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Panels proposed for SXSW Interactive 2010 include many by or with women speakers. Since SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) is a tech conference that stands out as treating women equally on the speaker's lists, I took a look at what women proposed as panels for next year. The conference is held in March each year in Austin, TX.
Topics at SXSWi change each year, depending on what's happening in the tech/Internet/interactive scene. This year topics include a range of ideas as diverse as advertising, programming, blogging, marketing, cloud storage, design, journalism, sports, games. And more.
Over 2000 panels are proposed for the Interactive conference. Whew. Everybody doing anything in the Interactive world wants to be a speaker at SXSWi. It's a boost to your status and career to be on a panel.
Over 2000 proposals. That huge number gets pared down to a manageable number with the panel picker. The panel picker is an online tool that lets potential attendees of the conference vote and comment on what they consider the most worthy, engaging, and captivating ideas for the panels. Voters are asked to give a thumbs up for panels they most want to attend.
When the voting is finished (on September 4 this year), the most popular proposals make it to the next round, which includes evaluation of the proposed panels by the SXSW staff and advisory board.
I'll pick a few panels for you to look at, simply because I consider them intersting. Jes covered the BlogHers who proposed panels for SXSWi 2010 in A Few Good Women at SXSW '10. Social Signal SXSWonder Women: Ten women speakers to look for at SXSW Interactive 2010 mentions some social media panel suggestions. A huge number of the proposed panels this year include the words "social media," so Social Signal did some major sorting to get the number down to 10 suggestions. Beth's Blog looked at nonprofit panels in Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW! Beth found about 25 nonprofit panels she considers top notch.
I looked at the 100 proposals that fall into the category Accessibility/Web Standards. Okay, I admit, those are my main interests, so I had to look.
Accessibility Past, Present & Future: Slatin Tribute includes a tribute to the late John Slatin, whose impact on accessibility was huge, as well as a discussion of future accessibility strategies. Aimee Roundtree is leading the discussion. Silona Bonewald is leading a panel on Microformats and Government that will talk about transparency in govenment. How The Other 1/2 Lives - Touring The Digital Divide from Jessamyn West, a librarian, talks about training for those new to technology. Open Web Education Alliance: Educating the Next Generation led by Steph Troeth had to get my vote: I'm involved in the project. Molly Holzschlag is leading How CSS3 Will Deliver Web Design's Future. Julie Lewis proposed a panel on Elegant Accessibility that sounds fascinating.
I looked at the 445 panel proposals that fall into the New Technology/Next Generation category. Katie Moffat's proposal Social Media ROI: Tools to Show the Man That it Works sounds good to me. Lauren Bigelow wants to talk about The Power of Social Play in Virtual Worlds. Valerie Buckingham's proposal Disruptive Trends Changing the World of Connected Communications had me at "disruptive." Kate Bauer wants to combine psychology and game theory in interface design in It's Time to Play. Sarah Granger proposes talking politics in Next Generation Politics: Where Will We Go Next? Faith Dow proposed Black Female Bloggers & the Future of Media. Julie Bahar's Creative Youth: Organic, Collaborative, and Throw-Away Media promises research findings into youth behavior. Carie Lewis, in Advanced Brand Monitoring: Let the Haters Hate wants to talk about brand monitoring. Is There a Technological Fix for Human Behavior? is Shireen Mitchell's question. Shireen also proposed Social Media Women of Color. How Social Networks Changed Online Games is the topic proposed by Cindy Armstrong. Charlotte-Anne Lucas proposed the intriguing How Women are Making Journalism Profitable. For writers, Deidre Knight proposed Romancing the e-Book: Publishing’s e-Volutionary Revolution. Nancy Duarte wants to talk about the value of a great presentation in From Monologue To Dialogue: Presentations, Collaboration And Sharing. Identity politics is the topic for Lisa Sabater in The Politics & Economics of Identity. This idea interests me in my real life, and I see Corvida Raven proposed talking about
