This week we had Super Bowl 49, which set the world of social media on fire. According to Keith Shaw of networkworld.com, Twitter reported more than 28.4 million tweets regarding the Super Bowl or its half time show, and on Spotify halftime performer Katy Perry streamed music increased by 85%. Also in the news this […]
While for the time being Silicon Valley, startup culture and the expected face of tech, whether geek or chic, remain overwhelmingly male – specifically young, white and male – and even exposés on women’s experience in this climate sometimes fail to get past their over-sexualized cover graphics to the meat of the issue, SXSW’s 2015 Interactive lineup […]
Dustin Kirkland is the Cloud Solutions Product Manager for Canonical, the company behind the open-source software platform Ubuntu. He will be appearing at SXSW Interactive as a solo speaker on the topic of biometrics in technology. His panel is titled Fingerprints are Usernames not Passwords. Q. Can you give me a brief overview of why […]
For the first time since the project was created, SXTXState participants had the opportunity to sit down with a few members of the SXSW Interactive team. Director Hugh Forrest, Senior Festival Programmer Sarah Garcia and Festival Coordinator Andrew McNeill provided insight into this year’s festival, and offered advice for event newcomers and veterans alike. According […]
After last year’s success creating a crowdfunding bill of rights for donors, David Neff, digital engagement strategist, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, and co-panelist Miriam Kagan, senior principal, Kimbia, return to SXSW Interactive this year to create a crowdfunding bill of rights for nonprofits. While last year’s panel focused on the rights of the people who donate to […]
Chris Kluwe is a former NFL punter who will be looking into the growth of technology in sports, more specifically augmented reality. According to Mashable, augmented reality is “a live, direct or indirect, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.” […]
When you hear NASA you probably think of the moon missions, the shuttle, space station, and the Hubble. With the Hubble’s 25th anniversary coming up, NASA has assembled an all-star panel for SXSWi. The panel, Hubble Touching the Universe, features many prominent scientists. Dr. Amber Straughn is a panelist, Chair of the Hubble 25th Anniversary […]