SXSW Interactive is here!
Very cool…
The panels/sessions are looking great, the parties and the get together… And the weather is perfect.
From the various cool panels, to the Monks of Invention, Mobile Future 15, to MobileMonday Austin and many others, hope to see you around!
Ping me if you are at Interactive @eortiz (Twitter).
ceo
We are less than a month away from SXSW Interactive; exciting!
If you are attending the Festival, don’t forget to stop by the Mobile Future 15 session; more info below…
When? Monday, March 14, 3:30-6pm.
Topics & Speakers:
I am very excited about the the speakers and the topics for this year.
If you are attending SXSWi 2011, make sure you stop by our Mobile Future15 panel session! It is going to be awesome.
See the other Future 15 sessions: Future15 Lineup for 2011: Shorter is Better (SXSW blog).
ceo
For the last number of months I’ve been curating the SXSWi Mobile Future 15 panel. This is a special kind of short-form panel content, fast-paced sessions, each title reflecting one 12-minute solo speaking slot, which is followed by a short, three-minute break before the next speaker begins his or her presentation. These proved to be very popular with attendees during 2010.
So I am very happy to announce the SXSWi 2011 Mobile Future15
When? Monday, March 14, 3:30-6pm.
Great topics and speakers:
I am very excited about the quality of the speakers and the topics for this year’s Mobile Future15. If you are attending SXSWi 2011, make sure you stop by our Mobile Future15 panel session! It is going to be awesome…
ceo
One of the cool things about helping judge/select the mobile sessions for SXSW Interactive Festival is that it is like taking the pulse of the Mobile industry — how the mobile industry and technologists feel about the state of things.
This year’s mobility and new technology submissions show how Geo & Social, AR and Big-Data continue to evolve and are key technology areas in the mind of many mobile technologists and marketers alike; a not surprising trend. Some NFC/RFID and barcodes came up. And the topics of native vs. web continues but not as strong, same with Flash, perhaps indicating native as the preferred approach to mobile apps, at least for now.
A lot of very good sessions this year; it was a bit tough to choose… congrats to all who submitted.
ceo
A reminder that the 2011 SXSW Interactive PanelPicker community voting is open and that voting ends Aug 27, 2010. SXSW Interactive is on March 11-15, 2011.
For SXSW Interactive alone there are 2344 sessions! Wow. And for mobile/wireless and mobile apps there are 96 sessions.
Please remember that SXSW is a community-driven event and that your vote literally accounts for about 30% of the decision-making process for any given programming slot.
So go ahead, find the proposals (and mobile proposals!) that most interest you and vote!
Voting ends 11:59 CDT on Friday, August 27.
See you March 11-15, 2011…
ceo
It is that time again…
The 2011 SXSW PanelPicker launched on Tuesday, June 15: see PanelPicker 2011: Send Us Your Incredible Programming Ideas Now! (SXSW blog).
The entry process for the PanelPicker continues through Friday, July 9.
Then the public voting phase on these proposals will run from Monday, August 9 through Friday, August 27.
So go ahead and submit your cool ideas, especially the your MOBILE ideas, now!
ceo
This is my first blog after SXSW 2010. After an intense week, I got sick like a dog, and after recovering got super busy with my real day job — bring to market Motive‘s mobile broadband solution for call centers; the level of interest by operators continue to grow by the day.
SXSW Interactive Festival 2010 was great. Great sessions, met and/or re-connected with a number of folks that I haven’t seen in a while. Great networking. Saw a number of bands and on the big rainy night saw the world premier of MacGruber (great decision to go watch it with my buddy Dean McCall); that was a hilarious movie.
During Interactive I ran (for the first time) the Wireless Future15 mini-sessions; it took close to 3 months to organize this and it was a success. At one point we had the room overflowing; I would say close to 300 people? Great speakers; thanks to all.
One area of growth at SXSW this year was in the use of tools (see SXSW Tools) including an improved “my SXSW website” and leveraging the mobile handset and 2D barcodes and location-based social apps such as Gowalla and Foursquare that helped people connect and follow each other. The use of location (context) and barcodes (interactions) combined with mobile handsets is something that I have been researching and writing about for years now and seeing this happening/getting validated at SXSW is great.
Then we had MobileMonday Austin with a great lineup that included Taptu, SimpleGeo, Foursquare, Frog, Little Springs Design, MobHappy, CloudFour and Finn Mobile; so much mobile knowledge/experience! Thanks to all the speakers. The event was smaller and shorter than usual (by design) and limited to around 50 people so everyone could go and enjoy SXSW festivities.
What is next?
I haven’t been blogging anything of real substance in a while. But I’ve been spending time thinking about extensions to my previous thoughts on mobile, interactions and context. I am back at reading and interacting with key mobility blogs. And of course, there is MobileMonday Austin and the Android Dev Austin groups. So stay tuned and see you around!
ceo