#GAReads | The big winner at SXSW this year: Women
photo credit: nrkbeta (Ana Marie Cox (MTV) @ SXSW 2017) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
"The big winner at SXSW this year: Women":
The most talked about topic at the South by Southwest this year wasn't a company or a trend: It was women in tech.
Official keynote speakers at the Austin tech, film and music conference this year were evenly split between men and women. Though it's hard to tell exactly how many women spoke about tech-related issues because programming is fluctuating and tech topics crossed all 24 tracks, a source with knowledge about the situation said there were notably more women and gender-focused sessions than in prior years.