Although the 2020 election is still 20 months away, there was a fervor about the next presidential election that overran SXSW. The theme that ran throughout SXSW was change. A change not only in politics, but a change in tech as well. For two days at the ACL Theater, the Texas Tribune and SXSW partnered […]
As a graduate student, trying to figure out what I want to do after school is always on my mind. Luckily, I had the opportunity to attend SXSW, one of the greatest networking events of all time. I was extremely excited to take advantage of all the great opportunities that SXSW would allow me to […]
Leading up to March I’d heard things from classmates/professors from, “it’s going to be insane!” to “it will change your life”—they were talking about South by Southwest of course. For me, I can confirm that it was quite a bit of both. With my phone in hand and the “favorites” tab open on the SXSW […]
I’ll be honest, I have actually attended (in the loosest sense of the term) SXSW a few years ago. It was enjoyable back then, but was merely a smaller piece of the grander experience I had the honor to partake in this year. There was so much to attend and experiment with, and having the […]
Over the course of the week, I attended several panels from different aspects of the space industry: NASA astronauts, engineers, marketers, commercial space companies, etc.
Simply put, SXSW was an amazing experience and I now hope to return every year. I attended a number of panels covering workplace trends, futuristic planning, blockchain technology, an ADP lounge with interactive discovery tools, some marketing and journalism sessions and even watched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez share her ideas in governance. Through all the sessions there […]