I’m heading to Austin, Texas next month for SXSW 2025.
Will you be at SXSW 2025 too? [1]
Getting Informed
For perspective, this year (like last year) will not be an attempt to live blog SXSW. Once again, I will revisit this same post over the nine (9!) days of SXSW 2024 and send the final update as a regular Fudge Sunday update.
To give you an idea of just how oversubscribed I am for SXSW 2025, I’ve parsed my schedule as follows for Interactive, Film, and Music:
Interactive
Friday, March 07, 2025
Saturday, March 08, 2025
- Featured Session: Amy Webb Launches 2025 Emerging Tech Trend Report - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, None
- SXSW Pitch: HealthTech, MedTech, BioTech & Accessibility - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon DE 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Selling Tech Through Creativity: Innovative Tools For Entertainment and Brand Marketing - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon C 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Health Entrepreneurs Meet Up - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, JW Marriott Brazos Room 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- Revolutionizing Mental Healthcare with Implantable Devices - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, JW Marriott Salon AB 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- SXSW Pitch: AgTech & Food - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon DE 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- How “Good” Management Creates Bad Technology - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- The Hidden Pink Tax Fueling High Healthcare Costs for Women - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, JW Marriott Salon AB 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- Futures Thinking: Spotting Signals in Turbulent Times - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 3 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- A Privacy Personalization Paradox in Healthcare - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, The LINE Onyx Ballroom 1/2/3/4 111 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Featured Sessions: Prof G Predictions: 2025 - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, None
- Factors Influencing the Future (Core Class) - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 4-6 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Hacker Insights: Overcoming Our Digital Identity Crisis - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Solo Travelers Meet Up - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Room 406 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Spite Tracking: Why & How It’s Changing Women’s Healthcare - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott Salon AB 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- Today & Tomorrow: What Makes a Futurist? - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 1-2 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Protecting Digital Identity When Disasters Strike - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- SXSW Pitch: Student Pitch - 05:30 PM - 06:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon DE 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
Sunday, March 09, 2025
- Moral Algorithms, Major Gains: The ROI of Ethical AI - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, JW Marriott Salon 5 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- Gen AI in Healthcare: Preserving the Human Touch - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Convention Center SXSW Expo - Podcast Lounge - Exhibit Hall 3 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Little Tech: Owning the Future of American Innovation - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Octavia Knew: How Black Women are Predicting the Future - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 1-2 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Impact of Simulated Data on AI and the Future - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon C 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Want To Achieve Health Equity? Democratize Health Data - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, JW Marriott Salon AB 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Event Tech Meet Up - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Room 410 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Small Agency Meet Up - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, JW Marriott Brazos Room 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- The Future of Care: The Rise of Patient-Centered Clinical XR - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, JW Marriott Salon AB 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- Social Media In The Era of Cyber Threats, AI and Misinformation - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Preparing for a Quantum Leap - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 1-2 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Tailored Therapies: Healthcare That’s as Unique as You Are- 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, JW Marriott Salon D 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Featured Session: Breadth is the New Depth: Why the Future Favors Learn-it-alls Over Know-it-alls - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, None
- SXSW Pitch: Innovative World Technology - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon DE 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Artificial Intelligence - Significant Untapped Opportunities- 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Guardians of Youth: Stem Cells & Human Longevity - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott Salon D 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- Foresight Improv - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 1-2 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Openness Under Pressure—Navigating the Future of Open Access - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon K 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- AI Beyond Machine Learning: What’s Next/Better? Why? How? - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon C 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
Monday, March 10, 2025
- The Futurist Toolkit: Building a Business Strategy for 2050- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 3 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Viruses as Medicine: Shaping the Frontier of Gene Therapy- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, JW Marriott Salon D 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- Beyond Proof-of-Concept: Making AI Useful For Business- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon DE 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Featured Session: The Auto-Evolving Business: AI’s Agentic Near Future - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, None
- Beyond the Hype: Building Reliable and Trustworthy AI - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon C 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Legal Tech Meet Up - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Room 410 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Embracing Innovation: A Leader’s Guide to No/Low Code - 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Courtyard Marriott Brazos I-II-III 300 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- LinkedIn Creators Meet Up - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Room 406 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Featured Session: How Not to Screw up an AI Transformation While Shaping the Future of your Company - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, None
- Open Source AI Safety: A Chat with Meta’s Ella Irwin - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon DE 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Smart, Sustainable, Streamlined: Factories of the Future - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Marriott Downtown Waterloo Ballroom 1-2 304 E Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Keynote: The Future of Social with Jay Graber, Bluesky CEO - 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM, Austin Convention Center Ballroom D 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Driving AI and Cloud Adoption Through Customer Success- 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Outdoing Cancer is a Team Sport - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center SXSW Expo - Podcast Lounge - Exhibit Hall 3 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- The Global Impact of US Healthcare Trends - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott Salon AB 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- AI and Power Concentration: Building Tech to Empower Us All - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon C 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Super Charging Service: The High-Tech, Human Touch Solution - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Beyond the Mind: Psychedelics to Heal the Body - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, JW Marriott Room 203-204 110 E 2nd St. Austin TX 78701
- SXSW Innovation Awards Ceremony - 06:00 PM - 08:00 PM, Austin Convention Center Ballroom D 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
- AI Meet Up - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Room 410 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Featured Session: Quantum Computing—What’s now and what’s next? - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, None Concurrent Events:
- Realizing the Power of Quantum Computing Today - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center Room 6AB 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Facilitation Lab Meet Up - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Room 412 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Keynote: John Fogerty - 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM, Austin Convention Center Ballroom D 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Seeing the Unseen: How CT Scanning is Revolutionizing Manufacturing - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Cracking the ‘Cradle of Life’ Molecule with a Quantum Computer - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center Room 6AB 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Examining the Obstacles to Mainstream Quantum Computing - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center Room 5ABC 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Immediate Action Required: Data Breaches and Encryption - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon K 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Open Source AI: Legal Issues at the Frontier - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon C 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Tech Communications Professionals Meet Up - 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Room 410 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
Thursday, March 13, 2025
- Why Digital Identity Matters to Individuals and Businesses- 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- AI Teammates: Methods to Use AI in Meetings & Workshops - 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Courtyard Marriott Brazos I-II-III 300 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Ubuntu’s Role in Quantum Computing: A Collaborative Approach to Innovation - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Austin Convention Center Room 6AB 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Beyond AI Hype: Customer-Centric Tech Strategies - 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon C 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701 Concurrent Events:
- Featured Session: Rebooting AI from the Ground Up - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, None
- Quantum Applications: From Theory to Reality - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center Room 5ABC 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Ultrafast Quantum Computing with Ultracold Atom Arrays at Quantum Speed Limit - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Austin Convention Center Room 6AB 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
- Digital Minions: Tales from the AI Tsunami - 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon DE 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Designed to Last: Circular Tech Without Obsolescence - 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM, Hilton Austin Downtown Salon J 500 E 4th St. Austin TX 78701
- Creating a Quantum Computing Hub in Texas - 02:30 PM - 03:30 PM, Austin Convention Center Room 5ABC 500 Cesar Chavez St. Austin TX 78701
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Disclosure
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2 周I'll be there this year for the first time since 2016. I will stalk this schedule and hope that we find time to catch up there!
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