2008 SXSW Interactive Panels Schedule
Everything subject to change.
By Date: Fri, Mar 7th Sat, Mar 8th Sun, Mar 9th Mon, Mar 10th Tue, Mar 11th (all)
| Search PanelsFriday, March 7th
2:30 pm · Book Reading: Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
3:00 pm · Book Reading: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
3:30 pm · Book Reading: Building Findable Web Sites
3:30 pm · Career Rev 342: Dabble Dabble, Toil and Kick Ass
3:30 pm · Edit Me! How Gamers are Adopting the Wiki Way
3:30 pm · How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics
4:00 pm · Book Reading: Subject to Change
4:30 pm · Book Reading: Radically Transparent: Monitoring & Managing Reputations Online
5:00 pm · Book Reading: Designing the Moment
5:00 pm · Pro Gamers: New Extreme Athletes of the 21st Century
5:00 pm · Respect!
5:00 pm · Battledecks II
5:00 pm · Bankrupt Your Startup in Five Easy Steps
5:30 pm · SXSW Clicks: Film Production
Saturday, March 8th
10:00 am · A Better Gun to Shoot Your Eye Out With
10:00 am · AJAX and Flash Mistakes: Lessons Learned Building SlideShare
10:00 am · Book Reading: Web Design for ROI
10:00 am · Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly
10:00 am · Creating Findable Rich Media Content
10:00 am · Design is in the Details
10:00 am · Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits
10:00 am · Kill Your Mouse: Kinetic Computing Arrives Main Stage
10:00 am · Quit Your Day Job and Vlog
10:00 am · Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design
10:00 am · What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones
10:00 am · Sponsored Panel: Knowing the Audience: Improving Communication Between Artists and Fans
10:00 am · Sponsored Panel: ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Peak
10:30 am · Book Reading: Stylin' With CSS - Second Edition
11:00 am · Book Reading: High Performance Web Sites
11:30 am · Accessible Rich Media
11:30 am · Book Reading: The IT Girl's Guide to Blogging with Moxie
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Growing Pains: Your Web Company's Getting BIG
11:30 am · Core Conversation: GTD for Startups: Getting Things Done in the Real World
11:30 am · How to Rawk SXSW: Achieving Geekgasm
11:30 am · Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Start-up Management 2.0 - Keeping Teams Motivated, Productive, Happy
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Startup or Sellout: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
11:30 am · The Contextual Web
11:30 am · The Future of Virtual World & Game Development: Rise of the Indies
11:30 am · The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing For Creatives
11:30 am · The Suxorz: The Worst Ten Social Media Ad Campaigns of 2007
11:30 am · Top Ten Lessons Learned in E-Commerce
11:30 am · You Are Here: Gaming and User's Geolocation in Web 2.0
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Flat World? Secret Strategies, Tips and Tools
11:30 am · Sponsored Panel: Managing Communities That Work
11:30 am · Sponsored Panel: ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Peak
11:30 am · Digital Cinema for Indies
12:00 pm · Book Reading: Media Rules!
12:30 pm · Book Reading: Mobilizing Generation 2.0
1:00 pm · Book Reading: Nokia Smartphone Hacks
1:30 pm · Book Reading: The Back of the Napkin
2:00 pm · Getting Unstuck: From Desktop to Device
2:00 pm · Online Extremism - And the Muslims Who Fight It
2:00 pm · Opening Remarks with Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson
2:00 pm · Taking Your Web Talent to the Video Game Industry
2:00 pm · Location-based Entertainment, Animating Overlooked Spaces
2:00 pm · Sponsored Panel: ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Peak
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Adult Conversations: Sex, Intimacy & Online Relationships
3:30 pm · Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Great Design Hurts
3:30 pm · Body Optimization: Why Stop at Health & Fitness?
3:30 pm · Book Reading: Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Breakups 2.0
3:30 pm · Go For IT! Attracting Girls to Technology
3:30 pm · High-Tech Craft: Why Sewing and Knitting Still Matter
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Pink Ghetto Blasters: Destigmatizing Sex via Online Community Building
3:30 pm · 'Redrum in the Rue Morgue': Collaboration in International Communities
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Sexual Ethics, Interactivity and Virtual Worlds
3:30 pm · The Art of Speed: Conversations With Monster Makers
3:30 pm · The Myth of the Rational Voter
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: When Your Partner is Your Partner
3:30 pm · 10 Things We've Learned at 37signals
3:30 pm · Sponsored Panel: The Elephant in a Creative Designer's Living Room
3:30 pm · Cross-Media Cross-Pollination: Mashing Up Video Games and ARGs
3:30 pm · Sponsored Panel: EllisLab Open Panel Discussion
3:30 pm · Video Production for the Web & Mobile Devices
4:00 pm · Book Reading: The Making of Second Life
4:30 pm · Book Reading: Second Lives: A Journey Through Virtual Worlds
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: A Developer's Cookbook to Leveraging Virtualization
5:00 pm · A General Theory of Creative Relativity
5:00 pm · Behind the Scenes at the Onion News Network
5:00 pm · Book Reading: The Second Life Herald
5:00 pm · City of Games: Inside Austin's Developerscape
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: How to Build Facebook in Bangalore: Outsourcing 2.0
5:00 pm · Managing the Media Blur
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Open Source or Open Pit
5:00 pm · Social Marketing Strategies Metrics, Where Are They?
5:00 pm · Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting!
5:00 pm · The Porn Police: Know the Rules
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Perma-Live-Vlogging: Vicious or Victory, Hell or Sweet?
5:00 pm · What Women Need to Succeed
5:00 pm · Worst Website Ever: That's So Crazy, It Just Might Work
5:00 pm · What Makes a Strategic Media Partnership?
5:00 pm · Sponsored Panel: Interactive Media Trends - Are You On Top of It?
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Transparent Business -- How Much is Too Much
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Are you Helping Drive the Creative Economy
5:30 pm · Book Reading: Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life
Sunday, March 9th
10:00 am · A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe?
10:00 am · Everyone's A Design Critic
10:00 am · Hollywood and Design and Literature: Just Who is Inspiring Who?
10:00 am · How Manga Explains the World
10:00 am · Scope Creep and Other Villains
10:00 am · Social Design Strategies
10:00 am · The Female Takedown of Casual Gaming
10:00 am · The Science of Designing Interactions
10:00 am · Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World
10:00 am · Online Advertising for Newbies
10:00 am · Sponsored Panel: Increase Revenue by Mobile-Enabling Your Services
10:30 am · SXSW Clicks: Brunch with EllisLab
11:30 am · Core Conversation: 10 Easy Ways To Piss Off A Blogger (And Other Mistakes Marketers Make)
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Blog on Company Time Without Getting Dooced
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Blogging for Dollars - Blogging's a Profession?
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Diaper Diarists
11:30 am · Everything I Know About Accessibility I Learned From Star Wars
11:30 am · Friend Me! Vote for Me! Donate Now!
11:30 am · From Frustration to Elation: Getting Emotional by Design
11:30 am · Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs
11:30 am · Make It So: Learning From SciFi Interfaces
11:30 am · Meet The Architects
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Pet Blogging: Not a Fluffy Puppy Story
11:30 am · Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative!
11:30 am · The Real Dragon: Understanding the Web and Digital Media in China
11:30 am · Core Conversation: "I'm Internet Famous": Status in Social Media
11:30 am · Sponsored Panel: Responsible Web Design
11:30 am · Social Strategies For Revolutionaries
11:30 am · Animation and Digital Effects on a Budget
1:30 pm · SXSW Clicks: Showbiz Budgeting & Actualization and Scheduling
2:00 pm · Designing for Freedom
2:00 pm · Logos: Why They're Irrelevant and Can Actually Hurt Your Business
2:00 pm · Keynote Interview with Mark Zuckerberg
2:00 pm · Stories, Games and Your Brand
2:00 pm · Mobileactive: How Mobile Technology Impacts Politics and Vice Versa
3:00 pm · Book Reading: Some Assembly Required
3:30 pm · Book Reading: Brazen Careerist
3:30 pm · Content Boundaries, a 12-Step Program
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Cooking up Accessible Video for the Web
3:30 pm · Does Tomorrow's World Need Designers?
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Get Rich, Remain Accessible
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Global Design: Web Sites for the World
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: How Accessible Should Your Site Be?
3:30 pm · Human and Property Rights in Virtual Worlds
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Opening the Web to Linguistic Realities
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: The Web Standards Confession Booth
3:30 pm · Tools for Enchantment: 20 Ways to Woo Users
3:30 pm · Transparent or Top Secret: Pro Gridiron on the Web
3:30 pm · Where Are The Black Tech Bloggers?
3:30 pm · The 10 Commandments of Nice
3:30 pm · Awards - Do We Lose by Winning?
3:30 pm · Sponsored Panel: Scoop the Story on Your Blog
3:30 pm · SXSW Open Format
3:30 pm · Blogs, Buzz, and Buddy Lists
4:30 pm · SXSW Clicks: Web Designers
5:00 pm · Africa 2.0: Affecting Change Using Technology
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Are You Smarter Than A Wired Teen?
5:00 pm · Career Transitions: From DIY to Working for The Man
5:00 pm · Data as Art: Musical, Visual Web APIs
5:00 pm · Gossip
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Mobile 2.0: Why the Third Screen is Taking Center Stage
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Mobile Manners: Mobile Presence and the Undefined Etiquette
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Raising Web 2.0 Enabled Kids in a World Afraid of MySpace
5:00 pm · Score! Learning E-commerce From the Sports Industry
5:00 pm · Sexual Privacy Online
5:00 pm · The Supercollider: A Hero of the Social Network
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: What Teens Want - In a Game
5:00 pm · LOLWUT? Why Do I Keep Coming Back to This Website?
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Mobile Media You Can Move To
5:00 pm · SEO 3.0: Optimizing Search & Social for 2008 and Beyond
5:00 pm · Sponsored Panel: Harness the Power of Social Networking on Your Intranet
Monday, March 10th
10:00 am · Beyond the Blogosphere: How Online Talent is Being Developed Offline
10:00 am · Blame Canada: 7 Ways We're Ahead in New Media
10:00 am · Building Developer-Friendly Web Service APIs
10:00 am · Games for Change: Real World Games with Real World Impact
10:00 am · Sponsored Panel: Going Social Now
10:00 am · Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons
10:00 am · Scalability Boot Camp
10:00 am · The Art of Self-Branding
10:00 am · The Care and Feeding of Your Startup
10:00 am · What User Generated Video Means to Word of Mouth Advertising
11:30 am · A Critical Look At OpenID
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Blueprinting Your Project: Put it on Paper or Just Start Coding?
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Design Metrics: Better Than 'Because I Said So'
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Designing for "Oh No!"
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Five Things Elite Designers Should Stop Saying
11:30 am · Hardware Mashups: Introducing the Long Tail of Gadgets
11:30 am · Self Replicating Awesomeness: The Marketing of No Marketing
11:30 am · Social Networking and Your Brand
11:30 am · Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR!
11:30 am · The Web That Wasn't
11:30 am · True Stories from Social Media Sites
11:30 am · Mobile Phones: International Devices of Mystery
11:30 am · Sponsored Panel: Driving the Future of Consumer Electronics
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Your Blog Is A Niche Community
11:30 am · Pimp My Film's Website
12:30 pm · The Weblog Awards Ceremony
1:30 pm · SXSW Clicks: Payroll Needs for the Independent Producer
2:00 pm · Browser Wars: Deja Vu All Over Again?
2:00 pm · Cyber Safety in the Interactive Age
2:00 pm · Judo Moves for Defending Your Reputation Online
2:00 pm · PMOG: The Web as a Play Field
2:00 pm · Monday Keynote: Frank Warren
3:00 pm · Book Reading: Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide
3:30 pm · 10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment
3:30 pm · Book Reading: Shooting War
3:30 pm · Bootstrapping 101: The Basic Building Blocks
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Community & Loyalty: Gamers to Flamers, Lurkers to Workers
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Creating Passionate Games: A Multidisciplinary Approach
3:30 pm · Design Eye for South By
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Do Virtual Worlds Need to be 3D?
3:30 pm · Building a Worldwide Climate Movement
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Improbable Pursuits: Why Video Games Fail in Corporate Training
3:30 pm · Online Adulation: Use Don't Abuse Your Fans
3:30 pm · Client-Side Code and Internationalization
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Marketing to Real People in Second Life
3:30 pm · The Future of Volunteers: Adapt or Die
3:30 pm · Transforming Hospital Systems: The Digital Future of Healthcare
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: What Can the Video Games Industry Learn From Alternate Reality Games?
3:30 pm · Sponsored Panel: Taking it to the Desktop
3:30 pm · SXSW Open Format
3:30 pm · ABC's Of DVDs
4:30 pm · SXSW Clicks: Interactive Designers
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Beyond the Page View: Measuring Social Media Engagement
5:00 pm · Bio-Networks: Using Mobile Technology to Impact Healthstyle
5:00 pm · Bootstrapping through Entrepreneur Collaboration Networks
5:00 pm · Building Portable Social Networks
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Coworking and the Evolution of the Independent Worker
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Feeding the Creativity Beast
5:00 pm · How Are You? A Global Mood Ring
5:00 pm · Independent Film Distribution: It Takes an Online Community
5:00 pm · Pimp My Non Profit - Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Stories of Failure: Surviving Start-up Mistakes
5:00 pm · Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update
5:00 pm · Virtual Scandals and Sacrilege: Who's grieFing Now?
5:00 pm · WaSP Annual Meeting: Don't Break the Web
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Your Mom 2.0
5:00 pm · Sponsored Panel: The Web Agency: There Will Be Blood
5:30 pm · SXSW Clicks: Film Production
Tuesday, March 11th
10:00 am · 10 Ways to Green-ify Your Digital Life
10:00 am · Book Reading: Blogging for Dummies, 2nd Edition
10:00 am · Content Management System Roundup
10:00 am · Crunching and Streaming: Online Video Distribution Challenge and Opportunity
10:00 am · How Many Clicks to the Center of. . .?
10:00 am · Let's Get Serious: Should Video Games Replace College?
10:00 am · Life After the i-Phone
10:00 am · Thick as Thieves: When Your Fans Break the Law
10:00 am · Using Entertainment to Create Effective Mobile Advertising
10:00 am · Future of Corporate Blogs
10:00 am · Sponsored Panel: The Insiders Guide to Angel Investing
10:30 am · Book Reading: WordPress for Dummies
11:00 am · Book Reading: Managing Online Forums
11:30 am · Book Reading: Lead Generation on the Web
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Can .edu Act Like a .com?
11:30 am · Casual Multi-Player Online Games: Serious Revenues
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Examining the Different Ways We Can Work
11:30 am · How to Rawk After SXSW: Staying Inspired
11:30 am · How Widgets Influence Music on the Web
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Some Serious Fun: Interactive Media for Children
11:30 am · Soundtracks Seeking Films, Songs in Search of Directors
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Specialization vs. Doing it All
11:30 am · Visualizing Sustainability
11:30 am · Peas in a Pod: Advertising, Monetization and Social Media
11:30 am · Core Conversation: Next Generation Education: Bringing the New Web to Campus
11:30 am · Independent Success: Bloggers Who Made It
11:30 am · Sponsored Panel: Monetizing Rich Internet Applications
11:30 am · Following the Lifecycle of an Idea
11:30 am · A Conversation with: Michael Eisner
12:00 pm · Book Reading: Creative Capital: Georges Doriot and the Birth of Venture Capital
12:30 pm · Book Reading: Pro PayPal E-Commerce (Expert's Voice)
1:00 pm · Book Reading: The Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World
2:00 pm · Ad-Supported Music, A New Hope for the Industry?
2:00 pm · How Piracy Will Save the Music Industry
2:00 pm · Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
2:00 pm · The Mexican Manifesto
2:00 pm · Tuesday Keynote: Jane McGonigal
3:30 pm · Considerations for Scalabale Web Ventures
3:30 pm · Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together
3:30 pm · Getting There Faster By Using Open Code
3:30 pm · Green Software. Really?
3:30 pm · MASH Notes: A Military Surgeon's Videoblog from Iraq
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Make Your Art Work for You!
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: What's New in Video Advertising
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Managing Media: Is Your Music Collection About to Become Extinct
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Record Labels - What Were They?
3:30 pm · Roll Over Gutenberg, Tell McLuhan The News
3:30 pm · Take Municipal WiFi Back
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: The Future of Mobile Video
3:30 pm · The Trials and Tribulations of Using Music Online
3:30 pm · Sponsored Panel: New Media Powering Entertainment
3:30 pm · Core Conversation: Virtual Mentoring for Real Life Success in Music
3:30 pm · SXSW Open Format
3:30 pm · Filmmakers On Demand
4:30 pm · SXSW Clicks: Online Video
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Building a Startup You Love is Hard
5:00 pm · Can Enterprise Save the World
5:00 pm · Can Wii Learn? Using Wiimotes in E-Learning
5:00 pm · Communal Narrative: Exquisite Corpse Filmmaking
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Do You Have to Disappear Completely to Get Things Done?
5:00 pm · Futurists' Sandbox: Scenarios for Social Technologies in 2025
5:00 pm · Guerrilla.com
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Online Identity: And I *Do* Give a Damn About My Bad Reputation
5:00 pm · Taking Over the World: the Flickr Way
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Working Over the Web: Managing Distributed Staffs
5:00 pm · FM 2.0: The Future of Internet Radio
5:00 pm · Core Conversation: Rock'n' Rebirth: The Future of the Open Media Web
5:00 pm · Is Your Machinima Ready for Hollywood?
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