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Festival-goers can once again count on festival favorite, Catch A Chevy, to beat the heat and help them navigate the busy streets of Austin. Why walk when you can catch a complimentary ride in a wrapped Chevrolet Impala …
Test drive a 2014 Chevrolet Volt, Sonic, Camaro, Impala, Spark, Equinox, Tahoe, Cruze Eco, or Malibu. Find Chevrolet on Trinity St. between Cesar Chavez and 2nd St. from Friday, March 7 through Saturday, March 15.……
Kick start your SXSW day by grabbing free breakfast at the Java Monster Café. Stop by to get revved up and energized with a Java Monster - we'll even provide some tunes to start your morning right!……
Leveraging creativity and innovation for the greater good is an underlying theme of South by Southwest. New for 2014, SXSW will host a social good hub to bring together the digital creatives, agencies, filmmakers and ent…
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Bring your tablets and your ideas to an interactive discussion with leading experts as we debate how to make your start up social from the ground up. Learn how to use crowdsourced employee input to outsmart your bigger, …
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Bryan Kramer, Kodi Foster, Maria Winans, Susan Emerick
Are you leveraging age to your advantage? Our youth-centered society promotes the young in pursuit of the "bright shiny object". The current entrepreneurial renaissance reinforces stereotypes that innovation is the domai…
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Christina Vuleta, Sarah Kunst, Susan McPherson , Tereza Nemessanyi
66 million years ago, the dinosaurs had a very, very bad day thanks to an asteroid at least 10 km wide. Since 1998, NASA has led the global effort to find potentially hazardous asteroids, and has successfully found 95 pe…
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Jason Kessler, Jenn Gustetic
In the future, virtual health care won’t be a luxury for the wealthy, but a necessity as the demand for quality and timely care rises and health organizations go under more pressure to deliver better patient outcomes and…
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Daphne Kis, Dr Timothy Bickmore PHD, Mitch Lawrence, Stacey Higginbotham
The Backyard Poultry Meetup Group is for people interested in backyard flocks of chickens, ducks, guineas, turkeys, geese, or other poultry for pets, eggs, meat, or exhibition. You just might be surprised at how many peo…
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Michelle Hernandez, Shane Crawford
Aaron Levie launched the online file sharing company BOX from his college dormroom in 2005. Nine years later, the company is valued at $2 billion and counts over 25 million users. Nearly every Fortune 500 company is a cu…
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Aaron Levie, Jessi Hempel
Building advertising campaigns using traditional models doesn’t translate to today’s environment, where success requires listening, agility, and even - shock, horror - accepting failure as a part of the process. Creating…
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Aman Govil, Ben Malbon
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/IAP20315 Th…
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Ben Callahan, Jeremy Loyd
Improving our world and quality of life—from increasing energy and food production to developing new drugs and treatments to managing environmental crises—requires advances in science across numerous, connected disciplin…
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Arfon Smith, Mark Hahnel, Maytal Dahan, Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
Join Chicago-based coders, creatives and assorted other techies for a meet-up at SXSW Interactive! We'll talk about what's going on in Chicago's technology scene, what we're up to personally and what we've learned so far…
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Andrew Huff
All the world’s a stage, and today everyone is using their social networks to play the part and edit the perfect version of their lives. Posting selfies from only their good side, checking in to only the coolest hangouts…
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Cynthia Samanian, Paul Davison
Internal tools aren't known for their beautiful consumer UI, or extreme ease of use, but they are what keeps any company humming. But this is changing. Airbnb and Etsy are among a handful of companies leading the way in…
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Daniel Schauenberg, Harrison Shoff
These days content is popping up in subtle, unexpected places, extending far beyond the blogs magazines and newspapers we traditionally rely on. As more and more retailers are creating new mediums to directly interact an…
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Jeff Pyatt, Mollie Chen
We are entering a period where the intersection of exploding content and limited consumer attention will intersect, creating an economic shockwave that will render many marketing programs unsustainable. In some markets, …
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Mark Schaefer
There is a reason that office Culture is a buzzword today: Little has more power to influence you and your team than the environment in which you work. In fact, research has shown that positive Culture yields positive …
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Eric Falcao, Jeffrey Schutte, Liz Elam, Matt Chasen
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/IAP26403 Co…
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Lauren Fritsch, Victoria Prozan
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/IAP17442 …
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Chuck Greb, Matt Smollinger
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/IAP25067 Su…
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Aaron Sedley, Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge
Never let the resources of one individual limit the potential of the community as a whole. We want to establish Washington, DC as THE location for live concerts in your living room. But hosting a show in your house requi…
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Catherine Woodiwiss, Nicholas DePrey
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/IAP20403 A …
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Abby Kallgren, Dan Abramson, Nate Maggio
In a traditionally male-dominated industry, women entrepreneurs are making waves in the startup scene. They are starting companies based around the desires and needs of women and couples; they are uncovering new investme…
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Danielle Weinblatt, Jennifer Fleiss, Karen Griffith Gryga, Terry Chase Hazell
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/IAP24279 Ec…Intermediate
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David Sherwin, Diego Depetris, Patrick Kalaher, Steve Selzer
ATTENTION: This workshop is FULL. If you do not have a CONFIRMED seat, you will not be able to get in as space is very limited. Spend half a day thinking and drawing with the founders of ImageThink, the official graphic…
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Heather Willems, Nora Herting
Over the last 25 years, the feminist movement entered a new era with the emergence of the internet and social media. Despite historic under-representation of women in technology, key advances in software development and…
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Carla Franklin, Kelly Wallace, Maggie Neilson, Tara Hughes
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/IAP20738 61…
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Allison Yost, Andrea Ippolito, Zen Chu
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…
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Ashley Hicks, Felicia Harris, Toni Carey
HATCH pitch is the revolutionary competition for tech startups making life better. Join our well-connected audience as the first group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepre…
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Adam DAugelli, John Frankel, Missy Krasner, Rami Essaid
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Alix Morrow, Amanda O'Brien
Start your morning at SXSW Home Room. Introduced in 2013, Home Room sessions are part SXSW program information, part meet up. Each session is led by two Home Room Leaders who will help you get the most out of your day, …
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Christopher Walton, Elizabeth Salazar
Online dating has become the #1 most common way that people meet their romantic partners. Yet the typical online dating experience is - for most people - painful. Women get too many spammy messages ("hey sexy" is a class…
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Elissa Shevinsky
Asian cities, especially megacities (with populations of over 10 million) are centres of chaos. But that very chaos inspires and demands us to seek more creative and innovative solutions to help people manage and enjoy l…
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Tara Hirebet
Cyber security harkens to mind the hardening of networks, the deployment of code, and the fast typing fingers of armies of hackers and anti-hackers, all mixed into a war-like ecosystem of digital penetration and defense.…
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Chris Hadnagy, Chris Dufour, Jon Iadonisi, Nicole Tatrow
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/IAP18106 D…
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Chelsey Delaney, Chris Trew
Thanks to the Internet, the proliferation of low-cost publishing has changed what journalistic integrity means to digital content, affecting the quality—and ethical integrity—of online “news.” With bad—and wrong—online …
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Gail Marie 2, Kristina Eastham, Mike Schmidt, Robert Hernandez
The internet needs a justice system, just like the face-to-face world. But the courts are too tied to geography and physical enforcement to provide fair redress online. The most effective approach to building this new …
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To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F As the Global Program Director for Whole Foods Market's foundation, Whole Planet Foundation, Steve is responsible for overseeing a portfolio of microfinance pro…
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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Amanda Cevallos
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Andrew is a Senior Consultant and Business Development Manager at Beaconfire. He has 16 years of experience in website development, strategy, and marketing. …
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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To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Clarisse is 36 and has worked in advertising for 11 years. Originally a copywriter, she soon developed a preference to be involved in the precious process of de…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F As Vice President of Global Partnerships, Jen Kim Field leads partnership efforts to contribute towards the sustainability of the UN Foundation and support the …
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F John is the Chief Design Officer and Co-Founder of Human Design (http://www.beinghuman.is/), a digital agency focused on creating products that move the human r…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Malaka Gharib is the social media manager for ONE.org, a campaigning and advocacy organization of more than 3 million people taking action to end extreme povert…
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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Mary Juetten
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Micha is a communicator and strategist, by trade and by passion. A behind-the-scenes storyteller, she’s carved out marketing, content, branding and communicatio…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Passionate and committed to helping humanity save the world, Michael Slaby is Managing Partner at Timshel and among the world’s leaders in digital strategy, tec…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Natalie Byrne is an innovative and empowering voice for women and girls. A social impact and brand strategist, she is committed to changing the conversation aro…
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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Richard Botto
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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Rod Paddock
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F A native Austinite, Sara has held positions in media and entertainment including Executive Director of Interactive Marketing at Paramount Pictures, VP of Digita…
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F Sarah M. Kauss is the founder and CEO of S’well bottle, the only water bottle that looks great and does good. S’well bottles utilize ThermaS’well™ technology, a…
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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Zach Richardson
To sign up please visit this url: http://adobe.ly/1nTV23F WENDY SMITH is a brand and business development strategist with a background in grassroots organizing and politics. For the past 25 years, she has held senior p…
Is your “always on” made by those who are actually always online? Or is it made by the same folks who tried to newsjack the Harlem Shake two weeks after digital natives moved on to something more interesting? Perhaps it’…
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Jon Burkhart, Nadya Powell
There's untapped magic in the gap between gadgets. Multi-screen design is a preoccupying problem as we try to fit our content into many different screens. But as devices proliferate, the opportunity is less about designi…
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Josh Clark
How can you make a difference, and make it entertaining at the same time? As lines continue to blur between fiction and non-fiction, education and entertainment, gaming and movies, and the corporate and non-profit secto…
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Caitlin Burns, Lina Srivastava, Liz Nord, Morra Aarons-Mele
For a book on success, "The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well," we found that the highly successful people we interviewed—in the arts, business, media and tech—failed and failed …
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Camille Sweeney, Josh Gosfield
Presented by Qualcomm Vuforia and IEEE. While previously collaborating with other artists to bring their urban art to life, Re+Public will launch their first original content augmented reality mural at SXSW 2014. This…
Have you ever created an AMA for your CEO to answer softball questions? Have you ever followed some idiot’s advice and turned your brand into a meme for Reddit? Has your brand ever made it to the r/hailcorporate subreddi…
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Garrett Tillman, Rohit Thawani
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…
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Walter De Brouwer
Gellman is one of three reporters entrusted by Edward Snowden last May with top secret NSA archives. In December, he was the first to interview Snowden face to face in Moscow. Nine months after breaking the PRISM story i…
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Barton Gellman, Cory Doctorow
Best selling author Dave Evans along with co-author Joe Cothrel will present their latest book on enterprise social media and its impact on customer service. Published by Wiley (ISBN: 9781118826102, due out 3/1/2014), "…
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Dave Evans
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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Chris Gebhardt, Lori McMahon, Tom Scott
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…
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Neal Pollack
On April 23, 2012, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked the Twitter account of the Associated Press and posted a tweet proclaiming that President Obama had been injured in a terrorist attack. The stock market took an immedi…
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Austin Powell, Cole Stryker, Parmy Olson, Tom Cochran
Technology is moving out of hands and onto our bodies. Whether it's the integration of Google Glass into your daily routine or the sleek elegance of the Pebble e-ink watch, technology is transitioning beyond simply being…
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Billie Whitehouse, Jay Morgan, Nicole Forbes, Q Manning
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/IAP21585 We…
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Christine Outram, Daniel Rosenberg
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
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Let’s face it, as designers we’ve all been guilty of carelessly adopting popular usability and design conventions from time to time. Usually, we get the benefit of someone else’s thoughtfulness and research - no effort r…
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Michael Boeke
Struggling to have the impact you want? Win the hearts of your teammates and stakeholders with this simple recipe for Deep Collaboration! We’ll share the techniques we used to transform naysayers into UX advocates whil…
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Alissa Briggs, Raman Hansi9:50 AM
Dave Evans will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Social Customer Experience: Engage and Retain Customers through Social Media".……
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Dave Evans10:00 AM
Greg Nudelman will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers".……
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Greg Nudelman
In the tradition of Naked Economics and The Undercover Economist, Stanford economist Paul Oyer offers a provocative, informative, and entertaining view of modern microeconomics-- using the lens of online dating. Oyer arg…
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Paul Oyer
What happens when you mix tennis, Austin graffiti, and chalk paint? A very colorful and interactive tennis experience. Sponsored by United States Tennis Association and the Austin Aces, a Mylan World TeamTennis team.……
Come get your bearings for the day in the Dell and NVIDIA Green Room, meet up with other registrants, stay up-to-date on festival happenings, and grab a coffee and snack! *Moved from Hideout……
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Paul Oyer will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Dating".……
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Paul Oyer10:30 AM
Brenda Laurel will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Computers as Theatre (2nd Edition)".……
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Brenda Laurel
This is a reading of my new book: "Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age" (Yale 2013). This book is a down-in-the-trenches look at tech culture-- the good, the bad, and the ugly. I spe…
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Alice Marwick10:50 AM
Alice E. Marwick will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age".……
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Alice Marwick11:00 AM
Alexandra and Sergi make love in their tiny Barcelona apartment. They’ve decided to have a baby, but find their plans dashed when Alex receives an offer for an artistic residency in Los Angeles. Understanding this may be…
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,…
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Allie Phillips, Julie Germany
The internet revolution is democratizing science. No longer limited to conventional laboratories science is taking to the streets as amateur and professional scientists around the world are conducting extraordinary exp…
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Elise Andrew, Hakeem Oluseyi
Created by AT&T in collaboration with VICE's Motherboard, this three-day interactive showcase celebrates young innovators by elevating mobile innovations to new heights. Come experience apps in amazing new ways, enjoy ou…
Lost amidst today's swell of content marketing, mobile app development, and social media mayhem is a simple fact: there's more competition for consumer attention than ever before. As a result, "build it and they will co…
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Jeffrey Rohrs
"Beginning With the End" is a feature length documentary film that follows the experiences of a culturally diverse group of 16 to 18 year-olds who are given the unusual and extraordinary opportunity to work as trained ho…
For more than 40 years, Moore's Law has held astonishingly accurate as the number of transistors, and along with it the processing power, of personal computers has doubled roughly every two years. Soon, however, as the v…
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Joshua Turner
Sarah Lewis will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery".……
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Sarah Lewis
This meetup will be geared towards those who live at 5,430 feet above sea level. If you live in Boulder or have questions about our great town please feel welcomed. Lets talk about what we can do to cultivate the commun…
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Andrew Hyde
With millions of sellers online and huge marketplaces like Amazon, can small merchants still compete? eCommerce sales in North America saw double digit growth and hit $364 billion in 2012. This number is expected to grow…
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Andrew Youderian, Billy Murphy, Naruby Schlenker, Sean Work
At first glance, it is not obvious that Abigail Evans lives with a life-threatening skin disease. She is a typical teenager: moody, rebellious, irreverent, and is also strikingly beautiful. But her life is the antithesi…
A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who…
What are the biggest technological challenges facing today’s computer scientists? What new research is on the horizon, how will it change the way that we use computers, and what will the digital landscape look like in 10…
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Andrew Lo, Daniela Rus, Russ Tedrake, Tim Berners-Lee
Looking for work, Aaron (Patrick Brice) comes across a cryptic online ad: $1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated. Low on cash and full of naiveté he drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town w…
We’ve grown accustomed to ads as part of our lives. But what if they could do more? What if they served a purpose, through form AND function. Several ads have been making waves for responding to their environments and vi…
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Ashley Giombetti, Beth Ellard, David Krupp, Ranvir Gujral, Tim Nudd
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…
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Nick Lockey
Shot in 10 countries over the course of 4 years, Eline Jongsma & Kel O’Neill’s acclaimed documentary project Empire (NYFF 2013, IDFA 2012) is an epic investigation into the legacy of Dutch colonialism. It is also a one-o…
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Eline Jongsma, Kel ONeill
Political fact-checking is expanding around the world, with new ventures popping up in South Africa, Australia, Germany, Chile and many other countries. But as the websites take root, the fact-checkers are facing new pre…
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Bill Adair, Martin Kotynek, Mona Chalabi, Peter Fray
Attend an interactive workshop with the team responsible for bringing new apps to Chevrolet. Learn how to build apps for vehicles, discuss developer opportunities within Chevrolet, and demo a sample of in-vehicle apps. …
This panel will bring together a handful of breakout designers across various industries to navigate the trade-offs and challenges that arise when designing wearable tech products that must be both functional and attract…
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Aza Raskin, Dieter Bohn, Eric Migicovsky, Steven Eidelman
Startups need the support of experienced entrepreneurs and professionals who have "been-there, done-that"; also known as mentors. Mentors help guide burgeoning entrepreneurs through the in's and out's and growing pains o…
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Amy Ford Keohane, Andrew Ackerman, Keya Dannenbaum, Rob Arbittier
Media and agencies are plagued with tunnel vision. They are stuck thinking about mundane use cases for wearables like Glass that are reminiscent of first phase mobile apps. Wake up. Wearable tech has the potential for …
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Jen Quinlan, JP Gownder
Bradley Manning, Wikileaks and the Snowden/ PRISM revelations pulled back the curtain on the specific workings of a technology based surveillance culture that continues to expand globally every day with significant socie…
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Adam Harvey, Colin Nagy, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Kyle McDonald
HATCH pitch is the revolutionary competition for tech startups making life better. Join our well-connected audience as the second group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepr…
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Alan Ying, Kerry Rupp, Neal Murthy, Unity Stoakes
This is a meetup for Health IT developers, investors, beginners and mere enthusiasts is hosted by Health IT rockstar Fred Trotter (heard of DocGraph?) Are you interested in meeting with other Health IT experts? Join this…
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Fred Trotter
In 2012, consumer advocate and Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren built the strongest grassroots digital program in Senate history. The Massachusetts Senate campaign raised more money from small-dollar online donors …
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Amanda Coulombe, Lauren Miller, Mike Firestone, Mindy Myers
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
Why would an esteemed, multinational ad agency let two young creatives go rogue and "make stuff" for a summer? Beats us. I guess our pitch was convincing. See, last year was Y&R's 90th anniversary, and because of this …
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Dave Pittman, Matt Colangelo
Sound is the second most memorable sense, after smell. Is your company/brand/video taking advantage of this, or focusing solely on the visuals? Using sound in your media, whether it's a 2-second logo, a jingle or a film …
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Cheryl Engelhardt
In the core conversation "Is Facebook Making Houses of Worship Go Extinct?" we plan to discuss how social media has changed the role of the religious meeting place. Using the model of the synagogue as a case study, we no…
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Rebecca Saidlower, Susanne Goldstone Rosenhouse
We are witnessing a profound transformation in the way that people are able to learn about a dizzying variety of life experiences. Anonymous sites are transforming discourse in how people are able to learn - from the mor…
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Fruzsina Eordogh, Kristine Smith, Marta Gossage, Nika Nour
User experience design typically focuses on creating meaningful experiences that will affect as many people as possible. Startups covet reaching critical mass; success for larger companies is often measured in tens of mi…
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Joseph Medwid, Kevin McMillin
Women in Digital: succeeding as a woman in digital agencies or in digital arms of agencies. Our Core Conversation will be a exploration of gender roles in digital agency leadership. We want to discuss if digital agencie…
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Liz Harper, Pam Scheideler
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
Lena Dunham stars in the HBO series, GIRLS, which she created and serves as executive producer, writer, and director. Dunham won two Golden Globe Awards for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy…
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Lena Dunham
Lifestyle and fashion bloggers love sharing their loves with their readers, no matter if it's a new favorite recipe or their newest night out shoes. Best of all, they love meeting new people: peers, readers, and potentia…
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Camille Styles, Indiana Adams
Our culture has transitioned from the top-down consumer culture of the 80s, 90s and early 00s to a one-to-one DIY culture focused on Making. Younger consumers are growing up in an era where they can immediately influence…
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Mike Senese, Richard Goldsmith
The medium is the message. Blah blah. Old news. Think again: McLuhan’s famous statement isn’t a full frontal attack on content. It’s about the change a specific medium can cause. It’s about impact. When Forrester’s Dr. J…
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Jen Grogono
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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Cassie Lancellotti-Young
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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Cecy Correa
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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Chris Jones
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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Daniel Harvey
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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Kevin Planovsky
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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Mariano Suarez Battan
Meet with industry professionals who can give advice and answer questions about distribution, distribution options, and more for Documentary Films. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open t…
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Bec Smith, Daniel Braun, Julie Parker Benello, Kristen Konvitz, Lois Vossen, Matt Grady, Molly Thompson, RJ Millard, Sean Berney, Steven Beer
In 2013, the ban on general solicitation of accredited investors was lifted, causing the largest change to securities laws in decades. While everyone from startups to hedge funds will enjoy new liberties in investor mark…
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Douglas Ellenoff, Joy Schoffler, Judd Hollas, Judy Robinett
For the first time, IBM has made its IBM Watson technology available as a development platform in the cloud, to enable a worldwide community of software application providers to build a new generation of apps infused wit…
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Stephen Gold
The Internet can be the voice of a revolution, a community for kindred spirits and a bridge that spans the global divide. At times it can be transcendent, a vast network of global knowledge and human connectivity, and at…
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Mordechai Lightstone, Paul Miller
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
Quality Assurance (QA) has quickly become a required discipline in today's digital world. As agencies strive to produce flawless digital content, they're struggling with how to establish QA teams to support process, and …
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Ben Currie, Jim Spillson, Kt Mcbratney, Michael Morowitz
They say everyone has a book in them. NYT bestselling author Joni Rodgers notes that everyone has a spleen too, but it takes a special skillset to get it out and make it something you'd want to display on a shelf. A prof…
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Jerusha Rodgers, Joni Rodgers
Seed accelerators (such as YCombinator, Techstars) have recently received much attention both in the US and across the globe. While accelerators appear to be proliferating quickly, little is known regarding the value of …
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Yael Hochberg
A perfect storm is brewing as agriculture pioneer Cary Fowler races against time to protect the future of our food. Gene banks of the world are crumbling, crop failures are producing starvation inspired rioting, and the…
The tech world’s catch phrase du jour is “disruption.” But what’s being disrupted? Uber disrupts taxis, AirBnB disrupts hotels, Twitter disrupts mainstream media, but are these changes substantive or superficial? Beyond …
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Aengus Anderson, Micah Saul
Baby Mary Director: Kris Swanberg An eight-year-old girl living on the west side of Chicago finds a neglected toddler and decides to take her home. CADET Director: Kevin Meul “If it were easy, everyone would do it” FUN…
This is a simulcast room. Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them…
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This is a simulcast room. Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them…
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This is a simulcast room. Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them…
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29 year old Enea is looking for love - phsyical love that is. But as the autist he is, living in Italy, this is anything but easy. So him and his two best friends Carlo and Alex set out on a journey through Europe and ev…
Influencers have been a disruptive force in the fashion and beauty industry. As these influencers fame and position has evolved brands (namely tech) are growing and adapting while the publishing industry and television i…
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Alisa Gould Simon, Jaclyn Johnson
Spotify is returning for its 3rd year to celebrate artists and innovators. The House will showcase up to 6 bands per day, daily food truck and beverage offerings and interactive experiences for SXSW attendees. www.spotif…
On average each of has five "screens" in our lives and we're bombarded with more than 10,000 messages a day (incredible but true). No wonder social entrepreneurs, early-stage brands and non-profits face unique challenges…
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Adam Butler, Debby Tucker, John Weiss, Mitch Baranowski, Tara Roberts, Yoni Bloch
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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Diego Luna, Jonathan King, Logan Hill, Margaret Brown
Like any powerful tool, the human brain needs a bit of a tune-up now and then. Take a break from the bustle of SXSW and give your mind and body a chance to assimilate all the new ideas and energy at the conference. This …
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Jenni Bevill
I've worked for a lot of idiot managers in my career. And then, one day, after I had become a manager, it dawned on me: Now I'm the idiot! Most of my career has been an exercise in “trial by fire” and this process worked…
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Russ Unger
In a multi-platform, decentralized, fast-growing marketplace, how can traditional television networks evolve to remain relevant? Viewers are demanding more choices, more content and more convenience, which is pushing med…
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Brian Stelter, John Skipper, Kevin Conroy, Paula Kerger
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
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Dynamic Web Environments, (a term I dubbed last year) are websites that change and mold much like how responsive websites mold to a device, but this time to a users needs. The trick is to change the website to deliver co…
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Jesse Friedman
Our communications are not secure. Our telephone calls, emails, texts, and web browsing activity are largely transmitted without any encryption, making it easy for governments to intercept them, in bulk. Likewise, the mo…
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Ben Wizner, Christopher Soghoian, Edward Snowden
Volunteers, Board Members, & Donors Alike - Learn How You Can Engage & Benefit From the Millennial Generation! Did you know that 75% of Millennials gave money to charities in 2011? What about the fact that in 2013 52% of…
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Felicia Bates
Join us on March 10th 11am-2pm at Brazos Hall for AMAZING lightning talks from PASSIONATE Yahoo Designers who will reveal the latest and greatest at Yahoo. We’ll have speed networking, free food AND fun.……
Social media has changed the game for salespeople, who can no longer survive without adopting new technologies. Today’s buyer is more informed and more connected than ever before, and this change has forced salespeople t…
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Jason Suen, Patrizio Spagnoletto11:15 AM
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
I Met My Agency @ SXSW is a presentation and networking event that helps link recruiters, potential clients and agencies with the top-notch talent coming to SXSW. On Monday, March 10th hear from a variety of creative a…
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Camille Sweeney and Josh Gosfield will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Art of Doing: How Superachievers Do What They Do and How They Do It So Well"……
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Camille Sweeney, Josh Gosfield
Jeffrey K. Rohrs will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "AUDIENCE: Marketing in the Age of Subscribers, Fans and Followers".……
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Jeffrey Rohrs11:30 AM
Adobe is offering a series of "Fast Fix Talks" from their booth in the northwest corner of the SXSW Trade Show focusing on an array of topics, ranging from audio and video editing to motion graphics and adding 3D to your…
Over the past few years, Venture Capitalists have become micro-celebrities, with public profiles that often exponentially eclipse the entrepreneurs they back. Many struggling entrepreneurs religiously read certain VCs bl…
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Geoff Lewis
Charities are always looking for creative approaches to fundraising. Companies like Airbnb, ZipCar, and Zaarly have created new markets that show how companies can profit from the sharing economy. WebThriftStore turns p…
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Douglas Krugman
An app on your phone knows you’re getting married before you do. Your friends’ tweets can help data scientists predict your location with astounding accuracy, even if you don’t use Twitter. Soon, we’ll be able to know h…
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Patrick Tucker11:45 AM
Sell programs, not people – you know exactly what we’re talking about and likely have examples in your inbox. It’s the story about a girl named Diana who walks 4 hours a day to get clean water. You're then told your $20…
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Ned Breslin
American Express is a 163 year-old organization known for trust, security and delivering world-class customer service. Three years ago, Amex created a new division to operate like a startup inside the company to broaden…
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Dan Schulman11:50 AM
Patrick Tucker will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? ".……
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Patrick Tucker12:00 PM
One man will risk it all to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land. Shot in the forests, pastures, and living rooms of rural East Texas, "Above All Else" follows David Daniel as he rall…
I Met My Agency @ SXSW is a presentation and networking event that helps link recruiters, potential clients and agencies with the top-notch talent coming to SXSW! Following the Next Stage pitches on Monday, March 10th, …
Nearly everything we do is being mediated by technology, and that has turned us all into "walking data generators" - each individually throwing off exponentially more data than we were a decade ago. How can business owne…
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Rajat Paharia12:20 PM
Barton Gellman will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency".……
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Barton Gellman
Cory Doctorow will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Rapture of the Nerds", “Pirate Cinema”, “Homeland”, and many other titles.…
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Cory Doctorow
Rajat Paharia will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Loyalty 3.0: How to Revolutionize Customer and Employee Engagement with Big Data and Gamification".……
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Rajat Paharia12:30 PM
A typed journal from WWI passed on through generations fuels a young man's dreams of time travel and allows us to explore the power of personal stories and photos. Together with archival collections, these items take us…
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Heather Champ, Johan Oomen, Jon Voss, Rachel Frick
Hang out with your people. Join public relations and communication pros here for SXSW Interactive, Film and Music. No agendas, just a friendly way to meet more of your kind.……
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Owen Sexton
Art means something unique to each of us, but the invitation to participate in art has never been extended. In fact, the art world can feel like an elitist club—exclusionary and intimidating. Meanwhile, social media is t…
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David Stocks, Victor Samra
How does science, which prizes openness and peer review, operate in the secret world of national security? While much today is known about the role of scientists during the Manhattan Project, nuclear weapons are only one…
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Sharon Weinberger
“In 2008, for the first time, half the world's population is living in towns and cities. By 2030, the urban population will reach 5 billion – 60% of the world's population” (UN Population Division.) Nearly all global pop…
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Blake Farenthold, Evan Burfield, Jon Zeitler, Lauren Flanagan
Is it possible to compete with Pixar and Dreamworks from Argentina? I will describe the five years process and challenges we faced to produce the biggest film in South America. How did we succeed in developing a project…
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Diego Rosner
Viral content is content that can last for days or even years. We all have those viral videos we go back and watch from years ago and they still resonate. Viral content is highly sought after but not many companies and b…
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Josh Jones-Dilworth, William Leake
It's easy to talk about being innovative, but producing industry-changing design requires abandoning the status quo and embracing uncomfortable new ways of working together. Though change can be scary, breaking the rules…
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Patricia Korth-McDonnell
Ready to be inspired? Join Adobe and SoulPancake for a conversation about collaborating to create inspirational, thought provoking content while developing community. Learn how today's new creative is bypassing traditio…
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Bayan Joonam, Ben Shelton, Meagan Keane, Shabnam Mogharabi
Nicolas Cage is one of the most prolific actors of our time. He leapt into the American consciousness as the quintessential LA teen in FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and VALLEY GIRL and has continued as a leading man for …
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David Gordon Green, Nicolas Cage
Game changing innovation begins with a grand challenge, which must be championed by leaders looking to build product teams to change the world. In order to empower teams to achieve awesome, companies must change how deci…
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Scott Cook
It’s harder to get your work noticed now more than ever before. That’s why having a loyal audience that supports your endeavors has become crucial to success. Filmmakers Patrick Epino and Stephen Dypiangco (who work with…
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Patrick Epino, Stephen Dypiangco
Expression of any kind begins with an impulse. Impulses that have been nurtured within safe spaces flow with greater freedom. Those impulses that were squelched by unsafe spaces have difficulty finding expression. Today,…
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Humberto Perez, Mark Olsen
“The problem is not that most towns kill startups. It's that death is the default for startups, and most towns don't save them. Instead of thinking of most places as being sprayed with startupicide, it's more accurate to…
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Donna Harris, Josh Baer, Maria Adamian, Steve Collens
Rarely seen in the daylight, these filmmakers are the ones who create your nightmares. What will they say!?! What will they do!?! What's in the box!?!!……
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Adam Wingard, Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Daniel Stamm, Dennis Widmyer, Jerome Sable, Julien Maury, Kevin Kolsch, Leigh Janiak, Mike Flanagan, Nacho Vigalondo, Nicholas McCarthy, Scott Weinberg
Years of discussion and debate have come to a close and a historic expansion of the Internet is underway. The domains we've become accustomed to since the Internet’s birth – extensions like .com, .net and .org – are no l…
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Jeremiah Johnston
What’s old is new again. Content delivery systems that push static, or ‘flat’ HTML files are back. Jekyll, Middleman, Prose.io, GitHub Pages have led a new wave of sites — particularly in government — that are being depl…
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Ben Balter, Danny Chapman, Jessica Teal, Julie Herron
Do you know who your SuperFans are? Passionate fanbases have been influential for decades, but the expansion of digital and social media has changed how you connect with those fanbases, and how they connect with each ot…
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Caty Burgess, David Hayes, Michael Tritter, Rae Votta
Returning from a decade of war, emerging military leaders had been required to innovate their way through countless cross-cultural interactions while deployed overseas. Stateside life has proved otherwise, as bureaucrat…
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Ben Kohlmann, Lindsay Rodman, Nate Fick, Victor Glover
In today's world, we are all philanthropists. Susan will lead a lively and engaging discussion on how our new social era is enabling such a dynamic. From Razoo to Crowdrise to Global Giving to Catapult, we can all play …
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Susan McPherson
At the intersection of technology and capitalism—mediation and competition—parents are raising children in a world that is much different than it was 20 years ago. This panel features David McCullough Jr., a high school …
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David McCullough Jr
Climbing a smokestack or chaining yourself to a tree is so 20th century (though still awesome!). What can civil disobedience and non-violent direct action look like online? With examples from Aaron Swartz's freeing of …
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Benjamin Simon, David Segal, Molly Sauter, Shahid Buttar
Robotics has become a major part of our day to day life, it has enabled us not only to speed up industrial processes, but solve mobility and transportation issues for travelers with vision impairment and others. In recen…
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David Bevly, Mohammed Yousuf, William Bluethmann, YingLi Tian
Historically, inventors and technical innovators have worked well away from creative’s. Both sets of people operate in very different worlds – worlds that are very far apart. But there is a sub culture growing that is se…
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Andy Varley, Seth Jackson, Sybil Bell
Never has the spotlight shined so brightly on a single generation. But in today's transformational workplace, Generation Y not only gets the light, they have the might and through their social media expertise, they clai…
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Joanna Coles, Olivier Fleurot, Pete Cashmore
HATCH pitch is the revolutionary competition for tech startups making life better. Join our well-connected audience as the last group of finalists present their business plans and receive feedback from esteemed entrepren…
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Aya Zook, Balaji Gopinath, Nicole Glaros, Rick Pleczko
Our online reputation is becoming more precious, and our identity more complex, as everything that is physical becomes digital, hence liquified. When each atom of our life is being tracked digitally, we are transformed i…
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Matteo Cassese
Smart glasses, smart watches and activity monitors are hitting the market in droves, and many of the biggest consumer electronics companies are expected to launch more wearables over the next year. Are wearables simply p…
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Anna Jen, Sean McCracken
While overseas manufacturing provides inexpensive labor, lower component pricing, and (in some cases) lower development cost, without deeply experienced employees and trusted partners the savings may be not worth it. Bey…
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Rob Bangerter, Sean McBeath
Interview with Fred Ehrsam, the co-founder of Coinbase, the largest and in many ways most "legit" start-up in the emerging Bitcoin economy. Coinbase manages Bitcoin wallets and transactions between people who hold the cu…
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Fred Ehrsam, Rolfe Winkler
Since the 1980s Roy Peter Clark and Mario Garcia -- an influential writing coach and world-class designer -- have collaborated on a creative concept called WED, an acronym that stands for the marriage of Writing, Editin…
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Mario Garcia, Roy Peter Clark
The globalization of human behavior & increasing the channels where people can voice opinions is forcing transparency & openness to its peak. In a world where there’s no place to hide, how do organizations transcend the …
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Burghardt Tenderich, Matthew Eby, Rowan Benecke, Steve DelBianco
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on short films with Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff. This is an open forum to ask these filmmakers anything about short films.……
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Christopher Radcliff, Lauren Wolkstein, Bryan Poyser
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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Ashley Meyers
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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Christopher Bartik
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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Jessica Tunon
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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Jim Galis
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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Shari Foldes
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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Tom Fowler
Meet with industry professionals who can give advice and answer questions about distribution, distribution options, and more for narrative films. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open to …
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Austin Francalancia, David Reilly, Gabriel Cowan, Matt Cowal, Nicholas Ogiony, Peter Goldwyn
Presented by Philips - Antonio Hidalgo, Chief Innovation, Marketing and Strategy Officer, Philips Consumer Lifestyle With innovations like the Philips Hue, Smart Air Purifier and Connected Kitchen devices, Philips is t…
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Antonio Hidalgo, Ben Jones, Paul Rand
If you were in Turkey last summer, you would have observed a Twitter revolution. During the #OccupyGezi movement, 1 million new accounts were created in just 1 month. For 3 weeks Turkey was the country with the highest n…
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Eda Demir, Yalçın Pembecioglu
The average consumer’s online identity is segmented across the web on platforms including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and WordPress. about.me co-founder and CEO Tony Conrad and his team recognized the need for…
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Evelyn Rusli, Tony Conrad
In 1791, when Jeremy Bentham designed the panopticon prison system, he considered it a mechanism of power that acted directly on individuals, granting its controller “the power of mind over mind.” In the panopticon priso…
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Ceren Paydas
Filmmakers wear multiple hats, learn new skills under fire and juggle many jobs at once. We take these skills for granted as par for the course in getting a film made, but they also create a powerful arsenal of expertise…
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Erin Essenmacher, Erin Stam
If you think you are in the marketing business, think again. You’re in the people business. It’s people not products and not programs that drive sales. It’s people who make an unknown brand known. It’s people who work to…
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John Moore
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…
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Michael Olaya, Taylor Pechacek
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
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
It's uncomfortable for me to admit this: Analysts aren't paid for the elegance of their Python, the resplendence of their R, or even the complexity of their CSV files. But after years of leading social analytics and rese…
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Eric Swayne
Next Generation Recommendations: We live in a world where search is dead. Consumers are most responsive to personalized, content-driven and curated experiences and are no longer as willing to take the time to search and …
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Hayley Barna, Katrina Lake, Ruzwana Bashir, Todd Yellin
Meet Catalyst, the SoftLayer startup incubator. Catalyst is core to our mission to enable next generation technologies and empower the entrepreneurs that will bring them to market. As a former startup ourselves, we know …
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Ben Rigby, Josh Krammes, Justin Johnson, Samar Birwadker
Get together with sustainability professionals and other like-minded individuals to discuss solutions to the issues facing our economy, the environment, and civil society. Network, brainstorm, and discover how SXSW Eco …
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Chris Sonnier
Mobile today means more than handsets in pockets. Welcome to digital ubiquity. Always-on cross-channel services add new dimensions of complexity to the job of user experience strategy and product design. So, yes, “mobi…
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Abi Jones, Christian Crumlish, Paul McAleer
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…
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Jason Donahue, Manuel Rosso, Robyn Metcalfe, Ryan Shadrick Wilson
Join leading technology insiders as they share the latest and hottest trends in tech innovation, consumer electronics, services, social media and startups – and unveil a top-level view of what’s coming in the near and lo…
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Gary Shapiro, Kevin O'Malley, Robert Scoble
UK Demo Day will showcase 20 of the UK’s best new technology ventures as they demo their products and look to meet potential partners, investors, clients and you. Come mix, mingle and meet those that lead the largest en…
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In the SXSW 2013 opening keynote, Bre Pettis said, "When you combine friendship plus tools, you can make anything." He did that in his NYC loft. By the time this year’s event begins, Lowe Campbell Ewald will have moved 5…
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Iain Lanivich
In 2007 the iPhone mapped the frontier for smart devices; since then we’ve seen extraordinary devices pushing limits on how we interact with technology. From the release of tablets to smart cameras and more, the world ha…
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David Rosales, Kieran Barr, Krishna Subramanian, Soulaiman Itani
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
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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Chris Thomas, Christina Lindstrom, Hugh Evans, Liba Rubenstein
Calling all the ladies! Attend this mentoring and networking session – hosted by DreamIt Ventures – and take advantage of seven minutes of direct, one-on-one, career related council from more established and experienced …
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Erica Duignan Minnihan, Jacqui Boland, Kathleen Utecht, Tania Yuki12:45 PM
Fact: There are over 20 million small businesses in the United States. Collectively, these small businesses represent a multi-billion dollar market opportunity. However, in the last five years alone, over 100 companies h…
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Court Cunningham
So you want to raise money online and go viral? Whether you are a nonprofit, artist, or an entrepreneur crowdfunding a project, how you tell your story, manage your team and leverage lessons learned from gaming will play…
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Matthew Bishop12:50 PM
John Moore will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Passion Conversation: Understanding, Sparking, and Sustaining Word of Mouth Marketing".……
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John Moore1:00 PM
To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Inc Magazine created a list of 30 strategy books that all managers should own. This short list, drawn from 70 years of management thinking, included the global bestseller Green to Gold,…
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Andrew Winston
Chris Hadnagy will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security" and “Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking”.……
Presenters
Chris Hadnagy
It’s a fine line that marketers can cross in the new era of big data analytics. You can go from “cool” to “creepy” in a blink of an eye if you don’t truly know who you are targeting. And, if they don’t know they are bein…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Graeme Noseworthy
Philanthropy has always been a senior’s game – old money, traditional ideas, worn out game plans. Today, there is a new generation of technophilanthropists joining the scene and shaking the world of nonprofits to its cor…
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Intermediate
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Tamarah Black1:15 PM
There’s a ton of data out there, but what does data really mean? People don’t consume data. We consume knowledge. But how do we get from data to knowledge? How do we navigate a galaxy-wide playing field of information an…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Stan Humphries
For everyone who is interested in using technology for social good, hear from the World Bank about how they are discovering and investing in innovative ideas to strike poverty around the world. This could be one of the m…
Beginner
Beginner
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José-Manuel Bassat1:20 PM
Andrew Winston will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Big Pivot: Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World".……
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Andrew Winston1:30 PM
**Extended Q&A to follow screening Richard Hendricks is an introverted computer programmer living in the Hacker Hostel start-up incubator with fellow social misfits Big Head, Gilfoyle and Dinesh. They all live under the…
Join us at the Social Good Hub for inspiring content curated by The United Nations Foundation! Shining a Light: Partnership between NBC’s Revolution and the United Nations o TV Guide, Michael Schneider o Bad Robot, …
1:40 PM
Robert Scoble will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Age of Context: Mobile, Sensors, Data and the Future of Privacy ".……
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Robert Scoble1:45 PM
Based on the 2013 Academy Award® winning short film "Curfew." At the lowest point of his life, Richie gets a call from his estranged sister, asking him to look after his eleven-year old niece, Sophia, for a few hours.……
3D printing is changing the world – from printing guns and human organs to dismantling the world’s industrial infrastructure by enabling home manufacturing. It’s “the next Industrial Revolution.” For the first time in h…
2:00 PM
So you've made your film and you've been accepted into a Film Festival That Matters, such as SXSW. What now? This panel, moderated by Elizabeth Sheldon, SVP at Kino Lorber, will explore how best to get the attention of t…
Beginning
Beginning
Presenters
Arianna Bocco, Dori Begley, Josh Braun, Elizabeth Sheldon
Interspersing conversation with lo-fi power point presentations and live music performance; three protagonists responsible for bringing American Interior to our screens, stereos, bookshelves and tablets will bring you th…
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Advanced
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Catryn Ramasut, Gruff Rhys, Nathan Hull
"Animals" tells the story of Bobbie and Jude, a young couple living in their broken-down car parked alongside Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. Their days are a continuous ritual of theft and scoring until they must confront …
A neurotic couple’s obsession with a mysterious puzzle comically unravels their world, disconnecting them from reality and jeopardizing their fragile relationship.……
Filmmakers are increasingly using digital marketing tools to make their films "sticky". Social media and contests and sweepstakes drive traffic to the filmmakers' sites. Solicitation of user-generated content keep fans i…
Beginning
Beginning
Presenters
Anne Moebes
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious cult. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire’s parents set out to recruit Ansel Roth, one of the world’s foremost authorities on mind control. But Ansel’s specialty,…
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Anushka Ratnayake, Meighan Stone, Meryl Stone, Rose Beaumont
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…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Janet Brown, John Sloss, John Pierson, Ross Fremer, Ryan Werner
Western culture gears us to conceptually place art and science at opposite ends of a spectrum. When we think of art, we may culturally view it as a field where anyone can make their mark; a place of openness, expressive…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Adam Savage
Matthew Stoneman dreamed of pop stardom. Instead, he went to jail, learned Spanish, and emerged as “Mateo,” America’s first white mariachi singer. Mateo is on the brink of completing an album of original songs in Havana.…
Meet the Insiders offers an inside track on production with Jay Van Hoy, producer of Beginners and Ain't Them Bodies Saints, and Karen Murphy, producer of Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap. This is an open forum to ask…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Holly Jeter, Karen Murphy
Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers in our Documentary Filmmaker Mentor category. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open to …
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Amy Grappell, Andrew Garrison, Asher Goldstein, David Hartstein, David Magdael, Keith Maitland, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders, PJ Raval
August: Osage County, Rudderless, To the Wonder, & that’s just to name a few! Filmmakers, we have you covered! Join us at Oklahoma’s Buffalo Lounge for food, drink, & conversations about our cash incentives, locations, p…
A very lively woman with a very deadly cancer visits a national park with the intention of ending her life there-- but her suicide plans are continually thwarted, not least of all by her family, which finds itself unamus…
Crystal Director: Chell Stephen Cursed with a real crumby attitude and a boring-ass hometown, 17-year-old Crystal relies on her passion for dance to escape the mundane life of rural Ontario and pursues her outsized dream…
Hollywood has traditionally been slow to adopt new technologies, and tech startups have hit roadblocks in attempts to change the way the entertainment industry produces and releases content. However, in the past year, co…
Presenters
Amra Tareen, Brad Pelo, Christina Warren, Count Eldridge, Lawrence Antoine, Tony Goncalves
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…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Emily Best2:30 PM
Québec is known as a hotbed of creativity in music, film and interactive. Join creative industry experts from Québec who will showcase innovative approaches to engaging customers and delighting audiences across multipl…
3:00 PM
David McCullough, Jr. will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign galleys of his soon to be released book "You Are Not Special: ... And Other Encouragements". He will also be digitally signing, using Autography(http://www.a…
Presenters
David McCullough Jr
Stop by the Dell and NVIDIA Green Room for complimentary drinks daily from 3-5 PM. Also, join them for coffee every morning.……
Attend an interactive workshop with the team responsible for bringing new apps to Chevrolet. Learn how to build apps for vehicles, discuss developer opportunities within Chevrolet, and demo a sample of in-vehicle apps. …
Forced to give up his land and home, Texas rancher Red Bovie isn't about to retire quietly in a dismal trailer park. Instead he jumps in his Cadillac and hits the road with his estranged grandson for one last wild advent…
3:20 PM
Roy Peter Clark will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "How to Write Short: Word Craft for Fast Times".……
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Roy Peter Clark3:30 PM
This talk will guide the audience through the social platforms most effective for fashion and beauty brands—in March 2014—to drive engagement, and, if relevant, sales. Beyond that, it will explore the meaning of influenc…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Caroline Waxler
BBC's Peter Bowes will tell the story of his 2-year quest for a healthier, longer life. While walking at a modified treadmill podium, to make a not-so-subtle point about how sitting is killing us, Peter will relay his ex…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Peter Bowes
Hans Rosling, professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, recently stated that despite the wide availability of data in the world, there is a significant gap in local access to this knowledge. In this pa…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Eliza Anyangwe, Kara Andrade, Sean Mcdonald, Trevor Knoblich
The privacy debate is far from over. Instead of skirting the issue or declaring the death of privacy, let's instead wisen up to the realities of a mobile world and debate balance -- consumers want personalization, but do…
Beginner
Beginner
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Damien Patton
Bacteria. Brands. DNA. Consumers. Biomimicry. Marketing. Sustainability. Virality. Biohacking is a growing extension of the DIY and Maker movement, but also marketing. This session will provide background into biohackin…
Advanced
Advanced
Presenters
Simeon Spearman
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/IAP20347 Ev…
Advanced
Advanced
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Natalie Rodic Marsan, Nick Cicero, Tim McDonald
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
Beginner
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Alan Weinkrantz, Jeff Pulver
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 …
Advanced
Advanced
Presenters
Cameron Clayton, Gary Klassen, Giorgos Zacharia, Tara O'Donnell
Media has been disrupted. Now what? We all know (and have heard a thousand times) that new tools for creation, funding, and distribution have empowered content creators like never before. But the truth is that with these…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Udovich, Jen Yamato, Micki Krimmel, Monty Miranda, Patty West
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
Intermediate
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Alicia Staley, Deanna Attai, Jody Schoger, Xeni Jardin
One of the legends of '70s cinema, a vanguard of the midnight movie, and just as famous for films he didn't make as the films he did, Jodorowsky is not an artist whose body of work can be easily described. Cineastes arou…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Drew McWeeny
As a global society we are currently facing crises across every imaginable sector including economic, climate and humanitarian issues. What is the one common thread in all these crises? The solution lies in the power o…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Chase Jarvis
Digital devices and social media sites give us dozens of ways to become more informed, to express ourselves, to have our voices heard as part of the national discussion. Yet while we embrace these new channels, the colle…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Rob Girling
What does it mean to collect Art when digital technology has made the cost of copying zero? Is scarcity obsolete? As a creator, how do you assert authenticity when your work can be copied and transmitted thousands of tim…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Chris Messina
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/IAP24553 Ke…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Ted Boda
ATTENTION: Priority Seating is available for this session. To take advantage of this opportunity, you will need to have a valid SXSW badge, and an activated SXsocial account. To get your priority seating, please go here:…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Ken Weber, Patrick Cooper, Scott Roesch, Tom Hayes
Directors/producers, Lisanne Pajot & James Swirsky give a first-hand look into 2 years of marketing & distributing their Sundance award-winning feature doc, Indie Game: The Movie. Building on their popular online case s…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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James Swirsky, Lisanne Pajot
A discussion with RSA Films and Scott Free London on their recent brand-related experiments, from Youtube's 'Life In Day' and the Parallel Lines film series for Philips, to the groundbreaking virals for Ridley Scott's 'P…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Caspar Delaney, Jack Arbuthnott
Are you a fly on the wall, a snoop, or a nosey interloper? When it comes to social media, you need to do more than look and listen. And you can by using big data analytics to power predictions on buying behaviors. Ther…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Burke Powers, Karen Galiger, Mark Heid, Robert Johnson
Every month, the tech industry adds about 9,600 jobs to the U.S. economy. By 2018, it will have added another 1.2 million new jobs, boasting an average salary of $78,000. But women make up just 22% of the computing workf…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Freada Kapor Klein, Jim Shelton, Laura Weidman Powers, Ryan Seashore
When the World Wide Web first became commercially available, researchers and pundits touted a new "cybertopia," a utopic view on how race would no longer "matter" on the Internet and one that some continue to hold today.…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Jenny Korn
Rapidly evolving vehicular technologies, including the advent of autonomous vehicles, may forever reshape travel behavior. Several states have already passed legislation allowing these vehicles to travel on public roadwa…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Chandra Bhat
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/IAP20100 It…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Rick Mason
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/IAP25709 Le…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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J Nathan Matias, Sarah Szalavitz
Beauty, periphery and meaning are three of the principles that will facilitate the adoption of wearable technology devices, according to Artefact designer and wearable tech expert Jennifer Darmour. But how do you apply t…
Advanced
Advanced
Presenters
Jennifer Darmour
Could your app save someone's life? Internet access is growing rapidly in the developing world. Networked software can help marginalized individuals and communities empower themselves, coordinate limited resources and cr…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Allie Carter, Brian Doll, Dan Walmsley, Lawrence Grodeska
Get a behind-the-scenes look of what it takes to capture images from the biggest global sports events. Learn about the infrastructure created to secure iconic images and bring the stories of athletes and competition to l…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Janey Marks, Lauren Pasquale, Sam Laird, Simon Wardle
Historically the global economy is assembled with corporations as primitive units. Their foundational building blocks are monolithic structures that contain a full stack of internally facing services to produce their end…
Advanced
Advanced
Presenters
Khris Loux, Werner Vogels
The gaming talk show, Gootecks and Mike Ross, will shoot interviews with SXSW attendees and provide commentary from the Hideout Lounge. They will discuss their experiences at SXSW and talk about the SXSW Gaming portion o…
Humans are both generous and selfish. Social Networks prime our collaborative selves. Google has taught us to search, Facebook to make friends, Twitter to be open and smartphones to be always connected. Enterprises and …
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Grill, Jodee Rich, Rand Waltzman
This is the SXSW meet-up for tireless Houston area entrepreneurs, investors, start-up community leaders, and badass party starters. If you’re looking to swap night before stories, chat about new ideas, or complain about…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Brian Lang
Web and app developers: Want to make connected, intelligent consumer electronics but aren’t sure where to start? This session’s for you. We’ll share our approach to hardware and software design, and the hard lessons lear…
Presenters
Andy Carle, Peter Hoddie
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/IAP20623 Ea…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Tara-Nicholle Nelson
Last year, Yahoo announced that they were banning working from home. The reasoning? According to the memo: "Some of the best decisions and insights come from hallway and cafeteria discussions, meeting new people, and imp…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
James Costa, Matt Herron
This session is hosted by TEDx organizers from two of the largest and most successful TEDx events in the world: TEDxKC and TEDxAustin. Learn how to license and design a badass TEDx (or similar) event for your community …
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Mike Lundgren, Nancy Giordano
Hackathons are getting out of control. However, this flood of 48 hour frantic coding sessions are spawning national and global collaborations resulting in not just new apps and projects (and a job opportunity in the case…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Mike Zuckerman, Nicholas Skytland
This session will show how to use smartphones spy proof. As a former member of the German Parliament I was a target of espionage. To protect my communication in states like Afghanistan, Russia, China or any other country…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Jimmy Schulz
Come meet front-end engineers, designers and other UI enthusiasts from the Chicago HTML5 Meet Up for networking and discussion of the growing ubiquity of the open web. Tablets, smart phones and desktops are just the beg…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Mattie Langenberg
Science fiction explores our wildest dreams and biggest fears about the future of technology, spurring us on to greater ideas and grander possibilities. But sci-fi is equally concerned with the challenges of the present.…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Daniel Suarez, Warren Ellis
Every minute, millions are voluntarily sharing their hopes, wants, needs, dislikes and disappointments too. But who is listening? Chevrolet is. And we want to take this customer relationship to the next level. In m…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Andrew Dinsdale, Rebeca Harris, Richard Choi
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/IAP27136 Di…
Beginner
Beginner
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Mat Hale, Todd Moyer
Meet the Insiders is an opportunity to participate in vital discussions on the innovations and developments in the world of film across varying topics. Moderators will start by introducing and getting to know the Insider…
Beginner
Beginner
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Carl Spence, Danny Sangho Rhee, Cullen Conly
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Clay Crenshaw
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
David-Michel Davies
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Elizabeth Tashik
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
John Arrow
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Megan Adams
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Ryan McCarthy
Every filmmaker has a story to tell. Get advice, or share those stories with experienced filmmakers in our Narrative Filmmaker Mentor category. Sign Up Here: http://mentor.sxsw.com. Mentor session signup is open to al…
Presenters
Alexandra Saks, Hannah Fidell, Nathan Zellner, Sandra Adair, Ted Geoghegan, Yen Tan
As a product of a conservative society, the Arab youth found social networking services like Twitter and Facebook great tools to challenge the status quo and shake things up. However, since public and private personas ar…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Guilherme Rangel
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/IAP25525 Th…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Alisa Hughley, Damon Davis, Ivor Horn, Kimberly Bryant
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 …
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Donna Boyer, Ingrid Vanderveldt
‘Notdesign – what you don’t know’ only concerns real life; not some perfect studio, no studio is perfect. Best never to trust a studio with a perfect paint job – it’s usually covering up rust. We all know there are no …
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Jonty Sharples
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…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Amy Gershkoff, Andrew Bleeker, John Lee, Rayid Ghani
Comedian Pete Holmes, host of the hit podcast You Made It Weird, has recently found new success as a talk show host on TBS. The Pete Holmes Show, produced by Conan O'Brien, blends stand-up, sketch, interviews, and offbea…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Karen Kilgariff, Nick Bernstein, Oren Brimer, Pete Holmes
All of a sudden, the distinction between publishers and platforms on the web is hazy. Twitter is a publisher now? Gawker, a platform? Figuring out the difference reveals a lot about how content is made and consumed on th…
Advanced
Advanced
Presenters
Zach Seward
A decade ago, the only communication a reader could have with a print magazine was either a bland phone call to customer service or a letter to the editor, which were seldom responded to. Thanks to the mass adoption of s…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Elizabeth Holmes, Eva Chen, Jane Larkworthy, Stella Bugbee
The government is tracking who you call and when. Snoops are reading your emails. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are working with companies you’ve never heard of to compile deep, secret profiles of m…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Josh Levy, Kade Crockford, Nadia Kayyali, Nathan Freitas
Student Startup Madness (SSM) is the only nationwide tournament for college student digital media startups, culminating with the “Entrepreneurial Eight” national finals at SXSW. This year’s tournament was open to student…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Brian Cohen, Melinda Emerson, Patrick Ambron, Sandy Khaund
Dan Fletcher was Facebook's managing editor and the co-founder of BEACON, and Tanja Hollander has been traveling the country photographing each of her Facebook friends as part of a photography project, "Are You Really My…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Dan Fletcher, Tanja Hollander
Common mistakes most entrepreneurs make along the way and how you can avoid them. The team at Napkin Venture will share with you the pitfalls and obstacles you can avoid in your own startup or business, saving you time a…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Raul Calvoz, Tina Cannon
Lincoln Lopez, VP of social for Turner Entertainment, and Fred Graver, Head of Entertainment for Twitter, share how Frank Darabont’s Mob City and Steven Spielberg’s Falling Skies were adapted for Twitter to let fans part…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Fred Graver, Lincoln Lopez
The informal nature of social media conversations makes it a ripe environment for the spreading of rumors and potential falsehoods. Defamation law has aimed to strike a balance between free speech and protecting the repu…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Catherine Cameron, Ellyn Angelotti
An artist's work is never limited by boundaries, but legal realities sometimes beg to differ. Among other legal concerns, professional artists who work internationally must consider their immigration status in the countr…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Sharon Brenner
A virtual conversation with Glenn Greenwald on the future of journalism, civil liberties and politics, with Micah Sifry of Personal Democracy Media.……
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Intermediate
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Glenn Greenwald, Micah Sifry
Recent advances in technology that support the creation of interactive virtual reality, and breakthroughs in the tools of non-invasive human neuroscience have now resulted in a collision of these two exciting worlds. Phi…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Gazzaley, Philip Rosedale
Soon we will have the ability to know where everyone is all the time. We will have some fun seeing how people are dealing with that today, and think practically how we use that opportunity for good in the future. Our p…
Advanced
Advanced
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Julian Green, Tyler Bell
Your job will not exist in the coming years. Entire industries and careers will continue to be eliminated by technological innovation. The future of work will consist of highly optimized workforces comprised of internal,…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Bryce Maddock, Chris Van Pelt, Frank Gruber, Richard Pearson
The idea is hidden in there somewhere; a little creative whittling will reveal it. Successful content employs wholly-formed, multi-tiered concepts that communicate their messages with impressive efficiency. No doubt it m…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Aaron Wells3:40 PM
Stephen Wendel will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Designing for Behavior Change".……
Presenters
Stephen Wendel3:45 PM
For decades, the fear of Big Brother has made citizens wary of the ways authorities use technology, skeptical of prying eyes and the invasion of our privacy. Ironically, the proliferation of social media is turning that…
Intermediate
Intermediate
Presenters
Ashley Jane Brookes
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
Beginner
Presenters
Chris Boyce4:00 PM
Everyone has a great idea but do you have a story? Sign up your start up for a Speed Branding Session with the BETC Start Up Lab. Entrepreneurs gets access to the expertise of the Lab during 20 minute crash courses in …
Sara Wachter-Boettcher will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Content Everywhere".……
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Sara Wachter-Boettcher
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our…
Come see human-centered design teams led by IDEO.org and the Stanford d.school present their findings from three days of design research, brainstorming, and prototyping during SXSW. Read the workshop description and si…
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live will travel to SXSW in Austin, Texas to broadcast five original shows from The Long Center for the Performing Arts. Guests: Seth Rogen, Snoop Dogg, White Denim……
A special reception that shines the spotlight on emerging startups. Enjoy complimentary beer and wine while checking out demos from startup participants, all within the heart of Startup Village on the 4th floor of the Hi…
The best mashups are creative collages of seemingly disparate elements, that when combined, create an innovative and more powerful whole. In order to thrive in an increasingly cross-discipline, cross-platform, blurred wo…
Beginner
Beginner
Presenters
Felicia Pride
Frequently the subjects of erotic media, lately sex workers have taken center stage in a lurid tale designed to put them in jail and out of business. Anti-trafficking groups are using culture's fear of (and fascination w…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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Alex Morgan
Yahoo Finance's Aaron Task and NASDAQ's Bob McCooey will co-host The Future of Money, a conversation about virtual currencies and the real world economic challenges they’re trying to solve.……
4:15 PM
Mentorships provide an opportunity for individual growth, allowing mentors and mentees to not only be better at what they do, but to also be happy. And when individuals are happy, they have a greater sense of fulfillment…
Intermediate
Intermediate
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David Avalon
Research shows that engaging citizens – collaborating with them on common interest topics, issues and problems – builds the strongest communities, fortified against the larger challenges of the country. As a result, many…
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Intermediate
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Nick Bowden
Set in Rio de Janeiro, "A Wolf at the Door" is the nerve-rattling tale of a kidnapped child and the terror of the parents left behind. When Sylvia (Fabíula Nascimento) discovers her 6 yr old daughter has been picked up a…
4:20 PM
Randy Krum will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design"……
Presenters
Randy Krum4:30 PM
Best Sound Director: Josh Polon Trent and Chris go on a sonic journey. The High Five Director: Michael Jacobs The story behind the classic celebratory gesture and its unsung originator. Kehinde Wiley: An Economy of Gra…
"Frank" is a comedy about a young wannabe musician, Jon, who discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins a band of eccentric musicians led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank and his terrifying sideki…
One night in Harlem, sour, aging Mat reunites with his younger brother Alan, just before Alan heads out for a long-planned vacation with his live-in girlfriend Farrah. Only days later, much sooner than expected, Alan ret…
We’re celebrating Dutch innovation at SXSW during Spotlight on Holland – an event that will showcase some of the best entrepreneurs, startups and artists from the Netherlands. Held at Bar 96 at The Dutch Base on Monday,…
Kicked out of college, James visits Grams, his only remaining family, who dies shortly after his arrival. He finds consolation in the company of Grams' neighbor, Dot, a dance teacher, as he figures out his next move. Whi…
Dr. Rebecca Gomperts sails a ship around the world, providing abortions at sea for women with no legal alternative. Her idea begins as flawed spectacle, faced with governmental, religious, and military blockade. But wit…
We'll Never Have Paris is a clumsy and at once human account of screwing up on a transcontinental level in a noble effort to win back "the one.……
James is lost. He's crawled into his shell as he struggles to deal with the absence of his father. James lives in a world of his own making: a world that is defined by his bizarre fascination with death. As tensions…
4:45 PM
Think you’ve heard it all? Betcha you haven't! When you consume content — TV shows and movies, commercials and YouTube videos, Grand Theft Auto and Candy Crush… — you’re used to sounds coming from your left and right, b…
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Geir Skaaden, Roberto Baibich, Scott Persson, Veronique Larcher5:00 PM
4D ON THE ROOF will stir things up on Monday, March 10th at Austin's most cutting edge museum, the Jones Center at the Contemporary Austin. Join the DAQRI team as we host an exquisite evening with delicious catered food…
In 2012, two small teams set out to deliver on massive expectations for "failure-is-not-an-option" projects with extraordinarily limited time and resources. Both teams nailed it: every space geek in the world saw the Mar…
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Miles Ward
Every business must manage a fundamental conflict between individuals who control the means of production and individuals who operate those means to a profit. Roger Martin outlined this struggle in the classic HBR articl…
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Peter Kim
Being a creative and working day in, day out at an agency can be a lot like being on the run from hordes of ravenous flesh-eating zombies. Do you have what it takes to survive either? Drawing on the rich tapestry of sur…
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William Colgrove
It's a cartoonist's job to make jokes. What happens when the audience picks the punchline? Each week, The New Yorker provides its readers with a cartoon in need of a caption. Readers submit captions, the publication cho…
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Bob Mankoff
After spending a long day enjoying SXSW, kick back with some video eye candy and an adult beverage courtesy of video-sharing site Dailymotion. Come watch the best videos uploaded by Dailymotion’s creative community and m…
The Internet of Things is not coming, it's already here. On January 13th, Google acquired Nest for a whopping $3.2b -- making it clear that Intel's estimate of 31bn connected devices by 2020 may be too conservative. Bef…
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Ayah Bdeir
UI design practices have evolved over the years. Too much or too little design documentation can create a gap between designers and engineers, but there is an easier way. Today’s solutions allow designers to communicate …
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Brian Peppler, John Goff
At Upworthy, Eli Pariser has designed a hella fast growing news site, using careful curation, point of view and crafty headline arts to engage people in serious news. We'll talk about the nature of viralness, feedback a…
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David Carr, Eli Pariser
The way we design and publish content for the web puts all of the focus on the newest material. For many sites, this means that an article only lives for a few hours or days before it is sent to the archives - not nearly…
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Ben Brown
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
We read stories of business failures every day—foolhardy CEOs driving a company into the ground, or startups never finding their footing. As an entrepreneur, failure will inevitably make an appearance in your story, too.…
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Evan Baehr, Lawson Boothe, Nate Little, Robin Bruce
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
The concepts of collaboration and location-based services have become popular not only with wikis, social media, and advertising, but are also changing a notoriously strenuous process: interaction between local governmen…
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Surya Yalamanchili
Interaction designers the world over often work at their desks solo, headphones on, working deep inside their own head. When they come out of their bubble to show their work, they're often surprised at the response. Coop…
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Christopher Noessel, Suzy Thompson
Superstorms, bombings and protests around the globe are challenging the way people use technology to respond to crisis and conflict. Journalists, hackers and local people are collaborating to better cover, communicate an…
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Adaora Udoji, Josh Stearns, Madeleine Bair, Matt Stempeck
Kids today don’t care about old, moldy literature. Girls don’t watch web video. Social media is only good for brands who want to engage their customers. ALL LIES! The Emmy Award-winning series "The Lizzie Bennet Diaries…
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Bernie Su, Jay Bushman
In little over a decade on the issue of same-sex marriage equality, Americans went from deeply opposed to broadly supportive, even among sub-groups of Republican voters. Since the single biggest correlation between suppo…
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Brandon Feldman, Matt Baume
Building innovative physical gizmos in the real world has a unique set of challenges that makes it difficult to prototype ideas fast and iterate at lightning speed. If you want to have impact and get shit done, designing…
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Bartley Gillan
Berlin is Germany’s premier location for creative industries. With office space being plenty and cheap, the city remains a magnet for creative minds from all over the world who gather to embrace new perspectives and deve…
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…
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James B Maas, John "Ivo" Stivoric, Sarah Robb O'Hagan, Sasha Digiulian
Science fiction explores our wildest dreams and biggest fears about the future of technology, spurring us on to greater ideas and grander possibilities. But sci-fi is equally concerned with the challenges of the present.…
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Daniel Suarez
The rise of online video is disrupting nearly every facet of the TV industry, from programming to distribution to audience. As this shift becomes more prominent and media platforms battle for viewers, the industry is fac…
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Roy Sekoff
I’ve been working on product design for big corporations, for small companies and for my own startups. Each time I come to a point where I need to know more about how the users behave. Why are they not using a new featur…
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Tue Andersen
Today's companies are faced with the task of producing videos and new media. The question is, should you make a video or buy it? Many are making the shift to in-house video teams made up of not only of producers and vi…
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Andy Garibay, Rene Lego
Come and meet the UK film industry in Austin! An informal meet-up opportunity for the world to meet the UK and for the UK to meet the world. If you've ever wondered who funds films in the UK, what audiences like watc…
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Charlie Phillips
Come and meet the UK film industry in Austin! An informal meet-up opportunity for the world to meet the UK and for the UK to meet the world. If you've ever wondered who funds films in the UK, what audiences like watc…
Beginner
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Charlie Phillips
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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James Sinclair
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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Jan Triplett
Mentor Sessions enable less-established new media professionals to gain seven minutes of direct one-on-one career-related council from a more established / more experienced new media professional. Please visit this URL t…
Beginner
Beginner
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Jon-Eric Steinbomer
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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Beginner
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Martin Harrison
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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Paolo Privitera
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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Sherrilynne Starkie
Currently there are limitless mobile technology solutions being created for the poor in developing countries. Yet, this same effort is not being brought for the domestic market, leaving a void in the low-income domestic…
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Beginner
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Kenshiro Nakagawa, Kimberly McCollister, Megan Trotter, Salena Bailey
We all know it’s true: our cyber infrastructure is vulnerable to attack and there are lots of holes to plug. It’s a huge problem, one where the deck is stacked in favor of the attacker. Come hear from Dr. Reginald Brot…
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Robert Gold
The popularity of hobby robotics and the maker movement is soaring, inspiring innovations in micro manufacturing and sparking creativity in DIYers worldwide. For me, it all began when I built my son a toy robot for his 4…
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Advanced
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Matthew Schiffman
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
Viewers are finding a whole new world of drama on TV that was once only found in theatricals. With producers like Michael Bay, Howard Gordon, and Dreamworks now creating projects for TV, a panel of the entertainment ind…
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Alex Cary, David Eick, Hank Steinberg, Rob Moynihan, Steven Kane
Consumers and technology play a major role in the evolution of omni-channel retailing. As retailers and advertisers, we can’t deny shoppers' quest for the best available product at the best possible price. How do you cre…
Beginner
Beginner
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Ly Tran, Tim Lakin
Move over Silicon Valley - let's let the real pirates and gangsters play. In this panel, we'll hear stories about innovation from economic outlaws. What can we learn as entrepreneurs from pirates? From street hustlers an…
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Beginner
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Alexa Clay, Catherine Hoke, Jean-Philippe Vergne, Jose Vasquez
Year after year, Portland, Oregon, sends a significant number of developers, UXers, and startup types to Austin for SXSW. Many of us consistently use this trip as an excuse to spend time with our fellow Portlanders, away…
Beginner
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Rick Turoczy
As information workers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More blogs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for …
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Scott Hanselman
Love it or hate it, the adult entertainment industry has played a major role in shaping the digital landscape. Porn websites, in particular, have often been at the forefront of meeting the shifting needs of users. These …
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Steve Johnson
It is one of our enduring enigmas: iconic endeavors—from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to entrepreneurial inventions and works in the arts—are often not achievements, but conversions, corrections after failed attempts.…
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Sarah Lewis
The Ruby on Rails Meet Up is an opportunity for Rails developers and businesses who use Rails to come together to compare notes on Rails development, how the Rails market is, and what people are developing in Rails.……
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David Bluestein II
As kids, we are taught to be normal. To just fit in. Pay attention in school and don't draw too much attention. Dress appropriately. Mind your manners. Attend a good school. Be a productive, normal citizen. Get married. …
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Michael Lazerow
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
Student Startup Madness (SSM) is the only nationwide tournament for college student digital media startups, culminating with the “Entrepreneurial Eight” national finals at SXSW. This year’s tournament was open to student…
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Brian Cohen, Melinda Emerson, Patrick Ambron, Sandy Khaund
Head to the beautiful Intercontinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel Terrace Bar for nightly happy hours. Conveniently located directly next door to the Paramount Theatre, this is the perfect spot to meet up with friends for a…
Mental health, drug and alcohol addiction, sexual health, financial debt—many of the critical topics Americans face are not ones they want to be publicly associated with and tied to online. So how then should nonprofits,…
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Bob Filbin, Deb Levine, Emily O'Brien, Meg Rushton
The best night of television in the summer 2013 wasn't TV at all. Rather, it was a livestream of the ultimate reality TV – an old-school, 11-hour filibuster in the Texas Senate. Nearly 200,000 concurrent viewers from 187…
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Rodney Gibbs
Have you put together a trailer for your new film or video and don't know if it's working? Come to Trailer Park and show your trailer to a team of experts--i.e,, a film critic, a fellow filmmaker, a festival programmer, …
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Gerald Peary
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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Evan Shapiro, Jacob Soboroff, Michael Davies, W Kamau Bell
The emergence of social media several years ago changed the way brands communicated with and to consumers – forcing them to completely change their approach to marketing products and services not only online, but offline…
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Justin Garrity, Kendra Bracken-Ferguson
Silicon Valley likes to think of itself as a meritocracy, where anyone can show up with a suitcase and a great idea and get funded. But that's not really how it works. Most venture cash flows to entrepreneurs with a prov…
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Sarah McBride
It’s an age old problem: how do you prove your identity? It’s the reason governments started issuing id cards. Since the advent of the Internet, identification has gotten even harder. To a website, you are a stream of el…
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Michael Schwartz
Interested in mobile but not sure where to start? Do you have a mobile strategy but not sure you're getting the most bang for your buck? Realizing the full potential of mobile requires creating a successful mobile strate…
Intermediate
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Antonio Arocha, Jeremy Siewert, Jordache Johnson, Mickey Ristroph5:15 PM
Since 2011, over 5 million people around the world have signed up for Coursera.com - a leading Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider. One-third of the users are from the U.S., 30% are from Europe, and the rest are s…
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Michael Mayrath PhD
200 million people across 3.3 million square miles, contributing to $2.4 trillion in GDP. Welcome to Brazil, “the country of the future.” Set to be the sixth largest economy by 2030, Brazil is not only the heart of footb…
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Will Palley5:30 PM
The "Dance of Reality" is one of the most anticipated titles premiering at SXSW this year. Produced and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky, it is his first film in 23 years.The legendary filmmaker was born in 1929 in Toc…
Start a design-thinking movement within your company - without anyone knowing about it! As a designer, innovator, or creative we often wonder how to push our teams and organizations to create better products and services…
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Bennett Blank
Representatives have a hard time defining the “kitchen table issues”, defining what constituents expect them to do, and communicating issue resolutions. Polling, surveying, and forms of “active information acquisition” a…
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Albert Nichols5:45 PM
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…
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Ken Cook6:00 PM
Join a loose confederation of geeks to enjoy tears of joy with Austin's hottest underground tradition: nuclear tacos.…
In 2011, Patagonia partnered with scientist Matt Stoecker and filmmakers Ben Knight and Travis Rummel to make DamNation, a powerful film premiering at SXSW about removing obsolete dams and restoring rivers. Now Patagonia…
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Beginner
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Jeremy Boxer, Joy Howard, Travis Rummel, Yvon Chouinard
Directed by Diego Luna, "Cesar Chávez" chronicles the birth of a modern American movement led by famed civil rights leader and labor organizer, Cesar Chavez. Torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commi…
Join us for food and drink to learn about IBM BlueMix and IBM’s Watson Mobile Developer Challenge while listening to Blues music! Register here: http://bit.ly/1i3eWok…
SXSW brings together the tech, film and social good communities to work together to improve communities through action. Join us Monday, March 10th at Bungalow to celebrate a day of social good and learn more about our ne…
See TNT's epic summer series “The Last Ship” before anyone else at the SXSW Film Watch Party. A pandemic is making its way toward Austin — don't miss the chance for quarantine. Stock up on survival swag, sip free drinks …
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Todd Barry (Louie, The Wrestler) hosts a live episode of his podcast, a conversation between a few funny friends that features plenty of Barry’s deadpan wit and dark humor.…
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Todd Barry6:10 PM
Bob Mankoff will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "The Big New Yorker Book of Cats” and “The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs".……
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Bob Mankoff
Peter Kim will appear at the SX Bookstore to sign copies of "Social Business By Design: Transformative Social Media Strategies for the Connected Company".……
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Peter Kim6:15 PM
The Safe Harbor Room is a place for people in recovery to meet during SXSW. The sessions are informal and supportive. Conferences and large gatherings can be a challenging atmosphere for those who choose sobriety. All ar…
7:00 PM
Narrated by cult teen star Fairuza Balk, "Beyond Clueless" is a dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the eyes of over 200 modern coming-of-age classics. Part adolescent fever …
Axel, Jonathan and Ana live together in a house that seems like a bunker in a post-catastrophic world. Outside is a threatening landscape. Once they were a perfect love triangle, with strong bonds of friendship, but toda…
Johnny Depp pays a call on his friend and hero Ralph Steadman and we take off on a high-spirited, raging and kaleidoscopic journey discovering the life and works of one of the most distinctive radical artists of the last…
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. It killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill in American history. The explosion still haunts the lives of those most intimately aff…
It's 1983. A naive man with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach is detained by Australian Federal Police. Alone and afraid, ‘the Mule’ makes a desperate choice; to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence..…
Nash spends a year drawing into himself, becoming troubled by his work and disillusioned with his romantic prospects—until a return home forces him to confront his inertia. Through pulsing dance floors, flooded basements…
Rocket Fuel touches down at SXSW with our annual not-to-be missed party. Live music from The Joy Formidable, Colourist, San Fermin, mr. Gnome.……
“Films for the Forest” is an annual international short film challenge created by Austin-based non-profit Rainforest Partnership. “Films for the Forest” is committed to raising awareness for rainforest protection, buildi…
7:30 PM
Belfast City Council’s "Creative Belfast" strategy supports those working in film, music, digital media and design to achieve their true economic and creative potential. Line up: Unknwn, Rams Pocket Radio, Wonder Villain…
Award-winning longform improv team Doppelganger -- Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live), Nicole Byer (Girl Code), and Keisha Zollar (UCB) -- will take a suggestion and create scenes that weave in and out of worlds, conne…
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Keisha Zollar, Nicole Byer, Sasheer Zamata
Davina is an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl who escapes often into a beautifully twisted fantasy life. Having grown up quickly as the sole caretaker of her disabled mother, she looks for salvation in a new re…
8:00 PM
Alejandro Jodorowsky will appear for an exclusive evening appearance at the Alamo Ritz Lobby following the debut screening of “The Dance Of Reality" to sign copies of many of his book titles and films on DVD .……
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
Funny or Die gives SXSW fans a one-in-a-lifetime chance to catch a comedy legend live at An Evening with Bill Cosby. Plus, stick around for an official afterparty featuring a DJ set from Chromeo.……
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Bill Cosby
Comedian and director of the obscenely hilarious hit film The Aristocrats, Paul Provenza invites some of the biggest names in stand-up to sit down and try to beat each other to the punch line. From politics and racism to…
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Paul Provenza8:30 PM
Created by AT&T in collaboration with VICE's Motherboard, this three-day interactive showcase celebrates young innovators by elevating mobile innovations to new heights. Come experience apps in amazing new ways, enjoy ou…
9:00 PM
"The Grand Budapest Hotel" recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars; and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves…
Berlin treats you to free drinks, the best of Berlin acts! Your chance to get a glimpse of the famed Berlin nightlife. www.german-haus.biz……
Nick’s a lucky guy. Tonight, he’ll be having dinner with Jill Goddard, the hottest actress on earth. She's promoting her latest movie and he’s won the main prize in an online contest. Then he gets a call. Some guy named …
Say Media and the editors of xoJane.com are hosting a party to celebrate the 25 Most Shameless People on the Web - with musical guests Brendan Fallis, Tove Lo and The Jane Doze plus lots of other #xoshameless surprises.……
This exclusive Xbox One party will celebrate the arrival of one of the most anticipated games of the year — “Titanfall”! There will be giveaways, special musical performances throughout the evening, and exclusive access …
9:15 PM
"Last Hijack" is a true tale of survival in Somalia told from the pirate’s perspective. Combining animation with documentary storytelling, the film takes an innovative hybrid approach to explore how one Somali pirate - M…
9:30 PM
Jon Gabrus is a rugby player from Long Island who loves to drink, which is the perfect trifecta for getting into ridiculous and dangerous situations. Come drink along with Gabrus as he shares some of his beer-soaked tale…
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Adam Pally, Jon Gabrus
Brought to the screen by the creators of the hit doc "The People vs. George Lucas," "Doc of the Dead" delves deep into the evolution of the zombie genre in film and literature, as well as its impact and influence on pop …
David is the perfect guest. Friendly and helpful, this young soldier arrives on the doorstep of the Peterson family, claiming to be a good friend of their beloved son who died in action. The Petersons welcome David into …
Kylie Bucknell is forced to return to the house she grew up in when the court places her on home detention. Her punishment is made all the more unbearable by the fact she has to live there with her mother Miriam – a well…
An evening of innovative standup comedy and polished chaos that sometimes includes short films or music, and the occasional pig roast. The show started as a weekly event in 2006 and has evolved into larger-scale product…
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TJ Miller, Todd Barry
As a young man, US-born Louis Sarno heard a song on the radio that gripped his imagination. He followed the mysterious sounds back to the Central African rainforest, found his music with the Bayaka pygmies – and never ca…
In 1974, writer-producer-director Tobe Hooper unleashed this dark, visionary tale about a group of five young friends who face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. Today it remains unequaled as a…
She experiments with vegetables while masturbating and thinks body hygiene is greatly overrated. She shocks those around her by speaking her mind in a most unladylike manner on topics that many people wouldn’t dare to th…
9:45 PM
Fiercely independent and in her mid-30s, Ronah works as a sexual surrogate in New York City, teaching her clients the very thing they fear most -- to be intimate. Her life unravels when she starts working with a volatile…
10:00 PM
The Creek and The Cave has turned Long Island City into one of NYC’s top comedy destinations, and this show features acts who frequently appear on their award-winning stage.……
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James Adomian, Jay Oakerson, Jerrod Carmichael, Kate Berlant, Pete Davidson
Starring: the original red, white and blue EDM, splashed with a dash of orange Music: Sounds of America meet the Dutch touch. Come and dance to a spiced up blend of hip hop, dance, trance and progressive house. Featuring…
The year is 1985. Rad Miracle is a shy 13-year-old white kid who's obsessed with two things: ping pong and hip hop. During his family's annual summer vacation to Ocean City, Maryland, Rad makes a new best friend, experie…
11:45 PM
Starry-eyed teenager Camilla Swanson wants to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a Broadway diva, but she's stuck working in the kitchen of a snobby performing arts camp. Determined to change her destiny, she sn…
11:55 PM
Wanting to unwind after hitting the nightly parties or spending the day in the theaters? Swing back by the InterContinental Bar to check in on the action.…
11:59 PM
Youngsters, Victor, Dan and Tom skip school to wander around an abandoned movie set. They stumble upon a horrific vision: a woman in chains is dragged through the field by a man wearing a clown mask. The masked man catch…
When brothers Brian and Matt Tover secretly sneak out to their Uncle's long abandoned cabin in East Texas for a party weekend with their friends, they find themselves stalked by the legendary Sasquatch. Cut off from the …
