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5:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 208 Drones for Good: Journalism and Crowdsourced UAVs Our panel explores the potential of "drones for good." Tackling ethics, privacy, safety and regulatory frameworks, we'll explore UAVs and ask if they can energise media and non-media sectors? The UK's Civic Drone Centre will share its crowdsourced ap- proach to UAVs and search and rescue, while Kenya's drone journalism project SkyC- AM will show how it's pushing the boundaries of media capture. Clare Cook, Darren Ansell, Dickens Olewe, Rebecca Darby Panel // Intermediate // #UAVs4good 5:00 PM JW Marriott: Room 211-212 Phant.io: The Super-Lightweight Internet of Things Christopher Clark, Director of IT for SparkFun Electronics, presents Phant – a tool for putting the power of building IoT networks into the hands of the average consum- er. Built to be lightweight and modular, and open-source end-to-end, Phant is a free, open-source engine designed to run on the smallest devices. Christopher Clark Solo // Advanced // #phantio TUESDAY, MARCH 17 9:30 AM JW Marriott: Room 211-212 Identities of Things Group: Paving the Way for IoT Join Cisco CTO, Monique Morrow and leading technologists from the Kantara IDoT group as we discuss the identity, privacy, security and data management frameworks that will help realize the promises IoT – while protecting and serving the people who use it. Find out how to get involved in defining an IoT future where PEOPLE matter most! Eve Maler, Ingo Friese, Joni Brennan, Monique Morrow Panel // Intermediate // #ieeeIoT 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Room 211-212 Mixed Reality Habitats: The New Wired Frontier Welcome to the era of the mixed-reality living, where computers mediate our per- ceptions of reality, objects talk to each other, and experiences are hyper-customized based on our personal data. We'll explore the truly revolutionary potential of mixed reality and examine the risks and threats of this bold, slightly creepy new frontier. Part of the IEEE Future of Identity Series. Amber Case, BC Biermann, Jay Iorio, Todd Richmond Panel // Intermediate // #ieeeAR 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon E Robot Petting Zoo The Robot Petting Zoo brings out friendly ground and aerial robots for SXSW attend- ees to touch, operate, and even program. Robot handlers will explain the parts of the robot and how they work before setting kindly humans loose to interact, learn, and play. Come meet these and many more robots that await your friendship at the Robotics Petting Zoo. Desiree Matel-Anderson, Rebeka Ryvola Event // Beginner // #RoboPetZoo 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 211-212 A.I. State of the Union The past few years have produced an explosion of AI, with the technology not only breaking into the mainstream of popular culture, but impacting our everyday lives as well. Artificial Intelligence now touches nearly every part of lives, whether we realize it or not from healthcare to education to travel and any number of tasks and daily interactions. Doug Lenat, Fred Brown, Nova Spivack Panel // Intermediate // #stateunion 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 208 Home Smart Home: The Future Conscious Home Imagine if your house knew what time you would arrive home from work and auto- matically turned on the thermostat, opened the garage door as you pulled into the driveway, unlocked the front door, began pre-heating the oven and turned on the lights and the TV to your favorite news program as you entered. The conscious home is the home of the future. But how will we get there? Liat Ben-Zur, Michael Wolf, Mike Soucie, Ha Thai Panel // Intermediate // #smarthome 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Room 208 Beyond the Cloud: Big Data in the Off-Planet Era Join Martine Rothblatt, Rick Smith, Daniel Faber and Jeff Garzik to explore the benefits and threats of big data to individual privacy and security, personal freedom, law en- forcement, and economic growth. Big data is often regarded as menacing, an invasion of privacy and loss of security from mega-corporations and government; however, that data is nothing less than a superpower waiting to be harnessed. Patrick Tucker, Jeff Garzik, Martine Rothblatt, Rick Smith Panel // Advanced // #offplanet 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Room 211-212 Identity Crisis: You're Not Who You Think You Are Your sense of self in the here and now can seem unquestionable, yet neuroscientists are finding that they can manipulate it in mysterious ways. There are out-of-body ex- periences, "Bloody Mary" illusions that cause people to see an alien figure staring back from the mirror, and hypnotic delusions that completely change your life story. The concept of "you" may be the brain's biggest delusion. David Robson Solo // Intermediate // #WhoAmI 11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon E Robot Petting Zoo The Robot Petting Zoo brings out friendly ground and aerial robots for SXSW attend- ees to touch, operate, and even program. Robot handlers will explain the parts of the robot and how they work before setting kindly humans loose to interact, learn, and play. Come meet these and many more robots that await your friendship at the Robotics Petting Zoo. Desiree Matel-Anderson, Rebeka Ryvola Event // Beginner // #RoboPetZoo 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 208 Giants in Search of Automotive Innovation This audience-interactive discussion with three global automakers will reveal how important third party innovation, entrepreneurship, and startups are to the success of the auto industry and car makers individually. We will talk about the challenges and opportunities of working with carmakers, and give you ideas for how to get into their pipeline. John Suh, Derek Kerton, Nick Sugimoto, Toshiro Muramatsu Panel // Intermediate // #autotech 12:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 211-212 No Accounting for Taste: Maturing Personalization Personalization promises to deliver what we need, when we need it. But in a sys- tem where new recommendations are based on past behavior, we run the danger of crowding out one of our most beautiful human experiences: serendipity. This presen- tation explores how the growing trend toward personalization affects our capacity for serendipity and what we risk losing without happy accidents. Yashoda Sampath Solo // Advanced // #morechoice 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 208 Cities, Buildings, Screens: New Civic Engagement "Can architecture serve as a way to reconnect parts of the city or enhance human experience?" Architect Michel Rojkind, architecture critic Mimi Zeiger, and writer Leslie Wolke will explore recent experiments at the intersection of architecture, interaction design, and urban intervention. What do these urban interventions mean to us as tech- nology and architecture intermingle in unfamiliar ways? Leslie Wolke, Michel Rojkind, Mimi Zeiger Panel // Intermediate // #cityUX 3:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 211-212 The Global Pulse Exponential, digital technology is shaping the world, our bodies and minds. Due to networked technology and social media our reach and cooperation with other humans is extended. We have become nodes in the network side by side with machines and ar- tificial intelligence. Our bodies are broken down into quantifiable data and sequenced DNA traveling at the speed of light in computer networks. Henrik Fohns Solo // Advanced // #globalpuls INTELLIGENT FUTURE JW MARRIOTT, 2 ND FLOOR: 110 EAST 2 ND STREET FESTIVAL SESSIONS SXSW 2015 Interactive Festival 169