Now Announcing Focus15 Sessions for the 2020 SXSW Conference

Making its comeback for a second year, we bring you the 2020 Focus15 sessions! These short solo presentations feature the wisdom and experience of the SXSW community. Focus15s are a group of four presentations taking place in a one-hour time block that are linked by a shared theme, topic, or trend. Speakers come from a variety of notable companies including Instacart, Dadabots, Eterneva, Hack the Planet, Invenio, RPA, Salesforce, The Knowledge Society, Twipe, and the United Negro College Fund National Alumni Council.

Focus15s can be found across the 22 tracks of the SXSW Conference and range in subject matter. They also will be taking place in various venues across the event. Add Focus15s of interest to your SXSW Schedule now to save time and venue information automatically to your Favorites list.

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Focus15 Highlights by Track

Convergence Tracks

Convergence Tracks grant primary access for all SXSW Badges.

Cannabusiness

• Cannabis Branded: Escaping the Stigma of Prohibition
• Regulating Success: Building Better Cannabusiness Laws
• Highly Functional: Microdosing Cannabis

Climate & Social Action

• Is Hemp the Answer to the Global Climate Crisis
• Why Open-Source Technologies Will Help End Hunger
• Hack the Poacher

Connection & Culture

• Sex Education [re]Designed
• The Forgotten Faces of Diversity in Entertainment
• Faux Diversity and Bridges to Inclusion

Experiential Storytelling

• The Future Designed with the Past In Mind

Game Industry

• PvE Esports - A Sleeping Giant
• Warhammer 40,000 - The Grimdark Community
• The Time I Smashed a TV and Saw the Face of God

Media & Journalism

• We Need Product Thinking to Save Journalism
• US Media Decline: What We Can Learn From Europe

XR

• XR in 2020: Rift Causer or Relationship Strengthener?

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Interactive Tracks

Interactive Tracks grant primary access for Platinum and Interactive Badges; secondary access to Film and Music Badges.

Advertising & Brand Experience

• We Target the Ones We Love
• Invisible Majority? Educated, Working, Going Broke
• Too Much Damn Content

Design

• State of the Union: Designing Data-Driven Flags
• Helping your Digital Assistant Speak in Metaphors
• Social Media: The Impact on Art and Design

Fantastic Future

• Neurotech: Maximizing Health on a Cognitive Level
• Will Smart Cities Hurt Humanity?
• How Curbs Are Accelerating the Future

Health & MedTech

• What Doctors Can Learn from Farmers About Big Data
• Adults 2.0: Trends in Senior and Personal Care
• Evolution of Machine Learning In Modern Surgery

Space

• The History and Future of Fashion in Space

Startups

• Combating Empty Ideation with Brutality
• Startup Comedy: RydeMyPony
• Reddit Testing Your Way To A Billion Dollar Idea

Tech Industry & Enterprise

• Tech Is A Brown Girls Thing
• Machine Learning Against Sexual Harassment
• Ctrl/Alt/Delete: Restarting Deathcare

Workplace

• Crazy Bold Goal Setting: 100 Days To The Olympics
• How Men Can Lean In to Help Women Rise
• Beyond Diversity Day in The Office

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Music Tracks

Music Tracks grant primary access for Platinum and Music Badges; secondary access to Interactive and Film Badges.

Creating & Monetizing Music

• A.I. Death Metal: Eliminating Humans from Music
• When Busking Meets Social Media
• Metadata: The Biggest Problem in Music Rights

Future of Music

• Listen Together
• Hit The Road, Jack: Empowering Artists to Tour Better and Smarter
• What Is Consciously Sourced Merch?

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