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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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2023 Audio system (l-r) Ryan Gellert – Picture by Liz Seabrook; Kara Swisher, Valerie June, and Esther Perel
SAINT JO, Texas (KXII) – Red River Station is hosting a Texas tornado relief benefit concert in July.
Cody Jinks is playing at the Red River Station on July 14 and 100% of the proceeds will go to Cooke County Volunteer Organization Active in Disaster (VOAD) to help those affected by the 2024 tornadoes.
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Texas is no stranger to power-grid anxiety. Between the heat that’s only getting hotter, an aging fleet of power plants, and the challenges of integrating renewable energy, the system is fragile.
Now, a boom in energy-hungry computer data centers is adding a new element of risk this summer.
“How many are coming? That’s still TBD, but we know that they are explosively growing,” ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas, told lawmakers in one of two hearings this month at the state capitol.
Vegas said many of those centers mine crypto currency. But more and more of them are being built to support artificial intelligence systems. They are drawn to the state thanks to low energy costs, minimal regulation and a booming economy. But they use a lot of energy.
“If you do a google search and just look up ‘What is ERCOT?’ If you did that with a regular google system versus an AI google search, the amount of energy that it takes to run the AI search, is between 10 and 30 times the power requirement than to do a traditional google search,” Vegas said.
Many estimates you find online appear to be on the lower end of that spectrum. But it’s clear that Texas, in particular, could find that growing energy demand challenging.
Ever since a deadly blackout in 2021, state officials have worked to strengthen the power grid. They’ve started programs to subsidize new power plants and improve transmission lines.
But, those things take years to build. Data centers — some that use as much energy as small cities — can be built in just a matter of months. That is a serious challenge for grid operators, says Doug Lewin, who publishes the Texas Energy and Power Newsletter.
“How do we build enough infrastructure to accommodate a new city popping up in six months, with effectively no notice?” he asks.
The answer: maybe you don’t.
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‘The most worrisome thing’
State officials have long declared Texas “open for business.” Reveling in each victory as they lured things like Tesla’s new gigafactory and Samsung’s new microchip plant to the state.
But now, some wonder whether data centers are worth it.
Cryptomines and data centers “produce very few jobs compared to the incredible demands they place on our grid,” Lt. Governor Dan Patrick posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, after the hearings. “Texans will ultimately pay the price.”
State lawmakers, likewise, peppered this month’s hearings with questions about whether the state could put the brakes on data center growth, or compel the companies to pay for their increased energy transmission needs.
“That’s sort of wild to think about,” Lewin said. “That’s a huge, huge break from the way things have been done.”
Assuming that cryptomines and data centers are here to stay, grid operators say they would like new rules to allow them to better monitor the facilities’ energy use and potentially control it.
Despite recent legislation compelling cryptomines to register with ERCOT, Vegas told members of the House State Affairs Committee that about half of companies still have not.
“On legislation […] what would be more helpful for ERCOT is to have more visibility to what these large loads are doing,” he said. “And so a good place to start could be making sure we can track and even potentially control the [energy] loads of cryptos.”
At a recent ERCOT board of directors meeting, Dan Woodfin, the group’s vice president of system operations, said the inability to forecast energy use by crypto mines and similar big power consumers was “the most worrisome thing” going into this summer.
ERCOT puts the chance of rolling blackouts at around 12% in August.
Demand is outpacing supply
In the electricity business, what Vegas proposes — reducing energy use by certain users at certain times — is often called a “demand side” solution to grid challenges.
The idea is that you can strengthen the grid more cheaply and quickly by lowering energy consumption rather than increasing supply.
“We cannot build the grid fast enough to keep up with demand… Even before we had every damned crypto and data center … move to Texas,” Alison Silverstein, a consultant and former state and federal energy official, told KUT.
Texas currently consumes more energy than any other state. Silverstein has long advocated for increasing energy efficiency standards in the state to help bolster the energy system.
A recent study from the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy says improving efficiency standards in Texas would be a more economical way of reducing high energy demand in the summer and winter to strengthen the grid.
Silverstein says it would not only mean people need less power to cool their homes, run their appliances and do business, it would also go a long way toward keeping the lights on.
But lawmakers and regulators have traditionally balked at improving efficiency in Texas, a state known for producing energy not conserving it.
Silverstein says that may be changing, as the challenges of rapidly increasing energy demand become clearer to those in charge of the Texas power system.
At one recent hearing ERCOT’s Vegas referred to efficiency and demand response as an essential tool in keeping the Texas grid stable.
Silverstein says the question is whether that rhetoric will turn into state policy.
“That’s when we’ll know that they really mean it in terms of demand-side solutions, and it’s not just hand waving,” she says.
Missing in Texas: Sharon McCully
In this edition of Missing in Texas, we take a look at a case of an Austin woman who disappeared after going Christmas shopping nearly 40 years ago.
AUSTIN, Texas – The case of an Austin woman who went missing 40 years ago is still a mystery. She’s one of many on a site designed to collect information about unsolved cases called “Solve the Case.”
Sharon McCully disappeared on December 11, 1984.
She was doing Christmas shopping that day and had left lunch with her husband. She dropped him off at his job and drove away, last seen going east on Howard Lane towards I-35.
Her car, an off-white 1965 Volkswagen Beetle, was found two days later, unlocked and abandoned at an apartment complex on the 8600 block of Research Boulevard, about five-and-a-half miles from her last known location. Her keys and purse were gone.
“Sharon was not believed to have had any connection with that apartment complex,” “Solve the Case” founder Aaron Benzick said. “There’s just no information to be concerned about the husband or anyone close to her at that point.”
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When her husband got home from work, she wasn’t there. After waiting and calling her friends, he reported her missing the next day.
“Really speaks to there being an unknown factor that gets involved in this,” Benzick said.
McCully’s story is one of many on “Solve the Case,” a place where all the facts of a case can be aggregated.
“With the Solve the Case platform, we’re opening up for missing persons, unsolved homicides, unidentified persons, even fugitives that are on the run, have warrants out for their arrest and haven’t been found for many years,” Benzick said.
Benzick’s day job is a homicide detective in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He got the idea to create the website after he got a bulletin about a decades-old case of someone who went to the same high school as him.
“Family had expressed some frustration, ‘we’ve been trying to promote our son’s missing person case, bring awareness of the case, and some of the things we’ve shared haven’t been updated, and we don’t really know what to do with that.’ That kind of inspired me to create this home page for victims,” he said.
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Cases on the site can come from law enforcement or families.
“When you create the case page on Solve the Case, we’re going to walk you through. Here are the things that should be happening in your case, during a missing person investigation,” Benzick said.
For McCully’s case and so many others across the nation, “We want to build out a database of where known offenders were operating at that time,” Benzick said. “At minimum, we want to tell Sharon’s story.”
The hope is that the community can work together to solve mysteries.
“Through creating this platform, we’re hoping to open up this information nationwide, get families, victims, law enforcement all on the same page in a consistent way so that we can do the most good on these missing person cases,” Benzick said.
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