Top tracks include Teaching & Learning, Community Initiatives, and Leadership for Tomorrow with a heavy emphasis on the growing role of convergence and cross-sector collaboration
AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The South by Southwest EDU® Conference & Festival® is proud to announce the addition of 187 sessions to its 2025 programming. Selected through the community-driven PanelPicker® process, which received more than 1,400 submissions, these sessions represent more than a dozen countries and a wide range of education initiatives, innovations, challenges, and influences to be addressed throughout the conference and festival, which runs from March 3-6, 2025.
Topics that emerged as top-of-mind for the community range from ethical AI application and strengthening talent pipelines, to rising areas of interest such as non-traditional learning spaces and enhancing opportunities for neurodivergent students and educators. The chosen sessions will fall across the SXSW EDU Conference & Festival's 12 tracks, with Teaching & Learning, Community Initiatives, and Leadership for Tomorrow leading the way in terms of number of sessions aligned to these tracks.
"This is always an exciting time since this signals the focus of this year's programming and is a telling sign of where education stands and may be headed," said Greg Rosenbaum, vice president of SXSW EDU. "Since we launched SXSW EDU 15 years ago, education has been at the center of topical issues, whether that be tech, arts, policy, or social movements. That's why SXSW EDU has always been a great precursor to the larger SXSW Conference & Festivals. But more than ever, education is confronting the growing intersectionality of these areas and the many perspectives it takes to improve the individualization of education needs. The sessions unveiled today for our 2025 event particularly reflect this trend, standing out from previous years."
This year's initial program brings together 449 speakers, including Spelman College Provost Pamela E. Scott-Johnson, Ph.D., NASA's Holly Ridings, contemporary artist and illustrator Nikkolas Smith, and First Amendment attorney Dan Novack. Sessions will feature leaders throughout a variety of fields as they participate in panels, workshops, conversations and several other session formats. Highlights of the selected sessions include but are not limited to:
Teaching & Learning
Community Initiatives
Leadership for Tomorrow
Other Highlights
Attendees will also have the opportunity to explore the power of partnerships, specifically, localized community partnerships designed to bring collective change to talent pipelines. Sessions include:
For the full list of speakers and sessions, visit schedule.sxswedu.com.
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About SXSW EDU:
Now in its 15th year, the SXSW EDU® Conference & Festival reflects the world's most critical social issues as seen through the lens of education. This year's event will bring together the learner, the practitioner, the entrepreneur, and the visionary to share their groundbreaking stories, tackle complex issues, and build reimagined paths forward. As a community of diverse people who are united around a like-minded vision for the future, SXSW EDU serves as a place for attendees to renew their purpose in practice from both a personal and professional perspective. It is a place to reinforce the core principles of teaching and learning as well as an opportunity to express your creativity and passion for education. Join the passionate and innovative community at SXSW EDU, March 3-6, 2025.
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