SXSW Interactive 2014 Program Guide: Tomorrow Happens Here
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SXSW 2014 Interactive Festival 68 69 SXSW 2014 Interactive Festival 3:30 PM ACC: Ballroom D Are We All Producers Now? Join Dana Brunetti, producer of The Social Network, House of Cards and forthcom- ing 50 Shades of Grey film, and Randi Zuckerberg, former Facebook exec, Founder of Zuckerberg Media and New York Times Bestselling Author, as the two engage in a conversation publicly for the first time about the future of media, personal branding online, and how Hollywood and Silicon Valley continue to converge . Dana Brunetti, Randi Zuckerberg Featured Session • Advanced • #producers 3:30 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 The Hard Thing About Hard Things Minimizing politics. Firing friends. Sustaining a CEO mentality. Surviving the struggle. Join Ben Horowitz—co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs—for a lively conversation about build- ing and leading a technology company when there are no easy answers. Ben Horowitz, Nas Featured Session • Intermediate • #hardthings 3:30 PM Hilton: Salon H Inventing Tumor Paint: Tapping into Nature's DNA Join Jim Olson, inventor of Tumor Paint, the revolutionary "molecular flashlight" that distinguishes cancer from normal tissue, as he unveils the future of medicine and the pursuit of curing diseases that have, until now, been considered incurable. Jim Olson Featured Session • Advanced • #tumorpaint 5:00 PM ACC: Ballroom D Be Awesome Without Their Permission I've met founders as well as college students, all fired up about creating their own small empires. There aren't a lot of advantages to being an upstart, but seizing them is the key to success online. Based on my experience as a founder, investor, advisor, I'll talk about everything I've learned from creating brands people love to running an amazing crowdfunding campaign. Alexis Ohanian Featured Session • Intermediate • #WTPBook 5:00 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 Wearables & Beyond With Shaq Shaquille O'Neal was one of the first big-name celebrities to embrace social media— witness his more than 8 million followers on Twitter. He's now turned a lot of his attention to wearable technology, which looks to be one of the biggest areas of em- phasis at the 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival. In this conversation with Rick Valencia of Qualcomm, Shaq reveals his plans for dominating this brave new world of wearables. Rick Valencia, Shaquille O'Neal Featured Session • Intermediate • #Shaq 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon H The Future of Food Processing Food is hardware. The ways in which it is typically made currently are wasteful and un- necessary. We should embrace food technology such as nutritional biochemistry, food processing, and biotechnology to improve our food products over their natural forms. This will have a massive impact on the health and quality of life of the consumer, as well as help alleviate food insecurity around the world. Andras Forgacs, Ethan Brown, Josh Tetrick, Robert Rhinehart Featured Session • Beginner • #foodtech MONDAY, MARCH 10 9:30 AM ACC: Ballroom D Box's Aaron Levie Talks w/FORTUNE's Jessi Hempel Aaron Levie launched the online file sharing company Box from his college dormroom in 2005. Nine years later, the company is valued at $2 billion and counts over 15 mil- lion users. Nearly every Fortune 500 company is a customer. Aaron will speak with Jessi Hempel about reinventing the IT department for the workforce of tomorrow. Aaron Levie, Jessi Hempel Featured Session • Beginner • #f500BOX 9:30 AM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 Snowden 2.0: A Field Report from the NSA Archives Gellman is one of three reporters entrusted by Edward Snowden last May with top secret NSA archives. In December, he was the first to interview Snowden face to face in Moscow. Nine months after breaking the PRISM story in The Washington Post, Gell- man looks back at what we have learned, what it means, and what we still don't know. Barton Gellman, Cory Doctorow Featured Session • Advanced • #SecuReport 9:30 AM Hilton: Salon H Smartphones to Healthphones: A Dr. in Your Pocket Scanadu founder Walter de Brouwer is an academic and scientist who sees the future of healthcare in smartphones. Imagined after the tricorder from Star Trek, Scanadu's first device is Scanadu Scout, a vital sign monitor and app that analyze, track, and trend your health data in 10 seconds. Join Walter as he demos Scanadu Scout and discusses the smartphone's role in redefining medicine. Walter De Brouwer Featured Session • Intermediate • #Scanadu 11:00 AM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 The Measure of a Man with Lt Commander Data [Simulcast] Space... the Final Frontier...These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its con- tinuing mission: to explore strange new worlds...To seek out new life; new civilizations... To boldly go where no one has gone before! Jean-Luc Picard, William T. Riker, Geordi La Forge, Lt. Data, Lt. Cdr. Warf Featured Session • Advanced • #Spot 11:00 AM ACC: Ballroom D The Measure of a Man with Lt Commander Data [Simulcast] Overflow room for Exhibit Hall 5. Jean-Luc Picard, William T. Riker, Geordi La Forge, Lt. Data, Lt. Cdr. Warf Featured Session • Advanced • #Spot 11:00 AM Hilton: Salon H Computing the Future: MIT Scientists Tell All What new research is on the horizon and what will the digital landscape look like in 10 years? A Featured Session of CSAIL's leading thinkers, including Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, economist Andrew Lo, roboticist Russ Tedrake, and CSAIL Director Daniela Rus, will discuss their current research, how it will play out down the road, and what it means for today's innovators. Andrew Lo, Daniela Rus, Russ Tedrake, Tim Berners-Lee Featured Session • Advanced • #CSAILSXSW 12:30 PM ACC: Ballroom D Is Bitcoin the Future of Money? I'll interview Fred Ehrsam, co-founder of Coinbase, the largest and in many ways most "legit" start-up in the emerging Bitcoin economy. I'll aim to ask him about Bitcoin's murky founding, its advantages and its shortcomings as currency, how to secure it, its political affinities, and whether it fundamentally changes how we think about money. Fred Ehrsam, Rolfe Winkler Featured Session • Beginner • #BITFuture 12:30 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 Generation Mash-Up: Y Bother? For a lively debate about Gen Y at work, the Scottish Millennial Pete Cashmore, found- er and CEO of Mashable, joins together with French Baby Boomer Olivier Fleurot, CEO of global PR firm MSLGROUP. Pete and Olivier are from different generations, have strong opinions on how to manage Gen Y geniuses in their midst and how Millennials are changing business. Olivier Fleurot, Pete Cashmore Featured Session • Advanced • #YBother FEATURED & KEYNOTE SESSIONS ACC [EH 5, BALLROOM D]: 500 E CESAR CHAVEZ; HILTON DOWNTOWN [SALON H]: 500 E 4TH STREET FESTIVAL SESSIONS