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3:30pm

Waste 2.0: 3 Ways Tech Is Making Waste a Resource
    Friday March 9, 2012 3:30pm - 4:30pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    Organizations are spending time and money to become more sustainable but they are not leveraging new software and web technologies to maximize their positive environmental impact. This panel will discuss three ways technology is making waste a resource. Topics discussed will include the use of new technologies to manage waste and resources like other parts of the organization are managed. Enabling technologies for more transparency and reporting to help to solve environmental problems and create a more efficient eco-system. We will also discuss how knowledge sharing and collaboration across the enterprise and even competitors can create new and innovative solutions to environmental problems.

    Speakers
    COO | RecycleMatch | Chad is the Co-Founder of RecycleMatch...


    Type Interactive, Solo
    Hashtag #sxsw #waste
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9777


 
 

9:30am

Group Deals Are Killing Your Small Business

11:00am

Big Social Media Results at Small Organizations
    Saturday March 10, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    If you're at a small organization, you might have more great ideas and willingness to serve your community than you do time, money, or help. Lots of small organizations in your shoes--associations, societies, coalitions, departments, units, health advocacy groups, community health centers, and non-profit start-ups--use social media for outreach, education, PR and promotion. Financial and human resource limitations make social media appealing for achieving organizational goals. But don't just assume that if you build it, they will come. And, don’t limit yourself to using the same strategies as larger organizations with more resources. If you want to do big things with social media at your small organization, you have to be creative and flexible, use what works, and know thyself. This presentation will help you think through developing, implementing, and measuring an effective campaign by sharing details of success stories from professional organizations and health advocacy groups.

    Speakers
    Assoc Professor | University of Houston-Downtown


    Type Interactive, Solo
    Hashtag #sxsw #sm4orgs
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10593


12:30pm

Why Small Is the New Big and Big Is the New Small
    Saturday March 10, 2012 12:30pm - 1:30pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    Economic angst has taught us one thing: Size doesn’t matter. The over-riding lesson we are learning worldwide is that a business that gets ahead of the curve is a smart one, not necessarily a big one. The rapid development and adoption of information communication technologies (ICT) over the last ten years is driving this change. As consequence, businesses are leveraging these new web, mobile and social technologies to interact with customers and prospects in a whole new way. A role reversal between SMB and Large Enterprise is taking place: SMB is becoming more ubiquitous and quantitative while Enterprise is becoming more personalized and qualitative. This session explores the causes, corrections, and outcomes of the changing dynamics within the marketplace that now allow SMB and Large Enterprise companies to compete for the same customers. Attendees will experience these dynamics first-hand in an #eggcellent real-time market simulation.

    Speakers
    Founder/Partner | Stagira Inc | reformed retail entrepreneur...

    Dir of WW Marketing, Web & Events | IBM Collaboration Solutions...


    Type Interactive, Dual
    Hashtag #sxsw #eggcellent
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10015


3:30pm

The Local Backbone of the SoLoMo Revolution

5:00pm

When Goliath Tries to Steal Your Lunch Money
 
 

9:30am

Big Data: Powering the Race for the White House
    Sunday March 11, 2012 9:30am - 10:30am @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    Despite the advent of new media, campaigns for President still measure the electorate in pretty much the same way they did 40 years ago, through traditional polls to landline phones. That could all change this year. The hottest job in today’s Presidential campaigns is the Data Mining Scientist -- whose job it is to sort through terabytes of data and billions of behaviors tracked in voter files, consumer databases, and site logs. They’ll use the numbers to uncover hidden patterns that predict how you’ll vote, if you’ll pony up with a donation, and if you’ll influence your friends to support a candidate. This panel will delve deep into the world of real-time data on Presidential campaigns, showing how it’ll be used to make decisions on everything from the layout of a signup form to where to spend millions of advertising dollars in the closing days of a campaign. Forget about which candidate has the most likes on Facebook or followers on Twitter -- and learn why 2012 will be the year of Big Data in American politics.

    Speakers
    VP & Dir of Research | TargetPoint Consulting | Alex Lundry is...

    CEO | Optimizely | Dan Siroker is the Co-Founder & CEO of Optimizely...

    Global Chief Technology Officer | Hill+Knowlton Strategies...

    VP | The Winston Group | Kristen Soltis is the Vice President...

    President | Engage | Patrick Ruffini is president at Engage...


    Type Interactive, Panel
    Hashtag #sxsw #data2012
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10797


11:00am

Big Data for Everyman: Help Liberate the Data Serf
    Sunday March 11, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    WTF is Big Data & Why Should I Care?Love that smartphone? Navigate with your GPS? Tweeting about this session? Everything other than brushing your teeth has is generating data. Every action we do generates data & a record of that action. According to a recent study by McKinsey, 15 out of 17 industry sectors in the US have more data stored per company than the Library of Congress. The sheer volume of data, driven by new devices & disparate data sources, requires a shift in how to capture & analyze information. If you could mine data generated by your audience, what questions might you ask? Improving your perspective on what users are doing or how they're interacting with you can yield some amazing returns. Analyzing big data can be as easy as surfing the web. We'll show some cool ways to ask questions, in realtime, to some fun data sources & get amazing answers. See how to turn data into information, information to knowledge & knowledge to action.

    Speakers
    CTO and co-founder | Splunk


    Type Interactive, Solo
    Hashtag #sxsw #splunk
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP10260


12:30pm

Disambiguation: Embrace Wrong Answers & Find Truth

3:30pm

Using Big Data Takes Machines & Humans
    Sunday March 11, 2012 3:30pm - 4:30pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)

    Using Big Data Takes Machines & Humans Man vs. machine – usually, good (man) versus evil (machine) – has long been the stuff of scary science fiction. And now as machines master more advanced processes, the prospect that thinking machines will outperform and ultimately replace thinking humans becomes more real and threatening. Example: IBM’s Watson, an advanced AI machine that’s squared off against Jeopardy’s best human contestants and won.But Arnab Gupta, CEO of Big Data analytics firm Opera Solutions, believes “humans vs. machines” is the wrong construct. Humans PLUS machines is far more powerful. Marrying machines’ ability to discern patterns in Big Data with humans’ ability to derive meaning from this output enables far better decisions. It’s the next wave in productivity.How to accomplish this, when machines and people speak different languages and “think” differently? At SXSW, Arnab will explore the power of “machine + humans” and discuss ways to create collaboration.

    Speakers
    CEO/Founder | Opera Solutions


    Type Interactive, Solo
    Hashtag #sxsw #manmachine
    Theme New Business
    Level Beginner
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13131


5:00pm

Data Mining Music
 
 

9:30am

How to Work in B2B and Keep Your Creative Shirt On
    Monday March 12, 2012 9:30am - 10:30am @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    You know who you are: Your clients are large and their marcom departments, though not as highly funded as the advertising departments, need rich media to get the job done. Both big budget ads and small B2B marketing efforts want to achieve the same things: behavior change, message recall, and positive brand effect. So why is the level of creativity in our executions so different? Why are we producing fewer strong creative ideas? If the blog world’s murmurs about a creative crisis in interactive advertising are true, then what do we call what’s going on in our own B2B interactive marketing? A creative meltdown? Because the interactive space is the prime medium for B2B marketing, it’s important to ask these questions to assess how we can challenge ourselves to raise the creative bar to execute great creative ideas that assure client satisfaction.

    Speakers
    Creative Director | Somnio Solutions Inc | Jon Stefaniak is the...

    Exec Creative Dir | Somnio Solutions Inc | As head of the creative...

    Creative Lead | Somnio Solutions Inc | Melissa Messer’s specialty...


    Type Interactive, Panel
    Hashtag #sxsw #B2Bshirt
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11200


11:00am

Social Media in the Underground World of B2B
    Monday March 12, 2012 11:00am - 12:00pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    We’ve seen multiple examples at SXSW in years past of consumer brands successfully leveraging social media and aligning to business objectives to generate ROI, many of which have millions of consumers interacting with their products on a daily basis. While B2B brands don’t always have the flash and sizzle of consumer brands, social media has the power to drive innovation, sales and success in every industry – consumer and enterprise alike. This session will focus on social media advice and best practices for B2B companies. Hear from some of the world’s leading B2B brands, including two Fortune 100 brands, about leveraging social media as a competitive advantage and engaging with and activating internal and external stakeholders. They’ll focus on how to make the case within a B2B organization and to the C-suite to invest in social media, as well as how they measure impact within their respective companies.

    Speakers
    VP, Brand & Social Mktg | Xerox Corporation | Duane Schulz is...

    Sr Mgr, Digital & Social Strategy | IBM | Ethan McCarty is part...

    Sr. Director, Social & Digital Mktg | Cisco Systems Inc | I lead...

    Dir | Text100 | Melissa Chanslor is an account director and digital...

    Social Media Strategist | NVIDIA | Shanee is a geek who talks...

    Program Mgr, Social Business Enablement | IBM


    Type Interactive, Panel
    Hashtag #sxsw #SMB2B
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP8760


12:30pm

The Promise and Pitfalls of Real-Time Marketing

3:30pm

Humanizing B2B Brands with Video & Comedy

5:00pm

Everything You Need to Know About B2B Marketing
 
 

9:30am

Creating a Mobile Wallet Worth Having
    Tuesday March 13, 2012 9:30am - 10:30am @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    With buzzwords like “NFC” and “mobile wallet” thrown about in the press ad nauseam, consumers and the mobile and financial industries are looking for who will emerge the winner in the effort to control mobile money – and there’s a great deal of money to be had if it’s done right. But as often as the mobile wallet is lauded for its convenience, it’s derided as “a solution in search of a problem.” Ultimately, in order to meet the real needs of consumers, wallet-makers need to stop focusing solely on the technologies of mobile payments, and actually look at what will drive usage: a mobile solution that is actually worth having. This doesn’t yet exist, but it could, if application developers create tools that actually change the way merchants and consumers feel, think, spend and save money. We will discuss what the true opportunity is for the mobile wallet and the elements that need to be included to move beyond technologies like NFC, to delivering the customer benefit to end users.

    Speakers
    Dir, Strategic Mobile Initiatives | Intuit


    Type Interactive, Solo
    Hashtag #sxsw #Wallet
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9446


11:00am

How the Wallet Was Won: The End of Paper Receipts

12:30pm

Why a Mobile Wallet Isn’t Going to Be Enough

3:30pm

Mobile Payments: Transforming Consumer Marketing
    Tuesday March 13, 2012 3:30pm - 4:30pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    Mobile payments are booming. Nearly 70 million Americans with smartphones are looking for a convenient way to pay without using plastic. Enter NFC, Google Wallet, Tabbedout and other technologies and companies making it easier and more secure than ever to pay with your phone.
    But what if paying with your phone offered more than just convenience? Mobile payments create a direct relationship between merchants and consumers. This technology puts power in the hands of the consumer to opt-in for personalized special offers from the businesses they frequent, and for businesses to capture customer habit and preference data and use it to create actionable, custom offers. Frequent a local pub? Walk into the bar and receive a digital coupon for your favorite beverage to thank you for being a loyal customer. Have a favorite restaurant? Your phone can deliver an appetizer recommendation based on your preferences and offer it half price.
    This session will give an in-depth look at how mobile payments are not only changing the way people pay, but are also the next big marketing platform, connecting consumers and merchants to create a personalized relationship via technology.

    Speakers
    Exec VP & Co-Founder | Tabbedout | Rick Orr is the Executive...


    Type Interactive, Solo
    Hashtag #sxsw #mblemktg
    Theme New Business
    Level Beginner
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP9486


5:00pm

From Leather to Smartphone: The Wallet Evolves
    Tuesday March 13, 2012 5:00pm - 6:00pm @ Hilton Garden Inn (Rio Grande) (500 North IH 35, Austin, TX 78701)
    As the smartphone evolves into a mobile commerce device, is the traditional wallet becoming an endangered species? What exactly is this elusive digital wallet and what can it do that a leather wallet can’t? Imagine a wallet that gives you real-time status of all your money and bills, before you make that next purchase. A wallet that holds offers personalized for you – no more clipping coupons or forgetting to redeem a deal. This session will look at the vision for – and reality of –digital wallets. Beyond waving your smartphone at the register, a digital wallet makes you smarter about your finances, gives you tailored offers and remote control over all your accounts.WSJ All Things Digital eMoney Columnist Tricia Duryee will moderate a panel bringing together the perspectives from three companies at the heart of the wallet of the future — Pageonce, Visa and PayPal. Get a 360-degree perspective on what tomorrow’s wallet will bring.

    Speakers
    Vice President, Product Strategy | American Express | Devaraj...

    VP of Retail & Prepaid Prod | PayPal Inc | As vice president...

    CEO | Goldstar | Jim McCarthy is the CEO of Goldstar, the world’s...

    Sr Editor | All Things D

    COO | Pageonce | Pageonce helps people make sense out of their...

    Sr Editor, eMoney | Wall Street Journal All ThingsD


    Type Interactive, Panel
    Hashtag #sxsw #pageonce
    Theme New Business
    Level Intermediate
    Website http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP11533


 

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