Many teach workshops about raw materials that culminate with attendees designing their own perfumes.
Duties include locating sites for events, working with caterers, entertainers and decorators, creating lists of attendees, designing invitations, supervising mailings, managing technology, and making special accommodations for guests when necessary.
But my pick for the coolest swag of the conference, and the best interactive experience was the "What If" program, where they gave 200 conference attendees specially designed LiveScribe pens (pens with a little camera inside to record drawings and gestures) and notebooks to share their SXSW experience.
The attendees, wearing specially designed virtual reality headsets, walked around the lab, their movements tracked by 18 video cameras mounted on the walls.
We report the results of a questionnaire distributed to the attendees; it was designed to elicit their views on the most important issues that must be addressed by a plan to respond to a catastrophic disease event.
At a recent Intel conference on product design, some attendees belittled the concept as nothing more than clever marketing by companies trying to sell new products.
Elsewhere, GDC attendees heard about the design and monetisation strategies of highly successful free-to-play games such as Candy Crush Saga and Clash of Clans, while Vlambeer, a two man indie team from Utrecht, announced that its game Lufrausers, sold for a one-off payment on PC, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita during GDC turned a profit after just three days.
In them, more than 100 volunteer instructors helped attendees learn about program design, task automation, version control, testing, and other unglamorous but time-tested skills.
The 39-year-old Orissa-born designer has previously presented his works at Fashion Week in a format where models stand together on a platform wearing designs that attendees can view all at once.
Fourteen days after the examination, 429 of the attendees received a questionnaire designed to evaluate their tolerance of the procedure.
