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Unofficial Guide to South By Southwest 2015

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11,217 official + unofficial events during SXSW (last updated March 23, 2015). Our goal is to be the most complete guide. Anything missing?
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10:15am

Welcome to SXSW Interactive ACC Exhibit Hall 5Hugh Forrest

11:00am

Hackaday Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceSophi Kravitz • Mike Szczys Next Nature: How Technology Becomes Nature JW Marriott Salon 3Koert van Mensvoort Synthetic Biology: Learn, Do, and Dream JW Marriott Salon 2Rob Carlson • Connor Dickie • Joi Ito • Orkan Telhan Create Your Own KindSign to Inspire Your Community JW Marriott Room 307Edward Boatman

12:00pm

The Crossroads of Should and Must ACC Ballroom GElle Luna

12:30pm

Wearables Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerracePeter Li Lights, Camera, Action: MAKER LABS Live in Austin JW Marriott Salon 2David Alpert • Robert Kirkman • Erin McPherson • Mike Shields The Secret History of Hypertext JW Marriott Salon 3Alex Wright Helping Hands in the Global Village Long Center West Pincer LoungeTroy Farnsworth CP, FAAOP • Troy Farnsworth • Jonathan Schull

1:30pm

Maker Pro ACC Ballroom GMitch Altman

2:00pm

Curious Bridges: How Designers Grow the Future ACC Exhibit Hall 5Paola Antonelli

3:30pm

Virtual Function, Physical Interface ACC Ballroom BPatrick Mankins DIY Housing Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceLuke Iseman Making to Manufacturing Long Center West Pincer LoungeMarc Boudria • Rob Faludi • Peter Li • Nathan Siedle • Peter Vancorenland Artist Meets Hacker: How Tech is Changing the Arts JW Marriott Salon 3Devon Smith Bioart: Melding Biotech and Art JW Marriott Salon 2Heather Dewey-Hagborg • Daniel Grushkin • Karen Ingram • Wythe Marschall Brands as the New Medicis in Art's Digital Age JW Marriott Room 402-403Don Meek • Amos Pizzey • Emma Trant Going Wearable, Are you ready? Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomAngela Caicedo

3:45pm

Picturing Your Big Ideas ACC Ballroom BNora Herting

4:15pm

The Science and Art of Genetic Engineering ACC Ballroom BJosiah Zayner

4:30pm

My Beautiful City Austin ACC Ballroom GDavid Heymann

5:00pm

The State of the Maker Movement In Brazil ACC Ballroom BManoel Lemos Everything You Ever Wanted ACC Ballroom GJillian Lauren Internet of Things Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceBen Edwards • Dan Lieberman • Andrew Mager Our Shipping Container Home: DIY Off Grid Urbanism Long Center West Pincer LoungeLuke Iseman • Heather Stewart The Road to Character ACC Ballroom ADavid Brooks Art and Experience: A Future for Creativity JW Marriott Salon 2Laura Bernstein • Lori Kozlowski • Todd Lefelt • Maritza Yoes Building Community with the Open Lab Blueprint JW Marriott Room 402-403Ellen Jorgensen • Ashley Quinn Natural User Interface Design for Engaging Art and Performance JW Marriott Salon 3Joao Beira • Jerome Morrison • Matthew Mosher

5:15pm

Inanimate Characters Redefine Authenticity ACC Ballroom BGerard McLean

9:30am

CreativeMornings Meet Up JW Marriott Room 502-503Ben Thoma

11:00am

3D Printing Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceMatthew Fiedler When Your Devices Decide to Touch You Back Long Center West Pincer LoungeRohit Thawani Calling for a Nation of Makers JW Marriott Salon 3Mark Hatch • Thomas Kalil Japan Challenge: Hybrid Culture Raises Innovation JW Marriott Salon 2Takehiro Hagiwara • Takuma Iwasa • Tomy Kamada • Noriyoshi Sekiguchi • Massaki Sugimoto • Akichika Tanaka Mentor Session: Blake Miller Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIBlake Miller Mentor Session: Vickie Howell Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIVickie Howell Science + Tech Meet Up: Scientists and Geeks Unite! JW Marriott Room 504Maytal Dahan

12:30pm

Biohacker Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceKaren Ingram Maker Trailblazers: Making for Social Good Long Center West Pincer LoungeHahna Alexander • Patrick Littlefield • Carrie Motamedi • Rahul Panicker A Crash Course in Maker Movement Marketing JW Marriott Salon 3Lucia Mancuso • Jonathan Moneta A Peek Inside the World of Collecting Art Online Courtyard Marriott Rio Grande BallroomAmelia Manderscheid • Austin Nelsen Catalytic Color: Flow and The Balanced Brain Benefit JW Marriott Salon 2Margaret Keys • Tom Parish • Brad Richardson • Leanne Venier The Future of Physical Digital Place Making JW Marriott Room 402-403Rick Lin • Shagun Singh

1:30pm

Creating an Extraordinary Workplace ACC Ballroom GRon Friedman

2:00pm

Andy Warhol: Digital Pioneer Courtyard Marriott Rio Grande BallroomRyan Mcginness • Eric Shiner

3:00pm

The Art of War Visualized ACC Ballroom GJessica Hagy

3:30pm

Makers Change the World and Tools Change the Maker Long Center West Pincer LoungeRay Almgren • Jim Newton • Paul Teich • Stephan Turnipseed STEAM Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceTamara Hudgins Augmented Reality in Music: Hackable Instruments JW Marriott Room 402-403Bruno Zamborlin DIY Brain Hacking, Electroceuticals and You JW Marriott Salon 2Tim Marzullo • Joel Murphy • Eliza Strickland • Brent Williams Museums Today: More than Social Media Posts Courtyard Marriott Rio Grande BallroomKathleen Massara • Andrea Mellard • Jocelyn Miller • Ashley Young Ocean Exploration: Illuminating the Unknown JW Marriott Salon 3Paul Bunje Making Makers Who (Fearlessly) Make JW Marriott Room 301-302Lori Kent • Allison Kent-Smith

5:00pm

Hackerspace Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceMartin Bogomolni Making a Maker City Long Center West Pincer LoungeDale Dougherty • Travis Good • Peter Hirshberg Canceled: You're Better Than the Shitty Gin You're Drinking JW Marriott Room 402-403Chris Messina Dr. Brainlove: Interactive Neuroscience Vehicle JW Marriott Salon 2Natalia Bilenko • Nicholas Christie • Asako Miyakawa • Sean Stevens Meet Up: Unlock Your Creative Potential With JUJU JW Marriott Room 509Julia Junkin • Matt Kern NASA's Next Giant Leap: The Journey to Mars JW Marriott Salon 3Todd May The Story of Creative Icons: Failure to Mastery ACC Ballroom ASarah Lewis

10:30am

The Birth of Korean Cool ACC Ballroom GEuny Hong

11:00am

Drones Take Flight: Are They Ready for Prime Time? Long Center West Pincer LoungeRandy Jay Braun • Niels Joubert • Mike Senese Kids Makerspace Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceKami Wilt Fear and Creativity: Finding Your Craft JW Marriott Salon 2Jim Hopkinson • Adam Marelli • Helen Todd • Jey Van-Sharp Just Did It: The Art of Making Crazy Ideas Happen JW Marriott Salon 3Hal Kirkland

12:30pm

3D Print the Smithsonian Long Center West Pincer LoungeCorey Kilbane • Brian Mathews • Adam Metallo • Vincent Rossi Drone Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceMike Senese Is Good Business the Best Art? ACC Ballroom DCarter Cleveland • Joshua Heller • Tom Sachs Creating Interactive Comic Books for Social Change JW Marriott Salon 2Ram Devineni • Ambarish Mitra • Vivek Tiwary Go Out of this World with an Astronaut JW Marriott Salon 3Reid Wiseman • John Yembrick Sparking True Imagination in a Digital Environment JW Marriott Room 402-403Sarah McCormick

1:00pm

False Conviction: Innocence, Guilt and Science ACC Ballroom GJim Dwyer

1:30pm

How to Fly a Horse ACC Ballroom GKevin Ashton

2:00pm

AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves ACC Exhibit Hall 5Lisa Miller • Martine Rothblatt Hello Lamp Post Party Brush Square Park

3:00pm

Super-Modified: The Behance Book of Creative Work ACC Ballroom GScott Belsky

3:30pm

A Curious Mind: Inspiration for a Creative Life ACC Ballroom DCharles Fishman • Brian Grazer The Life and Times of a Young Innovator Long Center West Pincer LoungeErrett Kroeter • Shiva Nathan A New Generation: Creativity and Open Source JW Marriott Salon 3Matt Mullenweg Authenticity Through the Eyes of Our Grandparents JW Marriott Room 402-403Soraya Darabi • Laura Sydell Mentor Session: Wendy W Fok Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIWendy W Fok NASA Prizes: Dream it, Make it, Win it JW Marriott Salon 2Jason Crusan • Jenn Gustetic • Sam Ortega • Zoe Szajnfarber Mobile Social and Meet Up presented by Bike Hugger Long Center West Pincer TerraceDL Byron

4:00pm

Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power ACC Ballroom GDan Hurley

5:00pm

Faster, Higher, Stronger ACC Ballroom GMark McClusky 3D Printing: Myth vs Truth Long Center West Pincer LoungeMichael Balzer • Andreas Bastian • Nikki Kaufman • Charlie Maddock First Release Hardware and IoT Meet Up JW Marriott Room 504Ronald Schmelzer Hubble: Touching the Universe JW Marriott Salon 2Alberto Conti • John Grunsfeld • Jason Kalirai • Amber Straughn Interview with Hacker Josh Klein ACC Ballroom AErin Griffith • Josh Klein participator JW Marriott Room 508Rosie von Lila The Novelist, The Robot, and The Time Machine JW Marriott Room 402-403Ethan Decker The Power of DNA in Uniting Societies JW Marriott Salon 3Ken Chahine

5:30pm

Maker Pro ACC Ballroom GSophi Kravitz

TBA

SXSWedu Community Screening: The Uni-Saders and Mosaic: The Deep Eddy Mural Project Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater

10:30am

The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu ACC Ballroom GDan Jurafsky

11:00am

Mentor Session: Ber-Henda Williams Courtyard Marriott Brazos IBer-Henda Williams Unspecialize: The More You Know the Less You See JW Marriott Salon 3Daniel Disselkoen We Deserve a Second Chance: Ex-Prisoners-Speak JW Marriott Salon 2Shaka Senghor • Yusef Shakur • Trabian Shorters • Chris Wilson

12:30pm

Art vs Purpose: Innovation in Marketing JW Marriott Salon 3Leigh Christie How Innovation Happens ACC Exhibit Hall 5Walter Isaacson • Eric Schmidt • Megan Smith Mediated Experiences: Technology and Art Today JW Marriott Salon 2Cezanne Charles • Christian Gaines • Joseph Voss • Keir Winesmith

3:30pm

A Next Generation Platform for Open Data JW Marriott Room 402-403Matthew Hanlon • Matthew Vaughn Not Impossible: Crowd-Solving a Human Future JW Marriott Salon 5-6Elliot Kotek Science Fiction IRL And Our Road Map To Utopia JW Marriott Salon 3Michael Solana Technicians of the Sacred: The New Native Apps JW Marriott Salon 2Lewis St. Cyr • Eric Doversberger • Lauren Chief Elk • Wendy Levy • Lynette Wallworth Design Light Effects for Large Scale Immersive Art JW Marriott Room 306Adam Sheppard • Ray Sykes • Irene Zhou

4:00pm

40 Days of Dating: An Experiment ACC Ballroom GTimothy Goodman • Jessica Walsh

5:00pm

Cuddly Drones: When Kids Design Drones JW Marriott Salon 3Krista Hendriks • Tijmen Schep How Art Affects Strategy ACC Ballroom AHugh Macleod Minimal Viable Pub: How to Open a Pub on $5k JW Marriott Salon 2Jim Carroll • Alan Coleman • Trevor O\'Shea Your Life in Big Data: Genomics and Health JW Marriott Room 402-403Joel Dudley • Konrad Karczewski

2:00pm

Moonshots and Reality ACC Exhibit Hall 5Astro Teller