SXSWi - less than a month away!

I am a huge fan of tech conferences. I'll admit I get a bit giddy inside knowing the potential for meeting new geeks. Web414 was really the first place that I was able to meet new people on a regular basis and introduce them to our Borg-like geek ways. Through the various events we have been a part of - BarCampMilwaukee (1&2), BarCampMadison, and South by Southwest Interactive is a 5 day long conference focusing on gaming, design, development, programming, and how we use technology.

The rough schedule of what I plan on attending (session/panel wise) is below. I couldn't decide what to go to in some cases, so I left everything I wanted to go to on this list. If you want to meet up for breakfast/lunch/dinner/drinks or to just go to a session, let me know and we will hook up!

Friday, March 7th

• 2pm - Book Reading - Designing the Moment
• 3pm - Book Reading - Principles of Beautiful Web Design
• 3:30pm - How to Rawk SXSW - The Basics
• 5pm - Bankrupt your Startup in Five Easy Steps

Saturday, March 8th

• 10am - Design is in the Details
• 10:30am - Book Reading - Define your Design Style with CSS
• 11:30am - How to Rawk SXSW - Achieving Geekgasm
• 11:30am - Accessible Rich Media
• 11:30am - Contextual Web
• 3:30pm - Core Conversation - Adult Conversations - Sex, intimacy, and online relationships
• 3:30pm - Go for it! Attracting girls to technology
• 5:00pm - Open Source or Open Pit
• 5:00pm - What women need to succeed

Sunday, March 9th

• 10am - Wireframing in a Web 2.0 World
• 11:30am - I'm internet famous - status in social media
• 11:30am - Sponsored Panel - Responsible Web Design
• 3:30pm - Does tomorrow's world need designers?
• 3:30pm - Core conversations - How accessible should your site be?
• 3:30pm - Sponsored panel - The elephant in a creative designer's living room
• 5pm - Sexual Privacy Online

Monday, March 10th

• 10am - Lost in Translation? Top website internationalization lessons
• 11:30am - A critical look at opened
• 11:30am - Core conversations - Blueprinting your project - Put it on paper or just start coding?
• 11:30am - Core conversations - 5 things that elite designers should stop saying
• 2:00pm - Browser Wars - Déjà vu all over again?
• 2:00 pm - Judo moves for defending your reputation online
• 3:30pm - 10 Tips for Managing a creative environment
• 3:30pm - Design Eye for South By
• 5:00pm - Core Conversation - Coworking and the Evolution of the Independent Worker

Tuesday, March 11th

• 10am - 10 ways to Greenify your digital life
• 10:30am - Book Reading - Wordpress for Dummies (@lisasabin's book!
• 11:30am - Designing for Freedom
• 11:30am - How to Rawk After SXSW - Staying Inspired
• 11:30am - Core Conversation - Specializing vs. Doing it all
• 2pm - Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
• 3:30pm - Creative Collaboration - Building webapps together
• 3:30pm - Getting there faster by using open code
• 3:30pm - Take municipal wifi back
• 5pm - Core Conversation - Online Identity - And I *do* give a damn about my bad reputation
• 5pm - Taking over the world - the Flickr way

Mike Rohde, David Overbeck, and I will be leaving early Friday morning (you should hear all of the groaning that went along with my making *that* decision :D) and staying through Tuesday night. If you're interested in getting together during the event, let me know via twitter or the contact form and we'll arrange something.

See you in Austin!