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HYATT REGENCY AUSTIN 5:00 PM Hill Country ABCD 11:00 AM Texas Ballroom 5-7 Dating By Accident: Finding Love While You Tweet Hacking the Crowd: Artists as Entrepreneurs Yeah, there���s Match and OkCupid and HowAboutWe, but the real matches are happening on everyday social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Set aside all the hype about ���Catfishing��� for a moment. How���s ���online dating��� REALLY happening these days, and how are relationships changing as a result? Brian Stelter Core Conversation | Intermediate | Culture + Entertainment | #findlove Molly Crabapple ��� visual artist, and Kim Boekbinder ��� musician, are both champions of the crowd funding age. Both have received international praise and recognition for their groundbreaking work in their respective mediums, as well as the way they run their careers. Kim Boekbinder, Molly Crabapple Dual | Intermediate | Culture + Entertainment | #crowdhack 5:00 PM 12:30 PM Big Bend Texas Ballroom 1-4 Training the Next 7 Generations of Storytellers Drinking Your Way to the Future The storytelling tradition is strong within Native cultures, however, traditions and languages are still being lost with every generation. One of the ways to make sure Native cultures continue is to empower the next generation of storytellers. This panel of accomplished Native American media makers and educators will share their experience with training Native youth in digital storytelling. Eric Martin, Missy Whiteman, Tom Fields, Tracy Rector Panel | Beginner | Culture + Entertainment | #next7gen To bring about a more social experience in the workplace, we created Arnie - the world's first talking beer vending machine. Arnie is fully automated, intelligent and works on the seventeenth floor at Arnold Worldwide.Learn about our success story with Arnie, the rapid prototyping environment that made his creation possible and where the real opportunities are in Creative Technology. Anthony Stellato Core Conversation | Intermediate | Culture + Entertainment | #dywttf 5:00 PM 12:30 PM Hill Country ABCD Texas Ballroom 5-7 How Sojo Studios Is Bettering the World via Cloud Nowhere to Hide: Can Twitter Fight Corruption? Hear how Sojo Studio's game ���WeTopia��� is built on a cloud platform has been the underlying success of the rapid growth of the game...one that has drawn huge celebrity partners, and effecting remote the lives of children in remote villages. Sponsored by Sojo Studios / Rightscale. Josh Fraser Dual | Intermediate | Gaming + Game Development | #sojo Dishonesty is rampant, but regulations to deal with corruption often create opportunities for competitors to gain an advantage by operating at the very edge of legality, further undermining our society���s values while doing immense collateral damage to the economy. Could Twitter and other e-social technologies empower the ���crowd��� to discipline bad behavior by individuals and companies alike? Don Peppers, Martha Rogers Core Conversation | Advanced | Culture + Entertainment | #tweetcop SUNDAY, MARCH 10 9:30 AM Texas Ballroom 5-7 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 Big Bend 12:30 PM Texas Ballroom 1-4 Jiro Dreams of Game Design What does culinary excellence have to do with great game design? From the first to the lasting impression, every part of a perfect culinary experience is an obsession many chase and few achieve. It is a passion we must keep in a world where shipping a game often means compromising our ideal vision. Brenda Brathwaite Romero explores this world and takes from it lessons for every designer. Brenda Brathwaite Romero Featured Session | Intermediate | Gaming + Game Development | #jirogame 12:30 PM Texas Ballroom 5-7 Outsourcing is the best solution for all publishers & developers to keep costs competitive & maintain the high quality of content expected from our maturing industry. This conversation will jump into the ways outsourcing studios can best assist their clients by being involved earlier in production as well as identify some of the processes and tools all teams involved can be successful. Sergio Rosas, Tom Marx Core Conversation | Intermediate | Gaming + Game Development | #outsource Digital Disruption: Brands as Culture Participants 11:00 AM Hill Country ABCD 3:30 PM Transcendent Tech: Is G-d Rebooting the World? We live in an increasingly connected world. Streams of tweets, status-updates and check-ins have brought humanity closer together than ever. Social media lead social revolutions and start-ups are born on the premise of fostering new standards of communication. Yet how do we escape the information overload? Is there a message behind the medium and a way to bring transcendence to technology? Avner Warner, Mordechai Lightstone Core Conversation | Beginner | Culture + Entertainment | #techreboot 11:00 AM Texas Ballroom 1-4 Is Women's Media Too Girly? Do female journalists and writers undermine themselves (and other women) by publishing odes to frozen yogurt, writing about their breakups or creating a cable show about female friendship? Or does "girly" media surface and acknowledge women's experiences as important and worth hearing? Anna Holmes, Deborah Schoeneman, Margaret Johnson, Rebecca Fernandez Panel | Beginner | Culture + Entertainment | #womangirl The fundamental question of why marketers, startups, etc., continue to struggle to adapt to a world that has gone digital, mobile and location-aware will be debated. The role of real-time marketing, disruptive business models, the separation of brands from their products and confusing consumer expectations and how brands that behave as culture participants are winning will be discussed. Sponsored by Pepsi. Shiv Singh Solo | Intermediate | Culture + Entertainment | #winbrands Big Bend Hidden Social: Where Sexual Variants Gather Online This core conversation will cover the experiences of those on the sexual fringe in using various social media technologies to meet share info and explore their particular interests. Issues encountered as well as which technologies work best for which groups will be explored. Solicitation of audience experiences and suggestions will be discussed. Cunning Minx, Herb Coleman Core Conversation | Beginner | Culture + Entertainment | #hiddensoc 3:30 PM Hill Country ABCD What Do Sensors Mean for News, Society & Science? Every day, sensors around the world record more data. Increasingly, citizens are becoming sensors, carrying mobile devices that enable them to collect and share observations from their environments. This emerging ���Internet of Things��� holds profound implications for the future of news, civic engagement, science, and business. Alex Howard, Javaun Moradi Core Conversation | Intermediate | Culture + Entertainment | #coreSensor SXSW 2013 Interactive Festival | 185 PROGRAMMING Best Practices for Outsourcing & Integration