By Carolina Rios
SXSW 2016 is around the corner and we have put together a list with some of the coolest panels for you to check out and vote to be part of the festival. Let’s support them with our vote. Just go to this link: here, create an account and vote.
Voting ends Friday September 4, so hurry up!
Our very own panel featuring Liz Arreaga:
These are some of our favorite Latino-Themed Panels:
- Samo is Lamo: Turning Insights into Innovation
- Death of the MCN and the Rise of MultiPlatform
- Wooing Millennials to Vote Through Digital
- Seequ: The Future of Communication and Commerce
- Female Empowerment in the Self Made Economy
- How Mobile Screens Drive Multiculturals to the Big
- How to Engineer your Tech Career
- Spanglish in a Bicultural USA
- Diversifying Tech: From Good Idea to Best Practice
- How a Mexican Beer Courted the “Mercado General”
- Atypically Raced: Asian-Black-Latin@-White Online
- Multicultural Blogger and Content Creator Meet Up
- Latinas in Tech
- 50 Shades of Green: Diversity in the Environmental
- Technology is our Rock & Roll
- Through Frida’s Eyes: Latinos and Eco Fashion
- Marketing Latino Cool
- The Latino Factor: Defining Moments of US Startups
- Mobilizing U.S. Latinos to #ActOnClimate
- Revolutionizing the Client-Lawyer Relationship
Check out this awesome list from our friends at MVMT50:
Here are some African-American/Black-themed Panels:
- How Five Cities Propelled Modern African Music
- Data, Dinosaurs and Democracy: African Newsrooms
- African Tech Revolution: Corporates vs. Startups
- TECHExplorer: African & Carribean
- The Bombastic Brilliance of “Black Twitter” 3.0
- Feeling Ourselves? Black Girl Power in Music
- Missing Black Unicorns: Tech’s Disruption Divide
- Black Lives Matter: From Protest to Pedagogy
- Black Filmmakers: Creating Global Content
- Speedcollab: Black Content Creators Connecting
- East Avenue: Stories from Black East Austin
- Young Black and Powerful: A Consumer Report
- The Black Girl Movement: Blogs+Brands+Bold Tech
- Inclusion & the Black Creative Technologist
- Cultural Placemaking Through Interactive Storytell
- Students on Diversity and Inclusivity in Schools
Here are some LGBT-themed Panels:
- Lesbians Who Tech (and Friends) Meet Up
- Gay Takeover 2016: Crowdfunding the Future
- #GayMafia: Meet the Gay Ladies Taking Over Govtech
- LGBT Censorship in Schools & Public Libraries
- How to Build a Big Gay Virtual Clubhouse
- Is Sports the New Marriage for LGBT Rights?
- Designing “Space”: LGBT Seniors and the Arts
- LGBT Meet-up
- Égalité: a Case for Business Resources Groups #LGBT
- Reimagining LGBT Communities in the Digital Age
- Students on Diversity and Inclusivity in Schools
- Policing Protest from Stonewall to Ferguson
- Tech and Social Good: a New Model for Collaboration
- #SuperGayParents
- Social Media Campaigns for Multicultural Niches
- Online Platforms and Minority Expression
- Athlete Activism: the Next Frontier
- Meeting the Needs of Trans*kids
- LGBTQ+Media: Representation + “Couple-ish”
- #ForEVERGgirl- the Making of a Viral Campaign
- Sports Media’s Role in Shaping Social Justice
- How Comics Predicted a Future of Diversity
- Marriage Equality: Where Do We Go From Here?
These are just a few of our favorite panels, go to www.sxsw.com and find out more. You still have a few weeks left to support them, remember that voting ends September 4th!