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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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11:00am

SXSW Home Room ACC Room 9ABCKelly Krause • Monica Sack The Climate Crisis: Challenge & Opportunity ACC Exhibit Hall 5Al Gore Turbocharging Social Activism with Data Standards ACC Room 10ABTim Anderegg • Gayatri Bhalla • Josh Cohen • Jason Rosenbaum

12:30pm

Move Fast, Government, or Get Out of the Way ACC Ballroom AMichelle Lee • Penny Pritzker • Jon Steinberg The Bombastic Brilliance of Black Twitter II ACC Room 6ABMeredith Clark • Kimberly "Dr Goddess" Ellis When a Moment Becomes a Movement ACC Room 5ABCCammie Croft • Steven Hawkins Your Laws, Your Data: Making Government More Open ACC Room 10ABMolly Bohmer • Daniel Schuman • Molly Schwartz • Rebecca Williams

3:30pm

Commercial Threats to Freedom of Speech Online ACC Room 10ABAmy Austin • Paul Alan Levy • Evan Mascagni • Laura Prather Experiments in Action: TEDx Meet Up JW Marriott Room 504Nancy Giordano • Mike Lundgren Gamifiying Peace: New Solutions in an Old Conflict ACC Room 5ABCNavit Keren How Latina Moms Are Raising NextGen Coders ACC Ballroom FSylvia Aguiñaga • Jessica Olivarez Mazone • Melanie Mendez-Gonzales How to Maximize the Google Grant ACC Room 6ABDave Martin Meet the Mentors at SXSW: Creating Your Career ACC Ballroom EPaul Brunson • Jeff Clanagan • Ella Rucker • Michael Street • April Walker What Tech Startups Should Be Doing Next JW Marriott Salon 5-6Jessica Lawrence Take A Shot: Injecting Tech into Your NPO Mission JW Marriott Room 303-304Aaron Bramley • Martin Dugas

5:00pm

Education, Impact Investing and US Foreign Policy ACC Room 6ABKrishanti Vignarajah Global Water Crisis: Solvable ACC Room 5ABCGuga Ketzer • Jon Rose Increasing the Diversity of Tech Startup Founders ACC Ballroom EKathy Burrell • Darnell Kemp • Natalia Oberti Noguera • Keith White Social Stars to Super Stars: Latinos on the Rise ACC Ballroom FDaniel Aguilar • Drew Baldwin • Doug Greiff • Maiah Ocando • Cris Ordaz Speed Networking: LGBT Meet Up JW Marriott Room 502-503Joseph Kapp

5:30pm

Innovation, the Latin American Way ACC Ballroom BEmiliano Rodriguez Nuesch

9:30am

Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru: Better Together ACC Room 10ABErick Aponte • Sebastian Gomez • Julio Carlos Marron • Jorge Valdes Church and Tech: The Unlikely Union Yields Real Help ACC Room 6ABDiane Johnson • Megan Kashner Civic Engagement from the Dorm to Dakar ACC Room 5ABCKara Andrade • Eric Nelson Cultural Placemaking Through Interactive Storytelling ACC Ballroom FLisa Byrd • Tim Eubanks • Matthew Gossage Politics of Innovation: DC, Tech Working Together Omni Downtown Capital BallroomEvan Engstrom • Senator Jerry Moran • Jason Seats • Krysten Sinema • Kyrsten Sinema SXSW Home Room ACC Room 9ABCTammy Lynn Gilmore • Danielle Zamora Why Black Leaders Matter in Technology ACC Ballroom EWayne Sutton Hackathon for Social Good JW Marriott Room 306Carolyn Chandler • Jason Ulaszek

11:00am

21st Century Social Entrepreneurship and Policy ACC Room 5ABCKirsten Dickerson • Elizabeth Gore • Michael Young Can Washington Protect the Net Economy? Omni Downtown Capital BallroomHon Hakeem Jeffries • Adam Kinzinger • Nika Pari Nour • Eric Swalwell • Eric Swawell Diversity in STEM: Nurture or Nature ACC Ballroom EKimberly Bryant • Dr Mae Jemison • Ran Libeskind-Hadas • Lindsey Shepard Fostering Digital Literacy in the Developing World ACC Room 9ABCSophie Kelly • Joyce Kim • Roya Mahboob Humanitarian Drones: Locating Vietnam Era Bombs ACC Room 6ABRyan Baker • Chance Coughenour • Adam Rabinowitz It Is Not Racist to Consider Race in Marketing ACC Ballroom FCesar Melgoza Mentor Session: Sam Gregory Courtyard Marriott Brazos ISam Gregory The Inspiring and Game-Changing Afro-Latina ACC Room 10ABJessica M Alarcon • Paulina Artieda • Rebecca Dailey-Wooley • Omilani • Lizette Williams

12:30pm

Disasters, Data, and Hacker Humanitarians ACC Room 6ABLuis Capelo Drones for Good ACC Room 9ABCKate Chapman • Christopher Fabian • Patrick Meier • Andrew Schroeder How to Not Hire and Retain Employees of Color ACC Ballroom EMakinde Adeagbo • Ana Diaz-Hernandez • Aston Motes • Ola Okelola Mentor Session: Della Rucker Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIDella Rucker Mentor Session: Francesca Pick Courtyard Marriott Brazos IFrancesca Pick Net Infrastructure: The Economy's Hidden Backbone Omni Downtown Capital BallroomCheri Bustos • Hilary Van Der Meulen • Cathy McMorris Rodgers • Rafael Laguna de la Vera • Sunday Yokubaitis Nonprofit Crowdfunding Bill of Rights ACC Room 5ABCMiriam Kagan • David Neff Participatory Cities: Inspiring Access and Action ACC Room 10ABAshoka Finley • Rosie von Lila • Lionel Mitelpunkt • Marlon Parker SXSW Daily Recap ACC Ballroom FJohn Rodriguez (J-Ro) • Catherine Cheney • Hugh Forrest • Michele Skelding We Are Not Robots: A CSR Meet Up JW Marriott Room 509Megan Trotter

1:30pm

six skills ACC Ballroom G

2:00pm

The Cake Is Not A Lie: Gamers and the US Workforce Omni Downtown Capital BallroomTony Cardenas • Bill Flores • Erik Huey • Cris Turner

3:30pm

City 2.0: Why Local Gov. Bets on Civic Innovation ACC Room 10ABBrenna Berman • Rebecca Foster • Nigel Jacob • Brian Kenner • Kerry O\'Connor • Jessica Singleton Civic Hackers and Advocates Meet Up JW Marriott Room 504Chip Rosenthal Fail Fast, Save the World: Prototyping for Good ACC Room 6ABJonathon Morgan Government Surveillance: How You Can Change It ACC Room 9ABCEllen Dargie • Christian Dawson • Harley Geiger • Ben Young Legend of the Black Techie: The New Moses ACC Ballroom ETynicka Battle • Lynne d Johnson • Billy Johnson Jr • Karine Travieso Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics ACC Room 5ABCMatthew Jukes Making Sense of the Competitive Comms Landscape Omni Downtown Capital BallroomRenee Ellmers • Rene Ellmers • Joe Kennedy • Ben Lujan • Chip Pickering • Alan Schoenbaum Social Media and Diversity: The ROI for Brands ACC Ballroom FAndre Blackman • Nailah Blades • Abraham Cajudo • Pam Slim Cultural Placemaking Through Interactive Storytelling Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater Boyd Vance TheaterLisa Byrd • Matthew Gossage

5:00pm

America Meet World: How Global Satirists See Us ACC Room 9ABCSaman Arbabi • Trina DasGupta • David Kibuuka • Anuvab Pal Latino Tech-Culture Powers Up ACC Ballroom FCristina Garcia Gamboa • Guy Garcia • Monica Gil • Maria Hinojosa MAYDAY: The Fight to Save American Democracy ACC Exhibit Hall 5Lawrence Lessig Method Matters in Civic Engagement – But How? ACC Room 6ABBenjamin Armstrong • Nick Bowden Re-imagining Privacy for Consumers and Developers Omni Downtown Capital BallroomMario Diaz-Balart • Erik Paulsen • Jon Potter • Filemon Vela Real Talk About Civic Tech ACC Room 10ABJohn Bracken • Catherine Bracy • Garlin Gilchrist II • Michael Nutter • Daniel X O\'Neil Speaking Duckface to Power: Selfies and Activism ACC Room 5ABCMona Kasra • Lea Muldtofte Olsen Where Are The Black Designers? ACC Ballroom EMaurice Cherry

6:30pm

SXgood Kickoff Party ACC Room 8BC

9:30am

Digital and Social Government Meet up JW Marriott Room 504Laura Bryce Diversifying the Tech Workforce: Impact at Scale ACC Ballroom EDamien Hooper-Campbell • Karla Monterroso • Jason Towns • Hank Williams • Lyle Wing How Big Data Can Transform Poverty Policy ACC Room 10ABKevin Corinth • John Delaney • Michele Jolin • Lori Sanders SXSW Home Room ACC Room 9ABCChristine Auten • Caroline St Romain

11:00am

Confronting Injustice ACC Ballroom DBryan Stevenson Accessibility Meet Up JW Marriott Room 504Frances West Can Fandoms Fix Tech's Gender Gap? ACC Room 6ABJessica McDonald Enhancing Human Functionality With Technology ACC Room 9ABCMick Ebeling • Virginia Ingram • Holly Stiles How Public Policy Protects Patents and Startups ACC Room 10ABVishal Amin • Alyssa Gowens Betz • April Boyd • Kate Doerksen Latino Content Creation Goes Digital ACC Ballroom FBeatriz Acevedo • Axel Caballero • Borja Echevarría De La Gándara • Lisa Garcia Quiroz Mentor Session: Emily Steinberg Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIEmily Steinberg Transgender in Tech: Past, Present, Future ACC Ballroom EBrielle Harrison • Allyson Dylan Robinson • Meghan Stabler • Kortney Ziegler Write the Next Chapter in the LGBT Movement ACC Room 5ABCScott Zumwalt

12:30pm

Activism At Its Best: Drive Supporters To Do More ACC Room 10ABHilary Gridley • Pulin Modi • Lori Painter • Sara Thomas Connected Vehicles: Challenges and Possibilities Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomChandra Bhat • Robert Heath • Todd Humphreys • Michael Walton Hacking the Hackathon for the Social and Civic Good ACC Room 6ABClaire Dunn Helping LGBT Homeless Youth with Technology ACC Room 5ABCJama Shelton • Christopher Wood Ireland – A Global Technology Hub ACC Ballroom FJohn Burnett • Enda Kenny Running A Non-Profit Like A Start-Up! ACC Room 9ABCKate Courteau • Paul Duan • Edith Elliott • Ryan Seashore Winning Over China's Wired Women ACC Ballroom ETara Hirebet • Jonathan Koh • Evelina Lye • Padmini Pandya

1:30pm

#BlackLivesMatter In Austin Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater Boyd Vance TheaterNelson Linder • Gregory Vincent

3:30pm

We Want Your Body In Our Registry ACC Ballroom BGreg Segal Deep: What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves ACC Ballroom GJames Nestor Beyond the Diversity Data: Strategies that Work ACC Ballroom EAnitra Collins • Freada Kapor Klein • Maria Teresa Kumar • Lisa Lee Legal Hackers: A Global Movement to Reform the Law ACC Room 10ABJameson Dempsey • Dan Lear • Amy Wan • Phil Weiss Mentor Session: Will Palley Courtyard Marriott Brazos IWill Palley Super WiFi: Redefining Connectivity in Memory of TV ACC Room 9ABCSaman Arbabi • Greta Byrum • Mary Ellen Carroll • Joseph Grima SXSW Eco Meet Up JW Marriott Room 502-503Morgan Catalina SXSW Extended Session With Michael Slaby ACC Ballroom FMichael Slaby The Digital Kaleidoscope: How Race Appears Online ACC Room 5ABCJenny Korn Why Does the Internet Hate Women? ACC Room 6ABJuliana de Faria • Amanda Luz SXSWedu Community Screening: The Texas Promise Carver Museum Boyd Vance Theater

4:00pm

Conquering Silicon Valley's Brutal Ageism ACC Ballroom BKent Brewster

4:15pm

Is It Finally the Age of the Woman Entrepreneur? ACC Ballroom BJane Park

5:00pm

Civic Leaders Need New Civic Technologies ACC Ballroom BRyan Ginard #Winning: Creating Cubic Wins Across Communities Austin City Hall Council ChambersAaron Britt • Susan Can • Nishe Modoyan • Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom A Conversation with Senator Rand Paul JW Marriott Salon 5-6Rand Paul • Evan Smith How to Fix American Politics ACC Room 6ABDavid Burstein Investors Looking for Diverse Startups to Fund ACC Ballroom ERoss Baird • K.P Reddy • Judy Robinett Los Tequis: The Heart of Total Market Dominance ACC Ballroom FJose Antillon • Micky Ogando • Matt Reyes Mentor Session: Jennifer Hoelzer Courtyard Marriott Brazos II Millennials: The Unstoppable Force ACC Room 10ABRebecca Coffman • Evan Feinberg • Tulsi Gabbard • Will Hurd Slacktivism: Monster or Myth? ACC Room 5ABCJonathan Waddingham

5:15pm

Social Data in the Time of Cholera ACC Ballroom BScott Hendrickson

5:30pm

Homeless and Social Media ACC Ballroom BGreg Staffa

9:30am

Creating Inclusive Startup and Tech Ecosystems ACC Ballroom EPeter Barth • Erin Horne McKinney • Rodney Sampson • Chad Womack Fast, Fair & Open: The FCC’s Broadband Future ACC Ballroom AGigi Sohn • Laura Sydell Latino Opportunities in Technology ACC Ballroom FLiliana Monge • Gregorio Rojas PanelPicker Tips for Success ACC Room 9ABCTodd Hansen • Kathryn Irwin CANCELED - Cause Video and the Race to Measure Emotional Impact JW Marriott Room 306Marcia Stepanek

10:00am

Coffee Break With Sama Group at the Social Good Hub Trinity Hall

11:00am

Do You Library? Meet Up JW Marriott Room 508Brenda Huettner Engage Latino Millennials, Change the World! ACC Ballroom EMariana Atencio • Jason Llorenz • Mark Lopez • Alicia Menendez • Elianne Ramos Latinos: Get Your Voice into Product Development ACC Ballroom FKaren Siles • Alberto Vargas Talavera • Becky Trevino Operation Choke Point and Alternative Currencies ACC Room 10ABPerianne Boring • Mark Calabria • Cathy Reisenwitz • Ashe Schow The Share Economy is Failing. Abort or Retry? ACC Room 6ABGadi Ben-Yehuda What #BlackLivesMatter Teaches Us About Solidarity ACC Room 5ABCAlicia Garza • Opal Tometi

12:30pm

Engaged Journalism: Connecting With News Audiences ACC Ballroom GJake Batsell Engagement Strategies for Niche Communities ACC Room 5ABCEric Facas • Kate Forester • Lauren Wagner Latin America: Silicon Valley’s New Frontier ACC Ballroom ECarlos Gomez • Josue Gonzalez • Rocio Medina van Nierop • Luis Samra • Megan Zoback SXSW Daily Recap ACC Ballroom FTodd Hansen • Susan Lahey • James Moore • Austin Powell The Silk Road Case: Impacting Our Digital Future ACC Room 6ABLyn Ulbricht We Take It for Granted: Defending All Human Rights ACC Room 10ABKenneth Carter • Tekedra Mawakana • Michael Samway • John Scott-Railton

1:00pm

The Last 50 and the Next 50 Years of Learning Austin City HallQuentin Paquelier • Carsten Rudolph

1:30pm

Greyhound Bar hosted by Cheeky Trinity Hall

3:00pm

Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper ACC Ballroom GRobert Bryce

3:30pm

'CAT'astrophe: Good, Bad and Ugly of Internet Cats ACC Room 5ABCJackson Galaxy • Bryan Kortis Asian Connection SXSW Meet Up JW Marriott Room 502-503Hahn Ryu Hold The Queso: Marketing to Latinas ACC Ballroom FRobyn Moreno Let’s Supersize Wi-Fi and Change the Future ACC Room 9ABCJessica Rosenworcel Mentor Session: Jonathon Morgan Courtyard Marriott Brazos IJonathon Morgan On the Frontlines of the Social Media Jihad ACC Room 10ABShahed Amanullah • Humera Khan • Nadia Oweidat • Matthew Rice The Future of Latino Entrepreneurship ACC Ballroom ETony Aguilar • Ruben Cantu • Mark Madrid • Thomas Miranda VodkaforDogPeople: Matchmaking a Business Heart ACC Room 6ABBeth Bellanti • Amy Mills Hands On: Inclusion, Accountability and Empowerment JW Marriott Room 310-311Ivan Boothe • Shireen Mitchell

4:00pm

Energy Networks & the Role of Emerging Technologies Austin City HallRavi Pradhan • Andy Sansom

5:00pm

#YesWeCode: From The 'Hood To Silicon Valley ACC Ballroom DVan Jones • Maxine Williams Breaking Bad Boundaries: Latina Entrepreneurship ACC Ballroom FLuisa Frias Bridging the Federal & State Data Divide ACC Room 9ABCSusan Combs • Mark Doms How Government Fails and How You Can Fix It JW Marriott Salon 5-6Mikey Dickerson • Jennifer Pahlka Is Social Good the Next Killer App? ACC Room 5ABCEve Simon Mentor Session: Artur Melentin Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIArtur Melentin Mentor Session: Lane Becker Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIILane Becker Pushing the Envelope Forward: Latin@s in Tech ACC Ballroom EFrancesca Escoto-Zavala • Kety Esquivel • Deldelp Medina • Rosalinda Zepeda Technology Needs Latinas: Bold Decision Makers ACC Room 6ABDaniela Victoria González • Ana Karen Ramirez Tellez Why You Will Invest in the Sub-Saharan Africa ACC Room 10ABTaiwo Ajetunmobi • Kwame Dougan • Maya Horgan Famodu • Dapo Okubadejo • Stephen Ozoigbo • Pule Taukobong

9:00am

Coffee Break With Sama Group at the Social Good Hub Trinity Hall

9:30am

PanelPicker Tips for Success ACC Room 9ABCChristine Auten • Sarah Garcia The Future of the Internet: How Open is Open Parkside Restaurant UpstairsMarvin Ammori • Scott Cleland • Tiffany Moore • Brent Skorup

11:00am

Decoding Percepciones: CS, Latinos and Storytelling ACC Ballroom ESusan Cartsonis • Julie Ann Crommett • Joanna Johnson • Sowmya Subramanian #OurTimeToLead: Why Tech Needs More Women ACC Ballroom GElizabeth Ames Innovating Diversity and Inclusion in Tech ACC Ballroom DJesse Jackson Lessons From Africa: Relationships Over Privacy? ACC Room 6ABJessica Colaço Putting Policymakers to Work For You ACC Room 10ABAdrian Fenty • Niloo Howe • Grover Norquist • Michael Petricone • Julie Samuels Screens and Stereotypes: How SocialTV Amplifies Images ACC Room 5ABCLynessa Williams • Sherri Williams The Arc of Emerging Technology: Patents Predict It ACC Room 9ABCGregory Stobbs

12:30pm

Future of Non-profits Meet Up JW Marriott Room 504David Neff Battles at Home: Protecting the Sharing Economy Parkside Restaurant UpstairsLaurent Crenshaw • April Mims • Chris Nakutis • Brandon Pollak Cash, Credit, Bitcoin? The Law of Digital Currency ACC Room 9ABCDavid Beam Global Competitions that Change the World ACC Room 6ABNathaniel Manning Is Mobile Tech the Answer to our Political Apathy? ACC Room 10ABAna Roca Castro • Nathan Daschle • Adriana Gardella • Jeb Ory SXSW Daily Recap ACC Ballroom FSarah Garcia • Kamille Girton • Andrew Logan • Aaron Sankin

2:00pm

Patent Reform: It Is Time to Finish the Job Parkside Restaurant UpstairsAustin Carson • Van Lindberg • Katie McAuliffe • Russ Merbeth

3:30pm

LGBT Best Practices From Practicing Homosexuals ACC Room 6ABWhitney Pillsbury • Mike Wilke Modern Swiss Army Knife: Apps for Independence ACC Room 10ABStephen Ewell • Betsy Furler • Cristy Gamez-Galka • Amy Wheeler Skilled Labor, Green Cards, and H-1B Visas, Oh My Parkside Restaurant UpstairsCathie Adams • Ximena Hartsock • Jeremy Robbins • Todd Schulte

5:00pm

21st Century Barricades: Branding the Revolution ACC Room 6ABElliott Goat

8:00pm

Social Good Hub Afterparty hosted by Global Citizen Trinity Hall