Non Breaking Space Show

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• 1:00 Launch in 28 days and they are on schedule
• 3:15 Weather is nice and weather conditions in Austin
• 5:07 Why did you decide to have multimedia with music?
• 6:40 What’s the comparison between music and interactive at SXSW?
• 7:20 Interactive portion is more appealing, but music is more attended
• 8:50 Interactive probably wouldn’t have survived without the music event.
• 11:00 70,000 people are projected to attend and future growth projections
• 12:20 Even though a lot of people attend, the creation is still the focus.
• 15:00 “Second Story” panel
• 15:45 The coolest thing you see at SXSW is something you weren’t even expecting
• 16:40 Hallway discussions that are completely unplanned, but they are sometimes better than the panel
• 18:01 How you get introverts in the industry to network?
• 19:45 How do you define a meetup?
• 21:30 Speaking submissions need to be submitted 8 months ahead of time. About 4,700 people request to speak.
• 23:50 Accounting for hot new technologies is part of the process.
• 25:10 The submission process was used only with Interactive, but migrated to music and film.
• 26:35 Video has to be submitted when requests are made to speak
• 28:50 So many people have a TED or TEDx video to look at.
• 32:12 5,000 max submissions that panel pickers go through, what the process is to weed out submissions and vote for submissions
• 33:05 What is the process for submitting a talk to SXSW Interactive?
• 38:45 What are unique challenges for SXSW?
• 42:25 How much effort was it to book President Obama last year?
• 45:15 SXSW is only a month away. Prices are at walk-up price now.
• 48:48 Bots are the new things that are going to be a big thing coming up
• 50:25 Wrap up and closing

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