Please RSVP: reanne.leuning@advantageaustria.org
SATURDAY 03/10/2018 | ||
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Fairmont - Manchester CD | Panel | Humanising Autonomy
With the arrival of self driving cars we should answer urgent questions: how can we understand, communicate, and interact with these machines? The focus of this panel lies on how empathetic, human-centered manifestations of autonomous technology can create a safer and more pleasant future. Panelists
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6:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Pitches | Smart Cities & Mobility Pitches This pitching session features Top Mobility Startups from Austria and Germany at SXSW. Jury: Fabian Lebersorger, Stephan Dörner ( Editor-in-Chief, t3n.de), Eric Weber, Bernhard Kowatsch With |
7:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. | EU @ SXSW | Palm Door on 6th | Concert | EU @ SXSW Opening Reception feat. Leyya The EU Commission extended the honorable offer to Leyya to officially open the EU @ SXSW house this year. The sound of this experimental/electronic-pop formation from Vienna creates a foreign but familiar surrounding - spherical, floating but also violent and impulsive. |
SUNDAY 03/11/2018 | ||
10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Exhibition | Artivive Replicas of famous paintings (by Schiele, Klimt and Kokoschka, amongst others) are made accessible to the visitor by means of augmented reality. Using the Artivive App, visitors can see animations and additional information in AR. The experience is thus in the foreground. Postcards of the works (also enhanced with AR) will also be available - the visitor can take these home and thus keep a memory of the visit. With Sergiu Ardelean & Codin Popescu (Artivive) |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Austin Convention Center | Job Market Stage | Session | Avoid the “Oh Shit” Moment: Find the Right Job Moritz Kothe, CEO of review platform kununu, and Matt Charney, executive editor of RecruitingDaily come together to share how you can find your champion in the working world.
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Hilton Austin Downtown | Salon J | Panel | Fighting The Demise of Net Neutrality w/Innovation In light of eroding net neutrality protections, publishers must ensure their streaming infrastructure delivers a stellar consumer experience in order to stay relevant and compete with giants like Netflix and YouTube. Hear from industry leaders how the war on net neutrality will alter how audiences consume video.
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Westin Austin Downtown | Continental 3 | Panel | Grassroots Efforts to Counter Violent Extremism This expert panel will explore domestic and international best practices on what families, educators, faith leaders, and other community stakeholders can do to build the resilience of at-risk individuals before they commit violent acts. The panelists will also discuss the need to safeguard civil rights and civil liberties, ensuring that no individual is singled out because of their religious beliefs or their ethnic or national origin. Panelists
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12:30 p.m. – 13:30 p.m. | Hilton Austin Downtown | Salon H | Featured Session | Arnold Schwarzenegger joins Politico’s Off Message Arnold Schwarzenegger talks with POLITICO’s Isaac Dovere about his own principles for effective governing, why he made gerrymandering and other issues his crusades after finishing as governor of California, and what he sees for the future of American politics.
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| 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | EU @ SXSW | Palm Door on 6th | Panel | Medical Devices; Where do I launch? This panel outlines how the EU market is more advantageous to launch medical devices than the USA. It underlines the imperative need of a strong transatlantic bond, in which devices are launched in the EU, and scaled in the US. Panelists
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| 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | JW Marriott Austin | Room 310-311 | Workshop | Spacelab: Think Big! This Spacelab aims to unleash the creative potential within the audience and connect the dots between design thinking, space and creativity. Together, the participants explore recent aerospace findings and are encouraged to think big about their own ambitions. With |
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | EU @ SXSW | Palm Door on 6th | EU Demo Deck | Transatlantic Health Station OSTA - the Office of Science and Technology Austria - will host a "Transatlantic Health Station" which will feature demos from selected health startups. This will include a product demonstration by a spinoff of the Medical University of Vienna, led by Michael Gharzouzi. With Michael Gharzouzi (Medical University of Vienna) |
| MONDAY 03/12/2018 | ||
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Four Seasons | Ballroom CD | Panel | The Case for Culture: Art & Tech in UNESCO Creative Cities Hear from representatives from Austin and Linz (both UCCN City of Media Arts designees) about their individual and joint initiatives to promote creativity and the cultural industries, strengthen participation in cultural life, and assure the integration of culture into urban development plans. Panelists
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| TUESDAY 03/13/2018 | ||
12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Four Seasons | San Jacinto West | Mentor Session | with Patrick Bartos (Linz) Meet Patrick if you want to know more about the UNESCO Creative Cities program and the concepts and practises of creative cities. Patrick is also interested in meeting up with designers, startups, incubators, accelerators and local authorities in cultural and creative industries.
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Austrian Culture Tech Day @ German Haus The Viennese coffee house pop-up @ German Haus - Experience culture & tech in the co-working space of old | ||
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Key Note | Startup Hub Vienna – Where You Can Enjoy Your Success Vienna is a success story for its stability, growth and increasing business numbers. With approx. $100 billion in FDIs, Vienna performs as a central-European economic powerhouse and a modern gateway to East and West. Prominent representatives of the Viennese startup scene will explain why they have decided to choose Vienna as their perfect place for business success. With
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Panel | DRIVING DIGITAL – Major Changes Challenging the Automotive Industry in Times of a Digital Value Economy Engelbert Wimmer (CEO e&Co. AG) will tell the story of what it takes to not only overcome, but also successfully use the fundamental changes of rapid technology advancements for industry success. Startups active in this secor will showcase exciting and corresponding application scenarios, ending up in an intense panel discussion. With
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12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Panel, Music & Networking Lunch | Culture Tech, Concerts & Viennese Cuisine The cultural industry finds itself among the sectors deeply affected by technology and digital transformation. When it comes to innovating the cultural landscape, VR, AR, and mixed reality play just as important a role as big data, blockchain, and AI. At this showcase, visitors will be inspired by a visionary community of creators who generate additional benefits for content producers and rights owners with their innovative mindset and by using cutting edge technology. After the panel, we will offer you an Austrian lunch, concerts by Leyya and Soia and a performance by A_NEW_DAY. With
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2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Panel & Networking | What the F*uture. How to Capture Your Audience Once Attention is Dead Successful brands, managers and organizations have in common that they know how to tell unforgettable stories that speak to the imagination: stories that bring ideas to life, stimulate innovation and accelerate change. Austrian masters of storytelling explain how they inspire, enlighten, and activate audiences around the world and talk about new approaches to this powerful marketing tool. Panelists
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3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Panel | Technology and its Impact on Music, Marketing & Culture Technology is irreversibly changing how we compose, market and listen to music. Hear how one of the greatest consumer brands, a paradigm-changing startup from Europe, and an independent artist tackle and leverage this new reality.
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4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | German Haus | Barracuda Club | Panel & Networking | Music & Artificial Intelligence Austria is a pioneer when it comes to the innovative application of new meanings and technologies to sound; the country is the birthplace of some of the most ingenious and significant ideas and concepts that connect arithmetic, humanistic and scientific approaches with both traditional and innovative audio sources. We warmly invite you to join and explore the future of sound and technology with us! With
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| TBC | Maggie Mae’s Gibson Room | Showcase | Prinz Grizzley and his Beargaroos Prinz Grizzley dug deep down in the rich grits of god ol’ country, folk and blues. The more he dug, the more he returned, back home to rural feelings that bound him to his roots in western Austria. Surrounded by rugged wild country, he finds an inspiration for songs that might have been written across the ocean, in another land, way down south. |
| WEDNESDAY 03/14/2018 | ||
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | JW Marriott Austin | Salon AB | Panel | The Era of Camera-First Food A digital culture around food has emerged – and brands are paying attention. A top chef, social media expert, food photographer, and diplomat will explore the intersection of food and visual storytelling. Panelists
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8:00 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. | Esther’s Follies | Showcase | LEYYA Vienna-based experimental/electronic pop formation Leyya appeared on the international scene with the release of Superego in Spring 2015, along with airplay all over Europe and placements on TV and commercials. They released their sophomore album Sauna on January 26, 2018 on +1 Records. |
FRIDAY 03/16/2018 | ||
11:00 a.m. – 12:57 p.m. | Alamo Drafthouse Ritz | Auditorium 1 | World Film Premiere | The Field Guide to Evil The Field Guide to Evil is an entirely new vision of anthology horror inspired by a global exploration of folklore and mythology. The film brings together eight of the most exciting voices in international filmmaking to shine a light on the stories from around the world that have kept people sleepless since before the birth of cinema. The stories and filmmakers hail from Austria (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, GOODNIGHT MOMMY), Germany, Greece, India, Poland, Turkey, and the United States.
Directors Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala (Austria), Katrin Gebbe (Germany), Yannis Veslemes (Greece), Ashim Ahluwalia (India), Agnieszka Smoczynska (Poland), Can Evrenol (Turkey), and Calvin Reeder (the United States). |
8:00 p.m. – 8:40 p.m. | Malverde | Showcase | KIDS N CATS KIDS N CATS is an electronic pop band from Vienna. They are loud, wild, excessive and colorful, driven by an insatiable curiosity towards life, music and the world itself. Their universe is weird, disruptive and often mixed to very passionate emotions. Hip-Hop beats are mixed with pop finesse. Their live performances are unforgettable and unique. |
SATURDAY 03/17/2018 | ||
11:00 a.m. – 12:29 p.m. | Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar | Auditorium A | Music Video Competition | salute - "Storm" The music video for Storm, a track by twenty-year-old Vienna-born, Brighton-based musician and producer salute, was directed by Raine Allen-Miller and is a celebration of culture. An African-British woman clad head to toe in Union Jack prints dances in an immaculately decorated living room whilst her family sits back and lets it unfold.
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8:00 p.m. - 8:40 p.m. | Palm Door on 6th | Patio | Showcase | Soia Melancholic and gentle, then demanding and powerful, Soia’s vocals oscillate between soul and hip hop. Soia, who was born in Taiwan and lives in Vienna, and her producer Mez, a jazz pianist with Israeli roots, first collaborated for their 2011 single Obtaining. At the moment Soia and Mez are working on a new EP for 2018. |
11:00 p.m. – 11:40 p.m. | Friends | Showcase | Moonlight Breakfast Moonlight Breakfast is an urban, rough but sophisticated mix of Electro, Beat, Nu-Jazz and Swing, that will keep you grooving. Their distinctive sound has managed to capture the attention of a broad and diverse audience and has pushed them into the spotlight of the international music scene. |
Please RSVP: reanne.leuning@advantageaustria.org
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar
Auditorium A
1120 South Lamar Boulevard
Austin, TX 78704
Austin Convention Center
Job Market Stage
500 East Cesar Chavez
Austin, TX 78702