SXSW Interactive 2012 is going to be a massive event.

Five months ago, SXSWi 2011 saw record attendance of just under 20,000 paid attendees. Seven months from now, SXSWi 2012 is going to be even bigger based on early signals. ALL event spaces are booked. Downtown hotels are already sold out. Over 3,000 panel ideas were submitted to SXSW 2011 (Interactive + Film + Music); over 4,500 were submitted to SXSW Interactive 2012.

Dachis Group has fifteen ideas from our social business expertise that we’d like to share as part of the Festival:

• Brands: The Cost of Being Human
• The connected company
• Culture Drive Social Business Transformation
• Exploiting Social Buying Trends
• Facebook Pages Through the Social Business Lens
• Global Social Experience Activation
• Hammurabi, horseshoes, and hookers in social media
• Making Social Business “Business As Usual”
• MILFs of Social Media
• Navigating the Facebookracy
• Secrets to User Centric Social Experience
• Social Media vs. The Realities of Business
• Social Retail Commerce Landscape
• Social Reward Programs
• Touch Publishing
• Yarn Bomb Your Digital Marketing

I invite you to check out the proposals that sound relevant to your interests and appreciate your feedback as votes and comments.

And speaking of events, the Dachis Group Social Business Summit returns to Austin for a third year on Thursday March 8th, the day before SXSWi opens. Our after party typically kicks off the weekend as well. 

See you in Austin next year!