PanelPick Me!

For the last two years, I've taken a group of Ravensbourne students to SXSW in Austin, Texas. I'll be taking a group again in 2015, but I've also proposed presenting a panel about the live…

SXSW 2014: Show Highlights

The SXSW Interactive (SXSWi) festival in Austin, Texas is without doubt the biggest digital culture event of the year anywhere in the world. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and CeBIT in Hannover have…

Spaceflight’s commercial future

Space was a recurring theme at SXSW, with NASA hosting a number of sessions. In his keynote interview, however, Elon Musk painted the most viable future for man's exploration of the Solar System and beyond.…

Consoling OUYA

OUYA's founder Julie Uhrman provided one of the most controversial keynote panels at SXSW. If you happened to sleep through most of 2012, OUYA leapt to fame last year for its hugely successful call for…

An audience with Kim Dotcom

One of the secret gems of SXSW was the interview of the infamous Kim Dotcom by Charles Graeber of Wired magazine. Graeber is writing a book about the Megaupload prosecution, so knows the case well.…

Fancy meeting you here!

If you ask the veterans of SXSW, the event is as much about the people you meet accidentally as it is about the workshops and presentations you attend, and today has really underlined this. Right…