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Ryan Gellert, Kara Swisher, Valerie June & More Join SXSW 2023
Saying the preliminary Keynote Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert and the second spherical of Featured Audio system for the thirty seventh version the SXSW Convention. From sustainable journeys throughout our planet and into the metaverse to breaking trade boundaries and constructing entrepreneurial goals, this various group of artistic thinkers and leaders is able to deal with what’s subsequent at SXSW 2023.
“At SXSW, we thrive on artistic concepts that result in daring motion on the subject of addressing society’s greatest challenges,” stated Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer. “Our first introduced Keynote Speaker, Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert, is a real chief on this planet of enterprise who’s unafraid of pursuing the systemic reform wanted to guard our planet within the face of local weather change.”
Featured Audio system introduced as we speak embrace Andrew Callaghan, David Chang, Julia Ducournau, Scott Galloway, Valerie June, Miranda Kerr, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Cheech Marin, Hamilton Morris, Esther Perel, Ginni Rometty, Kara Swisher, Anne Wojcicki, and extra.
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Discover newly-announced Featured Audio system and Featured Classes from the worlds of expertise, movie, tv, music, and extra throughout our 25 tracks of programming beneath. Register to the SXSW Schedule so as to add classes of curiosity to your individual personalised schedule as we speak and keep tuned for extra bulletins all season lengthy.
Keynote
Ryan Gellert is Chief Government Officer of Patagonia Works and Patagonia, Inc. Previous to his appointment to this international position, Gellert spent six years as Patagonia’s common supervisor of Europe, the Center East, and Africa. Earlier than becoming a member of Patagonia, he spent 15 years at Black Diamond Tools.
Featured Audio system
- Chemistry professor on the College of Texas at Austin Dr. Kate Biberdorf aka “Kate the Chemist”
- Founding father of Royal and DJ Justin Blau, aka 3LAU
- Gonzo journalist and creator of Channel 5 Andrew Callaghan
- Professor at New York College’s Stern College of Enterprise and writer Dolly Chugh
- Director and screenwriter of the Palme d’Or successful movie Titane Julia Ducournau
- Professor at New York College’s Stern College of Enterprise, New York Occasions bestselling writer, and co-host of the Pivot podcast Scott Galloway in dialog with Editor-at-Giant of New York Journal, host of On with Kara Swisher, and co-host of the Pivot podcast Kara Swisher
- Emmy and Tony Award-winning producer, co-founder and Managing Associate of Get Lifted Movie Co., and Fellow and Skilled-in-Residence on the College of Texas’ Moody Faculty of Communication Mike Jackson
- CEO of Luminate Rob Jonas
- Grammy Award-nominated singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Valerie June
- Founder and CEO of KORA Organics, entrepreneur, and supermodel Miranda Kerr
- Actor, director, author, comic, and musician Cheech Marin
- New York Occasions bestselling writer of The Sum of Us: What Racism Prices Everybody and How We Can Prosper Collectively Heather McGhee
- Psychotherapist, New York Occasions bestselling writer, and host of the podcasts The place Ought to We Start? and How’s Work? Esther Perel
- Creator and former Chairman, President, and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty
- Founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup Boyan Slat
- Mycologist, entrepreneur, writer, and inventor Paul Stamets
- Affiliate Professor of Environmental Politics on the College of California, Santa Barbara Leah Stokes
- Founder and CEO of Strangeworks whurley
- Co-founder and CEO of 23andMe Anne Wojcicki
Featured Classes
An Imminent Shift In The Plant Primarily based Ecosystem
Shoppers are discovering themselves at a long-awaited intersection: diets are shifting to prioritize vitamin and environmental impression at a time when meals innovation is booming and new manufacturers hoping to handle client’s fluctuating priorities emerge each day on grocery cabinets. Nonetheless, when meals tradition drives shopping for choices in a sea of indistinguishable plant-based choices, how do rising merchandise bust the paradigm of what individuals can anticipate from alt-meat? The place will client habits go and the way will the trade sustain? On this session, be a part of founding father of Momofuku and Majordomo Media, James Beard Award-winning chef, host of The Dave Chang Present and Recipe Membership podcasts, and New York Occasions bestselling writer David Chang; co-founder and CEO of Meati Meals Tyler Huggins; co-founder, Chief Idea Officer of Sweetgreen Nicolas Jammet; and Head of Content material at SutherlandGold and lecturer on the Wharton College of the College of Pennsylvania Aditi Roy as they talk about this shift and what the implications are for consumers and the meals trade, ending with a hands-on activation the place attendees will expertise and style mushroom root.
Bijan Mustardson & the Way forward for NIL Partnerships
In 2022, artistic company CALLEN and Bijan Robinson launched the dijon mustard model Bijan Mustardson, a partnership made potential by latest adjustments with NIL guidelines for school athletes. On this session, be a part of founder and Chief Inventive Officer of CALLEN Craig Allen, Advertising Supervisor at Athletes First Bryan Burney, working again for the Texas Longhorns Bijan Robinson, and Director of the College of Promoting and Public Relations, Moody Faculty of Communication on the College of Texas at Austin Natalie Tindall, Ph.D., APR as they talk about how artistic businesses can put money into greater than a marketing campaign and construct a real enterprise partnership for long-term success, creating a product and rising a model with a celeb enterprise accomplice, and find out how to adapt to and anticipate the place the NIL market is headed.
Construct the Rattling Factor with Kathryn Finney
Founder and Managing Associate of Genius Guild and Wall Road Journal bestselling writer Kathryn Finney’s e-book, Construct the Rattling Factor: Methods to Begin a Profitable Enterprise if You are Not a Wealthy White Man, is a hard-won, battle-tested information for each entrepreneur who the institution has neglected. On this session, be a part of Finney for a dialog the place she’s going to share her storied profession as an entrepreneur, inclusion champion, and investor who funds Black founders and ladies entrepreneurs in pursuit of their entrepreneurial goals.
Constructing an Open Metaverse
Because it stands as we speak, a sole metaverse doesn’t exist. What does exist are hundreds of digital worlds, a lot of that are linked via Prepared Participant Me’s community; an avatar system utilized by over 3,000 app and recreation builders. It’s this interoperable community that has earned their repute as a default avatar platform for the metaverse. On this session, be a part of co-founder and CEO of Prepared Participant Me Timmu Tõke as he focuses on the significance of collaboration and constructing out partnerships as a way to create an open metaverse and what manufacturers must do as a way to make this occur.
Constructing a Sustainable Financial system within the Metaverse
Because the metaverse is being created, it’s our accountability to construct a sustainable basis. However, how sustainable is the journey to this digital panorama? On this session, be a part of co-founder and CEO of VNTANA Ashley Crowder, founder and CEO of Emblematic Group and Director of Arizona State College’s Narrative and Rising Media program Nonny de la Peña, and founding father of Buddies With Holograms Cortney Harding, as they talk about what the metaverse is as we speak and discover find out how to construct an inclusive surroundings, drive a shared worth for companies and creators, empower customers, and allow methods to measure impression to create digital sustainability.
The J Dilla Impact: Breaking Boundaries By means of Beats
James Yancey, aka “J Dilla,” is without doubt one of the biggest all-time hip-hop producers, a musical genius and visionary that impressed artists like A Tribe Known as Quest, Pharrell Williams, Erykah Badu, and lots of others. Dilla made final sacrifices to construct alternatives for younger, various creators to proceed breaking down societal and cultural boundaries. Curated by Save The Music, this session will function founder and Chairman of the James Dewitt Yancey Basis and J Dilla’s mom Ma Dukes and Grammy Award-winning DJ and music producer DJ Jazzy Jeff as they share private tales of Dilla’s life and the way his work modified hip-hop tradition, whereas exploring find out how to stick with it his legacy by investing in culturally wealthy communities to offer equitable sources for younger creators to realize financial stability and success via music and expertise.
Personal Your Knowledge: Empowering Our Digital Future
On this session, co-founder of the Personal Your Knowledge Basis and writer Brittany Kaiser will clarify how she determined to turn out to be a whistleblower to guard our human rights within the digital house and talk about the problems that Large Tech has introduced us with (lack of transparency, uninformed consent, no monitoring or traceability, monetization of our knowledge with none worth going to us, and so forth), in addition to the options she believes are important to creating expertise extra moral and congruent with rights safety.
Reigniting Fan Engagement at Stay Occasions
The significance of group and human connection was extra prevalent than ever when World Wrestling Leisure (WWE) returned with its greatest occasion of the 12 months, WrestleMania, in April 2021. This historic occasion featured the primary Black feminine Superstars to fundamental occasion WrestleMania, movie star appearances, stay music performances, and the disclosing of WWE’s new signature, “Then, Now, Collectively, Eternally.” to acknowledge and rejoice WWE followers, their group and the message of inclusivity. As WWE prepares to host WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles this coming April, Chief Content material Officer of WWE Paul “Triple H” Levesque will talk about on this session the street to WrestleMania, the significance of the WWE Universe and the way this group has developed.
To Journey or To not Journey
The psychedelic science torch is getting handed to the following technology, with recent views on each historical and future medicines. On this session, be a part of Author and Director of Hamilton’s Pharmacopeia, chemist, and science journalist Hamilton Morris, professor of Pharmacology at Louisiana State College Well being Sciences Heart Charles Nichols, adjunct professor on the College of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Professor Emeritus on the Purdue College Faculty of Pharmacy David E. Nichols, co-founder and Associate at Palo Santo Tim Schlidt, and endowed professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience of Trauma and Director of the Heart for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and Trauma Analysis on the Icahn College of Medication at Mount Sinai and Director of Psychological Well being on the James J. Peters Veterans Affairs Medical Heart Rachel Yehuda as they discover the way forward for psychedelic science and reply questions akin to, can we take the “journey” out of psychedelics, can we need to, and can “subsequent gen” psychedelic compounds have a bonus over as we speak’s medicines?
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Austin City Council at odds with Texas AG over transgender protections – Washington Examiner
The Austin City Council passed a resolution ensuring that transgender people may receive gender reassignment therapy and providing protections for healthcare providers as well.
The resolution comes just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its changes to Title IX, which expanded sex-based discrimination in the federal civil rights law to include transgender students.
“Trans people deserve the right to self-determination,” Councilman Jose “Chito” Vela, one of the resolution’s sponsors, said during a Thursday meeting. “Our state has forced them and their medical providers into hiding, and that is wrong. Austin should not be a party to that any more than we legally have to be.”
The resolution ensures that “no City personnel, funds, or resources shall be used to investigate, criminally prosecute, or impose administrative penalties upon” a transgender or nonbinary person seeking healthcare nor an individual or organization providing healthcare to a transgender person. Furthermore, “the City shall not terminate or limit the eligibility for City funding, such as grants or contracts, to an individual or organization for seeking, providing, or assisting with the provision of healthcare to a transgender or nonbinary individual.”
On Thursday, Paxton said in a statement that Austin’s resolution was “riddled with problems.”
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“If the City of Austin refuses to follow the law and protect children, my office will consider every possible response to ensure compliance,” Paxton said in a statement. “Texas municipalities do not have the authority to pick and choose which state laws they will or will not abide by. The people of Texas have spoken, and Austin City Council must listen.”
The resolution also directs law enforcement to make enforcing Senate Bill 14, which bans certain sex assignment treatment options for minors, their lowest priority. The law took effect Sept. 1 and is under review by the Texas Supreme Court.
An aerial view of the Twin Oaks shopping center. Image: Landers Brannon / Vimeo
We were pretty tickled to dig up the news last year that Dallas-based developers Trammell Crow Company and its subsidiary High Street Residential were planning a mixed-use redevelopment of South Austin’s largely vacant Twin Oaks Shopping Center at 2315 South Congress Avenue on behalf of the 10-acre center’s owners at H-E-B. Although the finer details of the plan remained a little fuzzy around the edges, it was yet another promising sign of an ongoing transformation among Austin’s laundry list of overparked strip mall shopping centers, a long-awaited cleansing process we like to call Brodie Oaksification after perhaps the best sprawl-busting plan of them all.
Here’s the Plan for Transforming South Austin’s Twin Oaks Shopping Center
A year later, the real estate market around here has cooled off a bit, and combined with ongoing land use changes and the potential decade-spanning construction timeline of Project Connect in our future, we think a lot of the people in charge of these large-scale redevelopments might hold off a few years just to see what happens. But that doesn’t mean we can’t enjoy some slick visuals of the Twin Oaks redevelopment’s potential, with the first renderings of a possible future for the site now available in the portfolio of Minneapolis-based architecture studio ESG:
Image: ESG / TCC
Located at a high-profile intersection in Austin, Texas, the parcel has served as a strip commercial center since the 1950s. The redevelopment will transform the site into a series of courtyard buildings with a new network of streets and sidewalks that break up the scale of the site. The site perimeter will include significant public setbacks with gathering spaces and landscaping to complement the retail, residential and workplace uses proposed. A number of existing live oak trees will be relocated to new feature locations within the site.
— ESG
Image: ESG / TCC
The project concept shown off here, which doesn’t seem hugely different from the plans we saw last year but seems to have a slightly different arrangement of buildings, would contain a total of 300,000 square feet of residential space, 550,000 square feet of office space, and 25,000 square feet of retail. To us, that seems light on retail and way too heavy on office space considering what’s going on around here lately, but would you look at those green roofs and solar panels? (Waving keys at you)
Image: ESG / TCC
The entry in ESG’s portfolio containing these renderings describes the project’s status as “in development,” and it doesn’t include any date for when this concept was put together, so keep in mind that we could be looking at a years-old plan here.
Image: ESG / TCC
In fact, something about the project depicted in these images feels rooted in a more optimistic development environment from a year or more ago, particularly in its depiction of vast, beautifully curved office spaces. You hear quite a bit lately about the cultural markers of “Zero Interest Rate Policy,” and although the Twin Oaks concept isn’t quite as over the top with high-end finishes and tasteful, expensive curves as something like (RIP) The Perennial, the notion of building a half-million square feet of new office space in 2024 suddenly sounds like an impossible fantasy. Perhaps we could cut the office space in half and double the housing? Either way, we’d be happy to see it built in place of the ocean of empty parking that’s there now — it’s just unclear how long we’ll have to wait to see anything break ground here.
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Amid Protests of Students, Faculty, and Staff, the State Tightens Its Grip on the University of Texas at Austin
In April, state leaders’ attempted stranglehold over the University of Texas at Austin, Texas’s premier public university, came to a head in several ways. The month began with the university laying off dozens of employees who formerly worked in positions that dealt with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. The month ended with state troopers marching on campus to disrupt anti-war protests at the direction of Gov. Greg Abbott and with the approval of UT Austin President Jay Hartzell.
In this week’s Hotline, we dive into this dark month at Texas’s flagship university.
State, City, & University Police Assail, Arrest Peaceful Anti-War Protesters
Over the past two weeks, hundreds of peaceful protestors, many of them UT students, have been arrested for protesting the war in Gaza and demanding an end to the university’s and the nation’s involvement in the conflict.
Last Wednesday, a coalition of student groups, including the Palestine Solidarity Committee, organized an event on UT’s south lawn to protest the war in Gaza. Event organizers referenced the encampments that have occupied other universities like Columbia, Yale, and Brown, but there was no evidence that this group was connected to groups on those other campuses, apart from the organizing inspiration. The schedule for UT’s event included peaceful actions: teach-ins, pizza breaks, and an art workshop.
A listed demand of the protesters was for the University of Texas to divest from companies that they view as supporting the war in Gaza. The University of Texas’ endowment, totaling $68 billion, is the largest of any public university and the fifth largest of any university system generally. Students have taken issue with the endowment’s investments in companies that manufacture weapons, including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems, and others. Because weapons produced by these companies and used by the Israeli military have resulted in the deaths of civilians, protestors claim that the University of Texas is complicit in these tragedies and demand divestment.
However, a state law from 2017 that forbids Texas public investments from boycotting Israel seems to forbid such divestment.
Protestors at UT-Austin, who were told by the university to cancel the protest because of a “declared intent to violate our policies and rules, and disrupt our campus operations,” were met with a large police presence, declaring that the protest was unlawful as students didn’t have the proper permits to protest. Campus police officers initially seemed to be willing to negotiate with the protesters, but dialogue seemed to end when Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers arrived at the scene dressed in riot gear. State police quickly moved to break up the protests. Police arrested 57 people present at the protest, including a photographer for FOX 7 News who was covering the incident. All those arrested were released the following morning.
It was later revealed that Hartzell had invited DPS onto campus to break up the peaceful protests. Abbott, who directs DPS, supported the arrests on social media. In his comments, Abbott took issue with the content of the protests, not the manner in which they were done. In the United States, the content of protests is protected by the First Amendment.
Protestors were arrested for trespassing on university campus because they were directed to leave due to not having a permit to hold the event, but the university had previously allowed similar protests to occur in the same location and the same manner without a permit. Similar protests were held at public universities across Texas, including Texas State University and the University of Texas at Dallas, but these protests were not met with a similar police presence.
Protestors reconvened the next day but were not met with a police presence, and the protest continued peacefully as planned. On this second day, the protest was much larger than the day before. At this protest, many community leaders spoke, including Congressman Greg Casar (D-Austin), and condemned the police action. UT-Austin AAUP President Pauline Strong also spoke at the protest. She announced that UT-Austin AAUP was collecting signatures from faculty to call for a vote of no confidence in Hartzell for bringing state police to campus. Thus far, they have collected over 600 signatures.
This week, on Monday, the protests continued and were met by hundreds of law enforcement agents. After protesters refused to vacate the south lawn despite officers’ demands, officers began arresting protestors one by one and soon broke up the encampment. The protesters were assailed with pepper spray and flash bangs.
In response to the events this past Monday, the House Democratic Caucus released a letter explaining to Democratic members what transpired. Ali Zaidi, the executive director of the House Democratic Caucus, penned the letter and was present to observe the Monday protest. Zaidi explained that he and Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D-Austin), who was also in observance of the protest, felt the effects of the pepper spray used on the protestors, despite being yards away. The letter declared, “It is our belief that this behavior by law enforcement created further chaos and harm to the health and well-being of students which must not go unaddressed.”
Students had planned to resume protests Wednesday but postponed the protest until this coming Sunday.
Employees and Students Fight Back Against Anti-DEI Efforts
In a previous edition of the Hotline, we explained how an estimated 60 employees at UT Austin and 20 employees at UT Dallas were either demoted or given termination notices. These affected employees, which included both faculty and staff, previously worked in positions that related to DEI initiatives but had since been reassigned to new positions to comply with Senate Bill 17, which banned DEI initiatives. These layoffs occurred despite the fact that the legislators who sponsored SB 17 publicly made assurances that employees in DEI positions would not be terminated.
Since these terminations and demotions were announced, a wide public outcry, from within the UT community and from without, has emerged, demanding that these termination orders be reversed. During the week following the dismissals, state legislators joined the Texas NAACP and Texas AAUP-AFT at a press conference at the Texas AFL-CIO headquarters denouncing the layoffs. The state legislators present were Rep. Ron Reynolds (D-Missouri City), chairman of the Texas Legislative Black Caucus, Rep. Gina Hinojosa (D-Austin), whose district includes the UT Austin campus, and Rep. Sheryl Cole (D-Austin).
The 60 affected employees mostly occupied student services positions that supported students outside of their academic pursuits. In addition to the affected employees themselves, students are also victims of this move.
Students are fighting back against these layoffs. Over the intervening weeks since the layoffs were first announced student groups, such as Texas Students for DEI, which has been active at campuses across the state in opposition to the state’s attacks against DEI, and individual students began posting the hashtag #NotOurTexas on social media, as a condemnation of the layoffs. Post-It notes with the message #NotOurTexas were also left in prominent locations around UT Austin campus, including the university’s iconic fountain.
This past Monday, a coalition led by the Texas State Employees Union (TSEU), in concert with Texas AAUP-AFT and the Texas AFL-CIO, rallied on UT Austin’s campus to demand that the university’s actions be reversed. Austin City Council members Vanessa Fuentes and Zohaib “Zo” Qadri, whose district includes UT’s campus, as well as Texas AFL-CIO President Rick Levy and UT Austin AAUP executive board member Karma Chavez, spoke at the rally in support of the affected employees. Hundreds of students, faculty, staff, and community members joined the rally.
The next chapter in this saga is uncertain. Many of the affected employees are scheduled to be officially terminated after their mandatory 60-day termination notice expires. Senate Education Committee Chairman Brandon Creighton’s letter to Texas public universities, which kicked off these layoffs, demanded UT Austin send representatives to a committee hearing to detail compliance with Senate Bill 17 in May, but the date of the hearing has not been set. Additionally, the Senate was tasked in Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s interim charges with studying the implementation of SB 17. This interim hearing will also likely take place over the summer.
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