SXSW has long been a platform where ideas, voices, and perspectives meet to explore what’s next in innovation, technology, and business.
At SXSW London, head over to Purpose House—a space dedicated to showcasing the work of institutions, organisations, and individuals tackling some of the most urgent questions of our time. Expect insight, provocation, and possibility from NGO leaders, business innovators, activists, and creatives.
HIGHLIGHTS
Purpose House Programme Council Chambers, Shoreditch Town Hall
Tuesday 3rd – Thursday 5th June Tuesday 3rd June 14:00 – 14:40
How to Change the Law? Hard Art on Democracy and Creativity Speakers: Clare Farrell (Convenor, Hard Art) Asif Kapadia (Film Director)
Moderator: Monique Roffey (Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University) Link: https://lnkd.in/egTx7mKh
16:45 – 17:30
London: ICONS of the City
Panel Speakers: Anahita Harding, SC SabrinaCohen-Hatton Moderators: June Sarpong OBE (Creative Broadcaster & Author), Justine Simons OBE (Deputy Mayor for Culture & Creative Industries)
Link: https://lnkd.in/eqzz-VT6
Wednesday 4th June 10:45 – 11:30 Earthshot: This Is How We Change Our World
Speakers: Pierre-Yves Paslier, @Fiona Burnet, Aadith Moorthy (Founder & CEO, Boomitra), Gunnlaugur Erlendsson (Founder & CEO, ENSO),
Moderator: Mete Coban MBE Coban (Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy)
Link: https://lnkd.in/eY88DZmq
12:20 – 13:00 Tackling Inequality: Can We Trust Things to Change?
Speakers: Georgia Leslie, Luis C., Ed Poultney, Irenitemi Somuyiwa
Moderator: Jamila Brown
15:00 – 15:25 How Do We Make the Future? The Children's AI Manifesto – The Alan Turing Institute Speaker: Mhairi Aitken (Senior Ethics Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute)
Link: https://lnkd.in/eEym23Th
Thursday 5th June
12:00 - 12:40
Who Decides The Future?
Speaker Darryl Bhebhe, Dan Laws My Life My Say and Julian Hall FRSA BCAe
Moderator: Jada E.
Link :https://lnkd.in/emaTgMBG
15:00 – 15:40
What Do We Have in Common? Undoing Polarisation
Speaker: Jovan Owusu-Nepaul (Founder, ONInsights), Joe Powell MP,Guto Harri
Moderator Emma Harrison Make Votes Matter
Special mention to Alex Zur-Clark
