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!
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COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT SUNDAY, MARCH 10 9:30 AM Rio Grande Ballroom Home Room 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 Brazos How to Keep Working Parents In & Innovating Tech innovation is a pervasive theme at SXSW, and good people are the key to innovation. An ongoing challenge for our industry is keeping parents in, instead of dropping out, as they give birth to the next generation of digirati. The time is right for a tech-talent workplace revolution ��� are the media and tech industries uniquely positioned to lead it? Lisa Belkin, Sara DeWitt Core Conversation | Intermediate | Work + Career | #haveitall 11:00 AM Rio Grande Ballroom Self-Publishing in the Age of E For years anyone could be an author. Today, anyone can be a publisher. Selfpublishing, once considered a last-ditch alternative for those who couldn't land a traditional deal, is now a tool for first-time and established authors alike. How are these changes affecting writers? Literary agents? And the way content is being searched for, and found, in ancillary industries like Hollywood? Amanda Patten, Hugh Howey, Kirby Kim Panel | Advanced | Work + Career | #selfpubE 12:30 PM Brazos Agency Swap: A US/UK Creative Exchange How global is creativity? We decided to swap one of Mason Zimbler���s US art directors with their UK office counterpart to find out. Armed with video cameras to document their journey and blogs to share their experiences, our two art directors spent two weeks getting to know their new cities and agencies. The shops, located in Austin and Bristol, both specialize in disruptive technology marketing. James Trezona, Kevin Kerner Core Conversation | Beginner | Work + Career | #agencyswap 3:30 PM Rio Grande Ballroom Your Outsourcer���s Outsourcer Will Be a Robot Every day, more of the work that each of us is doing is getting snatched up by the rapidly emerging international & robotic workforces. No job is safe. But what you probably don't realize is that these jobs disappear in fragments and these fragments become automated or distributed in very predictable ways. Don���t worry. You get to keep 20% of your job & we���ll tell you which 20%. Dan Chuparkoff Solo | Advanced | Work + Career | #hierwork 5:00 PM Brazos Designing & Building Services Inside Government What happens when modern web teams come up against the reality of some of the world's oldest institutions? How do new open approaches stand up when the world's media are waking up to the reality of cybercrime? Is the promise of changing millions of citizens' experience of government service real, or will the rhetoric have to take a rest? James Stewart, Matt Burton Core Conversation | Intermediate | Work + Career | #insource 5:00 PM Rio Grande Ballroom How NOT to Suck at Presenting Your Work One of the harder lessons design and development professionals must learn is that weak work presented strongly can trump strong work presented weakly. If you'd like to learn how to present your work more effectively, join us for an engaging, interactive session where you'll learn some storytelling strategies and acting techniques that can help you improve your presentation performance. Megan Mead, Michael Gibson Dual | Intermediate | Work + Career | #Not2Suck MONDAY, MARCH 11 9:30 AM Rio Grande Ballroom Home Room 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 Brazos Eat. Blog. Publish: Internet to Paper Hit How SXSW Made Me Quit My Job Eat. Blog. Publish. will focus on how to build your audience from the ground up through social media and become a trusted source of information for a community. And, while harnessing the power of the internet is key, the most important part of the process is engaging in the good old fashioned way of talking to people and networking the crap out of your town/city/hamlet. Julia Gongaware, Laura Zorch, Mandy McFadden, Sarah Sudar Panel | Intermediate | Content + Distribution | #eatwrite After last year's SXSW I decided to quit my job. It was the first thing I did after coming back from Austin. Even though it was my second SXSW I couldn't find anything resembling the vibes, content, and people at my job at that time.This talk is about what I've taken away from SXSW, a personal journey from Rotterdam to Austin. About how I experience SXSW in my work, and my personal life. Jeroen van Eck Core Conversation | Beginner | Work + Career | #quitjob 3:30 PM 11:00 AM Rio Grande Ballroom Brazos Praise & A's: Maximizing a Millennial Workforce Millennials Speak Out: How to Manage the GenX Boss By 2014, Millennials will make up 36% of the workforce. This new group of workers brings a new set of expectations and demands. They grew up with constant awards, minimal free-range play, and were included in decision making discussions with adults. This combination has created a workforce in need of a new supervisor. Learn elements needed to attract, focus, and keep the most talented employees. Jennifer Selke, Tim Street Core Conversation | Intermediate | Work + Career | #GenYWorker Millennials are described as having a sense of entitlement, needing constant praise, and lacking in the work ethic found in the generations that came before. Research shows that Millennials are confident, interested in development, and have a quick ability to learn new technology. Hear from a multi-generational panel and learn what skills are necessary to bridge these generational differences. Amy Mixa, Betsy Flanagan, John O'Loughlin, Luke Davids Panel | Intermediate | Work + Career | #GenYWorker SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival | 151 PROGRAMMING 12:30 PM Rio Grande Ballroom