Voting for SXSW 2019 is open until August 30! Explore the Media Lab community’s PanelPicker proposals below, or see the full list on the SXSW website.

Affective Computing

• Design for diversity: How edtech missed the boat and The death of curiosity and innovation (Alum Elliott Hedman, mPath)
  

Biomechatronics

• From medtech marvel to mainstream accessibility (Chris Bingham, Abbott; Liz Hillen, Ottobock; Hugh Herr, MIT Media Lab; Tom Gruber, former co-founder, CTO, and VP of design for Siri, Apple)
  

Digital Currency Initiative

• Blockchain deathmatch: permission-ed vs -less (Cesare Fracassi, UT Austin; Jimmy Song, Bitcoin Core and Blockchain Capital; Christopher Ferris, IBM; Neha Narula, Digital Currency Initiative)
  
• Combating global poverty on the blockchain (Michael Casey, Digital Currency Initiative; John Lyotier, RightMesh; Vinay Gupta, Mattereum; Mihriban Ersin, Colendi)

Director’s Fellows

• The fight against face scanning surveillance (Matt Cagle, ACLU of Northern California; Nicole Ozer, ACLU of Northern California; Rashida Richardson, AI Now Institute;  Kade Crockford, ACLU of Massachusetts)
  

Lifelong Kindergarten

• Lifelong Kindergarten (Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Lab)
• Getting started with Scratch 3.0 (Champika Fernando, Jaleesa Trapp, Kreg Hanning, MIT Media Lab)
• Coding + Making with Scratch + Micro:bit (Kreg Hanning, MIT Media Lab; Hal Speed, Micro:bit Foundation; Jaleesa Trapp, MIT Media Lab)
  

Object-Based Media

• Future of Augmented Reality (Vik Parthiban, MIT Media Lab)
  

Responsive Environments

• Blueprint: redesigning connected spaces for health (Mili Tharakan, TILT, a Welspun company; Steve Downs, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Nan Zhao, MIT Media Lab)
  

Scalable Cooperation

• Averting disaster by building human ethics into AI (Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous AI; Matthew Lungren, Stanford University; Edmond Awad, MIT Media Lab; Ryan Jenkins, Cal Poly)
  
• AI-powered media manipulation and its consequences (Mason Kortz, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Cyberlaw Clinic; Joan Donovan, Data & Society; Jessica Fjeld, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Cyberlaw Clinic; Matt Groh, MIT Media Lab)
  

Space Exploration Initiative

• First Principles First: How to Solve Hard Problems (Leigh Christie, MistyWest; Ariel Ekblaw, MIT Media Lab; Lauren Cohen, Microsoft; Diba Kaya, Google)
  
• Air-levitation: a new hyperloop transport method (Vik Parthiban, MIT Media Lab)