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Interactive 2011 Conference Highlights SXSW INTER- ACTIVE News + Notes Ride the SXSW Shuttle to the Panel Venue of Your Choice To better aid attendees in finding the daytime sessions that fit their interests, new campuses have been added for SXSW Interactive panel programming. For 2011, these campuses are as follows: The Austin Convention Center (500 E. Cesar Chavez Street) AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center (1900 University Avenue) The Courtyard by Marriott (300 E. 4th Street) The Hilton Austin Downtown (500 E. 4th Street) The Hilton Garden Inn (500 N. IH 35) The Hyatt Regency Austin (208 Barton Springs Road) The Radisson (111 E. Cesar Chavez Street) The Sheraton Austin Hotel (701 E. 11th Street) Stay tuned to the SXSW Interactive Festival website for complete maps of these venues (as well as detailed maps of the Austin Convention Center). While most of these venues are within a half mile radius of the Convention Center, SXSW will provide three Shuttle Buses to help registrants move more easily from one location to another. For 2011, these SXSW Shuttle Buses will be sponsored by Fedex. 12 Barry Diller Confirmed for SXSW Distinguished Speaker Series SXSW Interactive is excited to announce that Barry Diller will be part of the all-new Distinguished Speaker Series for the 2011 event. Diller currently serves as the Chairman of Expedia and the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC, a leading Internet com- pany that houses more than 50 businesses, including Match.com, Citysearch, The Daily Beast, Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Electus and Ask.com. Diller is scheduled to speak at SXSW on Monday, March 14. For more detailed information, including time and location, head to schedule.sxsw.com. Barry Diller Inaugural Tech Summit Attracts Global Talent to Build Smarter Planet SUMMIT TECHNOLOGY We are thrilled to announce the new SXSW Technology Summit, which is open to all registered SXSW badgeholders and will take place on March 16 and 17, just after the SXSW Interactive Festival. The first-ever SXSW Technology Summit will bring together industry leaders from a variety of European, Asian, Middle Eastern and South American countries for panel sessions that will reveal trends and usage patterns in various parts of the world. This special event will also offer a series of in-depth workshops to provide higher- level tips and analysis, helping digital professionals and web experts to take their careers global. IBM sees signs of a smarter planet all around us—signs that intelligence is being infused into the systems and processes that make the world work. By exploring how each person, business, organization, government, natural system and man- made system interacts, we have a chance to open up meaningful new possibilities for progress and make the systems of the planet more efficient and more productive. Join the discussion on what we can do to accomplish this at The Smarter Planet Summit, which will take place on March 16 as part the new SXSW Technology Summit. Chris Hardwick to Emcee the 14th Annual SXSW Interactive Awards Ceremony SXSW Interactive is happy to announce that Chris Hardwick will emcee the 14th Annual SXSW Interactive Awards Ceremony Presented by Adobe on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Hardwick is a stand-up comedian and self-pro- claimed nerd. He hosts The Soup's geeky little brother show Web Soup and plays with gadgets on Attack of the Show, both on a channel that awkward teenage boys refer to as "G4." Chris is also a writer for Wired Magazine and a talking cow on Nickelodeon's Back at the Barnyard. In his spare time, Hardwick is attempting to build an evil nerd empire under the moniker "Nerdist," which includes a wildly popular blog at Nerdist.com, a top 10 comedy podcast on iTunes, a following of 1.3 million delightful sup- plicants on Twitter, a book from the wise publishers at The Penguin Group and his very own social network called The Node. Check out the latest on the SXSW Interactive Awards competition at sxsw.com/interactive/awards. SXSW ORLD / F EBRUAR Y 2011 CHRIS GLASS MICHELE ASSELIN

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