2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong
328 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design's print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.
Speaker Info Dan Willis (Consultant, Sapient)
Tags interactive panel
2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
Get the Most Out of SXSW Film
37 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Created for SXSW Interactive attendees, but useful for everyone, here's an introduction to SXSW's film conference and festival. Learn how to make meaningful connections with all the movie professionals in town for the event.
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2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
Getting the Most Out of SXSW Film
27 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In addition to all things Interactive, SXSW also hosts a giant film conference and festival. Learn how to make meaningful connections with all the movie professionals in town for the event.
Speaker Info Kevin Kelly (Contributing Editor, Spout), Michael Lerman (Natural Causes), PJ Raval (Unraval Pictures), Agnes Varnum (Communications Mgr, Austin Film Society), Amy Dotson (Producer & Managing Dir of Programming, IFP)
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2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
Minority Report is Real
131 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Sci-fi movies have long-celebrated beautiful, tangible, and immersive computer interfaces. Explore the interplay between fanciful Hollywood productions, one-off information visualizations, and useful real-world applications.
Speaker Info Ben Rigby (Mobile Voter), Barrett Fox (Creative Dir, COCO Studios), (distant-galaxy.com)
Tags interactive panel
2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man
226 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About We all know that social media is the best thing since sliced bread, right? Then why is it so hard to explain the value of social media to people who don't get it? Join our panelists, who have successfully championed social media initiatives, for a discussion of what works and what doesn't when it comes to selling social media to your boss or clients. This panel is sponsored by Small World Lab.
Speaker Info (VP of Product Mgmt, Small World Labs), Peter Kim (Sr Partner, Dachis Corporation), (Founder/CEO, Small World Labs), (Sales & Business Dev Expert, CreativeAgencySecrets.com), (Web Interaction and Usability Specialist, Small World Labs/American Heart Association)
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2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
The Conference Networking Catalyst
111 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About One of the main reasons people attend conferences is "the networking opporutnities", but many leave feeling they did not make any real contacts. Thom Singer will educate and inspire the audience to make connections and get more out of their time at SXSW.
Speaker Info Thom Singer (Author/Speaker, New Year Publishing)
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2:00 PM
to 3:00 PM
User Generated Content: State of the Union
222 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About It's been a few years since YouTube and Flickr have dropped on the scene. Now almost everyone you know is creating content and posting it online. With the idea of User Generated Content now proven and the infrastructure in place where are we today? The same old questions keep popping up. "Where do you make money?" "How do you stand out?" and "Where do you find the time?" The panel will take a look at these questions and others as we explore the ever changing landscape of User Generated Content. This panel is sponsored by Ideagin.com
Speaker Info Dean Mccall (Founder, IdeaGin), Stephen Newman (Chief Exec Officer, Mouth Watering Media), (Mosso: The Rackspace Cloud), (Pres, IncSpring), (Ceo, Topix)
Tags interactive panel
2:30 PM
to 3:30 PM
GameChangers - Improvisation for Business in the Networked World
87 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About As we move from the rigid, hierarchical organizations of the Industrial Age to the fluid, non-linear models of the Networked World, GameChangers have never been more important or essential. Whenever teamwork, creativity, flexibility and problem-solving skills are necessary for success, these players step up. They develop relationships that are good for business. They pay careful attention to details and at the same time have expansive worldviews. They are quick-on-their-feet, unflappable and in tune with their teammates, stakeholders and the marketplace. They are the top performers in any organization the best managers, the most resourceful employees, the culture-shapers. They play the game and make things happen. In short, GameChangers are masters of improvisation in business. Turn yourself and your brand into a GameChanger. All it takes is improvisation!
Speaker Info Mike Bonifer (Gamechanger, GameChangers LLC)
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3:00 PM
to 3:30 PM
The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development
76 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About What do the Adobe Flex and ActionScript compilers; the award-winning 3D Flash library, Papervision3D; the native data format for Flash, SWX; and the excellent Flash streaming and interactive server, Red5 have in common? They're all open source. And they're all introduced in this book by the project leads themselves.Contrary to its popular perception as a closed platform, the Flash Platform has an active and thriving grassroots open source community and a plethora of open source projects. In this session, Aral Balkan, founder of OSFlash.org and creator of SWX, will give you an overview of what's possible with open source Flash with examples from the book.
Speaker Info Aral Balkan (CEO, Naklab)
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3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
F@ck Stats, Make Art
72 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Via a pictorial journey through his own career of creating grassroots art and publications, renegade social media producer and writer Dave Olson will extol, encourage and explain the importance oftaming the intimidation, solving conundrums and digging deep to muster authentic creative self expression in the digital era.
Speaker Info Dave Olson (Dir of Fan Communities, MovieSet.com)
Tags interactive panel
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Games By the People, For the People
70 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About We are on the precipice of a new age in independent gaming, with more options than ever before for developers at every level to bring their dreams to life and share them with a public that is ravenous for new and innovative ideas. Stop focusing on all of the challenges that exist for indie developers in the world of big budget sequels, and explore the enormous user-generated content opportunities available to anyone interested in game design. Whether your goal is to make millions, or just get your ideas out into the world, this panel has something for you.
Speaker Info Gareth Davis (Games Platform Mgr, Facebook Inc), Steve Demeter (CEO, demiforce.com), Boyd Multerer (GM, Microsoft), Scott Steinberg (Managing Partner, DigitalTrends.com), Lee Uniacke (CRO, Kongregate)
Tags interactive panel
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics
282 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Geared particularly to first-time attendees to SXSW Interactive, this panel focuses on how registrants can leverage all the different elements of the event to achieve your personal and professional goals.
Speaker Info Glenda Bautista (Agendacide), Baratunde Thurston (Guru, The Onion), John Styn (Digital Explorer, lifestudent.com), Zadi Diaz (Exec Producer, EPIC FU), Ernie Hsiung (Blogger, littleyellowdifferent.com)
Tags interactive panel
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Oooh, That's Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design)
324 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Find inspiration in the ridiculous. See technological quirks as opportunities. Try something previously unheard of with your site design. Laugh in the face of convention. Use and abuse CSS in ways never before imagined. Get away with it. And if it doesn't work, try something else instead.
Speaker Info Paul Annett (Designer, Clearleft Ltd)
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3:30 PM
to 4:00 PM
Roo'd
18 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Learn how a first-time novelist got 12 thousand readers a month and an international book deal using the Creative Commons license, and is now using that experience to break big media's deadlock - through collaboration with the crowd.
Speaker Info (Hax Enterprises)
Tags interactive panel
3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
Running W/ SXSWissors: Building ARGs Everybody Can Play
71 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Want to know what's up with the sexy students running around SXSW? Want to win badges to SXSW 2010? Play Running with SXSWissors, the kick-ass, irreverent interactive online multimedia game where you'll explore the conference, network and make new friends, and maybe even take your pants off in public. At this session, you'll learn insider tips and tricks on how to rock Running with SXSWissors, score an invite to the hottest VIP party at SXSW, and win those free 2010 badges. You'll hear from the co-founders of The Go Game, the masterminds behind Running with SXSWissors, and how they transformed their game-playing dreams into an international multimillion dollar company.
Speaker Info (The Go Game), (The Go Game)
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3:30 PM
to 4:30 PM
The Ecosystem of News
165 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About It is now conventional wisdom that the newspaper as we have come to know it for last century is over, or will be in a matter of years. The question is whether we're going to spend our time grieving over the loss, or whether we're going to use this moment as an opportunity to invent something even better. We're inevitably moving from the "paper of record" model to a something more distributed, a news ecosystem, but that doesn't mean we can't consciously define the shape of that system. So let's figure out what values we want to preserve from the older newspaper paradigm, and what values we want to improve upon -- and then let's go build it!
Speaker Info Steven Johnson (outside.in)
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4:00 PM
to 4:30 PM
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
244 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don't look nice? If so, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.
Speaker Info Jason Beaird (Front-End Developer, Cyberwoven)
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4:30 PM
to 5:00 PM
Career Renegade: How To Make A Great Living Doing What You Love
257 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Career Renegade is 288 pages of kick-ass, real-world, seriously actionable strategies, resources and case-studies that walk you through the process of building your career around the activities, settings and people that make you come alive. Steering clear of new-age, self-help fluff, this veritable renegade roadmap dives squarely into how to turn nearly any passion into real money (often online), build a powerhouse personal brand, rally the cynics to your cause and leverage your passion, knowledge and platform to make a great living doing what you love?even in this economy.
Speaker Info Jonathan Fields (Career Renegade/Awake @ The Wheel)
Tags interactive panel
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Buzz Out Loud Podcast Taping
39 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Buzz Out Loud is CNET's premiere daily podcast hosted by Natali Del Conte, Tom Merritt, and Jason Howell. They cover all the tech news with their own and their audience's takes on what it all means, often with hilarity ensuing. They'll cover the top SXSW stories with special guests. If you want to understand what's happening in the tech world, especially at SXSW, you need to listen to Buzz Out Loud.
Speaker Info (Exec Editor, CNET)
Tags interactive panel
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Funologists Live & In Person: Guerilla Game Research
76 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About If you work at a game company, research means understanding play, not analyzing boring spreadsheets. Meet Big Fish Games and Pogo funologists and learn how listening and watching gamers transforms product and web design. We share different innovative guerilla (discount) and traditional research methods to inspire user-centered design.
Speaker Info Julie Ratner (Research Mgr, Big Fish Games), Erica Firment (User Experience Designer, Second Life), Tracy Fullerton (Professor, USC Interactive Media), Jason Schklar (Founder & Principal Consultant, Initial Experience Consulting), (VP of Digital Strategy, Publicis in the West)
Tags interactive panel
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Plan B: Can an Ad Guy Bring Bike Sharing to America?
120 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About In increasingly turbulent times, it seems like more and more of us are wearing an extra hat or two in an effort to make a difference. Maybe that explains why Crispin Porter + Bogusky, one of the world's most respected advertising firms, has joined with Humana and Trek bicycles in an audacious plan to bring bike sharing to America with a new venture called B-cycle. All three companies share one common goal: positive cultural change. It's estimated that the U.S. could save 462 million gallons of gasoline a year by increasing cycling from 1% to just 1.5% of all trips. B-cycle can change the way we get around. And that can change our communities, our heath, our environment, and our future. Find out more about B-cycle and why Alex recommends we all begin sticking our noses in places where they don't belong.
Speaker Info Alex Bogusky (Co-Chairman, Crispin Porter+Bogusky)
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5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Reduce MySpace Between Waist & Thighs So Wiki Live Longer
27 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Is being too 'plugged in' 24/7 destroying your health? There's good news: web 2.0 technologies can help you optimize your fitness! Come learn and discuss.
Speaker Info David Eckoff (President, Revolutionary Ventures), Biray Alsac (Health/Fitness Educator, FITTmaxx Institute)
Tags interactive panel
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Social Engineering: Scam Your Way Into Anything or From Anybody
319 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About This session will give you all insider tips to use social engineering, the art of manipulating people into divulging information, to make friends and influence people. The panel will present tricks on how to scam your way into ANYTHING, whether it's a business meeting or a hot-ticket event.
Speaker Info Brian Brushwood (Host, Revision3/Scam School)
Tags interactive panel
5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
That Doesn't Suck! Inspiring Creativity With Spore
54 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Spore took the concept of creating and sharing User-Generated Content in video games a step farther than any other game. The creation of multiple in-game editors that were easy (and fun) to use and the sharing of the resulting creativity via a social networking model had unique challenges. The team behind the networked features had to be flexible and iterative to modify the sharing, searching and ratings system in order to surface the best stuff and inspire continued growth for the community. In this talk, Caryl will describe the systems and the inspiration behind them - and show some of the coolest stuff made by the community.
Speaker Info Caryl Shaw (Producer, Maxis)
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5:00 PM
to 5:30 PM
The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life
59 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Find out who you are and achieve what you most want in life with The Vision Board. Through the exercises and inspirational success stories included in this book, you can clarify your true vision and create a personal vision board. Learn the five secrets to living the life of your dreams.
Speaker Info Joyce Schwarz (Author, JCOM)
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5:00 PM
to 6:00 PM
Try Making Yourself More Interesting
272 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About There are no cheat codes for community. No Charles Atlas shortcuts to make your pet project the one to rule them all. Want people to think you're awesome? Be awesome. This panel promises a bullshit-free look at how you might tune out the jibber jabber, tune in to those who matter, put your head down and make your online service a little bit more epic each day. We'll dissect Bike Hugger, Photojojo, Metafilter, and other examples of Web charm for what *you* can do. Today, and tomorrow. And the day after. Which is how you will become what you want to be.
Speaker Info DL Byron (Publisher, Bike Hugger), Amit Gupta (Founder, Photojojo), Brian Oberkirch (Small Good Thing), David Rees (mnftiu.cc), Kristina Halvorson (Pres, Brain Traffic)
Tags interactive panel
6:30 PM
to 7:30 PM
Brave New Dating
98 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About The dating protocol as we know it has become outmoded. The web has changed the dynamics of our social circle. Just as courtship was replaced by dating, should we now redefine dating or move to a post-dating world? Discover a new approach focused on the outcome rather than the process.
Speaker Info Ryan McMinn (Microsoft), Ali Watkins (Rough & Tumble Industries)
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6:30 PM
to 7:30 PM
Spying 2.0: Can America Compete With Web-Savvy Enemies?
93 Attendees
Location
Austin Convention Ctr
About Accelerating technology cycles leave the US intelligence community gasping. Twitter, cloud computing, folksonomies, Loopt... can America's sclerotic intelligence machinery compete as our enemies adopt cheap, fast-evolving open-source and web 2.0 intel strategies?
Speaker Info Amy Senger (Sr Research Analyst, LMI)
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