March 2015

Top 5 Panels for Entrepreneurs

This week, inspired by Texas State’s very own Digital Media Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, we’re calling all makers, builders, creators and founders. SXSW, in all its iterations, has always embodied the entrepreneurial spirit and celebrated the self-starter.  As comfort with digital intricacies becomes less a technologist trait and more an essential business skill, digital entrepreneurship has […]

Preview: Sport for Development - Affecting Societal Change

The panel Sport for Development: Affecting Societal Change will dive in to how organizations can combine the power of sports and its ability to engage a fan base with their corporate social responsibility efforts. This panel will consist of Dave Mingey, President and Founding Partner at GlideSlope, Joey Cheek, Olympic Athlete, Matt Geschke, Director at […]

Preview: How We Listen to Music

Although our love for it has never faltered, the way we listen to music has drastically changed in the last 75 years. The addition of streaming services like Spotify has enabled us to listen to an unlimited amount of digital music. So how does having endless listening options affect the way we interact with our […]

Preview: The Way It Was, The Way It Is

Of all the space or NASA related events at SXSW Interactive, the one that promises to be the most interactive is the NASA meet up. The thing that makes this a must stop isn’t just the fact an astronaut will be there, it’s getting to mingle with everyone up and down the NASA mission pipeline. […]

Preview: We Are Mapping Your World, Inside. What's Private?

We are all familiar with the GPS technology that can retrieve our location using our smartphones or cars and helps us navigate unfamiliar streets with ease.  What many may not know is that significant strides are being made in mapping technology that enables the delivery of pinpoint locations for users, even while indoors. As this technology […]

Weekly News Roundup: March 1-7, 2015

  Dawn of the Harvest It only has taken us 214 years since Giuseppe Piazzi spotted the asteroid Ceres, but if everything goes correctly Friday, the Dawn space craft will enter in to orbit around Ceres. The space craft launched in 2007 and spent part of 2011 and 2012 around the asteroid Vista, a smaller […]