Watch SXSW EDU 2025 Keynotes, Featured Sessions, and Partner Programming on YouTube

Missed out on the most talked-about moments from SXSW EDU 2025? Or maybe you are just eager to experience them again. Now's your chance! Keynotes, Featured Sessions, and Partner Programming are available to watch on YouTube. Plus, audio recordings are now available for a selection of this year’s programming.

This year’s event brought together a wide array of voices tackling today’s biggest challenges in education. From turning uncertainty into curiosity, the power of libraries, how to work with your enemies, and more, these sessions deliver fresh insights and inspiration that resonate long after the event.

Catch up now on YouTube.

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Keynote Sessions

Each day of SXSW EDU 2025 began with an inspiring Keynote Session to set the stage for the day’s conversations, while the final day concluded with a powerful closing session to end the event on a high note. Hear from this year’s Keynote speakers, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Shamil Idriss, Jasmin Rubero, Simran Jeet Singh, and more.

• Rewiring How We Learn: The Power of an Experimental Mindset
• What We Make Visible to Children: Art, Storytelling, & Picturebooks
• Turning Conflict into Progress in Our Divided Times

Featured Sessions

This year’s Featured Sessions explored key trends and groundbreaking topics shaping education and beyond. Hear from Manu Kapur on productive failure, Kara Bobroff on language revitalization, Ryann Liebenthal on the student debt crisis, and many more inspiring voices.

• AI & The Future of Education
• Backstage Pass: STEAM Behind Country Music’s Biggest Night
• Essential Skills for Cultivating Healthy Student Achievement
• The Full Spectrum: A Raccoon & Neurodivergence in Kid’s Media
• Glocal FTW: Cross-Sector Partnerships for Collective Impact
• Indigenous Learning Systems: Language Revitalization & Education
• Learning From Productive Failure
• Learning How to Work With Your Enemies
• Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Conversation on Leadership
• Mental Health: It Takes a Village
• The Student Debt Crisis: Past, Present, & Future
• Three Innovators Discuss Books, Media, & Entrepreneurship
• Unleashing Student Agency: Worldwide Evidence & Practice
• You Belong in Libraries

Partner Programming Sessions

Hear from our partners, including The Allstate Foundation, Blackstone LaunchPad, Lumina Foundation, Western Governors University, and many more who are doing inspiring work within their communities. Dive into this year’s Partner Programming Sessions to see how these organizations are driving innovation and making a lasting impact in education.

• Capacity, Care & Community for Educators
• Challenge Accepted: How Gen Z is Serving & Improving Communities
• Closing the Outcomes Gap for Non-Degree Credentials
• Cultivating Entrepreneurial Skills for Career Mobility
• Do Students & Society Still Value Higher Ed?
• Early-Stage Funding for K-12 Schools
• Engaging & Equipping Youth to Serve Communities
• From Daunting to Doable: How to Empower the Next Generation
• The Higher Ed Headlines that More Americans Need to Read
• How Educator Wellness Positively Impacts Student Outcomes
• Igniting a Spark Globally: Bridging Gaps into Health Tech
• Phone-Free Their Minds: The Return of Curiosity & Creativity
• Reinventing High School for the 21st Century & Beyond
• Skills IRL: Transforming Education & Employment

Audio Session Recordings

Catch up on sessions you missed or go back to relive your favorites. More than 230 audio session recordings are available in the SXSW EDU Schedule.

Limited Presale for SXSW EDU 2026

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