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3:30 PM ACC: Ballroom A Your Connected World: What Did You Sign Up For? We're on a path to a fully connected life whether you've embraced it or not. How risky is this for you and I? a16z General Partner Scott Weiss and Quirky CEO Ben Kaufman discuss the impact of connected products and what is expected next. Hear from a seasoned investor and entrepreneur as they paint what our connected future will look like – and how you might be able to help build it. Ben Kaufman, Scott Weiss Featured Session // Advanced // #quirkya16z 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon 5-6 Learning to Work in the Future Based on his experience as IDEO's planetary futurist-in-residence, Alex Steffen (co-founder of Worldchanging and author of Carbon Zero) shares his strategies for how to keep fluent with new ideas and skills when the pace of change keeps increasing. If your success and creativity are based in part on your ability to stay current and grow new skills, this is a talk you need to see. Alex Steffen Featured Session // Advanced // #futurism 5:00 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 John Maeda: Design and Technology Trends Report KPCB Design Partner John Maeda presents the inaugural Design and Technology Trends Report, a data driven examination of the intersection of design and technolo- gy. The report, which draws on his past experiences as the President of Rhode Island School of Design and the head of the MIT Media Lab, will provide insights and best practices on how to harness both great design and powerful engineering. John Maeda Featured Session // Intermediate // #DesignTech 5:00 PM ACC: Ballroom D Inc. Presents: The Honest Company Even movie stars have to stare down skeptics when they launch a company and seek funding. Jessica Alba, founder of The Honest Company persevered – and wound up with a company valued at nearly $1 billion. Inc.'s Lindsay Blakely talks with Alba and co-founder and CEO Brian Lee about building a household brand of eco- and par- ent-friendly products and how The Honest team has come so far so quickly. Brian Lee, Jessica Alba, Lindsay Blakely Featured Session // Intermediate // #honestco Convergence 5:00 PM ACC: Ballroom A Interview with Hacker Josh Klein Cryptocurrencies are the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the dissolution of the na- tion state, a proliferation of currencies, and the rise of meritocracy – or global oligar- chy. Come join hacker, author, and speaker Josh Klein as we break down the global explosion of the black market, Distributed Autonomous Corporations, the potential impact of reputation to rework commerce and much much more. Josh Klein Featured Session // Beginner // #joshklein MONDAY, MARCH 16 9:30 AM ACC: Ballroom A Fast, Fair & Open: The FCC's Broadband Future Gigi B. Sohn is Special Counsel for External Affairs in the Office of FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. She will talk about how recent proposals on net neutrality, community broadband and broadband speeds will change the future of broadband in the US. Gigi B. Sohn, Laura Sydell Featured Session // Intermediate // #FCC 11:00 AM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 The Frontiers of Computational Thinking From revolutionary new tools for practical software development, to new approaches to computational education and insights about the future of the human condition, this talk will survey Stephen Wolfram's latest ideas about computational thinking and its applications – as well as previewing his latest technology creations. Stephen Wolfram Featured Session // Advanced // #wolfram 11:00 AM ACC: Ballroom D The VEEP Speaks An uncensored, all-in conversation with Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the comedy of politics and the politics of comedy. The star of HBO's Veep (with cameos from co-stars Matt Walsh and Timothy Simons) dishes on her "sponge-worthy" Seinfeld days to Veep's searing parody of the Obama-era Beltway. Has lampooning our politicians contribut- ed to our culture of cynicism or is it the reason we tune in? Anne Fulenwider, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Matt Walsh, Timothy Simons Featured Session // Intermediate // #MCxVeep Convergence 11:00 AM ACC: Ballroom A An Interview with Yik Yak's Founders This discussion will focus on the longview of how messaging apps are changing and how the usage patterns of college students apply to slightly older audiences. The session will concentrate on Yik Yak's story (growth pattern, success on campuses, etc.), but will also touch on the experiences of other apps that offer some of the same functionality. Brooks Buffington, Tyler Droll, Carmel DeAmicis Featured Session // Intermediate // #SXSWYik 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon 5-6 Engineering Ourselves and Our Environments Reading and writing our own DNA has improved a million-fold. We can now find and fix a single problematic needle in a haystack of six billion A,C,G,T bases. New "gene drive" technology can spread desirable traits through wild populations (ex: making mosquitoes resistant to malaria). George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, shares the latest in genome sequencing innovation. George Church Featured Session // Advanced // #genedrive 12:30 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5 How Innovation Happens Walter Isaacson, biographer of Steve Jobs, converses with US Chief Technology Offi- cer Megan Smith and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, on the essential role of collab- oration in all great innovations. They will cover how the breakthroughs of one age always build on the discoveries of the previous one, and examine the current trends in digital technology that will change the way all of us live. Megan Smith, Walter Isaacson, Eric Schmidt Featured Session // Intermediate // #innovators 12:30 PM ACC: Ballroom D Everything Eric Ries Has Learned Since 2011 When Eric Ries wrote The Lean Startup, he argued that companies of all sizes could adopt an entrepreneurial mindset to pursue innovation. Since then, he's worked with all kinds of organizations. Three guys making an app? Check. Hypergrowth tech start- ups? Check. Massive government bureaucracies? Check. Some of the world's largest multinationals? You bet. What has he learned? Hear the whole story. Eric Ries, Ted Greenwald Featured Session // Intermediate // #lean Convergence 12:30 PM ACC: Ballroom A Reality Check: 20 Years of the Digital Economy "It's time for a rethink!", says Don Tapscott, author of the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Digital Economy. Achievements abound but storm warnings are ahead over issues from ownership of data to the distribution of economic benefits, the future of educa- tion, privacy, and the role of technology in our lives. Tapscott, one of the world's top business thinkers, shares his findings and forecasts. Don Tapscott Featured Session // Advanced // #dtapscott 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon 5-6 How to Democratize Medicine We're now entering a new, unprecedented era of healthcare: patients generating their own medical data on their mobile devices. The individualized medical "Google map" includes real-time streaming via sensors (such as vital signs), labs, imaging, DNA sequencing, and environment tracking. Once the contextual computing and machine learning software catches up, individualized medicine will take hold. Eric Topol Featured Session // Advanced // #demmed KEYNOTE & FEATURED SESSIONS AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER: 500 EAST CESAR CHAVEZ STREET; JW MARRIOTT AUSTIN: 110 EAST 2 ND STREET FESTIVAL SESSIONS SXSW 2015 Interactive Festival 75