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Hugh Forrest is the President and Chief Programming Officer of South by Southwest (SXSW), one of the world's leading festivals celebrating music, film, technology, and innovation. A native of Austin, Texas, he has played a pivotal role in shaping the city's creative and entrepreneurial identity. Joining SXSW in its early days, he leveraged his background in publishing and technology to help grow the festival into an internationally recognized event. Under his leadership, SXSW has expanded beyond music to include industry verticals such as health tech, transportation, and artificial intelligence, all while staying true to its mission of fostering creativity and connection.His contributions to Austin's cultural and business landscape have earned him numerous accolades, including being named Austinite of the Year and receiving the Diversity Champion of the Year award. Passionate about collaboration and innovation, Hugh remains committed to the power of in-person interactions, emphasizing their importance in an increasingly digital world.In this episode, he takes us behind the scenes of SXSW's evolution, recounting its early days in the 1980s when Austin's club owners took a chance on a fledgling festival during spring break—a decision that would shape the city's global reputation. He discusses SXSW's transformation from a music-focused event into a multidisciplinary hub for film, interactive media, health tech, and transportation. Addressing concerns that the festival has become too corporate, he argues that while SXSW has grown, its core mission of celebrating creativity and community remains unchanged. Throughout the conversation, Hugh also shares his personal journey, reflecting on how his deep ties to Austin have influenced his leadership and vision for one of the world's most influential cultural events.Ami's life update and travel adventures: Ami shares her recent travels, including attending the Grammys and the Super Bowl, before introducing Hugh (0:30)How Hugh Forrest got involved with SXSW: Hugh recalls his early days in Austin, his background in publishing, and how he was hired for his desktop publishing skills (4:10)The birth of SXSW: A festival born from rejection: Hugh shares how SXSW came to be after a failed partnership with a New York music event, and how Austin club owners reluctantly gave them a chance (6:42)SXSW's evolution: From music to tech, film & beyond: The festival's expansion beyond music to include film, interactive media, health tech, and transportation—shaped by Austin's growth (10:21)Balancing corporate growth and grassroots creativity: Hugh addresses criticisms that SXSW has become too corporate, explaining how they balance big brands with indie creatives (14:54)Navigating controversies: DEI, social issues and speaker curation: Discussion on how SXSW handles political and social challenges, including diversity, equity, and inclusion (1:13)Personal highlights: Bruce Springsteen, David Byrne and memorable moments: Hugh shares one of his biggest regrets—missing most of Bruce Springsteen's keynote—and reflects on other standout festival moments (24:20)Austin's transformation and SXSW's role in the city's growth: The impact of SXSW on Austin's economy and identity, and Hugh's thoughts on the city's evolution (28:11)Hugh's perspective: Success, creativity and the future of SXSW: Rapid-fire Q&A on success, creativity, and what excites him about the future of SXSW (35:26)Connect with Hugh Forrest:LinkedInXLet's talk Connect:Instagram This podcast is produced by Ginni Media.

Christine Russo, Host of What Just Happened, sits down with Hugh Forrest, President and Chief Programming Officer of South by Southwest, to explore how SXSW is the ultimate gathering for creatives and also serves as a melting pot for innovators across industries. From music, film and multi-media, SXSW is where the world's leading brands, marketing, technology, and activations collide with groundbreaking advancements in AI and now, quantum computing. SXSW has solidified itself as a mecca for creative minds, where emerging trends are not just discussed but actively shaped, making it the go-to destination for those looking to stay ahead of the curve.As innovation continues to accelerate, SXSW is doubling down on future-focused content, introducing dedicated programming for quantum computing on March 12th and 13th. With AI now seamlessly embedded into everyday life, quantum computing represents the next frontier—one that is still complex but poised to redefine industries. From immersive brand activations to the intersection of culture and commerce, SXSW remains the epicenter for those who don't just follow trends but create them.

Today, I'm joined by Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer of South by Southwest (SXSW). For over three decades, Hugh has been at the helm of one of the most influential events in the world, celebrating creativity at the convergence of tech, film, music, and culture.Hugh's journey is a fascinating one, rooted in Austin, Texas, a city known for its vibrant creative scene. From his early days running a local newspaper to becoming a key figure in the expansion and evolution of SXSW, Hugh's story is one of persistence, innovation, and a deep commitment to fostering creativity. In our conversation, we explore his unique upbringing with a Scottish father and American mother, the impact of Austin's cultural landscape on his development, and the pivotal moments that shaped his career.We also discuss the challenges and high points of running a globally recognized festival, the role of technology in connecting people, and the future of creativity in an increasingly AI and digitally driven world. Hugh shares his insights on the importance of community, the power of serendipitous encounters, and his vision for the future of SXSW and beyond.If you are a creative person in any domain I am sure you will enjoy this conversation as as we uncover the human side of one of the driving forces behind one of the world's most dynamic events.Thanks to Jennifer Hutchins for the connectionTime codes 00:00 Introduction 00:53 Meet Hugh Forest: The Man Behind SXSW02:33 Who is Hugh? Personal Journey and Aspirations03:45 Who or what made him Hugh?09:54 The Evolution of SXSW14:34 The Role of Technology in SXSW's Growth18:18 Who is Hugh Working to Achieve?28:27 SXSW's Community and Content Curation32:35 Future Directions and Reflections38:22 The Evolution of South by Southwest38:57 Lessons in Persistence and Value Creation40:53 Personal Growth and Organizational Leadership42:17 Creating a Cohesive Experience43:34 Challenges and Future Plans46:12 Impact of COVID-1947:14 The Importance of Human Connection53:06 Balancing Commercial and Creative Interests57:36 Future Directions and Personal Reflections59:55 Personal Insights and Inspirations01:06:20 Quickfire Questions and Recommendations01:15:46 Final Thoughts and Gratitude Social Links Linkedin X SXSW EmailLinks in show Testament of a furniture dealer Books Ministry of The Future Cal Newport Deep Work Show The Greatest Night In Pop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Co-President and Chief Programming Officer of SXSW, Hugh Forrest, joins us to talk about the magnitude of the event and the future of human creativity. Dréa Hudson, Manager of Audience Development here at HubSpot Media, leads the conversation. Plus: Netflix books Tyson vs Paul and Applebee's isn't doing too hot. Join our hosts Jon Weigell and Dréa Hudson, as they take you through our most interesting stories of the day. Follow us on social media: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thdspod  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thdspod/  Thank You For Listening to The Hustle Daily Show. Don't forget to hit Subscribe or Follow us on Apple Podcasts so you never miss an episode! If you want this news delivered to your inbox, join millions of others and sign up for The Hustle Daily newsletter, here: https://thehustle.co/email/  Plus! Your engagement matters to us. If you are a fan of the show, be sure to leave us a 5-Star Review on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-hustle-daily-show/id1606449047 (and share your favorite episodes with your friends, clients, and colleagues).

Charlie and Ted are without Rony, who is driving across the country. We'll convene at SXSW in Austin to do our show live on stage with Joanna Popper in a session titled "XR in the Age of Vision Pro" on March 12th. In the news, $675M for Figure AI's humanoid robots, powered by ChatGPT, and a new text-to-video tool, Ideogram. Our guests this week are Hugh Forrest, head of programming for SXSW and Blake Kammerdiner, head of XR at SXSW who give us a wide-ranging look at this year's show. To say Ted and Charlie are fanboys would be putting it mildly. Thank you to our sponsor, Zappar!Don't forget to like, share, and follow for more! Follow us on all socials @ThisWeekInXR!https://linktr.ee/thisweekinxr Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SXSW is quintessential Austin. So how did this main staple of Austin culture grow to its astounding 36 years of festival success since its initial conception in 1987?  Join Adam Ryan as he interviews Hugh Forrest, Co-President & Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, to learn how the organization thinks about creating lasting, impactful cultural moments and what aspects of the festival have had to evolve with the rise of social media. How does SXSW generate one-of-a-kind viral moments while still adhering to its unique brand of authenticity?  Hugh discusses the impact of technology startups at SXSW and reveals his predictions for the future of the media industry.  Don't miss out on this insightful conversation about one of the most influential events in the world.   00:00:01 - Interview with Hugh on the Show 00:00:15 - The Evolution of South by Southwest 00:05:57 - Preparing for Unexpected Moments at SXSW 00:11:35 - Creating Authenticity in a Big Event 00:21:37 - South by Southwest Returns in 2024 00:25:02 - The Evolution of South by Southwest 00:29:00 - The Future of South by Southwest and the Media Industry   Want to get into it further?    Follow Adam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AdamRy_n and sign up for the Perpetual newsletter, where he dives deeper into media: https://workweek.com/brand/perpetual   And if you love listening to Perpetual please leave a 5-star review on Rate My Podcast: https://ratethispodcast.com/mediamoves   Thank you so much!

Welcome to episode 42 of More Than a Refresh, where JD sits down with Hugh Forrest, Co-President & Chief Programming Officer @ SXSW. Listen in as they discuss collaborative problem solving, how humans parse authenticity, and that time Barack Obama back-channeled to nab a speaking slot at SXSW.

We meet with Hugh to discuss Brand USA's recent participation with SXSW in Sydney, Australia, and hear other international possibilities for destinations. Few people are more tapped into event planning, developments in tech, music, and culture than Hugh Forrest, Co-President and Chief Programming Officer at SXSW. Anyone working in planning conferences and conventions in the Travel Industry can learn a lot from what Hugh says in this podcast. Plus, we discuss SXSW's amazing historical musical line-up, from Johnny Cash to Beck to Billie Eilish.

Hugh has been an event curator for 35 years. He designs the program for SXSW, one of the longest-running multifaceted conferences on Earth, hosted in Austin Texas. It's like TED, but cooler. Hugh also produces the Austin Reggae Festival to raise money for the food bank. We discuss eveything from meditation to curating event content. Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hughforrest/ His Event: https://www.sxsw.com/

Is A.I. just part of a hype cycle?  Hear from SXSW's Hugh Forrest who serves as Co-President and Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest which includes SXSW Interactive, one of the largest tech conferences in the world helping creative people achieve their goals.  Founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, SXSW is best known for its conference and festivals. Hugh oversees all of the content, celebrating the convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture.   The next SXSW will take place March 8-16, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Today, you'll hear Hugh's unique perspective on trends at the intersection of tech, culture, and creativity, including lessons from the social media revolution for our current zeitgeist that encompasses all things artificial intelligence.  Discover what's on the horizon for next year's SXSW Interactive where A.I. will be all the buzz with over 250 speaker proposals submitted! The conference programming will also include sessions on virtual and augmented reality, quantum computing, the creator economy, synthetic biology, climate change, and more.  In our conversation in this episode, Hugh considers whether A.I. is part of a hype cycle and discusses the need for guardrails on it. He also shares the importance and power of community in this moment in time.  EPISODE SHOW NOTES: https://creativitysquared.com/podcast/ep17-hugh-forrest-a-i-hype-cycle-or-not/ JOIN CREATIVITY SQUARED Sign up for our free weekly newsletter: https://creativitysquared.com/newsletter  Become a premium member: https://creativitysquared.com/supporters  SUBSCRIBE Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform: https://creativitysquared.com Subscribe for more videos: https://youtube.com/@creativity_squared/?sub_confirmation=1 CONNECT with C^2 https://instagram.com/creativitysquaredpodcast https://facebook.com/CreativitySquaredPodcast https://giphy.com/channel/CreativitySquared https://tumblr.com/blog/creativitysquared https://tiktok.com/@creativitysquaredpodcast #CreativitySquared CONNECT with Helen Todd, the human behind C^2 https://instagram.com/helenstravels https://twitter.com/helenstravels https://linkedin.com/in/helentodd https://pinterest.com/helentodd Creativity Squared explores how creatives are collaborating with artificial intelligence in your inbox, on YouTube, and on your preferred podcast platform.  Because it's important to support artists, 10% of all revenue Creativity Squared generates will go to ArtsWave, a nationally recognized non-profit that supports over 100 arts organizations. This show is produced and made possible by the team at PLAY Audio Agency: https://playaudioagency.com. Creativity Squared is brought to you by Sociality Squared, a social media agency who understands the magic of bringing people together around what they value and love: http://socialitysquared.com.  #SXSW #SXSW2024 #PanelPicker #SXSWInteractive #AI #GenerativeAI #AInews #TechTrends #Futurist #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureTechnology #TechPodcast #ArtificialIntelligenceTechnology #ArtificialIntelligenceAI #MachineLearning #Culture #Metaverse #Web3 #AppleVisionPro #AIandCulture #LanguageModels #AItechnology #DeepLearning #GenerativeModels #aiart

Brought to you by Eight Sleep's Pod Cover sleeping solution for dynamic cooling and heating, Secureframe automated security and privacy compliance platform, and AG1 all-in-one nutritional supplement. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is usually my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out the routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own lives. This is a special episode and a turning of the tables. This time, legendary investor Bill Gurley interviews me, and the recording is from earlier this year at SXSW in Austin, TX. The conversation explores some of my lessons learned and favorite findings over the last two decades in areas like entrepreneurship, tech, and podcasting. I throw in some favorite books and other spice to keep things interesting.Bill Gurley (@bgurley) has spent more than 20 years as a general partner at Benchmark. Before entering the venture-capital business, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at Credit Suisse First Boston. Over his venture career, he has worked with such companies as GrubHub, Nextdoor, OpenTable, Stitch Fix, Uber, and Zillow.For more takeaways from his incredible investing career, you can find my interview with Bill at tim.blog/billgurley. As a side note, my 2007 SXSW speech that I mention in the interview was what started it all, in many senses. It's what put my first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, on the radar of influential bloggers and bigger media outlets, ultimately landing it on The New York Times Best Sellers list, where it stayed, more or less, for the next seven years. It's been a wild ride. You can hear that 2007 presentation at tim.blog/sxsw.One last thing: Hugh Forrest, if you're listening, thank you again for giving me a shot way back in the day! Please enjoy! *This episode is brought to you by Secureframe! 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This week on The Betoota Advocate Podcast, our guest Hugh Forrest joins us in the channel country, all the way from Austin to talk through seeing South by Southwest (SXSW) from its origins all the way to it's exponential growth that's making it's way to Australia. Hugh also lifts the lid on what SXSW Sydney is going to look like and what we can expect, take a listen.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

South by Southwest (SXSW) has long been at the cutting edge of creativity – but how did it become the powerhouse it is today? And how are they connected with frog, part of Capgemini Invent? Today we talk with Hugh Forrest, Co-President and Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest, and Craig McNeil, President of Capgemini Invent in the Americas. Together we take a deep dive into the history and evolution of one of the most innovative event organizers in the world. In this episode we explore:  The link between technology and creativity  Following trends, versus driving trends  How to look at “trends of the day”  Maintaining a creative workforce and creative processes  How Greentech startups are taking on climate change  Space, the universe, and the drive to discover  We also look at creativity and innovation within organizations, and discuss how frog has helped to cultivate this culture. From "the power of provocation" to the rise of generative AI, all the biggest tech questions of the year are here. Tune in for invaluable insights and discover how you can boost your organization's creative power. 

SXSW is one of the most anticipated annual events that celebrate the convergence of music, film, and technology in Austin, Texas. We welcome Hugh Forrest, SXSW Co-President & Chief Programming Officer back to the podcast to explore the latest developments and insights from SXSW and learn how this dynamic event continues to inspire and shape the future of creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation.Episode HighlightsThe importance of SXSW in the Austin community and its core nature as a creative and entrepreneurial event.Tips for first-time attendees of SXSW, including how to plan and make the most of their experience.What's new in SXSW 2023, including the addition of new tracks, sponsors, and the use of generative AI.An overview of the Health & MedTech and 2050 tracks at the SXSW conference.Balancing optimism and skepticism in the age of AI, with insights from SXSW on climate change and technological innovation.The launch of SXSW Sydney and what to expect from this new event.Episode LinksHugh Forrest: LinkedIn, TwitterSXSW: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter Austin Next Links: Website, X/Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn

Host: David Adler Guests: Hugh Forrest, Cindy Lo In this episode of GatherGeeks, BizBash chairman and founder David Adler sits down with two key event profs behind South by Southwest (SXSW), the buzzy annual festival in Austin that attracts emerging talent, iconic performances, and groundbreaking ideas in the realms of music, TV/film, tech, and culture. We first hear from Hugh Forrest, SXSW's co-president and chief programming officer, who delves into the festival's 30-plus-year history, how it's evolved and thrived in those decades, why AI will be a big topic this year, and what else he's most looking forward to at the 2023 festival. Cindy Lo, CEO of full-service events agency RED VELVET, then joins the pod. She's been producing brand events and activations for years with SXSW, and here she discusses what both planners and attendees want most out of these experiences, how brands are measuring ROI, and how the fest is attracting younger generations. This is a preview episode you won't want to miss.

In this episode, Michael Glenn and Colin Fowler discuss the genesis of South by Southwest (SXSW) with Hugh Forrest, the festival's co-president and chief programming officer. Hugh describes the processes for selecting programming and what happens every year when hundreds of thousands of the world's creative avant-garde descend on Austin for SXSW.

On this 34th episode of BoomATX Lee and Glenn sit down with SXSW Chief Programming Office and Co-President Hugh Forrest to chat about the early days of the festival and how he became involved early on because, as he puts it, he had a computer in the late 80's.  Great stories throughout this educational and entertaining look at the festival that helped shine an even brighter spotlight on Austin, the Live Music Capital of the World and grow the annual event into a world renowned music, film and technology festival! Consider this episode your VIP wristband to hear how it all got started over 35 years ago, survived a pandemic and where it might be going from here.  As long as there is an Austin let's hope there is a SXSW! 

G'day - I'm Oscar Trimboli, and this is the Apple award-winning podcast, Deep Listening: Impact Beyond Words. Good listeners focus on what's said and deep listeners notice what's not said. Each episode is designed to help you learn from hundreds of the world's most diverse workplace listening professionals, including anthropologists, air traffic controllers, acoustic engineers and actors, behavioral scientists and business executives, community organizers, conductors, deaf and blind leaders, foreign language interpreters and body language experts, judges, journalists, market researchers, medical professionals, memory champions, military leaders, movie makers and musicians. You'll learn from neurotypical and neurodiverse listeners, as well as neuroscientists and negotiators, palliative care nurses and suicide counsellors. Whether you're in pairs, teams, groups or listening across systems, whether you're face to face, on the phone or via video conference, you'll learn the art and science of listening and understand the importance of the neuroscience and these three critical numbers: 125, 400 and 900. You'll also learn three is half of eight, zero is half of eight, and four is half of eight when you listen across the five levels of listening, conscious of the four most common barriers that get in your way. Each episode will provide you with practical, pragmatic and actionable techniques to reduce the number of meetings you attend and shorten the meetings you participate in. The Deep Listening Podcast is the most comprehensive resource for workplace listeners. Along with the deep listening ambassadors, we're on a quest to create a hundred million deep listeners in the workplace one conversation at a time. The Ultimate Guide for Listening on a Video Conference, Host Edition This episode is the last of three in a series about how to listen as host during a video conference. If you haven't had a chance to listen to the overview, Episode 101, it outlines three things: 1. sequence before, during and after the meeting. 2. the role. Are you the host or the participant? And 3. the meeting size, intimate, interactive or broadcast. In episode 101, we dived deeply into sequence, how to think about before, during and after the video conference. In part two, episode 102, we explore your role as the host as well as a participant. Like all the episodes, you can revisit them based on their episode number. This one would be www.oscartrimboli.com/podcast/103 And the first episode in this series would be 101, and the second, 102. If you haven't done so already, I strongly recommend you listen to these episodes in sequence starting at 101, 102 and then this one, 103. You can listen to 101 at www.oscartrimboli.com/podcast/101 In this episode, the final in the series, we explore listening and hosting tips based on meeting size. There are three meeting sizes. 1. The first one, the intimate meeting, you, maybe one or two others. It might be a catch up meeting with a peer. It might be a meeting with your manager. It might even be a job interview. A quick reminder, intimate meetings refer to the number of participants in the meeting, not the content being discussed. 2. Meeting size number two, interactive. You as the host are part of the Zoom meeting, which has between three and 15 people. Typically, it's a regular meeting. It's a team meeting. It's a work in progress meeting. It could be a group meeting. It could be an executive or an ex-co meeting. It could be a board meeting. It could be a kickoff meeting. These meetings have a deliberate purpose, agenda and one or many hosts and one or many agenda items. 3. Meeting three, this is the broadcast meeting. These meetings typically involve over 20 people, and some people say the opportunity for engagement is limited. In the 105 pages of The Ultimate Guide to Listening in a Video Conference, www.oscartrimboli.com/videoconference the primary navigational orientation is by meeting size. The first question you need to ask yourself is what type of meeting, and then you can use the navigation inside the document to move you around really quickly. If you visit oscartrimboli.com/videoconference, there's a 17-page preview guide. In the preview guide, this outlines the welcome, the introduction, who is this guide for and who is it not for? There's an explanation about how to use the guide, including the three key pages of navigational guidance. These are organized by the meeting size. Each meeting, intimate, interactive or broadcast, is organized into a three by three grid. Across the top from left to right, the context of the meeting, these three boxes, independent of the meeting, represent the host perspective, the participants' perspective and the meeting's outcome. From left to right, it goes host, participant, outcome. From top to bottom, it represents before, during and after the meeting. In each of these nine boxes, there's a hyperlink which will take you directly to the explanation of each term with actions, questions, techniques and tips to make you a great listening host. For the broadcast meeting, these boxes focus the host as follows: Before, ask three questions of the group to understand their current mindset. During, acknowledge the themes in response to your initial three questions. After, announce what was heard during the broadcast and when you communicate the actions accordingly. Before we jump into the guide, let's listen to Hugh Forrest, who serves as the chief programming officer for South by Southwest, held annually in Austin, Texas. This event brings together more than 70,000 industry creatives from across the United States and around the world. And I have to say I'm very excited that in 2023, South by Southwest comes to my hometown of Sydney and looking forward to catching up with Hugh. Next, Hugh will explain how South by Southwest prepare for thousands of broadcast presentations. Hugh Forrest: We spend what I'd like to say is an inordinate amount of time reading through user feedback from the previous year. There are many good reasons for doing that. You learn about the event from a completely different perspective than you had as an organizer. There are often things that you learned that were great that you had no knowledge of. There are often things that you learned that didn't go so well that you had no knowledge of, and that just reading this feedback gives you a much better perspective and much fuller perspective and much more nuanced perspective of what was good and what needs improvement. That process of reading feedback, of digesting feedback, of trying to understand feedback, of listening to what your users and what your community is saying can be mentally, emotionally, spiritually exhausting. It's often not easy reading sharp criticisms of what you've done, particularly if you think you've done something incredibly great, but I think you try to have a generally positive attitude here and understand it's all part of the learning process and helps you get better and throughout the most harsh criticisms and throughout the highest praise and the whatever objective truth is somewhere in the middle, but again, helps you do that by reading this feedback. So we'll spend six weeks reading feedback, trying to analyze that feedback, try to put that into some general themes and even more specific themes. And then by about late May, early June, we're beginning to plan for the next year. And one of the big pieces in terms of planning for the next year is this South by Southwest Panel Picker interface that we've been using for approximately a decade. This is an interface where anyone in the community, which basically means that anyone with a web connection can enter a speaking proposal. It allows us to listen to what the community wants to get new ideas and new speakers into the event. We'll get somewhere in the neighborhood of 5,000 total ideas, speaking proposals for South by Southwest, of which hopefully about a thousand of those will be accepted to the event. The other 4,000 are also, again, very, very useful in terms of trying to discern what our community wants to hear, what our community wants to learn about that our community is much more focused on learning the latest technologies. This Panel Picker system is ultimately a way for us to communicate with our audience, for us to learn from our audience, for us to listen to our audience, and I think it's one of the many things that has helped us continue to improve present event. Oscar Trimboli: Whether you're preparing for 70, 700, 7,000 or 70,000 as Hugh has just explained, when it comes to the broadcast format, the majority of effort is actually in the preparation. Let's jump to the guide now and understand how to prepare to listen before you commence the process of putting the content together for the broadcast meeting. If you were to click on the link for the host in the guide right now before the broadcast meeting, this is what you'd read. Before the meeting, many techniques available during intimate and interactive meetings are available in the broadcast meeting as well in the broadcast meeting. Especially the ability to ask participants questions before the broadcast, during the registration process. These questions signal that you want to listen. You want to make the session interactive. You want to signal to the audience that you want them to be part of the presentation. Whatever you collect before the meeting, please make sure you summarize and integrate the themes from registration into the content of your broadcast. This is where your effort will be. It will be in collection, categorization, summarization and ultimately, presentation back to the group. Be conscious that your questions in advance will influence and impact you, the participants, the group and the outcome. For the broadcast meeting, balance your questions and responses between open questions and questions that force the participants to rate or rank a value that you can deconstruct later on for the audience. In the guide, we provide a link on how to customize your meeting or webinar registration. If you are doing this via a Zoom meeting, the setting can be found via meeting, new meeting, and you want to check registration required. Make sure that check box is checked to on. When you do, make sure you hit save because it's a two-step process. Then scroll down to the very end of that webpage and you will see a section called registration. You will have a new selection field called registration options. Here, select edit. Then you'll be offered questions in a range of mandatory fields like first name, last name, country, city, etc., and you'll be asked questions and comments. That's right at the bottom. Make sure you check that on and set it as a required field. Now, make sure you hit safe again. It's really critical to hit save. These custom questions, you can tailor them for the audience as part of the registration process, and now when they register for the event, they will be offered a mandatory question to complete. Remember, you don't need to use Zoom tools to collect this information, yet it creates a strong incentive for the audience if they answer the questions as part of the registration process. It's just simply a better experience for them as well. In the guide, we also provide a link to the full information about how to set up these questions as part of the registration process if you're using a Zoom webinar. Next, consider what and how you'll ask for information. If you're requesting a response as a comment to this question, how clear is our strategy? This will allow people to type in a few words, a few sentences to describe this. This creates nuance. This creates texture. This creates really useful verbatims that emerge from the patterns of user responses. Now, that's a very different level of engagement and care if you ask participants the identical question, yet they can only choose from one of these five, so the question might be, our strategy is clear, and then the options you may offer them, strongly agree, disagree, neither disagree or agree, agree or strongly agree. Those five options will fit nicely into a chart, a pie graph. They will provide very clear numeric insights for the room. What it lacks then is the richness of the insights from the verbatim. Now, if we use the first question alone just with comments, this will require more effort on your part in preparation. The second, it'll take you about 30 seconds to graph that information. Now, neither is right or wrong and what I recommend that where possible, use both approaches to collect some numeric information and some information that's open comments as well. No matter how you choose to listen and ask questions in advance of the broadcast, please make sure you summarize them into themes and ideally into your response in your action plan in the first third of your broadcast. Now, an assumption many people make is that you need to present the broadcast live. Yet, if you use these techniques, you can prerecord the broadcast as well. There is no reason that you can't think about given the outcome of this meeting, should my content be prerecorded or should it be presented live? I don't think a lot of leaders think about the trade off in live versus prerecorded. When is either appropriate is an important question to ask. Now, back to the questions. Balance your questions between open and defined responses. Here are five examples. What is one question you'd like to ask the presenter about the topic? What is one barrier to achieving the outcome? What is one resource you must have to achieve the outcome? Which one of our competitors can we learn the most from and why? And finally, what is one thing our customers are consistently asking us for that we aren't providing? Now, the focus on one is designed to prioritize the responses from the audience. In question four, which one of our competitors can we learn the most from and why? This question allows not only the competitor to be named, a value, but why allows us to get more nuanced. So make sure you balance them and use your judgement about whether you're using prioritization questions or open ended questions. Next, you want to think about the participant's perspective. Depending on the audience size, I recommend you create subsets of perspectives from the audience's responses to your questions, rather than treating every result exactly the same. If the audience is more than 30 people, you should be breaking down the presentation into multiple groups. It might be by age or tenure or location or profession, maybe by department or seniority. Collecting this information in big, big groups, hundreds and hundreds of people will allow you to prerecord broadcasts that are tailored specifically to audience subsets. Now, not all organizations will have the ability to create registrations like that, but when we've used this, it's been really potent form of listening for the broadcast. For live audiences, it means you'll be tailoring parts of the presentation as well. Examples of this could include tailoring your communication based on the departments in an organization setting. It might sound like this. "This is what we heard from finance and this is what we'll do as a result for finance employees. We heard something slightly different from engineering. They need us to be doing this, and it'll take us a little bit longer, possibly the next three months." Another context could be based on the tenure of the employees, how long they've been working for your organization. Your content could sound like, "We notice employees with a tenure beyond a decade have these three key issues, whereas employees that have been with the organization for only two years have these immediate priorities." Providing these insights based on the group information collected creates a perspective not just for you as the presenter, it creates perspective for everybody in the audience to realize that their perspective is not unique, and other areas, groups or departments have slightly different requirements. This also sets them up for success in helping them achieve their outcomes as well because they are listening not only for their departments but also the needs of other departments, other projects, other tenure groups. This unifies the perspective of each person and integrates them across the organization. The final context could be if you are presenting to a completely unknown audience, you might need to find content and context criteria to integrate it in. Examples of how I've used this, "although customer care team spent more time talking with the customers than executives, executives spend more time talking about the importance of customers." Another approach I used in a presentation was "although finance spends time discussing cost control, they are the highest paid employees in the organization. " The contrast of both of these creates deep engagement, and in both cases, it set the chat on fire. Finally, thinking about the outcome. Think about your themes, your groups and cohorts defined by playing back participant issues and ensure that these themes are amplified in the first third of the broadcast, and sprinkle this content throughout the middle and final third of your presentation, and this will maintain the audience's engagement. I just want to share some of my perspective when I define this checklist with the organizations I speak to, to broadcast with. We go through a checklist typically a week to two weeks out. This is typically administrative setup. Who is the host? What is the introduction? How will the handovers work? Is there a moderator? These kinds of questions. One thing that consistently surprises me though is my request to have closed captions activated before the meeting commences. Not everybody in the audience's first language will be the language I'm speaking in. Activating live transcription or closed caption is a simple way to assist people where the broadcast language is not their first language. If people get distracted during the broadcast, they can quickly return to the discussion by catching up through closed captions because it's typically delayed between three and seven seconds. Please keep in mind that the participants can activate or deactivate the closed captioning themselves, but they can only do that if it's turned on in the administrative settings of Zoom. This covers off the first part, the before part of a broadcast section from the guide. There are seven pages dedicated to the broadcast meeting. We have just covered off the first three pages, the before section of the guide as it relates to the broadcast meeting. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or a Zoom master host, the 105-page Ultimate Guide to Listening in a Zoom Conference has many more tips and techniques for you. The difference between hearing and listening is action. If you would like to access the guide, visit www.oscartrimboli.com/videoconference. There you'll be able to see the preview of the guide, 17 pages or the 105-page guide. I'm Oscar Trimboli, and along with the Deep Listening Ambassador community, we're on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the workplace one conversation at a time. And you've given us the greatest gift of all today. You've listened to us. Thanks for listening.  

I'm joined by Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer at South by Southwest (SXSW), to talk about the relationship the festival has with its host city, Austin. Founded in 1987, South by Southwest welcomes music, film, and technology creatives from around the globe to downtown Austin every March. More recently, SXSW has announced an expansion project in Australia and has hinted at incorporating more of Texas in its yearly festival. I interviewed Hugh to learn more about what the future of SXSW looks like. Timecoded Guide: [00:00] Introducing Hugh, Chief Programming Officer at South by Southwest [08:27] Putting on the 2021 South by Southwest during COVID [14:39] Austin affordable housing & Texas' starving artist problem [21:31] Securing against violent situations during festival events  [25:46] Expanding SXSW with South by Sydney, Australia   Has growth been steady for South by Southwest during its over-30-year history?  Joining SXSW in 1989, Hugh has been with the festival almost since the beginning— he even provided the first computer ever used in the South by Southwest office. A lot has changed since the humble beginnings as a 3-day music festival, but Hugh has credited the addition of film and technology as massive sources of popularity growth for SXSW. Expanding now to 9 days, Hugh explains that the goal for the SXSW team is to continue to push the envelope of what's new in creative spaces and stay ahead of the curve for upcoming event ideas. “In 1994, SXSW added what was then called Film and Multimedia. Adding this film component to the event was very much one of [the founding] dreams. It made sense because you had this burgeoning, emerging film scene in Austin, with Linklater and Rodriguez and other folks.”   How has COVID affected the current version of SXSW? One of the first event casualties of the COVID lockdown was the 2020 South by Southwest, which was unfortunately canceled due to safety concerns. Since that cancellation, Hugh explains that SXSW has looked different from 2018 and 2019's meteoric successes. Crowds have been smaller, staffing has been limited, and the festival has incorporated more virtual options. Thankfully, Hugh was encouraged by 2022's success and hopes 2023's SXSW puts pandemic woes behind them.  “The dynamic of the event is you work on this for 9 months, it's a long slog and the payoff when the event happens is you think, ‘Wow, this was worth all the tough stuff.' In 2020, when we didn't have that event, you actually had a negative payoff of having to lay off your friends.”   Has the higher cost of living in Austin impacted South by Southwest?  Anyone who listens to the show knows that affordability in Austin is a huge concern of mine, and Hugh matches my concern. Inflation and rising costs of living have been negatively impacting Austin's community, especially in relation to lower income creative careers. SXSW has had to raise prices and festival attendees have expressed concern about Austin's expensive hotel rates. Hugh hopes for stronger support for lower income communities and advocates for a better public transportation system to offset rising costs.  “15 years ago, South by Southwest was a fairly cheap event to attend. That has completely flipped on its head in recent years. We've raised our ticket prices, and it's harder for people to attend that way. Plus, if you're wanting to get a downtown hotel room, it's fairly pricey.”   What are the next steps SXSW is taking to expand beyond the city of Austin? We throw around a lot of ideas for future SXSW expansions in this episode, including potentially reaching out to other communities and cities in Texas and throughout the US to host events. However, all hypotheticals aside, South by Southwest has already taken the “South by” brand on the road— all the way to Sydney, Australia. In 2023, South by Sydney will have its first festival, similar to Austin's fest and brand new to Australia's incredible independent audience of amazing creatives.  “We announced that we are doing an event in Sydney, Australia in October 2023. This is called South by Sydney. This is the first time we've ever licensed our name to another event. We've done events elsewhere, but they haven't been called ‘South by,' so this is a big deal.” --------- Keep up with Hugh Forrest on LinkedIn Learn more about South by Southwest and buy tickets for 2023's event on SXSW.com If you enjoyed this podcast, check out more episodes on Audible, iHeart, and Youtube  Learn more about the Bukowski Law Firm and the Greater Texas podcast on our website and Youtube channel

SXSW is one of the biggest annual festivals celebrating multimedia, the arts and tech. Every year the festival draws in hundreds of thousands of people over the course of nine days. With so many different presenters, performers and attendees, SXSW is a grand showing of diversity and culture. Today, Jon talks with the gatekeeper, Hugh Forrest. Hugh is the Chief Programming Officer of the festival. Today he talks about his beginnings with SXSW over 30 years ago, the importance such a large and popular festival has on our society and so much more. Hugh Forrest: LinkedIn | Twitter Be sure to visit the SXSW website for more details   Visit JonDavids.com for more info. And follow Jon across social: Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn

The Nice Podcast is brought to you by Futureforth.com. We help fast-growing tech companies onboard, create, and keep happier, more connected employees. Wesley Faulkner co-hosts the developer relations-focused podcast Community Pulse and serves on the board for SXSW. His experience spans multiple facets of the technology industry. With over 20 years of domain knowledge in product marketing, product management, strategic planning, and software/hardware implementation, Wesley's ability to communicate advanced concepts to general audiences, stakeholders, and engineers makes him ideal for his role as a Developer Relations professional. What we talked about... It's a game changer when a manager has confidence in you and fully invests in your success. On the importance of providing feedback and recognition. Kindness is a currency. Overcoming self-doubt with your LinkedIn recommendations and by reviewing your Instagram photos. Be just like me, different - Video. You don't grow a community by isolating yourself, you grow it by bringing people in and allowing them to be themselves. The first step of trusting someone is trusting them. Model the behavior you want the community to have. Radiate your morals, principles, and values as a community. How to meet the needs of developers and build those relationships. Hugh Forrest and SXSW Interactive. The rising cost of living in Austin and Nashville. Neurodiversity. Thoughts about job interview processes. Fundamental Attribution Error. Meme about feeding house guests. The biggest business lie. Wesley's article about his journey through a Devrel role. On having the courage to be authentic and brave. READ The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias by Jessica Nordell and Just Work: How to Root Out Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying to Build a Kick-Ass Culture by Kim Scott. Find Wesley83 on Twitter and Polywork. We ❤️ Our Listeners. Please follow the show and leave a review wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Reviews and sharing the show are the nicest ways to support the podcast and are deeply appreciated. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival has been held every month of March since 1987 in Austin, Texas, and is considered one of the most important meetings worldwide related to music, film, and digital/interactive media. Hugh Forrest is the Chief Programming Officer at South by Southwest.In 2012, the Austin Chamber of Commerce named Hugh Forrest “Citizen of the Year” and the rest of his colleagues from the management of the SXSW festival. Ernst&Young named SXSW Entrepreneurs of the Year. In addition to his work for the festival, Forrest forms part of the National Board of Advisers of the Poynter Institute of St. Petersburg, Florida. Forrest graduated in English Literature from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Before joining the SXSW team he founded a small alternative publishing company called The Austin Challenger and worked as a writer for different newspapers.We also discussed Eddy Zang and the New Breath Foundation: https://new-breath.org/Follow Hugh on Twitter @hugh_w_forrest and on LinkedIn

This is another in our Unique to Austin series where we look at what gives Austin its special sauce. There is nothing more unique about Austin than SXSW. Over the past 30 years, Austin has grown, matured, and adapted to everything new, and SXSW has as well. Today, after two years of dealing with the pandemic, SXSW is back and it's live. From March 11 through the 20th, there will be hundreds of presentations across dozens of topics, as well as workshops, seminars, screenings, and of course music. Today we are joined by Hugh Forrest, SXSW's Chief Programming Officer to talk about the event's history, this year's event, how it integrates/mirrors/supports the Austin ecosystem, and what the future holds. SXSW helps define...What's next Austin? Podcast Production Services by NCC Audio Our music is “Tech Talk” by Kevin MacLeod. Licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 License 

In this episode of Startup Hustle, Matt DeCoursey and Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer & Director of SXSW talk about SXSW and its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of tech, film, music, education, and culture.   Find Startup Hustle Everywhere: https://linktr.ee/startuphustle   This episode is sponsored by Full Scale: https://fullscale.io/   Learn more about SXSW: https://www.sxsw.com   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Lost Presentation That Launched The 4-Hour Workweek — “Secrets of Doing More with Less in a Digital World” from SXSW 2007 | Brought to you by “5-Bullet Friday,” my very own email newsletter. More on it below. Welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferriss Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers to tease out the routines, habits, et cetera that you can apply to your own life. This is a special episode, which features my very first speech at SXSW in March of 2007! I didn't know that a recording existed, and it was a great surprise when Cal Newport, author of Deep Work and writer for The New Yorker sent it to me. He used it as part of his research for a recent article that was published in The New Yorker titled “Revisiting The 4-Hour Workweek: How Tim Ferriss's 2007 manifesto anticipated our current moment of professional upheaval.” And the 2007 SXSW speech was really the event that put everything into high gear. Influential tech bloggers who had heard the SXSW talk wrote about The 4-Hour Workweek, which put it on the radar of bigger media outlets. Eventually, the book made it onto The New York Times Best Sellers list, where it stayed, more or less, for the next seven years. It's been a wild ride. One last thing: Hugh Forrest, if you're listening, thank you again for giving me a shot way back in the day! Please enjoy!This episode is brought to you by “5-Bullet Friday,” my very own email newsletter that every Friday features five bullet points highlighting cool things I've found that week, including apps, books, documentaries, gadgets, albums, articles, TV shows, new hacks or tricks, and—of course—all sorts of weird stuff I've dug up from around the world.It's free, it's always going to be free, and you can subscribe now at tim.blog/friday.*For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim's email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Discover Tim's books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferrissPast guests on The Tim Ferriss Show include Jerry Seinfeld, Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, LeBron James, Kevin Hart, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jamie Foxx, Matthew McConaughey, Esther Perel, Elizabeth Gilbert, Terry Crews, Sia, Yuval Noah Harari, Malcolm Gladwell, Madeleine Albright, Cheryl Strayed, Jim Collins, Mary Karr, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Michael Phelps, Bob Iger, Edward Norton, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Neil Strauss, Ken Burns, Maria Sharapova, Marc Andreessen, Neil Gaiman, Neil de Grasse Tyson, Jocko Willink, Daniel Ek, Kelly Slater, Dr. Peter Attia, Seth Godin, Howard Marks, Dr. Brené Brown, Eric Schmidt, Michael Lewis, Joe Gebbia, Michael Pollan, Dr. Jordan Peterson, Vince Vaughn, Brian Koppelman, Ramit Sethi, Dax Shepard, Tony Robbins, Jim Dethmer, Dan Harris, Ray Dalio, Naval Ravikant, Vitalik Buterin, Elizabeth Lesser, Amanda Palmer, Katie Haun, Sir Richard Branson, Chuck Palahniuk, Arianna Huffington, Reid Hoffman, Bill Burr, Whitney Cummings, Rick Rubin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Darren Aronofsky, and many more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hugh Forrest is the Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest (SXSW), where he oversees content for the SXSW Conference and the SXSW Music Festival, the SXSW Film Festival, and SXSW EDU.He was named "Austinite of the Year" in 2012 by the Austin Chamber of Commerce (along with fellow SXSW Directors Roland Swenson, Louis Black, and Nick Barbaro). In 2014, they were named Austin Entrepreneurs of the Year by Ernst & Young. He received an honorary doctorate of humane letters in 2018 from Kenyon College, his alma mater.In addition to his work at SXSW, he has previously served on the National Advisory Board for the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida. Hugh is currently part of the Board of Directors for Austin Habitat for Humanity and serves on the Board of Directors for the Austin-based accessibility company Knowbility.Before joining the SXSW team in the dark ages of 1989, he founded a small monthly alternative publication called The Austin Challenger. He also wrote for several other newspapers and publications, including the Austin Chronicle, the Texas Sports Chronicle, the West Austin News, Willamette Week, and the Seattle Weekly.Photo credit: Dylan O'Connor SXSW Conference & Festivals | March 16–20, 2021"Creativity Without Frontiers" is now available at Unknown Origins Books and all relevant book retailers.Stay in touch:Web: https://www.unknownorigins.com/Twitter: Unknown Origins (@UnknownOrigins9) / TwitterInstagram: Unknown Origins (@unknownoriginsuo77)Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Unknown-Origins-112791887004124LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unknown-origins/YouTube: Unknown Origins - YouTube Music composed and performed by Iain Mutch@ 2021, Unknown Origins. All rights reserved.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/unknownorigins)Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/unknownorigins)

Real Chemistry Founder & CEO, Jim Weiss & Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer of SXSW, discuss the innovative, future-thinking nature of SXSW, the excitement around #RealChemSXSW, and reminisce on the early days of the festival.

Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer at South by Southwest, gives Tonya Hall a preview of what we can expect at this year's online festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From its humble beginnings in 1987, Austin's South By Southwest has evolved from a small music festival into a two-week multimedia bacchanalia that brings together artists and trendsetters of every kind. And for the last three decades, SXSW director Hugh Forrest has been one of the driving forces behind the SXSW experience, working with the artistic community to create immersive programming that celebrates and predicts the best of art and technology. Join long-time pals Nick and Hugh as they explore the philosophy behind SXSW's themed events, the challenges of going virtual during a global pandemic, and their friendly American League East baseball rivalry. HIGHLIGHTS: [01:59] Hugh revisits the nightmare of reorganizing the 2020 SXSW as Covid lockdowns kicked in [04:48] SXSW coordinates with many local and federal authorities to insure the safety of the festival [06:27] Hugh explains the differences between the 2020 and 2021 virtual SXSW experiences [08:27] Even after 30 years of producing SXSW, staging virtual events presents a host of new challenges [11:07] Hugh explains the concept behind SXSW's "tracks", and how they differ in a virtual setting [12:15] For 2021, the SXSW organizers identified various themes to explore through their programming [17:17] Hugh believes in listening to both positive and negative feedback in order to improve future SXSW events [21:31] Hugh deals with the fact that more success brings more critics, especially with social media [24:00] Hugh examines some of the missteps SXSW management made in handling certain content [25:54] A sample of the incredible highlights of the upcoming 2021 SXSW Online festival [30:34] The SXSW education programming is more important this year than ever before [32:36] How Hugh keeps his creativity going when he has so much going on [34:41] Going virtual has changed the SXSW attendance demographics in significant ways [38:02] Hugh and Nick cover the 2021 SXSW Online schedule [40:47] Nick has low expectations for the Boston Red Sox's chances in the upcoming season   Thanks for listening! Tune in next week and don't forget to take a minute to review the podcast. In this incredibly competitive podcasting world, every piece of feedback helps.   Follow our social media channels for last-minute announcements and guest reveals @theradicalpod on Instagram and Facebook.   Find out more about today's guest, Hugh Forrest Find out more about your host, Nick Terzo   MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: @sxsw @WillieNelson @SpaceX @virgingalactic @RedSox @Yankees @AviSaysAliens   @AusPublicHealth @cluetrain  

If you want get booked to keynote SXSW 2021, now’s the time to start planning. And what better way to start then by listening to this exclusive deep dive interview with Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Office at SXSW, about how he goes about making that decision? Welcome to my first episode of the new B2B… The post SXSW Keynote Booker Shares Selection Criteria appeared first on Eric Schwartzman.

CEO Insider host Sandy McIlree and YTexas CEO Ed Curtis talk with Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer for South By Southwest (SXSW).  The 2020 edition of SXSW is coming March 13-22 and Hugh catches us up on how things are shaping up in Austin for the event.

In episode 16 of the Expert Advice Before Your First Time Series we’re going to be taking a deep dive into the event that brings together the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries. We are, of course, talking about South By Southwest, otherwise much better known just by SXSW. We’re lucky to be joined Hugh Forrest, the SXSW Chief Programming Officer, who has 31 years of experience putting the event together, and has all the expert advice you need to prepare yourself for your first SXSW experience!

Imagine spending 10 days with creatives, artists and thought leaders from across the world. Last year, the SXSW Conference & Festivals combined exceeded more than 400,000 attendees. The conference alone was comprised of more than 2,100 sessions, 73,000 attendees, almost 4800 speakers, and 4300 media representatives from around the globe. SXSW began in 1987 and every year it’s grown in size and scope, emerging as one of the world’s most influential conferences and festivals. The event celebrates the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries — and takes place every year in March in Austin, Texas. This year, SXSW conference will feature 22 diverse tracks of programming and will include featured speakers like:Award-winning host and comedian, Stephen Colbert, Former Microsoft CEO and founder of USAFacts, Steve Ballmer, New York Times bestselling author Dr. Brené Brown, Kim Kardashian and artist Janelle Monáe, Trent Reznor and mega film director Michael Moore, just to name a few.Programming will also include pitch competitions, activations and thought-provoking sessions ranging from politics and startups to sports and culture, some of the featured sessions include:the Future of Space Exploration? With former Oklahoma Representative and now NASA Administrator, Jim Bridenstine.Building the Consumer Bank of the Future From Scratch.How Women Win on Gun Safety – and Stop the NRA Leadership in Turbulent Times Sounds pretty cool right? But can you imagine having to organize an event of this magnitude?Join us as we talk to Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer at SXSW about the early days of SXSW, its evolution over time and what to expect this year and in the future.

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In this episode of IN-PERSON, Hugh Forrest (Chief Programming Officer, SXSW) shares his perspectives on curating great content, what it takes to maintain a strong sense of community at an event with hundreds of thousands of attendees, and how events can bring people together in an increasingly digital—and at times divisive—world. In addition to his role in curating content, Hugh is the Director of SXSW Interactive Festival. He has been with SXSW since 1989 and was their first full-time employee. Hugh's seen first-hand how the event has scaled from a gathering of hundreds to a gathering of hundreds of thousands.

Today, Southby Southwest is a massive, annual event in Austin, Texas. It’s part music festival, part film festival, part tech conference, and Hugh Forrest is now one of the most influential people in the world of entertainment. But it was not always that way.   drivecapital.com twitter.com/drivecapital

Fun talking to Hugh Forrest the Chief Programming Officer of SXSW about his amazing 32-years leading the festival! We also take a behind the scenes look at what it takes to run the festival, including how they select their keynote & featured speakers!

CEO Insider host Sandy McIlree talks with Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer of SXSW Interactive. Hugh discusses the growth of SXSW, how Austin is a perfect fit for SXSW and how SXSW has become a hotspot for politicians.

Can you think of a better job than Chief Programming Officer for SXSW? That’s what our friend Hugh Forrest has been doing for more than 30 years. As chief programming officer, he has the privilege of overseeing all the panels, presentations and sessions at the conference, as well as the film and music festival. This means he gets to work with some of the most creative people from all around the world. What began as a music and media conference has now morphed to include creativity in all its many forms. From film to food to tech and politics, you can find all the emerging creative trends at SXSW. Some new trends you can expect this year are blockchain cryptocurrency and cannabusiness. You can also expect to see a couple of sessions with prospective candidates for the 2020 presidential election. You’ll walk away with a good idea of what to expect in the 2020 run. Interested in proposing an idea for SXSW? Hugh walks us through his top three tips for getting your idea in the door.

Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest (SXSW). Scheduled for March 8-17, 2019 in Austin, Texas, this event brings together more than 70,000 industry creatives from around the world. In 2014, Forrest was among the SXSW Directors named Austin Entrepreneurs of the Year by Ernst & Young.   In this episode, we talk about meeting inspirational people, Johnny Cash, President Obama and 30 yrs of SXSW

Jason Snell talks to Hugh Forrest of SXSW following his talk at Admission.

Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest (SXSW). Held annually in Austin, Texas, this event brings together more than 70,000 industry creatives from across the United States, around the world. These creatives are inspired by nine days of panels, presentations, brainstorming, networking, deal-making, socializing, creating, innovating, and fun. The worlds of film, gaming, music, comedy, science and technology collide at SXSW. Year on year, the conference consistently draws big names as keynote speakers, and creates hundreds of millions of dollars of economic impact. Hugh is responsible for listening to the feedback of 50,000 people - the attendees of each year's event - and distilling 5,000 ideas into 10 days of action. SXSW places enormous value on listening to the event attendees, sponsors, staff and the community as a whole. Hugh says without this, you lose your relevancy. Over the course of six weeks, each year Hugh and his team sift through feedback. It gives a fuller picture of the event, as an organiser there are things that didn't go well that you had no idea about. It can be exhausting, especially when the criticisms are sharp. But it is this which helps you get better. SXSW has a unique voting system to facilitate interaction with the community, the panel picker ensures that anyone with an internet connection can submit a speaking proposal. It also allows users to voting on topics, giving Hugh an idea of what people are really interested in. It's not just learning and listening from the audience that is crucial - Hugh and his team initiate a dialogue with those who've provided feedback - replying to emails, having a coffee with their attendees. Some of the best advocates for the conference previously had a complaint, but were addressed by Hugh's team and made positive. [Tweet "This bottom line, which we're so focused on, is listening to your customers. The more you listen, the more you learn - Hugh Forrest"] Tune in to Learn How to listen well in a dialogue over email How Hugh and his team analyse survey responses How SXSW 'predict' the future to keep the conference at the cutting edge

We Now Join The Program Already In Progress is an interview podcast with a catch. Just because the mic’s are hot doesn’t mean it will make it on the air. Our show starts cold when the host Saul Colt and the guest (Andy Nulman, David Feldman, Hugh Forrest and many more int he coming weeks) get into a nice groove. Sometimes that will be  immediate and sometimes that can be 30 mins in. The result is you get an interesting conversation between Saul Colt and people he loves and admires without the awkward time in the beginning for people to get comfortable.

SXSW is one of the most iconic events around. It’s a celebration of creativity and provides a platform for creatives to achieve their goals. The iconic event is so successful because there are a boatload of experiences that create lasting memories for attendees, such as HBO’s Westworld experiential event. Today the iconic Hugh Forrest of SXSW joins us to discuss everything an event planner would want to know about the event. We will discuss how the South by Southwest Interactive Festival turned into the event it is today. How they work with sponsors and brand activations. What to consider when you are accommodating international attendees, planning for security situations, favorite moments from the 2018 event and so much more!  We want to help keep you up-to-date with the latest and greatest! Below, in our Epic Resources section, we link the awesome insider favorites that were mentioned in this episode! You WANT to check these out! What has been your favorite episode so far? Comment below and let us know! You’re watching this recording of our episode here on our blog, but wouldn’t you rather watch live, ask your own questions, and participate in person? Subscribe now to watch live! (We’ll remind you of upcoming episodes.) We would love for you to join us LIVE and bring your questions for our icons. This is all for you! How To Subscribe: Click here to watch the show live and get email notifications of new episodes. Subscribe via iTunes: Video & Audio or Audio Only Click here to subscribe via RSS (non-iTunes feed): Video & Audio or Audio Only Follow our iconic guests on Twitter: Hugh Forrest of SXSW (@Hugh_W_Forrest) Tahira Endean of BCIC (@TahiraCreates) Alex Plaxen of Little Bird Told Media (@APlaxen) Check out the epic resources mentioned in this episode: SXSW Shiftbase Research Ltd SXSW (Twitter) SXSW 2018 Elon Musk Answers Your Questions! | SXSW 2018 SXSWorld SXSW (Instagram) Explore The SXSW Conference

SXSW is one of the most iconic events around. It’s a celebration of creativity and provides a platform for creatives to achieve their goals. The iconic event is so successful because there are a boatload of experiences that create lasting memories for attendees, such as HBO’s Westworld experiential event. Today the iconic Hugh Forrest of SXSW joins us to discuss everything an event planner would want to know about the event. We will discuss how the South by Southwest Interactive Festival turned into the event it is today. How they work with sponsors and brand activations. What to consider when you are accommodating international attendees, planning for security situations, favorite moments from the 2018 event and so much more!  We want to help keep you up-to-date with the latest and greatest! Below, in our Epic Resources section, we link the awesome insider favorites that were mentioned in this episode! You WANT to check these out! What has been your favorite episode so far? Comment below and let us know! You’re watching this recording of our episode here on our blog, but wouldn’t you rather watch live, ask your own questions, and participate in person? Subscribe now to watch live! (We’ll remind you of upcoming episodes.) We would love for you to join us LIVE and bring your questions for our icons. This is all for you! How To Subscribe: Click here to watch the show live and get email notifications of new episodes. Subscribe via iTunes: Video & Audio or Audio Only Click here to subscribe via RSS (non-iTunes feed): Video & Audio or Audio Only Follow our iconic guests on Twitter: Hugh Forrest of SXSW (@Hugh_W_Forrest) Tahira Endean of BCIC (@TahiraCreates) Alex Plaxen of Little Bird Told Media (@APlaxen) Check out the epic resources mentioned in this episode: SXSW Shiftbase Research Ltd SXSW (Twitter) SXSW 2018 Elon Musk Answers Your Questions! | SXSW 2018 SXSWorld SXSW (Instagram) Explore The SXSW Conference

Each year, thousands descend upon Austin, Texas for SXSW, a celebration of tech, movies, education and politics. They come, in part, for the more than 2,000 panels and presentations packed with thought leaders, actors, authors, astronauts and a range of buzzy personalities. Attendees have Hugh Forrest, the event's chief programming officer, to thank for the lineup. In this podcast he'll talk about how he's learned to maximize the 10-12 month planning cycle that makes the festival come to life. He'll also share the routines he puts in place not just to make that event possible, but to keep his team connected and engaged and moving projects forward.

This episode is made possible by our sponsors, Loyal, Influence Health, Binary Fountain & dotHealth. Since 2010, SxSW has developed a dedicated Health Track designed to inspire and educate patients, caregivers, providers, payers, policy makers, designers, entrepreneurs, and investors (this year's topics range from the statistics of how wealth impacts health to the use of psychedelics to treat mental health disorders). In this episode, host Reed Smith files a series of “audio reports” from the floors of SxSW18, including interviewing Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer for SxSW, Greg Matthews, Dr. Bryan Vartebedian, Joe Doyle and many others. Mentions from the Show: Hacking Health and Our Bodies – 2018 SXSW Programming Trends Hugh Forrest on LinkedIn Greg Mattews on LinkedIn Dr. Bryan Vartabedian on LinkedIn Joe Doyle on LinkedIn Find Us Online: Touchpoint podcast Twitter Reed Smith Twitter Chris Boyer Twitter Chris Boyer website Social Health Institute

SXSW founder and Austin icon Hugh Forrest sits down with Ed and CJ on the eve of SXSW 2018 to discuss the evolution of the interactive conference, as well as emerging technologies, music and film. Additionally, Hugh touches on how the festival expands its reach, relevance and knack for bringing in high profile presenters.

Hugh Forrest is the chief programming officer of South by Southwest that takes place every March in Austin. SXSW Conference & Festivals is a ten-day-long convergence of tech, movies and music now entering its 32nd year. SXSW Interactive has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s most influential tech events. It’s been called Spring Break for Geeks among other nicknames. An Austin native, Forrest graduated from Austin High School and majored in English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Before SXSW, Forrest held several jobs in the newspaper industry and he started an alternative newspaper in town, The Austin Challenger, a rival to The Austin Chronicle, which runs SXSW. In 1988, Forrest joined SXSW to head up the Interactive operations.

For people listening who don't know what SXSW is, it's a 10-day festival about all things tech, film, and music in the middle of March in Austin, TX. That's the simplified answer. More than 70,000 people come down to Austin for this, and the whole city buzzes. You walk down the street, and you can feel it. I'm not kidding. To say that SXSW is a catalyst is an understatement. From President Obama, tech CEOs, film star, music moguls, entrepreneurs, all the way to ordinary folks like me, all come together for a 10-day of non-stop exposure to speakers, product launches, marketing campaigns, concerts. Films are launched during this time, deals are made between companies large and small, and if you thought Austin parties - it's on a whole another level. I sat down with Hugh Forrest, Director of SXSW, to learn about the behind the scenes management of SXSW interactive, the tech part of the festival which has showcased speakers such as President Obama, Peter Thiel, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Ferriss, and more. Some gemsHow thinking long-term when it comes to relationships can pay off The fallacy that the value of attending an event like SXSW is that you'll meet a rich investor by accident How to get feedback from a large number of customers, and how to sustain improvement at scale Making the most of your SXSW experience Where to find Hugh: Twitter: @Hugh_W_Forrest Medium: @hugh_w_forrest If you're coming to SXSW this year, holla. Let's meet. As always, my wonderful friends, enjoy.

Topics of discussion during this Q&A session include Hugh Forrest's career trajectory and current role as Chief Programming Officer for South by Southwest (SXSW), an annual gathering of music, technology and media voices and organizations. He will discuss the role of tech and media in Austin, organizing for an internationally-renowned festival and how SXSW has grown and connects to other parts of the media industries. Hugh Forrest is the Chief Programming Officer, SXSW When: Monday, October 2, 2017 - 6 - 7:15 p.m. Where: CMA 2.306 (Seating is first come, first served.) Moderator: Alisa Perren Producer: Kyle Wrather

Suzanne Nguyen aka "String Story" is the international correspondent for That Startup Show and the host of The String Report. She’s a curious geek who loves to explore tech, social, and innovation. During the show, String will share how to get high-quality guests on your show and improve your interviews skills. You'll find out how to build a massive rapport with guests and interview influencers in an entertaining and impactful way. Listen to the end to learn about her research and preparation process. Listen to PN 5 on iTunes.   PN5 Show Notes: String's Links: That Startup Show The String Report Stringstory.co   Discussed: Strings Tweet to Gary Vee DailyVee 264: String & Gary Watch the Gary Vee interview   > Join The Podcast Ninja Dojo   String’s Podcasting Gear: Rode Smartlav Rode Reporter Interview Microphone Rode i-XLR digital XLR interface for Apple iOS devices   My Podcasting Gear: Shure SM58-LC Cardioid Dynamic Vocal Microphone Shure Foam Windscreen Focusrite Scarlett 2i2   Time Stamps: 01:54 - How String got into the podcasting space 08:24 - Reaching out to big name tech leaders 11:45 - Preparing for the interview 12:17 - The Hugh Forrest interview 14:17 - Answering controversial questions 16:42 - Great interview podcasting equipment 18:04 - The icebreaker process 21:47 - Are you struggling to get high-quality guests? 25:07 - Doing research on guests 26:47 - More interview skill tips   Enjoy this episode? Share it with friends!   NOTE: If you purchase an item using my Amazon link, it provides me a small referral fee.  

This episode we chatted to Hugh Forrest, the newly minted Chief Programming Officer of South by South West (SXSW). This role puts Hugh in charge of one of the most dynamic and diverse conferences around, covering around 1300 panels & talks, approximately 2000 bands, and roughly 300 films (many making their premieres at SXSW). Hugh's been at SXSW since the "stone ages" of the conference (way back in 1989...) - in fact he was the first paid employee!  We were keen to see how SXSW has evolved over time by incorporating new tech and science streams, committing to the city of Austin, and bringing in some of the most sought after speakers - Vice President Joe Biden and CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna made an appearance this year. We were fascinated by how SXSW has come to be the engaging and inclusive conference that people come back to year on year. And more specifically what can science conference organisers learn from the SXSW model.

Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer of the SXSW Interactive Festival, chats with Aaron Strout about his 28 year tenure with the organization, it’s evolution, impact on the community, and plans for the future. He even shares some inside scoop on his interaction with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. Listen to find out more. *Note: The band Hugh refers to is "CarSick Cars", not "Go Car Go". You can listen to their full album here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5eEJLdtAqU   Contact us for more information: info@w2ogroup.com See more at w2ogroup.com/what2know 

Director at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival, Hugh Forrest has overseen it from its inception in the mid-90s to see it turn into a mega-conference, hosting a sitting President of the United States as keynote speaker.

Director at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival, Hugh Forrest has overseen it from its inception in the mid-90s to see it turn into a mega-conference, hosting a sitting President of the United States as keynote speaker.

Director at South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival, Hugh Forrest has overseen it from its inception in the mid-90s to see it turn into a mega-conference, hosting a sitting President of the United States as keynote speaker.

Jim Hopkinson is a writer, teacher, speaker, runner, techie, sports fan fueled by NYC's energy. He helps people rethink their job search. Author of Salary Tutor and has worked with companies like Wired and ESPN. Talking about job interviews, salary negotiation and conference networking NBN46 Show Notes brought to you by Contactually. Please support the show by giving them a free try today. Thanks. Listen to episode 46 in iTunes or Stitcher. Join other listeners of NBN Radio to network and learn from one another in the NBN Club. Your membership supports this show. Thank you. Don't miss Start Podcasting Today in Nashville, Tennessee on February 24th. Save $100 before Feb 1. Introduce yourself by saying what you do, rather than your job title. Make it easy for other people to pass on what you do. Top three salary questions: How do you get around online forms that ask for your desired salary and negotiate during your interview. How do I get the job offer? How do I find how much I'm worth? Up to 80% of jobs are through networking. 49 out of 50 people Jim polled got their jobs from networking. 4 Stunning Statistics People Ignore When Job Searching and Negotiating. Internal network: people you know. External network: people you haven't met yet. My interview with SXSW's Hugh Forrest, “Surrender to Serendipity”. Ideas around holding events to help you grow your network. Balancing phones on the table at networking dinners. Jim's courses on MediaBistro where he teaches Twitter marketing and advanced blogging. Jim's article from Success.com on business cards. Zig while everyone else is zagging. Monty Python's Argument Sketch App Recommendation: Calm. Book Recommendations: Creativity For Sale by Jason Saddler (listen to my interview with Jason) and Influence by Robert B. Cialdini. Contact Jim and download your free course from salarytutor.com/dave on Twitter @hopkinsonreport. Submit your questions and comments by using #nbnradio. You can also record an audio comment at speakpipe.nbnradio.com. Click HERE to subscribe in iTunes Click HERE to subscribe in Stitcher You can subscribe to the show by RSS, email or in iTunes and Stitcher Radio. You will never miss an episode! Affiliate links used, read the disclosure. Theme music, Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba. Thanks for listening. You rock!

Hugh Forrest has been with SXSW Interactive since the very beginning. In this episode we talk about the reasons that entrepreneurs flock to Austin each spring to participate in this unique conference. Join us as we talk about SXSW, entrepreneurship, charity, etc....

Deb Evans is President at Franchise Foundry and co-host of Social Geek Radio. Talking about conference networking, podcasting, and connecting people NBN 35 Show Notes Join the NBN Club today and meet 100 smart minds who want to help you achieve your professional goals. Listen to episode 35 in iTunes or Stitcher. Don't be shy record your audio comment or networking tip here. Please pick up a copy of my book, New Business Networking: How to Effectively Grow Your Business Network Using Online and Offline Methods. Deb is president of the Franchise Foundry. Deb started the FranTech Conference. She shares tips about networking using social media at events. Use the digital space to plan meet ups at conferences. Deb plans group walks to explore cities at conferences and uses the Charity Miles app. If you're attending a conference use social networks to get the word out you're going and where you will be. Deb live tweets during conferences and meets people this way. “Take advantage of the digital space to meet physically.” Tips on planning conference meet ups. Plan a meet up when you're traveling. You never know who will come. Deb used Eventbrite to plan a meet up when she was visiting a city and she shared it. She had 24 people show up. The Tasti D-Lite Way: Social Media Marketing Lessons for Building Loyalty and a Brand Customers Crave by BJ Emerson. Interview with Hugh Forrest, Director of SXSW Interactive. I first met Deb as a guest on Social Geek Radio in December 2010. She has been podcasting for four years. It has expanded her reach. 200 episodes November 19th! What to do with a drunk guest on your podcast. Admit you can't do it alone. Tap into your network and don't be afraid to ask for help. “You don't get what you don't ask for.” - Jason SurfrApp. Your community wants you to succeed. I love Contactually. Check them out as an amazing CRM tool. Export your Facebook friend's birthdays to check in. App Recommendation: Charity Miles. Book Recommendation: A Brother's Love: A Memoir by Matthew Cubbler. Contact: deb AT franchisefoundry DOT com or @debce on Twitter. Submit your questions and comments by using #nbnradio. You can also record an audio comment at speakpipe.nbnradio.com. Thanks! Click HERE to subscribe in iTunes Click HERE to subscribe in Stitcher  

Hugh Forrest has been an integral part of the SXSW movement since its inception in the late 80's. The veteran festival director has been the visionary behind mulitple components, including primarily the interactive programming, which now sees more attendees than both its music and film counterparts. On Innovation Crush, Hugh breaks down the multiple levels of perseverance, support, and vision it's taken for the festival -along with its participants - to rise to massive event's current state of meteoric success. https://twitter.com/Hugh_W_Forrest

inShare Rand Fishkin, is co-founder of Moz, a software as a service company that sells inbound marketing and marketing analytics software subscriptions. Rand is also the co-author of The Art of SEO, and is host to the brilliant Help Me Help You Dinner networking group. Talking about SEO, authenticity, and networking NBN24 Show Notes Join the NBN Club today. Listen to episode 24 in iTunes or Stitcher. Get your free audio book by visiting Audible.com! Do it now and support this show please. Record your audio comment or networking tip here. Check out my book, New Business Networking: How to Effectively Grow Your Business Network Using Online and Offline Methods. Elite Privilege, Ivy League Schools, and Uncommon Advice for Building a Network The world is still driven by social interactions. Rand's Mom was running an old-school print marketing company. Her clients started needing web sites, so she introduced Rand. He dropped out of school and went into business for himself. My interview with Hugh Forrest, director of SXSW Interactive. Rand doesn't have a big plan when he attends conferences. He always tries to be his authentic self. Help Me Help You Dinner. Bring people together. Tell them what you need help with. Explain how you can help. How important are blogs these days? Rand explains. A blog enables you to publish simply and easily. Think of your own personal brand just like an organization of a larger size and have a content strategy. What is it that you're publishing that's going to earn you the attention, interest, and awareness that will hopefully earn you trust and likability. Advice about blogging. Promote other people! Don't ignore SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO is a process, it's an ongoing thing. SEO, amplification, social media are muscles. You need to flex them or they will fade away. Tips for finding your audience and niche. Ask, “What do you need help with?” Put yourself in your audience's shoes. Rand tries to run his entire life using Gmail. My mission is to help. Serendipity will do the rest. Social Norms VS. Market Norms. Be a more authentic version of yourself. 3 LinkedIn tips. Check out FollowerWonk.com. How Rand would grow his network all over again. How to find the unasked, un-obvious questions. App Recommendation: Hotel Tonight and Dolphin Browser. Book Recommendation: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Contact Rand: rand AT moz.com or @randfish on Twitter. Please leave a review in iTunes or Stitcher Radio. Every review is sincerely appreciated. You can subscribe to the show by RSS, email, or in iTunes and Stitcher Radio. You will never miss an episode! Affiliate links used. Theme music, Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba. Thanks for listening. You rock!

When it comes to being memorable, Saul Colt is one of the first people I think of. In the years that I have known him, he has done creative things to keep top of mind, like sending Instagram postcards and handing out mysterious business cards, to attending conferences with his signature red-rimmed glasses and matching shoes. He even brought cake for the audience of a SXSW Interactive panel I was on several years ago. Cake! Saul Colt on being unforgettable The polar vortex is over. Saul shares how he knows spring is coming soon. Check out Kinetic Start-up Innovations. Saul talks about networking with a wing-person. He knows two or three fun facts about almost everything. "One of the most important things in every networking situation is being completely memorable." Saul shares his tips for being memorable. He has eight different business cards. Check out Saul's business cards in New Business Networking. Saul collects business cards. He has every card he has received in the last decade. He loves people who take chances with their cards. Saul shares ice breaking tips like networking with a partner. Twitter is like a cocktail party. We talk about Oreos at the Superbowl, the Oscars, and "real-time marketing". I love The Beancast. Check out the show if you are interested in advertising and marketing. Saul is a regular guest. "Networking has been the number one success factor for me personally." We spoke about my interview with Hugh Forrest and SXSW. Is the water cooler dead? Saul provides a good idea on how to avoid binge-watching shows like House of Cards and Breaking Bad. "I love the convenience, I miss the community." Contact Saul at saulcolt.com or @saulcolt on Twitter. Saul recommends reading Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today's Cluttered Marketplace. Join the NBN Club (beta). Did you enjoy the show? Please share it and help us grow the NBN Radio Community. Please click this link to tweet a message to your friends to invite them to tune in. You can subscribe to the show by RSS or by email, so you will never miss an episode. Theme music, Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba.   Thanks for listening. You rock!

Welcome to episode one of New Business Networking Radio. I'm so excited you are here to hear the show. This episode features a chat with Hugh Forrest, Director of South by Southwest Interactive. SXSW begins tomorrow. Are you going? If you have ever dreamed of creating your own meet up or conference, or if you plan to attend one, this episode is a must listen. Hugh Forrest has been with SXSW since 1989, and he has brilliant advice you can use today. NBN1: Conference planning and attending tips with SXSW Interactive's Hugh Forrest SXSW had a lot of lucky breaks along the way. For a long time, they struggled to find their voice. SXSW Interactive has grown astronomically because of social media and start-ups. More importantly, they are connected to a vibrant, rich, passionate, intelligent, and engaged community. "The more you can engage the community and work with the community, and reflect the passion, interests, and energy of the community, the stronger the event you can make." Learn how Hugh went from journalism to conference organizing. He also confesses what he wants to be when he grows up. SXSWi had less than 5,000 attendees in 2006. This year they are expecting nearly 30,000 people! Hugh shares advice for conference organizers who want to take their events to the next level. "Slow growth is good growth, grow organically." "Bigger is not necessarily better." How Hugh deals with the stress of his job. Good points here for you too. Conference building is a lot like doing a start-up. "Try not get too high when good things happen. Try not to get too low when bad things happen." Tips for breaking out of your regular groups and meeting new people at events. "...if you're an expert on sports and new media, you should go to something completely out of your wheelhouse. That's where you'll get the most value. We like to hang out with our friends, but the most valuable thing about SXSW is making new friends and new connections." - Hugh Forrest interview from Austin Post. The History of the Button presentation by Bill DeRouchey. "Choose things that are a little bit different and outside of your realm." "It's about making connections that can take your career to the next level." Hugh built SXSW's first database on his Macintosh Plus using Reflex. Remember Reflex? Hugh tends to be more active on Twitter than Facebook. Say hello by tweeting to him @Hugh_W_Forrest. He encourages his staff to engage with the people who have positive things to say about SXSW. He puts even more emphasis on engaging and reacting to people who may not have had a great experience. There's often more to learn from these people. You can often turn that critic into a cheerleader. Twitter was born at SXSW in 2007, Foursquare in 2009. What are the next trends? What's coming? Hugh shares his thoughts. Hugh talks about the DIY maker movement. 2014 sessions will be about wearable-computing and Internet of Things. Check out Narrative, the clip-on camera to document your life. SXSW Interactive runs March 7 - 11. Don't miss Hugh Forrest's best advice for attending SXSW. "Events like SXSW specialize in serendipity. Be ready to ditch that game plan at any given point." "Surrender to serendipity." Gaping Void's incredible artwork and #SXSW commentary.  Hugh recommends the book, Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal. [Tweet ""Surrender to serendipity" - @Hugh_W_Forrest #sxsw"] Did you enjoy the show? Please share it, and help us grow the NBN Radio Community. Please click this link to tweet a message to your friends to invite them to tune in. You can subscribe to the show by RSS or by email, so you never miss an episode. A link to iTunes and Stitcher will be available soon. Theme music, Urbana-Metronica (wooh-yeah mix) by spinningmerkaba. Thanks for listening. You rock!