Innovation at Planned Parenthood

Digital Natives Disrupting Time-Honored Industries

Startup & Tech Sectors

Digital Playbook: Connecting Brands, Fans & Athletes

Brands & Marketing

The Digital Wall Falls

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Digital War Against Bias

Digital Witness: Embracing the Digital Age at College Radio

Diplomacy vs AI: Foreign Policy, Bots & Blockchain

Dirty Little Liars: Why Are There Product Failures?

Disinformation and the Effects on Democracy

Disrupting Global Distrust Starts Local - With You

Disrupting Traditional Healthcare with Innovation

Disruptive Tech in Your Home Cannabis Kitchen

Distribution Case Study of The Light of the Moon

Film & TV Industry

Diversity in Tech: It's Not Just a Gender Problem

The Divine Feminist & Her Place in Modern Religion

DIY+: A Better Way to Release Music on Your Own

Making & Promoting Music

Documenting The Unknown - Storytelling in the Amazon

Making Film & Episodics

Does Satire Still Matter? Eh, Sure

News & Journalism

Doggos, Bork, BAE: the New World Language

Doing Business in Turkey 101

Startup & Tech Sectors

Don't Call This A Panel Of Female Coders

Code & Programming

Don’t Judge a Book by its (under)Cover: Librarians at the CIA

Do Online Communities Make Us Healthier?

Do You Really Know What’s Going on Your Skin?

Drinking Data: Principles of Human-Based Marketing

Making & Promoting Music

Driving Audience: If You Build It, They Will Not Come

Brands & Marketing

Dungeons & Dragons in The Writer's Room

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Earth v. Mars: The Future of Exploration

Intelligent Future

Earworms & Triggers: The Alchemy of Branded Music

Making & Promoting Music

Economic Growth for Everybody

The Elder Boom: Aging Tech’s Explosive Growth

Startup & Tech Sectors

Elevating Blacks in Tech

Embracing Technology to Super Serve Fans

Emerging Visions: Game Studios of Latin America

Empathy and Intimacy: Are We Really Feeling VR?

Empowering Girls with Tech: Breaking Barriers

Startup & Tech Sectors

Empowering People to Own Their Health Data

ENCORE: 5 Major Generational Shifts & Understanding Gen Z

Startup & Tech Sectors

ENCORE: Art Attack: Data as the New Creative Director

Brands & Marketing

ENCORE: Brand Storytelling in the Digital Age

ENCORE: Create Magic: 6 Experiential Storytelling Secrets

Experiential Storytelling

ENCORE: Default=Health: How Tech Can Refactor Modern Life

ENCORE: Designing the Next Wave of Natural Language and AI

Intelligent Future

ENCORE: Experience Design, the New Marketing Era

ENCORE: Full Body Immersive: The Future of Fun

Experiential Storytelling

ENCORE: Influencers Are the Next Generation of Retailers

ENCORE: NASA's Universe of Storytelling Tools

Experiential Storytelling

ENCORE: Not Only the Lonely: How We All Can Be Happier

ENCORE: Scaling Design Systems: Pixels to People

ENCORE: Telling Tales in Episodic TV

Making Film & Episodics

ENCORE: The Quantifiable Business Benefits of Blockchain

Startup & Tech Sectors

ENCORE: Think Like a Startup: How Innovation Gets Done

Startup & Tech Sectors

ENCORE: What Followers Want: How Social Evolves in 2018

Brands & Marketing

Ending Political Football with Veteran Voices

Ending the Dangerous Disconnect Between DC and AI

The End of Global Hunger? AI Will Make it Work

Engaging Society via Life-Changing Innovation

Brands & Marketing

Enhance Musical Brains: The Cognitive Exoskeleton

Intelligent Future

Enlightened Capital - Investing for Legacies

Startup & Tech Sectors

Enough! Time for Tech to Help Kids with Autism

EntrepreNURSE: Hacking, Making & Disrupting Health

Equality & Sports: Leveling the Playing Field

Equity Crowdfunding in the Wild

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Era of Camera-First Food

Escape the Algorithm: Build Rad Online Communities

Brands & Marketing

The Esports Ecosystem: Credibility is King

Esports: The "E" is for Entertainment

Ethics in the Luxury Market: The Human Element

Ethics in VR/AR Journalism

News & Journalism

Europa and Uncle Sam: Divorcing or Reconciling?

European Producers: An Alternative Road for US Talent?

Making Film & Episodics

The Ever-Evolving Nature of Game Crowdfunding

Everyday Ways to Fight Oppression

Evolution of Advocacy & Employee Communications

Brands & Marketing

The Evolution of the Eating Ecosystem

Evolution of the Game of Basketball

Evolving Business Models: Finding Next Gen Customers

Brands & Marketing

Evolving Threats to Press Freedom

News & Journalism

Experience Design, the New Marketing Era

Exploring Music Through the Lens of Neurodiversity

Music Culture & Stories

Exploring 'Underworld Ascendant' with PC Gamer

Extending Your Reach at College Radio

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Facebook and Publishers: The Evolution Of News

News & Journalism

Face Recognition: Please Search Responsibly

Intelligent Future

Faith in Film

Making Film & Episodics

Falling Flat: Can VR be Funny?

Family, Humanity & Loss on the Road to Success

Music Culture & Stories

Fear is in the Hands of the Creator: Horror in VR

Experiential Storytelling

Feast of Resistance & Secrets: SXSW Artists in Dialogue

Female Focus: Opportunities in the Global Market

Film & TV Industry

Female Gaze: Alternative Fact or Actual Movement

Film & TV Industry

Femtech: Women & Health Tech in the Trump Era

Fighting Back with CSR: How Companies Are Uniting

Brands & Marketing

Fighting Global Hunger with Small-Farm Tech

Startup & Tech Sectors

Fighting Government Device Searches at the Border

Fighting Terror with Tech

Startup & Tech Sectors

Fighting the Cesarean Epidemic with Phones & Data

Fighting the Demise of Net Neutrality w/Innovation

Startup & Tech Sectors

Film + Storytelling in a Politically-Charged Era

Film & TV Industry

Find an Audience, Build a Brand and Make Bank

Brands & Marketing

Finding Spiritual Community Both On and Offline

Fintech Needs A Human Touch: Lessons from Africa

Startup & Tech Sectors

First Amendment Report Card

Fitness is More Fun with Friends

Food as a Platform for Neighborhood Revitalization

Food Innovation-Growing a Successful Food Business

Startup & Tech Sectors

Food Mktg Claims - The Equivalent of “Fake News”?

For the Love of Nerding

News & Journalism

Fountain of Youth: How Brands Can Drink From It

Brands & Marketing

From AI to EI: Empathy is the New Tech Superpower

Startup & Tech Sectors

From A Movement To CIO: One Happy Island Innovates

Startup & Tech Sectors

From Bronx To Billions: A Hip-Hop History Lesson

Music Culture & Stories

From Invisible to 8Bi Views: Kondzilla

Making & Promoting Music

From Obscurity to Infamy: The Modern Reissue Boon

Making & Promoting Music

From Planet 9 to Space Poop: Crowdsourcing NASA R&D

From Publishing City Data to Solving Problems

Frozen: Why College Gender Gap Spurs Egg Freezing

Full Body Immersive: The Future of Fun

Experiential Storytelling

The Future and Impact of Real Estate Technology

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Future of A&R

The Future of Business is Female

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Future of Capitalism and Everything Else

Startup & Tech Sectors

Future of Education’s Relationship with Startups

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Future of Energy Is Everyone’s Business

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Future of Ethereum and App Development

Code & Programming

The Future of Food Delivery

Future of Interfaces: Beyond Glass

The Future of Machine Learning: Worth the Hype?

Intelligent Future

The Future of Mechanical Licensing in the US

The Future (of Media) Ain't What It Used to Be

News & Journalism

The Future of Monetization

The Future of Nation States

Startup & Tech Sectors

Future of Physical Retail in a Post-Digital World

Brands & Marketing

"Future Proofing" Disaster Recovery

Future Proof Media: Engaging Tomorrow's Audience

Film & TV Industry

Future Society: AI & Generative Systems

Future Talk: Democratizing NonFiction Storytelling

Film & TV Industry

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A Game-Changing Shift in Control of Personal Data

Intelligent Future

Gaming Religion: Finding Faith in Digital Games

Generation Mars

Generous Parental Leave: A Liberty or A Luxury?

Getting and Making Angel Investments

Startup & Tech Sectors

Getting to Beta Without Getting Beat Up

Startup & Tech Sectors

Getting to Yes: Innovation in Regulated Industries

Startup & Tech Sectors

Getting Your Name on Music Festival Lineups

Touring & Live Experience

Giving Back Rocks: How Austin Brands Do It

Startup & Tech Sectors

Global Tech Ecosystems vs. Global Isolationism

Startup & Tech Sectors

GMO 2.0: Beyond Monsanto

God View is My Copilot in Self-Driving Cars

Intelligent Future

Going Episodic: Indie TV from Concept to Sale

Making Film & Episodics

Goodbye Mad Men, Hello New Gen

Brands & Marketing

Gotta Go Fast: The Official Sonic the Hedgehog Panel

Government On Demand: .Gov Services at .Com Speed

Grassroots Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism

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Hacking Back: The Ethics of Cyber Vigilantism

Hacking Childhood Cancer: Creating Support Systems

Hacking our Democracy and Discourse

Hacking STEM: Legislative Fixes to Pipeline Problems

Hacking the Brain: The Power of Neuroenhancement

Intelligent Future

Hacking the Opioid Epidemic

Hacking the Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence

Code & Programming

Handmaid’s Tale IRL, What if Roe Were to Go?

Harnessing Nature to Create a Sustainable Future

Intelligent Future

The Head and the Heart: Fixing America’s Health

Healing the Mind: Design, Tech & Psychedelics

Here’s My Genome. Call Me Maybe?

The Here & Wow! Contemplative Healthcare Practice

Hip Hop Managers Panel

A Holistic Approach to China's Music Industry

Hollywood to Broadway: Adapting Films for Stage

Making Film & Episodics

How AI Will Challenge the Current Music Ecosystem

How Apps are Shaping the Future of Travel

Brands & Marketing

How Bioengineering Fashion Can Change the World

How Bots and Conversational UI are Killing Design

How Brands Who Speak Gen Z Slay

Brands & Marketing

How Can Big Companies & Entrepreneurs Collaborate?

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Can Businesses Scale Social Solutions?

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Can Cities Support Hyperscale Data Storage?

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Can Venture Capital Achieve Gender Parity?

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Cities will Drive Autonomous Vehicles

How Connectivity Will Control Everything We Know

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Diversity is Pushing Augmented Reality Innovation

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Documentaries Can Rise In the Webseries World

Making Film & Episodics

How Does VR Become a Truly Mainstream Technology

How Future Tech Will Shape Our Engagement with Others

Intelligent Future

How Gaming Companies Succeed in Influencer Marketing

How Gender Fluidity Recasts Brand Engagement

Brands & Marketing

How Gerrymandering is Reshaping Politics

How I Convinced My F500 to Work with Startups

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Indie Filmmakers Can Leverage Blockbuster VFX

Making Film & Episodics

How K-pop Grew Beyond Niche

Touring & Live Experience

How Madden Made People Cry

Making Film & Episodics

How Muslim-Jewish Dialogue Changes the World

How NASA and LEGO Embrace Open Innovation

Brands & Marketing

How National Media Can Be a Good Partner to Local

News & Journalism

How Our Astronauts Make Us Healthy

How Real Food Can Change Your Life and the World

How Smart Venture Money Isn’t Smart But You Can Be

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Songwriters Can Write Music for TV and Film

Sync, Stream & License

How Startups Can Partner With Companies Like Google

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Studios Can Cultivate Local Talent

Making & Promoting Music

How Tech Can Save the Music Industry

Sync, Stream & License

How Tech Hubs Outside SV Lead The Way on Diversity

Startup & Tech Sectors

How Tech is Rebuilding Society

Intelligent Future

How to Bring Connected Vehicles (CVs) to Your Town

How to Build a Digital Brand and Cultivate Community

How To Build A Music City - Technology

How To Build An Effective Streaming Music Strategy

Sync, Stream & License

How to Create a Mixed Reality Fan Experience

How to Get the Best Music for Your Project

Making Film & Episodics

How to Get What You Want Out of Side Gigs

How to Lead the Global Race for Startup Innovation

Startup & Tech Sectors

How to Make a Hit - Producer Panel

Making & Promoting Music

How to Make Gadgets that Young People Heart

Startup & Tech Sectors

How to Market & Archive Today’s Artist’s Catalog

Making & Promoting Music

How To Navigate Wholistic & Conscious Beauty as Black Women

How to Stay an Innovation Hub When You’re in the Dark

Startup & Tech Sectors

How to Stay Relevant as a DJ

How to Tell a 6-Second Story: Advertising’s Future

Brands & Marketing

How Volumetric Humans Impact Storytelling in VR/AR

How VR/AR/MR Changes Aviation & Space Operations!

How Women are Reinventing Saturated Marketplaces

Startup & Tech Sectors

Humanizing Autonomy

Intelligent Future

Human Rights Policy in a Connected World

Humans & Machines Unite to Change the World

Hurry Up: High Times Are Here

Brands & Marketing

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ideaX: Libraries, Songwriting & Social Change

Making & Promoting Music

IDFA DocLab: How to Dance or Die with Technology

Experiential Storytelling

IH8URGAME: Fostering Empathy in Gaming Communities

Immerse Yourself: AR & VR in Museums and the Arts

Immersive Realities @ the Frontier of Healthcare

Immersive Tech: GenZ’s Beauty Counter & Mall

Improving Diversity and Reducing Harassment in VC

Startup & Tech Sectors

Inclusion + Tech: How To Get It Right

Increasing CTR with 1:1 Content Marketing

Brands & Marketing

Influencers Are the Next Generation of Retailers

Influencers of the Future: Tastemakers or AI?

Influencing Food Culture & Policy Through Film & TV

Innovate or Perish: How Tech Will Shape Fashion

Innovating in Legacy Industries

Innovation Fatigue: Tech Content in A Noisy World

Brands & Marketing

Innovation Lessons from Fintech Frontlines

Startup & Tech Sectors

Innovation, New Media & the SDG Revolution

Innovation: The (Board) Director’s Cut

Startup & Tech Sectors

Innovative Cities against Climate Change

In Plain Sight: Tejano Music’s Fight for Visibility

Music Culture & Stories

Inside Genomics: Your Future, Your Fate

An Insider’s View into Healthcare Innovation

Brands & Marketing

Insider Tips from the Boss Women of Instagram

Inspiring the Next Creators: What Will They Create?

The Intersection of Co-Working and Wellness

Startup & Tech Sectors

Investing for the Future: Inclusion is Key

Making Film & Episodics

Investing in the Autonomy Economy

Startup & Tech Sectors

IP to IPO-Integrating IP into Your Strategy

Startup & Tech Sectors

Is Culture Change in the Music Industry Possible?

Is This the Golden Age of Alternative Radio?

It's a Fan's World: The Life of Superfans

Touring & Live Experience

It’s Cancelled?! Why Festivals Fail (or Don’t)

Touring & Live Experience

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Journalism in the Age of Terrorism

News & Journalism

Journalists Shattering the Business Status Quo

News & Journalism

Just Design

K

Keeping Performing Arts Alive in a Digital World

Film & TV Industry

Keep the Internet International, Not Internal!

Kids in Cuffs: The Trouble with Teen Sexting Laws

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Last Call for Titan: A VR World Through Data

The Last Survivors: Memories of the Holocaust

Experiential Storytelling

LatAm Corporate VC & Accelerators: Are They Working?

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Latin American Tastemaker: Tech and Culture

Latin America's Booming Music Industry

Latinas Removing Barriers in Tech

Brands & Marketing

Latin Music Matters

Latino Entrepreneurship: Scaling to Excellence

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Latin Urban Influence

Music Culture & Stories

Latinx Representation, Resistance & Identity

News & Journalism

Lawyers Gone Wild: Learning To Play by Ethical Rules

The Lean Digital Revolution: Speed at Scale

Startup & Tech Sectors

LET’S GET REAL: Practical Uses of Art & Science

Letting Go: Designing For An AI You Can’t Control

Leveraging Your Product to Build a Diverse Workforce

LGBTQ Representation in Cinema

Licensing Music for Social Media: A Perfect Storm

Life Emerging in an Ancient Universe

Live Action Video Sports: A Real World Comeback

The Live Score - Bridging Film, Music, and Gaming

Making Film & Episodics

Local Leadership in the Wake of Terror

The Logistics of a Traveling City: Warped Tour

Touring & Live Experience

The Loyalty Card: Measuring Impact in Journalism

News & Journalism

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Making A Living Selling Beats Online

Making & Promoting Music

Making Ends Meet: Paying Bills and Making Films

Film & TV Industry

Making Government Better with Better Technology

Making Healthcare Price Transparency Actionable

Making Health Equity a Reality

Making it Real: Tangible Worlds of Storytelling

Making Politics Go Viral (Like Puppies)

News & Journalism

Making Religious Cinema in a Secular Film Age

Making Film & Episodics

Making the Cut: Film Editing Secrets Revealed

Making Film & Episodics

Making the Future of Mobility

Marketing So Good It's Scary

Film & TV Industry

Mars or Bust: Designing The Future of Humanity

Experiential Storytelling

Mastering Corporate Relevance in a Distracted World

Brands & Marketing

Mastering Your Message: Making Email Work For You

Making & Promoting Music

A Matter of National Cyber Security: Fixing the IoT

Code & Programming

Maximize Your ROA - Turning Likes into Dollars

Measuring What Matters in a Playlists-First World

Meet the Kitchen of the Future: Trends in Food Tech

Memes + Monologues: Lessons in Laughter for News

News & Journalism

Mental Work: Moving Beyond Our Carbon Based Minds

Intelligent Future

Mesopotamia to Millennials: Beer & Food Connection

Messenger Bots: The Evolution of Digital Marketing

Intelligent Future

Mexico: Fintech Leaders, New Regulation, and Trends

Startup & Tech Sectors

Minorities in Tech: Old & New Challenges Under Trump

Startup & Tech Sectors

Minority Report: Engaging Kids of Color in Tech

Startup & Tech Sectors

Miraculous Driverless Town a Model for the World

Intelligent Future

The Misinformation Age: Can AI Solve Fake News?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Mixed Reality for Superheroes, Zombies and Jedi

Mobility Beyond Wheelchairs: Robotic Exoskeletons

Mo' Data Mo' Problems: Music in the Age of Data

Modern B2B Product Leadership

Startup & Tech Sectors

Modern-day Publisher Models: Beyond Advertising

Brands & Marketing

Modern Farms: Is the Future of Farming in Technology?

Moms In The Music Industry: Strategies for Success

Money: Why Can't Digital Media Talk About It?

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Mo Reality, Mo Problems? AR/VR & Law

More Data, More Problems: Transparency in 2018

Brands & Marketing

"More Than 90%..." - A Casting Panel

Making Film & Episodics

More Than Numbers: Data Analysis for Storytellers

Film & TV Industry

Movement Building: Women are Changing the World

Music and the Brain: How Sounds Become Pleasurable

Making & Promoting Music

Music as a Corporate Social Responsibility Platform

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Music In Movies: American Folk Case Study

Music Law Boot Camp

Music Modernization Act: Changing the Licensing Landscape

Music Supervision 101: What is Music Supervision?

Sync, Stream & License

Music Urbanism: What Does It Mean?

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Naming & Faming! Understanding Positive Solutions

Narratives of Life & Death in Immersive Technology

Experiential Storytelling

NASA's Universe of Storytelling Tools

Experiential Storytelling

Navigating the International Media Landscape

Film & TV Industry

NBA Narratives vs. Numbers

Nerdcore: Let's Make Some Music

The New Activism of TV and Film Storylines

The New Arbiters of Taste

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The New Collar Revolution

Startup & Tech Sectors

The New Co-Op: Crowdsourcing AAA Game Development

A New Filter: the Power of Visual Representation

New Financial Models for a Sustainable Ent. Economy

Film & TV Industry

New Formats in Streaming for Mobile-First Generation

Making Film & Episodics

New Girls’ Network: Women Funding Women

Startup & Tech Sectors

A New Kind of Investor: Hospitals & Startups

Startup & Tech Sectors

A New Leadership Model for the Digital Age

New Localism: Reimagining Power in a Populist Age

New Mediums to Tell Authentic Food Stories

New Mobility and the Future of Our Cities

Intelligent Future

News Integrity: Advocating for Quality Journalism

Brands & Marketing

New Ways to Finance A Music Career

The New World of Sports Commentary

Next-Gen Content Marketing: Reaching Digital Natives

Brands & Marketing

The Next Generation of Elon Musks Take on Space

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The Next Phase of VR: Moving to MR

The NHL's Power Play in China

No Legacy Software Here: The Cannabis Tech Stack

Startup & Tech Sectors

Not Only the Lonely: How We All Can Be Happier

Now What? Life After Reality TV Singing Shows

Music Culture & Stories

NYC Making Tech Work for People

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Paid in Full: Fixing Music Rights for Artists

Pedaler’s Palate: Food, Cycling + How They Collide

The Persistence of Patent Trolls in Tech

Perspectives on Expertise in Gaming

Physical Fights Back

Pirates’ Rights, Streaming & Physical Album Release

Pitch & Touch: Weird Startups from U of Tokyo

Startup & Tech Sectors

Pivoting to Video the Best Way

News & Journalism

Plant-Based & Clean Meat Will Save The World!

Platform Co-Ops: Competitive Edge, Social Purpose

Startup & Tech Sectors

Platforms Your Customers Trust

Code & Programming

Playola: Reckoning With Music’s Newest Kingmaker

Sync, Stream & License

The Post 50/50 Workforce

The Post Reality Reality

Film & TV Industry

The Power of the Global Sports Mentoring Program

The Power of Vertical AI in a Monolithic AI World

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Power of Words for the Future of Girls

Power to the People: Turn Employee Ideas Into Gold

Pre-Crime: It's Not Just Science Fiction Anymore

Intelligent Future

Preservation & Appreciation of Album Art Today

Music Culture & Stories

Pre-Woke Watching: Your Faves Are Problematic

Film & TV Industry

PRIDE in Interfaith Communities

Primed for Amazon: Value & Cost of HQ2 for Cities

A Progressive Food System Through Gene Editing

Promoting Inclusion in Today's Tech Industry

Startup & Tech Sectors

Prototyping the Future of Public Media

News & Journalism

Prototyping the Future with Science Fiction

Pursuit of Mastery: An Entrepreneurial Must #FTW

Startup & Tech Sectors

Put Down the Scalpel: Non-Invasive Heart Solutions

Putting the Sports in Esports

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The Quantifiable Business Benefits of Blockchain

Startup & Tech Sectors

Quantum Computing: Science Fiction to Science Fact

Intelligent Future

Queen E to Queen Bey: A Masterclass in Reputation

Brands & Marketing

The Quirky Black Lunch Table: Why You Need A Seat

Brands & Marketing

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The Rapidly Evolving Mobility Marketplace

Startup & Tech Sectors

Reality But Better: Augmenting the World with News

News & Journalism

The Real Thing: Machine Learning and Coca-Cola

Brands & Marketing

Reclaiming Indigeneity Through Virtual Reality

Experiential Storytelling

Redefining Masculinity in Sports

Redefining Sanctuary Cities

Redefining the Physical Workplace

Redefining Value: The Ripple Effect?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Reforming the Vote

Reimagining Gun Violence Prevention

Re-Imagining How America Can Reduce Food Waste

Reimagining the Civic Commons

Reinventing Pathways to Tech Diversity 

Startup & Tech Sectors

Reinventing the Retail Space to STRIIIKE a Chord

Reprogramming the Brain with Upper Body Robotics

Research, Exploration, Art: The Holy Trinity of VR Creation

Resistance & Disruption Through Diversity & Data

Responsible Visual Discourse in the Media

News & Journalism

The Restaurant of the Future

Restructure Your Startup Network in 6 Months

Startup & Tech Sectors

Retail Transformation: Apocalypse or Renaissance?

Rethink VC: The Value of Women Investing in Women

Startup & Tech Sectors

Return on Inclusion: Investing in Diverse Startups

Startup & Tech Sectors

Rights Done Right & What’s Gone Wrong

Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance for All

A Roboticist, Ethicist, & Novelist Walk Into a Bar

Intelligent Future

Robot Meets Freud: Bots in Mental Health

Intelligent Future

RompHims and Boyfriend Jeans: Ungendering Fashion

Rotten Tomatoes 'Your Opinion Sucks'

Film & TV Industry

The Rules of the Road – Current Issues in Touring

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Satisfying Customers With On-Demand Everything

Intelligent Future

Saving Coral Reefs One Pixel at a Time

Saving the Planet: What's Tech Got to Do With It?

Code & Programming

Say What? How Interactive Audio Changes Everything

Experiential Storytelling

Scaling Design Systems: Pixels to People

Science of Art: Using Data to Create Viral Moments

Brands & Marketing

Science, Society, and Ethics in a Post-Truth World

The Secrets of Cult Brands

Brands & Marketing

Seeing Thermal: Stopping Poachers in Their Tracks

See it, Hear it, Stop It: Fighting Sexism at Work

Selling Science (Before The World Melts Down)

Sensemaking for Cities: Conflict and Complexity

Sex, Beauty and Women with Disabilities

Sex, Love and Swiping: Tech & The Future of Love

SEX, TECH & MONEY: From California to Kigali

Sexual Misconduct in the Music Industry

Shifting Spaces: Not Your Grandfather’s Office

Shoot Me a Text: Text Your Way To Your First Million

Short Films: To Stream or not to Stream

Film & TV Industry

Should I Use This Wi-Fi?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Should You Sell Your Baby Unicorn?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Show Me The Money: Funding Your Music Tech Startup

Startup & Tech Sectors

Shredding the Newspaper

News & Journalism

Singularity is Here: Future of Data Mining in VR

Sizzle: VR/AR for Cuisine, Content, and Commerce

Skam: Powerful Digital Storytelling In Real Time

SkyHacking: Nose to Tail on Aviation Cybersecurity

Intelligent Future

Smart Contracts: Are We Getting Rid of Lawyers?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Smashing the Firewall: Reporting in Iran

News & Journalism

Smash the Studio

Startup & Tech Sectors

Social Enterprise: Peace through Business

Startup & Tech Sectors

Social Good and the Snowball Effect

Social Maps and the Future of Location-Based

Startup & Tech Sectors

Social Media & Social Good: Creators to The Rescue

Brands & Marketing

Solutions for Hiring Top Minority Tech Talent

Solving The Tech Transfer Challenge

Startup & Tech Sectors

Sonic Cinema: Get into Live Soundtracks

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The Spirituality of Philanthropy

Sports Access: Public Right-to-Know vs Exclusivity

Spotlight on Texas Filmmakers

Film & TV Industry

Standardizing Esports: The Next Phase for Cities

Starting the Internet All Over Again

Startup & Tech Sectors

Startup Culture: Where Do We Go From Here?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Startups and Big Companies Working Together

Startup & Tech Sectors

Startups and Government, an Oxymoron?

State of Genre: Are We "Elevated" Enough Yet?

Film & TV Industry

State of the Independent Nation

Music Culture & Stories

Still Thuggin: Tupac Relevance Over 20 Years Later

Music Culture & Stories

Strategies for Neighborhood Health in Michigan

Striking a Chord with Today’s Music Fans

Touring & Live Experience

Student Hackathons are Dope

Startup & Tech Sectors

Student Startups: Dorm Room to Business World

Startup & Tech Sectors

Superheroes and the City

Superhero Science

Making Film & Episodics

Sustainability and Ethics in Fashion Technology

Sustainability or Bust: The Future of Brands

Sweet Streams: Live Audio Streaming

Touring & Live Experience

SXSW Insider's Guide: Tips, Tricks, and Hacks

Film & TV Industry

SXSW Report on Trust: Gov’t, Tech & Media

News & Journalism

SXSW Songs: Co-Write!

Music Culture & Stories

Sync It Up: Music for Advertising, Film, TV & Gaming

Sync, Stream & License

Sync Unsigned: A new model for unsigned artists

Sync, Stream & License

Synthetic Creativity: When AI Takes Over the Arts

Brands & Marketing

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Taking Advantage of the Drone Evolution Revolution

Startup & Tech Sectors

Taking Mass Extinction Off the Seafood Menu

Talking ‘Bout a Revolution

Intelligent Future

Talk to Me: The Power of Voice

Intelligent Future

Tangible Fandom

Making & Promoting Music

Teaching Old-School Restaurants New Tech Tricks

Tech Clusters: Local Laboratories, Global Impact

Startup & Tech Sectors

TECH-ILA: Opportunities in Mexico’s Tech Innovation

Startup & Tech Sectors

Tech Innovation to Fight Child Exploitation

Tech in the Trump Administration: Year 1

Startup & Tech Sectors

Tech-no-color: Advancing Women of Color in Tech

Technology + Buildings: Creating A New Experience

Intelligent Future

Technology’s Impact on Digital Storytelling

Experiential Storytelling

Tech’s Evolving Role in Disaster Response

Tech Under Trump: A 2017/2018 Scorecard

Telling Tales in Episodic TV

Making Film & Episodics

Texas Fight! How Businesses Battled Bathroom Bills

Startup & Tech Sectors

The Texas Startup Manifesto powered by UNION

Startup & Tech Sectors

thatgamecompany: A New Era Of Compassionate Games

Theatrical vs Streaming: A Shifting Paradigm

Film & TV Industry

There Is No Other Hand: Inclusive Design & Kids

There Is No Pipeline Problem!

News & Journalism

These Genome Writers Will Change Medicine

Think Different, Teach Different

Think Like a Startup: How Innovation Gets Done

Startup & Tech Sectors

Third Coast: Can Austin Be The Next Big Tech City?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Thriving in Mind, Body, and Spirit as Women of Color

Today’s Cyber Warfare Looks a Lot Like Advertising

News & Journalism

To Get or Not To Get: Life Rights & Non-Fiction Films

Touch, Voice, Gesture: What’s Next?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Transitioning from College Radio Into The Music Industry

Transitioning Vets: From Battlefield to Tech Career

Transversive Storytelling: Music meets Comics

Experiential Storytelling

TransVisible in Texas: Develop A Media Campaign

Trap Goes Tech: A Case Study

Startup & Tech Sectors

Trendspotting in the Last 15 Years

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Trucking Tech: Regulations, Ridesharing and Robots

Startup & Tech Sectors

Trust, Cogency & Authenticity in an Anti-Ad World

Brands & Marketing

Trust Crisis: The Need for Blockchain

Startup & Tech Sectors

Trust in the Age of Misinformation

Startup & Tech Sectors

Trust: The Currency of the Sharing Economy

Startup & Tech Sectors

Turning Data into Dollars: Monetizing Social Media

Turning Tragedy into Action

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TV Goes OTT: Video Deals in an Age of Cord Cutters

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Wait, What?! Bias is Killing Me?

Waking Up to the $200B Femtech Opportunity

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Want to Fix Corporate Innovation?

Startup & Tech Sectors

War Games: From Battlefield to Ballot Box

War on Platforms: Is the Medium Still the Message?

News & Journalism

Water Insights from the Great Lakes State

The Way to Design: Little Startup, Big Impact

Welcome to the Future of Cannabis

Startup & Tech Sectors

Welcome to the "Internet of Threats"

Intelligent Future

Westworld: Establishing A Transmedia Franchise

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We Want It Now: The Future of AI is in Your Hands

We Will Rock You! Make a Big Noise With the Brands

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Intelligent Future

What Blockchain Means for Media & Entertainment

Startup & Tech Sectors

What Can Developers do to Keep the Web Open?

Code & Programming

What Does an Artist Manager Do and How To Get One

What Does it Take to Change People’s Minds?

Brands & Marketing

What Followers Want: How Social Evolves in 2018

Brands & Marketing

What Happened to our Chocolate Cities?

What #MariellePresente Means to Brazilian Music

Music Culture & Stories

What Podcasts Eat for Dinner: How to Feed a Show

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What’s Broken With TV and How to Fix It

Film & TV Industry

What’s Next After Advertising? The Jump to Content

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What Value Gap? Recognition Tech is Music's New BFF

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What Will the Webb Telescope Discover First?

Intelligent Future

When AI, Beatboxing & Mixed Reality Collide

Startup & Tech Sectors

When Programmers are Asked to do the Unethical

Code & Programming

Where Are the Women? How to Diversify Journalism

News & Journalism

Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads: Fly eVTOLs

Intelligent Future

Who Is Defining the Future of Entertainment News?

News & Journalism

Who is Smarter – Human or Machine?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Whose Story?: Exploring Filmmaker-Subject Relationships

Making Film & Episodics

Who's Responsible for User Bad Behavior Online?

Who Takes the Wheel on Self-Driving Car Safety?

Intelligent Future

Why Are Artists Vital to Tech's Future (and Ours)?

Startup & Tech Sectors

Why Black Women are 2018’s Best Investment

Startup & Tech Sectors

Why Design Sprints Always End In Tears

Why Music Journalism Matters in the Streaming Era

Why the Best Content Marketers Use Empathy

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Will AI Change the Future of Creativity?

Intelligent Future

Women in Music: Break the Ceiling + Bridge the Gap

Women in Robotics: A Fine Balance

Startup & Tech Sectors

Women of Clean Beauty

Women Who Create & Curate Culinary Careers

The World Becomes the World Cup

The World is a Stage: Concerts in VR

Touring & Live Experience

Worlds Apart: Bridging Rural and Urban Divides