Rodney Brooks in Conversation with Nick Thompson | SXSW Interactive 2016Rodney Brooks, the chairman of Rethink Robotics and the former director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and Nicholas Thompson, editor of newyorker.com, examine the current state of robotics and A.I. They will cover the problems that robots can and can’t solve and the future effect that robots will have on our economy and our personal lives. They’ll also tackle concerns about the dangers of artificial intelligence, and the ways that robots and A.I. could change the nature of warfare. Dr. Brooks will describe his decades of research into this field and his suggestions for policies that will best help humanity handle the changes that advances in robotics are bringing about.
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Accessing the Inaccessible: Evolving Search | SXSW Interactive 2016Not so long ago, when you needed an answer, you turned to people—you called them, you met in person, you asked around. In twenty short years, search engines have become the first stop. Humanity has taken a backseat to algorithms. Search is taken for granted. There’s been iteration and operational improvements, but there has not been a significant challenge to the established pattern of seeking information—there has not been a fundamentally new approach in two decades. Join Biz Stone (co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly) and Danny Sullivan (author, founder of Search Engine Land) as they challenge established patterns, networks, and unlock the value of combining humanity with technology.
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Elephant in the Valley | SXSW Interactive 2016Gender bias has become one of the most important discussions and movements within the tech industry. Michele Madansky and Trae Vassallo are two of the authors of the recently-released “Elephant in the Valley” report that provides strong data documenting the workplace challenges in the tech industry. This study was inspired by the impactful conversation that came out of the Ellen Pao / Kleiner Perkins trial from March 2015: “What we realized is that while many women shared similar workplace stories, most men were simply shocked and unaware of the issues facing women in the workplace.”
Madansky and Vassallo will discuss the “Elephant in the Valley” survey, the reaction they have encountered since its release, as well as solutions they think the tech industry can embrace to improve upon the many problems exposed in this report.
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Why Happiness Is Hard and How to Make It Easier | SXSW Interactive 2016Andy Puddicombe, meditation teacher, former Buddhist monk and co-founder of Headspace takes us on an exploration of the human mind. What does it mean to be happy? Why do we struggle when we have so much? What is the relationship between hope and fear? How can we find a sense of meaning and purpose in our life? How can we tap into our creative potential for the benefit of others? Looking through the lens of mindfulness and science, Puddicombe will show you how to train your mind for a healthier and happier life.
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Wikipedia: Beyond the Encyclopedia | SXSW Interactive 2016Wikipedia has inspired everything from hitchhiking robots to pizza parties to improved cancer detection, while serving nearly half a billion users per month. Since Jimmy Wales created Wikipedia in 2001, people on every continent have used Wikipedia’s open, freely-licensed content and platform as an invitation for creativity, community, and communication. What does the future hold for one of the world’s most beloved sites? What’s the next thing in learning, sharing, and knowledge? Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of Canva, will interview Jimmy Wales, founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, about the future of everyone’s favorite real-life guide to the galaxy.
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Iris Bohnet | What Works: Gender Equality by Design | SXSW Interactive 2016Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and debiasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. In an effort to make workplaces more effective and inclusive, companies have tried special training programs and a score of other techniques to change the way employees think. Behavioral design offers a new solution. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts. Building on new insights into the human mind, Bohnet draws on data from companies, universities, and governments, often from randomized controlled trials, and offers evidence-based interventions. Presenting research-based solutions from her new book, What Works, Iris Bohnet shares the tools we need to move the needle in classrooms and boardrooms, in hiring and promotion, benefiting businesses, governments, and the lives of millions. More can be done—often at shockingly low cost and surprisingly high speed.
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Dirk Ahlborn | Crowdsourcing the Hyperloop | SXSW Interactive 2016Hyperloop Transportation Technologies CEO Dirk Ahlborn will discuss Hyperloop as both a completely new transportation system and the revolutionary use of crowdsourcing to create an entirely new model for how companies can be made. In August 2013, Elon Musk published the original Hyperloop Alpha white paper detailing a new mode of transportation: a passenger capsule levitating in a tube that travels at 760 MPH. Musk asked other entrepreneurs to take on the project and JumpStartFund, a new crowdsourcing platform, took the project on with 100 engineers, becoming the first Hyperloop company, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) in November 2013. Today, HTT has more than 500 team members, including Fortune 500 companies, working worldwide to build the first full scale passenger-ready Hyperloop along a five mile stretch of the I-5 Freeway in California’s Central Valley. What does it takes to build a new mode of transportation? How will the Hyperloop change the way we live?
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Stewart Butterfield in Conversation with Farhad Manjoo | SXSW Interactive 2016Farhad Manjoo, New York Times technology columnist, takes the stage with Stewart Butterfield, CEO and co-founder of Slack, a Silicon Valley darling that is altering how people communicate at work.
Stewart will share what it has taken to get Slack where it is today and what the future looks like for the company. Farhad and Stewart will also get into a broader discussion of the market for start-ups, how Slack has calibrated its priorities, and whether tech people are saving or ruining the world.
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Creating the Modern Media Company | SXSW Interactive 2016When Apple released their infamous 1984 commercial during the Super Bowl, it in many ways encapsulated the media landscape at that time: to market a brand was to place a splashy 30 second TV buy. Over a decade ago, Facebook was born and, building on the momentum of platforms like MySpace, transformed how we discover and share the things that entertain us and are important in our lives. Every generation has their own set of brands that define the medium on which they were built: radio brands, magazine brands, TV brands, and now digital media brands.
Jim Bankoff, the Chairman and CEO of Vox Media, has built a business around redefining what it means to be a successful modern media brand by combining the smartest digital voices—such as Ezra Klein, Kara Swisher, and Nilay Patel—with advanced technology and data solutions that power the eight media brands in the Vox Media portfolio. Today, Vox Media connects with an audience of 170 million affluent and educated young adults globally. In this discussion, Bankoff explores how Vox Media has become one of the fastest growing media companies of today and what the short, mid, and long term view of the digital media landscape looks like for publishers and brands alike.
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Douglas Rushkoff | Distributed: A New OS for the Digital Economy | SXSW Interactive 2016Digital tech was supposed to usher in an age of prosperity, but so far it has put industrial capitalism on steroids. Social networks surrender their missions to data mining, and banks abandon investing for algorithms- all to stoke growth. Startups sell for billions but destroy more jobs and markets than they create.
In this launch event for his new book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Rushkoff will share a new economic program using the unique distributive power of the internet to break free of the winner-take-all game defining business today. He will offer a series of practical steps to remake the economy from the inside out. Followed by book signing.
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Closing Remarks: Bruce Sterling | SXSW Interactive 2016World traveler, science fiction author, journalist, and future-focused design critic Bruce Sterling spins the globe a few rounds as he wraps up the Interactive Conference with his peculiar view of the state of the world from a global perspective, as one who lives in Turin, Belgrade, and Austin. Most recently, Bruce has been an instigator of the DIY - Internet of Things model home project, Casa Jasmina. He also makes an annual "state of the world" assessment, with Jon Lebkowsky, for two weeks every January on The WELL.
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Frank Cooper | The Future of Media Companies | SXSW Interactive 2016Two critical paths have emerged to reach a large-scale audience: pop culture superstars and giant brands, fueled by mass marketing OR an equally (if not more) powerful audience built without the trappings of fame, traditional "talent," marketing–muscle, and traditional media.
While there is still a place for the classic broadcast, celebrity–driven approach, the mobile, social web has become the place where the ordinary becomes the extraordinary, the experiment becomes the standard, and the outliers become the agenda-setting influencers. While technology has created the potential for this shift, the primary driver of building this type of audience in today’s environment is human connection – simple connections between fans, friends and cultural groups.
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It’s Not About an iPhone: Fixing the Encryption Mess | SXSW Interactive 2016The relationship between the government, tech, and corporations was broken well before the iPhone encryption fight. Working within a legal framework designed for telcos in the 20th century, the government has had to improvise in ways that antagonized its potential partners in the tech and corporate world.
We NEED this relationship to be fixed in a way that both allows the government to protect us, while also protecting our privacy, and keeping corporations safe from potential hackers. This means passing new laws, changing current government practices, and building trust across the spectrum.
In this session we’ll hear from Obama camapign and admin advisor Michael Slaby, IBM’s global threat head Charles Henderson, and corporate security expert Misha Govshteyn on how we got here and what it will take to fix this mess.
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Max Levchin | Unstoppable Trends that are Changing the World | SXSW Interactive 2016Small ideas are boring. Let’s talk about the unstoppable secular trends that are changing the world. As we emerge from the shift to mobile, it is time to look at the top emerging themes such as how software is eating older software, regulatory arbitrage, beneficence, and the gray market in the gig economy.
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We the People: Using Tech to Solve Big Challenges | SXSW Interactive 2016Technology can be a powerful force for good, whether helping government better serve its citizens or helping communities solve challenges in faster, more collaborative, data-driven ways. In this session, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith, U.S. Digital Service Deputy Administrator Haley Van Dyck, Digital Services Expert Clarence Wardell, and Policy Adviser Aden Van Noppen discuss efforts to drive change at the Federal level, as well as innovations taking place in communities around the country.
Specifically, the team will look at:
· Data-driven justice: How can open data build trust between law enforcement and citizens?
· Digital government: How are the Obama Administration’s digital teams transforming how Americans access government services online?
· Accelerating opportunity creation: How is the trifecta of technology, open data and community engagement empowering citizens and local leaders with the tools they need to solve their challenges?
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Started in 1987, South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas. SXSW’s original goal was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers, to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas. That continues to be the goal today whether it is music, film or interactive technologies.
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Bitcoin: Let's Cut Through the Noise Already! | SXSW Interactive 2016Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/sxsw?sub_confirmation=1
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Kevin Kelly | 12 Inevitable Tech Forces That Will Shape Our Future | SXSW Interactive 2016In a few years we’ll have artificial intelligence that can accomplish professional human tasks. There is nothing we can do to stop this. In addition our lives will be totally 100% tracked by ourselves and others. This too is inevitable. Indeed much of what will happen in the next 30 years is inevitable, driven by technological trends which are already in motion, and are impossible to halt without halting civilization. Some of what is coming may seem scary, like ubiquitous tracking, or robots replacing humans. Others innovations seem more desirable, such as an on-demand economy, and virtual reality in the home. And some that is coming like network crime and anonymous hacking will be society’s new scourges. Yet both the desirable good and the undesirable bad of these emerging technologies all obey the same formation principles.
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Google Self-Driving Car Project | SXSW Interactive 2016Everyone's talking about self-driving cars these days, but how can you differentiate between hype and reality? In the six years of Google’s project, its vehicles have self-driven over 1.3 million miles, racking up the equivalent of 90 years of human driving experience. Google says its cars can now handle the vast majority of everyday situations it finds on the roads, but what does the path to a driverless future look like? How could it be that self-driving cars be both three and 30 years away?
Urmson shares his stories from the front lines of building the world's first fully self-driving cars.
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Meet Nom: Food and the Future of Live Video | SXSW Interactive 2016When Steve Chen, Co-Founder and CTO of YouTube, along with Vijay Karunamurthy saw that users began hacking live/direct interaction with a video's host through YouTube's comment feature, they knew there was a product solution. During this fireside chat, Steve will trace the origins of YouTube through today's content platforms, and unveil his new product, Nom -- a live, interactive video platform focused (at least for now) on the food community.
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Invisible Influence and Winning at SXSW 2016 | SXSW Interactive 2016SXSW Interactive can change your life. You’ll meet new people, learn new things, and maybe even discover the next big thing. But how can you make the most of this amazing opportunity? In this session, Wharton Professor and bestselling author Jonah Berger offers tips for winning at SXSW. Based in part on his new book “Invisible Influence” Berger will show you how to navigate the madness and make the next five days and nights a time to remember. Whether you want to make better decisions, have more fulfilling social interactions, or design products and programs that help people have happier, healthier lives this session is not to be missed!
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How a Sports Giant is Now Tackling Your Health | SXSW Interactive 2016Under Armour Founder and CEO Kevin Plank has been changing the way athletes dress for twenty years. Now he is aiming to change the way athletes live.
With three digital health and fitness acquisitions under his belt, and a global community of more than 160 million, hear how this entrepreneur has plans to revolutionize and fundamentally transform global health and technology.
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Opening Keynote: Casey Gerald | SXSW Interactive 2016“So there we were, staring at each other thru misty eyes as we watched our baby, our dream, our idea die before it even had a chance to live. But just before we pulled the plug…we decided to join the long procession of young kids, with crazy ideas who were told by some authority that they couldn’t do what they wanted. We said fuck it. We’ll do it anyway.”
And with that Casey Gerald became the co-founder and CEO of MBAs Across America, a national movement of MBAs and entrepreneurs working together to revitalize America. A native Texan, Gerald received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BA in Political Science from Yale College, where he was a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. Named one of the “Most Creative People in Business” by Fast Company he has emerged as an influential voice on the awakening that is changing business and society — making purpose the new bottom line in our lives and work.
Gerald began his career in economic policy and government innovation at the Center for American Progress, and has worked as a strategist with startup social ventures such as The Future Project, as well as companies like The Neiman Marcus Group. He serves on the advisory boards of the Aspen Institute’s Franklin Project and NPR’s Generation Listen while also being featured on MSNBC, in the New York Times, Financial Times and The Guardian.
His Harvard Business School commencement speech hit a nerve online and began a larger conversation around his ideas and work. Gerald argues that there is a new playbook for change. That doing good over doing well will wake a dying world from it’s slumber and bring about a recalibration driven by creativity and the people who practice it. In short, it's time to give a damn. Join us Friday March 11 for Casey Gerald's Opening Keynote and leave inspired to change your world.
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President Barack Obama Keynote Conversation | SXSW Interactive 2016President Obama sits down with Evan Smith, CEO / Editor in Chief of The Texas Tribune, for a conversation about civic engagement in the 21st Century before an audience of creators, early adopters and entrepreneurs who are defining the future of our connected lives. The President will call on the audience to apply their ideas and talents to make technology work for us – especially when it comes to tackling big challenges like increasing participation in the political process and fighting climate change.
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Started in 1987, South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas. SXSW’s original goal was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers, to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas. That continues to be the goal today whether it is music, film or interactive technologies.
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Whats Buzzing at SXSW 2016? | SXSW Interactive 2016What has been buzzing and what are the most innovative products at this year's SXSW Interactive Festival? Conversely, what did we expect would be big hits in March in Austin -- and the pre-event hype just didn't match what was delivered on-site? Additionally, the last portion of the session will allow attendees to ask questions -- and offer feedback on how SXSW can continue to improve in 2017.
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Androids and Future Life | SXSW Interactive 2016We, humans, have an innate brain function to recognize humans. Therefore, very humanlike robots, androids, can be ideal information media for human-robot/computer interactions. In the near future, the use of humanlike robots will increase.
To realize a robot society, the speaker has developed various types of interactive robots and androids. Geminoid, a tele-operated android of an existing person can transmit the presence of the operator to the distant place. However, the geminoid is not the ideal medium for everybody. People enjoy talking to Telenoids.
In this talk, the speaker discusses the design principles for the robots and their effects on conversations with humans.
About SXSW:
Started in 1987, South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of film, interactive, and music festivals and conferences that take place early each year in mid-March in Austin, Texas. SXSW’s original goal was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers, to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas. That continues to be the goal today whether it is music, film or interactive technologies.
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