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) | List Panels by Panelist | Search Panels

Friday, 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

3:00 pm · Book Reading: The Age of Engage: Reinventing Marketing for Today’s Connected, Collaborative, and Hyperinteractive Culture

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 · ARGs and the Future of Entertainment

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?

5:00 pm · Quarterlife: A Wild Journey From Internet to TV

5:00 pm · Sponsored Panel: Serious About Games Dot Com