If you’ve ever been to SXSW, you come to quickly understand that it’s probably the most exhilarating, overwhelming, and anxiety-driven event that you will ever attend in your lifetime. We’ve put together a list of black tech events you should go to so you can streamline your excitement.
Choose ATL House
Highlight events include:
- Meet THEA: Behind the Launch of Atlanta’s New Video Platform
- Scaling Culture + Community with The Gathering Spot
- Founders’ Therapy: Livin’ Ramen Profitable When Everyone Thinks You’re Ballin’…
Hustle House @ SXSW
Highlight events include:
- How to Secure the Bag and KEEP It
- Black Women & Billion-Dollar Startups
- Blockchain for the People!
- Lessons Learned While Raising a Seed Round
- From 0 to 1, Creating a Physical Product from Scratch
- Top 3 Lessons in Crowdfunding and Hardware
- 5 Hacks for Non-Technical Founders of Tech Startups
- The 4 H’s of a Founding Team
- Ownership in the Innovation Economy
- Self-Preservation While Navigating the System
- Bet on Me, We Win!!!
- Quantifying an Inclusive Culture
- Building a Community from Scratch
- How I REALLY Got Into the Tech Industry
- Healthy Hustle Habits
- How Do You Measure Success?
- Building a Two-Sided Marketplace
- Trends in Sextech
- How to Amplify Your Next Product Launch on a Shoestring Budget
- Why Patriarchy is the OS of the Failed Parts of Capitalism—and How Blockchain Transcends That
- The New Normal in VC: Strategies for Success from Founders of Color
- How to Lead as a Whole Person
- 10 Things No One Tells You (But Really Should) About Starting a Tech Company
HBCU@SXSW
Highlight events include:
- Solutions for Hiring Top Minority Tech Talent
- Hacking the Racial Bias in Artificial Intelligence
- Building Safe Workspaces for Millennials of Color
- Blacks on the Blockchain
- Black Entrepreneurship Beyond Music and Sports
- Trap Goes Tech: A Case Study
SXSW 2018 House of Social Impact
Highlight events include:
- #BrillianceBeyondBars
Culture House
Highlight events include:
- Culture Brunch
- Culture Day Party
- Culture Night Cap
The Inclusive Innovation House @ SXSW 2018
Highlight events include:
- YurHouse Pop-Up
- Startup Showcases from popular startups, Notearise, Hylux Water, and more…
- The Game Changer Series Featuring Music Tech Industry Leader Adrianne C. Smith
- Panels in the Digital/Tech, Music, and Film sectors
- Fireside Chat with Adolphus Nolan of Notearise
- The Unpanel: A Showcase of Some of the Best Diversity and Inclusion Panels Overlooked by the SXSW PanelPicker
SXSW Hip Hop
Highlight events include:
- An Ode to Hip Hop—The Impact of Storytelling
#BGCSXSW
Highlight events include:
- Create Your Own Virtual World
Africa House at SXSW 2018
- Investing in a Vision for Rwanda
- Searching for Scale: The opportunities and challenges of moving beyond startup in the African context.
- Tech for Development Panel: Powered by the US African Development Foundation
- #AfroFuturism: How African Superheros are Saving the Day
Add any events that we’re missing in the comments section below.