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3:30 PM Hilton: Salon K Building a Startup Ecosystem from Zero Four years ago, Chile started living an entrepreneurial revolution. Thousands of en- trepreneurs and hundreds of startups from all corners of the world were attracted to Chile. The vision of transforming Chile into the innovative hub of Latin America has become reality. Through time, we have gained invaluable experience and learning. Start-Up Chile is honored to tell its story to the world. Devin Baptiste, Samantha Snabes, Sebastian Vidal Panel // Advanced // #CHILEawake 5:00 PM Hilton: Austin Chamber Offices The Ultimate Startup Pivot: A Pivot from No Idea! David Cohen and David Brown co-founded three companies over the last twenty-five years, most recently Techstars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator. What does entrepreneurship mean to them? Doing things your way. Learn the importance of building a startup based on six pillars and how the two Davids apply their experience to help almost 150 startups a year. The key to success? Do More Faster. David Brown, David Cohen Core Conversation // Intermediate // #givefirst 5:00 PM Hilton: Room 400-402 Help! I Have Customers in Europe! What Do I Do? Zendesk, Nitro and Indeed.com, together with DFJ, discuss challenges of expanding internationally. Hear how they managed and succeeded in opening offices in Ireland and across Europe; at what stage in their growth they needed a European presence to build and support customers; how they managed the process. What was easy or challenging? What would they do differently? Presented by IDA Ireland. Adrian McDermott, Gemma Deveney, Gina O Reilly, Mohanjit Jolly Panel // Intermediate // #GoGlobal 5:00 PM Hilton: Room 412 Democratizing Entrepreneurial Opportunity Innovating from the outside in is an advantage for organizations and intersects with social good by democratizing entrepreneurial opportunity for innovators. Join Ange- les Navarro, Global Networks Director of Startup Chile and Torsten Kolind, CEO of YouNoodle as they discuss how the country of Chile is driving social good and democ- ratizing opportunities for entrepreneurs. Angeles Navarro, Torsten Kolind Dual // Intermediate // #noborders 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon A International Investments: Trends and Opportunities in Brazil Bedy Yang, Managing Partner for 500 Startups' international investments, will lead a provocative discussion with experienced investors in innovation and new technologies in emerging markets. Hear the perspectives of some of Brazil's top venture capitalists and their international counterparts as they answer the question, "why invest in Brazil today?" Presented by Apex Brasil. Allen Taylor, Bedy Yang, Humberto Matsuda, Santiago Subotovsky Panel // Intermediate // #brazil 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon B MIT Hacking Medicine: Hack-in-a-Box Learn MIT Hacking Medicine's hackathon and healthcare innovation methodology! We will present our programming, mission, story, founding format, why we exist, and our methods to develop and run a weekend hackathon in healthcare. Our goal is to encourage others to take our methodology to their schools, institutions, companies, etc. in order to help chip away at the broken US healthcare system. Christopher Lee, Lina Colucci, Shirlene Liew, Tatyana Gubin Panel // Intermediate // #healthcare 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon D Narratives, Platforms and Movements In a world of mounting performance pressure, businesses will need to evolve into movements, mobilizing large numbers of participants to accomplish awesome things. This won't be easy. Two things are needed: narratives (which are not stories) and scal- able platforms that support and connect small groups of people acting and learning together. Weaving these together will change the game for business. John Hagel Solo // Advanced // #corpmove 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon E Seemingly Seamless Pay a cab driver, wait in a checkout line, plan anything in advance, all distant mem- ories. Handing over money in exchange for goods is so early 2000s. Join pioneers in this space as they discuss how customized payment models like seamless checkout, subscriptions and cross-platform support change the way consumers think (or don't think) about payments and how this impacts future transactions. Anthony Ha, Aunkur Arya, Payal Kadakia, Trip Adler Panel // Intermediate // #SeamlessSX 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon F SXSW Accelerator: Innovative World Technologies 2 Presented by Oracle, this pitch event is a platform for early stage startups to pitch their product and/or service to industry experts. Eight companies in the Innovative Technol- ogies category will dazzle a live audience, three judges, and emcees with their ideas. Mia Saini, Renata Akhunova, Sir Mix A Lot, Tim Rowe Pitch Event // Intermediate // #sxswaccel 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon G SXSW Accelerator: Entertainment and Content Tech 2 Presented by Oracle, this pitch event is a platform fow early stage startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry experts. Eight companies in the Entertain- ment Technologies category will dazzle a live audience, three judges and emcees with their ideas. Three startups will return on Sunday, March 15. A winner for each category will be announced at the SXSW Accelerator® Awards. Charles Hudson, Hany Nada, Mahmud Rowghani, Mikal E Belicove, Ralph Simon Pitch Event // Intermediate // #sxswaccel 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon H Transportation Technology Startup Discussion Startups will discuss the technologies and innovations they are working on to change transportation. From energy efficiency to smarter cars, transportation is being changed by these global companies. This emerging trend is turning into a self-fulfilling cycle of greater innovation as investors are seeing exit potentials in an industry that had long been shunned as a low P/E area. Dr. Felix Reinshagen, To Be Announced Panel // Intermediate // #AutoTech 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon J SXSW Accelerator: Digital Health and Life Science 2 Presented by Oracle, this pitch event is a platform for early stage startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry experts. Eight companies in the Health Tech- nologies category will dazzle a live audience, judges and emcees with their ideas. Three of the eight startups return Sunday, March 15. A winner in each category will be announced at the SXSW Accelerator® Awards. Laurie Segall, Milena Adamian, Nina Kjellson, Stacy Feld Pitch Event // Intermediate // #sxswaccel 5:00 PM Hilton: Salon K Made in Budapest: Half the Cost and a Day Ahead This panel looks at two Budapest-born companies with strong a US market share that rely on product teams based in their hometown. How do Prezi and Ustream couple the power of American sales and marketing with smart and affordable European en- gineers and designers? What are the advantages and disadvantages of splitting your operations in half on both sides of the Atlantic? Gyula Fehér, Henry Copeland, Peter Halacsy, Veronika Pistyur Panel // Intermediate // #madeinbp SUNDAY, MARCH 15 9:30 AM Hilton: Room 400-402 Trilogy: A Killer Network Can Transform Your Town Trilogy alumni played key early roles in companies from Google to WP Engine and many in between. FounderDating found Trilogy's alumni to be third on the list of Top 10 Entrepreneurial Company Alumni Networks. Our session discusses how your company or your community can apply lessons from Trilogy to grow your talent base, inspire entrepreneurial thinking, and take advantage of unfair advantages. Chris Taylor, Heather Brunner, John Price, Scott Francis Panel // Intermediate // #Trilogy STARTUP VILLAGE & BUSINESS HILTON AUSTIN DOWNTOWN: 500 EAST 4 TH STREET; AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 535 EAST 5 TH STREET FESTIVAL SESSIONS SXSW 2015 Interactive Festival 207