SxSW launches Australian information sessions
The Australian representatives for the annual South By South West festival in Austin, Texas, will be running two ‘meet and greet’ events in Sydney and Melbourne next week for prospective attendees to next year’s conference.
SXSW Meet ‘n’ Greets for Interactive, Film & Music Industries (SYD 1/8, MEL 2/8) Registrations for 2018 Open
Greets, I want to get the word out to the advertising, marketing, fintech and allied industries for a set of two free SXSW Meet ’n’ Greet events in Sydney August at 5:30 (Lansdowne Hotel, cnr Broadway & City Road) and Melbourne the following night August 2 at 5:30 (Corner Hotel, 57 Swan Street, Richmond)
We have four speakers each night who are sharing over 50 years of SXSW experience and advice from 6pm to 8pm, two each who are interactive veterans and two whoa re more music centric. We’ve invited veteran attendees who’ll no doubt supply their own tips and techniques for navigationg and surviving SXSW for the novices.
Our speakers are:
MELBOURNE
Paul Cashmere—Executive Producer of Noise 11 and 8X SXSW veteran
George Hedon—Founder / Director of Pause Festival Melbourne, Designer, DJ & 3X SXSW veteran
Ben Keenan—The Thought Police, Creative Director, Technologist, Writer and 5X SXSW tragic
Leigh Treweek—Director of The Music and Handshake Management and 5 Time SxSW Veteran
SYDNEY
Dan White—Director of Technology, Rapid 3X SXSW veteran and panel presenter 2016
Marc Sousley—Promoter, Secret Sounds Touring, previously C3 Presents in Austin SX 10x years in a row veteran
Luke Girgis—CEO Seventh Street Media, Manager and former A&R for Shock Records 2X veteran
Glenn Dickie—Export Music Producer Sounds Australia, former A&R EMI, a whopping 17x SXSW veteran
RSVP to Phil Tripp tripp@sxsw.com or phone 041 22 666 77
They’ll be sharing strategic secrets of success at SXSW by forward planning, communications and networking advancing and on-the-ground techniques for bypassing the chaos of 80,000 other delegates. Australia sent 750 attendees in 2017 of which 60% were Interactive or Platinum (attending all four festivals and the conference), 30% were Music delegates, 5% Film and 5% Other (often people who bought a badge to have highest level of entry to everything though not working).
Registration for SXSW begins in Australia at 12:01 am Wednesday August 2
Early registration entitles you to the closest CBD access and lowest prices for hotels. Over a third of our attendees register first week.
Early bird registration rates are US$825 for Interactive, Film and Music Badges, US$1150 for Platinum Badge throughSept 2.
We’ve just announced our first Keynotes and featured speakers.
Press images are here. https://www.sxsw.com/press-
Our 24 conference tracks include: Brands & Marketing, Design, Code & Programming, Intelligent Future, VR/AR, Style, Sync/Stream/ License, Film & TV Industry, Experiential Storytelling, Social Impact, News & Journalism, Startup & Tech Sectors, Entertainment Influencers and many more.
From a SxSW Australia media release.
