LET’S TRANSFORM E PERIENCES Destination Sessions for SXSW Interactive
SXSW
LET’S TRANSFORM THE CUSTOMER E PERIENCE FRIDAY March 11th
Destination Sessions for SXSW Interactive Our top marketing thinkers and tech tinkerers have pinpointed must-attend sessions for marketers on the hunt for the latest developments that will transform the customer experience. Covering five days, multiple industries, and crucial trends, let our cheat sheet be your guide.
11 12 13 14 15 SATURDAY March 12th
11:00AM - 12:00PM Big Data and AI: Sci-Fi vs Everyday Applications Opportunity or danger? What’s really in the realm of possibility and what will remain sci-fi?
11:00AM - 12:00PM Virtual Reality and the New Sales Experience “The next store you enter may be in your head...or on your head.” Count. Us. In.
5:00PM - 6:00PM Amazing Talent Is Grown, Not Born. Learn How. Forget what you’ve heard, talent development is changing and unicorns can be grown.
12:30PM - 1:30PM Making Epic Sh*t Hear from Google on truly next-level innovation, transformation, and sustainability.
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March 13th
March 14th
2:00PM - 3:00PM MarTech: Converting Fans to FANATICS! The best of both worlds: How tech serves brand advocacy and ROI both on and off the field.
9:30AM - 10:30AM The Hyperloop and Flying Cars: Truth or Fiction Hyundai leading a conversation on the merits and possibilities of these upcoming disruptors.
5:00PM - 6:00PM Millennials in Medicine: Good or Bad for Health? They will produce the most doctors in history, but many will never practice medicine. Uh, what?
12:30PM - 1:30PM Design in Tech Report John Maeda’s data-driven analysis of how design drives competitiveness for brands. ‘Nuff said.
TUESDAY March 15th
12:30PM - 1:30PM Predictive Decisions to Deliver High Performance You probably didn’t know that Formula1’s simulations and predictive analytics can apply to you.
5:00PM - 6:00PM Bitcoin and Blockchains: The Next App Platform? This network is one that the Internet has been waiting to open for the past 25 years.
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LET’S TRANSFORM THE RETAIL E PERIENCE FRIDAY March 11th
Destination Retail Sessions for SXSW Interactive If you’re interested in the future of the retail industry, then this cheat sheet will point you in the right direction. Our top marketing thinkers and tech tinkerers have pinpointed the key retail sessions to attend at this year’s SXSW Interactive.
11 12 13 14 SATURDAY March 12th
12:30PM - 1:30PM Proximity Predictions: The Future of Advertising The ultimate goal is to target any device, in any place. But what does the near future say?
9:30AM - 10:30AM $5 Trillion Question: What’s the Future of Retail? Explore how today’s SoLoMo shopping model will look in 10 years time.
3:30PM - 4:30PM Quantum Receptivity: Targeting Mobile Moments Learn about the fancy term that helps you target when shoppers are in the purchase path.
11:00AM - 12:00PM Virtual Reality and the New Sales Experience “The next store you enter may be in your head...or on your head.” Count. Us. In.
5:00PM - 6:00PM Breaking Beauty: Disruptive Technology and Cosmetics Face-mapping, 3D printing, AI consulting, and biohacking are giving this industry a makeover.
3:30PM - 4:30PM AI and Your Shopping Habit Zappos and Pinterest team up to tackle machine learning and increasing personalization.
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MONDAY
March 13th
March 14th
11:00AM - 12:00PM Heads & Hearts: Consumer Engagement Where It Counts A retail expert, a style columnist, a neuroscientist, and a brand director on making “it” brands.
3:30PM - 4:30PM Partners for Successful On-Demand Grocery Delivery Can you really have your food delivered and have it fresh? Whole Foods and Instacart weigh in.
2:00PM - 3:00PM Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems: Luxury Confronts Digital Making the dream of Integrating digital, while still remaining niche, a reality.
5:00PM - 6:00PM Hardware: The Road to Retail You spent all this time making an awesome product. Now...where to sell it?
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LET’S TRANSFORM THE FINANCIAL SERVICES E PERIENCE FRIDAY March 11th
Destination Financial Services Sessions for SXSW Interactive If you’re interested in the future of the financial services industry, then this cheat sheet will point you in the right direction. Our top marketing thinkers and tech tinkerers have pinpointed the key sessions to attend while navigating this year’s SXSW Interactive.
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3:30PM - 4:30PM Financial Hardware in an App Centric World The credit card = one heck of an innovative piece of hardware = some pretty big shoes to fill.
SATURDAY March 12th
3:30PM - 4:30PM Max Levchin Revolutionizing Consumer Finance The man building a new financial system of honesty, transparency, and innovation. No big deal.
SUNDAY March 13th
12:30PM - 1:30PM Payments in the Fast Lane Credit cards are to cash as mobile payments are to...credit cards. It’s the circle of life. 5:00PM - 6:00PM The Apocalyptic Future...of Finance Here, the state of financial services is likened to standing atop a soap bar and trying to balance.
TUESDAY March 15th
5:00PM - 6:00PM State of Blockchain 2016: Where Do We Go From Here? Now that the blockchain bandwagon is crowded, how will Bitcoin technologies evolve next?
MONDAY March 14th
9:30AM - 10:30AM Beyond Banks: The Future of a Fully Banked World New resolution: Rid financial services of prejudice and unlock banking for all.
5:00PM - 6:00PM Bitcoin and Blockchain: Anarchy to Establishment Bitcoin handles 7 transactions/second, while Visa/MasterCard handle 10,000. So, why worry?
5:00PM - 6:00PM Bitcoin and Blockchains: The Next App Platform? This network is one that the Internet has been waiting to open for the past 25 years.
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LET’S TRANSFORM THE HEALTHCARE E PERIENCE FRIDAY March 11th
Destination Healthcare Sessions for SXSW Interactive If you’re interested in the future of the healthcare industry, then this cheat sheet will point you in the right direction. Our top marketing thinkers and tech tinkerers have pinpointed the key sessions to attend while navigating this year’s SXSW Interactive.
11 12 13 14 15 SATURDAY March 12th
3:30PM - 4:30PM Home, Sweet Home: The Health Hub of the Future Hear physicians, designers, and technologists envision our at-home health hubs.
12:30PM - 1:30PM Virtual Physicians: The Future of Healthcare Virtually cloned physicians will use AI, IoT, and ingestible sensors to diagnose you from afar.
5:00PM - 6:00PM Inner Space: Bioelectronics and Medicine’s Future They had us at “[treating] diabetes and arthritis with a device as small as a grain of rice.”
5:00PM - 6:00PM The Future of Medicine: Where Can Tech Take Us? The answer comprises of molecular imaging, synthetic biology, robotics, and many more...
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March 13th
March 14th
3:30PM - 4:30PM Imagining the Future of Personalized Medicine When digital medicine and behavioral change products collide, medicinal magic happens.
11:00AM - 12:00PM Rethinking Healthcare through Design Thinking And you thought design and creativity couldn’t help to solve every industry’s problems…
5:00PM - 6:00PM Millennials in Medicine: Good or Bad for Health? They will produce the most doctors in history, but many will never practice medicine. Uh, what?
3:30PM - 4:30PM Wearables in Health: In Theory and In Practice One of this country’s most connected health systems showcases the success of wearable data.
TUESDAY March 15th
3:30PM - 4:30PM Inhale and Exhale: The Future of Health Data APIs It’s a miracle. The infamous healthcare info technologies of old may be finally cracking open. 5:00PM - 6:00PM Fixing the Patient Behavior Change Gap As health tech continues to evolve, our consumer behaviors are the ones now holding us back.
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LET’S TRANSFORM THE AUTOMOTIVE E PERIENCE FRIDAY March 11th
Destination Automotive Sessions for SXSW Interactive If you’re interested in the future of the automotive industry, then this cheat sheet will point you in the right direction. Our top marketing thinkers and tech tinkerers have pinpointed the key sessions to attend while navigating this year’s SXSW Interactive.
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5:00PM - 6:00PM Mobility Meets VC: Transportation Reinvented This is the time to launch, fund, and scale mobility companies. Curious how to do it?
SATURDAY March 12th
9:30AM - 10:30AM Looking Forward to Rush Hour: Future of Transit Transportation design for the not-so-distant-anymore future of automotive technologies.
SUNDAY March 13th
12:30PM - 1:30PM Hacking Your Ride: Transportation Safety and Risk Planes have already been proven vulnerable to cyberattacks, so...what about connected cars?
12:30PM - 1:30PM Autonomous Cars Will Make Us Better Humans Explore the symbiotic relationship that humans and AI will have in future urban settings.
MONDAY March 14th
TUESDAY March 15th
11:00AM - 12:00PM Passengerhood: On the Road to Autonomy Cars, cars, and more cars. But what about autonomous driving? Trust? Design? Experience? 12:30PM - 1:30PM Texas as a Self-Driving Car Case Study Diverless taxis, mobility for elders, and nail-painting on the road...just a few of the possibilities.
9:30AM - 10:30AM The Hyperloop and Flying Cars: Truth or Fiction Hyundai leading a conversation on the merits and possibilities of these upcoming disruptors.
12:30PM - 1:30PM How Silicon Valley Is Reinventing the Auto Industry Prediction: Software will open-source auto hardware the same way it did mobile phones. 5:00PM - 6:00PM The Future of the Non-Flying Auto Industry Manufacturers, city officials, lenders, and insurers taking notes: “Must...innovate...immediately.”
5:00PM - 6:00PM Car Shopping: The Final Frontier for Ecommerce Car salesmen (and women) beware as we begin to select, reserve, price, and sign online. Yes!
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