SXSW 2012: Directory

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A.K. Pradeep

CEO
NeuroFocus Inc.

How Brain Science Turns Browsers into Buyers

CTO/Co-Founder
LivingSocial
Husband, Geek, Entrepreneur, Aaron leads the long-term technical direction and day to day development of LivingSocial’s core products. Prior to LivingSocial, he was Architect at Revolution Health, and led development for Blockbuster's Online Subscription effort. Aaron holds degrees in Computer Science and Japanese from Lehigh University.

LEAN STARTUP: Check Yo-Self Before U Wreck Yo-Self, Startup Metrics of the Masters

Aaron Bramley

Exec Dir
Lights Camera Help
I am a communicator and a collaborator with expertise in video, social media, public relations, marketing communications, media relations, crisis communications, nonprofits, fundraising and learning new things.

Mother Goose Got Punked: Next Gen Visual Stories

Aaron Cope

Stamen Design
Aaron is Canadian by birth, American by descent, North American by experience et Montréalais au fond.

The New Aesthetic: Seeing Like Digital Devices

Aaron Fulkerson

CEO
MindTouch Inc

Mentor Session: Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Gustafson

Principal
Easy Designs LLC

Aaron Haley

Owner
Austin Laser Art

SXSW Create

Aaron Kaufman

Troublemaker Studios

Making it Happen: Financing an Independent Film

Aaron Koblin

Creative Dir
Google
Aaron Koblin leads Google's Data Arts Team in San Francisco. He is an artist and designer specializing in data and digital technologies. Aaron's work uses real-world and community generated data to reflect on cultural trends and the changing relationship between humans and the systems they create. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His projects have been shown at international festivals including TED, Sundance, Tribeca Film Festival, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH, OF... Read more

What WebGL Will Mean for the Web

Aaron Levie

CEO
Box
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, which he originally created as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from any location. Box was launched from Aaron's dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind Box's product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with the most effective elements of social business software. He has spoken about content and collaboration tools at events such as Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Web 2.0, Dreamforce, Accenture Global... Read more

Dealing with the Media Data Explosion

Aaron Ogle

Fellow
Code for America
Aaron believes that software can be used to build for a better world, and he loves designing applications to make cities more livable, beautiful, and just. He is now a software developer at OpenPlans, a non-profit dedicated to making cities work better. Prior to OpenPlans, he was a fellow at Code for America where he partnered with the City of Philadelphia to build solutions to help foster civic engagement. He specializes in JavaScript and GIS development and has contributed to such applications as reroute.it, septa.mobi, changeby.us, walkshed.org, and phillystormwater.or... Read more

Hacking the Citizen Experience

Aaron Parecki

Co-Founder
Geoloqi.com
Aaron Parecki is co-founder of Geoloqi, a powerful platform that lets developers easily build location-based apps and bring large datasets to life. In his free time, he enjoys geolocation, linguistics, and building home automation systems and IRC bots with a sense of humor. For the past 3+ years, he has been tracking and visualizing his location at 6-second intervals. His fascination with location sharing and GPS began at the age of 6, when he traced the routes of family road trips on a map with a highlighter.

Engineering Serendipity to Instigate and Delight

Aaron Pompei

Dir of Multimedia Strategy & Dev
Savannah College of Art and Design
Aaron Pompei has developed innovative approaches to the delivery of distance learning programs globally and in our community. He has demonstrated a capacity to rapidly adjust to the evolving nature of the field.

Designing a Successful Distance Education Program

Aaron Ray

Partner/Head of Digital
The Collective
Aaron Ray is a Partner in The Collective. He has worked at the highest levels in many different sectors of the entertainment industry. His experience includes the representation of film, television and music talent, Executive Producing, multi-media licensing, international media development, financing and sales, Producing, creation and exploitation of film franchises and intellectual property management. Aaron has successfully implemented all of his experience and knowledge into the digital space and is also leading The Collective‘s New Media efforts... Read more

Mobile Ads: Best Practices for the Music Industry ATM In Your Pocket

Aaron Shapiro

CEO
Huge Inc
Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, a digital agency that helps companies reimagine how they interact with their customers and manage their business in the online economy.

What Large Companies Can Learn from Startups

Aaron Silberman

VP of Marketing & Artist Development
Standby Records
Artist & Talent Relations expert with an extensive network of relationships on all fronts, with artists, recording industry executives, and various sponsors. Continuing to add to his dynamic skill set with everything from music licensing, strategic partnerships, artist management, band merchandising, A & R, marketing and business development for several labels, TV productions, and publishers over the past 20 years - He has now found his new home running Standby Records along side good friend and owner Neil Sheehan.

Demo Listening Session 2

Aaron Strout

Head of Location Based Mktg
WCG
Aaron is the head of location based marketing at integrated marketing agency, WCG. At WCG, Aaron not only focuses on helping customers with mobile marketing and location based marketing but also helps provide social voice for the company. In this role, Aaron continues with his speaking, blogging (recently syndicated on socialmediainformer.com), podcasting and social networking activities with an eye toward creating awareness and lead generation for WCG. Prior to joining WCG, Aaron spent time as the CMO of social media agency, Powered Inc., VP of social media at Mzinga and director of interacti... Read more

Time Bandits: The Next Revolution in Social

Aasil Ahmad

Co-Founder, COO
Discourse Analytics Inc
Aasil Ahmad is a co-founder at Discourse Analytics and co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Votifi. For over a decade he’s been focused on figuring out ways to empower and amplify individual voices with technology in ways that make the world a better place to live. He has worked in mobile, tech, politics and data analytics in the United States, Middle East and Asia. He graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in International Affairs. He is an avid photographer and speaks Arabic, French, Italian and Urdu.

An Unusual Arsenal: Tech Tools to Topple a Tyrant

Abby Klanecky

Dir, Digital & Social Media
Dow Chemical
As Director for Digital & Social Media at The Dow Chemical Company, Abby Klanecky is responsible for the digital & social transformation of the 100+ year-old Fortune 50 company. Her global vision is built upon more than 11 years leading digital & communications efforts for Dow within Europe, Asia and the US. Most recently, she pioneered the ground breaking FutureWeCreate.com series drawing together the world’s foremost thought leaders in water, sustainability, & resource management in an industry-first social collaboration effort.

The Promise and Pitfalls of Real-Time Marketing

Abhi Nemani

Dir of Strategy
Code for America
Abhi Nemani is the Chief of Staff at Code for America, a national non-profit dedicated to reinventing government for the 21st century. Abhi has led CfA’s strategic development and growth, including the development of multiple new programs including the launch of a first-of-its-kind civic startup accelerator and the CfA Peer Network, designed to connect cities to help them work together. Under Abhi's direction, CfA's national outreach and awareness campaigns have been recognized in the New York Times, Mashable, and CNN, and he has been featured as a speaker at SxSW, the World Bank, and various unive... Read more

Future of Cities: Technology in Public Service

Adam B Vary

Senior Film Reporter
BuzzFeed

A Conversation with Joss Whedon A Conversation with Joss Whedon

Adam Bly

Founder
Visualizing.org
Adam Bly founded Seed, ScienceBlogs, and Visualizing.org, and is the editor of "Science is Culture: Conversations at the New Intersection of Science + Society" (HarperCollins). He has lectured at the World Economic Forum, The Museum of Modern Art, Harvard, MIT, The Royal Society, and the State Department on the future of science and its role in society. In 2007, he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He began his career at the age of 16 as the youngest guest researcher at the National Research Council of Canada, where he spent three years studying the biochemistry of canc... Read more

Intent & Impact: How Visualization Makes a Change

Adam Bosworth

CTO & Co-Founder
Keas
Built Quattro, Access, first Ajax engine in 96 for IE, XML, Google Calendar, Spreadsheets, and Google Health along with other overly technical endeavors. Started 3 companies, Analytica, Crossgain, and Keas. Decided to make a difference to the world in a positive way 10 years ago by focusing on improving the world's health. Busy writing code at Keas right now to do just that.

Can Gaming Make the World Better?

Adam Breckler

Co Founder & VP of Prod
Visual.ly
Adam Breckler brings 10 plus years of website development experience to his role as VP of Product at Visual.ly. Prior to Visual.ly, Adam has previously worked as a web developer for various Internet startups including Mint.com and founded a leading Internet coupon-search portal, SaveBrite.com.

Intent & Impact: How Visualization Makes a Change

Adam Broadway

Adobe Sr Prod Evangelist
Adobe Systems
Co-Founder of Business Catalyst, Adobe Evangelist and SMB Strategist.

Online with Adobe Business Catalyst and Dreamweaver

Adam Brown

Executive Strategist
Salesforce.com
Executive Strategist at Salesforce.com , founder of adMAGINATION, former Exec Director Social Media at Dell & The Coca-Cola Company.

Marketing’s Shift from Waterfall to Agile

Adam Cassels

Digital Consultant
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Adam Cassels - Digital Consultant to Sheffield Doc/Fest and Development Director, Crossover Labs. We work with content makers across Europe, US, Australia and the Far East realising their cross-platform and interactive ideas. I work in collaboration with Sheffield Doc/Fest to design and deliver industry events and programmes that support idea development, realisation and market commercialisation. I have been a Mentor for Apple in the UK and have a background in Fine Art. I am passionate about the intersection of creativity, content and technology. Current projects include the successful 'Devise... Read more

Mentors - Open Call 2

Adam Conner

Assoc Mgr for Policy
Facebook

But Hasn't Politics Always Been Social?

Adam Donaghey

Indie film producer, partner at historic Texas Theatre, co-founder Oak Cliff Film Fest; hearts #foodie #CraftBeer #FishTacos #StarWars

Mentors - Production 2

Adam DuVander

Developer Communications Dir
SendGrid Inc
Adam DuVander is Developer Communications Director for email infrastructure company SendGrid, where he connects to coders of all stripes. Previously he spent four years as a writer, editor and analyst for API resource ProgrammableWeb, wrote for Wired.com and authored the book Map Scripting 101.

When Your API Is Your Product

Adam Edmunds

CEO
Allegiance Inc
Adam Edmunds directs the company's strategic vision to help customers use feedback data to predict trends in customer/employee satisfaction and to take action that will positively impact the bottom line. Adam has led Allegiance to become the 5th fastest-growing private software company in the U.S. according to Inc. Magazine, and a Software Magazine Top 10. Edmunds entrepreneurial path got an early start when he founded two companies while still in college. In 2009, he sold one of those companies, ethics reporting software company SilentWhistle, to industry leader Global Compliance. He also purchase... Read more

Gen Y&Z Expectations to Transform Customer Exp

Adam Erlebacher

VP Operations
Simple
Adam is the VP of Operations at Simple. Previously, Adam co-founded PlaceVine, a web-based advertising marketplace that was acquired in January 2011. Before PlaceVine, Adam was Director of Business Development at Colloquis (acquired by Microsoft), a developer of natural language software systems. Prior to joining Colloquis, Adam was a Senior Analyst at JPMorgan in the Leveraged Finance Group where he focused on technology, media, & telecom transactions.

The Secrets of Scaling Two-Sided Markets

Adam Farrell

Creative Dir
Loma Vista Recordings
fled the advertising world to work in the music industry. while at Badman, I helped release albums by Hayden, James William Hindle, Mark Kozelek, My Morning Jacket and Washington Social Club. it was a small operation, so I made coffee and refilled the water cooler, but I focused on retail, radio and consumer marketing programs, as well as tour marketing. it was also early days in the digital music retail space, so I established and maintained relationships with major download services like iTunes, Rhapsody, SonyConnect and Napster, as well as aggregators like IODA... Read more

In the iCloud Era Who Can You Trust to Find Music?

Adam Frucci

Editor
Splitsider

What the Internet Finds Funny: Creating & Covering Humor Online

Adam Garone

Co-Founder & CEO
Movember

Can Growing a Moustache Change the World?

Adam Gazzaley

Professor
UCSF
Dr. Adam Gazzaley obtained an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, completed clinical residency in Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, and postdoctoral training in cognitive neuroscience at UC Berkeley. He is the founding director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at the UC San Francisco, an Associate Professor in Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry, and Principal Investigator of a cognitive neuroscience laboratory. His laboratory studies neural mechanisms of perception, attention and memory, with an emphasis on the impact of distractio... Read more

Your Brain on Multitasking

Adam Glickman

Founder
The IdeaLists
Adam Glickman is the founder of The IdeaLists, an online network that serves as matchmaker for creative talent and client needs.

Coppola vs Kittens: Pro Filmmaking's Online Future Talent Wars: Sourcing the Créme from the Crowd

Adam Goldstein

CEO
Hipmunk

LEAN STARTUP: Baby Got (Feed)Back - Putting the Lean in Learn

Adam Green

Pres
ArieScope Pictures
Upon graduating New York’s Hofstra University with a Bachelor of Science in Television and Film production, Adam Green went to work producing and directing local cable commercials in Boston. While employed by the cable advertising company, Green began "borrowing" their production equipment after hours to make his own films. Using friends as cast and crew, three lights, and his severely troubled cat, Green’s first feature film, the comedy “Coffee & Donuts” was completed for a mere $400 in the summer of 1999. In 2003 the movie was bought by Walt Disney Studios/Touchstone TV and developed as a sitcom for... Read more

Screaming with Laughter: FEARnet TV's Holliston 3 R's of Horror: Remakes, Reboots & Rediscoveries

Adam Hendricks

Dir of Dev, Producer
Fourth Wall Studios
After graduating from USC film school, Adam worked at New Line Cinema, Fine Line, Picturehouse, Plan B and The Jinks/Cohen Co. He became an exec at Macari Edelstein Ent., but later left to produce the film CAROLINE & JACKIE.

Hollywood Lessons: What I Learned The Hard Way

Adam Klein

CEO & Pres
eMusic

Reaching Today's Digital Music Consumers

Adam Lyons

CEO
Insurance Zebra

Sex Nets: Pickup Artists vs. Feminists

Adam Milligan

Dir, Mobile Technology
Pivotal Labs

Agile Apps: Effective Mobile & Native Development

Adam Moore

Interim Natl Dir of Affirmative Action & Diversity
Screen Actors Guild
In May 2011, Adam Moore was named as Interim National Director of Affirmative Action & Diversity for the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and leads the department from the New York office. Joining the Guild in 2005 as Associate National Director, he has been responsible for developing and implementing a national diversity plan of action to achieve accurate representation of those groups historically excluded from the entertainment media. Such efforts include the creation of educational programs, conferences, and workshops; development of public relations strategies; and the enforcement of diversity ini... Read more

Diversity Counts: Auteurs, Actors and Audiences

Adam Natale

Dir of Partnerships & Business Dev
Fractured Atlas
Adam joined Fractured Atlas in December 2005 and, since then, has seen the organization grow immensely, with over 5,000 members joining within the past year.

The Musician's Survival Guide

Adam Ostrow

Chief Strategy Officer
Mashable
Adam Ostrow is Mashable’s Chief Strategy Officer, a role in which he is responsible for defining and implementing strategic initiatives across the organization.

Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death

Adam Penenberg

Professor/editor/writer
PandoDaily

Let’s Play: Motivate Healthy Behavior Using Games

Adam Polansky

UX Strategist
Bottle Rocket Apps
For a long time now, Adam Polansky has been closing the gap between ideas and reality at places like Travelocity, Dr Pepper, Radio City Entertainment and Starwood Hotels. A dedicated storyteller he’s spending a lot of time working with new and seasoned speakers at the IA Summit, SxSW, CrankyTalk Workshops and Big (D)esign. Along with several articles, he is also a contributing author to User Experience Success Stories – How Organizations Improve by Making Easier-To-Use Software and Websites (Gower Publishing 2006) He is currently a UX Strategist with Bottle Rocket, one of the most successful... Read more

Tweak Your Talk (A Cranky Talk Workshop)

Adam Pruden

Urban Information Designer
MIT
My greatest passion is floating media. From fireworks to flying LEDs, I've been exploring the vast and unique possibilities of airborne communication.

Detached Messages: Immersive and Spatial Systems

Adam Rabinovitz

Dir of Artist Rel
Rdio

Playlisting for Profit

Adam Roffman

Program Dir
IFFBoston
The Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston) will hold its 9th edition April 27-May 4, 2011. IFFBoston has been recognized by the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, and the Boston Society of Film Critics as the premier film festival in the Greater Boston area. Over 20,000 people attend the 8-day festival each year. The festival takes place at the most historic arthouse venues in the Boston area; The Somerville Theatre, The Brattle Theatre, The Coolidge Corner Theatre, and the new Stuart Street Playhouse. Adam Roffman has served as Program Director since the festival's inception... Read more

Mentors - Programming 1: Narrative

Adam Russell

Co-founder
wallFour
I co-founded the crowd game design company wallFour in 2011 with John Sear, setting out on a mission to create playful experiences for live crowds. We are presenting a Film + Interactive convergence session about this whole area, and our feature-length work Renga is also being screened at the film festival.

Movie Screens with Frickin' Laser Beams Movie Screens with Frickin’ Laser Beams

Adam Salomone

Assoc Publisher
The Harvard Common Press
Adam Salomone is the Associate Publisher of The Harvard Common Press, a Boston-based independent focused on cookbooks. Related to this vertical, Adam oversees the company’s digital strategy across individual book/author brands. He has been involved in a number of outreach efforts related to cookbook publishing, including active involvement in organizing the First Annual Cookbook Conference, which explored the past, present and future of cookbook and recipe content. Related to this, he has also participated in a three-hour symposium on the present and future state of the cookbook for The Internati... Read more

Cookbook 2.0: The Future of Recipe Content

Adam Saltsman

Game Maker
Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman is the founder and studio director of Finji, creators of Canabalt, Old Spice: Dikembe Mutumbo's 4 1/2 Weeks to Save the World, Indie Game: The Movie for Steam, The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire, Breakdancing Superspy, Cubic Space and Capsule. In 2012, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City acquired Canabalt alongside Tetris, Pac-Man, SimCity and other classics as part of their permanent collection. Adam also co-founded the independent iOS studio Semi Secret Software in 2008, where he art directed Wurdle and co-designed Hundreds with Greg Wohlwend.

Indie Games, Indie Film - DejaVu

Adam Samiljan

Sr Dir, Digital Mktg
Fueled By Ramen
I handle the Digital Marketing for the 13 artists on the Fueled By Ramen Records roster including Paramore, Gym Class Heroes, Fun., Cobra Starship, Sublime With Rome and Panic! At The Disco. Our team handles all the online marketing for the label and our artists including their sites, social network presence, email marketing and eCommerce.

Reblog Culture: Tumblr and Social Music Fandom

Adam Schweigert

Director of Strategy
Mindset Digital
Adam Schweigert worked in public media for the past 8 years leading digital innovation at two different NPR/PBS member stations (WOSU Public Media in Columbus, Ohio and Indiana Public Media in Bloomington, Indiana). He recently made the jump to the private sector where he is presently Director of Strategy for Mindset Digital, a Columbus, Ohio based firm providing customized social media training and strategic consulting for Fortune 500 companies and institutions of higher education.

Big Ol' Babies: Why Baby Boomers=Public Media FAIL

Adam Taylor

Pres
APM Music
For over two decades, Adam Taylor has been helping intellectual property companies, organizations and individuals manage and extract value from their copyrights, trademarks and patents. As president of APM Music, Adam continues to reinforce the company's standing as one of the largest and most diverse collections of original production music available by adding the latest in authentic, urban-contemporary and hard-hitting rock alternative music to APM Music's catalog through the addition of new libraries and exclusive recordings from up and coming rappers and rockers. Prior to taking the helm at AP... Read more

Getting Your Music In Sports

Adam Ware

Pres & CEO
Mnet
Over 25 years in the media business including senior management positions at the FOX network, Interactive Corp, Home Shopping Network, UPN, United Talent Agency and now Mnet.

Do Music Moguls Know a Secret About K-Pop?

Ade Olonoh

CEO
Formspring
Ade Olonoh is the CEO and Founder of Formspring, a rapidly growing service with over 25 million members that gives people a fun, new way to find out more about each other. Before founding Formspring, Ade founded and managed Formstack, a profitable startup based in Indianapolis. Ade ran two other startups, including Recursive Function, where he created several web-based apps, and Bottled Software, a custom software development consultancy. He has a B.A. in Computer Science & Mathematics from Anderson University.

Why Happiness Is the New Currency

Adele McAlear

Researcher & Speaker
Death and Digital Legacy
Adele McAlear has been exploring the relationship between death, social media and technology for more than 3-years through research, writing and speaking about digital legacy. She seeks to help people understand the personal, social, legal and business implications of all that they leave behind. The dedicated site for this project is at DeathAndDigitalLegacy.com.

Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death

Adong Vicky

Ugandan Student & Advocate
Kyambogo University

Modern Weaponry: Using Digital Media to End a War

Adria Richards

Tech Consultant
ButYoureAGirl.com
Adria empowers people through technology and is known on Twitter for her helpful answers. She works with individuals and organizations to help them master technology with hands-on training. Combining 12+ years of technical expertise with passion, Adria turns complex topics into easy to understand concepts.

Race: Know When to Hold It and When to Fold It

Adrian Capobianco

Pres & Partner
Quizative
Adrian is considered amongst a handful of Canadian’s on the “go-to” list of digital marketing leaders. His career began at IBM and has focused on the interchange of business, technology and marketing. At IBM, Rare Medium, Publicis and FUSE Marketing Group Adrian helped a diverse portfolio of clients learn and lead in the digital space. In 2008, at the beginning of the biggest global recession since the great depression Adrian and his partners launched Innovation Agency, Quizative - which has quickly grown delivering services to clients across the country and globally. Adrian is extremely... Read more

Alternative Channels of Digital Distribution

Adrian Hon

CEO
Six to Start
Adrian Hon is co-founder and CEO at Six to Start, specialising in gamelike stories and story-like games for the web, mobile, and real world, the latest being the international bestseller, "Zombies, Run!" Clients have included Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, and Penguin, and Six to Start has won multiple awards including Best of Show at SXSW.

Creating the Code: A BBC Transmedia Documentary Creating The Code: A BBC Transmedia Documentary

Adrian Klein

VP of Product
Evri.com
Boston-baked web enthusiast, now working out of the Emerald City. I shine the semantic light of clarity into the dark content basement of the Internet.

Audience-Centric Media: Wants and Needs in News

Adrian McDermott

VP of Engineering
Zendesk
Adrian McDermott leads the Product Management and Engineering teams for Zendesk, a rapidly growing web based help desk software company. Previously he was Chief Technical Officer at Attributor where he managed web crawling and content identification systems for text, video and images. Adrian was the first engineer hired by Plumtree Software and remained with the company through the IPO and subsequent acquisition by BEA. Prior to Plumtree, Adrian worked as an itinerant software consultant in London, Hong Kong, Sydney and Guam. Adrian is a Yorkshireman living in San Francisco... Read more

Discover the New Frontier of the Glocal Internet

Adrian Quesada

Level One Studios

Making Money, Making Records and Keeping Your Cred: Austin Musicians Spill Their Secrets

Adrian Stevenson

Senior Technical Innovations Coordinator at Mimas, Director at Manchester Jazz Festival & Guitarist
Mimas University Of Manchester
I'm a Senior Technical Innovations Coordinator working as part of the libraries and archives team at Mimas, a national centre for technical innovations and data hosting based at the University of Manchester in the UK.

Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web

Adriana Cruz

VP Global Corporate Recruitment
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Adriana Cruz is VP of Global Corporate Recruitment for the Austin Chamber of Commerce, promoting the Austin metro to tech companies considering relocation or expansion into the Austin area. She has over 17 years of strategic marketing experience, specializing in economic development marketing. She has worked on some of the largest Austin successes including eBay, Altera, Facebook, and LegalZoom. She also oversees the Chamber’s international program to increase international trade and investment. She's a proud graduate from the UT Austin... Read more

Innovation Case Studies: Austin and Beyond

Adriana Lukas

Founder
London QS meetup group
- founder of the London Quantified Self Meetup group - organiser of VRM Hub meetings in London as part of the Project VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) founded by Doc Searls

Self-Hacking: Self-Knowledge & Data Literacy

Adrien Treuille

Asst Professor
Carnegie Mellon University

Crowdsourcing Science

Adrienne Baker

Online Comm Mgr
Interfaith Youth Core
Adrienne Baker, online communications manager for Interfaith Youth Core, is responsible for IFYC’s online content, website management, social media strategy, and visual and editorial branding. She is a graduate of the University of Minnesota with degrees in journalism, cultural studies and comparative literature; she conducted Master’s research on the digital divide at Marquette University, and is working on completing a Master's degree in new media studies at DePaul University. Adrienne is particularly passionate about the intersection of new media and low-income populations. She brings si... Read more

Bridging the Digital and the Divine

Agnes Varnum

Dir of Events
The Texas Tribune
Agnes Varnum produces events for the nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet, The Texas Tribune. She joined the Tribune after five years in marketing at the Austin Film Society. Before moving to Texas, Agnes held positions with Icarus Films, the Center for Social Media at American University, as a freelance writer for Indiewire.com, Documentary magazine and had a successful 3-year run with her doc blog, Doc It Out. She has worked in various roles with AFI Fest, Independent Film Week, Silverdocs, Newport International Film Festival, AOL True Stories (now Snag Films) and SXSW... Read more

Beginners Guide to SXSW Film

Ahmed Calvo

Chief Medical Officer & Sr Advisor HRSA Office of Health IT & Quality
US Dept of Health & Human Services Office of the Asst Secretary for Health
Chief Medical Officer and Senior Advisor, Office of Health IT and Quality, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington DC

Health As a Team Sport

Ahmed Shihab-Eldin

Host/Producer
HuffPost Live

How to Run a Social Site and Not Get Users Killed

Ahmed Siddiqui

CEO, Developer
Go Go Mongo
Ahmed Siddiqui is a Tech Entrepreneur with a focus in educational gaming for children. By combining mobile technology with great character story lines, Ahmed has found a way to inspire children to reach for cauliflower and beyond. Ahmed's first game, Go Go Mongo! is available on the Apple iTunes App store.

Can Washington Make Your App Illegal?

Aimee Roundtree

Assoc Professor
University of Houston-Downtown

Big Social Media Results at Small Organizations

Aimee Viles

VP, Emerging Media
Bravo
Aimee Viles is Vice President of Emerging Media, Bravo Media, where she is responsible for supervising Bravo’s Emerging Media department, including all wireless and tablet sites, apps, Social TV, interactive TV, gaming, and other emerging media initiatives. Prior to joining Bravo, Viles served as Director of Creative Services at Ensequence, a premiere provider of internet TV products and services, responsible for building revenue generating business services for programming and advertising partners and spearheading development for new business ventures. Her clients included NBC, Bravo, MTV... Read more

Top Chef: How Transmedia is Changing TV

Airdrie Miller

Blogger/Podcaster/Teacher
Talking To Air
Airdrie Miller is a blogger, podcaster, and educator. She lives in Vancouver, BC. She is the widow of Derek K. Miller (penmachine.com)

Digital Immortals: Preserving Life Beyond Death

AJ Glasser

Managing Editor
Inside Network

Facebook Credits: Not Just for Virtual Goods

Aj Jacobs

Editor-At-Large
Esquire Magazine
A.J. Jacobs is the editor at large at Esquire magazine and the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including: THE KNOW-IT-ALL (a chronicle of reading the entire Encycopedia Britannica from A to Z) and THE YEAR OF LIVING BIBLICALLY (about following the hundreds of rules in the Bible). His next book, DROP DEAD HEALTHY comes out in April. He has written for The New York Times, New York magazine and, most proudly, Dental Economics magazine. He has appeared on Oprah, The Today Show and CNN, among others. He is a frequent contributor to NPR. He writes about culture, politics and fatherhood for... Read more

Not Your Mommy's Blog: The Evolution of Dad Blogs

AJ Vaynerchuck

Co Founder
Vayner Media
AJ Vaynerchuk is a co-founder of VaynerMedia, a social media agency that focuses on content + community management and emerging technologies. AJ runs day to day operations at VaynerMedia while also serving as the key contact for many VaynerMedia clients. Most importantly, he is a diehard New York Jets fan.

How to Harvest Consumer Intent from the Social Web

AK Pradeep

CEO
NeuroFocus Inc
Pradeep joined Nielsen upon its acquisition of NeuroFocus in 2011. Pradeep founded NeuroFocus in 2006, which quickly became the world leader in the rapidly-growing neuromarketing research field.

How Brain Science Turns Browsers into Buyers

Akiko Stehrenberger

Owner/Artist
Akikomatic LLC
Akiko Stehrenberger began her career in New York doing spot illustrations for publications such as SPIN, The Source, New York Press, Filter, XXL, and more. Upon moving back to Los Angeles in 2004, she became an art director/designer for movie posters while maintaining steady freelance illustration for magazines, character and toy design, cd album artwork, and portraiture.

Art and Advertising: Two Sides of the One Sheet

Akiyu Stella Mistica

Mentor
Invisible Children Uganda

Modern Weaponry: Using Digital Media to End a War

Al Gore

Former Vice President / Chairman of The Climate Reality Project
Former Vice President Al Gore is co-founder and chairman of Generation Investment Management, a partnership that is focused on a new approach to sustainable investing. In addition, Gore is a senior partner with the venture capital ﬁrm Kleiner Perkins Cauﬁeld & Byers as well as a member of the board of directors of Apple.

Sean Parker Presentation

Al McWilliams

Officer
Quack!Media

Leif to Bieber: The Web Has Changed Nothing

Al Nevarez

VP Prod Mgmt
Allegiance
Al Nevarez is Allegiance's VP of product Management has spent the last 6 year designing and deploying Voice of Customer platforms. His human friendly product designs integrate data visualization, statistics, data mining, text mining, and social media to help companies achieve high customer & employee satisfaction and loyalty. Nevarez has lead product management for VOC solutions in place at some of the most admired and successful companies in the world, including Apple, Nike, Fidelity, Sephora, Gold's Gym, HP, Cummins, Jetblue, EMC, SAP, and Cloudera. Key metrics have included NPS, Csat, or compo... Read more

Gen Y&Z Expectations to Transform Customer Exp

Alan Cooper

Pres & Founder
Cooper
Alan Cooper is known for his role in humanizing technology through his groundbreaking work in software design. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic," Mr. Cooper is the author of the books, About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. As founder of Cooper, a leading interaction design consultancy, he created the Goal-Directed® design methodology and pioneered the use of personas as practical interaction design tools to create high-tech products that address user’s... Read more

Software Alchemy and the Arc of Technology

Alan Shen

Principal UX Mgr
Microsoft

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Alan Weinkrantz

El Pres
Alan Weinkrantz & Company
Alan Weinkrantz is a global public relations executive serving technology companies around the world.

#140conf: Taking on BIG Brands

Alan Wilkis

Music Producer
Wilcassettes
Alan Wilkis, Music Producer Bio: http://wilcassettes.com/about Alan is a critically-acclaimed music producer/remixer, 1/2 of the band Big Data and the Creative Director for Advertising & Brand Partnerships at Spirit Music Group, one of the world’s leading indie music publishers. He has composed music for ad campaigns (EA Sports, Microsoft, Hutchinson Bikes), written theme music (for the new E! series, Pop Innovators) and has licensed his music for several projects (F/X Network's Wilfred, TV promos for Adult Swim and NBC's Do No Harm, Mike Birbiglia’s film Sleepwalk with Me). In addition to hi... Read more

Side B: How the Internet Revived Mixtapes

Albert Hwang

3D Information Artist & Designer
Phedhex
I'm a 3d information artist and designer. As half of the development team for Lumarca, an installation piece that displays volumetric 3d content, I've been traveling around the world building and exhibiting this work. Some places this project has recently been exhibited include Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York, Siggraph Asia, the Last HOPE, and Next no 6.

Detached Messages: Immersive and Spatial Systems

Albin Serviant

CEO
Bopler Games/Mxp4
Albin Serviant; CEO: MXP4

Facebook Music Marketing: Pages, Feeds, Games

Alda Leu Dennis

Airtime

Alec Ross

Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
US Department of State
Alec Ross serves as Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, where he is tasked with maximizing the potential of technology and innovation in service of America’s diplomatic goals and stewarding Secretary of State Clinton’s 21st Century Statecraft agenda. In this role, Alec helps ensure America’s leadership and advances the State Department’s interests on a range of issues from Internet Freedom to disaster response to responding to regional conflicts.

How 21st Century Tools Are Disrupting Global Power

Alejandra Carvallo

US Shopper Marketing Manager
Intel
Alejandra Carvallo is currently Manager of shopping marketing with responsibility for demand generation in the US. Alex joined Intel Americas in 2005, as Manager of the Consumer Marketing Campaign for Hispanics in the USA. She has over 15 years of hi-tech marketing experience creating successful campaigns for a electronic products. She has worked in both South America and the US for Alcatel, Stanford Telecom and Bell Canada.

Big Brands and You: Make the Love Connection

Alejandro Franco

General Dir
Sentido Común/WARP
Alejandro Franco Fernandez is one of the most prominent and important journalists of the music scene in Mexico and Latin America. Alejandro is the founder and CEO of Agencia de Contenidos, which has the following projects: *Sesiones con Alejandro Franco, is a tv show created , produced and directed by Alejandro Franco, with live performances of the best national and international bands. It is broadcast through Sony Spin channel around all Latinamerica and Mun2 in USA. In 2012 opens the season 6 and the first 5 are available in sesionesconalejandrofranco.com . • Off Season Sessions (SOS), is a "po... Read more

Is There a Latin Alternative?

Alejandro Salgado

CKO
Neurosketch
My passion is understanding how the brain works and revealing its intricacy via behavior analysis. Our actions are labyrinths of the mind; I love to cause and observe behavior. I Apply Neuroscience and behavior analysis to real world problems in the food industry, marketing, health, education and film

Rewards! Emotions! Design with the Brain in Mind

Alessandra Colaci

Founder
Republic Of Wow

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