Personalize Your 2025 Programming & Networking Experience Through Recommendations

We want you to have the best SXSW EDU experience, and when you find programming and networking opportunities that best suit your goals for the event, we believe that your experience will be even better. Find personalized recommendations for programming and networking in the SXSW EDU Schedule and SXSW EDU GO mobile app.

Learn how to find your personalized recommendations:

Programming Recommendations

When looking for personalized programming recommendations a variety of factors come into play such as type of events, time, location, and popularity. The more sessions and events that you favorite the better the algorithm can find more programming that you would enjoy. These recommendations can be viewed in the schedule or mobile app.

Get started by exploring the schedule and making an initial list of programming that you are interested in. To do this, you can explore the schedule in many ways:

• Browse by Track – Tracks are broad topics used to organize the program and help illuminate overarching focus areas. There are 12 total tracks for SXSW EDU 2025.
• Browse by Format – The format reflects the structure, presentation style, and length of the session. Explore the 2025 formats.
• Browse by Tag – Tags are specific subtopics designed to help attendees find popular content areas on the program. Each session on the schedule has one to two tags associated with it.

Find your personalized programming recommendations after you start favoriting events:

Schedule - To get started, log in to the schedule and link your 2025 badge. You can find your recommendations in your profile or visit schedule.sxswedu.com/recommends.

Mobile app - To get started, go to your profile and log in to your account to link your 2025 badge. Your can find your recommendations in the “Home” tab in the app menu.

Networking Recommendations

A variety of networking recommendations will be available to you based on several factors including people and events that you have in common. Continue to favorite more people and events to help the algorithm find more networking connections for you. These networking recommendations can only be viewed in the mobile app.

To view your personalized session recommendations, go to your profile in the mobile app and log in to your account to link your 2025 badge. Head to the “Home” tab in the app menu, and then scroll down to “SXSW EDU Recommends” to view your session recommendations.

To view your list of networking matches and begin messaging in the mobile app to connect, go to the "Attendee Networking" tab, choose "Attendee Directory" and then select "SXSW EDU Recommends." Select the attendee profile and “send message” to utilize the in-app chat feature.

In order to use this feature and allow the app to start looking for your recommendations, you will need to adjust your privacy setting preferences. Navigate to your profile in the app after logging into your account and select the settings gear in the top right corner where you can toggle on both “opt-in for the attendee list” and “allow analytics to collect user data.”

Use these recommendations to enhance your 2025 experience. We can’t wait to see you in Austin soon!

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