{"id":1688,"date":"2017-07-18T20:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/07\/18\/the-cities-summit-at-sxsw-a-fresh-look-at-the-future-of-cities\/"},"modified":"2017-07-18T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T20:00:28","slug":"the-cities-summit-at-sxsw-a-fresh-look-at-the-future-of-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/07\/18\/the-cities-summit-at-sxsw-a-fresh-look-at-the-future-of-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cities Summit at SXSW \u2013 A Fresh Look at the Future of Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/v1_1280_XbIk3eEfJ9vo-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25537\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/conference\/cities-summit\/\">Cities Summit<\/a>, a new convergence program for SXSW 2018, explores the future of cities through two full days of inspirational talks, hands on learning sessions, and special events to spark connection. Open to all SXSW registrants, the Cities Summit is designed to bridge the dialogue between city leaders and decision makers with SXSW communities &#8211; digital creatives, entrepreneurs, designers, artists and others &#8211; for a fresh look at how we shape our cities, and how they shape us.<\/p>\n<h4>Cities Summit Focus Areas<\/h4>\n<p>As the <strong>Sunday, July 23<\/strong> deadline approaches for PanelPicker entries, note that the Cities Summit will be centering programming around three focus areas:<\/p>\n<p><strong>City As a Narrative<\/strong><br \/>\nThis focus area will tie in the arts, film, music, and culture, for a look at how we tell stories about cities, and how places tell their own stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Civic Innovation<\/strong><br \/>\nAn in-depth look at how tech, startups, designers, policymakers, and nonprofits are finding new ways to solve existing problems.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cities for All<\/strong><br \/>\nThis focus area explores the future of urbanization through topics such as social equity, accessibility, health, immigration, and climate change.<\/p>\n<h4>Enter Your PanelPicker Idea<\/h4>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/panelpicker.sxsw.com\/\">PanelPicker.sxsw.com<\/a>, login or create a new profile to begin. All ideas received will be posted online for <strong>Community Voting<\/strong> from Monday, August 7 \u2013 Friday, August 25. Review the resources and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/news\/2017\/panelpicker-tips\/\">tips<\/a> to get started \u2013 <strong>PanelPicker entry deadline is Sunday, July 23 at 11:59pm PT<\/strong>. Good luck!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panelpicker.sxsw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\">Enter Your Idea<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendars \u2013 <a href=\"\/attend\">registration<\/a> and <a href=\"\/hotels\">housing<\/a> opens on <strong>Tuesday, August 1<\/strong> for the 2018 SXSW Conference &amp; Festivals in Austin, Texas from March 9-18.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Austin during SXSW 2017 \u2013 Photo by Mike Vas<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/news\/2017\/cities-summit-fresh-look\/\">The Cities Summit at SXSW \u2013 A Fresh Look at the Future of Cities<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\">SXSW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: SxSW Film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cities Summit, a new convergence program for SXSW 2018, explores the future of cities through two full days of inspirational&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/107\/2017\/07\/v1_1280_XbIk3eEfJ9vo-640x360.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}