Career-enhancing connections make the SXSW Interactive Festival so special to so many digital creatives. Come to Austin in March to connect yourself (or your company) to the new ideas, new technologies and new business opportunities that will shape the future, as well as game-changing insights from the world's most innovative thought-leaders. Registration for the 2014 SXSW Interactive Festival opens the first week of August 2013 -- buy your badge early to take advantage of the lowest prices and the best selection of lodging.
photo courtesy of Cory Booker
Presenting at the SXSW Interactive Festival often leads to exciting new career opportunities. Such is the case with Cory Booker, who earned the honor of Best Speaker at the 2013 event after his amazing on-stage interview with Time's Steve Snyder at the Long Center.
He authored the best-selling book "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything" as well as the followup volume "Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World."
At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, internationally acclaimed big-picture visionary Don Tapscott covered the concept of Global Solution Networks, which he says can provide non-traditional approaches to problems such as climate change, conflict, poverty, water scarcity, infectious disease and economic stagnation. Now you can catch up with his talk, "How To Solve the World's Problems."
The 2014 SXSW PanelPicker entry process begins in just over three weeks on Monday, July 1. Given our numbers from 2013, we anticipate receiving more than 3000 speaking proposals via this interface by the time it closes at end of day on Friday, July 26. So what is the best way to make your incredible idea stand out from the crowd? In terms of scope of coverage, focusing on depth over width is one of the best ways to make your proposal stand out.
At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, Fu talked about her new book as part of the Featured Speaker lineup. Watch her enlightening talk, which pulls together the lessons she learned in childhood with the wisdom she has gained in her illustrious tech career.
The SXSW Gaming Expo comes to this year's E3, as we are helping out with the WIGI (Women In Games International) S.T.E.A.M. Punk Party on Wednesday, June 12 at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles.
Made up of female (and male) professionals, WIGI enthusiastically works to promote the inclusion and advancement of women in the global games industry. The WIGI party at E3 on June 12 will focus on one of the core elements of the WIGI agenda – S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math) with various interactive displays and installments featuring high‐tech games and attractions to entertain and inspire a technical and creative audience. RSVP for this exciting get-together today!
New! 2014 dates!
Interactive: March 7–11
Film: March 7–15
Music: March 11–16
