SXSW 2020 Schedule

Autonomous Commerce: Robots Get Cash - and Rights!

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Behind China’s Great Firewall: Tech, Culture, & UX

A Better Futurism: Turning Fiction into Fact

Betting Big on the Future of Sports Wagering

Big Brain Burnout: What’s Wrong with AI Computing?

The Billion Year Archive and Lost Lunar Library

Black Movement in Digital Spaces

Board Games and the Rise of a Tabletop Industry

Branding Workshop: Develop Your Brand Strategy & Voice

Brand Purpose Before Profit

Presented by

Department for International Trade

Brands & Commerce in China: Real Cases You'll Love

Bravespace Workplaces- Fit for Human Life

Bringing Esports Home – And Worldwide

Budgetless Music Videos: Empowering Communities

Building a Cult (Hospital) Brand

Building a Sports League from Scratch

Building Better Policy: Immigration in America

Building Products People Love With Product Marketing

Build, Not Buy: The Future of Health Innovation

Presented by

W2O

The Business Prenup: Avoid a Bad Business Breakup

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Can Air Travel Connect the World While Protecting the Planet?

Cancer Treatments for All: A Health Equity Panel

Can Language Technology Rescue Mental Healthcare?

Can Sensitive Machines Save the Human Race?

Presented by

Accenture Interactive

Can We Build a Better Society Beyond Earth

Charting the Uncharted Universe

Presented by

The University of Texas at Austin

Chinese Food: A Chef, A Scholar, Some Stories

CLE - MeToo: Creating a Culture of Anti-Harassment in Law

CLE - Music Festival Law: Issues, Developments, Tips & Tricks

CLE - Writer-Agent Clash Over Packaging & Producing Cash

Code of Ethics in Venture Capital

Code War: Defense in the Age of AI

Presented by

Booz Allen Hamilton

Coding is Key for HBCUs, MSIs and YOU

The Collaboration is the New Sponsorship

Community and the Science of Interactivity

Computation, Curation & Experiential Design

Presented by

G’Day USA

Content Is Dead, Long Live Product

Content Strategy Hacks to Save Civil Discourse

Corporate Venturing Beyond Venture Capital

Presented by

KITE

Crazy in Love: Building a Beloved Brand

Create Your Dream Job: Becoming a Music Entrepreneur

Creating True Inclusivity in Tech Hubs

Cultural Innovation, Colorism and Chemistry

Cyber(In)security: Past, Present and Future

Cyber Security: Protecting Technology to Protect Democracy

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Deaf Entrepreneurs: Stories That Change Perception

Deal Better Drugs: Gaming Addiction and Nutrition

Defending Our Humanity: The War On Big Tech

Defining Times: Evolving Word Usage & Definitions

Delivering Jobs: Building an Inclusive Workforce

Delivering the Ultimate Personalized Fan Experience

Designed Death: How (Not) to Get Resurrected

Design For Individuals Not ‘People’ Using Mindsets

Designing Across Senses: Multimodal Product Design

Designing AI Products and Services

Designing for a World Beyond Screens

Designing for Tech You Don’t Get

Designing the President

Designing the Waymo Driver

Digital Assistants: Helping Those Who Need it Most

Digital Is More Human Than You Think

Discord: How to Build and Engage Your Community

Dismantling Gender in Branding

Do Creatives and Scientists Think Alike?

Do Journalists Need to be Futurists?

Dollars & Sense: The Case for Sensory Branding

Don't Lean In, Lay Down: Why Naps Save Lives

Dreams: The Future of Games as Made by Gamers

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The Early-Stage Startup’s Guide to PR

eCombat: The Future of Digital Warfare

Presented by

Capital Factory

Elect Tech 2020

Elevating the Human Experience in the Workforce

Presented by

Deloitte

Emerging Trends in Design, Culture & Leadership

The End of the Office: How Fully Remote Teams Thrive at Scale

Entrepreneurialism in the Government (Is it Possible?!)

Equity and Opportunity in Professional Sports

Escaping the Trust Trap

Events: The Next Frontier in Omnichannel Marketing

Presented by

Eventbase

Extraordinary at Work

Extreme Food Localism Interconnects the World

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Facing any Challenge with Willpower

Fake News, Silenced Voices: Truth and Democracy

The Fastest AI Workshop in the West

Female Trail Blazers in Space: Reaching for the Stars

Finding the Meaning Behind the Purpose of Work

Presented by

Deloitte

Forgettable, That’s What You Are (Until Now)

For Love and Leadership

Founder Wellbeing: Meditation Isn't Enough

Frenemies: Cannabis Activists & Cannabis Industry

From Demos to Hits with Atlantic Records

Experiential Storytelling

From Green to Red - Data, Art and the Environment

From Inspiration to Reality: Your First AR Effect

From Study Hall to the Studio: Nurturing the Next Gen of Creative Minds

From Virtual Hate to Violent Activity

Future Investment Opportunities in the Space Industry

The Future of Aviation

The Future of Data is Decentralized

The Future of Digital Dating: How to Play Cupid in a Modern World

The Future of Healing: Engineering Longer Life

The Future of Prescription Drug Prices

The Future of Retail

The Future of the Talent/Fan Experience

The Future of Your Brain: Neural Implants and More

Future Players: The Intersection of Music & Gaming

Futures and Challenges: Music Cities & Scenes

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Geo-Technologies Based on Local DNA and Philosophy

The Gig Economy & How It'll Change the Way We Work

Going Viral Finding Flow

The Google Conversation Design Workshop

Growth Hacking Unicorns with Government-Funded R&D

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Healing Health Care: 2020 and Beyond

Helping Vets Through Technology, Music and Health

The High Cost of Perfectionism: Impostor Syndrome

The House of God and Fiction as Resistance at 40

How Artists Can Build a Fan Base and Make Money Livestreaming on Twitch

How E-Scooters Will Reimagine Urban Life

How Gaming Became Fashionable

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fake News

How Instagram Became Your Personal Chef

Presented by

The University of Texas at Austin

How Journalists Can Remember Anything

How Loaded Disrupted the Game Industry

How Museums are Unleashing the Power of Experience

How to be Ethical in the Bleeding-Edge Wild West

How to Break Up With Your Phone

How to Create a Startup From Nothing

How to Make a Remarkable Podcast with Guy Kawasaki

How to Resurrect Personal Relevance

Presented by

Accenture Interactive

How to Step Up Your Marketing in Esports

How We Can Save The Rainforests With AI

Human 2.0: How Neuroscience is Reshaping our World

Human Enhancement Tech: How, Why & What Next?

Hyper-Growth CEO Teaches How to Execute For The Win

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If It Can, It Will Be Connected: NSA, IoT, & You

Imagining the Future: Autonomy and Flying Robots

Immersive Retail: 3D/AR/VR Future of Shopping

Impact of Grassroots Activism on Disaster Recovery

Indigenous Rising: Our Role As Allies

Innovation While in the Spotlight

Innovative Solutions to Tech’s Immigration Issues

The Innovator's Gift: Build Better Products

Inside Out: How Culture Drives Innovation

Intersecting ML, AI, & Data Science in CRE

Investing in a Collaborative Community

An Investment That (Kinda) Worked: The Gates Millennium Scholar Story

The Investor Mindset: Creating Our Opportunity

The Invisible Interface

iOS Production: Music for Airports?

Is There an Echo in Here? Building Alexa Skills

It’s Your Time: Using Work Data to Achieve More

It Takes What It Takes

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Joints, Jobs and Justice: A 5280 View of Legal Cannabis

Journalism Under Attack: Reporting on the Border

A Journey Through the Universes of Transmedia IP

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Keeping 4.5M Jobs in the Hands of Black America

Keeping NATO's Technological Edge

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The Last Stargazers: The Evolution of Astronomy

Launching an Austin Space Startup: Why, Where and How

Lessons From Reporting on the Wild West of Weed

Let's Talk About Sex!

Leveraging Technology to Personalize Healthcare

Leveraging the Power of Sport to Advance Equity

The LGBTQ Movement Was Queer by (X) Design

Life & Death Design: Lessons from Life-Saving Tech

Liquidity: Power your Advertising with Machine Learning with Facebook Blueprint

Looking to Listen: AR for Hearing Impaired

Look Who’s Talking: Voice, Persona, and Brand

Love and Intimacy in a Robotic Age

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Make It Personal: 7 Steps to Impact Climate Change

Making Superhumans Through Radical Inclusion

Making the Most of Your First SXSW

Making Your Own Luck at CIA

Male Fertility: The Hidden Sperm Crisis

Managing Triggering Events

Mapping Inequality: A Tale of Two Cafes in Boston

Marvel: The Art Of Storytelling In Games

Maximize Creative Impact with Facebook Blueprint

MedTech: Separating Reality from Hype

Me, Myself & AI: An Experiment in Digital Cloning

The Met Museum Meets Wiki: Art, AI, and Big Data

MIDI 2.0 for Musicians

Midnight Sun: Trends & Opportunities in Energy Storage

Mind Journeys: Designing for Cognitive UX

Mira Mija: Music as a Vehicle for Change

Moon XR: Speculative Storytelling and Future Media

Mother Investors: Angel Investing for Change

Move Over AI: How Innate Intelligence Gets Action

Music Industry Spotlight: Africa

Music, Venture Capital & Leveraging Your Brand

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Nardwuar’s Video Vault!

Neuromarketing: Unlock a Focus Group’s Subconscious

Never Forget: Genocide Remembrance and the DWeb

New Bosses/New Voices: Diversity in Media Ownership

The New Retail Reality: Humans, Tech & Logistics

The New Rules of Retail

Newsletters Are Immortal

The New Yorker's Liza Donnelly: Humor Connects Us

Nobody Cares About Your Data (Not Even You)

No Slack for You! Why Messaging Needs Encryption

Novel Multimodal Interfaces for XR

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Ocean Solutions to the Climate Crisis

One Thing Can Save Us from the Web: Conversational AI

On to the Next One - Pivoting & Growing After an Exit

Opening Pandora's Black Box for Artificial Intelligence

Outsourcing Creativity: Authors, Artists, and AI

Overcoming Gender Bias in a Limited Capital Industry

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A Pain Relief Revolution Using Virtual Reality

The Paralympics is Changing the Way We Think

Patents & Business: Begin with Nothing but an Idea

Photographing On the Migrant Trail to America

Pinterest Academy: Fueling Inspiration through Visual Discovery

Pioneering the Spatial Web & Bringing MR to Life

Pitch It. Pitch It Real Good.

Playbook for Accessible & Inclusive Design Systems

Pole Dance...in the Olympics?

Power Conflicts, Resources, and Defense in Space

The Power of BLK & Why You Best Never Sleep On It

The Power of Third Party Playlists

Power Up Play: Designing the Future of Play

A Principled Approach to the Emotion Economy

The Professionalization of Esports Begets Innovation

Public Speaking Essentials: Storytelling & Designing a Talk

Put Yourself Out of Business (or Someone Else Will!)

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Quantifying the State of the Global Startup Ecosystem

A Quantum Revolution Is Coming

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Reclaiming Her Voice: Leadership, Race & Gender

Redesigning Education: From Customer to Contributor

Redesigning the Urban Environment for Extreme Heat

Reporting on the Corporatization of Psychedelics

Retail Innovation That Builds True Connection

Presented by

Accenture Interactive

Riding a Green Wave- The $20 Billion MJ Future

Riding the High of the Legal Cannabis Industry

The Right to Be Left Alone: Privacy and #MeToo

The Rise & Fall of the Green Building Movement

A Roadmap to the Future-Ready City

Robot Cartography: The Automation of Location

Run Your Brand Like a Presidential Campaign

Presented by

BerlinRosen

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Sales and Marketing Alignment

Sales for Startups – How to Acquire Early Customers

Saving Journalism Through Creativity in Turkey

SciFi-preneurship: How Sci-fi Shapes the Future

Screenplay Doula workshop: Writing with Mindfulness

Seeing is Believing

Self-Driving or Assisted: What Does My Car Do?

Presented by

U.S. Department of Transportation

Sex and Intimacy for Today’s Space Travelers

Shaman’s Path to Innovation & Big Ideas

Shooting for the Moon with Hypersonic Flight

Social Control & Why Changing It Is On You

Social Robots Empowering Humans

Sonic Identity: To be Heard is to be Seen

Space Viruses! Preventing the Next Deadly Outbreak

Sports Entrepreneurship: What Really Works

The State of the Cannabis Industry in Mexico

The State of the Media is...?

State of Womxn of Color: Community+Culture+Career

Step Up to the Plate: Negotiation Skills that Win

StockX: The Future of eCommerce

Storytelling with Purpose: Biometrics & Impact

The (Strategic) Gravity of Unmanifested Futures

StrengthsFinder and EI: Lead with Confidence

Stretchable Electronics: On or In You for Health

Studio Conversations: The Personal is Political

Superpowered or Subservient: The Future of XR

Surviving the Consciousness Explosion: AGI as an Ally

SXSW College Music & Radio Day Workshop: 20 Pro-Tips for Stations in 2020

SXSW Film Fest Episodic Pitch-a-Thon Presented by SeriesFest

Presented by

SeriesFest

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Tackling Climate Change from Dorm to Board Room

Taking Meds Out of the Bottle & Onto the Screen

Tech-Free Service Design: Mumbai’s “Dabbawalas”

Techlash, Tech Policy: A Look Ahead to What’s Next

Tech vs. Democracy: Ask Me Anything

TEST: Dame DOLLA is the Best Trail Blazer Ever

This AI Space Robot Fixes Problems by Listening

Thriving Amid Uncertainty In The CBD Market

To Bennu & Back–Pioneers on the Asteroid Frontier

Tools to Create a Customer Centric Workforce

Training Expert AI Agents in Dota 2

Transformative Power of the Creative Economy

Transforming Big Data into Music Impact

Transforming Perception of Formerly Incarcerated LGBTQIA+

Trends 2020: A Digital Reset for a World in Need

Presented by

Accenture Interactive

Truly Ending Aging with Comprehensive Rejuvenation

The Truth Behind Brand Hijacks

Turning Innovation into Reality: Utilizing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Experiential Storytelling

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Unburied, Unmourned, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice

Understanding the HBCU Effect and Deconstructing Myths

Unexpected Leaders: Rising to the Top Despite ‘No’

Unexpected Partnerships: How the FBI Connects to Protect

User Experience: Customer Journey Mapping Crash Course

Using CRISPR to Teach Your DNA to Fight Cancer

Using Media & Storytelling to Activate & Advocate

Using Science Fiction to Inspire Innovation

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Venture CapitALL: Bringing Equity in Funding

Visualizing Shared Musical Experience

Voice Is The New Command Line

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Waking Up Latinx in America

What Do Democrats and Republicans Know About You?

What the Actual F*ck is Happening in Media?

What VR Can Do To Preserve Disappearing Cultures

What We Learned About Cancel Culture at SXSW 2019

The Whiteness of Green: Transcending Bias in Eco

Why AI Can't Solve AI's Marketing Problem

Why Asian Americans Matter to Marketers Now

Why Super-Forecasting Wins

Winning The Clean Energy Transformation

Workshop: 8K and VFX on a budget: ‘Stucco’ short film

Workshop: Branding by Day, Passion (Projects) @ Night

Presented by

Panasonic

Workshop: Circles, Lines and Squares

Workshop: Crowd Surfing Through Social Media

Workshop: Empowering Storytellers with Real-Time Technology

Workshop: Engage New Fans on Google Search

Presented by

Google

Workshop: FOIA For Filmmakers

Workshop: From Fantasy To Film: Erotic Movie Design

Workshop: Go Beyond the Status Quo - Dolby Atmos Music Masterclass

Workshop: Music Commissioning and Placement in Film/TV 101

Workshop: SoundCloud 101

Workshop: Spotify for Artists & Labels

Workshop: Spotify for Artists & Labels

Workshop: The Future of Visualization: From GOT to Marvel

Workshop: Up Is Louder: A Fader Move Away From a Perfect Mix

The World’s Greatest Mathematician

Presented by

G’Day USA

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You Can’t Eat Software: Biology’s Big Future

You’re Just a Number and You F*cking Love It

Your Future Self/Your Future Consumer

Your Real Social Network is Offline