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Career-enhancing connections make the SXSW Interactive Festival so special to so many digital creatives. Come to Austin in March to connect yourself (or your company) to the new ideas, new technologies and new business opportunities that will shape the future, as well as game-changing insights from the world's most innovative thought-leaders. Registration for the 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival opens the first week of August 2013 -- buy your badge early to take advantage of the lowest prices and the best selection of lodging.

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SXSW Interactive Awards People's Choice Voting Now Open!

Created by Sarah Garcia on February 7, 2013
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Each year at the SXSW Interactive Awards, the People's Choice Award is given to the Interactive community's favorite finalist from the SXSW Interactive Awards competition. Past People's Choice Award winners include Groupon, Americans Elect and deviantART.

Click here to vote for the People's Choice Award at the SXSW Interactive Awards

The winner of the 2013 People's Choice Award will be announced Tuesday evening, March 12 at the SXSW Interactive Awards Ceremony Presented by Bloomfire. Come for an evening of food, drinks and fun emceed by comedian, actress and podcaster Aisha Tyler.

Kim Dotcom Speaks! A Skype Panel with Charles Graeber of WIRED

Created by Sarah Garcia on February 6, 2013
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Kim Dotcom by WilkKim Dotcom by Wilk Kim Dotcom is a German-Finnish Internet entrepreneur, currently residing in New Zealand. He is the founder of the file-sharing site, Megaupload, as well as his much discussed current project, Mega.

Dotcom will be interviewed at SXSW via Skype in a convergent talk titled, Kim Dotcom Speaks! A Skype Panel, by WIRED Contributing Editor Charles Graeber at Dell Hall at the Long Center on Monday, March 11 at 3:30pm. Graeber, author of the upcoming book, The Good Nurse, spent several weeks with Dotcom and is currently writing a book about the man who has come to symbolize the issue of privacy, piracy, and our digital future.

David Goldberg of SurveyMonkey on the Importance of Understanding Data

Created by Sarah Garcia on February 5, 2013
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Dave Goldberg courtesy SurveyMonkeyDave Goldberg
courtesy SurveyMonkeyAdvances in technology now allow businesses to constantly collect different types of data. But how does one know what to include when analyzing this data? Businesses struggle to understand how to separate what's important from the noise, especially since decisions made based on the large data pools can potentially make or break a company. How should businesses filter through this information overload?

Please join David Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, on Sunday, March 10 at 3:30pm as he discusses what the "right" kind of data companies should be paying attention to when making that next big decision.

Celebrate Design, New & Nostalgic, at the SXSW Trade Show!

Created by Cori on February 4, 2013
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Photo Courtesy of JW WalthallDesign will play a key role in the 2013 SXSW Trade Show. At the Meet Up Pavilion on Monday, March 11, I Met My Agency @ SXSW will be dedicated to technical design. The final recruiting round on Wednesday, March 13 will focus on creative design. In addition, the Analogue Anonymous meet up allows you to rediscover the charm of vintage media and see how nostalgic mediums have been revamped for the 21st century!

Al Gore Returns to SXSW Interactive on Saturday, March 9

Created by Sarah Garcia on February 4, 2013
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Al Gore courtesy of the speakerAl Gore
courtesy of the speakerThe SXSW Interactive Festival is very excited to announce the return of Former Vice President Al Gore. In March 2012, the Vice President inspired a standing-room-only SXSW audience with his declaration to occupy democracy during his conversation with Sean Parker. This year, he plans to shake things up again by exposing the six critical drivers of global change explored in his new book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change.

Released on January 29, The Future has already generated significant praise. Says two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and Harvard University professor E.O. Wilson: "This is a great book. From political policy and economics to science and the most thorny ethical issues, Al Gore has stated the human condition and the issues we face forthrightly, fearlessly and in easily understood language – and has said what must be done. I asked myself halfway through who else could have written a book of such magnitude. The only answer I could imagine was Thomas Jefferson."

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