SXSW Can Help Your Career In The Entertainment Business.

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This week on Real Talk I want to talk about SXSW (South by South West) Music Conference that’s held every March in Austin, Texas. Well it’s actually a music festival that started in 1987 and grew currently into a film and an online interactive conference as well. SXSW states that their original goal was to create an event that would act as a tool for creative people and the companies they work with to develop their careers, to bring together people from a wide area to meet and share ideas.

Well if you ask me, we really needed something like SXSW, especially in the region where I’m from. Being in the music business as a rap artist out of Oklahoma is not the easiest thing to do and the resources were like slim to none. SXSW created a great resource for entertainment business people to network with others and create future business partners or job opportunities.This was very important for us, especially for the independent artist in the South West region.

SXSW offers a variety of resources to help us in the music business as well as the film and interactive communities.  Resources like talk panels, for professional discussions in music, film, and interactive industries. SXSW also have shows going on about 100 different stages showcasing new artist around the world. SXSW has a program called Startup Village. Current and future entrepreneurs benefit from learning and networking with investors, technology trailblazers, media representatives, as well as digital creatives from their exciting industries. Along with the Startup SXSW offers Accelerator. Accelerator is a competition of companies in presenting the latest innovating technologies in music and the interactive industries. They also allow companies to sell equipment to potential clients in the expos for music, films, and interactive, which is the cutting edge in technology like video games and software etc. This type of resource for independent artist is extremely helpful for our careers.

SXSW has been around for years. Since it’s conception, it has grown to over 48,000 registrants from the music, film, and interactive fields of the business to Austin Texas every March. They have affected all of these industries in numerous ways since they started. By bringing like minds from all around the world together and to give them an opportunity to discuss and share ideas with each other or even receive advice from a professional in our field of entertainment business is priceless. Thanks goes out for SXSW for giving us a platform for entertainment business heads to collide and expand the industry with knowledge we share. So if you haven't beent in a while or never attended before, make plans to make it to Austin in March to the SXSW Conference for an upgrade in your entertainment business network. Real Talk!