2008 SXSW Interactive Panel Programming

Programming on this page is organized by day -- with the name of the organizer of the session listed in parenthesis. Given the large number of panel topics, we also recommend that you browse the Panels By Category page. Full descriptions of each panel, along with names and biographies of each of the speakers will be posted in early February. Also, be sure to check out two new additions to the 2008 programming lineup: Core Conversations and Book Readings.

Programming selections based on results of the Panel Picker voting. Special thanks to the 2008 SXSW Advisory Board for their help in analyzing and vetting all the data from this online application. If you have any panel-related questions, please contact us at interpanels at sxsw dot com.

Photo of Alternate Reality Game Panel at SXSW 2007 by John Swords.

Panels By Day

Posted below is a list of panels that are scheduled on each day of the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival. Each day's programming is organized alphabetically. Name next to panel is the organizer of the given session. Look for a dynamic / searchable schedule of the 2008 program to be released in early February.

Friday, March 7 (panels run from 3:30 to 6 pm)

Bankrupt Your Startup in Five Easy Steps (Joshua Strebel)
Battledecks II (Mike Monteiro)
Career Rev 342: Dabble Dabble, Toil and Kick Ass (Amy Hoy)
Edit Me! How Gamers are Adopting the Wiki Way (Angie Shelton)
How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics (Min Jung Kim)
Pro Gamers: New Extreme Athletes of the 21st Century (Adam Boyden)
Respect! (Jeffrey Zeldman)

Saturday, March 8 (panels run from 10 am to 6 pm)

Opening Remarks: Henry Jenkins + Steven Johnson

10 Things We've Learned at 37signals (Jason Fried)
A Better Gun to Shoot Your Eye Out With (David Koontz)
A General Theory of Creative Relativity (Jim Coudal)
Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush)
AJAX and Flash Mistakes (Jonathan Boutelle)
The Art of Speed (Tim Ferriss)
Behind the Scenes at the Onion News Network (Sean Mills)
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Great Design Hurts (Michael Lopp)
Body Optimization: Why Stop at Health & Fitness? (Tantek Çelik)
Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly (Shawn Henry)
City of Games: Inside Austin's Developerscape (Evan Van Zelfden)
Creating Findable Rich Media Content (Jennifer Taylor)
Design is in the Details (Naz Hamid)
* The Elephant in the Creative Designer's Living Room (Clement Mok)
* ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Preview (Rick Ellis)
Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits (Lindsey Simon)
The Future of Virtual World & Game Development: Rise of the Indies (Corey Bridges)
Go For IT! Attracting Girls to Technology (Clare Richardson)
High-Tech Craft: Why Sewing and Knitting Still Matter (Natalie Zee Drieu)
How to Rawk SXSW: Achieving Geekgasm (Ariel Waldman)
* Interactive Media Trends - Are You On Top of It? (Micheline Nijmeh)
Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet (Serge Lescouarnec)
Kill Your Mouse: Kinetic Computing Arrives Main Stage (Christie Dames)
* Knowing the Audience: Improving Communication Between Artists and Fans (Stephen Stokols)
* Managing Communities That Work (Miles Sims)
Managing the Media Blur (Douglas Merrill)
The Myth of the Rational Voter (Bryan Caplan)
Online Extremism -- And the Muslims Who Fight It (Shahed Amanullah)
The Porn Police: Know the Rules (Lisa Vandever)
Quit Your Day Job and Vlog (Tim Shey)
Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design (Jennifer Fraser)
Social Marketing Strategies Metrics, Where Are They? (Tom Parish)
Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting! (Annalee Newitz)
The Suxorz: The Worst Ten Social Media Ad Campaigns of 2007 (Henry Copeland)
Taking Your Web Talent to the Video Game Industry (Adam DuVander)
Top Ten Lessons Learned in E-Commerce (Tony Hsieh)
The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing For Creatives (Derek Powazek)
What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones (Anastasia Goodstein)
What Women Need to Succeed (Stephanie Sullivan)
Worst Website Ever: That’s So Crazy, It Just Might Work (Andy Baio)
You Are Here: Gaming and User's Geolocation in Web 2.0 (Ryan Sarver)
You’re the Pawn, Sucker: a Google Maps-Nintendo Mash-up (Rodney Gibbs)

Sunday, March 9 (panels run from 10 am to 6 pm)

Keynote Speaker: Mark Zuckerberg

10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment (Bryan Mason)
A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe? (Corey Chandler)
Africa 2.0: Affecting Change Using Technology (G. Kofi Annan)
Career Transitions: From DIY to Working for The Man (Jason Garber)
Content Boundaries, a 12-Step Program (Margaret Mason)
Does Tomorrow’s World Need Designers? (David Merkoski)
Everyone's A Design Critic (Jason Santa Maria)
Everything I Know About Accessibility I Learned From Star Wars (Derek Featherstone)
The Female Takedown of Casual Gaming (Sharon Wienbar)
Friend Me! Vote for Me! Donate Now! (Julie Barko Germany)
From Frustration to Elation: Getting Emotional by Design (Dan Rubin)
Gossip (Heather Gold)
* Harness the Power of Social Networking on Your Intranet (William Cava)
Hollywood and Design and Literature: Just Who is Inspiring Who? (Evan Hirsch)
How Manga Explains the World (Dan Pink)
Human and Property Rights in Virtual Worlds (Susan Wu)
* Increase Revenue by Mobile-Enabling Your Services (C. Eric Smith)
Logos: Why They’re Irrelevant and Can Actually Hurt Your Business (Bryan Zmijewski)
Magic and Mental Models: Using Illusion to Simplify Designs (Jared M. Spool)
Make It So: Learning From SciFi Interfaces (Nathan Shedroff)
Meet The Architects (Molly Wright Steenson)
Online Advertising for Newbies (Heath Row)
Mobileactive: How Mobile Technology Impacts Politics and Vice Versa (Justin Oberman)
The Real Dragon: Behind the Scenes of China's Web Industry (Tatsuki Tomita)
* Responsible Web Design (Greg Rewis)
SXSW Open Format (Ian Muir)
The Science of Designing Interactions (Andreas Weigend)
* Scoop the Story on Your Blog (Simeon Margolis)
Scope Creep and Other Villains (James Archer)
Score! Learning E-commerce From the Sports Industry (Shripal Shah)
Sexual Privacy Online (Violet Blue)
Social Design Strategies (Emily Chang)
Social Strategies for Revolutionaries (Charlene Li)
Stories, Games and Your Brand (Rachel Clarke)
The Supercollider: A Hero of the Social Network (Souris Hong-Porretta)
Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative! (Melissa Hagemann)
Tools for Enchantment: 20 Ways to Woo Users (Kathy Sierra)
Transparent or Top Secret: Pro Gridiron on the Web (Kevin Corbett)
Where Are The Black Tech Bloggers? (Lynne d Johnson)
Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World (Richard Rutter)

Monday, March 10 (panels run from 10 am to 6 pm)

Keynote Speaker: Frank Warren

A Critical Look At OpenID (Jason Levitt)
The Art of Self-Branding (Lea Alcantara)
Beyond the Blogosphere: How Online Talent is Being Developed Offline (Omid Ashtari)
Bio-Networks: Using Mobile Technology to Impact Healthstyle (Kate Bauer)
Blame Canada: 7 Ways We’re Ahead in New Media (Kris Krug)
Bootstrapping 101: The Basic Building Blocks (Bijoy Goswami)
Bootstrapping and Emerging Collaborative Models (Kevin Koym)
Browser Wars: Deja Vu All Over Again? (Arun Ranganathan)
Building a Worldwide Climate Movement (Bill McKibben)
Building Developer-Friendly Web Service APIs (Ben Vinegar)
Building Portable Social Networks (Jeremy Keith)
The Care and Feeding of Your Startup (Stacey Zuniga)
Client-Side Code and Internationalization (Jon Wiley)
Cyber Safety in the Interactive Age (Ron Teixeira)
Design Eye for South By (Keith Robinson)
* Driving the Future of Consumer Electronics Devices (David Burks)
The Future of Volunteers: Adapt or Die (David Neff)
Games for Change: Real World Games with Real World Impact (Suzanne Seggerman)
* Going Social Now (Shiv Singh)
Hardware Mashups: Introducing the Long Tail of Gadgets (Peter Semmelhack)
How Are You? A Global Mood Ring (Drew Davidson)
How Piracy Will Save the Music Industry (Jason Schwartz)
Independent Film Distribution: It Takes an Online Community (Micki Krimmel)
Judo Moves for Defending Your Reputation Online (Thor Muller)
Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons (Stephanie Booth)
Make Your Audience Love You (Tom Merritt)
Mobile Phones: International Devices of Mystery (Michael Sharon)
Pimp My Non Profit -- Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology (Ed Schipul)
PMOG: The Web as a Play Field (Justin Hall)
SXSW Open Format (Ian Muir)
Scalability Boot Camp (Jakob Heuser)
Self Replicating Awesomeness: The Marketing of No Marketing (Brian Oberkirch)
Social Networking and Your Brand (Jina Bolton)
Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! (Dave McClure)
* Taking it to the Desktop (Lee Brimelow)
Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update (Mike Wasylik)
True Stories from Social Media Sites (Rashmi Sinha)
Virtual Scandals and Sacrilege: Who’s grieFing Now? (Heitor Alvelos)
WaSP Annual Meeting: Don't Break the Web (Kimberly Blessing)
* The Web Agency: There Will be Blood (Chris Bernard)
The Web That Wasn't (Alex Wright)
What User Generated Video Means to Word of Mouth Advertising (Daphne Kwon)

Tuesday, March 11 (panels run from 10 am to 6 pm)

Keynote Speaker: Jane McGonigal

10 Ways to Green-ify Your Digital Life (Jennifer Schlegel)
Ad-Supported Music, A New Hope for the Industry? (Steve Jang)
Can Enterprise Save the World (David Armistead)
Can Wii Learn? Using Wiimotes in E-Learning (Patrick Sanchez)
Casual Multi-Player Online Games: Serious Revenues (Michael Smith)
Communal Narrative: Exquisite Corpse Filmmaking (Meghan Scibona)
Considerations for Scalabale Web Ventures (Chris Lea)
Content Management System Roundup (George DeMet)
Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together (Paul Hammond)
Crunching and Streaming: Online Video Distribution (Chris Gottschalk)
Data as Art: Musical, Visual Web APIs (Peter Kirn)
Designing for Freedom (Gina Bianchini)
FM 2.0: The Future of Internet Radio (David Hyman)
The Future of Corporate Blogs (Lionel Menchaca)
Futurists' Sandbox: Scenarios for Social Technologies in 2025 (Michele Bowman)
Getting There Faster By Using Open Code (Jack Moffitt)
Getting Unstuck: From Desktop to Device (Kelly Goto)
Green Software. Really? (Kim Laama)
Guerrilla.com (Johannes Grenzfurthner)
How Many Clicks to the Center of…? (Conleth O'Connell)
How to Rawk After SXSW: Staying Inspired (Kevin Smokler)
How Widgets Influence Music on the Web (Seth Sternberg)
* The Insider's Guide to Angel Investing (David Rose)
Let's Get Serious: Should Video Games Replace College? (Michael Anderson)
Life After the i-Phone (Kate Ryan)
MASH Notes: A Miltary Surgeon's Videoblog from Iraq (Carlos Brown)
The Mexican Manifesto (Sharron Rush)
* Monetizing Rich Internet Applications (Kristine Stebbins)
Monetizing Social Media (Tim Kendall)
* New Media Powering Entertainment (Daniel Graf)
“Redrum in the Rue Morgue”: Collaboration in International Communities (Ana Boa-Ventura)
Roll Over Gutenberg, Tell McLuhan The News (George Kelly)
SXSW Open Format (Ian Muir)
Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (John Resig)
Take Municipal WiFi Back (Joanna Rees)
Taking Over the World: the Flickr Way (Simon Batistoni)
The Trials and Tribulations of Using Music Online (Elise Nordling)
Thick as Thieves: What Have My Fans Done with My Movie? (Ben Cote)
Transforming Hospital Systems: The Digital Future of Healthcare (Grace Lanni)
Using Entertainment to Create Effective Mobile Advertising (Adam Zbar)
Visualizing Sustainability (Jon Lebkowsky)