Buy Your Badge Before Sept 8 to Save Big!

The Forrest Four-Cast: September 2, 2017

Friday, September 8 is the early-bird registration deadline for SXSW 2018. So, if you purchase your badge by this date, you will save more than 35% on the walkup rate. Purchasing your badge now also gives you access to the best and most convenient downtown hotel rooms.

Registering for SXSW allows you to attend hundreds of panels and presentations covering the top new ideas in 24 different tracks. Click here to read more about Mark Cuban, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Ester Perel, Tim O’Reilly, Charlie Rose, Ingrid Vanderveldt, whurley and the many other top-name speakers already confirmed for the 2018 event.

Registering for SXSW also allows you to take advantage of all the networking opportunities in March in Austin. Whether you want to meet more people in your industry or make new connections outside your current area of work, no other event empowers you to meet so many creative thinkers from around the world in such a short period of time.

In addition to purchasing a badge, there are many other ways to leverage the March Magic platform, including the SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event and the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards. Visit this page to read about more ways that you can be part of the 2018 event.

Hugh Forrest serves as Chief Programming Officer at SXSW, the world’s most unique gathering of creative professionals. He also tries to write at least four paragraphs per day on Medium. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.