Panel Recap: Let’s Tech Borders Down
This year’s opening speaker, Josephine Goube, has been nominated by Forbes as one of the “top 30 under 30 social entrepreneur” in 2016 through 2018.
Social Impact
How to Manage Fear of Missing Out at SXSW
Dr. Dawna Ballard has spent her career focused on time and how it relates to communication. We featured her session in one of our preview blogs about her conversation surrounding work, life balance. It only seems fitting to talk to this pro about time and how it relates to fear of missing out. The topic […]
It’s time to see through a gender/sex lens
From product design to workplace protocol to health care legislation, understanding and accounting for gender and sex differences can create big change with even the smallest actions. iGiant founder and president Dr. Saralyn Mark hosts round tables across the country to facilitate discussion about how the unique biological and psychological differences between genders and sexes […]
Preview: Time’s Up on the Gender Pay Gap: How to Negotiate in 2018
The gender pay gap continues and Alexandra Dickinson is here to educate women on how to properly negotiate their worth. See an exclusive video interview with Alexandra as she explains more about this timely issue.
Preview: Evolving Threats to Press Freedom
The Evolving Threats to Press Freedom panel at this year’s SXSW conference aims to discuss current threats to press freedoms as well as possible solutions for media outlets.
Animal Equality
When walking around the Trade Show at SXSW, you can see and experience technologies that innovative people have created and are sharing to the world. One booth that I stopped by was the iANIMAL VR experience created by animalEQUALITY. This VR experience is a four-minute video that embodies the user as an animal at the […]
Countering Extremism Online from ISIS to Neo-Nazis
One of the biggest issues surrounding digital and online media is the use of platforms for harassment, hate speech and the spread of extremist propaganda. Companies like Twitter have struggled with fighting this problem. It has also led to investors becoming leery of financing a platform that can be used for attacks on people. All the […]