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SXSW Sessions

Aug 31, 2020

There’s an anti-human agenda embedded in our markets and technologies, which has turned them from a means of human connection into facilitators of isolation and repression. Our corporations and the culture they create glorify individualism at the expense of cooperation, threatening the sustainability not just of our...


Aug 24, 2020

The growth of high school esports will have a direct impact on the growth of the esports and gaming industry as a whole, as many of the kids who become involved will turn into lifelong gamers with loyalties to the publishers they discover. In this featured session, PlayVS founder Delane Parnell and Peter Pham,...


Aug 17, 2020

Lawrence Wright's new novel, The End of October, has been more prescient and relevant than the author could have imagined when he began writing it in 2017. Join Wright and New York Magazine's Lila Shapiro as they discuss the rigorous research that went into The End of October, his creative process, and the heroes that...


Aug 10, 2020

Chef Kwame Onwuachi's restaurant Kith/Kin was one of the hottest reservations in the country. But COVID-19 has closed its doors and turned the James Beard Award-winning Chef into an activist. He joins Liz Bacelar, a journalist and mentor since the start, in a candid chat on how he has been fighting for local restaurants...


Aug 3, 2020

Roger McNamee, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and the author of the new book "Zucked", and Nicholas Thompson, the editor in chief of Wired, discuss the history and future of Facebook and how a company set up to make the world more open and connected is now dealing with criticism that it has undermined American...