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Social Customer Experience Management ACC, Ballroom GDave Evans Millennial vs. Brand Meet Up Driskill Hotel, CitadelJon Burkhart • Nadya Powell Multiplatform Strategies for Making Good Happen Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomMorra Aarons-Mele • Caitlin Burns • Liz Nord • Lina Srivastava Social Innovation: People, Planet, Profit, Purpose Wanderlust, WanderlustChris Gebhardt • Leah Gerstner • Lori McMahon Syrian Electronic Army Wuz Here ACC, Room 18ABCDTom Cochran • Parmy Olson • Austin Powell • Cole Stryker Adrenaline : People : Social : Business Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon B Age Matters: Leverage It for Startup Success ACC, Room 9ABCSarah Kunst • Susan McPherson • Christina Vuleta Are We Smarter than the Dinosaurs? Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomJenn Gustetic • Jason Kessler Backyard Chicken & Eggs Meet Up Meet Up Tent, Meet Up TentShane Crawford • Michelle Hernandez Closing the Curtain on the Theatrics of Social Sheraton Austin, Capitol ABCDPaul Davison • Cynthia Samanian Co-Workers As Customers: Lessons from Airbnb & Etsy Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKDaniel Schauenberg • Harrison Shoff Culture & Business: How to Create Culture Envy Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesMatt Chasen • Liz Elam • Eric Falcao • Jeffrey Schutte Do It Together Is the New Do It Yourself Omni Downtown, Lone StarNicholas DePrey • Catherine Woodiwiss Entrepreneuring Women Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DTerry Chase • Jennifer Fleiss • Karen Griffith Gryga • Danielle Weinblatt Feminism 2.0: Technology & Women's Empowerment ACC, Room 10AB Hashtag Intervention: Why #BlackGirlsRun Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHToni Carey • Felicia Harris • Ashley Hicks HATCH Pitch Competition for Tech Startups Part 1 Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon AAdam DAugelli • Rami Essaid • John Frankel • Missy Krasner How Douchebags Ruined Dating Sheraton Austin, Capitol View South Justice 2.0: Online Dispute Resolution Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon GJoseph Markowitz • Colin Rule • Beth Trent • Jin Ho Verdonschot Reddit: You're Doing It Wrong Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CRohit Thawani • Garrett Tillman Smartphones to Healthphones: A Dr. in Your Pocket Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon HWalter De Brouwer Tech Off Your Clothes: Naked Truths of Wearables Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Nicole Forbes • Q Manning • Billie Whitehouse The Avatar Will See You Now: Inside Virtual Health Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FErik Emerson • Stacey Higginbotham • Mitch Lawrence • Dr Timothy Bickmore PHD UK @ SXSW Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon E UX Antipatterns: Hidden Traps in Sites & Apps ACC, Ballroom AMichael Boeke UX Love Potion: Influencing Through Collaboration Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomRaman Hansi CX + Content: What's Your Story? AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 203Lauren Fritsch • Victoria Prozan Designing Surveys that Work AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 106Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge • Aaron Sedley Expansion Through Ecosystems AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 102Diego Depetris • Patrick Kalaher • Steve Selzer • David Sherwin Fear No Marker: Tools to Create Your Visual Story AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 104Nora Herting Hacking Medicine: Pain Points to Pilot AT&T Conference Center, Conference Room 301Andrea Ippolito • Allison Yost The Humor-Centered Design Process AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 204Chelsey Delaney Build Responsively: Modern Responsive Web Design AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 101

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Economics & Online Dating: The Perfect Match ACC, Ballroom GPaul Oyer

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Status Update: Attention & Celebrity in Tech ACC, Ballroom GAlice Marwick

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The AUDIENCE Imperative: A Book Reading ACC, Ballroom GJeffrey Rohrs Cutting Through the Noise: How Big Ideas Emerge Driskill Hotel, Maximilian McLuhan and the 5 Ps of Video. Huh? Driskill Hotel, Jim HoggJen Grogono Storytelling for Change: A Decade of Impact Wanderlust, WanderlustMargaret Brown • Lindsay Guetschow • Logan Hill • Diego Luna TV or Not TV? Defining Networks in the Digital Age Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomKevin Conroy • Paula Kerger Why Didn't a Tech Journalist Break PRISM? ACC, Room 18ABCDMartin Bryant • Kara Swisher • Alexia Tsotsis Amateur Scientists Meet Up: OAS Meet Up Tent, Meet Up TentElise Andrew • Hakeem Oluseyi Building Six Figure eCommerce Stores Today Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesBilly Murphy • Naruby Schlenker • Sean Work • Andrew Youderian Disrupting the Scene: Place-Based & Digital Ads ACC, Room 9ABCBeth Ellard • Ashley Giombetti • Ranvir Gujral • David Krupp • Tim Nudd Embarrassing Bodies: Multiplatform Medical Taboos Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon F Fact-Checking Goes Global ACC, Room 12ABBill Adair • Mona Chalabi • Peter Fray • Martin Kotynek Form & Function: Designing Devices You Want to Wear Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Dieter Bohn • Steven Eidelman • Aza Raskin Getting the Most Out of The Mentor-Mentee Relationship Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DAndrew Ackerman • Keya Dannenbaum Glass: Game Changer for People with Disabilities? Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4JP Gownder • Jen Quinlan Hacking Surveillance Culture Sheraton Austin, CreeksideHeather Dewey-Hagborg • Adam Harvey • Colin Nagy HATCH Pitch Competition for Tech Startups Part 2 Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ANicole Glaros • Balaji Gopinath • Rick Pleczko • Rahul Sood • Aya Zook How Elizabeth Warren Built Her Grassroots Army ACC, Room 10ABAmanda Coulombe • Mike Firestone • Lauren Miller • Mindy Myers How to Fix Patents: Trolls, Innovators, & Reform Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon GLee Dunn • Julie Hopkins • Erich Spangenberg Is Facebook Making Houses of Worship Go Extinct? Sheraton Austin, Capitol View SouthRebecca Saidlower It's Not Rocket Science: UX for Niche Communities Four Seasons, Four Seasons BallroomKevin McMillin • Joseph Medwid Maker Culture & Digital Marketing Omni Downtown, LonghornRichard Goldsmith • Mike Senese Mentor Session: Cassie Lancellotti-Young Hilton Garden Inn, 10th Floor AtriumCassie Lancellotti-Young Private Tech for Public Good ACC, Room 5ABCBen Coffey Clark • Reshma Saujani QA Best Practices in Today's Digital Agencies Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomBen Currie • Kt Mcbratney • Michael Morowitz • Jim Spillson Seed Accelerators Rankings Release Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CYael Hochberg The New Era of Investor Relations Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKDouglas Ellenoff • Judy Robinett • Joy Schoffler The New Generation of Powered by IBM Watson Apps Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon B The Real Art & Economics of Ghostwriting Omni Downtown, Lone StarJerusha Rodgers • Joni Rodgers The Sphere of Influence: Digital Fashion + Beauty Hyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCDJaclyn Johnson • Alisa Gould Simon The UX of Real Time Site Personalization ACC, Ballroom A UK @ SXSW Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon E You Can Sell, But You Can’t Hide Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 616ABClara Shih Alternative Healing Meet Up Proof Annex, Proof AnnexJulie Germany • Allie Phillips

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How New Technologies Have Transformed Orchestras ACC, Ballroom ERichard McKay Social Media Etiquette Makes or Breaks Fundraisers ACC, Ballroom FLesley Mansford

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Decoding the VC Psyche ACC, Ballroom E Doing Good & Making Money ACC, Ballroom FDouglas Krugman The Naked Future ACC, Ballroom GPatrick Tucker

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Charity Porn: Sell Programs, Not People ACC, Ballroom FNed Breslin When to Pivot: A 163-Year-Old Company’s Evolution ACC, Ballroom EDan Schulman

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The Passion Conversation & Word of Mouth Marketing ACC, Ballroom G Can we beat Dreamworks and Pixar from Argentina? ACC, Austin SuiteDiego Rosner Can You Spread The Virus? Driskill Hotel, Jim HoggJosh Jones-Dilworth • William Leake Come and Capture: Content Creation with Soul ACC, Room 13ABBayan Joonam • Meagan Keane • Shabnam Mogharabi Directing the Dead III ACC, Room 16ABLeigh Janiak • Scott Weinberg Identity, Reputation & Personal Clouds Meetup InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Ballroom BMatteo Cassese Parlay Your Skills Beyond the Screen ACC, Room 15Erin Essenmacher • Erin Stam Search Is Dead: The Secret Sauce Behind Discovery Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomHayley Barna • Ruzwana Bashir • Katrina Lake • Todd Yellin The Entrepreneurship of Philanthropy Driskill Hotel, CitadelSusan McPherson Why Clicktavisim Is Not a Dirty Word Wanderlust, WanderlustHugh Evans • Christina Lindstrom • Liba Rubenstein 100 Years of Oversharing: Tools for Time Travel ACC, Room 12ABHeather Champ • Rachel Frick • Jon Voss Any PR Pros Out There? Proof Annex, Proof AnnexOwen Sexton ART140: Twitter, Picasso & the Social Experiment Sheraton Austin, Capitol ABCDVictor Samra • David Stocks Chaos & Creativity: A Love Story Courtyard Marriott, BrazosPatricia Korth-McDonnell Create Awesome: Empower Teams to Change the World Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CScott Cook Entertainment Marketing in the Age of the SuperFan Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHMichael Tritter • Rae Votta Entrepreneurs in Bureaucracy: Military Innovators Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKNate Fick • Victor Glover • Ben Kohlmann • Lindsay Rodman Gaining Vision the Robotic Way Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4David Bevly • William Bluethmann • YingLi Tian • Mohammed Yousuf Geek Chic - Techs & Creatives Take Over Omni Downtown, LonghornSybil Bell • Seth Jackson • Andy Varley HATCH Pitch Competition Part 3 + Awards Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ABlair Garrou • Neal Murthy • Kerry Rupp • Unity Stoakes Owning Identity: A Conversation with Tony Conrad Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon HTony Conrad • Evelyn Rusli Panopticon to Pinterest: A History of Surveillance Sheraton Austin, CreeksideCeren Paydas Personalized Health: Coming to a Screen Near You Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 616ABMichael Olaya • Taylor Pechacek Reducing Isolation in LGBT Communities ACC, Room 10ABJohn Chrastka • Dr Imani Woody Scientist to Storyteller: How to Narrate Data Four Seasons, Four Seasons BallroomEric Swayne SoftLayer's Catalyst Incubator Program Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon B SXSW Eco Meet Up Meet Up Tent, Meet Up TentChris Sonnier Tablet First Design: Holistic Ubiquitous UX Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomAbi Jones • Paul McAleer Technology's Role in Improving Health Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesJason Donahue • Robyn Metcalfe • Manuel Rosso • Ryan Shadrick Wilson The Creation of Safe Spaces Through Art Education Omni Downtown, AustinMark Olsen The Dynamic Site Is Dead ACC, Ballroom BCDanny Chapman • Julie Herron The Future of Direct Activism in the Digital Age ACC, Room 9ABCMolly Sauter • Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman The Intangible (& Uncalculated) Cost of Asia ACC, Room 6ABRob Bangerter • Sean McBeath Top Tech Innovation Trends for 2014 ACC, Ballroom AKevin O'Malley • Robert Scoble • Gary Shapiro UK @ SXSW Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon E Wearables: The New Marketers' Challenge Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Kieran Barr • David Rosales • Krishna Subramanian When AR Meets the OR: Robotics & AR in Surgery Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FKatherine Kuchenbecker • Catherine Mohr • Allison Okamura Women in Startups: Mentoring & Networking Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DErica Duignan Minnihan • Kathleen Utecht

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Viral Crowdfunding: Story, Team & Gamification ACC, Ballroom FMatthew Bishop

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Creepy to Cool: Fine Lines in Audience Analytics ACC, Ballroom EGraeme Noseworthy Gen Y Sugar Daddy - The Technophilanthropist ACC, Ballroom FTamarah Black The Big Pivot: Doing Business in an Extreme World ACC, Ballroom GAndrew Winston

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Not the Size that Matters, It’s How You Use It ACC, Ballroom EStan Humphries

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Innovating at Scale: Tech for Social Good Wanderlust, WanderlustAnn Cairns • Anushka Ratnayake • Meighan Stone • Meryl Stone Meet the Insiders: Jay Van Hoy & Karen Murphy ACC, Room 17BJay Van Hoy • Karen Murphy • Agnes Varnum What Film Can Learn from Tech: And VICE VERSA InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Ballroom BEmily Best The Maker Age: Enlightened Views on Science & Art ACC, Exhibit Hall 5Adam Savage

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BBC Presents: What If We Could Stay Young Forever? Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon GPeter Bowes A Direct Distribution Odyssey-Indie Game:The Movie Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomLisanne Pajot • James Swirsky A Discussion on Viral Content with RSA Films ACC, Austin SuiteJack Arbuthnott • Caspar Delaney • Johnny Hardstaff Collaboration is King ACC, Room 15Micki Krimmel • Monty Miranda • Patty West • Jen Yamato Creativity Is the New Literacy ACC, Ballroom DChase Jarvis Digital Engagement & the Conscious Consumer Wanderlust, WanderlustPatrick Cooper • Scott Roesch • Ken Weber HTML5 Is Everywhere Driskill Hotel, CitadelMattie Langenberg TV Storytelling Adapted for Twitter Driskill Hotel, Hogg ParlorLincoln Lopez U.S. Immigration Options for Film Professionals ACC, Room 13ABSharon Brenner A Conversation with Glenn Greenwald ACC, Exhibit Hall 5Glenn Greenwald • Micah Sifry An Influencer by Any Other Platform Hyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCDCaroline Waxler Beyond Connectivity: Sharing News without the Web ACC, Room 12ABKara Andrade • Eliza Anyangwe • Trevor Knoblich Community-Building: Better than Chemo Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FDeanna Attai • Jody Schoger • Alicia Staley Design & Engineering – Build Better Together Four Seasons, Four Seasons BallroomAmanda McGlothlin Designing Scarcity in an Infinite World ACC, Ballroom AChris Messina Dive into Social Media Analytics Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon B Does Race Equal Racism Online? (Honestly) ACC, Room 5ABCJenny Korn Geek Out for Good: Apps that Change the World ACC, Room 9ABCAllie Carter • Brian Doll • Lawrence Grodeska • Emily Jacobi • Dan Walmsley High Speed Evolution Weapons of Mass Collaboration Radisson Town Lake, Riverside BallroomRand Waltzman Houston Hackers, Investors, & Party-Starters Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 412Brian Lang How to Create Awesome Culture in Remote Teams Courtyard Marriott, BrazosJames Costa • Matt Herron How to Make Your Smartphone Tap-Proof? Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomJimmy Schulz Infinite Future: Beyond Cyber & Hyper - Part 1 Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DWarren Ellis • Daniel Suarez Know Your Customers—from Stalker to Soulmate Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon JKAndrew Dinsdale • Rebeca Harris Not All Growth Is Created Equal: Scaling Your Biz Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CDonna Boyer • Ingrid Vanderveldt Obama & Beyond: Political Tech in Business Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon EAndrew Bleeker • Amy Gershkoff Spies on All Sides: We Can't Opt Out Sheraton Austin, CreeksideKade Crockford • Nathan Freitas • Josh Levy • Rainey Reitman Student Startup Madness: Entrepreneurial Eight Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon APatrick Ambron • Brian Cohen • Melinda Emerson • Sandy Khaund Taking Risks for Great Social Storytelling Omni Downtown, LonghornDan Fletcher • Tanja Hollander The Middle East’s Social Media Underground ACC, Room 6ABGuilherme Rangel The Power of Socially Connected Editors in Print Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHStella Bugbee • Eva Chen • Elizabeth Holmes • Jane Larkworthy • Matthew Marden Twibel: Fight Bad Speech with More Speech Sheraton Austin, Capitol View SouthCatherine Cameron Virtual Reality Meets Neuroscience Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomAdam Gazzaley • Philip Rosedale Where Did All the Jobs Go? Courtyard Marriott, Rio Grande BallroomBryce Maddock • Gary Swart Whittle Down, Meet Up Proof Annex, Proof Annex Designing UI in Keynote for Web & Mobile Apps AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 105Ted Boda Filters, Bias, & Collaboration AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 106J Nathan Matias • Sarah Szalavitz How to Build Mental Models for Content + Marketing AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 203Tara-Nicholle Nelson Minorities & Health Tech: A How to Workshop AT&T Conference Center, Conference Room 301Ivor Horn

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Tweet & Protect: Humanizing Authority with Social ACC, Ballroom EAshley Jane Brookes

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Torture Porn: Why Trafficking Is Seducing Media ACC, Ballroom EAlex Morgan

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Mentor Me: How Mentorships Make Us Better & Happy ACC, Ballroom F Think Small About Big Civic Engagement Data ACC, Ballroom E

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Productivity: Effectively Scaling Yourself ACC, Ballroom FScott Hanselman The Future of Government-Citizen Interaction ACC, Ballroom ESurya Yalamanchili Do Algorithms Dream of Viral Content? ACC, Ballroom DDavid Carr Is Online Video Killing TV? ACC, Room 18ABCD Make or Buy? Is In-House Video Right for You? Driskill Hotel, Jim HoggAndy Garibay Meet the UK Filmmaking World InterContinental Stephen F. Austin, Ballroom BCharlie Phillips Pivot: TV for New Heros Wanderlust, WanderlustMeghan McCain • Evan Shapiro • Jacob Soboroff Trailer Park Round 2 ACC, Ballroom GGerald Peary AWS GameDay with Obama for America & NASA/JPL Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon E Capital vs. Talent Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 616ABPeter Kim Career Advice for Creatives from The Walking Dead Courtyard Marriott, BrazosWilliam Colgrove Crowdsourcing Humor Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon HBob Mankoff Design Pattern Libraries ACC, Ballroom AJohn Goff Do More with Your Content – the Meet Up! Meet Up Tent, Meet Up Tent Drones: Policy, Privacy & Public Safety Sheraton Austin, CreeksideHelen Greiner • Robin Murphy • Noel Sharkey Early, Cheap & Often: Failure as a Key to Success Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesLawson Boothe • Robin Bruce • Hugo Diaz • Nate Little Gettin' Bizzy with Pair Design Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomChristopher Noessel • Suzy Thompson Hacking Attention: Media, Technology & Crisis ACC, Room 9ABCMadeleine Bair • Adaora Udoji How Jane Austen Conquered Social Storytelling ACC, Room 12AB How Social Media Is Creating Marriage Equality ACC, Room 5ABCMatt Baume • Brandon Feldman How to Prototype & Innovate in the Real World Omni Downtown, Lone StarBartley Gillan I Sing the Body Digital: The Quantified Self Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon FSasha Digiulian • James B Maas • Sarah Robb O'Hagan • John "Ivo" Stivoric Infinite Future: Beyond Cyber & Hyper - Part 2 Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DDaniel Suarez Know Your Customers: Using Low Power Sensors Four Seasons, Four Seasons BallroomTue Andersen Mentor Session: Sherrilynne Starkie Hilton Garden Inn, 10th Floor AtriumSherrilynne Starkie Mobilizing Ingenuity to Strengthen Cyber Security ACC, Room 6ABReginald Brothers Science of Weird: Why Weirdos Outperform Normals Courtyard Marriott, Rio Grande BallroomMichael Lazerow Student Startup Madness Finals & Championship Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon APatrick Ambron • Brian Cohen • Melinda Emerson • Sandy Khaund Taboo Topics Online: Social Campaigns with Privacy Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHBob Filbin • Deb Levine • Emily O'Brien • Meg Rushton Using Consumer-Generated Content to Fuel Campaigns Sheraton Austin, Capitol View SouthKendra Bracken-Ferguson • Justin Garrity Wannabe: How Group Think Hurts Silicon Valley Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CSarah McBride Who Are You? From Meat to Electrons & Back Again Sheraton Austin, Capitol ABCDMichael Schwartz YOLO (You Obviously Love Opportunities) in Mobile Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon BAntonio Arocha • Jordache Johnson • Jeremy Siewert

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Algorithms & Open Courses: A Match for Job Seekers ACC, Ballroom FMichael Mayrath PhD The Giant Has Awakened: Building Brands in Brazil ACC, Ballroom EWill Palley

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Gov2.0: Enhancing Citizen-Politician Interactions ACC, Ballroom EAlbert Nichols

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The Broken Politics of Environment: A Tech Fix? ACC, Ballroom EKen Cook