Andrea Alvarez

Preview: Cartography of Negotiation

As humans we are negotiators, constantly influencing others or being influenced. The lead negotiator behind the Frontier Project hopes to continue investigating global market opportunities and providing negotiation support to clients that face obstacles. The SXSW Interactive panel “Cartography of Negotiation” features the lead negotiator of The Frontier Project, Scott Wayne. According to Wayne, negotiation is all about […]

Preview: More, Now, Again: How On Demand Changed Our Lives

With our phones at our fingertips, downloading an app and purchasing a product right at home is convenient for most. Do you want to drink a glass of wine on the couch while watching Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away with Murder on ‘Thank God It’s Thursday?’ Using Drizly, you are able to […]

Top 5 Panels on Leadership

Startup Leadership as a Ticket to Success Sunday, March 13 5:00PM – 6:00PM Hilton Austin Downtown Salon E 500 E 4th St This panel will consist of Annie Cardinal, production design engineer for Produktworks Design, Derek Lidow, professor at Princeton, longtime global CEO, innovator and startup coach, along with Guillaume Delepine, Associate at KPMG LLP. […]

Preview: Digital Parenting: Raising Balanced Innovators

We live in an era where kids as young as six three and four browse the Internet. And most of us are aware of that being the most popular pastime. However, at that young age and even older, 11 or 12, are children fully able to balance their usage? Do they know when to take a […]

Preview: The Intimacy Gap: Three Essentials for Friendships

We all have at least one friend, but how fulfilled are you with the depth of that friendship? Many people are not satisfied with the friendships they have and want more. Sometimes we assume friends can read our minds and we get hurt when they can’t. Are we left unsatisfied because we lose friends as we change locations […]

Preview: Connecting at SXSW: Business of Friendships

32,798 attendees at SXSW Interactive 2015. Yes! You read that right 32,798 participants. So how does someone build friendships at Interactive and make the most of their time? During an interview, Sweet John and Justin Esgar were excited to share with us some tips on building friendships and positive things about being a newbie. For […]