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.
A visionary whose innovations paved the way for the Internet as we know it today, Sir Tim Berners-Lee now serves as Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, he anchored a standout featured speaker lineup that showcased some of the most creative minds in the new media industry.
What’s the recipe for a viral video? The rock-pop band Atomic Tom seems to have found at least one answer: a talented set of musicians, AT&T smartphones and an unsuspecting subway car full of New York straphangers.
Photo by JW WalthallToday we launch our #V2Vstartuptips Twitter conversation to share ideas and take a glimpse into the type of advice you could receive at SXSW V2V. Whether you’re a seasoned entrepreneur or just beginning your first startup venture, you’ve all received opinions from your friends, family, and mentors--and that’s what we want to hear.
What makes your business tick? What helped you get through the early days? What took you to the next level
David Karp at this year's SXSW. Photo by Rebecca Hedges Lyon
Last spring (shortly after its founder Kevin Systrom spoke at the 2012 SXSW Interactive Festival), Instagram was purchased by Facebook in an amazing $2 billion deal. This spring (shortly after its founder David Karp spoke at the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival), Tumblr has been bought by Yahoo for a cool $1.1. billion. If you missed his session "Building Tools for Creativity" at this year's event, you can check out Karp's talk here.
photo by Kevin McGehearty
"I want to die on Mars, but not impact" became one of the most tweeted-about lines from the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival. Nonetheless, the Elon Musk keynote conversation with Chris Anderson in Austin in March offered much much more than this clever soundbite.
New! 2014 dates!
Interactive: March 7–11
Film: March 7–15
Music: March 11–16
