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AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER: LEVEL 3 11:00 AM Room 6ab 3:30 PM Innovating Philanthropy: Panera���s Social Experiment Life on the Line: Tweeting the Drug War Ron Shaich has spent his career changing the way we eat by focusing on choice and a high-quality experience. Panera���s Foundation provides 5 non-profit Panera Cares Cafes addressing food insecurity. Ron���s vision: launch a ���pay-what-you-can��� cafe and see if the community supports it. He will share his passion for expanding the concept and how Panera is igniting a movement to fight food insecurity. Ron Shaich Solo | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #Panera News reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border has been decimated by the downsizing of U.S. media organizations, censorship of Mexican media and the explosion of violence on the Mexican side of the border. Learn how journalists and citizens along the border use social media to cover these challenging times. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Melissa Del Bosque, Sergio Chapa Panel | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #lifeonline And What of Liberty? Networks & Freedom Your ISP is spying on your network traffic, Zuck pwn���d your social graph. Even darling Twitter has thrown indie developers under the bus for the sake of ���consistency.��� Computer networks are a central part of being a modern human. On this panel we'll discuss specific software and hardware projects that emphasize the need for Free (as in freedom) principles in their design and implementation. Dan Phiffer, Harlo Holmes, Isaac Wilder Panel | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #netfreedom 11:00 AM Room 10ab The Paradox of the Cloud As we move from physical to digital, our environmental impact is lighter. However, production of digital content is increasing exponentially, requiring a vast physical infrastructure that depends on non-renewable energy resources. Learn about environmental effects of the cloud, the concept of digital carbon footprints, and tools for behavior change in digital production and consumption. David Bellona Solo | Beginner | Community + Activism | #tweetfart 12:30 PM Room 5abc Make Me Care: Digital Storytelling to Affect Change This session explores how to affect change in the world by evolving the art of digital storytelling. From NPR���s Michele Norris creating ���The Race Card Project,��� which asked people to share their views on race in America in just SIX WORDS, to Flow Nonfiction���s documentary work fighting breast cancer for Ford���s Warriors in Pink, we look at how audiences are moved to take action in the digital age. David Modigliani, Michele Norris , Susan Feeney Panel | Beginner | Community + Activism | #makemecare 12:30 PM Room 6ab Do Great Things: Your Role in the Human Project We have greater capacity to change the world than anyone who came before.We can even come together in World-Wide Collaboration, a unified Project of building our future. We���ll explore how a radical shift in consciousness from Me to We redefines the purpose of everything from entrepreneurship to capitalism to Facebook, revealing the opportunity to consciously co-design our own evolution together. Justin Rosenstein Solo | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #oneproject 12:30 PM Room 9abc Creativity & Mayhem: Anonymous Communities at Work Communities like Anonymous and 4chan's /b/ create Internet culture, change politics and make news. How do they build trust, share work and intervene in the world? Can new groups and movements use anonymity and pseudonymity? We present an alternate universe of thriving, chaotic, and effective cultures created by nobody and the implications for activism, politics and creativity online. Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Quinn Norton Panel | Beginner | Community + Activism | #mayhem! 12:30 PM Room 10ab Energy Efficient, Smartphone Powered Data Centers How are technologies originally developed for mobile phones migrating into the data center, and how are highly optimized chip platforms emerging to support users' new and varied online workloads? Ian Ferguson Solo | Intermediate | Government + Civic Engagement | #ServerTech 3:30 PM Room 6ab Talking with the "Jon Stewart of the Arab World" Dr. Bassem Youssef is an Egyptian cardiothoracic surgeon turned political satirist who launched a popular political talk show on YouTube in the wake of the Egyptian revolution in 2011. Youssef, dubbed the "Egyptian Jon Stewart", has gained a worldwide following on YouTube. Hear what he has to say about the evolving roles of comedy, satire, and entertainment in a post Arab Spring Middle East. Bassem Youssef, Maha Abouelenein Dual | Advanced | Community + Activism | #bassem 3:30 PM Room 9abc Entrepreneurs-in-Residence: Not Just for VCs Do the words ���entrepreneur��� and ���government��� sound paradoxical to you? Come see how state and federal government have already jumped on the best practices of the startup world and have actively been recruiting world-class entrepreneurs and innovators to join the best internal talent to rapidly create, develop, engage and accelerate innovation. Arnaub Chatterjee, John Paul Farmer, Richard Bendis, Zac Jiwa Panel | Advanced | Government + Civic Engagement | #EIRinGOVT 3:30 PM Room 10ab Unlocking Energy Data: The Green Button This session will recount how the administration leveraged the ���power of the pulpit��� to compel utilities to open data to their customers. It will highlight some of the most compelling use cases that have emerged in the new era of open energy data. It will give a vision of the future and inspire developers to participate in creating innovative apps to better connect people and their energy usage. Justin Segall Solo | Advanced | Government + Civic Engagement | #EnergyData 5:00 PM Room 5abc Breaking Out of Prison: Future of Incarceration This panel describes how emerging capabilities in predictive risk modeling, geospatial analytics, gamification, and mobile technology can give rise to a new model of virtual incarceration. Alan Holden, Carmen Medina, John Vanyur, Kara Shuler Panel | Intermediate | Government + Civic Engagement | #newprison 5:00 PM Room 6ab Progress & Tech in the Middle East: Friend or Foe? There have been many attempts to emulate Silicon Valley, but this year we���ll see a tech mecca spring up in an unlikely place: the Middle East. One company, PITME ("Progress in Technology Middle East"), is fostering this movement by finding and motivating strong companies with product and traction that are ready for global markets. Nima Adelkhani Solo | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #Pitme 5:00 PM Room 9abc Hacking Cities for a Better, Sustainable Tomorrow Cities face numerous hurdles to innovation including costs and outdated infrastructure; however some impactful innovation is now being led by citizens addressing civic challenges. Join us as we discuss the emerging wave of place-based, localized innovation, spurred through a convergence of public, private and nonprofit efforts, to create smarter, more sustainable cities ��� one app at a time. Abhi Nemani, Bryan Walsh, Erika Diamond, Rachel Haot Panel | Beginner | Government + Civic Engagement | #SmartCity SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival | 125 PROGRAMMING 11:00 AM Room 9abc Room 5abc