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AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER: LEVEL 3 FRIDAY, MARCH 8 3:30 PM Room 5abc Building Successful Teams in Latin America Building teams in Latin America presents a unique set of challenges, from identifying and hiring remote talent, to scaling company culture, to creating successful workflows with off-site teams. Join the conversation as expert panelists discuss and deliver best practices when it comes to building successful teams across borders. Diego Saez-Gil, Marta Cruz, Pedro Torres Pic��n, Sebasti��n Valin Panel | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #LatAmTeams 3:30 PM Room 6ab Survival Strategies for Brands in China China is the new battleground for brands to succeed on the global stage. Foreign brands are increasingly challenged to create competitive advantages in China while Chinese brands are trying to capture market share in other regions around the world. Those that fail in their overseas ventures will become vulnerable in their home markets. How can global brands prepare themselves for this disruption? Emily Chong, Mario Van der Meulen Dual | Advanced | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #brandchina 3:30 PM Room 9abc 5:00 PM Room 9abc Teaching Cheetahs: Disruptive Education in Africa The discussion will focus on bringing to light some of the innovative ideas being put into practice on the African continent to build leadership and management capacity thus enabling Africa to take advantage of its accelerating growth trajectory. Expanding opportunities for youth engagement, education and empowerment is especially important in Africa as the youngest continent on the planet. Christopher Khaemba, Christy Pipkin, John Kidenda, Rick Reeder Panel | Beginner | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #AfriTeach 5:00 PM Room 10ab Imitation as Innovation: Lessons from the Shanzhai From watches to cars, you can find thousands of knockoffs in China. Networks of innovative companies take the products we love, alter and improve them. Then they are sped to a huge consumer market and sold at low margins. The problem with U.S. innovation? Our broken business models. Instead of fearing the Shanzhai, we can look to their copycat culture to teach us how to innovate faster. Adam Pisoni, Lyn Jeffery Dual | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #shanzhai SATURDAY, MARCH 9 Disaster: The Future of Crisis Communications 9:30 AM During a disaster crisis communicators are dispatched to the frontline to get out vital information. Response communicators work together, with the public and media to ensure the right information gets out as quickly as possible. Interact with these communicators, learn how new technology is changing response communication, and find out what your role may be in a disaster. Anastacia Visneski, Brandon Brewer, Hanson Hosein, John Visneski Panel | Intermediate | Government + Civic Engagement | #CrisisComm A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great spot for you to connect, brainstorm and share ideas with other digital creatives attending the event. Meet Up | Beginner | Social + Relationships | #homeroom 3:30 PM Room 10ab Why Public Policy Should Matter to Your Startup Senator Moran will discuss the policy challenges startups face and how the startup community can engage with policy makers to enable innovation and help economic growth. Jerry Moran Solo | Beginner | Government + Civic Engagement | #whypolicy 5:00 PM Room 5abc Room 5abc Home Room 9:30 AM Room 6ab The $100bn Mobile Bullet Train Called Africa Innovation in Africa is the purest form: innovation out of necessity. Not Angry Birds, African innovations get farmers better prices, fishermen are warned about storms, & cellphone can send mobile money. Mobile phones are the 21st century equivalent of the railroad. More people in Africa have a mobile phone than electricity. Africa is a mobile-first continent, but it is a mobile-only continent. Gareth Knight Solo | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #AfricaMobi PROGRAMMING Latinos y Mobile: A Silver Bullet? 9:30 AM There are 27.8mm U.S. citizens and legal residents of Latino heritage (2011). 800,000 Latinos a year turn 18. 47 % of this population connects to the internet wirelessly. Latinos are increasingly flexing their strength in both commerce and politics. Language and cultural barriers complicate the use of mobile as a single point of contact. What does connection mean? How should it be deployed? Brent Wilkes, Estuardo Rodriguez, Kety Esquivel, Lou Aronson Panel | Advanced | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #mobileLTN Successful Wi-Fi at Large Events Providing wireless network connectivity at large gatherings such as SXSW is never an easy endeavor. This panel will cover the interesting network architecture components of the data circuits, point-to-point rooftop wireless links, offsite data centers, and other technologies that get built specifically for the 10 day conference. Clifford Skolnick, Joe Wargo Dual | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #bigWiFi 5:00 PM 9:30 AM Room 6ab Room 9abc Room 10ab Voto Latino and National Voter Registration Day Home Room National Voter Registration Day set out to take over the Internet, leveraging celebrities, media, and grassroots supporters to do what had never been done before -- help people make sure they were registered to vote. Join us as we dissect the first-ever NVRD, and talk about what we think it will take to make this the first of many voter registration holidays to come. Dan McSwain, Jessica Reeves Dual | Beginning | Community + Activism | #votelatino A new addition to the 2013 lineup, SXSW Home Rooms are where you get the most current information about all the presentations, panels, and networking opportunities for the day ahead. SXSW Home Room also provides a great spot for you to connect, brainstorm and share ideas with other digital creatives attending the event. Meet Up | Beginner | Social + Relationships | #homeroom 11:00 AM Room 5abc Indigenous Tweets, Visible Voices & Technology The majority of the 7000 languages spoken in the world today will no longer be spoken by the year 2100. Amid this reality, communities all over the world are actively using their native languages on Twitter, Facebook, and blogs. Social media holds immense possibilities for language revitalization, for the inclusion of indigenous people in the online conversation and in democratic processes. Kara Andrade, Kevin Scannell, Maite Go��i, Peter Rohloff Panel | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #indigenous 124 | SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival