2017

Content is Still King: A New Narrative Calls

For one of my previews, I interviewed Kinvara Balfour about her panel Content is Still King: A New Narrative Calls. In this preview, Balfour mentioned that she hoped people who attended the panel would leave it with a new knowledge for whats to come, new ideas on how to create content and where the content […]

Social marketing: Innovation and conversation

While social media is pervasive to the extent that it’s hard to remember a time that it didn’t exist, it is nonetheless a young format. To put it frankly, the role of social media in the corporate marketing world is something that nobody has fully figured out yet. Talks like this one at SXSW, given […]

Faces & Digital Spaces: Transforming Beauty

Fay Cowan with Decoded Fashion moderated the Faces & Digital Spaces: Transforming Beauty panel that talked about how tech is changing the beauty world and what benefits brands receive beyond their marketing. The panelists were Jennifer Tidy from Modiface, Swan Sit from Revlon/Elizabeth Arden, and Moj Mahdara from BeautyCon Media. With technology such a big […]

Hacking the Script: Disrupt Diversity in Hollywood

Hacking the Script: Disrupt Diversity in Hollywood panel was hosted by Courtney McCarthy from Google, Gina Rodriguez from Jane the Virgin, Jon Spaihts from Passengers, Wendy Calhoun from Edgewood Place Entertainment and Yara Shahidi from Blackish. While it may seem like a random assortment of panelists, this group of inspiring individuals makes sense. Google has […]

Can She Say That? Women Creating Civility Online

The Can She Say That? Women Creating Civility Online panel was hosted by Jane Fleming from Court Five, Nuala O’Connor from Center for Democracy & Technology, and Rebecca Fernandez from Red Hat Inc. How can we have civility online when we don’t even have civility in person? Jane Fleming opened the panel by stating that […]

AR Hacking My Way Out Of Deep Depression

Yosun Chang is no novice when it comes to computer hacking. She has participated in and won multiple hackathons, such as the AT&T IoT Hackathon. In her panel, AR Hacking My Way Out Of Deep Depression, Chang discussed how creating 300 augmented reality hacks pulled her out of her slump. Unlike many panelists, Chang had no […]

AI on the Horizon: Challenges, Directions, Futures

Eric Horvitz is an absolute authority on technology. For the last 25 years, he’s worked at Microsoft. Now, he currently serves as the technical fellow and managing director of Microsoft Research. Horvitz said that artificial intelligence is at a tipping point, where it will begin to become a more common staple in our lives, as both computer […]