Tuesday, 11 March 2025 () Austin (AFP) Mar 10, 2025
Held every year in the capital of conservative-leaning Texas, the South by Southwest festival increasingly celebrates the state's emergence as a technology hub stepping out of Silicon Valley's shadow. The sprawling, counter-cultural conference - first launched in 1987 as a music festival - was always a bit of a Texas outlier, just like its host city Austin, a liberal enclave in the middle