Steve Case, one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs and philanthropists, and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life, will deliver the Tuesday, August 13 Keynote for SXSW V2V.

Recently called “one of the nation’s greatest entrepreneurs” by CNBC, Steve Case is Chairman and CEO of Revolution, Co-Founder of America Online and Chairman of The Case Foundation.

Given that he is one of the first interwebz entrepreneurs, he is a very appropriate choice.

Fro more details or to attend, check out SXSW V2V site here.

From the V2V site:

SXSW V2V is hitting the road this summer to meet up with entrepreneurs, digital creatives and tech professionals from around the country who want to share a drink, mingle, and learn more about what SXSW has planned for its first-ever event in Las Vegas this August. The drinks are on us!

We start out in San Francisco on Monday, May 20. On Monday, June 1, we jump over to the East Coast to hang out in Brooklyn. After that, it’s back over to the West Coast on Monday, June 17 for a gathering in Los Angeles. We round out our journey in Washington DC on Monday, July 1.

Stay tuned right here for details about how you can join up with us in one of these cities. And don’t forget that you can save $255 off the walk up rate by registering before May 24, 2013.

We highly recommend these meetups if you can make them. We attend the SXSW Interactive one every year and always make connections prior to the conference. It’s a great way to connect, reconnect, or even just learn more about what’s coming.

SXSW V2V will feature keynotes, panels, mentors, workshops and an exciting new 20-minute solo presentation program called 20/20 Vision.

20/20 Vision

Exclusive to SXSW V2V, 20/20 Vision will feature intense 20-minute presentations from established business and entrepreneurial voices, as well as up-and-coming creative visionaries. Located in one room, and spanning the length of the conference, this shorter format will allow audiences to experience a wide range of differing viewpoints and ideas from the people who are shaping the future.

Panels and Workshops

At SXSW V2V, skilled panel and workshop moderators will guide 3 speakers through 60-minutes of in-depth discussion (and sometimes heated debate) on topics that are specifically chosen to give entrepreneurs vital insight and information.

Mentors and Coaches

No matter where in the process your idea may be – conception, gathering talent, bootstrapping, stage one (or two) funding – the advice and counsel of those who have trod that path before is invaluable. SXSW V2V seeks to connect entrepreneurs with experienced mentors and coaches who can help them take their idea to the next level.

It’s worth repeating that yes, it is actually possible to see bands play non-stop and around the clock for the entire week of SXSW. Perhaps not if you wanted to emerge with your feet, liver, ears, and brain intact, but you could do it. Or, you can remain unscathed, save your health, and just read about eight of the best players we saw this year.

But which eight are they? Find out at Premier Guitar (but we’re glad to see Marnie Stern is on the list).

103.1 IHeartAustin provides a variety of emerging music to our listeners and by keeping this format thriving, it will help to keep the spirit of the Austin music festivals alive 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Left Austin and still want to tune in? Tune your browser to 1031iHeartAustin.com.

Handpicked from among thousands of artists, this genre-traversing playlist picks highlights, discoveries and future thrills from this year’s festival — and, for the next 30 days, it’s available for free download in its entirety, as one 813 MB zip file, right here. Of course, for those without that much hard-drive space, you can download each song individually, as well as stream The Austin 100 on this page and through NPR Music’s various mobile devices.

You can get your copy on this page.

She highlights the rise of 3D printing; the calls for greater contribution between disciplines citing panels from Lego, PepsiCo, and Frito-Lay; and probably the most interesting point for me, the move away from a focus on newly-created mobile apps to discussions around hardware (such as Google’s talking shoe).

Part of the beauty of SXSW is, of course, meeting up with digitally-minded people from across the sector. But, without doubt, the most powerful insights are gleaned by stepping outside the fashion bubble and learning from other industries. The challenge is being able to distill down the key takeaways.

You can read the full blog post over on BoF.

12 p.m.: Our first act, locals, the Chalice, is supposed to go on. Half of our speakers are missing, and the sound guy couldn’t be more clueless. My partner, Patrick Welby of CrowdNoize calls his in-house sound tech to sprint over. He arrives and immediately starts working damage control. So far our SXSW showcase is a huge success.

The diary for the rest of the day is online, and makes for fascinating reading.

The winners were:

Developing US Act: Haim.

Non-US Act: CHVRCHES.

Career Act:  Flaming Lips.

Congratulations to all three acts, who start off what we expect to be a long lived and prestigious award.

In case you missed it (and all that was going on, I’m sure a lot of you did) both SXSW Eco and SXSW V2V had launch parties during the March event.

SXSW Eco
SXSW Eco takes place from October 7–9, 2013 at the Austin Convention Center. This is a move from the AT&T Conference Center used last year and the Hilton Downtown the inaugural year (they grow up so fast!), and is currently accepting Panel Picker submissions for the event.

Public voting on SXSW Eco Panel Picker will run from Monday, May 13, 2013 through Friday, May 24, 2013 (11:59 PM CST).

SXSW V2V
SXSW V2V takes place Sunday, August 11, 2013 through Wednesday August 14, 2013 at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is currently accepting session, speaker and mentor ideas through April 5, 2013 and V2Venture entries until May 17, 2013.

So, now that you’re all rested and back to normal, are you ready to get your Southby back on?
We are!

•  Really, go home!

•  Softball and BBQ at Kreig Field (weather permitting)

•  Go home

• Kii Arens (www.lalalandposters.com)
• Fredara Hadley (www.jooksi.com)
• ‘If Your Dad Doesn’t Have A Beard…’, by The Beards (www.thebeards.com.au)

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Music Panels

•  Start and Build Your Career on YouTube
2:00pm ACC 17A

Film

• Rewind This!
1:30pm Topher

• Downloaded
4:30pm Vimeo

Party

•  MPress Fest
12:00pm Soho Lounge

Showcases

•  Jenn Grant
10:00pm Friends

•  Delta Rae
11:00pm Antone’s

•  Lions in the Street
1:00am BD Rileys

• Mor Ve Otesi (www.morveotesi.com)
• maNga (www.manga.web.tr)
• The team from Ticketbud (www.ticketbud.com)

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"Don't Look" Producers, Photo by Leslie Hassler

One of the really great things about SXSW is the chance encounters one has while attending. One of those happened for me yesterday when I sat next to Luciana Faulhaber at a screening of “Awful Nice”.

Faulhaber introduced herself as an actress, but mentioned she is producing a horror Film titled “Don’t Look” and is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding. After reading the campaign page (which has 11 days left) we interviewed her via email.

1. What inspired the basic plot?
The plot was inspired by my own experience as an immigrant living in NYC and going to friend’s houses for “friendsgiving”, an old Dutch family tale and a true murder that was on the news a few years ago. The story was tailored for our amazing location Plow Farms in Morgantown, PA. The Eshelman family has been amazingly kind to us and made our trailer shoot such a blast we cannot wait to come back and shoot our feature with them.

2. Interesting to use crowdsourcing for the film, what drove that decision?
The decision came from wanting to just make a movie. We are lucky enough to have location and some materials donated to us and we continue to look for sponsors. Kickstarter is the way we found to raise the minimum we need to pay our cast and crew minimum fees and have ownership over our creative process. This was we share not only the experience of watching a movie with our audience but we also share the experience of making it. We have honestly been surprised over the reaction of the people in our lives. Some have been kind and supportive above our imagination and their means and others made us question the reason we even keep them in our lives. Regardless, this has been a humbling experience for all of us and made us realize we wouldn’t wanna make a film with anybody else. Javier E. Gomez, Adam Lim, Lindsay DiFulvio and I feel reassured of this everyday. Like Jodi Foster said: “There is nothing more intimate than making movies together.”
3. How far along are you with the project?
We have been working on script development, legal papers and kickstarter campaign since November. Our screenwriter Jessica Boucher has been not only dedicated to making the story as accurate as possible we also want it to keep as real as possible. The fear is on what you don’t see, on the expectation of what’s coming and the possibility that this story could happen. Jess has been a true asset to the team. We are looking at a summer of pre production and shooting early fall.

4. We’d love to see it at SXSW 2014, will it be done in time for submission?
We would love that to happen too! We are planning to make sure we at least get a rough cut in. This is my first SXSW festival experience and I certainly want to come back with this film. Not only SXSW is fun and more eclectic than other festivals, but it also has an educated and enthusiastic audience and a filmmaker cannot wish for anything better.

5. What challenges have you faced as Producer?
Producing is so hard! I keep telling people that I am learning and as such I maintain my title as actress and raise it to producing students. I have friends who are producers and while I watch them talk about it while working on their movies I see how much I have to learn. Not only did I respect them before but now I have a newfound admiration. I can say though that the biggest challenge has been being a woman producer in a man dominated world. You would think that it would allow me to get away with some things but its quite the opposite. I have learn awful things I haven’t heard from men since the time I worked as a bartender in NYC. But that is the great thing about collaborating with people you trust. You stick together and raise above it. Love does and we are doing it together with the support of our friends, family and believers. That kind of positive energy is priceless.

 

Their Kickerstarter can be found at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/928998307/dont-look-a-new-horror-feature-film

Music Panels

•  Who’s Ripping Me Off Now
5:00pm ACC 10AB

Film

• Sound City
1:30pm Rollins

Party

•  Full Irish Breakfast
11:00pm BD Rileys

Showcases

•  The Mowgli’s
8:00pm Stubbs

•  Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls
1:00am Blackheart

•  Sarah Jaffe
11:00pm Esther’s Follies

Except in three nights of back to back showcases, only two artists I’ve seen have had CD’s on sale after the gig. When the short term musical memory is about to be over-written by the next band, it’s incredibly important to get a physical memory into the hands of your potential new fans.

• Ben Drury (7digital)
• Timothy Wheeler and Diana Nyad (www.theothershoremovie.com)
• The Woodpile, by Frightened Rabbit (www.frightenedrabbit.com)

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Music Panels

•  Music in devices, does audio quality matter
2:00pm ACC 10AB

Film

• Big Ass Spider
11:45pm Ritz 2

• Awful Nice
4:30pm Ritz 1

Party

•  Wunderbar, Lunch with the Germans
12:00pm Icenhauer’s

Showcases

•  Frightened Rabbit
10:05pm Belmont

•  Clairey Browne and the Bangin Rackettes
11:00pm Javelina

•  The Crookes
9:00pm North Door

Yes, yes we know they were all safe bets, but aren’t ALL the films at SXSW?

You really can’t pick wrong so stop obsessing and GO!

• Chris Heydt (Social @ Ogilvy)
• Doug Tirola (Hey Bartender)
• Wraith, by Peace (www.peaceforeverever.co.uk/)

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Music Panels

•  Fight for Fair Fees In Music Industry
5:00pm ACC 11AB

Film

• Zero Charisma
7:00pm Rollins

Party

•  Aussie Tim Tam Slam
1:30pm ACC Meet Up Pavilion EH 3/4

Showcases

•  OK Sweetheart
10:00pm 512 Rooftop

•  Asgeir Trausti
8:00pm 18th Floor Hilton Garden

•  The Rubems
9:20pm Belmont

Other

•  Trade Show – LAST DAY
11:00am-4:00pm
Austin Convention Center - Exhibit Halls 3 & 4

• Chris Pirillo (chris.pirillo.com).
• Mike Mendez (Big Ass Spider).
• Wake Up, by Ruby Jane (www.rubyjane.org).

Follow the SXSW Baby blog for more South by Southwest fun, and what we’re up to on the ground via Twitter and @SXSWbaby. Got news about SXSW for us? Get in touch via SXSW Baby’s contact form! Don’t forget to follow the podcast via the RSS feed!