Hasta La Ideas

Attention Core readers, especially those headed to Austin next month for South by Southwest, and those looking for an additional reason to go. On top of all the bands, film screenings, talks, demos, etc. for which SXSW is justly famous, Coroflot is adding another cool thing: the Creative Employment Confab, a networking event for SXSW Interactive attendees looking to build their professional contacts, look for jobs or employees, or just enjoy the company of some fellow design professionals.

The event is scheduled to run from 1pm to 4pm at the Hilton Austin on Monday, March 16th, and will center around a one hour panel discussion on the future of creative employment, moderated by Coroflot editorial director Carl Alviani. Panelists include a couple of names recently mentioned in these pages: Nathan Shedroff, whose extremely well-received talk at the Compostmodern conference was blogged here earlier this week, also chairs the Design MBA program at CCA in San Francisco, and has written four books on Experience Design in the past year. Jon Kolko will also be there: a Senior Design Analyst at Frog, who taught in the Interaction Design program at SCAD for five years (and wrote about it for Core), edits Interactions Magazine, and gave a well-received talk of his own at the Interaction 09 conference in Vancouver.

A broad array of recruiters and hiring representatives will be on hand, looking to meet creative professionals of all stripes, and presumably take advantage of the open bar as well. Event is free to SXSWi attendees, details are here.

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