There was no shortage of awesome sights, sounds, startups and salsa at the 2016 SXSW Interactive Festival. Luckily, the SnapMunk team got to experience all of them and has just been dying to share. Because we love sharing. Here are some of the highlights from this year’s festival!
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- And do it immediately…
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- And when we say, “Epic Shit”, we mean THIS
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- Mr. John Bates, speaker extraordinaire
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- Shama Hyder, entrepreneur and best-selling author, chatting with Enthuse.io
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- The impressive Shama also repping the SnapMunk mic!
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- On set for UnCorked at The Infinite Monkey Theorum Urban Winery
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- Rodney Rice, epic entrepreneur and interview guest
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- Killer decor at the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery
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- And more…
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- And more…
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- Eric, Natalie and Adam of SnapMunk, hittin the streets
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- Things were certainly looking up
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- And up…
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- Domo arigato
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- Austin and their clever names
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- Yes to all of it.
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- Packed patios, par for the course
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- Food, drinks, sun with Fast Company
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- Good patio, good company at Fast Company
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- More people lookin’ good with the SnapMunk mic!
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- Hard not to spread the love at SXSW
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- We heard of some special guests at the Mashable house…
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- Ah, just this way…
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- Oooo, maybe it will have something to do with water bottles?
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- SILICON VALLEY CAST!! SILICON VALLEY CAST!!!
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- Reminder…
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- OK, THEY’RE THROWING THE WA-…wait, aren’t those, like, metal?
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- True story: this hit someone in the face.
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- Brian Williams of Pitch Proof and PurchaseBlack.com with Benjamin Mann
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- Hank Leber of Vitamyn with Benjamin Mann
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- Fernando Leon of Fruitkit with Benjamin Mann
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- Jason Grill of Jason Grill Media with Benjamin Mann
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- To all those we interviewed…
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- Reflecting on SXSW
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- And texting about it
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- Of course we had to hit some sessions and the tradeshow floor
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- Getting startup contestants ready for a Pitchin’ good time
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- Ready to be pitched
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- These guys are huge in…somewhere, probably
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- Beautifully designed, dynamic weather board showing you the conditions outside
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- Visual art audio speaker…wait till you see the video footage (coming out soon!)
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- Hair or the sign – hard to pick a favorite
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- McFlyyyy!! Hello McFly!!!!
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- Neighbors to the north
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- What would an Austin festival be without music
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- And more music (Eric Tessmer)…
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- And more music (ELEL)…
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- And more music…
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- And more music (RJD2 with 4 turntables and 2 MPCs)
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- And more music…
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- At a Google party in shipping containers
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- Where they were using some crazy contraption to paint their tote bags
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- And what would anything in Austin be without food trucks
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- and more food trucks…
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- and an assortment of popcorn flavors
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- 3M got a little artsy and meta on us – this was “The Future of Our Planet”
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- And this was just cool
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- Life-size TIE fighter anyone?
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- Overall, we’d say the festival was a pretty hot success
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- The moral of the story
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Pretty rad to see Obama made the trip.
Great write-up. I am hoping that I can make it to an event like this one day.
First off I would like to say awesome blog! I had a
quick question that I’d like to ask if you do not mind.
I was curious to know how you center yourself and clear your mind prior to writing.
I’ve had a hard time clearing my mind in getting my thoughts out there.
I do take pleasure in writing however it just seems like the
first 10 to 15 minutes are generally wasted just trying
to figure out how to begin. Any suggestions or hints?
Appreciate it!
Ohhhh the popcorn flavors? I would be all over that!
Your website covered the event very well. What happened? Are you not covering these events any longer?
Learning about new startups before they really take off has to be the best part about this type of event.
Great post! Have nice day ! 🙂 slukb
This looks like a lot of fun. I am glad that you took the pictures and didn’t just do some long winded right up of the event.
These types of events are always a good time! There is so much information that you get about new products and things like that.
This would be such a great way to network throughout the technology industry. I need to make it to one of these, plus ALL of that popcorn looks to have my name on it!
Totally awesome festival. Stay tuned for our interview with John Bates. If I recall correctly, he has been attending SxSW since 1994. His insight as a festival veteran, is fantastic.
I really like the Uncorked segment. I hope you can keep those going!
Glad you like it! And we’re definitely keeping them coming 🙂 A bunch of episodes on the way!
One of these years I would like to make it to SXSW. It looks like a great time and the technology you get to see would be awesome!
It is certainly worth a trip, at least once. If it’s purely TECHNOLOGY you want to see, then CES is a better bet, but for overall experience and networking, SXSW can’t be beat.