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 when we say, “Epic Shit”, we mean THIS
Mr. John Bates, speaker extraordinaire
Shama Hyder, entrepreneur and best-selling author, chatting with Enthuse.io
The impressive Shama also repping the SnapMunk mic!
On set for UnCorked at The Infinite Monkey Theorum Urban Winery
Rodney Rice, epic entrepreneur and interview guest
Killer decor at the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery
And more…
And more…
Eric, Natalie and Adam of SnapMunk, hittin the streets
Things were certainly looking up
And up…
Domo arigato
Austin and their clever names
Yes to all of it.
Packed patios, par for the course
Food, drinks, sun with Fast Company
Good patio, good company at Fast Company
More people lookin’ good with the SnapMunk mic!
Hard not to spread the love at SXSW
We heard of some special guests at the Mashable house…
Ah, just this way…
Oooo, maybe it will have something to do with water bottles?
SILICON VALLEY CAST!! SILICON VALLEY CAST!!!
Reminder…
OK, THEY’RE THROWING THE WA-…wait, aren’t those, like, metal?
True story: this hit someone in the face.
Brian Williams of Pitch Proof and PurchaseBlack.com with Benjamin Mann
Hank Leber of Vitamyn with Benjamin Mann
Fernando Leon of Fruitkit with Benjamin Mann
Jason Grill of Jason Grill Media with Benjamin Mann
To all those we interviewed…
Reflecting on SXSW
And texting about it
Of course we had to hit some sessions and the tradeshow floor
Getting startup contestants ready for a Pitchin’ good time
Ready to be pitched
These guys are huge in…somewhere, probably
Beautifully designed, dynamic weather board showing you the conditions outside
Visual art audio speaker…wait till you see the video footage (coming out soon!)
Hair or the sign – hard to pick a favorite
McFlyyyy!! Hello McFly!!!!
Neighbors to the north
What would an Austin festival be without music
And more music (Eric Tessmer)…
And more music (ELEL)…
And more music…
And more music (RJD2 with 4 turntables and 2 MPCs)
And more music…
At a Google party in shipping containers
Where they were using some crazy contraption to paint their tote bags
And what would anything in Austin be without food trucks
and more food trucks…
and an assortment of popcorn flavors
3M got a little artsy and meta on us – this was “The Future of Our Planet”
And this was just cool
Life-size TIE fighter anyone?
Overall, we’d say the festival was a pretty hot success
The moral of the story
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