Panels at the 2008 Event · By Category

A full range of geek-related topics

Posted below are the currently confirmed programming titles for the 2008 SXSW Interactive Festival, as listed by category. These categories are not absolute, as many titles span several different topics. Also, be sure to check out two new additions to the 2008 programming lineup: Core Conversations and Book Readings. Finally, don't forget the Opening Remarks by Henry Jenkins, scheduled for Saturday, March 8 at 2:00 pm.

These 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 questions related to 2008 SXSW panel programming, please contact us at interpanels at sxsw dot com

Business
10 Things We've Learned at 37signals (Jason Fried)
10 Tips for Managing a Creative Environment (Bryan Mason)
Ad-Supported Music, A New Hope for the Industry? (Steve Jang)
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)
The Care and Feeding of Your Startup (Stacey Zuniga)
Future of Corporate Blogs (Lionel Menchaca)
How Piracy Will Save the Music Industry (Jason Schwartz)
How Widgets Influence Music on the Web (Seth Sternberg)
Lost in Translation? Top Website Internationalization Lessons (Stephanie Booth)
Make Your Audience Love You (Tom Merritt)
The Real Dragon: Behind the Scenes of China's Web Industry (Tatsuki Tomita)
Scope Creep and Other Villains (James Archer)
Score! Learning E-commerce From the Sports Industry (Shripal Shah)
Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update (Mike Wasylik)
Top Ten Lessons Learned in E-Commerce (Tony Hsieh)
Worst Website Ever: That’s So Crazy, It Just Might Work (Andy Baio)

Content
Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush)
Behind the Scenes at the Onion News Network (Sean Mills)
Content Boundaries, a 12-Step Program (Margaret Mason)
FM 2.0: The Future of Internet Radio (David Hyman)
How Manga Explains the World (Dan Pink)
Roll Over Gutenberg, Tell McLuhan The News (George Kelly)
Transparent or Top Secret: Pro Gridiron on the Web (Kevin Corbett)
The Trials and Tribulations of Using Music Online (Elise Nordling)
Where Are The Black Tech Bloggers? (Lynne d Johnson)

Design
A General Theory of Creative Relativity (Jim Coudal)
A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe? (Corey Chandler)
Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Great Design Hurts (Michael Lopp)
Data as Art: Musical, Visual Web APIs (Peter Kirn)
Design Eye for South By (Keith Robinson)
Design is in the Details (Naz Hamid)
Designing for Freedom (Gina Bianchini)
Does Tomorrow's World Need Designers? (Tim Leberecht)
Everyone's A Design Critic (Jason Santa Maria)
From Frustration to Elation: Getting Emotional by Design (Dan Rubin)
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)
Rome, Sweet Rome: Ancient Lessons in Design (Jennifer Fraser)
Social Design Strategies (Emily Chang)
Tools for Enchantment: 20 Ways to Woo Users (Kathy Sierra)
Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World (Richard Rutter)

Gaming / ScreenBurn
A Better Gun to Shoot Your Eye Out With (David Koontz)
Can Wii Learn? Using Wiimotes in E-Learning (Patrick Sanchez)
Edit Me! How Gamers are Adopting the Wiki Way (Angie Shelton)
The Female Takedown of Casual Gaming (Sharon Wienbar)
The Future Virtual World & Game Development: Rise of the Indies (Corey Bridges)
Games for Change: Real World Games with Real World Impact (Suzanne Seggerman)
Human and Property Rights in Virtual Worlds (Susan Wu)
Let's Get Serious: Should Video Games Replace College? (Michael Anderson)
PMOG: The Web as a Play Field (Justin Hall)
Pro Gamers: New Extreme Athletes of the 21st Century (Adam Boyden)
Stories, Games and Your Brand (Rachel Clarke)
Taking Your Web Talent to the Video Game Industry (Adam DuVander)
Virtual Scandals and Sacrilege: Who’s grieFing Now? (Heitor Alvelos)
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)

Joint Panels (Film / Interactive)
ABC's Of DVDs (Patrick Kwiatkowski)
Animation and Digital Effects on a Budget (Scott Kirsner)
Beyond the Blogosphere: How Online Talent is Being Developed Offline (Dianne McGunigle)
Blogs, Buzz, and Buddy Lists (Paul Harrill)
Communal Narrative: Exquisite Corpse Filmmaking (Meghan Scibona)
A Conversation with Michael Eisner
Digital Cinema for Indies (Scott Kirsner)
Gossip (Heather Gold)
Hollywood and Design and Literature: Just Who is Inspiring Who? (Evan Hirsch)
Independent Film Distribution: It Takes an Online Community (Micki Krimmel)
The Porn Police: Know the Rules (Lisa Vandever)
Quit Your Day Job and Vlog (Tim Shey)
Thick as Thieves: What Have My Fans Done with My Movie? (Ben Cote)
Video Production for the Web & Mobile Devices (Hank Blumenthal)

Marketing
The Art of Self-Branding (Lea Alcantara)
Friend Me! Vote for Me! Donate Now! (Julie Barko Germany)
Judo Moves for Defending Your Reputation Online (Thor Muller)
Online Advertising for Newbies (Heath Row)
Self Replicating Awesomeness: The Marketing of No Marketing (Brian Oberkirch)
Social Marketing Strategies Metrics, Where Are They? (Tom Parish)
Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! (Dave McClure)
What Teens Want Online & On Their Phones (Anastasia Goodstein)
What User Generated Video Means to Word of Mouth Advertising (Daphne Kwon)

Miscellaneous
Africa 2.0: Affecting Change Using Technology (G. Kofi Annan)
Battledecks II (Mike Monteiro)
Body Optimization: Why Stop at Health & Fitness? (Tantek Celik)
Building a Worldwide Climate Movement (Bill McKibben)
Can Enterprise Save the World (David Armistead)
Career Transitions: From DIY to Working for The Man (Cindy Li)
Cyber Safety in the Interactive Age (Ron Teixeira)
Go For IT! Attracting Girls to Technology (Clare Richardson)
Guerilla.com (Johannes Grenzfurthner)
How to Rawk After SXSW: Staying Inspired (Kevin Smokeler)
How to Rawk SXSW: Achieving Geekgasm (Ariel Waldman)
How to Rawk SXSW: The Basics (Min Jung Kim)
MASH Notes: A Miltary Surgeon's Videoblog from Iraq (Carlos Brown)
Online Extremism -- And the Muslims Who Fight It (Shahed Amanullah)
“Redrum in the Rue Morgue”: Collaboration in International Communities (Ana Boa-Ventura)
Respect! (Jeffrey Zeldman)
Sexual Privacy Online (Violet Blue)
SXSW Open Format (Ian Muir)
WaSP Annual Meeting: Don't Break the Web (Kimberly Blessing)
The Web That Wasn't (Alex Wright)
What Women Need to Succeed (Stephanie Sullivan)

Mobile / Wireless
Bio-Networks: Using Mobile Technology to Impact Healthstyle (Kate Bauer)
Getting Unstuck II: From Desktop to Device (Liz Danzico)
How Many Clicks to the Center of…? (Conleth O'Connell)
Life after the i-Phone (Kate Ryan)
Mobile Phones: International Devices of Mystery (Michael Sharon)
Mobileactive: How Mobile Technology Impacts Politics and Vice Versa (Justin Oberman)
Take Municipal WiFi Back (Joanna Rees)
Transforming Hospital Systems: The Digital Future of Healthcare (Grace Lanni)
Using Entertainment to Create Effective Mobile Advertising (Abam Zbar)

Next Generation
10 Ways to Green-ify Your Digital Life (Jennifer Schlegel)
The Art of Speed (Tim Ferriss)
A Critical Look At OpenID (Jason Levitt)
Crunching and Streaming: Online Video Distribution Challenge and Opportunity (Chris Gottschalk)
Futurists' Sandbox: Scenarios for Social Technologies in 2025 (Michele Bowman)
Green Software. Really? (Kim Laama)
Hardware Mashups: Introducing the Long Tail of Gadgets (Peter Semmelhack)
Kill Your Mouse: Kinetic Computing Arrives Main Stage (Lee Shupp)
The Science of Designing Interactions (Andreas Weigend)
Textbooks of the Future: Free & Collaborative! (Jimmy Wales)
Visualizing Sustainability (Jon Lebkowsky)

Programming
AJAX and Flash Mistakes (Jonathan Boutelle)
Browser Wars: Deja Vu All Over Again? (Arun Ranganathan)
Building Developer-Friendly Web Service APIs (Ben Vinegar)
Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly (Shawn Henry)
Client-side Code and Internationalization (Jon Wiley)
Considerations for Scalabale Web Ventures (Joe Stump)
Content Management System Roundup (George DeMet)
Creating Findable Rich Media Content (Jennifer Taylor)
Creative Collaboration: Building Web Apps Together (Paul Hammond)
Everything I Know about Accessibility I Learned From Star Wars (Derek Featherstone)
Filching Design: When the Shoe Fits (Lindsey Simon)
Getting There Faster By Using Open Code (Jack Moffitt)
Scalability Boot Camp (Jakob Heuser)
Secrets of JavaScript Libraries (John Resig)

Social
Building Portable Social Networks (Jeremy Keith)
The Future of Volunteers: Adapt or Die (David Neff)
High-Tech Craft: Why Sewing and Knitting Still Matter (Natalie Zee Drieu)
How Are You? A Global Mood Ring (Drew Davidson)
Just Over 50 and Not Dead Yet (Serge Lescouarnec)
Managing the Media Blur (Douglas Merrill)
Monetizing Social Media (Ellen McGirt)
The Myth of the Rational Voter (Bryan Caplan)
Pimp My Non Profit -- Real Non-Profits Kicking Ass with Online Technology (Ed Schipul)
Social Network Coups: The Users are Revolting! (Annalee Newitz)
Social Networking and Your Brand (Jina Bolton)
Social Strategies for Revolutionaries (Charlene Li)
The Supercollider: A Hero of the Social Network (Souris Hong-Porretta)
The Suxorz: The Worst Ten Social Media Ad Campaigns of 2007 (Henry Copeland)
Taking Over the World: the Flickr Way (Simon Batistoni)
True Stories from Social Media Sites (Rashmi Sinha)
The Weird Turn Pro: Crowdsourcing For Creatives (Derek Powazek)

Sponsored Panels
Driving the Future of Consumer Electronics Devices (David Burks)
ExpressionEngine 2.0 Sneak Preview (Rick Ellis)
The Elephant in a Creative Designer's Living Room (Clement Mok)
Going Social Now (Shiv Singh)
Harness the Power of Social Networking on Your Intranet (William Cava)
Increase Revenue by Mobile-Enabling Your Services (C. Eric Smith)
Interactive Media Trends - Are You On Top of It? (Micheline Nijmeh)
The Insiders Guide to Angel Investing (David S. Rose)
Knowing the Audience: Improving Communication Between Artists and Fans (Stephen Stokols)
Managing Communities That Work (Miles Sims)
Monetizing Rich Internet Applications (Kristine Stebbins)
New Media Powering Entertainment (Daniel Graf)
Responsible Web Design (Greg Rewis)
Scoop the Story on Your Blog (Simeon Margolis)
Taking It to the Desktop (Lee Brimelow)
The Web Agency: There WIll Be Blood (Chris Bernard)

All subject to change
Updated 1/28/2008