SXSW 2022 Schedule

SXSW.com | March 10–20, 2022 | Austin, TX

Super Sponsors

A

Abigail Lapell

Accessibility in Video: Broadening Your Audience

Advertising & Brand Experience

Accessible All Areas - Disability Inclusion

Future of Music

Achieving Health Equity for All

Health & MedTech

Adam Ostrar

Addressing Homelessness and Addiction on Transit

Addressing Our Transgender Health Crisis

Health & MedTech

Aeon Station

Aertex

Agile Operations: What's Your Wi-Fi Password?

AI Ain’t All It: Innate Intelligence Drives Action

Advertising & Brand Experience

AI is Listening—And it Says You Have Alzheimer’s

Health & MedTech

AI Research in Augmented and Virtual Reality

Alex Dupree

Alien Tango

Alternative Payment Models in Music

Future of Music

The Americans

ANAVITÓRIA

Singer Songwriter

Andrea Cruz

Angélica Rahe

Antarctica: Climate Change on the Ice

Antifragility Radar: A Tool to Help You Innovate

Advertising & Brand Experience

Antti Paalanen

Arp Frique

The Art and Craft of a Captivating Title Sequence

Making Film & Episodics

Art d'Ecco

The Art of Adapting IP

Making Film & Episodics

A&R Workshop: How to Guide

Future of Music

Authentically Plastic

Ava Vegas

Avoiding the Pitfalls of Brand Wokeness

Advertising & Brand Experience

B

Babehoven

The Bad Man

Bandicoot

Battling Inequity with the Power of Gaming Tech

Beautiful Ugly Truth: Losing Teaches You to Win

Beauty Sleep

The Bedroom Music Producer Takeover

Future of Music

Be Human: Differentiate Your Product with Service

Being Dead

Bendigo Fletcher

BEV’s and Beyond – Designing an Electric Future

Beyond Bars: Building Life After Incarceration

Civic Engagement

Beyond Music: Building a Multi-Hyphenate Career

Future of Music

Beyond Package Delivery: Large Unmanned Aircraft

Beyond RMS: Better Audio-Reactive Visuals

Future of Music

Beyond Stereotypes: Redefining Black Fatherhood

Civic Engagement

Beyond the NFT Hype: Unlocking Token Economies

Big Bill

Big, Bold, Brave Ideas for a More Inclusive World

Biomanufacturing Sustainably: Cell-Free Systems

BLACKSTARKIDS

Blitzscaling in Unconventional Industries

Blunt Bangs

Blushing

Bodywash

Boulevards

Brands & Creators: How To Play By the FTC’s Rules

Advertising & Brand Experience

Brazilian Favelas: Community Innovators

Civic Engagement

Bread Pilot

Breaking the Rules to Make Your Experience Matter

Advertising & Brand Experience

Featured Session

Breanna Barbara

Brigid Mae Power

Broadband: The Road to Connected Communities

Civic Engagement

Brown Penny

Buffalo Hunt

Buffalo Nichols

The Bug Club

Build Cloud-Connected AR/VR Apps in 15-Min or Less

Building a Unicorn in Texas

Building the Next Generation of News

Building the Sustainable Startups of the Future

Business Anthropology and The Meaning Economy

Advertising & Brand Experience

But, How Do I Raise Money For My Project?

Film & TV Industry

Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard

C

Caleb De Casper

Calling BS on Busy

Cameron Knowler & Eli Winter

Cancel the 3rd Shift: Improving Retention of Women

The Cannabis Futurists: 5 Predictions for 2050

Cannabis: the Next Frontier in CPG

Cannabis vs. the Opioid Crisis?

Can You Actually Change Big Tech From Within?

Case Study in Sync: TV & Film + Marketing & Games

Film & TV Industry

Catalyzing Zero Carbon Transport for All

CHAII

Charlotte Cornfield

Singer Songwriter

Chasing Moonshots & Bringing the Future to Today

CHERISE

Chief Cleopatra

China Bears

The Chris Lee Band

Civilized Art x Tech x Music x Dance Creations

Future of Music

Claire Rousay

Avant / Experimental

The Classroom of the Future for Creatives

Future of Music

Claud

COBRAH

Coco & Clair Clair

Colectiva

Combining Cellular Ag and Insect Ag to Feed the World

Comics as Medicine: How Art and Design Can Heal

Congee

A Connected World: The Future of AI Tech

Constant Follower

Content Curators in Cutting Through Clutter

Conversations with Things

corook

Couch Prints

Creamer

Creating For Your 100 True Fans

The Creator Economy & Brands: How to Build Trust

Advertising & Brand Experience

Creator-First Policy for the Creator Economy

Cuffed Up

Curse Mackey

CX Report 2022: The Resilience Zoography

Featured Session

D

Dan Bettridge

Daniel Casimir

Danielle Ponder

Data vs Instinct: Making Creative Decisions

Advertising & Brand Experience

Deaf Entrepreneurs: Stories that Change Perception

Dear Asian Americans, What Now?

Decarbonizing Blockchain Technology

Deconstructing Gender in Products & Marketing

Advertising & Brand Experience

The Deer

DEETRANADA

Defending Democracy: Attacks on Freedom to Vote

Civic Engagement

Delta Spirit

A Designer's Guide to Life-and-Death Decisions

Designing Empathetic Virtual Clinical Trials

Designing Immersive Sound Experiences

Designing Inclusively For the Streaming Viewer

Designing The Future of Everything

Designing with Emerging Implications

Design Leadership: Creativity Driving Business

Desperate Journalist

Devin Shaffer

Avant / Experimental

Diamante Perez

Difficult Conversations 2.0 [Empathy-Tech]

Digital “da Vincis”: Reshaping Brand Storytelling

Advertising & Brand Experience

Digital Skills in the Boardroom: Fueling Growth

Dig Nitty

Disability: Creating Safe Communities for Women

Civic Engagement

Disfigurement: An Identity

Disinformation: How Spies Can Help Find Truth

Civic Engagement

Disrupting Space: Telling Black Stories in Public

Disrupt Your Own Leadership Failures

Dive into the Metaverse | Ethics in Experiences

Advertising & Brand Experience

DJ DIAKI

Doeman

Does D&I Neglect People with Disabilities?

Don Lifted

Donna Blue

The Dope Black British Jazz Landscape

Future of Music

Driving AV Technology Forward for Citizens

DUMA

E

Eating Up the Oceans: How Do We Save Our Seas?

Ed Schrader's Music Beat

Elephant Stone

Empathy for A**holes: A How-To Workshop

Enjoyable Listens

Avant / Experimental

Enumclaw

Envisioning a More Ethical Big Tech

Equity by Design: Inclusive UX Research Practices

Estereomance

The Ethics of Deepfakes: Are They Always Bad?

Everyone’s a Contestant in Play Along TV

Film & TV Industry

Evicshen

Avant / Experimental

Ezra Furman

F

Fab City: Global Connections for Local Production

The Fact or Fiction of Brain Computer Interfaces

Family Jools

Fashion’s New Frontier: The Metaverse

Fearing

Featured Session: 50 Non-Obvious Trends Changing the Future Normal

Featured Session

Featured Session: Creative Catalysts: Pioneering the Future

Featured Session

Featured Session: Elevating Communities That Created Pop Music

Future of Music

Featured Session

Featured Session: Nandini Jammi & Claire Atkin

Advertising & Brand Experience

Featured Session

Featured Session: Next Gen Tech & The Live Entertainment Revolution

Featured Session

Featured Session: Roman Coppola & Leo Matchett

Film & TV Industry

Featured Session

Featured Session: Stephanie McMahon & Erika Nardini

Featured Session

Featured Session: The Second Renaissance of Creativity

Featured Session

Featured Speaker: Amy Webb

Featured Session

Featured Speaker: Bridget Todd

Advertising & Brand Experience

Featured Session

Featured Speaker: Sarah Bond

Featured Session

Featured Speaker: Sergey Nazarov

Featured Session

Featured Speaker: Yves Béhar

Featured Session

Finding the Story in Documentary Editing

Making Film & Episodics

Fjord Trends 2022 - A Survival Guide to 2022

Flossing

Flower

Forget Mascots. The Native Representation TV Needs

Film & TV Industry

Forgettable, That's What You Are (Until Now)

Advertising & Brand Experience

From Legacy to Legal Cannabis: How and Why?

From Podcast to Television: Widening the Lens

Making Film & Episodics

From Prison to Programming

The Future Aviation Race: All-Electric vs Hydrogen

Future Intersections of Food, Technology & Culture

Featured Session

The Future of Crypto

The Future of Design: Pioneering in Hostile Grounds

The Future of Influence Doesn’t Involve Humans

The Future of People

The Future of Sex: As Told by Women

The Future of Tech Starts on the Farm

The Future of The Data Economy: Putting People First

G

Geese

Gen Z is Making Change: New Tools for Impact

Civic Engagement

Get Real: Black and White Leaders Talk Tech Talent

Gewalt

Avant / Experimental

A Giant Dog

GIFT

Girls Just Want to Have Funds: Women in Finance

Film & TV Industry

Glass Spells

Go Fever

Goodbye Datavis. Hello Data Accessibility.

Goodbye Honolulu

The Google Introduction to Conversation Design

Goya Gumbani

Grace Cummings and Her Band

GRAE

Graham Reynolds

Graham Reynolds & The Golden Arm Trio

The Great Industrial Reimagining

Greyhounds

Guapo

Gully Boys

Gustaf

H

HAEPAARY

Hamish Hawk

Singer Songwriter

Haru Nemuri

Singer Songwriter

The Healthcare Experience: Put Designers in Charge

Health & MedTech

Health Equity: Ending Racism in the US Health Care

Health & MedTech

Helping Queer Youth Find Joy

Advertising & Brand Experience

Henry Brun & the Latin Playerz

The High Stakes War for Internet Freedom

Hip and Fun and Carbon Footprint?!

Hiring & Onboarding in Turbulent Times FTW

Holly Macve

The Holographic Reality of AR & Volumetric Video

HOODLUM

Horsegirl

Hot Market: Navigating the Future of Korean Dramas

Film & TV Industry

How are You(th) Showing up for Climate Action?

How Chinese Gen Z will Influence the World

Advertising & Brand Experience

How COVID Changed the Future of Machine Learning

How Curiouser Brands Win In Uncertainty Wonderland

Advertising & Brand Experience

How Do Artists Make Money Now?

Future of Music

How Does The Roomba REALLY Feel About Dog Shit?!

How Do I Un-Remember This?

How No-Code is Democratizing App Development

How One Billion Gamers Can Save the World

How People Talk and What It Means for Tech

How Ransomware is Mutating Like a Virus

How Social Media Can Combat Health Disparities

Health & MedTech

How to Be an Ally

How to Build an Inclusive Tech Culture

How to Inspire the NextGen of Community Influence

Advertising & Brand Experience

How To Integrate Activism Into The Design Process

How to Reduce ROI by 35%: Exclude Diverse Founders

Hrishikesh Hirway

Singer Songwriter

I

IBM Designs A New Culture: Racial Equity in Design

Imagine a World Where All Musicians Thrive

Future of Music

India Ramey

An Indigenous Perspective of Art and Filmmaking

In Praise of a Slow Future

Inside Key Art: The Faces Behind The Posters

Film & TV Industry

Inventing Humans in the Metaverse

I Quit My Job to Save Local Journalism

Is a War Between Labels and Publishers Coming?

Future of Music

Is it Too Late? Climate Change as a Health Crisis

Is Modding the Key To User-Generated Content?

Is the Internet Really Rotting?

Is There Life After Death?

Is Your Narrative Team Torpedoing Your Game?

It’s Time to Stop Denying Privacy as a Civil Right

Civic Engagement

L

The Language of Emotion: Designing for Engagement

Laura Lee & the Jettes

Lauren Auder

Lawful, but Awful: Curbing Harmful Content Online

Lee Bains + The Glory Fires

Legal Issues Every Doc Maker Should Think About

Making Film & Episodics

Let’s Talk About SEPs

Letting Up Despite Great Faults

Level Up! Bridging Gameplay and Advertising

Leveraging Social Influence for Social Good

LGBTQ+ Rights and Politics in Texas

Civic Engagement

LGBTQ+ Sex Education for Brands

Advertising & Brand Experience

Life Hack: Designing the Product of the Self

Linqua Franqa

Little Mazarn

Avant / Experimental

Living Hour

Logan Lynn

Lord Friday the 13th

Lucy Gooch

Avant / Experimental

Luna Luna

Lunar Vacation

M

MaaS Appeal: Mobility-as-a-Service or Fantasy App?

Mace The Great

Machine or Human? The Ethics Behind Smarter AI

Featured Session

MAITA

Making Equity Work, In Practice: Framework for DEI

Civic Engagement

Making it or Faking It? Protecting Creatives’ Work

Making Live Music Sexual Harassment Free

Future of Music

Mandy, Indiana

Avant / Experimental

Mapping Equity to Drive Impactful Philanthropy

Civic Engagement

Marginalized Voices In Film & TV Journalism

Film & TV Industry

Maria BC

Mariangela

Marina Allen

Mark Burgess of The Chameleons UK

Singer Songwriter

Marta Del Grandi

Singer Songwriter

Mastering The Creator Within

Mattiel

Maxo Kream

MC Yallah

Meatraffle

Avant / Experimental

Meet the Humans Helping You Find HBO Max Shows

Film & TV Industry

MENZI

Merch & Building Financial Relationships with Fans

Future of Music

Me Rex

The Metaverse & its Impact on the Physical World

MicroFrontends and sharing code between apps

Mind the (Language) Gap: Can AI Eliminate Bias?

Mister Goblin

Mobley

Monaleo

Moon Panda

More Than Just a Game: Gaming and Activism

Moriah Bailey

Music In Games: The Future is Now

Future of Music

Music NFTs for Dummies - After the Gold Rush

Future of Music

Music Supervisors VS Composers VS Library Music!!!

Film & TV Industry

My Idea

N

Nationwide Cannabis Legalization- Are You Ready?

Advertising & Brand Experience

Native Sun

Natural Language Processing in Plain English

Neighbor Lady

NewDad

A New Turing Test: Can AI Find a Missing Rabbit?

New Yorker Cartooning Now

The Next Generation of DEI Culture

Advertising & Brand Experience

Next-gen Sound Mixing on a Global Scale

Making Film & Episodics

The Next Wave of Corporate-Startup Innovation

NFTs and the Metaverse, Art’s Digital Age

NFT School: Create a Freshly Minted NFT Token

Niche No More: Reinventing Healthcare for All

Health & MedTech

No Action, No Cut: Directing Celebs in Doc Films

Making Film & Episodics

No Code, No Worries: The Future of No Code Tech

Not Your Boomer’s Consumers

Advertising & Brand Experience

Nuclear Semiotics & the Art of Keeping People Out

Nuevo

Nuha Ruby Ra

Number One Popstar

O

ONO

Opera-tunities: Reimagining Opera After Covid-19

Future of Music

Optimized Romance: Is Tech Killing the Mood?

Ouri

P

Pachyman

PACKS

Paisley Fields

PASTEL GHOST

Paul Jacobs

Pays P.

A Peek Inside the Mind of Meow Wolf

Advertising & Brand Experience

Penelope Isles

Perfecting Autonomous Food Delivery in U.S. States

Personal Identity vs. The Music Business

Future of Music

Pet Tech and the Changing Pet-Owner Relationship

Phobophobes

The Pink Stones

Plato III

Play with the Power of Emotions in Design

Polyplastic

Pom Poko

Poppy Ajudha

Portrait XO

Powering Diverse and Multicultural Voices

Advertising & Brand Experience

Power Of Voice: Creating Community On Social Audio

Preemptive Intelligence: Can We Spy on the Future?

Priya Ragu

The Psychology Behind Mainstreaming Insect Cuisine

Putting Open Data to Work at Scale

Civic Engagement

Putting Transportation Equity in the Fast Lane

PYNKIE

Q

Quick Thinking: Leveraging Real-Time Social Trends

Advertising & Brand Experience

R

The Real Public Health Epidemic? Gun Violence

Health & MedTech

The Red Pears

Regenerative Building Design Realities

Regional Mexican: Propelling the New Wave of Latin

Future of Music

Reimagining Justice in America

Civic Engagement

Remote Post Production and the Creative Process

Making Film & Episodics

Renée Reed

Rethinking Mobility to Stay Connected Sustainably

Rett Smith

Rewriting the Rules of Responsible Tech

Rewriting The Rules of Shopping: What’s Next?

REYNA

RF Shannon

Ringo Deathstarr

The Rise of Casual Gaming in India

The Rise of Headless Brands

Advertising & Brand Experience

Roan Yellowthorn

Singer Songwriter

Rogue Waves: Business Resilient Growth Strategy

Roller Derby

Rosegarden Funeral Party

The Royston Club

Ruby

Ryder The Eagle

Singer Songwriter

S

SAG-AFTRA Low Budget Contracts Made Easy

Making Film & Episodics

Salt Cathedral

Sarah Kinsley

Sara King

Singer Songwriter

Sarpa Salpa

Savak

A Second Chance: Removing Barriers to Reentry

Civic Engagement

Selling Circularity: Making What's Old New Again

Advertising & Brand Experience

Shawn James

Should I Get a Tattoo That Says Omnichannel?

Silver Synthetic

Sir Woman

Skirts

Smut

Social Audio & Sonic Branding

Advertising & Brand Experience

Social Media For The Generations

Advertising & Brand Experience

Societal Resilience, Communities, and New Science

Solving for Global Homelessness Through Innovation

Solving the Black Founder Puzzle

Sonoda

Sour Widows

So You Have a Podcast. Let's Grow It!

Advertising & Brand Experience

Space, Health, Energy, Oh My! 7 Disruptor Lessons

Speak for Yourself

Spotify For Artists: Masterclass

Future of Music

Star Parks

Startups and Government: Unlocking $4B in Funding

Startups, Shutdowns, & Selling for $1B

The State of Colorism in Retail: Two Founders’ POV

Steal Like An Artist 10th Anniversary

Steam Down

Stella Sommer

Still So White: Tackling Diversity in Media & Tech

Strawberry Guy

Singer Songwriter

Streaming and the Changing Business Model

Film & TV Industry

Strengthening the Innovation Ecosystem

Stuck

The Subset Seekers

Health & MedTech

Sun June

Supporting Innovation for a World with Zero Hunger

Surfbort

Synthetic Biology’s Major Pain Point: Scale

T

Tagua Tagua

Taipei Houston

Tallies

Tech and the New Fluidity of Male Sexuality

Tech-Driven Trends in Adult Entertainment

The Tech-Enabled Food Ecosystem Of The Future

Techniques of Resistance in a Platform World

The Technology Making Fitness More Accessible

Health & MedTech

Teenage Halloween

TEKE::TEKE

Tele Novella

Tempers

THALA

Thallo

Singer Songwriter

Thumbs Up With Edge Computing Using Elixir

Tiarra Girls

TikTok & A&R: How Short Form Platforms Break Stars

Future of Music

The Time is Now: Radical Re-housing

Tino Drima

To IP or Not to IP in Immersive Storytelling

Film & TV Industry

Tomar and the FCs

Tortoise or Hare? Getting Product Dev Speed Right

Touring in Alternative Venue Spaces

Future of Music

Touring, Visas, & Borders: Overcoming New Hurdles

Future of Music

Transforming Big Data into Music Impact

Future of Music

Translating an Iconic Universe into a Video Game

Treacherous: 5 Marketing Lies We All Believe

Advertising & Brand Experience

Trends and Challenges for Experiential Culture

Tunic

Twin Tribes

U

Unlocking Inclusive Media with Intersectionality

The Untapped Opportunity of Learning Platforms

Ushering in a New Class of Disease-Modifying DTx

Health & MedTech

W

WALKOUT: What It Truly Means To Break Quorum

Civic Engagement

Walt Disco

WANDERERS

WARFIELD

Wargasm

Water From Your Eyes

Wealth Inequality Upheld by Broken Tax Systems

Civic Engagement

We Freaked Out and Began Observing Nature

Welcome to the Underground Social Media Utopia

We’re All Storytellers: Crafting Your Unique Story

Advertising & Brand Experience

What's in A Metaverse?

What's So Special About Spatial Audio in Music?

Future of Music

What’s the Best Glass of Milk? It’s Complicated

What We’ll Eat in 2030

What Will the Internet Look Like in 2050?

When a Moment Sparks a Movement

Advertising & Brand Experience

Why Bonnie

Why Brand Content is Like Waste (and That’s Good)

Advertising & Brand Experience

Why Brands Need to Become Better Latinx Allies Now

Advertising & Brand Experience

Why Imagining the Impossible Can Protect Companies

Why Relatability Matters in Media

Why Revenge Travel Is Here To Slay

Why She Invested: Gems for Future FoodTech Founders

Why the Security Industry Doesn’t Protect You

Why We Need To Go All-in On Climate Justice

Why Your Grandma's Podcast Is Better Than Yours

Advertising & Brand Experience

Will TikTok or Instagram Win The Creator Wars?

Advertising & Brand Experience

Will We Still Have Sex in the Future?

W.I.T.C.H. (We Intend To Cause Havoc)

Wombo

Women in Music: Educate, Empower, Advance!

Future of Music

Women in Product Innovating in Newsrooms

Women of Color in State Govt: Against the Grain

Civic Engagement

Write A Creative Brief For Your Life

Writing Your First Book: by Women of Color Authors

X

XIXA

X-Ray Vision in the Changing Digital Experience

Advertising & Brand Experience

Z

The Zen Embodiment of Tea