Yesterday the festival announcedMelinda Gates as a Keynote Speaker. As Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Melinda sets the overall direction of the world’s largest private foundation, hacktivist/COO of Techfugees Joséphine Goube will be the Opening Speaker.
You won’t want to miss our new round of Featured Speakers including Olivier Assayas, Michael Dell, Ray Kurzweil, Jonathan Nolan, Priscilla Presley, Megan Smith, Alex Winter, Whitney Wolfe Herd, Rachel Zoe, and more.
Don’t forget that we have conference programming across more tracks going into the second half of SXSWeek.
We’ve got a Music Festival announcement coming soon and lineup news from the Film and Comedy Festivals.
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