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STARTUP VILLAGE HILTON AUSTIN DOWNTOWN: 500 EAST 4TH STREET 2:00 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon B SXSW Eco Startup Speed Pitches Presented by Austin Energy and Austin Technology Clean Energy Incubator, this rap- id-fire pitch event showcases investment opportunities in cleantech and social impact from the finalists of the SXSW Eco Startup Showcase. Discover the companies poised to make a positive impact on society, the environment and the economy. Mitch Jacobson Pitch Event • Intermediate 2:00 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon C Austin's Best Hardware Startups Already recognized as one of the top cities for entrepreneurs in the U., Austin has a hardware history and lots of raw talent producing IoT and wearable startups. In sixty minutes you'll learn about five of Austin's best hardware startups in a fun and fast- paced pitch session. Each entrepreneur will get five minutes to demo their solution and then they will get grilled by a panel of Hardware CEO's. Presented By Capital Factory. Rick Yang, TBD Pitch Event • Beginner 3:30 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Room 400-402 If You Really Want to Change the World Silicon Valley's "fail fast, pivot often" approach, test markets with new concepts and a minimum amount of capital doesn't apply if you want to build a highly valuable and world-changing business. Norman Winarsky, veteran technologist, inventor and inves- tor, on launching successful new ventures including Apple's Siri, helping entrepreneurs aim high and building lasting companies with a new method. Dr Norman Winarsky Solo • Intermediate 3:30 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Room 408 McDonald's Pitch Event Session: Retail Innovation We must continually innovate to improve the consumer experience, from how we package our food to new supporting new technologies in our restaurant. McDonald's pioneered the concept of the drive-thru, as well as many more important retail inno- vations, and in this session, we'll hear from startups revolutionizing the retail industry today. Presented By McDonald's. TBD Pitch Event • Intermediate 3:30 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon B Mobile Ventures' Identity and Privacy Management Disruptive innovation has accelerated entrepreneurship but challenged identity and privacy management. This panel adopts a producer's perspective with speakers from the public, private, advocacy and education sectors and focuses on the multidimen- sional production process of identity and privacy practices as an essential part of en- trepreneurship. Wenhong Chen, Michael Schramm, Jon Lebkowsky, Kristin Cohen Panel • Intermediate 3:30 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon C Austin Goes Global: Best International Startups The Internet is making every business a global business from Day one. International startups need to be thinking about how they will expand past their own country and eventually enter the US market. Austin startups need partners in Europe, Latin Amer- ica and Asia. Hear from European startups that have successfully expanded to the US via Austin and Austin startups that have expanded to Europe. Presented By Capital Factory. TBD Pitch Event • Beginner 3:30 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon D What You Need to Know About Doing Business in Cuba This panel will discuss the challenges of operating in one of the world's most com- plex business environments. Panelists with a diverse range of perspectives will offer valuable lessons learned from operating in and around the Cuban market, helping you understand of one of the most unique opportunities in the world. Christopher Harvin, Matthew Aho, Tomas Bilbao, Alana Tummino Panel • Advanced 3:30 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon E Prison Tech Boom: Social Outcomes and Entrepreneurs There is a major boom happening in the tech industry. Prison (or jail) tech is hot and looks to heat up. Three people directly impacted by the US prison system will talk about their commitment to the prison tech boom. Best practices on how to build an ecosystem to support unlikely techies will also be shared. Laurin Hodge, Marcus Bullock, Teresa Hodge Panel • Advanced 5:00 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Room 400-402 Find Your Product/Market Fit in 15 Minutes This session will be a unique learning experience and provide attendees with action- able principles for achieving product/market fit to take with them to create products that customers really want. Seasoned entrepreneur Scott Cook is speed-coaching three lucky business owners attending SXSW to tackle the key challenges that their businesses are facing right now, in real-time, in 15 minutes or less. Scott Cook Solo • Beginner 5:00 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon B Mobility Meets VC: Transportation Reinvented This session focuses on the areas of opportunity, financing landscape and the unique characteristics of scaling mobility companies, as discussed from three perspectives: those of a (i) mobility-focused accelerator, (ii) venture capital investor, and (iii) stra- tegic investor. Chris Stallman, Ted Serbinski, Christina Bechhold Panel • Intermediate 5:00 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon C Accelerating Change and the Future of Technology Steve Jurvetson is a partner at the venture capital firm DFJ. His current board respon- sibilities include Planet Labs, SpaceX, Synthetic Genomics and Tesla Motors (TSLA). Steve was chosen by Deloitte as "Venture Capitalist of the Year," by Forbes as one of "Tech's Best Venture Investors" and by Fortune as part of their "Brain Trust of Top Ten Minds." Steve Jurvetson Solo • Advanced 5:00 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon D Dropping a Billion Dollar Bomb on Startups Robust entrepreneurship leads to billions of dollars in value creation for the overall economy and MassChallenge, the largest accelerator on the planet, helps concentrate and accelerate that potential by dropping an economic bomb on startup ecosystems. This panel will feature speakers from all sides of the equation for cultivating exponen- tial growth among startups. Scott Bailey Panel • Beginner 5:00 PM Hilton Austin Downtown: Salon E Startup Hubs Outside the Valley: Southeast Asia With entrepreneurs and startup founders outside the US facing visa limitations, and more and more Americans coming face to face with the challenges of being "yet anoth- er" startup in the Valley, some are looking elsewhere to start and grow their compa- nies. This session will hear from those who call Southeast Asia home as they discuss the benefits, challenges and future of the startup ecosystem. Jacqueline Jensen, Cheryl Yeoh, Jeffrey Paine, Cheryl Goh Ching Ling Panel • Advanced SATURDAY, MARCH 12 9:30 AM Hilton Austin Downtown: Room 400-402 Inside the Minds of Angels and VCs For startup founders, fundraising is hard in no small part because it is so opaque. And founders often don't appreciate that the two key sources of early stage growth capi- tal, angel investors and venture capitalists (VCs), have very different motivations and "business models." So founders need to get inside the minds of Angels and VCs. Mod- erated by a leading journalist, an Angel and a VC face off! Ellen Wheeler, Reza Chowdhury, Brian Cohen Panel • Advanced FESTIVAL SESSIONS 1 6 7 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 S TA R T U P V I L L A G E