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ATI/Silicon Hills Austin Startup Pitch Competition Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesGary Forni • Susan Lahey • Monique Maley • Laurence Patrick Noonan Brazilian Startup Ecosystem Introduction Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DGustavo Caetano • Bernardo Portugal • Pedro Waengertner Hacking Medical Training through Innovation Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKMadhura Bhat • James Merlino • Andrey Ostrovsky • Krishna Yeshwant SXSW Accelerator: Enterprise & Big Data Tech Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ABEric Hellweg • Brad King • Bob Metcalfe • David S Rose The Future of Marketing: Advocacy Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon EJim Larrison What Happens When Health & Tech Meet Up? Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon GMalay Gandhi • Ted Maidenberg • Jack Young

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Making Room for 3D in a Designer's Toolkit ACC, Ballroom EBushra Mahmood The Source Code Behind Fashion-Tech ACC, Ballroom FMadison Maxey Can Great Journalism Make for Great Business? ACC, Room 18ABCDM Scott Havens Crushing Second Screen: The Ultimate TV Companion Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomJohn Cena • Stephanie McMahon • Perkins Miller How Future Star Athletes Are Being Discovered Driskill Hotel, MaximilianKai Sato • Avi Stopper Running the Show: TV's New Queen of Comedy ACC, Ballroom DIke Barinholtz • Anne Fulenwider • Mindy Kaling • Adam Pally The New York Times's Op-Docs: Online Documentaries ACC, Austin SuiteJason Spingarn-Koff A Cloud of One's Own Sheraton Austin, Capitol View NorthJeff Kramer • Dave Sanford A Core Conversation with Google Glass Explorers Hyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCDSerena Ehrlich • Mark Horvath Brands Driven by Artistic Communities Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHJenny Dearing • Bailey Richardson Brazilian Speed Dating #1 Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon D Building Next-Generation User Experiences at NASA Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomSam Hashemi • Steve Hillenius Building the Bridge to Equality with Allies ACC, Room 5ABCHudson Taylor • Kortney Ziegler Crowdfunding Global Entrepreneurship Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon GJason Best • Sherwood Neiss Crowdsourcing Diplomacy ACC, Room 6ABHilary Brandt • Joshua Campbell Equipping & Inspiring the Next Generation ACC, Exhibit Hall 5Dean Kamen Everyone's a Curator: Do Museums Still Matter? Omni Downtown, Longhorn How Open Licensing Is Transforming Design ACC, Ballroom BCScott Belsky • Elliot Harmon • Sofya Polyakov How Smart Apps Will Revolutionize Computing Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon HMike Abbott • Quentin Hardy • Monica Rogati How to Build the Post-Human Brain Radisson Town Lake, Riverside BallroomTim Chang • Daniel Kraft • Alyson Shontell Latinos: The Next Social Superstars Holiday Inn Town Lake, Sunflower RoomBeatriz Acevedo • Doug Greiff Library Machines: A Lo-Fi Design Conversation Omni Downtown, Austin Mobile Cloud Meet Up Proof Annex, Proof AnnexPatrick Curry Navigating the New Handmade Economy Omni Downtown, Lone StarSharon Fain • Courtney Klossner • Rena Tom • Eleanor Whitney Penicillin 2.0: Sensor-Driven Health ACC, Ballroom AGadi Amit Policymakers & Startups Can Build Ecosystems Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CSuzan Delbene • Gregory Ferenstein • Darrell Issa • Brandon Pollak Power & Privacy: What Superheroes Can Teach Us Sheraton Austin, CreeksideGadi Ben-Yehuda Print Is Amazing (...ly Profitable!) ACC, Room 12ABPaul Carr • Jessanne Collins • Ann Marie Gardner Revenge of the Cancer-Fighting Nanobots Long Center, AT&T Education RoomFred Dillon Stories Travel Fast: Tech Tourism Transformation Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Leslie Guettler • Jimmy Keown • Seth Kugel • Dylan Thuras SXSW Accelerator: Health Technologies Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ABShirley Bergin • Ross Fubini • Brad King • Bob Metcalfe • Cynthia Ringo SXSW V2V Meet Up Meet Up Tent, Meet Up TentChristine Auten • Gabriel Shepherd Techie Trekkies: Bringing Star Trek to Life Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKSam De Brouwer • Rod Roddenberry The Connected Body - Can We Get Value from Wearables Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FYijing Brentano • Bonnie Cha • Jef Holove The New Augmented Order: Gov & Augmented Reality ACC, Room 10ABChristian Doolin • Alan Holden • Carmen Medina • Vignon Zinsou Workhacking Away from 'Business As Usual' Courtyard Marriott, BrazosAyelet Baron • Rawn Shah Your Brand, Your Market & Why DC Cares ACC, Room 9ABCGene Austin • Michael McGeary Blur the Lines: Write Web Apps that Look Native AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 102Jeremy Mack • Ethan Muller • Rob Tarr Cloud Portability with Multi-Cloud Toolkits AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 105Dana Bauer • Kyle Rames Hardware Isn't Hard, It's Complicated AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 202Aren Kaser • Steve Lowe

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Hacking Your Education ACC, Ballroom FWilliam LeGate Mismatched: What's Wrong with Recognizing Patterns ACC, Ballroom ERobert Stribley The Bright Continent: Not Your Mama's Africa ACC, Ballroom G

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Your First 1000 Copies: How to Market Your Book ACC, Ballroom GTim Grahl

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A UX Fisherman's Guide to Hooking Users ACC, Ballroom EJon Kohrs The World's Strongest Librarian: Blog to Book ACC, Ballroom GJosh Hanagarne Dewey Winburne Awards / Scholarship Meet Up Driskill Hotel, CitadelTammy Lynn Gilmore Is This The 21st Century Media Conglomerate? ACC, Room 16ABRoss Fremer • John Pierson • John Sloss • Ryan Werner Sports Betting in the Mainstream Media Driskill Hotel, MaximilianRJ Bell A New Dialogue: Your Input Is Changing E-Commerce Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 412Justin Adler • Hicham Ratnani • Ethan Song Austin: Home of the Journey Entrepreneur Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesBijoy Goswami Brazilian Speed Dating #2 Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon D Cloud Robotics: Instant Scalability & Capability Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7 Curating Serendipity in Online Music Communities Omni Downtown, Capital Ballroom Democracy Took Over My Government, Now What? ACC, Room 6ABAri Hoffnung • Nicole Sunstrum Don't Be Ned Stark: Change Your Institution & Live Courtyard Marriott, Rio Grande BallroomBrian Bannon • John Bracken • Laura Ramos Fringe Design: Tackling Disability & Death Omni Downtown, AustinEvan Carroll • Virginia Ingram Gamified Healthcare: Can Nikefuel Save Lives? Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FAlly Stuart • Graham Stuart Get Inspired to Travel Like a Globetrotter Meet Up Meet Up Tent, Meet Up TentLee Abbamonte Hacking Princess Culture: Girls, Games, & Science Long Center, Dell HallSara DeWitt • Jennifer Oxley • Lindsey Shepard I Ran an Extremely Successful Crowdfunding Scam Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon GSavannah Peterson Interaction Design for the Post-Screen World Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4Cliff Kuang Latinas As New Leaders in Tech Innovation Holiday Inn Town Lake, Lantana BallroomByrdie Franco-Rocha • Laura Donnelly Gonzalez • Leslie Leal-Gauna Listening to People in Need: Lessons for America ACC, Room 5ABC Message Board Besties Meet Up Proof Annex, Proof AnnexTerri Koen Pixel 'Pretty Damn' Perfect Four Seasons, Four Seasons BallroomJoel Beukelman Redefining Video Games with AI & Robotics Long Center, AT&T Education RoomSean Levatino • Mark Palatucci Reorientating UX Design for the Internet of Things ACC, Ballroom AAlfred Lui Sharknado & Twitter: The Perfect Social Storm Radisson Town Lake, Riverside BallroomDana Ortiz Solo Social: What to Do When You're on Your Own Courtyard Marriott, BrazosLiz Gross Sundar Pichai Conversation with John Battelle Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon HJohn Battelle • Sundar Pichai SXSW Accelerator: Innovative World Technologies Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ABJoan Gillman • Theresia Gouw • Brad King • Bob Metcalfe • Pike Powers The Soap Lady: Finding Disruptive Consumers Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon EMitchell Habib The Unruly Mob Would Like to Comment ACC, Room 10ABJoe Deshotel • Steven Polunsky • Eliza Vielma Video Gaming IS Pop Culture: The Overall Picture Long Center, The Kodosky Donor LoungeRachel Lara • Patrick Scott Patterson • Chris Wiseman Why Software Companies Should Care About Hardware Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomRobert Brunner • Michael Gough • Matt Rolandson Why Squeaky Wheels Are Good for Business Sheraton Austin, Capitol View SouthKam Desai Work Meets Personal: Game Changer on Mobile Sheraton Austin, CreeksideJohn Marshall

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Choice…the Gateway to Engagement ACC, Ballroom EBrad Nunnally

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Beyond Dots on a Map: Visualizing 3 Billion Tweets ACC, Ballroom EIan Cairns

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AMOLED Interfaces: Death to All Devices ACC, Ballroom EBrandon Schmittling

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5 Lessons Learned from Movie Studios on How to Market Your Movie ACC, Room 16ABEthan Applen • Doug Neil • Maria Pacheco • Bettina Sherick • Kevin Winston Our Lady Of Lourdes: From Short to Web Mini-Series ACC, Austin SuitePeter Szewczyk Risk-Reward Profiles of Investments in Indie Film ACC, Room 13ABAdam Collis Unite/Create MeetUp for Storytellers & Entrepreneurs InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Ballroom BAmy Dotson Cardboard Renaissance: Insights from Board Gaming Long Center, AT&T Education RoomCory Jones • Kristin Looney • Mark Wallace Nano Size Me: The Currency of Sharing Wanderlust, Wanderlust SXSW Accelerator: Wearable Technologies Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ABBrad King • Ethan Kurzweil • Bob Metcalfe • Erick Schonfeld

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Is 23andMe Doomed? Nope. Here's Why. ACC, Ballroom FSamuel Volchenboum IDFA DocLab presents the Emotional Arcade (and Other Interactive Stories That Move Us) ACC, Austin SuiteBrent Hoff • Caspar Sonnen NASCAR, NBA, MLS: Storytelling to Build Affinity Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomMelissa Rosenthal Brenner • Howard Handler • Jackson Jeyanayagam • Steve Phelps The Printed Athlete: Sports Embraces 3D Printing Driskill Hotel, MaximilianJeff Beckham • Mike Vasquez Trailer Park Round 1 ACC, Ballroom GGerald Peary We Are Creative Professionals InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Ballroom BIan Joulain Where Are the Fans? What Happened to Traditions? Driskill Hotel, Jim HoggMark Drosos • Mark Pannes 37 Practical Tips to Help You Write & Speak Better Courtyard Marriott, BrazosAndy Barr • Sarada Peri 3D Printing: Fueling the Manufacturing Renaissance Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomPeter Weijmarshausen AI & Robotics: From the Labs to the Living Room Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKLiz Gannes • Dror Oren • Tony Stentz • Hanns Tappeiner An Interview with Phil Spencer Long Center, Dell HallGeoff Keighley • Phil Spencer Fortune 100 Meets Entrepreneur: Relationshipping Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CMark Bertolini • Pete Hudson From Raw2IT - Colombia's Challenges in a New World Holiday Inn Town Lake, Lantana BallroomSebastian Gomez Glassholes: The Cultural Dissonance of Technology Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHPerry Fair • Elise Hu • Patrick Miller Hacking Entrepreneurship from Government Holiday Inn Town Lake, Sunflower RoomMaitetxu Larraechea • Alfredo Zolezzi Hacking the Hackathon Omni Downtown, LonghornSabeen Ali • Phil Wiser How Talking Cars Will Transform the Way We Travel Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4James Pol Ingenuity: Hackathon Uncovered Omni Downtown, Lone StarLiz Boone • Mark Frauenfelder • Eric Mcclellan • David Pescovitz Intangible Weapons, Invisible Enemies Sheraton Austin, Capitol View NorthKristen Eichensehr • Derek Jinks I’ve Got Social Data, Now What? A Retailer’s Guide Sheraton Austin, Capitol View SouthMarjan Baghaie • Brian Landry Middleware MOOConomics--Choosing the Right E-Tools Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomRoss Strader • Janet Walkow Next Generation Retail Stores Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Zita Cassizzi • Healey Cypher • Bryan Wolff No Such Thing As TMI in Digital Health Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FAashima Gupta • Madhu Nutakki Paris: A Thriving Ecosystem Despite Itself Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon GLiam Boogar • Pierre-Simon Ntiruhungwa Payment APIs & Ecosystem of Finance & Commerce Omni Downtown, AustinDan Kimerling • Robert Schwentker Racing in Reverse: From OT to Project Slippage Long Center, AT&T Education RoomMark Layton Revolution Now: The Race to the Bottom Is Ending Hyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCDJoey Adler • Rob Broggi Surveillance on the Silver Screen ACC, Room 6ABMatthew Cagle • Nicole Ozer SXSW Accelerator: Entertainment & Content Tech Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ABBrad King • Evan Lowenstein • Bob Metcalfe • David Tisch SXSW Eco Startup Speed Pitches Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon D The Fragile Law that Protects Online Speech ACC, Room 12AB The Hard Thing About Hard Things ACC, Exhibit Hall 5Ben Horowitz • Nas The M2M Change the World Meet Up Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 412Peter Blom • Benjamin Glaser The Narrative Debate in Game Design Long Center, The Kodosky Donor LoungeJordan Mallory • Shay Pierce • John Warren • Davey Wreden The New Startup Garage for Innovation? Libraries! Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 616AB We Will Not Be Shushed: Guerrilla Library Advocacy ACC, Room 5ABC Why Non-Profits Should Embrace Data Journalism ACC, Room 10ABMegan Kilgore • Javier De La Torre WTF RWD! Agreeing to Disagree ACC, Ballroom BCAmanda Krauss • Caryn Lusinchi • Hawk Thompson • Chris Wiegman xHumed: Bring Back the Dead, with Mary Shelley Radisson Town Lake, Riverside Ballroom Your Next UX Skill: Prototyping with HTML & CSS ACC, Ballroom AJason CranfordTeague Beyond Ping Pong Tables: Building Better Companies AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 203Rasanath Das • Jessica Lawrence How to Make Everything Go Viral: Just Kidding AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 204Rebecca Eisenberg • Joseph Lamour • Adam Mordecai Privacy, Permission & the Evolution of Big Data AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 106Tyler Douglas • Andrew Grenville Rugged Software Using Rugged Driven Development AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 105Karthik Gaekwad • James Wickett

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Biohacking: Personal Tech’s Possible Future ACC, Ballroom FJason Levy Context: Rescuing Us from Privacy's Dark Age ACC, Ballroom EFatemeh Khatibloo

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I Measure Every Single Thing My Kid Does ACC, Ballroom F

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The DarkNet Emerges ACC, Ballroom EAndrew Delamarter Visualizing Chronic Health Conditions ACC, Ballroom FBrian Sherwell

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Designing a Good Death ACC, Ballroom FNavit Keren Be Awesome Without Their Permission ACC, Ballroom DAlexis Ohanian Connected TVs & the Future of Sports Entertainment Driskill Hotel, MaximilianHank Adams Fifty Shades of Creativity Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DDana Brunetti • Chuck Salter • Fred Seibert Instagramming the News ACC, Room 18ABCDDavid Guttenfelder • Kira Pollack • Dan Toffey NHL Revealed: A Season Like No Other Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomAdam Dettman • Brian Jennings Turning Fan Passion into Brand Passion Driskill Hotel, Citadel #GivingTuesday: Inside the Sharknado of Giving ACC, Room 10ABLibby Leffler • Rob Reich • Henry Timms A Dude & His Prototype Philosophy: A Love Story Omni Downtown, AustinJeff Wilson Activism on the Internet: You're Doing It Wrong ACC, Room 5ABCLaura Beck • Stephanie Bogdanich BBC Presents: Reinventing The Wheel Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4Jack Stewart Boulder, Smarter, Faster: How We Beat Big Coal ACC, Room 6ABSteve Fenberg Essentialism Courtyard Marriott, BrazosGreg McKeown Hacking Your Life for Better Health Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FJames Mault • Michele Polz • Charles Saunders • Fred Trotter Healing Healthcare with UX Design Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 616ABAbbe Don Indie MEGABOOTH: A Trilogy in Two Parts Q&A Long Center, AT&T Education RoomChristopher Floyd • Kelly Wallick Interaction Design & the Performing Arts Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomBrenda Laurel • Allucquere Stone • Noah Wardrip-Fruin • Emma Westecott Making the Mobile Leap ACC, Ballroom BCSean Coady • Martin Destagnol • Mark Smallcombe • Andrew Vilcsak Money Talks: Sources of Capital for Austin Firms Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesBryan Allinson • Laura Kilcrease • Rosa L McCormick • Krishna Srinivasan Non-Profit Journalism: Monetize Mission, Not Memes ACC, Room 9ABCJake Batsell • Joshua Benton • Adam Soclof Printing Chocolate: Food on Demand Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomDaniel Heron • Levi Lalla SXSW Accelerator: Social Technologies Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ABChristine Herron • Brad King • Benjamin Ling • Bob Metcalfe The Grim Reality of Revenge Porn & Defamation Sheraton Austin, Capitol ABCDJonathan Bailey • Katie Sunstrom The Next $50B Business Won't Be a Website Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon G The Pivotal Moment: Leaping into the Enterprise Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKIlya Fushman • Nathan Olivarez-Giles This Isn’t Your Mom’s Way of Raising a Round Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon EStacey Bishop • Chris Golec Wearables & Beyond With Shaq ACC, Exhibit Hall 5Shaquille O'Neal • Rick Valencia When Social Media Escapes the Web Sheraton Austin, Capitol View SouthMegan Wintersteen

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Beyond the Gadget: Behavior Change & Technology ACC, Ballroom FJohn de Souza When Good Technology Goes Bad: Mobile Security ACC, Ballroom EAdam Tyler

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Inverting Care Delivery Models On Google Glass ACC, Ballroom FKyle Samani

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Social Identity: Public, Personal & Private ACC, Ballroom EChris Miller Wearable Devices: The Future of Healthcare? ACC, Ballroom FRafael Mena