by Liz Wiley, avid promoter of Austin’s & France’s tech sectors; lawyer & advisor supporting cross-border business; blockchain and DAO enthusiast

The breathtaking range of content for SXSW comes in large part from a creative public around the world: with persons from all walks of life and industry sectors proposing panel ideas to get us all up to speed on cutting-edge conversations. Year over year we are seeing increased participation from the French creative and tech sectors. Many thanks to our Consuls general of France (first Consul général Sujiro Seam, then our current Consul général Alexis Andres), Business France, and La French Tech: all have focused on SXSW as a lever for accelerating France-Austin connections and getting the word out there that France is a land of innovative engineers, scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs. It’s now time to select those panels that will become part of the line-up of programming at SXSW 2020. No time to waste — the deadline is Friday August 23.

Here is a list of the “French-forward” or France-related panels for this year. Take a minute to check out the speakers and topics. The deadline to vote is August 23, 2019! You must have a SXSW account to participate, but that is quick and easy to do.

Workplace

Tech for Work that Works: People over Processes
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/94580

Women in Retail: From Consumers to Decision Makers
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/100921

From Stuffy Conference to Inclusive Tribe Jamming: 
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/97881

In Search of the Elements that Make Teamwork Tick
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/96795

Business and Investment

Expand Internationally While Keeping the Brand DNA
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/105031

Health & Medtech

How Inclusion — Not More Data — Is Our Best Medicine
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/102261

Future of Music

Why Europe is Hot on the World Map of Music Tech
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/95952

Creating and Monetizing Music

The New Business Models in Music Tech Ecosystem
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/99596

XR

Immersive Wall: How to Learn from VR to TV
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/101849

How to Produce World Class Immersive Storytelling
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/100656

Hyperreality is Coming
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/100769

Gaming

Behind the Scenes of Esports Activationshttps://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/98900

Pushing the Boundaries of What Video Games Are https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/100665

Design

Mixing Data Sciences and Ethnography: A Handbook
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/102352

Why 3D Is the Future of the Web 
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/101858

Did You Really Make That Choice? 
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/97547

Connection & Culture

Immersive Art: A New Digital Perspectivehttps://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/103698

Joie de Vivre 1.0.1 
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/96985

Global Education

How France is Solving for the Skills Gap
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/103038

Tech Industry & Enterprise

Innovationist 
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/94247

Media & Journalism

Building the World’s Largest Team of Fact-Checkers
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/99346

Can Big Stories Free Us of the Attention Economy
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/101923

Experiential Storytelling

Storytelling in the Era of Screens Specialization
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/94567

When Video Games and Tech Bring History to Life
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/101865

Advertising & Brand Experience

Conversational Marketing: Talk with Me, Not at Me
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/103419

The New Codes of Beauty: Building Inclusive Brandshttps://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/103985

Driving Transformation in the Digital Age
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/99036

Climate & Social Action

Environmental Injustice: Women and Climate Change
https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/98416