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• All Day Event - AT&T Lounge

  AT&T is back and faster than ever with 4G LTE speeds. Stop by to charge your devices and test-drive the Samsung Galaxy Note, an all-in-one experience that simplifies your connectivity needs at SXSW.

  Austin Convention Center: 1st floor (near 4th St. & Neches entrance)

  • Lounge
  • Mobile
  • Recharging

  At 9:00am to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• All Day Event - Chevrolet Volt Recharge Lounge

  Phone batteries fade. Laptop batteries wane. Your internal batteries need recharging, too. Come plug in at the NW corner of the Convention Center. Meet up with friends, record an interview, or just hang.

  Austin Convention Center: 1st floor (NW Corner of 4th St. & Trinity)

  • Lounge
  • Recharging

  At 9:00am to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• All Day Event - Isis Lounge

  Visit the Isis Lounge (West Hall) or our Tradeshow Booth (#444) to see the Isis Mobile Wallet in action. Don’t miss our live presentation by cyberillusionist Marco Tempest in the Lounge on March 9th.

  Austin Convention Center: 1st floor (near 3rd St. & Trinity entrance)

  • Lounge
  • Mobile Wallet

  At 9:00am to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• All Day Event - Microsoft Lounge

  Today’s consumers expect applications that are optimized for all their devices – including phones and tablets. Visit the Microsoft Lounge to see how to create impressive multiscreen experiences.

  Austin Convention Center: 4th floor (NW Corner of 4th St. & Trinity)

  • Lounge
  • Microsoft
  • Mobile
  • Multiscreen

  At 9:00am to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• All Day Event - PepsiCo Central

  This year, the PepsiCo Pavilion is going to highlight the intersection of analog and digital. Tune in, take notes and help them make sense of it all!

  Austin Convention Center: 1st floor, Palazzo, SW Corner

  • Analog
  • Lounge

  At 9:00am to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• All Day Event - Samsung Smart Wall

  Samsung will unveil their latest news, cutting-edge products and their stunning, engaging media wall which will highlight everything you need to know about what’s hot at Samsung and SXSW.

  Austin Convention Center: 1st floor Atrium

  • Lounge
  • Samsung

  At 9:00am to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Austin Convention Center

• Hug the Grinch! Win a Macbook Air!

  by Wenxiang Wu

  At the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, Zopim (www.zopim.com), a leading provider of cloud-based Customer Engagement solutions, will hijack the city of Austin, TX to sow the seeds of customer love.

  Leveraging SXSW attendees' infamous love for the fun and wacky, "The Support Grinch", a superbad green monster will be unleashed onto the streets on 9th March 2012. He will terrorize innocent civilians with his unsanitary vocabulary, outrageous hairdo and evil smirk.

  Fortunately, his green Achilles' Heel is well-documented - the Support Grinch hates hugs. This SXSW, join hands with thousands of heroes on HugTheGrinch.com to hunt the Grinch down. Snap photographic evidence of your loving heroics, and stand a chance to win great prizes, including the ultimate MacBook Air, sponsored by the customer lovers from Zopim!

  Very much like the free hugs movement, our goal is to spread spontaneous fun and happiness at SXSW through this mobile game that we conceived in our spare time over the past two weeks.

  Linking back to our business, customer engagement software is only part of the equation for customer happiness. We see our users inject great passion, humor and spontaneity when using Zopim to chat with their customers. This reinforces our belief that true customer joy can only be delivered when people within the organization are truly happy, in line with the values of the Delivering Happiness movement.

  About Zopim

  Aside from this fun HugTheGrinch side project, our full time job is building amazingly simple customer engagement tools. Our award winning flagship product - Zopim Live Chat - has helped more than 35,000 online businesses wow their customers through real time chat engagement. With Zopim, our customers are happily targeting high-value website visitors, chatting directly with customers, building great relationships and increasing brand equity, everyday.

  • Customer Service
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Games
  • Lounge
  • Mobile Games
  • Social Media
  • Startups

  At 9:00am to 5:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Austin Convention Center

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• Half Day Event-IBM Future of Social Lounge

  How Socially Forward is your Business? Want to find out? Stop by the IBM Future of Social Lounge during SXSW Interactive for a social assessment, see where Social Business is headed, listen in on live conversations with Industry Innovators, recharge and refresh between sessions. Learn how IBM and their Business Partners are helping startups, developers and business leaders transform the future of business and get an invitation to our party.

  • IBM
  • Lounge

  At 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Room 1, Austin Convention Center

• Half Day Event-Samsung Blogger Lounge hosted by Techset

  5th Year Anniversary Celebration! For the last four years, the Blogger Lounge at SXSW has served as a central hub for celebrating friendship, innovation and collaboration. We are proud to announce that TechSet is once again partnering with Samsung to host the SXSW Blogger Lounge in 2012.

  • Blogging
  • Lounge
  • Samsung

  At 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Room 19AB, Austin Convention Center

• Half Day Event-The Americans Elect Lounge

  Recharge your batteries and your brain in our lounge, and find out about our lounge's Flash Mob Happy Hours by following us on Twitter (@AmericansElect) and via #sxaelounge.

  We'll have charging stations, classic board games like Battleship, Connect Four, and Operation, videos to watch, swag, and a version of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots that we modded with donkey and elephant heads just for SXSW!

  And if you happen to see a giant plush elephant and donkey walking around SXSW, they're with us. Like the two parties, they can't agree on anything. Tweet photos and videos of them in action at #donkeyVelephant and you could win your own Limited Edition Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots: Donkey v. Elephant Edition. Only five exist in the world!
  More about Americans Elect:

  We're hosting a national online primary this summer. Any registered voter can participate, and whoever the American people choose will be on the ballot nationwide, right next to the Republican and Democratic candidates.

  We're nonpartisan, so it's completely up to you to pick this third option. We're using the internet to empower voters and circumvent the two parties. Together we'll pick a president, not a party. Check us out at www.AmericansElect.org !

  • Lounge
  • Politics

  At 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Room 7, Austin Convention Center

• Half Day Event-The Beacon Lounge

  The Beacon: Lounge With a Conscience returns as THE spot for cause-focused people to hang out with the best & brightest non-profit Geekerati. The WiFi will be speedy, the noms & drinks plentiful, the couches comfy and the do-gooding vibe pure awesome.

  • Lounge
  • Non-Profits

  At 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Room 8BC, Austin Convention Center

• Half Day Event-The Circus Mashimus

  Once again, the fun-filled big top circus that is the Mashery Lounge will be back at SXSW 2012 in March. With great furnishings and flowing refreshments, the Circus Mashimus is a great place to talk API shop with Mashery folks or simply relax while catching up on email

  • Lounge
  • Web APIs

  At 1:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 9th March

  In Room 3, Austin Convention Center