5:00 PM ACC: Ballroom D
A Conversation with Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel, host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live, takes to the SXSW
stage for a special behind-the-scenes conversation prior to a week of Austin-hosted
shows. In this uncommon role-reversal, interviewee Kimmel shares how he got his
start, highlights from his favorite shows and his work as a late-night host.
Jimmy Kimmel
Featured Session // Intermediate // #kimmel
Convergence
5:00 PM ACC: Ballroom A
The Story of Creative Icons: Failure to Mastery
From Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to new inventions to works of art, many of our
creative triumphs are not achievements, but are conversions, corrections after failed
attempts. This is the subject of Lewis's book The Rise. This SXSW talk considers the
lives of even more diverse figures such as Travis Kalanick, Sara Blakley and Robert
Redford and fully realizing their creative achievements.
Sarah Lewis
Featured Session // Advanced // #therise
5:00 PM JW Marriott: Salon 5-6
User Experience Design Shaping Our World
The ever-presence of technology in our everyday life has given rise to many questions
about how this shift shapes our reality and our experiences in the world. Join cultural
anthropologists Genevieve Bell from Intel Labs, and Mimi Ito from UC Irvine, for a con-
versation on what makes us human in a digital world.
Genevieve Bell, Mimi Ito
Featured Session // Advanced // #SXstyle
SUNDAY, MARCH 15
11:00 AM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5
Extreme Bionics: The End of Disability
Hugh Herr, Co-Director of the Center for Extreme Bionics at MIT Media Lab, showcases
revolutionary prosthetics and exoskeletons that enable natural movement – allowing
users to "feel" and adapt to the grass beneath bare, mechanical "feet." Learn how
Herr's extreme bionics remove barriers to human potential and help extinguish social
divides between man and machine. Part of the IEEE Future ID Series.
Hugh Herr
Featured Session // Intermediate // #ieeeHerr
11:00 AM ACC: Ballroom D
Confronting Injustice
America has the largest prison population in the world – and the criminal justice sys-
tem that puts people in these prisons is broken. Excessive punishment and abuse are
widespread, and the collateral consequences are devastating lives and communities.
An inspiring and unflinchingly honest speaker, Bryan Stevenson talks about defending
some of America's most rejected and marginalized people.
Bryan Stevenson
Featured Session // Advanced // #JustMercy Convergence
11:00 AM ACC: Ballroom A
Geek Girls Are Chic! Five Career Hacks
Is Silicon Valley biased against women? Why aren't more women rising in the tech
ranks or starting businesses? Join Sandy Carter, founder of Super Women's Group, and
Elizabeth Caudle of Girls Who Code as they discuss how to foster an interest in tech.
Learn why women need to take risks and embrace failure to crash through the glass
ceiling or start a new business. Hear five career hacks to get ahead.
Elizabeth Caudle, Sandy Carter
Featured Session // Intermediate // #CareerHack
11:00 AM JW Marriott: Salon 5-6
Bringing the Flying Car Into Reality
Juraj Vaculik, CEO and Co-Founder of AeroMobil will guide you through the story of a
unique engineering challenge to build a flying car. This session will also explore future
personal transportation opportunities and scenarios. AeroMobil challenges the way
we think about personal travel and brings totally different transportation experience
with unique transformative design.
Juraj Vaculik
Featured Session // Intermediate // #flyingcar
12:30 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5
Bill Gurley and Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation
Benchmark's Bill Gurley will be interviewed by award-winning journalist and author
Malcolm Gladwell. The pair's wide-ranging insights promise an engaging conversa-
tion on a variety of economic and entrepreneurial outliers. Gurley and his partners at
Benchmark were early backers of Snapchat, Twitter, Uber , and Yelp and more. Glad-
well is the author of David and Goliath, Blink, and Outliers
.
Bill Gurley, Malcolm Gladwell
Featured Session // Advanced // #GurleyGlad
12:30 PM ACC: Ballroom D
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Things change! That's what websites are for. Check our online schedules at sched-
ule.sxsw.com, our digital program book at sxsw.com/iaguide, or SXSW GO, our su-
per-handy mobile app to find information about what will occur in this room at this
time. We bet it'll be something really cool that you won't want to miss, whatever it is!
To Be Announced
Featured Session // Intermediate // #SXsports
Convergence
12:30 PM ACC: Ballroom A
Be Epic: The Art of Bold Decision Making
There is a belief that we've evolved enough as a species that we're able to make the
best, most rational and informed decisions when presented with the hard questions
in business and in life. But whether we admit it or not, we're often still operating in
the shadow of the primitive "lizard brain." Fight or flight, left or right, which direction
comes with the least risk?
Phil Libin
Featured Session // Intermediate // #beepic
12:30 PM JW Marriott: Salon 5-6
Designing the Future of Transportation
Tesla is changing perceptions about electric mobility with the Model S, which accel-
erates from 0 to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds without a drop of gasoline. In this talk, Tesla's
chief designer Franz von Holzhausen discusses the task of creating uncompromised
electric vehicles that are at once accessible and exhilarating, and provides a glimpse
of what's to come with Model X and Model 3.
Franz von Holzhausen
Featured Session // Advanced // #tesladesign
2:00 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5
KEYNOTE: AI, Immortality and the Future of Selves
Join Martine Rothblatt, CEO of United Therapeutics and author of Virtually Human, as
she speaks with New York magazine's Lisa Miller about the ideas behind a lifetime
of radical innovation. Rothblatt and Miller will explore xenotransplantation, artificial
intelligence, transgenderism, pharmaceuticals, and other technologies that promote
the extension of human life, perhaps indefinitely.
Lisa Miller, Martine Rothblatt
Keynote // Advanced // #futureself
3:30 PM ACC: Exhibit Hall 5
Cracking Cuisine: Breaking a Few Rules (and Eggs)
Nathan Myhrvold, the former Microsoft CTO, broke all the rules when he coauthored
and self-published Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking, a 2,438-page
cookbook recognized as a masterpiece. Nathan will discuss his creative processes,
the limitations and misconceptions of common cooking practices, and how innovations
in the kitchen require a healthy attitude about failure.
Nathan Myhrvold, Kerry Diamond
Featured Session // Intermediate // #modernist
3:30 PM ACC: Ballroom D
A Curious Mind: Inspiration for a Creative Life
"I make movies and TV shows, but I'm curious about everything." That is how Imagine
Entertainment co-founder Brian Grazer describes himself on Twitter. In this Q&A with
Charles Fishman, Grazer will discuss how his curiosity led him to meetings with figures
like Jonas Salk and Isaac Asimov. These conversations often sparked insights that led
to classic films like Splash and A Beautiful Mind.
Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman
Featured Session // Intermediate // #curiosity Convergence
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