Disruptology

If you’re planning to attend the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin next March, it’s time to vote for the sessions you’re most interested in seeing. Organizers recently launched the Panel Picker, which empowers participants to review all of the proposal submissions and cast a vote for the sessions that sound most appealing.

According to the site, voting will account for about 30% of the decision making process, while the remainder will be at the discretion of the advisory board and organizers.  Categories range from advertising to community to new technology, each of which have close to 200 submissions. That’s why you’ll probably want to use the robust panel search function, as you can also just look for keywords you’re most interested in, like panel submissions that include the word ‘suck. If you want to vote, you first have to create an account. It’s a pretty cool search function, and will help you wade through all of the different submissions.

Voting closes August 29, so if you have a panelist you want to see or topic that you want to hear, now’s your chance to let it be known. I highly recommend (cough, cough) voting for the one that I’d be a part of, “PR for Peanuts.”

And if you live in Austin and have a couch I can crash on in March, let me know!

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