PRESENTS:
Vancouver Takeover at SXSW 2024
Join us for a curated experience of music, art, frontier technologies and provocative panel discussions. We are organizing three major events, designed to ignite conversation and turn ideas into action.
We're excited to bring together leaders from Vancouver and around the world to generate creative thinking at the biggest tech festival.
Let's create the future together!
Vancouver Takeover at SXSW
Sign up now to see globally recognized speakers, immersive activations, and leading innovators, that you can connect with in Austin, TX.
SPEAKERS & ACTIVATORS
Hear from experts across a range of fields on the topics we need to understand. We are curating a dynamic group of people - watch this space as we add more speakers and activations for our Frontiers of Innovation Day on March 10, 2024.
Global Head of Immersive Technology and Spatial Computing Research for JPMorgan Chase and Co
Producer MIT Technology Review, In Machines We Trust and Science and Technology Journalist
ACTIVATIONS
We're curating an amazing lineup of Creators for the Frontiers of Innovation Day. Stay tuned for more announcements!
FEATURED PROGRAMMING AT SXSW
Dan Burgar
Offical SXSW Speaker
March 11, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Austin Marriott Downtown Waller Ballroom C
POP! By Gentillhomme (Montreal)
Activation
March 8-22
Republic Square (corner of W 5th St and Guadalupe St)
How to Personalize Large-Scale Event Experiences
SXSW Panel
March 12, 11:30am – 12:30pm
Topaz Ballroom
Canadian Innovation Lounge: Day 1
March 10, 11am-6pm
Fairmount, Lady Bird Lake Room
Canadian Innovation Lounge: Day 3
March 12, 11am-6pm
Fairmount, Lady Bird Lake Room
C. Diab
Artist Showcase
March 13, 8:00pm
St David's Bethell Hall
QUÉBEC@SXSW 2024
March 8-12
Various Locations (Austin)
SXSW Innovation Awards Ceremony
March 9
Griffin Hall, JW Marriott
Canadian Innovation Lounge: Day 2
March 11, 11am-6pm
Fairmount, Lady Bird Lake Room
Vancouver Takeover 2023
The Vancouver Takeover involved four days of successful trade mission work with B.C.’s Minister of Jobs, Economic Development, and Innovation - Brenda Bailey, and Vancouver’s Mayor Ken Sim, plus a sold-out VIP dinner for local leaders to meet and share opportunities.
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The Frontier Collective’s Vancouver Day was a standout success with over 3,500 RSVPs. Dynamic programming showcased diverse thought leadership panels, keynotes, B2B matchmaking, networking, and more. The VIP reception included bites from a Vancouver seafood company and live music from Rae Isla.
A LOOK BACK AT
The Vancouver Day event attracted global brands like Apple, Google, Disney, Nike, and NYTimes, and luminaries like Second Life’s Philip Rosedale and Tony Parisi. Vancouver Day at SXSW 2023 brought together over $600M in deals.
About
Frontier Collective
The Frontier Collective is a coalition of leaders in tech, culture, and community driving forward the development and support of frontier technologies.
This non-traditional organization promotes the region’s tech industry on the world stage, grows investment and infrastructure for early-stage companies, and attracts diverse talent to Vancouver.
By building on the city’s established tech ecosystem, the Frontier Collective aims to position Vancouver as the tech capital of Canada, and a top-five global leader in frontier technology by 2030.