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FRIDAY, MARCH 11 11:00 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 5abc Dirt, Drones and Data: The Future of Farming RSVP REQUIRED. frog works with farmers and technology providers around the world. In this workshop, they will share some of their recent findings from design research in Africa, Brazil, North America and Europe. Leveraging this data, they will ideate and prototype concepts for how to gather and act upon new data to create the future farm- ing methods that will ensure sustainable food security. David Cleaves, Simone Wittmann Workshop (2 hours) • Advanced 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 5abc Igniting Creativity with Periscope RSVP REQUIRED. It's easy to show creative work on Periscope. Enhancing that so view- ers are inspired to take their own creative journey requires a plan. We will start with six essential steps for creating compelling broadcasts. We will then apply those steps to ignite our audience's own creative pursuits, going from "Look at me!" to "Look at us!" to launch an inspired, creative tribe. Marty Coleman Workshop (2 hours) • Intermediate 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab HAL to Her: Humanizing Tech Via the Power of Voice Voice is powerful. Voice is human. From Amazon Echo to Cortana to a real life Star Trek communicator badge – technology has finally begun to find its voice. Hear from a panel of experts as they speak about how advances in AI and hardware will transform the way we interact with the people and devices around us. Jesse Robbins, Lesley Carmichael, Timothy Jordan, David Austin Panel • Intermediate 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc Deep Web and Dark Social: Is Anything Really Private? Nothing you post online is private, but it's not all public, either. That's because of two things: the deep web and dark social. The deep web is part of the web that cannot be indexed by search engines. Research shows the deep web is about 550 times larger than the surface web, and sharing activity through dark social is up to three times larger than sharing activity on Facebook. Greg Swan, Marc Jensen Dual • Advanced 3:30 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 9abc Present Tense: The First Now-Centric Civilization The data-driven information age has precipitated massive disruption. Ninety percent of the world's data was created in the past two years, and real-time analytics has produced foundational shifts to civilization. Our underlying metaphors and world views are fundamentally changing as our perception of the NOW becomes shorter and basic clock-rate of our lives gets faster. Nova Spivack Solo • Intermediate 5:00 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab Is Your Biological Data Safe? What do rapid advancements in biotech mean for our notions of privacy? How could our own personal biological data be used to help us? And how could it hurt us both as a society and as individuals? Join stakeholders from different areas in the public, government and private sectors to learn more. Edward You, Ellen Jorgensen, Kate Black, Jason Koebler Panel • Intermediate 5:00 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc Everybody Dies: What Is Your Digital Legacy? Most of us have exhaustive records of our lives in our emails, chats, social media posts and digital photos – but what happens to all that data when we die? States across the country are updating their estate laws, but the right answers aren't obvious. Should your emails be inherited? Should your online presence die with you? How do you want to be remembered? Alethea Lange, John Troyer, Megan Yip, Vanessa Callison-Burch Panel • Beginner 5:00 PM Austin Convention Center: Room 9abc Check Online for Session Scheduled at This Time Things change! That's what websites are for. Please check either our online schedule at schedule.sxsw.com, our digital program book at sxsw.com/iaguide, or our mobile app SXSW GO in the App Store or Google Play to find updated information about what will be scheduled in this room at this time. We bet it'll be something really cool that you won't want to miss, whatever it is! TBD Panel • Intermediate SATURDAY, MARCH 12 9:30 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 5abc Building Smart Applications That Learn RSVP REQUIRED. Speakers will demonstrate how to build powerful applications that can understand natural language, make use of computer vision functions, easily access external data sources and use machine learning to create a self-learning application. This workshop will be interactive, with participants creating their own application and deploying it on the cloud using the Wolfram Language. Sebastian Bodenstein, Christopher Wolfram Workshop (4 hours) • Advanced 9:30 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab Looking Forward to Rush Hour: Future of Transit As the world grapples with the social and environmental impacts of transit, new de- sign solutions that seemed incredible just a few years ago are now drawing very close to reality. This panel will explore some of the most provocative and exciting ideas and trends in transportation design, with expert panelists drawing on their experiences designing Autonomous Cars, Aerial Tramways and Hyperloop. Chipp Walters, Dan Doorley Dual • Advanced 9:30 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc Injecting Machine Learning Everywhere This talk will show applications of machine learning using real-world examples from a wide range of domains. Demonstration of how you could use recently developed tools to easily create a machine-learned task and embed it in your project. Finally, discussion of cutting-edge applications of machine learning and the future of this field. Etienne Bernard Solo • Advanced 9:30 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 9abc Algorithmic Lunacy and What to Do About It Women are less likely to be shown ads for high-paying jobs. Search results for "human rights" depend on what US state you search from. A health app warns the disabled that they "lack vitality." Machine learning labels Auschwitz photos "sport." Algorithmically generated content is responsible for a growing list of fiascoes, causing alarm about the future of these systems. Christian Sandvig, Dawn Nafus Dual • Advanced 11:00 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 6ab One Robot Doesn't Fit All The robots aren't coming: they're already here. While today's robots don't look like the automatons we've seen in scifi movies, in point of fact much of what we take for grant- ed today is a result of everyday robots. To highlight the opportunities and concerns that we should have as we enter the robot age, we present a conversation with speakers working on designing and researching with robots. Leila Takayama, Nuri Kim, Thavidu Ranatunga, Wendy Ju Panel • Intermediate 11:00 AM Austin Convention Center: Room 8abc Smart Cars, Smarter Cities: New Transit Tech What does a smart road look like? Or a shareable car? Or a fully sensorized city? Mobile connectivity and the Internet of Things (IoT) offer city planners new ways to address urban inefficiencies such as congested city arteries, insufficient parking and overbur- dened energy grids. Welcome to the era of "smart" cities. Michael Petricone, Susan Zielinski, Iain Macbeth, Andrew Salzberg Panel • Intermediate INTELLIGENT FUTURE AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER; WESTIN AUSTIN DOWNTOWN FESTIVAL SESSIONS 1 3 5 2 0 1 6 S X S W I N T E R A C T I V E P R O G R A M G U I D E I N T E L L I G E N T F U T U R E