The Grammy winners are coming! The Grammy winners are coming! South by Southwest (running March 11-20) just added a slate of extra panels and keynotes to the conference, including two one-namer musical mavericks: Beck and Lizzo.

With only seven weeks before it makes its in-person return, SXSW's speaker list gets longer today with the announcement of a host of names including Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla, and European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager.

With 2022 just around the corner, SXSW has expanded its speaker lineup for its return to in-person programming with the announcement of keynote speaker Reggie Fils-Aimé.

SXSW has just announced that Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund President and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson will be this year's first keynote, headlining a list of speakers and panels the conference is hosting for its 2022 in-person return (March 11-20).

Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg has ambitious plans. When he talks about his goals for the Department of Transportation, he eschews incremental change and points to a massive infrastructure overhaul on the scale of the interstate highway system, transcontinental railroad, and the Erie Canal.

British people are talking loudly in the balcony of the historic Paramount Theatre while I’m trying to watch three panelists discuss something or another on stage.

Missing shouldering your way through the South by Southwest crowds? Lamenting that you won't have to work out how to sprint from Red River to Congress to catch a show? Don't panic: for its 2021 online iteration, SXSW has collaborated with extended reality experts VRrOOm to create a virtual downtown Austin in the SXSW Online XR world.

Who's a bestselling author, weed entrepreneur, martial arts black belt, and now a SXSW Online 2021 keynote speaker? Willie Nelson, that's who (oh, yeah, and he may have written a tune or two).

SXSW is back. The cultural festival was the first high-profile cancellation as coronavirus swept across the U.S., but today it's confirmed dates for three core elements, all going online for 2021 - the conference, the film festival, and SXSW Edu, the education forum that serves as the warm-up for the big show.