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Featured Sessions bring together some of the biggest and brightest names of our time. Across the various themes and trends at SXSW, Featured Sessions present a snapshot of the most transformative ideas shaping our future. These talks range in topic and Track to offer diverse backgrounds and perspectives, but one thread remains consistent across the board – when you're in these rooms, you're going to have your mind blown. Austin Convention Center, 4th Floor 500 East Cesar Chavez Street Ballroom D, Ballroom EFG, Room 18abcd Disruptive Philanthropy in the Digital World Jacquelline Fuller, Hugh Forrest Friday, March 11 • 11: 00 AM • Austin Convention Center: Ballroom EFG Google.org focuses on more than just giving money, and this session will explore how the team leverages all of Google – from people to products – in support of its philanthropy. All of these efforts are aimed at supporting innovative entrepreneurs who are using technology to take on some of the toughest challenges both locally and globally. Distributed: A New OS for the Digital Economy Douglas Rushkoff Saturday, March 12 • 11: 00am • Austin Convention Center: Ballroom D Digital tech was supposed to usher in an age of prosper- ity, but so far it has put industrial capitalism on steroids. Social networks surrender their missions to data mining and banks abandon investing for algorithms – all to stoke growth. Startups sell for billions but destroy more jobs and markets than they create. This session offers practical steps to remake the economy from the inside out. Beyond Traffic: The Emergence of a Connected City Anthony Foxx Sunday, March 13 • 3 :30pm • Austin Convention Center: Room 18ABCD Join US Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx and the five finalists for a conversation around the first-of-its-kind Smart City Challenge. This competition seeks to create an innovative, fully integrated model city that uses data, technology and creativity to shape how people and goods move in the future. Kerry Washington and the New Rules of Social Stardom Kerry Washington and Ariel Foxman Sunday, March 11 • 11: 00am • Austin Convention Center: Ballroom EFG Kerry Washington discusses how she has successfully harnessed the power of social media to promote not only her career and hit TV show, Scandal, but also positivity and social good. How has social media impacted traditional media's representation of diversity and beauty? What les- sons has she learned about filtering reactions on social media and staying confident and true to her voice? Learnings from Five Years in Digital Health Halle Tecco Monday, March 14 • 3 :30pm • Austin Convention Center: Room 18ABCD Five years ago, Halle Tecco founded Rock Health and set out on a mission to make healthcare massively better for every human being. Hear unfiltered key lessons from her journey funding dozens of companies in the space. Learn how digital health has progressed over this time and what that means for companies – and their goal of making health- care better for every human being. Atrium 12ab 11ab 13ab 14 17b 17a 16ab 15 19ab Lounge Ballroom EFG 18abcd Keynotes & Featured Speakers Ballroom D Trinity Street Red River Street East Cesar Chavez (1st) Street East 4 th Street United Airlines Lounge Info Desk Concessions ATM Smoking Deck MAP KEY Credential Access Interactive, Film, Music, Gold and Platinum Interactive, Film, Gold and Platinum Interactive, Gold and Platinum Film, Gold and Platinum Escalator Restroom Elevator Stairs KEYNOTES & FEATURED Halle Tecco Kerry Washington Anthony Foxx Jacquelline Fuller FESTIVAL SESSIONS 7 6 K E Y N O T E S & F E AT U R E D S E S S I O N S S X S W. C O M