Is SXSW Coming to San Jose?

South by Southwest (SXSW) is an epic-sized event located in Austin that is part music festival and part tech conference. To give you and idea of scale, last year 300,000 people attended and it generated $190 million for the city of Austin. This is one of the largest events in the US. For some perspective, the largest show in Las Vegas is CES, it takes up millions and millions of square feet of event space, every hotel is booked and you can barely walk in the streets... it attracts about 150,000 people.

Well, I have some good news. It looks like Dan Pulcrano, the CEO of Metro Newspapers, wants to recreate something similar to SXSW in Downtown San Jose! Given his background with the San Jose Jazz Festival and Music in the Park, he might just be the person to pull it off. The new event is called Creative Convergence Silicon Valley (C2SV) and it is scheduled for September 26-29 this year at the newly remodeled San Jose Convention Center.

While it's not quite up to the scale on SXSW, it will be one heck of a start. Dan and the rest of the organizers are trying to book over 100 musical acts across 20 different venues! There will also be all sorts of tech events and exhibits, as well as keynote speeches from tech luminaries.

Given the timing of C2SV, there is also a chance that this could coincide with ZER01 in future years. How awesome would that be? See the tentative schedule below and the festival website over here.

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Schedule

The 2013 C2SV schedule is shaping up very nicely, and we’ll have additions to add and announcements to make.

In the meantime, here are some highlights to calendar.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

C2SV Opening Party
First Night of Music

Friday, September 27, 2013

Keynote Speakers
Conference Sessions
Music at 20+ Venues
Expo at Convention Center

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Keynote Speakers
Conference Sessions
Music at 20+ Venues

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Final day
Closing Party

SWSW in Austin, Texas

C2SV Mockup