SXSW Japan Office / VISIONGRAPH Inc.
“SXSW2024 Official Report Session” will be held in April in three cities: Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya
Held at Toranomon Hills Forum in Tokyo on April 11th, QUINTBRIDGE in Osaka on April 15th, and WeWork Global Gate Nagoya in Nagoya on April 16th.
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SXSW2024, one of the world’s largest creative conference events, was held in Austin, Texas, USA in March. A debriefing session sponsored by the SXSW Japan Office looking back on the whole story will be held this year in three cities: Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya, in addition to online. Not only those who participated in SXSW2024, but also those who are interested in participating next year and beyond are welcome to join us. In addition, a paid seminar by VISIONGRAPH, which has been analyzing SXSW for 13 years, will begin the “SXSW Intensive Lecture Series” from March 27th, with a total of 10 sessions.
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SXSW offers a variety of events, including conference sessions featuring researchers and famous speakers from various industries, exhibitions with booths from large companies to startups, live music gatherings of artists from all over the world, and premiere screenings at film festivals. This is a large-scale complex event where multiple contents are held simultaneously. SXSW attracts cutting-edge technology researchers and innovative entrepreneurs from all over the world, so it is attracting attention as an event where you can see the future. Many people from Japan participate every year.
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“SXSW2024 Report Session” will be held online and in three cities: Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya
VISIONGRAPH Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo), which serves as the SXSW Japan Office, will hold multiple reporting sessions in April to look back on SXSW2024. We will tell you what topics were talked about this year, the challenges of exhibitors and performers from Japan, and the excitement in Austin. We will be introducing SXSW2024 in Japanese, not only to those who participated this year, but also to those who have not been there, so if you are interested in SXSW, please come and join us.
First, we will hold an online report meeting as the “Nikkei Innovation Meetup” on Monday, April 8th. This is a report session that looks back at the discussions at SXSW2024 from the perspectives of multiple observation participants, focusing on the topics that became hot topics at this year’s conference.
Afterwards, we will hold debriefing sessions at real venues this year, not only in Tokyo but also in three cities: Osaka and Nagoya. The event will be held at Toranomon Hills Forum in Tokyo on April 11th, QUINTBRIDGE in Osaka on April 15th, and WeWork Global Gate Nagoya in Nagoya on April 16th.
At the Tokyo event, we plan to have speakers mainly from exhibitors. This will be the first official SXSW event to be held in Osaka/Nagoya. We would like to invite not only those who participated in SXSW2024 this year, but also those who are interested in participating in SXSW next year and beyond, to come to the debriefing event and use it as an opportunity to connect and interact with the Japanese SXSW community. For details on each event and to apply for participation, please check the event page below.
■April 8th (Monday) 17:00 – 18:30
Nikkei Innovation Meetup “SXSW2024 Report Session”
Venue: Online
Contents: A debriefing session that looks back on the contents of SXSW2024 from the perspective of the observation participants, focusing on the topics that became a hot topic at this year’s conference.
Apply for participation: https://eventregist.com/e/nim_sxsw2024b ■April 11th (Thursday) 18:30 – 20:30
SXSW2024 Report Session @Tokyo | Let’s aim to exhibit and perform in 2025! Venue: Toranomon Hills Forum
Contents: Reporting session by this year’s exhibitors and event planners & networking session for those interested in participating next year
Apply to participate: https://eventregist.com/e/XMrzzqQ2l3Xd ■April 15th (Monday) 18:30 – 20:00
SXSW2024 report meeting @Osaka
Venue: QUINTBRIDGE
Contents: Reporting session by participants from the Kansai region & networking session with those interested in participating next year Apply for participation: https://eventregist.com/e/4GEHQyUOL2xZ ■April 16th (Tuesday) 18:30 – 20:00
SXSW2024 report meeting @Nagoya
Venue: WeWork Global Gate Nagoya
Contents: Reporting session by participants from the Tokai region & networking session with those interested in participating next year Apply for participation: https://eventregist.com/e/5R08Fdx2TC2z
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Paid seminar by VISIONGRAPH, which has been analyzing SXSW for 13 years: 10-part “SXSW Intensive Lecture Series” starts from March 27th VISIONGRAPH, which serves as the SXSW Japan Office, offers a menu of paid lectures related to SXSW that can be customized according to your desired theme. VISIONGRAPH, which has been observing SXSW from a fixed point for the past 13 years, will hold the “SXSW Intensive Lecture Series” for the first time this year as a 10-part online lecture series that looks back on the changes in technology and trends at SXSW.
We have extracted 10 themes from the various topics discussed at SXSW and will explain the latest information on each theme in 2024 and look back at the changes in trends over the past 10 years. You can choose your area of expertise or your favorite topic to attend from a total of 10 lecture series. This course can be taken by both those who participated in SXSW2024 and those who did not.
Please see this page for the theme and detailed explanation of each session. https://miraiyoho.com/sxsw-lecture
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It is a huge business conference and festival themed around music, film, and interactive, held every March in Austin, Texas, USA. It started as an indie music festival in 1987, and later added movies and interactive features, and now it is one of the world’s largest events, attracting tens of thousands of people over nine days. The economic impact brought to Austin, the venue for the nine-day event, is approximately 38 billion yen. This is an event that has been held for 37 years in collaboration with government, private sectors, and citizen volunteers. So far, startups and cultural scenes have been created, including online services such as Twitter, Pinterest, and Spotify, as well as artists such as The White Stripes, Norah Jones, and Franz Ferdinand, who have made global breakthroughs after winning awards and performing at SXSW. has played an important role in. https://www.sxsw.com/
About VISIONGRAPH Inc. / Mirai Forecast Inc.
Based on innovation research based in Tokyo, we provide concept-making and future vision consulting for companies. Provides various thought-provoking forecasts of what could be the future, giving you lots of inspiration and designing better concepts and strategies. Since 2019, we have also been working as the SXSW Japan Office, the Japan office of SXSW (South by Southwest), one of the largest business conferences in the United States. His book, “How we will work 10 years from now: “I’ve never heard of a job like this before!” gives us clues about innovation” (Impress, 2017)
https://miraiyoho.com/
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