SXSW Interactive
March 13-17, 2009
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the brightest personalities of emerging technology. Whether you are a hard-core geek, a dedicated content creator, a new media entrepreneur, or just someone who likes being around an extremely creative community, SXSW Interactive is for you!
2009 Panel Ideas: Online Submission Process Now Open
Do you have a great idea for a panel discussion or a presentation at the 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival? If so, we want to hear about it.
The online application for submitting these ideas has now been launched – and it will remain live through Friday, July 11. Programming ideas submitted via this interface will be posted on the 2009 version of the SXSW Panel Picker, thereby allowing the web community to vote on which ideas they feel are most appropriate for 2009. Click here for more information on getting involved with next year’s event!
2008 Recap: Collecting Your SXSW Interactive Experiences
Check out the online event recap page with day-by-day summaries of keynotes, panels, parties and other fun activities. Got a SXSW-related link that you’d like to see posted on this page? The more the merrier! Send us the link and we will add it to this community archive.
Hear the Brightest Minds in Emerging Technology with SXSW Interactive Podcasts
Quench your thirst for all things SXSW Interactive by checking out the SXSW Podcast Page, which contains tons and tons of FREE audio content. Then make sure you are subscribed to our SXSW Podcast RSS Feed.
2008 Program: Complete List of Panels and Speakers Announced
The SXSW Interactive Festival features forward-thinking new media experts from across the United States and around the world. The bulk of programing for the 2008 has been posted online. Be sure to check out the Panels Schedule, as well as two new features for this year's event; Book Readings and Core Conversations. About 75% of programing for 2008 came via ideas from the online community, as generated by the SXSW Panel Picker.
Pictured above: March 9 keynote speaker Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook. Other keynotes for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival include Frank Warren (March 10) and Jane McGonigal (March 11). Opening Remarks (March 8) will be delivered by Henry Jenkins and Steven Johnson.
Live Chat About Interactive Panel Sessions with meebo
Meebo is a website for instant messaging and synchronous social activity. As the official live chat at SXSW Interactive, meebo allows you to discuss and interact real-time with other attendees at any panel during the festival. Visit www.meebo.com/sxsw to get your feet wet and dive full-force into the platform that is the next phase of instant messaging.
SXSW 101: Watch this Video and Know Where to Go
Where do I go to get my SXSW Interactive badge? How do I find all the panels I want to see? OH NO! I don’t have the slightest idea where to get my Program Book!! If thoughts like these haunt your dreams, send a chill down your spine and turn your stomach upside-down – or if you just want a sneak peek at the Austin Convention Center before the action starts on Friday, then get your own personal video tour of the new room layout for 2008. Whether you are a grizzled veteran of SXSW or this is your first time to the event, watching this video will help minimize onsite confusion.
Special thanks to the great folks at SUPER!ALRIGHT! for helping produce this content.
The Interactive Hub: Be Part of the SXSW Online Community
Event attendees (past, present and future) have a place to talk all things SXSW on the Interactive Hub. This community blog covers whatever you want to cover, from panels to Austin restaurants to ride shares to job openings to SXSW evening events. Posting is easy. Just create a user account, then you are off to the races! Got questions on how this all works? Contact us with any questions or concerns.
Upcoming Events
Below are events of interest to the SXSW crowd, many featuring former and current SXSW speakers:
March 14-15, 2009
ScreenBurn is the portion of SXSW Interactive that focuses on the newest trends in the video game industry. Located on Level One of the Austin Convention Center, the ScreenBurn Arcade enables attendees to play with the coolest new gaming platforms, titles and technologies. Get in on all the fun on Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15.
March 13-17, 2009
2009 SXSW Interactive Festival
It is never too early to start planning for next spring! The 2009 SXSW Interactive Festival runs Friday, March 13 through Tuesday, March 17. Stay tuned to this website for complete details.
September 5
Located in Brighton, England, dConstruct is the affordable one-day conference for people designing and building the latest generation of social web applications. The theme for the this year’s event is “designing the social web.” 2008 speakers include Steven Johnson, Daniel Burka, Tantek Celik and Jeremy Keith.
September 1
Web Awards Entry Process Opens
The SXSW Web Awards showcase the hottest new trends in the new media industry. Entries for the 2009 competition will be accepted beginning Monday, September 1. Stay tuned to the Web Awards page for complete information.
July 30
It’s a Mashable invasion in Austin for the fourth stop on the U.S. Summer Tour. Mashable’s traveling team (Pete Cashmore and Karen Hartline) are meeting up with local Texan Masher, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins and want you to join the party. Food, drinks and the best of the best are ready to rock for this way-cool event.
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Early-Bird Registration Now Open for Lone Star Ruby Con
The second annual Lone Star Ruby Conference is right around the corner, scheduled September 4-6 right here in Austin. For 2008, LSRC offers a full day of advanced training in addition to the two days of Ruby-packed, dual-track speaking sessions with a keynote by Evan Phoenix, the father of Rubinius. And as if that wasn’t enough, the author of Ruby, Yukihiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. Matz), will also be keynoting at the event. Check out the program here. But don’t delay in signing up – early registration ends Sunday, August 10.
Posted 07/24/08 in Latest News +
There Will Be Content: More Audio on the Podcast Page
Panel content from the 2008 SXSW Interactive event continues to be posted to the podcast page. The latest entries include MASH Notes: A Military Surgeon’s Videoblog from Iraq (Carlos Brown), Roll Over Gutenberg, Tell McLuhan The News (George Kelly), and Take Municipal WiFi Back (Joanna Rees, Rich MacKinnon, Esme Vos, Silona Bonewald, and Spencer Ante). Stay tuned as we continue to add content from the 2008 Interactive event.
Make sure to subscribe to the SXSW Podcast RSS Feed to get the latest podcasts as they arrive.
Posted 07/24/08 in Latest News +
Mashable Summer Tour: Wed, July 30 at Buffalo Billiards
SXSW Interactive is excited to partner with Mashable, one of the web’s top blog sites for social media news. Did we mention that they also know how to put on a pretty good party? Indeed, Mashable is coming to a city near you to connect with local tech communities and those who lead, power and embrace them. These events mix networking with prizes, food, drinks, music, and web interviews. Come see for yourself at SummerMash Austin, occuring at Buffalo Billiards at 7pm on July 30.
Posted 07/23/08 in Latest News +
BlogHer Recap: The Power and Passion of Personal Publishing
We’re finally back from the whirlwind that was BlogHer ‘08. We sat in on discussions about green/social change blogging, fashion/beauty blogging, DIY promotion, mommy blogging, women bloggers without children, and politics and blogging. We watched the closing keynote, went to a department store party, and ate cheeseburgers with some talented and amazing women including Whoorl, Fluid Pudding, Jenny Frazier, Schmutzie, Jenn of Tiny Choices, This Military Mama, greenLAgirl, Holly Burns of Nothing But Bonfires, and Stephanie Klein of Greek Tragedy. All in all, a smashing success and we’re glad we braved it alone. Click here for live blogs from the event.
Posted 07/22/08 in Latest News +
Click Countdown: Friday, July 25 is the Final Voting Deadline
Launched in 2006, SXSWclick is the year-round initiative created to showcase short-form storytelling via mobile devices and the web. This competition also highlights the ever-increasing impact of these emerging technologies on traditional filmmaking. The 15 finalists for this year’s event have been posted online and now is your chance to vote for your favorite finalist in the Popularity Contest Award. But please don’t delay as the final Click voting deadline is Friday, July 25. Point your browser here for complete details on the balloting process.
Posted 07/22/08 in Latest News +
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