My SXSW Speakers

For my SXSW speakers I chose:

1.Laurie Racine, Public Knowledge.org. Ms. Racine is President, dotSub
and Senior VP of Strategy and Business Development, Eyespot.

Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C.-based public interest group working to defend citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture.
Protecting consumers of digital technology from market practices designed to erode competition, choice and fairness.

I really like the fact that they emphasize protecting consumers of digital technology from market practices designed to erode competition, choice and fairness.

2. Bianca Ramos, Center for 21st Century Skills

The Center for 21st Century Skills is an organizational unit of EDUCATION CONNECTION. Its purpose is to enhance and expand the efforts of the EDUCATION CONNECTION staff and their work in the area of twenty-first century careers and technical education.

The Center has developed the Connecticut Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Daniel Pink's take on the Academy reads:
“The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind—creators and empathizers, pattern recognizers, and meaning makers. These people—artists, inventors, designers, storytellers, caregivers, consolers, big picture thinkers—will now reap society’s richest rewards and share its greatest joys.” ~Daniel Pink, Author “A Whole New Mind”