29. Tech for good for you...
At SXSW there will always be moments when you get your timing a bit wrong or - more often - you don't make it in the line for the session you want to see.
For those occasions you need to have back up plans. They could be to eat - fitting in feed times at SXSW is often hard. Or to look at some of the festival art (more about that later) or the exhibition (again, more later).
Or you could check out one of the pitch competitions or hackathons.
One of the best ways to do this is the 'meet the finalists' sessions. Exactly what it says on the tin, this is a room full of two person teams who have been pitching their ideas all weekend, and who want to talk to you about them, standing at a high table in a conference room at the Hilton Hotel.
As in most of the other other areas of the conference there are themes, and one of them is social impact. If you had been interested in that you might have met Melissa and Lotis, the team from Volo, a British startup working to support corporate engagement in volunteering.
Volo is a fascinating idea. A framework for corporate volunteering that allows the people side of companies to track exactly what volunteering is being done, how colleagues are learning, and gaining, and what the impact is on them, and on the organisation as a whole. One in a long line of developments in CSR that were a theme at SXSW. You can find out more here: https://www.volo.org.uk/
For those occasions you need to have back up plans. They could be to eat - fitting in feed times at SXSW is often hard. Or to look at some of the festival art (more about that later) or the exhibition (again, more later).
Or you could check out one of the pitch competitions or hackathons.
One of the best ways to do this is the 'meet the finalists' sessions. Exactly what it says on the tin, this is a room full of two person teams who have been pitching their ideas all weekend, and who want to talk to you about them, standing at a high table in a conference room at the Hilton Hotel.
As in most of the other other areas of the conference there are themes, and one of them is social impact. If you had been interested in that you might have met Melissa and Lotis, the team from Volo, a British startup working to support corporate engagement in volunteering.
Volo is a fascinating idea. A framework for corporate volunteering that allows the people side of companies to track exactly what volunteering is being done, how colleagues are learning, and gaining, and what the impact is on them, and on the organisation as a whole. One in a long line of developments in CSR that were a theme at SXSW. You can find out more here: https://www.volo.org.uk/
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