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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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Designing Your Future with the Connected Car JW Marriott Room 310-311Cobie Everdell • Diny Huang

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Trusted Filters and the Rise of Data Loyalty ACC Ballroom CJason CranfordTeague Virtual Function, Physical Interface ACC Ballroom BPatrick Mankins Fast & Furious: Bringing the Legacy to Mobile Palmer Events Center Geek StagePablo Greenham • Bill Kim • Calvin Lim • Steve Martin • Jose Sanchez Sex, Lies, and the Internet JW Marriott Salon 8Katherine Cross • Allyson Kapin • Emily May • Rinku Sen

3:45pm

Beyond BFFs: Using Texting to Promote Empathy ACC Ballroom CSara Konrath Picturing Your Big Ideas ACC Ballroom BNora Herting

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Rethinking Privacy in the Internet of Things ACC Ballroom CSteve Shoaff The Quantified Us ACC Ballroom BMatthew Jordan

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The Science and Art of Genetic Engineering ACC Ballroom BJosiah Zayner

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The Contagion Cookbook ACC Ballroom CMarcus Collins The State of the Maker Movement In Brazil ACC Ballroom BManoel Lemos How Kids Changed the Way We Design for Adults JW Marriott Salon DKerry Bodine • Lisa Lindström The Personal Side of Robots ACC Exhibit Hall 5Cynthia Breazeal

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Inanimate Characters Redefine Authenticity ACC Ballroom BGerard McLean When Haters Show Up in Your Social Stream ACC Ballroom CJanice Person

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Innovation, the Latin American Way ACC Ballroom BEmiliano Rodriguez Nuesch Wi-Fi Privacy: When Sniffing Becomes Snooping ACC Ballroom CAdam Tyler

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City of Gold Alamo Ritz

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For Grace Alamo Ritz

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Hyper-Reality TV and Online Video Are a Perfect Fit ACC Room 18ABCDDermot McCormack • Morgan Spurlock Advanced Mobility Hilton Austin Downtown Salon BJay Ellis • Ryan Eustice • Alisyn Malek • Andre Weimerskirch American Food 2.0: United to Feed the Planet Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomMitchell Davis • Jeffrey Dunn • Max Mullen • Kaitlin Yarnall Can Common Food Goals Find Common Ground? Driskill Hotel MaximilianCathleen Enright • Tamar Haspel • Chris Miller Real Lessons in Working with Influencers JW Marriott Salon GTara Hunt Sporkful Podcast Live at SXSW Driskill Hotel Jim HoggDan Pashman • Anne Noyes Saini

10:30am

SouthBites Coffee Break hosted by Vega Coffee Driskill Hotel

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Nudges for Good: Apps That Make Better People ACC Ballroom BDavid Caygill The Power of Disposable Design ACC Ballroom CPaul Anastasopoulos Battling Tradition to Reinvent Youth Sports Four Seasons San JacintoChristine Brennan • Matt Farrell • Kurt Kamperman • Jeff Price Made in Brooklyn: A Craft Foods Revolution Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomNicki Briggs • Forbes Fisher • Shamus Jones • Rachel Wharton Reinventing the Car Customizer Again Trinity Hall Trinity HallChristian Colasuonno • Stuart O\'Neil • Krysty Sagnia • Andrea Zuehlk The Unexpected Power of Shared Meals Driskill Hotel MaximilianCedric Giorgi • Andrew Hyde • Camille Rumani

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I Made 180 Websites in 180 Days ACC Ballroom CJennifer Dewalt Wearable Drones: High-Flying Fashion ACC Ballroom BAdam Pruden

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Identity In the Future Of Embeddables and Wearables ACC Ballroom BJonathan LeBlanc This Is Your Brain On Visual Data ACC Ballroom CSasha Pasulka

11:45am

Contextual Applications: The Next Wave ACC Ballroom BRoberto Moctezuma Think Outside the Font: How Typefaces Influence ACC Ballroom CSarah Hyndman

12:30pm

Breaking Up with TED ACC Room 15George Burroughs A Frank Lloyd Wright Approach To Digital Design ACC Ballroom CKent Eisenhuth The Blockchain: Creating a New Distributed World ACC Ballroom BMikkel Krogsholm Cars: Back to the Future Hilton Austin Downtown Salon HFrank Breust • Vicente Fox Food, Brand & Community: Food's Big Moment Driskill Hotel MaximilianBrian Bordainick • Jennie Kelley • Mike Lee • Will Levitt Social Media Celebrity: Audience vs True Influence Hyatt Regency Austin Hill Country ABCDCiaran Bossom • Lisa Materazzo • Amir Mohamadzadeh • Jonathan Perelman The Future of Food? A Personal Growing Revolution Driskill Hotel MaximilianGabriel Blanchet • Jamie Byron • Caleb Harper • Larry Santoyo The Future of Human-Computer Interaction Hilton Austin Downtown Salon BRamses Eduardo Alcaide • Dr. Tawanna Dillahunt • Roger Ehrenberg • Nancy Benovich Gilby The Reinvented Food Festival: Sink or Swim Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomBen Leventhal • Adam Rapoport • Rob Sheard • Mike Thelin What's Next For Talking Cars JW Marriott Room 210Walt Fehr • Mike Pina Who Wants To Be a YouTube Ad Millionaire Sheraton Austin Capitol BallroomFarrah Bezner • Mark Fortner • Rob Griffin • Kevin Hung • Chris Landa

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How Software Design Can Reduce Energy Consumption ACC Ballroom CDeena Rosen The 1st Internet-Wired Town Is Still One to Watch ACC Ballroom BPhil Buehler

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Diversity in Film: The University's Role ACC Room 15Miranda Sherman

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The Medium Is the Deliverable ACC Ballroom CKevin Suttle Under the Hood: Tech Behind Autonomous Vehicles ACC Ballroom BKristen Parrish

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Cinema Culture: The Power of Communal Experience ACC Room 15Anna Feder

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Design for Fingers, Thumbs and People ACC Ballroom CSteven Hoober IoT Hivebots ACC Ballroom BSteven Cooper

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Why the Future of Film Depends on Social Media ACC Room 15Jenn Deering Davis Deliverables Today InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom BAdam Church • Scott Mandell • Jason Tobias Secret is Out! Distributors Reveal Their Numbers ACC Room 17BLaura Giampino • Mat Levy • Meredith Miller • Richard Ross • Tom Sladek

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The Link Between Social Media and Box Office ACC Room 15David Herrin

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Be the Change ACC Room 15Jeffrey Abramson

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DIY Filmmaking Tips and Techniques ACC Room 15Laura Terruso Content Personalization For Web Teams of All Sizes ACC Ballroom BJohn Berndt Simulating Surgery Using the Language of the Web ACC Ballroom CAaron Oliker Harnessing the Power of YouTube Influence Palmer Events Center Geek StageThomas Cassel • Thomas Cassell • Adam Montoya • Angelo Pullen • Luke Stepleton The Future Role of Tech in Dining and Food ACC Ballroom DMatt Buchanan • David Chang Discover University of Texas System Future Finders Ashbel Smith Hall Exterior CourtyardLaurence Cooper • Thomas Geisbert DIY Brain Hacking, Electroceuticals and You JW Marriott Salon 2Tim Marzullo • Joel Murphy • Eliza Strickland • Brent Williams Franchise: A Food Truck Evolution Driskill Hotel MaximilianNatasha Case • Dave Danhi • Ross Resnick • Eric Silverstein How Auto Technology Is Moving at A Furious Pace Hilton Austin Downtown Salon HGuillermo Lagos • Hironori Miyauchi • Robin Reyes • Gerardo Sordo Mega Bites: Mining Food Data for Insights Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomDave Feller • Danielle Gould • Gautam Gupta • Justin Massa Young Millennials: Entrepreneurship for A New Era Hilton Austin Downtown Austin Chamber OfficesNick Arnett • Patrick Stoddart

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Holding Out for a Hero: What the Data Tells Us ACC Ballroom BKate Hodes Never Grow Old, Never Die ACC Ballroom CByron Reese

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Story of a Working-Class Screenwriter ACC Room 15Mike Jones

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Codesigning the Inter-Hospital Transfer Experience ACC Ballroom CSean Jalleh Hey Cord Cutters: Maybe TV Can't Be Everywhere ACC Ballroom BJoshua Rangsikitpho

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VHS: Never Forget ACC Room 15Zack Carlson

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How a Library Visit Will Differentiate Your Brand ACC Ballroom BJenessa Carder How Cool Gadgets Can Save The World ACC Ballroom CMelissa Tait

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Smart Yet Illiterate: Hacking Health Literacy ACC Ballroom CChristina Mullen Your eReader Sucks: The Persistence of the Book ACC Ballroom BBlake Wirht How Food and Drink Drive Urban Planning Today Driskill Hotel MaximilianSean Brock • Matthew Goodrich • Richard Martin • Tyler Niess Life's a (Dinner) Party: Channeling Culinary Creativity Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomDarin Bresnitz • Questlove • Paul Qui • Ahmir Thompson New Parents in Tech Meet Up JW Marriott Room 508Irma Kramer Transportation Technology Startup Discussion Hilton Austin Downtown Salon HMario Romero • Georg Schroth • Mai Takase • Jun Yamadera University of Texas System Future Finders Part II Ashbel Smith Hall Exterior CourtyardCecilia Conrad

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All Access: How Tech Is Redefining Health Care ACC Ballroom CMichael Smith The Science of Sharing ACC Ballroom BJames Laporte

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Resilience Through Tech: Designing to Help People ACC Ballroom C The Biological Power of Push and Pull ACC Ballroom BPete Trainor

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Beyond Marketing: How Curation Will Work for You ACC Ballroom BJoel Zaslofsky Digital Health: Indispensable means Invisible ACC Ballroom CDavid O\'Reilly

6:00pm

Craft-Cocktail Happy Hour Presented by KitchenAid Driskill

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Underage@SXSW: No Parties? No Problem! Satellite Venue: Marchesa Bone in the Throat Alamo Ritz

9:30am

Monetizing Kids Games: Should There Be Limits? Long Center KodoskyRamin Shokrizade • Denise Tayloe • Lee Wilson Crowdsourcing the World's First 3D Printed Vehicle JW Marriott Room 211-212John "Jay" B Rogers Jr • Jesse Smith Digital Austin: 3D Maps Predict What Is Ahead Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomChristian Claudel • Fernanda Leite • David Maidment • Allan Shearer Entrepreneurship, Food Systems and the Circular Economy Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomJack Ceadel • Dustin Fedako • Michael Hanan Grocery Wars: The Future of Buying Food Driskill Hotel MaximilianAddie Broyles • Phil Lempert Health Impact of Screen Time for Babies and Toddlers JW Marriott Room 201-202Sarah Huisman • Mally McAuliffe Quantifying Our World Through Open Platforms JW Marriott Room 208Cameron Clayton • Claudio Cossio • Catherine Cuellar • Alexandre Winter Youth Sports Marketing Meet Up JW Marriott Room 501Matt Farrell

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Good Food Podcast at SXSW Driskill Hotel Jim HoggEvan Kleiman

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SouthBites Coffee Break hosted by NatureBox Driskill Hotel

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Adapt or Die: Building a Brand In 2015 and Beyond ACC Ballroom BJoanna Lord The Freedom Of Staying Private ACC Ballroom CAvi Steinlauf Kids Makerspace Meet Up Long Center West Pincer TerraceKami Wilt The Cast of Community on Moving to Digital ACC Room 18ABCDDan Harmon • Joel McHale • Chris Mckenna • Jim Rash 3D Printing Becomes Additive Manufacturing Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomJoe Beaman • Scott Fish • David Leigh • Carolyn Seepersad Bringing the Flying Car Into Reality JW Marriott Salon 5-6Juraj Vaculik Culinary Crossroads: Technique vs Technology Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomRaphael Brion • Chris Muscarella • Joe Perez • Molly Siegler Next Wave Coffee: Technology and the Way We Drink Driskill Hotel MaximilianCameron Hughes • Lawrence Marcus • Erin Meister

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Building a Culture of Learning ACC Ballroom CJeff Gothelf Deciphering the Code for Immersive Experiences ACC Ballroom BDarren McColl

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Making Insanely Successful Products and Experiences ACC Ballroom CEduardo Torres Society Is One Big Cult: The Science of Movements ACC Ballroom BMaggie Gross

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Going Global: How to Launch International Markets ACC Ballroom CElsita Meyer-Brandt Why Can't We Be More Like Disneyland? ACC Ballroom BMarcus Castenfors

12:30pm

For Hollywood, The Future is Not Evenly Distributed ACC Room 15David Larkin Humans Not Consumers: Unconscious Emotion and Action ACC Ballroom BDouglas Van Praet Why Patents Are Killing Innovation ACC Ballroom CNathan Siedle To Window Or Not To Window: Film Release Strategies ACC Room 17BNeil Berkeley • Danielle DiGiacomo • Adam Klaff • Simon Ore Building A Better Breakfast Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomJane Black • Geoff Lewis • Josh Tetrick • Andrew Zimmern Connected Vehicles: Challenges and Possibilities Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomChandra Bhat • Robert Heath • Todd Humphreys • Michael Walton Designing the Future of Transportation JW Marriott Salon 5-6 Helping LGBT Homeless Youth with Technology ACC Room 5ABCJama Shelton • Christopher Wood How Connected Transportation Will Transform Cities JW Marriott Salon 5-6Doug Newcomb How Tech Lit The Flame For Celebrity Chef Culture Driskill Hotel MaximilianAaron Franklin • Emily Keeton • Andrew Knowlton • Monica Pope The Last Mile: Disrupting Consumer Distribution Hilton Austin Downtown Salon HJonathan Downey • Amir Elaguizy • Nilam Ganenthiran • Ben Ponder YouTube Grows Up: Community and Culture ACC Room 12ABCorey Lubowich • Rae Votta • Sarah Weichel • Megan Westerby

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Disloyalty Marketing: Art of the One Night Stand ACC Ballroom BCraig Evans Mobile Payments: Solution for the Third World ACC Ballroom CFelipe Fernandes

12:50pm

Good Guys Vs. Bad Guys ACC Room 15Jim Cummings

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Advention: The Best Ads Aren't Always Ads ACC Ballroom BChristine Outram Working With Humans ACC Ballroom CJoe Gerstandt

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Can A Film Be Banned In the US? ACC Room 15Christian Blauvelt

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Anythink: The Brand that Sparked a Revolution ACC Ballroom BStacie Ledden The Bitcoin Opportunity ACC Ballroom CPatrick Murck

1:30pm

The GrubHub Snack Attack Driskill Hotel

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Stand for Something ACC Room 15Emily Best So You Want to Make a Midnight Movie ACC Room 17BRoxanne Benjamin • Jason Eisener • Mette-Marie Katz • Peter Van Steemburg • Jen Yamato Austin+SocialGood's Student Fast Pitch and Update Austin City Hall Council ChambersBrad Bogus • Nelly Garcia • Ron Oliveira • Ron Oliverira • Val Velasquez UT Austin National Science Foundation I-Corps Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomErrol Arkilic • Keith McGreggor • Heath Naquin Mentors - Distribution I: Adam Donaghey (Aviation Cinemas) ACC Room 11ABAdam Donaghey Mentors - Distribution I: Adam Leipzig (Entertainment Media Partners) ACC Room 11AB Mentors - Distribution I: David Larkin (GoWatchIt.com) ACC Room 11ABDavid Larkin Mentors - Distribution I: Nicolas Gonda (Tugg Inc) ACC Room 11ABNicolas Gonda Mentors - Distribution I: Rebecca Sosa (A24) ACC Room 11ABRebecca Sosa Mentors - Distribution I: Ron Najor ACC Room 11ABRon Najor Mentors - Distribution I: Samantha Racanelli (WME Entertainment) ACC Room 11ABSamantha Racanelli Mentors - Distribution I: Sean Berney (IFC Films) ACC Room 11ABSean Berney Mentors - Distribution I: Sophia Yen (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP) ACC Room 11ABSophia Yen

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Big Picture Thinking for Creative Communities ACC Room 15Katherine Oliver

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Digital Touch vs. The Human Touch – Making the Best of Both ACC Room 15Susan Kirr

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How To Make A LAIKA Film In 300,000 Camera Clicks ACC Room 15Mark Shapiro Is Your Company Killing You? ACC Ballroom CShawn LaVana We Want Your Body In Our Registry ACC Ballroom BGreg Segal All Your Gov Are Belong To Us: Gaming 4 Gov Impact Long Center KodoskyChristian Doolin • Lindsay Grace The Life and Times of a Young Innovator Long Center West Pincer LoungeErrett Kroeter • Shiva Nathan Changing the World Through Food: A Love Story Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomEileen Chiarello • Michael Chiarello Cracking Cuisine: Breaking a Few Rules (and Eggs) ACC Exhibit Hall 5Kerry Diamond • Nathan Myhrvold Data (in)Security: MIT Scientists Tackle Privacy JW Marriott Salon 8Sam Madden • Ronald Rivest • Danny Weitzner Growing Up Digital: Raising Tech Savvy Kids JW Marriott Salon 4Paul McAleer • Elysse Zarek GT2035: How Might US Intel Think About the Future? JW Marriott Room 210Suzanne Fry • Steve Weber Making Big Data More Digestible Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomConstantine Caramanis • Alex Dimakis • Joydeep Ghosh • Sriram Vishwanath Merging Humans and Computers: The Next Decade JW Marriott Room 205Stephen Lake Small Farms Can Feed Lots of People: A How-To Driskill Hotel MaximilianNathan Heath • Sam Hellman-Mass • Robyn Metcalfe • Andrew Smiley

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Rise of the Employee: Leveling The Power Balance ACC Ballroom CJoshua Reeves

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Hand-drawn Animation: Magic Between the Sheets ACC Room 15Danny Madden

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Conquering Silicon Valley's Brutal Ageism ACC Ballroom BKent Brewster Why You Suck at Making Your Own Life Decisions ACC Ballroom CShankar Mishra

4:10pm

Pixar’s LAVA: Telling a Story Through Song ACC Room 15James Murphy

4:15pm

Building Strong Teams in the Millennial Age ACC Ballroom CJennifer Selke Is It Finally the Age of the Woman Entrepreneur? ACC Ballroom BJane Park

5:00pm

21 Rules to Rock Your Next Pitch or SXSW Session ACC Ballroom CStan Phelps Civic Leaders Need New Civic Technologies ACC Ballroom BRyan Ginard How to Build 3 Michelin Star Restaurants + Make a Doc Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomCurtis Duffy • Mark Helenowski • Michael Muser • Kevin Pang Sustainable Food Production Through Biotechnology Driskill Hotel MaximilianIsha Datar • Adam Flynn • Ryan Pandya • Rob Rhinehart The Greatest Geek Moment in History JW Marriott Room 208Rusty Blazenhoff • Austin Grossman • Chris Taylor • Daniel Terdiman

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Love My Job! Changing Culture From Crappy to Cool ACC Ballroom CJo-Dee Benson Social Data in the Time of Cholera ACC Ballroom BScott Hendrickson

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Homeless and Social Media ACC Ballroom BGreg Staffa The Great Work Disconnect ACC Ballroom CJennifer Merritt

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SouthBites Presents a Culinary Crossroads with Sean Brock, Nathan Myhrvold and Paul Qui. Hosted by Williams Sonoma Qui

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City of Gold Satellite Venue: Alamo Slaughter

9:00pm

For Grace Alamo Lamar B Good Things Await Violet Crown Cinema

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How Serialized Fiction Is Rewriting the Book Four Seasons Ballroom ABJerry Fan • Jennifer Lee • Michelle Miller • Jon Nathanson Tech My Mind: The Age of Instant Gratification Four Seasons San JacintoJulie Barrios • Shanice Johnson • Ayori Selassie • Andrew Yee Creating a New Accelerator for Culinary Business Driskill Hotel MaximilianJody Newman • Celina Pena • Ryan Salts • Blake Yeager How Chef Watson Changed the Way We Prepare Food Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomSteve Abrams • James Briscione • Jacquelyn Martino • Dawn Perry • Florian Pinel Food Is the New Rock Podcast at SXSW Driskill Hotel Jim HoggZach Brooks • Steven Ridge eXtreme Agile Build Party JW Marriott Salon FJoe Justice • JJ Sutherland

10:30am

SouthBites Coffee Break hosted by NatureBox Driskill Hotel

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A Conspiracy Theorist’s Guide to Health Tech ACC Ballroom CJason Levy Getting Found In the Post-Search Era ACC Ballroom BAndrew Delamarter Breaking the Fourth Wall: Audience Participation in the Digital Age Four Seasons San JacintoPeter Girardi • Marc Goodchild • Julian McCrea • Jon Schnitzer Exploring Storytelling in the Digital Age Four Seasons Ballroom ABAndrew Cochrane 72 Ways Food Can Change the World Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomAmanda Kludt • Jessamyn Rodriguez Conversations with Digital Natives: Teens Talk Hyatt Regency Austin Zilker Ballroom 2William Goodall • David Polinchock • Sydney Polinchock Impact Pediatric Health Pitch Competition: Part 2 Hilton Austin Downtown Salon JJoe Cunningham • Evan Melrose • Lee Wrubel Reinventing the Cooking Show to a Digital Audience Driskill Hotel MaximilianKelly Cox • Grant Crilly • Aube Giroux • Matt Schoch The Frontiers of Computational Thinking ACC Exhibit Hall 5Stephen Wolfram

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Why And How to Be Bolder In Healthcare IT ACC Ballroom CChris Moose Word Watching: Spot Key Words to Trump All Reviews ACC Ballroom BBrent Schneeman

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FOMO, FB and Pot: Your Brain On the New Millennium ACC Ballroom BRaashi Bhalla Wearables, Data, and What We Can Do With It ACC Ballroom CPaul D\'Alessandro

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Next Generation Marketing for Small Businesses ACC Ballroom BCourt Cunningham

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Mastering Short Form Video With Smart Humor ACC Ballroom BCarrie Faverty • Tony Mennuto What's In Your Gut? Lessons From the Microbiome ACC Ballroom CZachary Apte • Alexander Carmichael A Drama Nirvana: How to Create a Multiplatform Hit Four Seasons San JacintoBeth Hoppe • David Levine • Pam Veasey • Sue Vertue • David Zucker Finding A TV Partner in A Digital World Four Seasons Ballroom ABJill Burkhart • Cynthia Kane • Vinnie Malhotra • Jennie Morris • Elizabeth Sheldon • Lois Vossen Storming The Gates of the Digital Frontier ACC Room 18ABCDAnthony Deptula • Lauren Francesca • Todd Luoto • Derek Waters Chef, Reviewer, Guest: Who's Got the Power Today? Driskill Hotel MaximilianKerry Diamond • John A Hall • Chris Stang • Kelly Stocker Fork in Hand, Nostalgia at Heart: Food and Heritage Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomSahar Arafat-Ray • Amy Kritzer • Kay Marley-Dilworth • Annette Priest Giants in Search of Automotive Innovation JW Marriott Room 208Derek Kerton • Jenny Kim • Toshiro Muramatsu • Nick Sugimoto Impact Pediatric Health Pitch Competition: Part 3 Hilton Austin Downtown Salon JLesa Mitchell • Michael Venerable • Steven Yecies Longhorn Startup Showcase Hilton Austin Downtown Salon KBen Dyer • Rudy Garza • Lydia McClure • Nick Spiller

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Mobile Africa: Look to the Desert, Not the Valley ACC Ballroom BKasi Bruno Want to Lose Weight? Hang Out with Your Avatar ACC Ballroom CFelix Chang

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Hypo or Hacked? ACC Ballroom CJay Radcliffe Mecosystem 2020 ACC Ballroom BBeth Viner

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A Story Lived Is Worth Much More Than a Story Told ACC Ballroom BDaniel Harvey

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The GrubHub Snack Attack Driskill Hotel

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Put IBM Watson to Work and Transform Your Business Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomJohn Fremont • Sridhar Sudarsan

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Creative Destruction ACC Ballroom BJason Ashlock How Wearables Will Affect Your Social Aura ACC Ballroom CMark DCunha DIY Theatrical Distribution for Independent Films ACC Room 17BAnnie Bush • Sara Giustini • Katie Graham • Andrew Matthews • PJ Raval Film Finance And Distribution in 2015 InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom BDavid Herrin • Jonathan Levy • Hailey Wierengo Love & Sex - A Provocative New Transmedia Series Four Seasons San JacintoOlivia Bee • Nusrat Durrani • Matt Lambert • Molly Soda Meet the Insiders IX ACC Room 13ABSimon Clowes • Benjamin Kasulke • Aaron Katz Should You Develop Your Film Into a TV Series? Four Seasons Ballroom ABSarah-Violet Bliss • Hannah Fidell • Katie Krentz • Julia Pott Making the Museum of Food and Drink Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomDave Arnold • Eliza Barclay • Emma Boast • Peter Kim Preserving Local Food Artisans by Going Global Driskill Hotel MaximilianSam Addison • Marla Camp • Anna Smith Clark • Stephanie Mcclenny The Science of Mind-Blowing Videos Hyatt Regency Austin Zilker Ballroom 2Gregory Brown • Ezra Cooperstein • Katrina Craigwell • Mitchell Moffit

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Innovation Everywhere: Building Up Startup Cities ACC Ballroom BChase Garbarino The Quantified Self: Real Life Applications ACC Ballroom CSophie Kleber

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The Age of Augmented Humanity ACC Ballroom CAntonio De Pasquale Why Invention Is Bad for Business ACC Ballroom BCurtis Hougland Good Things Await Violet Crown Cinema

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Starting Up the Enterprise ACC Ballroom BJeffrey Burlin Why Ecommerce Must Learn from the Media Revolution ACC Ballroom CRachel Youens

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A Dev Guide: Connectivity and Wearables ACC Ballroom CCary Bran Why You Need a Business Story and How to Create It ACC Ballroom BDavid Sloly AR and VR: Moving Beyond the Square Screen Four Seasons San JacintoAllen DeBevoise • Gaia Dempsey • Steven Masur • Anthony Mattana • Vivian Rosenthal Game of Thrones: Creating Immersive Entertainment Four Seasons Ballroom ABSabrina Caluori • Melissa Eccles • Jim Marsh Food Criticism in the Digital Age Driskill Hotel MaximilianAlison Cook • Jonathan Gold • Evan Kleiman • Helen Rosner What Will You Build with Watson on Bluemix? Radisson Town Lake Riverside BallroomSwami Chandrasekaran You Can't Sit with Us: Craft Beer Subculture Driskill Hotel Driskill BallroomJosh Hare • Matt McGinnis • Christopher Sheppard • Caroline Wallace

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Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurship ACC Ballroom BJan Ranade Love: The Secret Ingredient In Fashion E-commerce ACC Ballroom CPieter Jongerius

5:30pm

Going Slow to Go Fast: The Science of Scaling ACC Ballroom BMatt Ehrlichman How Tech Is Transforming Women’s Beauty Rituals ACC Ballroom CJessica L\'Esperance

6:00pm

Deluxe Creative Services Celebrates Digital Creativity Four Seasons

9:00pm

Bone in the Throat Violet Crown Cinema

9:30am

3D Printing in the Movies Four Seasons San JacintoChuck Alexander • Jason Lopes Hollywood to Silicon Valley: Making a Megahit Four Seasons Ballroom ABFred Graver • Paul Holland • Ann Sarnoff YouTube and You Hyatt Regency Austin Zilker Ballroom 1Zach King • Colin McCafferty • Andrea Russett • George Strompolos

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First Date to I Do: 4 Keys to mHealth Engagement ACC Ballroom BJohn de Souza Astrophysics Goes Hollywood: Cinematic Science ACC Room 18ABCDDonna Cox • Robert Hurt • Frank Summers Doc Distribution: Get Up to Speed with PBS Indies: Presented by PBS InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom BLiz Cheng • Marshall Curry • Yance Ford • Byron Hurt • Donald Thoms The Future of Concerts on TVKymberli Frueh-Owens • Rob Gill • Evan Haiman • Don Maggi • Lucia McCalmont • Patrick McDonald The New TV Star: How to Build an Audience Online Four Seasons Ballroom ABMichelle Castillo • Kelly Day • Tyler Oakley • Max Polisar • Tom Ryan Mentor Session: Michelle Phan Courtyard Marriott Brazos IIIMichelle Phan

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Healthcare Magic: A Marauder's Map for Better Care ACC Ballroom BMarcus Ruark

11:30am

The Newest Mega-Trend In Healthcare ACC Ballroom BDavid Norris

11:45am

Welcome to Your New Brain: Lessons From Concussion ACC Ballroom BAnne Forrest

12:30pm

Teenage Kicks: How Can We Reduce Teen Risk Taking ACC Ballroom BAlexandra Goat The Art, Joy and Power of Creating Musical Programs Four Seasons Ballroom ABDavid Koelle What’s the Value of Your Digital Rights? InterContinental Stephen F. Austin Capital Ballroom BCristine Platt Dewey • Isaac Hager • Linzee Troubh Who's Going To Fund Your Web Series? Four Seasons San JacintoKarim Ahmad • Jay Bushman • Amy Dotson • Marc Hofstatter

12:45pm

Connectivity: The NextGen Healthcare Doctrine ACC Ballroom BJeroen Tas

2:00pm

Meet Your New Mass Audience-Collaborating with CNÉ ACC Austin SuiteTopaz Adizes • Cathryne Czubek • Ondi Timoner • Jed Weintrob Mentors - Distribution II: David Reilly (BAMcinematek) ACC Room 11ABDavid Reilly Mentors - Distribution II: Francois Morisset (Salaud Morisset) ACC Room 11ABFrançois Morisset Mentors - Distribution II: Keith Leopard (Uncork'd Entertainment) ACC Room 11ABKeith Leopard Mentors - Distribution II: Matt Grady (Factory 25) ACC Room 11ABMatt Grady Mentors - Distribution II: Nick Ogiony (CAA) ACC Room 11ABNick Ogiony Mentors - Distribution II: Peter Goldwyn (Samuel Goldwyn Films) ACC Room 11ABPeter Goldwyn Mentors - Distribution II: Sara Giustini (Untitled Films) ACC Room 11ABSara Giustini

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Online Success Without Cat Videos or Crotch Hits Four Seasons Ballroom ABZach Anner • Chris Demarais • Brandon Farmahini

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She-Runners Hulu's Funny Women Creating Today’s TV Four Seasons San JacintoCody Heller • Dannah Phirman • Danielle Schneider • Beatrice Springborn Streaming Is Creating A Better Music ExperienceAlex Kisch • Scott Rosenberg

11:00am

Micro-Licensing: The Fast Growing Future of Sync ACC Room 13ABKevin Breuner • Chi-Chao Chang • Laura Sydell • Paul Anthony Troiano Bone in the Throat Topfer Theatre at ZACH

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Exposure vs. Revenue on YouTube: Must We Choose? ACC Room 10BSarah Caliendo • Gray Gannaway • Bob Lugowe • Christophe Muller • Elliott Walker

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How to Win on Streaming Services ACC Room 9BCJay Frank • Theda Sandiford • Michele Santucci

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MTV for 2015: A New Music Video Channel by PubRadio ACC Room 17BMike Henry • Greg Holden • Rita Houston

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Good Things Await Satellite Venue: Alamo Slaughter

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City of Gold Alamo Lamar B

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For Grace Stateside Theatre

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Be Your Own Label: Navigate Success on Your Terms ACC Artist Central in Ballroom EJay Coyle • Chase Igliori • Chris Moon • John Strohm • Don VanCleave

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Controlling Content & Digital Distribution ACC Room 13ABBrandon Dorsky • Jason Zone Fisher • Jennifer Lee • Kendrick Nicholls • Sherwyn Nicholls • Chris Sievernich • Jason Spitz