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9:30am CDT

Hacking H(app)iness ACC, Ballroom GJohn Havens Digital Profile & Communications Standard Meet Up Driskill Hotel, CitadelTrevor Linton Disruption of TV and the Future of 'Online' Video Driskill Hotel, MaximilianRan Harnevo • Scott Rosenberg 7 Ways to Engage with the US State Department ACC, Room 6ABRebecca Taylor Ads, Passion & Party Crashing with Bob Thacker Omni Downtown, LonghornDan Khabie • Bob Thacker Animate a Smarter UI: Tips for Motion on the Web Four Seasons, Four Seasons BallroomRobby Grant • Gabe Martin Black Church Activism in the Digital Era ACC, Room 5ABCRalph Watkins Blizzards & Beer: How Weather Affects What We Buy Radisson Town Lake, Riverside BallroomVikram Somaya DIY Everything with In-Car Augmented Reality Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Trak Lord • Pradyumna Mishra • Steve Schwinke • Helen Xiao Entrepreneurship vs. Intrapreneurship Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DGregory Gunn How Crowdfunding Killed Hollywood w/ Adam Carolla Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon CAdam Carolla • Bill Zanker Inside the Bubbleverse: Art vs. Branding Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomHillary Andujar • George Zisiadis Online Only: Lessons from the Texas Abortion Fight ACC, Room 9ABCEmily Horne • Rocio Villalobos • Forrest Wilder Online Privacy: Nuclear Meltdown or NextGen Fuel? Sheraton Austin, CreeksideStephanie Fohn • Jeffrey Liu • Phyllis Newhouse • Christopher Sundermeier Opposites Attract Omni Downtown, Lone StarJuliette Fritsch • Stacie Slotnick The C in CMO Stands for Cojones Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesJohn Ellett The Digital Health Bubble: Is It About to Burst? Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon BJane Sarasohn-Kahn • Marco Smit • Robert Stern The Made in America Story: Many Sides to the Tale Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4Erica Wolf The Meet Up Organizer's Meet Up Hilton Austin Downtown, Room 412Stefan Brunner • Ricardo Sanchez Women on Boards: Binders Full of Women Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ETheresia Gouw • Jody Greene • Fran Maier You Can Use Your Glass for Good or… Hyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCDSam Gaddis How to Create a Makerspace in Your City ACC, Ballroom F Micro-Consoles, Massive-Disruption? Meet Up Tent, Meet Up TentMark Gerberman • Clay Hillhouse Net Neutrality: What Now? ACC, Ballroom ECraig Aaron • Andrew Rasiej Elevating Everyday DIY to the Tech Level AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 101Kipp Bradford • Adrian Fernandez • Pascal Nelson • Gerard Sequeira Storytelling, Innovation, & Inspiration AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 103Alex Cuthbert Viteracy Now! Cause Video & the Proof Imperative AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 102Jefferson Graham • Marcia Stepanek Content Everywhere: Preparing for Mobile & Beyond AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 104

10:00am CDT

Why Fanfic Is Taking Over the World ACC, Ballroom GAnne Jamison • Heidi Tandy

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The Promise of a Pencil ACC, Ballroom GAdam Braun

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The Metropolitan Revolution: Innovation Ecosystems ACC, Ballroom G FEEDing the Future: The Power of Social Business ACC, Ballroom DLauren Bush Lauren #EsuranceSave30: Why 5 Million Tweeted in 36 Hours Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon BNancy Abraham • Josh Raper Changing the Changemakers: Non-Profit Innovation ACC, Room 10ABKarina Brisby • Michael Grenetz • Michael Silberman Crowdfunding Real Change for Girls & Women ACC, Room 6ABMaz Kessler • Tyler LePard Demystify the Millennial: It’s Not Academic Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DRoe McFarlane Facial Recognition: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4Caroline Tien-Spalding Faster than Real-Time: Predictive Marketing Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon ESelcuk Atli • Bill Ingram • Nihal Mehta • Nova Spivack From Human-Centered to Life-Centered Design Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomJane Fulton Suri Future Foods: New Cuisine for a New Age Radisson Town Lake, Riverside BallroomPablos Holman • Glenn Zorpette How to Capitalize on OPEN DATA Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesMichael Atkin • Aman Bhandari • Susan Strausberg Innovation Gatekeepers of the Digital World Lamberts, LambertsElizabeth Frazee • Katie McAuliffe • Ali Sternburg • Rachel Wolbers Measure This; Change the World Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHCindy Chung • Jeff Hancock • Kate Niederhoffer Playable City Versus Smart Cities Hyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCDBen Barker • Clare Reddington Representative Democracy in a Social Media Era ACC, Room 5ABCZach Boisi • Matthew Desjardins SCOUT: Solving the Transit 'Last Mile' Problem Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Josh Hon • Peter Treadway • Jeff Yang Sharing Rituals: Online Behaviors Shaping Reality Sheraton Austin, Capitol ABCDStacy Fuller • Maude Standish Type 3.0 – Intelligent Type for Publishing Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomSteve Matteson • Karl Stange Web Apprenticeships: How & Why We Do Them Courtyard Marriott, BrazosDrew Clemens • Neil Renicker 90’s Suburbia: A Revival of Letters, Tapes, & Zines Proof Annex, Proof Annex Beyond the Play Button - The Future of Listening ACC, Room 15Paul Lamere Code Monkey Save World: A Kickstarter Case Study ACC, Room 18ABCDJonathan Coulton • Greg Pak • Drew Westphal How Spartacus Dominated the Facebook Arena Driskill Hotel, MaximilianErin Dwyer • Mike Rooney Print or Digital? It's the Package that Counts ACC, Ballroom FScott Dadich Trust-Based Campaigns: A Brand Ambassador w/ PTSD Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomDavid Modigliani • Angela Peacock • Abby Reiner • Shane Santiago Exploring Personal Genomics AT&T Conference Center, Conference Room 301Joel Dudley • Jeff Hammerbacher • Konrad Karczewski The Democratization of Technical Creativity AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 204Adam DuVander Turning a Blind Eye to Good Usability AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 105Rachel Magario • Ed Schipul

11:30am CDT

Cubed: The Two Futures of the Office ACC, Ballroom GNikil Saval

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What Is Your Mother Worth? (Reputation Economics) ACC, Ballroom GJosh Klein

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The Executioner's Tale ACC, Ballroom GChristina Wodtke Designer Technologist Meet Up Driskill Hotel, CitadelJai Dandekar • Randall Elliott Alternative Design Workflows in a 'PostPSD' Era Four Seasons, Four Seasons Ballroom Apple After Steve Jobs ACC, Ballroom BCGeoffrey Fowler • Yukari Iwatani Kane Caught in the Act: Mobile Tech & Human Rights ACC, Room 10ABSam Gregory • Harlo Holmes • Christoph Koettl Curation Is the Cure for Information Overload Sheraton Austin, Capitol ABCD Do You Actually Know How to Engage a Millennial? ACC, Room 5ABCBrian Reich • Kari Dunn Saratovsky Extreme Crowdsourced Home Makeover, 3.0 Omni Downtown, AustinErin DeRuggiero From Lettuce to Warheads - Global Security & You ACC, Room 6ABBrian Nordmann Funded in Austin Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesUtz Baldwin • Cotter Cunningham • Shari Wynne Geordi La Forge Today? Video/Audio In Your Face Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 5-7Yobie Benjamin Hacking Meat: Why Insects Are the Future of Food Radisson Town Lake, Riverside BallroomAndrew Brentano • Daniel Imrie-Situnayake • Harman Singh Johar • Megan Miller It’s Crowded In Here: Fashion & Beauty Publishing Hyatt Regency Austin, Hill Country ABCDMick Harper • Naomi Nevitt Let's Get Physical: Design + Embodied Cognition ACC, Ballroom AMichael Hendrix Pixelating Reality: How SmartPhones Shift Now Sheraton Austin, Capitol View South Privacy: We’re All in This Together Lamberts, LambertsLeah Belsky • Christian Dawson • Nancy Libin • Laura Moy Shelves to Space: What Images Say About Our World Omni Downtown, LonghornChing-Yu Hu • Harper Levine • David Soloff Taking It to the Street: Neighborhood As Interface Omni Downtown, Lone StarPaul Davis • Jake Levitas • Emily Wright The Algorithm Method: Love in the Social Media Age Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHJulia Allison • Helen Fisher • Andrea Miller The Neurochemistry of Brand Love Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomUwe Gutschow • Dr Paul Zak The Wrong Side of History - Worst Technology Ever Sheraton Austin, CreeksideJosh Alexander • Bob Blakley • Heather Hinton Time: The Invisible Design Medium Four Seasons, San Jacinto BallroomBoaz Gurdin Tips & Tools for Protected Connection Hilton Austin Downtown, Salon DJoni Brennan • Eve Maler • Karen Reilly • Robin Wilton Building a Social Media 'Duck' Dynasty ACC, Room 18ABCDDavid McKillop • Linda Ong • Willie Robertson Can Digital Game Publishing Show Us The Way? ACC, Room 15Adam Klaff • Mike Morasky • Stephanie Tinsley Schopp • Will Turnbull Come and Capture: Smart Glasses: The Future of Wearables & Content ACC, Room 13ABJulien Blin • Julien Brin • Gaia Dempsey • Kip Fyfe • Erick Miller Stand Up to Content Bullies, Know Your Copy Rights Driskill Hotel, Driskill BallroomTeri Karobonik • Art Neill The World of 3D Printed Food ACC, Ballroom EBonin Bough We All Copy Stuff. But How Close Is Too Close? Driskill Hotel, MaximilianBradley Gross

2:00pm CDT

Startup Advocacy: A Guide to Navigating D.C. Lamberts, LambertsMichael Beckerman • Laurent Crenshaw How NOT To Produce Movies ACC, Room 15Amy Lo • Matthew Mills • Kim Sherman Navigating Partnerships: Film and Advocacy ACC, Room 13ABAndrea Black • Deborah Esquenazi • John Fiege • Shaady Salehi

3:30pm CDT

#FreeMyPoints: The Right to Share Your Data Sheraton Austin, Capitol View SouthDarren Bauer Kahan Big Data, Big Bandwidth: Next Generation Policy Lamberts, LambertsKenneth DeGraff • Heather Gold • Luther Lowe • Amie Stepanovich Building Brands Online - The Future of eCommerce Hyatt Regency Austin, Texas Ballroom 1-4Allison Beal • Andrew Blackmon • Xander Oxman Buzz Video Marketing: Participating in the Internet Sheraton Austin, Capitol EFGHNick Agich • Rafael Casal • Liam Cronin • Roxane Philson Innovative Corporate Philanthropy: Scalable Giving Hilton Austin Downtown, Austin Chamber OfficesDan Graham Privacy Swap: Better Brand Experiences at a Price Sheraton Austin, CreeksideChristopher Barcelona • Dan Shust Public Space Is More Important than Social Media Omni Downtown, Capital BallroomMouna Andraos • Melissa Mongiat The Future Farm Is Now: Can Robots Feed the World? Radisson Town Lake, Riverside BallroomJeff Caldwell • Dev Shrestha TOMS & the Future of the One for One Movement ACC, Exhibit Hall 5Blake Mycoskie Last Hijack Interactive ACC, Austin SuiteTommy Pallotta It's All Spelled Out: Typography for Developers AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 202Jeff Heaton • Brandy Porter The Art & Science of Social Listening AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 106Kristin O'Halloran • Anne Taillandier The Complete Hardware Crash Course AT&T Conference Center, Classroom 103Denis Bohm • Andrew Sanderson

5:00pm CDT

Innovating Policy for the Internet of Things Lamberts, LambertsLarra Clark • David Don • Richard Whitt The Kids Are All Right: Youth Activists Online ACC, Room 10ABGreg Behrman • Simone Berstein • Ronnie Cho • Charles Orgbon