Day 1 Recap: What a Day

What a day. They all say that. I think every new attendee thinks they will come up with something different and more clever to say, but it all comes back to those three words. What a day. I pursued free coffee, practiced a bit of self-care to get through the crowds, snagged a free book […]

Recap: Our Own Worst Enemy: Why Women Keep Each Other Down

A fitting panel for National Women’s Day is to examine ways in which women have kept others down and how to counter such behaviors in the workplace. Julie Koepsell, Managing Director at Mirum moderated a panel with three other successful women in advertising to explore the various ways women sabotage their own efforts at success […]

Preview: Deep Impact: Podcasts Inspiring Action/Change IRL

Podcasts are on the rise as more people choose to delve beyond flashy headlines. Four professional journalists who report news will host a panel that will focus on what it means to tell investigative stories in a podcast format and how it’s similar and different from telling those stories in a more traditional medium. With […]

Preview: Conversations About America's Future

For two days, SXSW will be overrun by 2020 hopefuls and other prominent politicians at the ACL Theater. Partnered with the Texas Tribune, this late-addition to the schedule puts a huge focus on what America’s future holds. All in all, six 2020 prospective Democratic nominees, and one announced Republican candidate, will be speaking on Saturday […]

Shahbaz Khan is the Senior Manager of Digital Content for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx. He has worked for the National Basketball Association for five years where he has learned all you can know about managing social content for a professional sports team. As the discussion about social media begins to expand on many levels, […]

Rob Lowe of Balmorhea

Our panel is hopefully like trying to start a conversation about what it would look like to create a community in which the barrier to entry, to the creative use of this technology, isn’t so exclusive just to people who have really large audiences or access to a lot of money and I think that’s just a matter of time but also a matter of conversation and talking about what ways can labels and other media outlets partner with artists to to create new art, new work, new material, new things for people, new experiences for people. – Rob Lowe

Top 5 Panels for Design

As the late great Massimo Vignelli once said, “Design is utilitarian, art is not.” The design track at SXSW reinforces that message exactly. While there are a plethora of design sessions across all disciplines, the tope five design sessions below express the best this industry has to offer when it comes to the intersection of […]