Here's my best attempt at an educated guess for things to attend for a Retail-CreativeTechnologist-ContentStrategist-ExCulturalJournalist type guy like myself.
Friday, March 8
**5:00PM It's Reddit's Web. We Just Live In It
Sheraton Austin Capitol EFGH
8:00PM The Interactive Opening Party presented by frog
design
Palmer Events Center
Saturday, March 9
9:30AM How Twitter Has Changed How We Watch TV
Austin Convention Center Room 18ABCD
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**11:00AM Show&Smell 2: Marketing Experiences Beyond
Visual
Omni Downtown Austin
11:00AM Too Long Didn't Read: The Future of Indie Longform
Austin Convention Center Room 12AB
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**12:30PM Leap Motion & the Disappearing User Interface
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
12:30PM The Rise of Re-Commerce: Shop Used in a New Way
Four Seasons San Jacinto Ballroom
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**2:00PM Elon Musk Keynote
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
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**3:30PM Al Gore on The Future
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
**3:30PM Beyond Squishy: The Principles of Adaptive Design (Brad Frost)
Austin Convention Center Ballroom BC
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**5:00PM Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now
Austin Convention Center Ballroom D
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7:00PM Knight Foundation & MIT Media Lab sponsored Demo
Fair and Gathering The Parish
Sunday, March 10
*9:30AM Data, Storytelling and Breaking Through the Noise
Wanderlust Wanderlust
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**11:00AM Now You See Me: The Future of Ambient Location
Sheraton Austin Capitol ABCD
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**2:00PM From YouTube to Global Sensations: The Ap”peel” of
Annoying Orange Palmer Events Center Exhibit Hall 1
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**3:30PM Physical & Digital Collide: Retail Rewired
Hyatt Regency Austin Texas Ballroom 5-7
3:30PM The Signal & the Noise
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
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**4:00PM Big Data: Is It Killing Creativity?
Hilton Austin Downtown Room 615AB
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*5:00PM Building Tools for Creativity
Austin Convention Center Ballroom D
*5:00PM The New Serendipity?
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
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9:00PM SapientNitro SXSW Party
The Parish
**11:00AM Embracing Analog: Why Physical Is Hot
Hyatt Regency Austin Texas Ballroom 1-4
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11:30AM Flying Lotus - 'Until The Quiet Comes'
Rollins Theatre at The Long Center
11:30AM alt-J (∆) "Breezeblocks"
Rollins Theatre at The Long Center
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*12:30PM Hey, Where's My Robot Girlfriend?
Hilton Austin Downtown Salon FGH
12:30PM Creating & Keeping a Kickass Photo Community
SXSW Create Create Meet Up Tent
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**3:30PM Whoa Nellie! Content Strategy for Slow Experiences
Austin Convention Center Ballroom EF
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*5:00PM The Future of 3D Printing
Omni Downtown Longhorn
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**9:15PM The Punk Singer
Alamo Ritz 2
Tuesday, March 12
***11:00AM Creating Great Analog Souvenirs for a Digital Era
Omni Downtown Austin
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**12:30PM Fashion & Food: Transforming Visual Narration
Sheraton
Austin Capitol EFGH
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*2:00PM Matthew Inman Keynote
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
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4:30PM Analogue Anonymous
Austin Convention Center Meet Up Pavilion EH 3/4
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5:00PM Bruce Sterling Closing Remarks
Austin Convention Center Exhibit Hall 5
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7:15PM The Punk Singer SXSatellite: Alamo Village
Reservations