FRIDAY, MARCH 13
11:00 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 301-302
How to Keep Ideas Alive After SXSW
You get new ideas at SXSW but do they make it into campaigns? Use this session to
develop strategies that will help sell in ideas back home.
Christian Dodd, Nicholas Papagiannis
Workshop // Intermediate // #IdeasAlive
11:00 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 306
Introduction to Programming Robots
During this two-and-a-half hour workshop, participants will actively learn how to
build a small circuit.
Micah Acinapura
Workshop // Advanced // #ledlove
11:00 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 307
Create Your Own KindSign to Inspire Your Community
Design your very own physical KindSign that can be used to inspire and delight those
around you.
Edward Boatman
Workshop // Beginner // #kindsign
11:00 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 310–311
Designing Your Future with the Connected Car
Join frog designers, strategists and car lovers in a workshop to explore possibilities for
the connected car of the future.
Cobie Everdell, Diny Huang
Workshop // Intermediate // #SXSWcar
11:00 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon F
Psychological Architectures for Persuasive Tech
Learn Psychological Architectures, combinations of psychological principles that drive
successful technologies and digital campaigns.
Brian Cugelman PhD
Workshop // Intermediate // #PsyArch
11:00 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon H
Data Science Without Being a Data Scientist
Get a walk-through of basic data science work using next-gen tools. Start with 0 and
end with real data science applications in the cloud.
Etienne Bernard, Taliesin Beynon
Workshop // Beginner // #DataSciSX
3:30 PM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 301–302
How to Take a Big Trip: Plan Your Own Gap Year
Heard of a "gap year," but don't know where to begin? Join a 5-step workshop and
make a plan to travel the world for months/years at a time.
Kristin Zibell
Workshop // Intermediate // #rtwtravel
3:30 PM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 303–304
Take a Shot: Injecting Tech into Your NPO Mission
Nonprofits are using the hottest technology for huge impact! Join us at #SXSW to see
how your organization can use tech for your mission.
Aaron Bramley, Martin Dugas
Workshop // Intermediate // #NPOInject
3:30 PM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 306
Modern Web Accessibility Workshop
The design, implementation and testing techniques demonstrated in this workshop
will help you with your modern, accessible web project.
Patrick Fox
Workshop // Intermediate // #moderna11y
3:30 PM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 307
Why Should I Wear This?
Wearable devices are the next phase of the mobile revolution! Learn how to create
value propositions and design rapid wearable prototypes.
Elizabeth Glenewinkel, Mario Ruiz
Workshop // Intermediate // #wearables
3:30 PM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 310-311
The Results Curve: Focus, Collaborate, Play!
This session offers revolutionary techniques for managing the digital overload and
leading you to the path of fulfillment and happiness.
Pierre Khawand
Workshop // Advanced // #focusplay
3:30 PM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Salon F
Applied Improv: Change The Way You Look at Work
Instructors in this workshop will lead participants through improv exercises and dis-
cuss how fear of the unknown can breakdown team dynamic.
Michael Jastroch, Rachel Madorsky
Workshop // Advanced // #SXImprov
3:30 PM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Salon G
Reinventing Government R&D to Save Lives
S&T's new model for reinventing R&D is the focus of this discussion. We seek your ideas
on how we can develop technologies for officials.
Dr Robert Griffin, Dr Reginald Brothers
Workshop // Intermediate // #dhsscitech
SATURDAY, MARCH 14
9:30 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 301–302
Making the Future: 3D Printing Workshop
This workshop will involve critical thought, and catalyze conversations, and utilizes
open-access networks to create prints onsite.
Evelyn Tilney, Wendy W Fok
Workshop // Intermediate // #MakeFuture
9:30 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 303–304
Build Right: Frontend Testing
The workshop for frontend devs who cry out for the power to test frontend code effec-
tively and deliver as confidently on day 100 as on day one.
Rob Tarr, Ryan Cromwell
Workshop // Advanced // #brworkshop
9:30 AM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 306
Hackathon for Social Good
See how to use your design and tech talents to change the world at the Hackathon for
Social Good workshop.
Carolyn Chandler, Jason Ulaszek
Workshop // Intermediate // #hack4good
9:30 AM—6:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 307
Information Architecture Essentials
IA Essentials: learn ideas and tools for defining intent, connecting contexts, and bring-
ing clarity to complexity.
Andrew Hinton, Dan Klyn
Workshop // Advanced // #InfoArch
9:30 AM—1:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon F
Building Location-Aware Apps Using Open Source
Learn how to build transparent, customized, and secure location-based apps for An-
droid and iOS powered by open source and open data.
Chuck Greb, Matthew Smollinger
Workshop // Advanced // #openmaps
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