Foodie’s Guide to SXSW Panel Picking

by Babette Pepaj
Founder of BakeSpace.com

Vote with your stomach.

SXSW (South by Southwest) is a film, music and interactive media festival that takes place every March in Austin, TX. The Interactive program features five days of presentations and panel discussions from some of the brightest minds in digital media.

Each year, thousands of panel ideas are submitted to SXSW, and the best are selected to be part of a public selection process that allows the online community (i.e., people like you & me) to vote on which panels will make it into the final program.

So this is where you come in. As a fellow foodie and home cook, please help us support the culinary-themed panels listed in our following “2011 Foodie’s Guide to SXSW Panel Picking” list.

Voting is quick and easy, and it ends on Friday, August 27th… so vote today!

SXSW Food-Themed Panels:

(All panels listed are in the “INTERACTIVE” panels unless noted otherwise.)

Don’t forget to vote for my panel – Your Web Developer Thinks You’re an Idiot

• David Berkowitz, 360i: Tasty Conversation: Social Media + Food Brands
• Stephanie Stiavetti, Wasabimon: Kitchen 2.0: How Tablet Computing Is Changing Food
• Mike Prasad, {M} Consultancy: Food Goes Social! Marketing Kogi, Fatburger & Calbi
• Addie Broyles, Austin American-Statesman & past TECHmunch speaker: Building Community in a Blogger-Eat-Blogger World
• Alan Johnson, Constitution Group: How To Eat Like Royalty While Hilariously Broke
• Chitra Agrawal, The ABCD’s of Cooking: How Technology is Revolutionizing the Way We Eat
• Stacie Capone, Small Media Extra Large: The Moguls of Food Porn
• Danielle Gould, food+tech connect: Networked Food Systems: Models for Open Information Design
• Jane Goldman, Chow.com: Bite Me—Are Ethics Gone in Food Criticism?
• KW Low, Dread Central Media: Zombies Must Eat: How Genre Communities Make Money
• Paul O’Connor, Appy Entertainment: Digital Junk Food and the Demise of Civilization
• Jack Holman, Zendesk: Motivated by Cookies: Computer Game Mechanics IRL
• Maureen Evans: Future (@cook)books: New Publishing Modes, Online & Print

Panels not food related, but worthy of your vote:

• Erik Deustch, ExcelPR Group: Score Great PR for your Start-Up on the Cheap
• Rynda Laurel, af83inc: Startup Success: Entrepreneurial Women Share their Team-Building Secrets
• Cathy Brooks, Social Media Hour & Brian Solis, FutureWorks: Who Are You and Why Should I Care?
• Rynda Laurel & Kevin Winston: [FILM PANEL] Open Source Movies: Solution of Sacrilegious?
• Heather Meeker, Whrrl: Fueling Fun: Customer Loyalty Through Location-Based Marketing
• Chris Tolles, Topix: Targeted Hyper-Local Advertising: Reaching the Always Mobile Consumer
• Mark Horvath, InvisiblePeople.tv: A Conversation about Social Change Throughout Social Media
• Nichelle Stephens, Cupcakes Take the Cake & past #TECHmunch NYC Partner: Blogging & Social Media for Niche Audiences
• Natanya Anderson, Powered Social Media Agency and past #TECHmunch Austin Partner: Cage Match: Social vs. Video
• Serena Ehrlich, Startup Army: The Social Media Dilemma for Publicly-Held Companies

How to Vote:

Simply click the panel link above that you’d like to vote on. The SXSW Web site will ask you to register (it’s super quick and easy). Simply click on the “create an account” link at the top of the page. Once registered, you’ll be able to click on the “thumbs up” icon on the actual panel page to place your vote. If the official site doesn’t bring you back to the panel page, come back here and click on the link once you’re logged in. And that’s it!

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Please feel free to comment below which panel’s you think foodies may want to check out. This list is by no means complete.

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