11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon 1
David Partners With Goliath: BD Hacks for Startups
Successful startups are built around strong strategic partnerships. Learn how to build
partnerships that rock, keeping you, your partners and your customers happy and
thriving. Our panelists have been building partnerships their entire careers, assem-
bling some of the largest deals in the tech industry. Join us as they cover the good, the
bad, and the ugly of architecting large-scale partnerships.
Bernie Brenner, Bob Rosin, Maria Karaivanova, Niall Wall
Panel // Intermediate // #Goliath
12:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 407
Death to Old Bosses: Survival in a Meritocracy
In today's digitized world, work matters – not tenure. In this talk, we will discuss the
factors that career-starters should look for in an organization, how they can succeed
in a merit-based organization and how organizations can foster meritocracy in the
workplace through knowledge sharing, promotions and rewarding output.
Andrew Silver, Megan Wheeler
Core Conversation // Intermediate // #survival
12:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 408-409
We Hired a Dev! How Do I Get More and Keep Them?
With software "eating the world," everyone is trying to hire Software Engineers, but
much less time is being spent on how you build a truly great software team. Describing
best practices established from top teams we will start with an approach to recruit-
ing that guarantees you'll hire top talent, and see a lot of great candidates coming
through the pipeline.
RC Johnson
Solo // Advanced // #TopTalent
12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon 1
Holacracy: A Radical New Approach to Management
Holacracy's distributed structure empowers everyone to be a leader of some part of
the company, with clear autonomy yet clear responsibilities. Hundreds of companies
around the world have now adopted Holacracy; come learn why, and experience a
radical new way to structure an agile, purpose-driven company.
Brian Robertson
Solo // Advanced // #Holacracy
3:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 407
Lessons in Life: Work Learned Living in My Office
Work and life are intimately intertwined in the 21st century. Embracing the consistent
flow of tasks and obligations within your professional and personal life is a first step
toward balance. Creating effective life hacks that allow your life and work to meld
seamlessly so that work isn't the dominating feature is key to maintaining sanity.
Chris Smith
Core Conversation // Advanced // #WorkLife
3:30 PM JW Marriott: Room 408-409
The Tech Talent Shortage: Problems and Solutions
We simply don't have enough qualified people to build new technology and main-
tain existing technology. Instead of movie stars, 10x represents top-notch freelance
programmers and tech consultants, including core open source contributors and cre-
ators of mobile apps with millions of downloads. In this talk we will discuss the rapid-
ly-changing marketplace for talent and the future of work.
Altay Guvench
Solo // Intermediate // #TechTalent
The SXSW Interactive Innovation
Awards celebrate the best work in
the ever-evolving and broadening
scope of the digital industry.
Join us in honoring the trailblazers
and pathfinders who make these
advancements happen.
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2015 SXSW
Interactive Innovation
Awards Ceremony
Tuesday, March 17 at 7:00 pm
Pre-Party at 6:00 pm
Hilton Austin Downtown, 6th Floor
500 East 4th Street, Austin, TX
WORK & CAREER
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