SXSW Interactive 2009 – Pre-attendance Plans – and Survival Tips

In about 2 weeks I will be heading off to SXSW Interactive. I look forward to meeting and talking to lots of exciting people in the industry.  I am also going to try and pull together a UI designer meetup group. Last year only a few people were able to get together. I hope this year we can get a lot more!

While at SXSW I hope to blog about the classes I’m attending and many other items of interest. I can only hope the network is capable of sustaining 5000+ people all in one small area using every last spec of bandwidth. Last year and the year before it died. Here’s to wishful thinking

Here are a list of the panels I plan on attending (subject to change): If you are at SXSW and don’t see anything panels you like at a particular time be sure to check out the “DAY STAGE” Cafe.  There are usually book readings, and other great conversations going on. Since they are a smaller format you can get a lot of face time with the author and ask some questions etc.

Friday, March 13

• My Boss Doesn’t Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man
• Try Making Yourself More Interesting
• Book Reading: Career Renegade: How To Make A Great Living Doing What You Love

Saturday, March 14

• TBA ·  Boagworld Live Show Spectacular!
• The 7 Rules for Great Web Application Design
• Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools and Techniques
• Opening Remarks
• Profit By Mobilizing Your Online Community or Marketplace  

For anyone that may be so inclined here is the rest of my busy schedule.

http://my.sxsw.com/events/my_schedule_feed.rss?id=24065&syndication_token=d45fb037949018f34ddcd45643559509

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1. SXSW 2009 Interactive – Survival Guide & Tips
2. SXSW 2009 – Day 2
3. SXSW Interactive 2009 – Let The Flow of Information Begin!
4. SXSW Interactive 2008 – Pre-Morning Wakeup Planning
5. UI Conferences: The Big D Design Conference 2010

One Response to “SXSW Interactive 2009 – Pre-attendance Plans – and Survival Tips”

1. Alon says:

   March 6, 2009 at 7:54 pm

   Consider checking out our core conversation Sunday March 15 3:30-4:40 on Agile development and human-centered design: http://blog.carbonfive.com/2009/03/agile/when-worlds-collide-conversation-with-maria-giudice-of-hot-studio.

   We’d love to hear your thoughts.