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FRIDAY, MARCH 11 12:30 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 1 Untold Stories Behind Success with Failure:Lab Failure:Lab showcases the struggles behind success. The events feature stories from successful people – providing the context behind their rise. It is the only format in the world that shares vulnerable failures without lessons, leaving them to the audience who are invited to tweet and write their thoughts. In this way, people are able to push back on the fear and stigma around failure. Presented By Failure:Lab. Joel Potrykus, Brian Brushwood, Tom Nardone, Talib Kweli Panel • Advanced 12:30 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 2-3 Interactive Insights into the Biology of Story Filmmaker Amnon Buchbinder has assembled a vast, networked, interactive archive of filmed insights from those who work with story in a wide range of fields. The emergent premise: stories form through the patterns of self-organization and inter-dependence that also define biological life. But humans also create anti-stories – formula and fun- damentalist narratives – that lack these living qualities. Amnon Buchbinder, Mike Robbins Dual • Advanced 3:30 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 1 How to Make the World Work How To Make The World Work is a timely project designed to expand knowledge of the ideas and legacy of R Buckminster Fuller to the next generation of social entrepreneurs, educators, artists, designers, architects and global change makers. Elizabeth Thomp- son, Executive Director, The Buckminster Fuller Institute, will lead a panel of leaders who have been recognized through the Fuller Challenge. TBD Panel • Beginner 3:30 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 2-3 DNA.Land: Mapping the World's Family Tree Humanity is all one big family. This session will present the largest family tree of tens of millions of people who are all connected. Erlich and Jacobs will describe how this family tree informs personal stories of our heritage, uniqueness and connection with other people. The world's family tree addresses scientific questions regarding longev- ity, migration events and the anthropology of marriages. Yaniv Erlich, AJ Jacobs Dual • Advanced 5:00 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 1 Hacking Language: Bots, IF and Esolangs Creators of radical literary technologies explore how Twitter bots, interactive fic- tion, and esoteric programming languages are challenging and changing the way that computing and language interact. This panel will consider the fundamental questions about computing and language that such projects are raising, exploring exactly how these provocations operate. Allison Parrish, Daniel Temkin, Emily Short, Nick Montfort Panel • Advanced 5:00 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 2-3 Mapping Spacetime: Time Travel via Timeless Maps Maps allow us to tell trends with data on a geospatial-sensitive canvas, making time travel possible and geo-locally relevant. This talk will focus on how time-sensitive maps can give us insights into our past and future. Open source tools can redefine how we relate to time, showcasing maps as an ideal format for building visualizations that compliment a narrative arc of spacetime proportions. Aurelia Moser Solo • Beginner SATURDAY, MARCH 12 9:30 AM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 1 Bring Music, Dance and Art to Health Tech Innovation Behavior change is the toughest challenge in healthcare – patients and elders suffer from physical fatigue and severe mental stress. Research shows Creative Arts Therapy improves cancer patients' quality of life by fifty percent and reduces pain by over 59 percent! Dancing reduces the risk of dementia by 76 percent. This talk will discuss health tech innovation for effective healthy behavior change. Amy Li, Dennis Boyle, Steven Eisenberg Panel • Advanced 9:30 AM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 2-3 Stem Cells: From Controversy to Commercialization Stem cells have a role in the future of personalized medicine. However, misconceptions can turn progress into a focus on controversial technology. In this session stem cells will be demystified, followed by a discussion on what's needed to make this technolo- gy accessible including barriers to entry in this field, finding investors, and regulatory burdens. Tamsen Barrett, Raymond Mccauley Dual • Advanced 11:00 AM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 1 Modern Authorship: Richard Prince and Monkey Selfies Panelists will begin our exploration by discussing a shift in fair use doctrine that has allowed artists like Richard Prince to appropriate others' images with little legal risk. Next, we will examine the Copyright Office's recent micro-examination of images cre- ated by non-human means, including the infamous monkey selfie case. Elisa Kreisinger, Iliya Fridman, Phil Weiss, Phillip Stearns Panel • Advanced 11:00 AM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 2-3 Reprogramming the Genome with CRISPR CRISPR gene editing is widely used by biologists as the DNA programming tool of choice. CRISPR programs can now be written online and printed in labs with ease. Teams have attempted human embryo reprogramming in China, and "gene drives" are almost ready to modify organisms in the wild. Will we see the eradication of Alzhei- mer's and mosquitoes? Or ecological disaster and designer super-babies for the rich? Edward Perello, Kevin Esvelt, Megan Palmer, Rachel Haurwitz Panel • Advanced 12:30 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 1 Build the Crowdsourcing Community of Your Dreams An estimated two to three million people worldwide contribute to citizen science proj- ects. You'll hear real details from four citizen science and historical crowdsourcing projects on how to rally your fans for meaningful contribution. Then learn why openly sharing resources and involving participants in design builds better spaces for engage- ment and research. Siobhan Leachman, Mia Ridge, Meghan Ferriter, Ben Brumfield Panel • Beginner 12:30 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 2-3 Bio/Tech: DARPA's Moonshots for the 21st Century Come learn the science behind DARPA's biotech innovations. Join Dr Justin Sanchez and Col Dan Wattendorf, MD from DARPA's Biological Technologies Office (BTO) as they discuss DARPA's technological bets in neurotech and combating infectious dis- ease. Explore the science behind the tech, where it's headed and its potential impact on our everyday lives. Daniel Wattendorf, Justin Sanchez Dual • Intermediate 3:30 PM Westin Austin Downtown: Paramount 1 Give it Away to Get Rich: Open Cultural Heritage Open content, open access – what do these things mean? Over 50 galleries, libraries, archives and museums have pursued open access with permissions to reuse over the last decade, to a varying degree, removing technical and copyright barriers to their public domain collections. Come to a panel on how openly sharing cultural heritage content wins hearts, minds and funding. Effie Kapsalis, Robert Stein, Victoria Leachman, Shyam Oberoi Panel • Advanced ART, SCIENCE & INSPIRATION WESTIN AUSTIN DOWNTOWN: 301 EAST 5TH STREET FESTIVAL SESSIONS 8 4 A R T, S C I E N C E & I N S P I R AT I O N S X S W. C O M