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2013 SXSW ACCELERATOR 5th Annual SXSW Accelerator Monday March 11 and Tuesday March 12 Hilton Downtown, 4th Floor: Salons A,B, and D Wednesday, March 13 Austin Convention Center, 3rd Floor: Room 10ab THE COMPETITION SXSW Accelerator returns for its fifth edition to showcase some of technology���s most exciting innovations. This event provides an outlet for companies to present their new online Entertainment and Gaming Technologies, Social Technologies, Health Technologies, Mobile Technologies, News Technologies, Music Technologies, or Innovative Web Technologies services to a panel of industry experts, early adopters, and representatives from the venture capitalist and angel investment communities. INTERACTIVE EVENTS THE CATEGORIES Innovative Web Technologies This category pertains to applications and technologies that have the ambition to change the web as we know it. Right now we���re seeing lots of innovation in real-time search, augmented reality, the World Wide Web, artificial intelligence, the Semantic Web, recommendations technologies, personalization technologies, and ���big data. ��� TAMMY CAMP Social Technologies This category applies to technologies that help people connect. With this category we���re looking for new and interesting uses, cases, as well as technologies that push the boundaries of how we find, follow and share information with others. Entertainment and Gaming Technologies Applications and technologies in this category involve gaming, film, television, and digital storytelling, as well as new and hybrid forms of entertainment that are reinventing the ways in which we relax, unwind, and have fun. Mobile Technologies This category pertains to applications and technologies that allow users to connect by portable devices such as tablets, phones, and other connected devices. TAMMY CAMP 78 | SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival Health Technologies Patient-centric health applications and technologies in this category pertain to those that connect patients, families, physicians, pharmacists, care providers (hospitals, clinics) and benefit providers ��� aka the care team ��� to share timely, relevant health data and drive better outcomes at affordable and sustainable cost levels. News Technologies This category includes applications and technologies that support the dissemination of news and information for communities, both on the content side or on the underlying business model side (for example advertising). This could include technologies related to data, text, documents, mapping, engagement, among other areas. Music Technologies This category involves applications and technologies specifically designed for the use of musicians and the music business. These companies seek to advance the creation, distribution and promotion of recorded music, to facilitate licensing and payment for use of recordings, or to aid in the booking, logistics and promotion of live performances.