The Geek Hipster Guide to SXSW

South By Southwest Interactive attracts all types of digitally inquisitive people from all over the world. Still, wandering the halls of the Austin Convention Center and the streets of downtown Austin, it’s impossible not to notice a significant representation of the black beard, black glasses, check shirt and baseball/flat cap brigade (amongst the men anyway). Better known as the Geek Hipster set, or Geekster, this tribe has congregated from the near and far flung diasporas of Williamsburgh in Brooklyn, Hoxton in London, The Mission in San Francisco and hometown East Austin.

In honour of this gathering we’ve conducted our own social anthropological study and dipped back into an old meme of LEGO love to create The Geekster Guide to SXSW.

ENVIRO GEEK

Where to spot them: SXSW Eco Meet Up

HACKER GEEK

Where to spot them: Hacking the Hackathon

SOCIAL MARKETING GEEK

Where to spot them: What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You

DO-GOODER GEEK

Where to spot them: Cause Tech Startups - The Opportunity in Good

BIG DATA GEEK

Where to spot them: Actively Participating in the Big Data Revolution

UBER GEEK

Where to spot them: In their bedroom following everything online

M-HEALTH GEEK

Where to spot them: Penicillin 2.0 - Sensor Driven Health

CROWD GEEK

Where to spot them: The “Real” Crowdfunding Investment

GAMING GEEK

 

Where to spot them: SXSW Gaming Expo

SOCIAL BUSINESS GEEK

Where to spot them: Dachis Group + Sprinklr Party of course….

MAKER GEEK

Where to spot them: Maker to Manufacturing session

JOURNO GEEK

Where to spot them: A Virtual Conversation with Glenn Greenwald

 

The Geekster Guide to SXSW

South By Southwest Interactive attracts all types of digitally inquisitive people from all over the world. Still, wandering the halls of the Austin Convention Center and the streets of downtown Austin this week, it’s impossible not to notice a significant representation of the black beard, black glasses, check shirt and baseball/flat cap brigade (amongst the men anyway). Better known as the Geek Hipster set, or Geekster, this tribe has congregated from the near and far flung diasporas of Williamsburgh in Brooklyn, Hoxton in London, The Mission in San Francisco and hometown East Austin.

In honour of this gathering we’ve conducted our own social anthropological study and dipped back into an old meme of LEGO love to create The Geekster Guide to SXSW. And we’ve trawled through the exhaustive SXSW schedule to find the panels and talks we think these Geeksters would most want to attend. Read below or download the PDF and share it around! Let us know if we’ve missed out anyone.

ENVIRO GEEK

 

Dream Session: Al Gore on The Future

 

HACKER GEEK

Dream Session: IEEE/W3C Open Future Meetup with Tim Berners-Lee and What Can We Learn from the Unabomber?

Social Marketing Geek

Dream Session: Contagious: Why Things Catch On and The Future of Video; The Post YouTube Apocalypse

DO-GOODER GEEK

Dream Session: 3D Printing for People with Disabilities and Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

BIG DATA GEEK

Dream Session: Any panel with Nate Silver

UBER GEEK

Dream Session: Drone Daddy Chris Anderson and New York Times’ scourge Elon Musk on stage together for the Elon Musk Keynote.

M-HEALTH GEEK

Dream Session: mHealth: Take Two Apps & Call Me in the Morning and Digital Health Changes Everything.

CROWD GEEK

Dream Session: Shut Up & Take My Money: LEGO Does Crowdsourcing and Go Fund Yourself.

GAMING GEEK

 

Dream Session: Crafting a Success: The Story of Minecraft

SOCIAL BUSINESS GEEK

Dream Session: Say Goodbye to Corporate Marketing as You Know It and Is Social Media Making Us Sick?

MAKER GEEK

Dream Session: How 3D Printing Changed My Life

JOURNO GEEK

Dream Session: Journalism by #s: Data Will Change Nature of News and The Future of Porn (for research purposes only)

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