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AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER: LEVEL 3 5:00 PM Room 10ab 12:30 PM Room 9abc Hooking Up Happier: Design Insight from Grindr Profit + Purpose. The New Normal. Grindr started in 2009 and now has a user base of 5 million men seeking men. While less known than other locative services like Foursquare, Grindr is one of the best services for socially connecting its users. This talk provides context for Grindr's success and presents the current rules and strategies for hooking up and suggests how its design impacts user behaviour. Jaime Woo Solo | Advanced | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #meetgrindr Profit + Purpose. The New Normal. will discuss digital trends in cause conscious shopping, the influence of the power of personal recommendation and creating innovative ways to power profit through purpose. Online content providers and retailers are providing opportunities to deepen interactions with users while supporting social good in response to new trends in users��� interest in social purpose Amaryllis Fox, Rachel Tipograph, Ross Geisel, Sophia Rossi Panel | Advanced | Community + Activism | #socialgood SUNDAY, MARCH 10 11:00 AM Room 5abc Participatory Budgeting: Crowdsourcing for Real Participatory Budgeting (PB) is Democracy in all CAPs. PB allows citizens to actually vote on how to allocate public monies. Dubbed by the New York Times as ���revolutionary civics in action,��� and currently taking place in 1,500 cities around the world, PB is starting to spread in the US following its recent adoption in Chicago, New York City and Vallejo, California. Marti Brown, Tiago Peixoto Dual | Beginner | Government + Civic Engagement | #PBUSA 11:00 AM Room 6ab Racism on YouTube The Racism on YouTube panel will take a hard look at the various struggles that black members of the YouTube community face each day. This panel will examine why it is that blacks struggle to contend with other races on the platform and also explore various issues that arise with racist commenters and detractors. Andre Meadows, Tay Zonday Duall | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #YTRacism 11:00 AM Room 9abc Big Heritage, Big Quilts & Big Canvases Join us and explore novel ways to visualize and explore cultural heritage data and tell little stories with big data. We will explore the technological and social challenges of creating interactive exhibits around the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the largest community-created piece of folk art in the world. These applications are a beachhead on the shores of big humanities research. Andy van Dam, Anne Balsamo, Donald Brinkman, Ethan Watrall Panel | Beginner | Community + Activism | #deepdata 11:00 AM Room 10ab A Movement Online to End Female Genital Cutting PROGRAMMING Female genital cutting is one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time ��� but it is ending. Communities are abandoning this harmful social norm and Africa the message of abandonment is spreading from person to person. We want to harness this change to foster a global movement to end FGC in our lifetimes, and we believe that the web, social media and new technologies all have a part to play. Ruthie Taylor Solo | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #endFGC 12:30 PM Room 5abc Startups@DC: Max Political Impact, Minimum Effort How can we use community organizing tactics to pass Startup Visa, overcoming political roadblocks and bridging the cultural gap between startups and Washington? How can we use knowledge of government to maximize effectiveness?Entrepreneur and Representative Jared Polis, Netroots Nation founder Gina Cooper, and PolitiHacks founder Craig Montuori will discuss making government work for startups. Craig Montuori, Gina Cooper, Jared Polis Panel | Intermediate | Government + Civic Engagement | #StartVisa 12:30 PM Room 6ab Black Vernacular: Reading New Media Black artists have to both find and fix the color line, no matter how ambiguous its parameters seem. By examining vernacular art, design and film we can shed light on the nebulous topic of African-American aesthetics. Martine Syms Solo | Beginner | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #aesthetics 126 | SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival 12:30 PM Room 10ab Ehrmahgerd: Cyberbullying Kristin and Dannielle, founders of the youth organization and website Everyone Is Gay, will discuss the role of cyber bullying in our online communities. Hinging on their work with LGBTQ youth and their own experience with social media, Kristin and Dannielle will focus their discussion on what young people, youth service providers, and social media developers can do to address these situations. Dannielle Owens-Reid, Kristin Russo Dual | Intermediate | Community + Activism | #cyberanon 3:30 PM Room 5abc Apps for Autism Expert panelists will provide an overview of the need for assistive, instructional technology for people with ASD, existing apps commonly used for/by individuals with Autism, pluses and minuses, funding sources for assistive technology, what���s lacking (funding sources), what���s missing, and what���s next. Selection of assistive devices for a variety of special needs will be addressed. Dr Missy Olive, Rebecca Ryan, Sami Rahman Panel | Beginner | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #AutismApps 3:30 PM Room 6ab Cultivating the New Minority Entrepreneur Right under our noses a new generation of minority entrepreneurs are crafting business ideas and refining their hustles. Comprising roughly 40% of Gen Y, the next generation up-and-comers, Blacks and Latinos have a disproportionate inclination toward entrepreneurship. This panel aims to explore the changing Gen Y minority entrepreneurship paradigm. John Butler, Marcus Mayo Dual | Advanced | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #newGenY 3:30 PM Room 9abc Redefining Political Tech & Civic Participation Technology is making it possible to fundamentally reframe the way we can engage with each other and with our elected representatives, but this potential to redefine governance practices is yet to be fully realized. This panel is a conversation between participants representing tech companies, academia and political campaigns about the future of technology, Government and Civic Engagement. Betsy Hoover, Ginny Hunt, Jennifer Pahlka, Nick Grossman Panel | Advanced | Government + Civic Engagement | #politics 3:30 PM Room 10ab The Athena Doctrine: Rise of Feminine Values In both places, and the world over, leaders are deploying feminine strengths and values to recover from economic and social crises and create a more hopeful future. Two years, 64,000 people surveyed in 25 nations and interviews from another 15 countries tell stories of how the most innovative men and women are creating a world we'd all want to inhabit. John Gerzema Solo | Intermediate | Diversity + Emerging Markets | #AthenaDoc