Why you should vote for the S2 Panel at SxSW
August 28th, 2009 by emily1. More Experts, More Expertise:
Where most panels at SxSW will have one or two experts, we think a broad cross-section of experience is more valuable (and more fun), so we’re bringing six CEOs. There’s no shortage of talent in the S2 client pool, so we’ve selected five S2 entrepreneurs to discuss proven strategies for rising above industry noise while our own Jeremy Toeman moderates the discussion.
2. Diversity of Content:
With seasoned experts in all walks of consumer tech, from the web to devices, this panel represents the best conglomerate of technology experts out there. We’ve got boxee and Redux to talk about the best platforms for engaging with digital entertainment real-time. Want to see how a device can add real-time, social functionality to your storage? Pogoplug can answer that question. We’ll also look at real-time content creation with 12seconds and how to manage the surge of social content on Facebook with Face.com.
Through the lenses of real-time web and social media, we’ll discuss how these leaders build and revamp their products, engage with their user communities and solve complex issues to make their technology stand out as more than the simple sum of its parts. Get insights into their core product choices and how the market climate weighed into them. Find out what trends they are seeing and how to partner with community enthusiasts to make leverage these. Ask them about their challenges and strategies…or anything else you want.
Our panel will be moderated by the founder of Stage Two Consulting, Jeremy Toeman. Jeremy was using social media before the term was even coined, pioneering one of the first web communities around the Slingbox. He’s been in the trenches for the past 10 years and has his fingers on the pulse of the tech market. Having recently launched @trivia, a Twitter-based trivia game that connects brands with the prolific Twitter community, Jeremy’s a proven expert on using social media and real time web to market within the digital sphere.
Speaking on the panel, we’ll have representatives from boxee.tv, Pogoplug, Redux, 12seconds.tv and Face.com. Here’s a little about each of these speakers:
- Daniel Putterman is the CEO of Pogoplug, the award-winning device that lets users access and share files from their home external hard drive. The Pogoplug has been praised as the simplest way to free your inner drive, bringing cloud-like functionality to storage people already own.
-David Macintosh is the CEO and co-founder of Redux, your entertainment guide to the web. Redux is a new social media service that helps people find online entertainment recommended by people who are into the same stuff that they are – all in real-time.
- Sol Lipman is the co-founder of 12seconds.tv and avid chicken enthusiast. He’s built the best way to share short videos from the web or mobile devices.
- Gil Hirsch is the CEO of Face.com, the best in class facial recognition software that is not only highly accurate, but also works efficiently at web-scale. Since launching their Facebook app in March, Face.com has successfully recognized and auto-tagged over 1.5 billion photos
To vote for us in the SxSW Panel Picker, click this link and give us a thumbs up. To catch these companies and more Stage Two entrepreneurs at other events, follow S2 on Twitter for real-time updates as the year progresses. Otherwise, we’ll see you in Austin.
