The South by Southwest speaker list for the conference side of this year's festival (running March 10-19) may be its most star studded to date, with Oscar-winner Tilda Swinton, Oscar-nominees Robert Downey Jr. and Paul Giamatti, and electronic pioneers New Order just announced as speakers.

Radical filmmakers and tech CEOs, prepare to rub shoulders again as South by Southwest has announced more speakers for its 2023 edition (March 10-19).

Start putting your 2023 calendar together: SXSW has just announced the first speakers for its 37th annual conference, running March 10-19.

Tick tock, tick tock. Somewhere in space-time, there's a countdown: at 4:20pm on April 20 (4:20 4/20), Meow Wolf will be announcing ... something.

While the world watches in horror as Russian forces continue to pummel the unyielding Ukrainian people, billionaire Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg decided to grace SXSW with his presence (well virtually anyway) to discuss what the future holds for the metaverse.

“What’s in a metaverse?” If I tried to answer the question posed by this SXSW panel’s title, my natural bias would be instantly obvious. Because I’d raise one meshy Lelutka eyebrow and say, “Um, just look at Second Life.”

The biggest obstacle preventing NFTs from transforming society into something more efficient, advanced, and evolved, is that not enough people are using them. But people aren’t using them because of many obstacles.

When Gaëlle Mourre was a student, a professor asked her class to “think of a piece of technology that would help people to better appreciate and understand art.”

Think that you had your South by Southwest schedule set? Well, throw that draft calendar out, as the festival (running March 11-20) has unveiled a whole extra slate of new speakers, panels, sessions, and podcast recordings.