ALERT: Due to the concerns of the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the City of Austin has canceled SXSW by declaring a local disaster. (Official City Press Release & SXSW Statement).
Many local events are still on; we are working diligently with partners, sponsors, and the Austin community to continue our support of business and investment. Funded House is proceeding so stay tuned to that link for updates as things are changing so quickly. WE ARE hosting Investors, entrepreneurs, and as much as possible since Austin is still open for business.
Several Austin leaders are working together to salvage local events for the people who will be in town regardless of the SXSW news. A coalition called Rally Austin is collecting information and promoting events that will continue as planned. RallyAustin.com is up but as you can imagine, changing constantly given changes; we also have rallyaustin.logictry.com in progress to help you plan for the events that you may want to attend.
It’s well past time to celebrate the fact that the SXSW team has this year put together an incredible roster of talks, guests, and events in Media.
SXSW is further converging the once distinct Interactive conference, with the Film and Music schedules, as they drive home the fact that technology, and those creative events from which SXSW was born in Austin, really are intertwined. Expect a lot more going on at the same time and make sure your plans account for Interactive dates of the past bleeding further into the week once largely only Film and Music.
With such an incredible list of hackathons, keynotes, events, experiences, and panels exploring every innovation in media, we couldn’t do much more than put together a list. But let’s try! Since that list of musictech, film ingenuity, bleeding edge in podcasting, future of news, groundbreaking advertising, and video game magic, is so extensive, we asked our brilliant friends at Logictry to just whip up a way to get everything on your calendar.
Where? Media Innovation at SXSW
Before I get to the list, a focus for you.
This year, we have had an outpouring of support for explicit focus on venture capital funds. Thanks to the amazing sponsorship of organizations committed to supporting and streamlining the work of funding in innovation, Monday, March 16th, Funded House is programming a media industry series of panels and events featuring Gérôme Vanherf from Wallifornia MusicTech in Europe, Tuhin Roy, Universal Music Group‘s SVP of New Digital Business & Innovation, UBIsoft‘s SVP of New Business Development, Deborah Papiernk, Paramount Pictures‘ Futurist, Ted Schilowitz, our Ted Cohen with Rishi Patel of Plus 8 Equity Partners, MediaTech investor Jeanna Liu of CDX Advisors, and Xavier Péters from LeanSquare, and I’m going to have a chat with the renown MusicTech incubator 2112‘s Scott Fetters, and Gérôme Vanherf, about building media ecosystems that thrive. More than that? Atlas Partners is hosting a reverse pitch and happy hour with VCs and then we’ll close the night at Inn Cahoots with some fun.
I’ve gone through what SXSW has planned and from the incredible and extensive list of amazing people and panels, was astounded and excited by how much is oriented to media innovation. Here’s my list on SXSW.
Now, two challenges, one of which we’re well aware. There is a lot and there are last minute changes.
Originally planned but recently cancelled in media, at the conference, as of this post:
AI and the Future of Musical Creativity
Liquidity: Power your Advertising with Machine Learning with Facebook Blueprint
Featured Session: Google Ushers in the Third Age of Gaming
OK Boomer, Here’s the MFT on TikTok
Supporting Artists Beyond the Stream
Here’s everything pulled together and where else you might plan your time. To make it incredibly easy to just calendar all this so you have it handy, Logictry put together all of this, our media innovation schedule, in a curated list that you can just export to your calendar so everything is there. Check it out.
Exciting! And a lot. Things are changing by the hour, so grab the Logictry schedule for your calendar as they’re keeping tabs as close they can on those changes: Access it here.
Silicon Valley technology and startup veteran, Paul O'Brien is affectionately known as SEO'Brien for an extensive past in the search industry.
Today as CEO and Founder of MediaTech Ventures, O'Brien works in Venture Capital Economic Development, serving the investment and venture capital economies directly, through thought leadership, consulting, and startup development. More, a regional Director of the Founder Institute incubator and mentor in DivInc, Galvanize, and various startup Accelerators.
Is this still accurate and on?