Innovation

Incredible event, incredible SXSW. And I’m only at the beginning of it! So incredible that here they organise a conversation between beginners and veterans of SXSW…

So yesterday I queued up to have my badge

I queued up then to have my shutlle wristlet. 

This is great to be droven to your hotel or to the various places where there are events in Austin !

I queued up to have a SXXpress film pass (no photo)…For what purpose did I wait? -> answer below.

I didn’t queue up at the FrenchSXSW lunch : I was the first at Fado Irish pub, the meeting place for French people. There I met people from French Startups, from Cap Digital, from l’Atelier (I was interviewed as the others) , from La Cantine Paris and Nadya of Mandala Games and Erwan of Doyoubuzz of Nantes joined us.  3 others Western France companies of the Win Atlantic programme will arrive on Sunday. After Paris, Nantes, Rennes,  French guys set up a new Cantine in Austin

Then walked back to the conference convention center. And attended some conferences. (Hard to attend some events on the same time : tip is to choose before coming here). There are everywhere some booths or pods where you can read on tactile screens the schedules.You can also recharge in various places your phone ou ou laptop… Twitting and foursquaring are the main ways to communicate here. I like it much…

End of the day : it was worth waiting on line -again ! I queued up to attend the Premiere of The Source Code directed by  Duncan Jones. Avec Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga. An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber …
Not so bad, but a kind of  »copy » of Avatar, I guess so. The audience liked it much, they were fond of the director (many geeks inside the Paramount Theatre).
Jake Gyllenhaal is really cute and funny. After the film projection, the team of the director, actors and writer stood on stage to answer the questions.

After that it was time to  come back to the convention center to… queue to take the right shuttle to go to my hotel. On the walk, I saw people still on line to purchase the Ipad 2 at the Apple store  and I saw people everywhere inside bars or outside them, music is everywhere. SXSW is also an event dedicated to music, as well as interactive which will open next monday.

Other news tomorrow.