{"id":3636,"date":"2018-06-25T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/06\/25\/explore-sxsw-interactive-innovation-awards-categories-for-2019\/"},"modified":"2018-06-25T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T15:15:33","slug":"explore-sxsw-interactive-innovation-awards-categories-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/06\/25\/explore-sxsw-interactive-innovation-awards-categories-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Categories for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_7290-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Interactive Innovation Awards presented by KPMG - Photo by Merrick Ales\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-42249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/apply-to-participate\/interactive-innovation-awards\/\">SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards<\/a> include <strong>13 award categories and 6 Special Honors,<\/strong> which recognize the most forward-looking tech developments in the connected world, launched or released in the 2018 calendar-year.<\/p>\n<p>SXSW Interactive\u2019s annual competition is now accepting early entry applications. The Awards are open to anyone with a project, product, creative endeavor, scientific discovery, or student project that will launch or has launched between <strong>January 1 &#8211; December 31, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New for 2019, we&#8217;ve added the <strong><a href=\"\/apply-to-participate\/interactive-innovation-awards\/#categories\">Robotics and Hardware<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Social &amp; Culture Impact,<\/strong> and <strong>Speculative Design<\/strong> categories to the Interactive Innovation Awards. We&#8217;ve also expanded 2018&#8217;s Smart Cities, Transportation &amp; Delivery, Style &amp; Wearable Tech, and VR, AR &amp; MR categories.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the 13 award categories and 6 special honors that will be recognized at the 2019 Innovation Awards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/apply-to-participate\/interactive-innovation-awards\/#categories\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\">See all Categories<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Tell us all about your <a href=\"\/apply-to-participate\/interactive-innovation-awards\/#entry\">entry<\/a> and don\u2019t be modest! The best entry forms give the Awards Jurists a thorough sense of your project, product or service (including some level of interaction with the project being entered, or video examples of it being used). Be sure to include information like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What the entry is and what it does (what problem does it solve or need does it fill)?  <\/li>\n<li>Who it&#8217;s intended for (audience, target market, user it&#8217;s designed for)  <\/li>\n<li>What tools were used to build it; or what was involved in bringing the project together?  <\/li>\n<li>Who was involved in bringing the project to fruition?  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Feel free to include additional resources like spec sheets, marketing materials, associated social media accounts, testimonials, and a link to access the project with login info if needed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Discounts for Students, researchers, and academics for the Student and SciFi No Longer categories are available upon request.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cart.sxsw.com\/products\/webapp\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"button\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Deadlines to Enter<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Early Entry: Monday, June 25 \u2013 Friday, August 19 \u2014 $75 fee<\/strong><br \/>\nRegular Entry: Saturday, August 20 \u2013 Friday, October 5 \u2014 $150 fee<br \/>\nFinal Entry Deadline: Sunday, October 7, 2018<\/p>\n<p>Join us for another exciting event March 8-17, 2019 in Austin, Texas. <strong>Registration and Housing will open on August 1, 2018<\/strong>. <a href=\"\/newsletters\">Sign up for <strong>SXSW Event Updates<\/strong><\/a> so you don&#8217;t miss a beat, announcement or important deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look back at the 2018 event with <strong>videos<\/strong> from Keynotes, film premieres, sessions, and more on the <a href=\"\/video\">official SXSW YouTube Channel<\/a>. Find and follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sxsw\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sxsw\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sxswfestival\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"\/news\">SXSW News<\/a> for the latest SX coverage.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Photo by Merrick Ales<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sxsw.com\/news\/2018\/explore-sxsw-interactive-innovation-awards-categories-for-2019\/\">Explore SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards Categories for 2019<\/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 SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards include 13 award categories and 6 Special Honors, which recognize the most forward-looking tech developments in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":3637,"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-3636","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\/2018\/06\/DSC_7290-640x360.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-WE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","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=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}