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Today, we are thrilled to announce all new extended-length workshop programming for the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival. These workshops will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in state-of-the-art tiered classrooms. Below, please view the list of approximately 40 confirmed workshops (as organized by category), along with the industry expert who will be leading these powerful, information-rich sessions.
Whether you want to learn programming, responsive design, game development, or the basics of the startup world, there is a workshop for you! Other topics covered in these sessions range from legal and privacy issues to user experience to social media marketing. For 2013, these SXSW workshops will last either 2.5, 4, or 8 hours and will offer valuable, in-depth take-aways. All workshop participants will receive a unique SXSW Interactive Certificate of Completion.
Starting in January, registrants will be able to sign up in advance through
Click on title link to get more information about the session via the SXSW PanelPicker or the presenting company’s website. In most cases, the name next to the title link refers to the session’s organizer. Refer to the title link for proposed speakers for the given workshop or more information on the represented company.
Community & Activism
Measuring Social Change & Media: Beyond BS
(Beth Kanter, Beth Kanter)
Content & Distribution
Pop Up Archive: Build an Archive and Make it Count
(Bailey Smith, Pop Up Archive)
Saving the Couch Potatoes: the Cloud-y Future of TV
(Jarek Wilkiewicz, YouTube/Google)
Storytelling: The Next Wave of Engagement
(Mark Williams, LiveWorld)
Design & Development
Designing Hypermedia APIs with Goliath.io
(Eric Marden, StyleSeek)
Designing UI in Keynote (Not in Photoshop)
(Ted Boda, Netflix Inc.)
Developer Experience: The UX of APIs
(Jeremiah Cohick, Awe.sm)
DevOps: Empowering Developers with Infrastructure
(Ryan Miller, InfoChimps)
Distill the Buzzwords & Build Crazy Fast Websites
(Acacia Newlon, Ticketfly)
Forget Native: Learn to Write HTML5 Mobile Apps
(David Becher, Skookum)
How Dungeons & Dragons Prepared Me for UX
(Vincent Higgins, Tribal DDB Worldwide)
Intentionally Dealing with Responsive Design
(Erin Sparling, Dow Jones)
Interfaces, Accessibility, and Superheroes
(Livia Veneziano, Fjord)
Legal Bootcamp for Mobile Developers
(Marcia Hofmann, Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Mobile Web Apps Suck! (But They Don't Have To)
(Bill Fisher, Hot Studio)
Node.js & You: Learn to Write the Realtime Web
(Jim Snodgrass, Skookum)
Practical Agile Mobile Design
(Greg Nudelman, DesignCaggeine, Inc.)
Programming for Non-Programmers
(Chris Castiglione, General Assembly)
Prototype or Die
(Vance Vagell, Google, Inc.)
Prototyping UX in a Touch First World
(Sara Summers, Microsoft)
Rapid HTML Prototyping
(Garth Braithwaite, Adobe Systems)
Select This!
(Estelle Weyl, Standardista)
Space Out: Sketch Your Ride for the Next Century
(Jill Nussbaum, The Barbarian Group)
Touch Me Now: Accessibility on Mobile Screens
(Victor Tsaran, Yahoo! Inc)
DIY, Hacker & Maker
Designing ebooks With Web Standards
(Tess Silver, Capella Education Company)
How to Make Cool Hardware Using BeagleBone
(Maemalynn Meanor, GolinHarris for Texas Instruments)
The Future is Now: Futuristic UIs with HTML5
(Luz Caballero, Opera Software)
Entrepreneurial & Business
Advanced Social Media Monitoring Workshop 2013
(Blake Robinson, Annalect)
Boldly Go: Enterprise Apps, From Idea to Market
(David Brutman, SAP)
How to Get Fans to Spread Your Message
(Nich Dimichino, Horn Group)
How to Handle Suicidal Users Without Freaking Out
(Christopher Gandin Le, Emotion Technology)
Privacy Bootcamp for App Developers
(Mark Blafkin, Innovators Network)
Startup Operations: The Lone Rangers of Tech
(Liz Jones-Dilworth, Jones-Dilworth Inc.)
Yes, and . . .a Design Thinking Bootcamp
(Justin Ferrell, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford)
Gaming & Game Development
AAA for Everyone - Deep Dive With Unity 4
(Heather Miller, Unity Technologies)
Make it Anything: Game Modification for the Masses
(Alex Sheive, Withinternet, Inc.)
Work & Career
The Community Manager: Enter the C-Suite
(Natalie Rodic Marsan, BrokenOpenMedia)
Tweak Your SXSW Talk
(Eva Willis, Chesterbrook Academy)
All subject to change.
Interested in hosting a Workshop around a topic that you don't see listed? Email us and we will contact you with details on how to submit a Workshop proposal.
Want to get involved with SXSW in the future? Email us and we will contact you in June 2013 when we start accepting ideas for SXSW 2014. As always, keep posted on the programming process by subscribing to the SXSW Interactive monthly email newsletter.
