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SXSWeek
March 9-18, 2007

2007 Schedule

Registration, Panels, & Trade Show are at the Austin Convention Center

Film & Interactive Conferences, Festivals & Trade Shows

Friday, March 9, 2007
Film & Interactive Registration
Film Opening Party
Film Festival

Saturday, March 10, 2007
Film & Interactive Registration
Film Panels & Festival
Interactive Panels
Interactive Opening Party

Sunday, March 11, 2007
Film & Interactive Registration
iF Exhibition
Film Panels & Festival
Interactive Panels & Web Awards

Monday, March 12, 2007
Film & Interactive Registration
iF Exhibition
Film Panels & Festival
Interactive Panels

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Film, Interactive & Music Registration
iF Exhibition
Film Panels & Festival
Interactive Panels
Film Awards & Closing Party
Interactive Closing Party

Music Conference, Festival & Trade Show

Wednesday March 14, 2007
Golf Tournament*
Music Registration
Music Panels & Festival
Music Welcome Dinner*
Film Festival
Austin Music Awards

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Music Registration
Music Panels, Trade Show, Festival
Film Festival
Flatstock Poster Artist Show

Friday, March 16, 2007
Music Registration
Music Panels, Trade Show, Festival
Film Festival
Flatstock Poster Artist Show

Saturday, March 17, 2007
Music Registration
Music Panels, Trade Show, Festival
Film Festival
Flatstock Poster Artist Show

Sunday, March 18, 2007
Softball Tournament & Barbecue
Music Festival

* = Additional Charge

(All events subject to change)

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2006 Interactive Panel Schedule

Everything subject to change.

Sat, Mar 11th   Sun, Mar 12th   Mon, Mar 13th   Tue, Mar 14th  

Saturday, March 11th

10:00 am • Traditional Design and New Technology

10:00 am • Better Blogging Brainstorming

10:00 am • Looking for XML in All the Wrong Places

10:00 am • Beyond Folksonomies: Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma

10:00 am • Podcasting 2.0

11:00 am • BattleDecks: Southwest Invitational

11:30 am • We Got Naked, Now What?

11:30 am • Ajax: What Do I Need to Know?

11:30 am • Daniel Gilbert Presentation: How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times

11:30 am • Book Digitization and the Revenge of the Librarians

11:30 am • Convergence and Transformation: A Whole New Creative World

11:30 am • How to Be A Web Design Superhero

2:00 pm • Jim Coudal / Jason Fried Opening Remarks

2:00 pm • Justin Hall Presentation

3:30 pm • James Surowiecki Presentation: The Wisdom of Crowds

3:30 pm • How to Increase Creativity at Work

3:30 pm • How to Make $$ With Your Blog Design Skills

3:30 pm • Cyberplace: Online in Offline Spaces -- and Vice Versa

3:30 pm • Choosing the Right Design Partner

3:30 pm • How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting

5:00 pm • Starting Small: Web Business for the Rest of Us

5:00 pm • Tantek Çelik Presentation: Creating Building Blocks for Independents

5:00 pm • How to Develop for (Convergent) Personal Devices

5:00 pm • Public Square or Private Club: Does Exclusivity Strengthen or Dilute?

5:00 pm • How to Create Passionate Users

5:00 pm • Designing for Global and Local Social Play

Sunday, March 12th

10:00 am • Respect Your ElderBloggers

10:00 am • What's Hot in Web Applications

10:00 am • How (and Why) to podCast an Event

10:00 am • Design and Social Responsibilty

10:00 am • Sink or Swim: The Five Most Important Startup Decisions

10:00 am • Venture Capital vs. Credit Cards: Funding Strategies for Digital Convergence Businesses

11:00 am • Meet Judy Jetson: How Technology is Transforming 21st Century Teens

11:30 am • The Future of Education in a Digitally Convergent World

11:30 am • Tagging 2.0

11:30 am • Smaller, Faster, Lighter

11:30 am • Increasing Women's Visibility on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking?

11:30 am • How to Make the Most of Maps

11:30 am • Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide

2:00 pm • Keynote Conversation: Heather Armstrong / Jason Kottke

2:00 pm • Demystifying the Mobile Web

3:30 pm • Running Your New Media Business

3:30 pm • DIY Now More Than Ever

3:30 pm • League of Technical Voters

3:30 pm • Web 2.1: Making Web 2.0 Accessible

3:30 pm • Bloggers in Love: Intimacy, Technology and Mask-Making

3:30 pm • Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing

5:00 pm • Wild Web Wrestling: Standardzilla vs Tabelella

5:00 pm • Serious Games for Learning

5:00 pm • Blogging While Black Revisited

5:00 pm • Holistic Web Design: Finding the Creative Balance in Multi-Disciplined Teams

5:00 pm • How to Roll Your Own Web Conference

5:00 pm • Revenge of the Blogs: Election 2008

Monday, March 13th

10:00 am • Remixing Business for a Convergent World

10:00 am • Digital Preservation and Blogs

10:00 am • How to Maintain a Design Playground

10:00 am • Cluetrain: Seven Years Later

10:00 am • CSS Problem Solving

10:00 am • Web Standards and Search Engines: Searching for Common Ground

11:30 am • Standard Deviation: Hacks and Dirty Tricks for the Web

11:30 am • Web Standards and SEO: Searching for Common Ground, Part 2

11:30 am • Building Buzz for Your Web Project

11:30 am • Does Your Blog Have a Business?

11:30 am • Microformats: Evolving The Web

11:30 am • The Future of Darknets: Can Hollywood See the Light?

2:00 pm • Content Distribution the Mobile Web

2:00 pm • Craig Newmark Keynote Interview

3:30 pm • The Perfect Pitch: How to Attract Money for Your Digital Convergent Business

3:30 pm • Selling Big Ideas to Big Clients

3:30 pm • WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job Done Right

3:30 pm • Designing for Community with 'Zero-Advertising' Brands

3:30 pm • Peter Morville Presentation: Ambient Findability

3:30 pm • Creative Subplot: The Viral Edition

5:00 pm • Design Eye for the List Guy

5:00 pm • The New Startup Cultures

5:00 pm • Bootstrapping Your Digital Convergence Business

5:00 pm • What People Are Really Doing on the Web

5:00 pm • How to Blog for Money by Learning From Comics

5:00 pm • WaSP Annual Meeting

Tuesday, March 14th

10:00 am • Behind the Scenes: Developing OS X and Longhorn

10:00 am • How to Develop Digitally Convergent Devices for Cars

10:00 am • How to Add Video to Your Blog

10:00 am • Open Science

10:00 am • Building a Start-Up Technology Company

10:00 am • How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards

11:30 am • How to Be a Virtual World Entrepreneur

11:30 am • The Future of Radio

11:30 am • Commons-Based Business Models

11:30 am • Convergence and Advertising

11:30 am • Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps

11:30 am • Video Blog Business Models

2:00 pm • Burnie Burns Keynote

3:30 pm • Democratization of the Moving Image

3:30 pm • RSS: Not Just for Blogs Anymore

3:30 pm • Open Source Management: Walking the Walk

3:30 pm • The Orthley Children and Their Computer

3:30 pm • Dogma Free Design

3:30 pm • Consumer is the Producer: DIY Media

3:30 pm • Secret Sex Lives of Video Games

5:00 pm • Cashing In Or Selling Out: The Future of the Independent Web

5:00 pm • Bruce Sterling Presentation: The State of the World

5:00 pm • Online Politics: Fast, Cheap and Allows for Control