Here are the speakers repping Aus & NZ at SXSW 2019

South By Southwest 2019 has announced eight Australian and New Zealand speakers. They join a list of 600 from around the world.

The eight were chosen from submissions to the PanelPicker app, voted on by the public and slotted into the 25 streams of the conference.

As of October 25, there are already 300 paid registrants for 2019’s SXSW interactive, music, film and comedy festivals and conferences.

In 2018, nearly 800 attended from the two countries among 80,000 global delegates.

Additional streams in MedTech, Crypto Currencies and CannaBusiness have sparked broader interest as well as a preceding three day SXSW EDU educational conference that has grown massively in its first three years.

See full list of sessions here.

The regional speakers and topics announced so far are:

Australia

Kerri Lee Sinclair (Turning the Tables: Entrepreneur to Investor)

Dan Ilic (Trump Around the World of Comedy)

Lauren Mayberry (Music Keynote: Shirley Manson & Lauren Mayberry)

Tim Longhurst (Mentor: Tim Longhurst – Key Message)

New Zealand

Simon Che de Boer (Expeditions into Uncanny Valley)

Pau Bracewell (Rating Athletes Using Machines Who Think Like You)

 Matthew Kennedy (Democracy & AI: Delivering Better Services)

Liz Carlson (Don’t @ Venice: Instagram is Killing Bucket Lists)

The eight speakers from ANZ mark the highest amount of speakers for the Austin, Texas event.

As reported in TMN, the first round of bands invited to showcase in 2019 were a record 18 Australian and eight NZ.

In 2018, 52 bands played out of the 70 invited, but there were only six speakers.