The digital version of the SXSW Interactive Program Guide is now available. Packed full of information, this guide is a must-read before leaving home and on the plane, as well as a great resource on the ground. Download today!
Issue link: http://read.uberflip.com/i/644232
Book Readings showcase a selection of the most fas- cinating and innovative recent titles related to all things Interactive. Authors are given twenty minutes to talk about their publication, after which they are available for Book Signings at the nearby SX Bookstore. Themes ranging from entrepreneurship and management to psychology and science will be highlighted in these informative and entertaining sessions. Don't miss the opportunity to meet your favorite author and take home or download a copy of their newest work! Austin Convention Center 500 East Cesar Chavez Street 3rd Floor: Room 10AB DATE-ONOMICS: It's Not You, It's the Ratio Jon Birger Saturday, March 12 • 11: 00am • Austin Convention Center: Room 10AB Fortune writer Jon Birger's book, DATE-ONOMICS, uses demographics, economics and biology to explain a familiar phenomenon: the single, college-grad woman who can't find a decent man. He argues that lopsided gender ratios among Millenials – four women graduating college for every three men – are behind everything from the hookup culture to declining marriage rates, to even the rise in campus rape. Good and Cheap: Eat Well on Four Dollars a Day Leanne Brown Saturday, March 12 • 1: 00pm • Austin Convention Center: Room 10AB Good and Cheap began as Leanne Brown's MA thesis exploring whether it's possible to eat well on a food stamps budget and quickly went viral when she put a free PDF online. The book shows that kitchen skill, not budget, is the key to great food. Today, that PDF has been downloaded more than 900,000 times and luminaries like Michael Pollan have praised her support of people on extremely tight budgets. Non-Obvious: How to Predict the Future Rohit Bhargava Sunday, March 13 • 4 : 00pm • Austin Convention Center: Room 10AB What does it really take to predict the future? In this talk based on his Wall Street Journal best selling book Non-Ob- vious, attendees will learn five unexpected habits anyone can use to become a better trend curator. Rohit will share brand new research from the sixth edition of his popular Non-Obvious Trend Report, revealing five key trends chang- ing business in 2016 and beyond. The Patient as CEO Robin Farmanfarmaian Tuesday, March 15 • 11: 00am • Austin Convention Center: Room 10AB From wearable sensors and point-of-care diagnostics to artificial intelligence and robotics, there are a great number of breakthroughs in the convergence of accelerating tech- nology set to fundamentally change the way that patients interact with their healthcare. The Patient as CEO shines a light on these upcoming breakthroughs that will allow you, the patient, to be the CEO of your own healthcare. 4abc 6ab 5abc 10c Austin Suite 8 abc 10 ab 9 abc Lounge 7 Trinity Street Red River Street East Cesar Chavez (1st) Street Austin Convention Center, Floor 3 Atrium Palazzo Info Desk Concessions ATM Smoking Deck MAP KEY Credential Access Interactive, Film, Gold and Platinum Interactive, Gold and Platinum Escalator Restroom Elevator Stairs SX Bookstore BOOK READINGS & SIGNINGS Robin Farmanfarmaian Jon Birger Leanne Brown Rohit Bhargava FESTIVAL SESSIONS 8 8 B O O K R E A D I N G S & S I G N I N G S S X S W. C O M