Add an eventSessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 on Tuesday 13th March in Hilton Austin Downtown
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All Day Event - Alcatel-Lucent’s Trend Lounge
Alcatel-Lucent is rolling out the red carpet again and playing host at the sassy “ultra-lounge.” Devs, techies, entrepreneurs and VCs are invited to relax, recharge, drink & grub with ALU’s NG Connect team and partners. Fight the flashes on the step and repeat, cameo appearances from tech & celeb stars, and the juiciest SXSW gossip live. VentureBeat will host live interviews while TechZulu brings the hollyweird, live streaming all current events.
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All Day Event - Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge
The Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT Lounge is the hub to learn, engage and share in discussions around all aspects of mobility – from the mobile phone to the cloud – and the digital security solutions they necessitate at SXSW. You will find analysts, vendors, entrepreneurs and government officials discussing what’s next in mobile payment, mobile identity, mobile/cloud security solutions and emerging mobile technologies. At the Gemalto Mobile IDEA/NEXT lounge, you (and your devices) can recharge in a fun, fully-connected, forward-thinking atmosphere.
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3 Secrets to a Killer Elevator Pitch
by Jason Cohen, Joshua Baer and Naval Ravikant
Everyone in a startup should be able to give the "elevator pitch", even the programmers! Having the right pitch can help you land a big customer, attract investors, and just explain what you do to your mom. Learn about the 3 secrets to a killer pitch from an expert speaker who has pitched at TechCrunch50, SXSW Accelerator and Ignite. Then pitch your startup and get feedback on the spot. Not for beginners! We have seen thousands of pitches and invested in hundreds of companies. Come after you’ve already practiced your pitch a 100 times and are ready to take it to the next level. First I’ll spend 15 minutes talking about the 3 secrets and show some killer examples. Then YOU get up on stage and give YOUR 90 second pitch, and then one of the panel will give YOUR pitch showing how we would improve it. If you want to pitch your startup, send a link to your 90 second pitch video to sxsw@killerelevator.com
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All Day Event - Startup America at SXSW
Dedicated to helping young companies grow, the Startup America Partnership is providing a place to meet, collaborate and mingle with iconic entrepreneurs, VCs and other startups this year in the Startup Village. Unique programming elements, meeting spaces, refreshments of the caffeinated and/or adult variety, and daily giveaways will make the Startup America space a can’t-miss for startups.
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Augmented Reality = ARPA’s Original Vision of Web
by Chris Grayson and Heidi Hysell
Using a variety of original source material, Chris Grayson will give an overview of the global network, as envisioned by thinkers at ARPA before the creation of the ARPAnet. Examples include J.C.R. Licklider's "Man-Computer Symbiosis," 1960; Douglas Engelbart's "Augmenting Human Intellect," 1962; and Ivan Sutherland's "The Ultimate Display," 1965. Some focus will also be given to the people and personalities involved. Heidi Hysell will provide the technical explanation for many milestones in the evolution of the Internet, making the case that the human interface to the network has historically been limited by the available technology, and with Augmented Reality, we are now entering an era that truly begins to deliver on the original vision.
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Busting the Myth: Natural Input Requires Learning
by Daniel Wigdor and Kay Hofmeester
Dan and Kay will bust a commonly held myth: that there is some Natural way of interacting with technology, and that simply by changing modality (touch, body tracking, etc) we will eliminate the need for a UI.
They will present examples from the creation of Surface, (Kay was Design Manager and Dan the UX Architect), including footage of real users interacting with disastrously failing prototypes. They will show how years of iterative design drove to the inescapable conclusion that input is a language, one which must be created by the designer, learned by the user, and taught with a new type of UI.
You will learn how an interface can be designed to teach an input language in a natural way. Drawing from product examples such as the Palm Pilot, iPhone, and Windows 8, they will demonstrate how to design and build products people love and which use new input technologies. You will learn about the creation of user interfaces which teach new input languages in a way that seems Natural.
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Fireside Chat with Bob Metcalfe
by Bob Metcalfe and Kirk Ladendorf
Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law, has recently relocated to Austin (he how serves as Director of Innovation and teaches the "One Semester Startup" course at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas). Hear his perspectives on relativity, new media in Central Texas, young entrepreneurs, venture capital, the tech bubble and more in this lively one-hour conversation.
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Human Language Technology and Where It's Headed
by Jason Baldridge and Lillian Lee
Language is the holy grail of artificial intelligence. When we imagine sharing a world with smart machines, we don't think about logic, or problem solving, or winning at chess. We hear HAL-9000 declining to open the pod bay doors, and the Terminator saying he'll be baaack. Researchers have been working on building computers we can talk to for 60 years; in the 1990s, Bill Gates predicted that speech would soon be “a primary way of interacting with the machine”. So why aren't we talking to our computers yet ....Or are we? Thanks to new developments in human language technology (also known as "natural language processing") and text analytics, computers are analyzing everything from e-mail and tweets to clinical records and and speed-date conversations. How does the technology work, when does it work well (and when not), what's it doing for us, and where is it headed?
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
News Related Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges: Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media), Richard MacManus (ReadWriteWeb), Ellen Miller (Sunlight Foundation)
Finalist: TBA**** The three finalists participating in this category will be determined at 6:00pm on Monday, March 12.
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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Wall-E or Terminator: Predicting the Rise of AI
by Chris Robson, Daniel Wilson and William Hertling
This fun and thought provoking session will look at fundamental issues about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). When is human-level AI likely to emerge? When it does emerge will it be more likely to be friendly, hostile, or indifferent to humanity? What, if anything, can we do to influence these outcomes?Panelists will draw on their expert knowledge in the field as well as look at science fiction for inspiration.
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3D Printing: Not Everyone Will Be Excited
If the growth of the internet taught us anything, it is that not everyone welcomes exciting, disruptive technologies. Impacted industries like film and music demanded that Congress protect them from the internet. In the near future, companies disrupted by the widespread adoption of 3D printing could set off a new wave of DRM and intellectual property (IP) expansion. To understand how this might happen, first you need to understand how IP law applies to things that can be 3D printed. Can you copyright a hammer? Can you patent a sculpture? After explaining how IP applies to objects coming out of a 3D printer, this talk will highlight steps being taken to protect 3D printing from being strangled in Washington, DC.
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Contextual Communication: Crowds and Coordination
by Riley Crane
Human history is punctuated by revolutions in communication. Innovations ranging from the printing press to the mobile phone continually improved our communication across space and time, culminating in the Internet Age. Itself a product of crowdsourcing, the Internet can harness a community’s ability to create and analyze data, providing us with movie suggestions, online encyclopedias, and personalized search.
Yet, these examples beg the question: how can we communicate without a pre-existing community? The winners of the DARPA Network Challenge began to answer this question by using social media to find 10 red balloons hidden across the US. But what about collaborating to find a missing child? Or coordinating a peaceful protest? Or communicating in the aftermath of a natural disaster? We are on the cusp of yet another revolution, one that could allow ad hoc communication within any crowd united by a common context. To solve this problem, we just need to rethink the way we communicate.
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Educating the Future of Austin Technology
by Gregory Fenves, Nathan Green, Don Christian, Terry Hazell and Linda Smarzik
Today's technology is changing the world at a quicker pace than any prior period of time. In order to keep up with this transformation, our education system will need to react at a much faster rate to develop new skills, curriculum, and resources. This session will bring some of the top educators and influencers from the area together to share how they plan to influence and support this need. The roundtable discussion will include speakers from the private and educational sector, specifically business and engineering academicians from the Austin Independent School District (AISD), Austin Community College (ACC), Concordia University, Texas State University and the University of Texas.
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Gen Y&Z Expectations to Transform Customer Exp
by Adam Edmunds and Al Nevarez
Today’s customer is complex, but tomorrow’s will be even more difficult to understand, communicate with, support and please. Tomorrow’s customer will be used to an always-available ecosystem of online, mobile, and social media feedback channels, and will expect and demand fast responses. They will have a seeming “A.D.D.” mentality and businesses need to be ready. Listening to customer will change; surveys will become a hidden dialogue, communication channels will change and what customers expect from a company will change dramatically. Adam Edmunds and Al Nevarez will share best practices from leading edge companies today, and those who will pioneer this important area tomorrow. This session is sponsored by Allegiance.
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Lightweight NLP for Social Media Applications
by Bruce Smith
Social media includes lots of free-form textual data in "natural languages", the languages people speak. Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps you analyze that data. Some NLP problems are very hard, but a number of lightweight NLP techniques are available in open-source tools. You can use these to improve your social media applications, even if you're not a computational linguist. In this session, I will introduce some of these techniques and tools, and I will give hints on getting started using NLP in your social media applications. Many NLP techniques require training corpora, sets of annotated documents. I will talk about constructing and maintaining a training corpus. And, I will talk about some of the ways we use NLP at Lithium Technologies.
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Ruby Developers Meet Up
Get together with other Ruby experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if you are looking to hire a Ruby expert for your company.
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Software Patents: Great, Dangerous or Pointless?
by Julie Samuels, Laura Sydell and Ruben Rodrigues
Software patents have a mixed reputation. They make some millions, are labeled a scourge by others, and are generally just overlooked or misunderstood by the general public. In the end, it's an open question whether they drive innovation or hamper it.The panel will discuss patent issues as relating to startups and emerging technologies. Topics covered include: Whether acquiring patents makes sense, issues about building on third-party platforms, the growth of patent litigation, and the relationship between patents and innovation; relying on real-world examples when possible.Julie Samuels of EFF will discuss an emerging trend of suing startups over patents. Ruben Rodrigues of Foley & Lardner LLP will discuss when startups might consider patents, when not to, and different perspectives on patents and innovation. Having reported on "patent trolls" for NPR, Laura Sydell will discuss her impressions of the patent system and its effect on innovation.
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
Health Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges: Bill Rice (St. David’s HealthCare), Stephen Downs (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation), Isaac Ciechanover (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
Finalist: TBA** The three finalists participating in this category will be determined at 6:00pm on Monday, March 12.
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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You Don't Need Bandwidth to Be Awesome
by Andy Hadfield and Brett Haggard
Always-on, high-speed connectivity is the ticket to doing awesome stuff in technology today.
But in a continent like Africa, ‘The Cloud’ is something ‘The Rain’ falls out of.
And still, innovation in the technology realm has managed to flourish and even outpace the more developed world.
We’re talking about television services that use the DVBH standard to beam football matches and news into rural villages; social networks that were designed for exclusive use on mobile phone platforms; funds transfer and electronic payment systems that require nothing more than a SMS text message; insurance products that can be provisioned and procured from the most rudimentary mobile phones.
Outside of the ‘never say die’ innovation Africa employs there’s a great deal the developed world can learn from the developing world, particularly when it comes to building practical solutions that solve real problems.
And with global growth being led by the developing world, these are lessons worth learning.
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Closer to One: Buddhism and the Internet of Things
by Sara Ohrvall and Vincent Horn
For millennia, eastern philosophers have talked about the “interconnectedness of all things;" the idea of an invisible web that links together beings and objects, organic and inorganic. For the first time in human history, this idea is becoming physically manifest as we begin to network more and more objects—and even our own bodies—with the help of WiFi, sensors, and RFID.
These technologies are turning up in everything from grocery packaging to household devices to self-monitoring tools like the FitBit and JawBone Up, and pointing to a future in which the minute details of our lives will be coordinated online.
But could all this connectedness make us better people? In this fascinating session, we’ll bring together a researcher examining the trends of quantified self and “the Internet of things” (Sara Öhrvall from Bonnier R&D), a top connected-product designer (Matt Rolandson of Ammunition Group), and tech-savvy Buddhism teacher Vincent Horn, who will shed light on what the networked future might mean for human spirituality.
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How the Austin Region Supports Technology Companies
by Jim Butler, Susan Davenport, Jani Byrne, Gary Cadenhead and Paul Pellman
The public and private sector have employed various strategies to bring more established tech companies as well as more startups to the Central Texas area. Find out what factors have been most successful (and least successful) in this push to position Austin as the nation's top new media hub.
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
Innovative Web Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges: Bob Metcalfe (University of Texas at Austin), Rich Barton (Zillow), Chris Shipley (Guidewire Group)
Finalist: TBA** The three finalists participating in this category will be determined at 6:00pm on Monday, March 12.
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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The Airbnb of Anything: The Growth of P2P Markets
by James Reinhart, Joe Gebbia, Lauren Anderson, Leah Busque and Sarah Kessler
VC's are clamoring to get in the game, celebrities are throwing money at it, and the media is eating it up. It’s been coined 'collaborative consumption,' and ‘the Airbnb of’ well... anything, really. Peer-to-peer marketplaces are the hot start-up space this year, reporting remarkable growth and unleashing a wave a disruptive innovation.
Cutting edge technology is facilitating consumer connections and enabling trust between strangers like never before. It’s the convergence of this technology and increasing consumer confidence in online interactions that has birthed hundreds of peer-to-peer networks.
While we’ve all grown up sharing offline – P2P start-ups are connecting consumers online, reinventing market behavior and bringing “sharing” to a scale never before possible. The peer-to-peer movement is changing not just what we consume, but how we consume it.
In this panel, the CEOs recently featured in Fast Company's "Sharing Economy" piece, will dig in to the global P2P groundswell and divulge secrets behind the social sharing movement.
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
Mobile Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges: Laura Kilcrease (Triton Ventures), John Malloy (BlueRun Ventures), John Balen (Canaan Partners)
Finalist: TBA** The three finalists participating in this category will be determined at 6:00pm on Monday, March 12.
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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Are Free Customers Better Than Captive Ones?
by Doc Searls
It is standard in business to talk about "acquiring," "capturing," "locking in," "owning" and "managing" customers as if they were slaves or cattle.In the Internet Age, shouldn’t we be free to set our own terms, control our own data, and even state the prices we are ready to pay—outside of any company's silo? And haven't free customers been a promise of free market as well as the Internet from the start?Doc Searls says yes. Doc co-authored The Cluetrain Manifisto, and his new book, The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge — due out in May 2012 from Harvard Business Review Press. He has also been working since 2006 with developers on tools for customer liberation, through ProjectVRM at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.Some of those tools are now coming to market. But will they prove out? In "Are Free Customers Better Than Captive Ones?" Doc tackles that question and invites many more. Bring your own to what will prove to be a highly interactive session.
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Getting the Most out of Google+
by Keri Kandel
Google+ launched user profiles in June last year and Pages for businesses in November. With 90M users and 1M Pages as of mid-January, this platform is growing strong. Whether you are a newbie thinking about joining Google+ or an early adopter with some best practices to share, come join the discussion and learn from each other on how to get the most of your page or profile. A few questions to get things started: What are best practices for businesses and professionals to get followers to their pages? How do you use Google+ differently than other social platforms? What content works best on Google+? What are the best practices for hosting a Hangout?
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Investments in Austin Technology
by Julie Huls, Andrew Busey, Rudy Garza, Jamie Rhodes and Morgan Flager
More and more Austin-based tech companies are getting more and more financing (from sources inside and outside Central Texas). Learn who is investing, what they are investing in and why the area is attracting so much attention. Speakers include G51, Silverton Partners, Jamie Rhodes of Angel Network, Austin Ventures
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Single Sign On Meet Up
Get together with other single sign on experts for an hour of brainstorming, idea-buidling, networking, friend-making and career-enhancement. Or, attend this Meet Up to learn more about this segment of the industry -- or if you are looking to hire a single sign on expert for your company.
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
Entertainment Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges: Paige Craig, David Aronoff (Flybridge Capital Partners), Tom Conrad (Pandora)
Finalist: TBA** The three finalists participating in this category will be determined at 6:00pm on Monday, March 12.
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round two to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcees: Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurveston), Brad King (Ball State University)
Judges: David Rose (Gust), Tom Ball (Austin Ventures), Sean Whiteley (salesforce.com / do.com)
Finalist: TBA** The three finalists participating in this category will be determined at 6:00pm on Monday, March 12.
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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