Silicon Hills News

30/06/2024

We worked until it didn’t- the old sign from its shuttered SXSW location in Austin

27/06/2024

Anyone in the Wimberley area wants to cool off at the Blue Hole tonight - Silicon Hills News is hosting a swim party from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Want to cool off this summer? Join us for a swim and gathering at one of Texas' best swimming holes

27/06/2024

Get your SXSW Panel Picker proposal ready!

At SXSW headquarters in downtown Austin, Hugh Forrest, Co-president and Chief of Programming at SXSW, provided insights Thursday morning on how to put together a proposal for the SXSW Panel Picker. Every year, SXSW gets more than 4,500 submissions from people eager to speak or present at SXSW. It on...

08/06/2024

Zoholics at the Austin Convention Center

01/06/2024

Austin female founders face an uphill battle to grow their businesses

In Austin, female founders get only one percent of all venture capital allocated annually. The lack of funds to fuel female-founded ventures is a major problem in Austin, holding back the creation of new jobs and the further development of new and existing businesses. And it’s not just VC dollars;...

22/05/2024

Political campaigns increasingly rely on technology but have small teams, creating cybersecurity vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can exploit. Will Hurd, a former Republican congressman from San Antonio, said election misinformation is a real threat to American Democracy. Hurd, a former 2024 pres...

09/05/2024

SXSW London!

Austin’s iconic music, film, and tech festival, South by Southwest, is going across the pond to launch SXSW London in June 2025. It’s SXSW’s first European conference. But SXSW did launch SXSW in Sydney, Australia, last year. “We couldn’t be more excited to bring the SXSW experience to Lon...

27/04/2024

Another week, another Silicon Hills News newsletter. Did you know Meta's median wage for employees is $379,000? Holy Moley! Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be journalists. They'll always be poor.

As a technology professional in Central Texas, you are invited to this important security and technology event at InnoTech Austin, the region's largest IT and security conference and expo. Below are details for complimentary and discounted conference passes. This conference also includes Contact H...

27/04/2024

Silicon Hills News held an excellent lunch and learn event on generative AI last Wednesday at the Umlauf Gardens in downtown Austin. You can read all about it here if you couldn't be there.

Silicon Hills News hosted an event on Wednesday in the Crenshaw Room of the Umlauf Garden in downtown Austin to discuss tools and tips for using generative AI in the workplace. It also included some of the potential pitfalls of using the technology. The speakers included Tabrez Syed, founder of Boxc...

26/04/2024

Fabulous lunch and learn event on Generative AI - benefits and drawbacks at Unlauf Gardens in downtown Austin. Featuring presentations by Tabrez Sayed, Kathryn Lewis and Madhu Basu. Part of the BigIdeas event series. Story to come on SiliconHillsNews website

26/04/2024

Google Austin along with Defending Digital Campaigns put on a half day summit at Google’s downtown office on protecting elections from misinformation - see the stories at Silicon Hills’ website

26/04/2024

Cyber criminals are threatening our elections and ultimately the U.S. Democracy, former Congressman WIll Hurd says.

Political campaigns increasingly rely on technology but have small teams, creating cybersecurity vulnerabilities that cybercriminals can exploit. Will Hurd, a former Republican congressman from San Antonio, said election misinformation is a real threat to American Democracy. Hurd, a former 2024 pres...

23/04/2024

Manu Rehani featured on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

Manu Rehani is the founder of Issa, an emotional AI startup. Rehani is an innovator in applied behavioral and cognitive linguistics. He is an inventor, mentor, and board advisor for several startups. After successfully exiting two tech ventures, he’s currently focused on developing a new class of ...

17/04/2024

This is Silicon Hills News latest newsletter. (It also means my latest newsletter—I report and write the stories, do the podcast, create the newsletter, put on the events, and raise all the sponsorship and advertising dollars to make it all possible.) So if you're not a subscriber yet, please subscribe! It's free.

Join us for an AI lunch and learn about the Benefits and Drawbacks of ChatGPT and other large language models in the Crenshaw Room at the Umlauf Gardens on April 24th from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. There are only a few tickets left. 

13/04/2024

Show Her the Money! Film on lack of VC funding for female founders shown in Austin

Female founders need more money to finance their ventures – that’s the key takeaway from the documentary “Show Her the Money.” Over 100 people turned out Thursday night at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar in Austin to watch the film, highlighting female founders, their quest for Venture Capit...

02/04/2024

Janice Omadeke's Book: Mentorship Unlocked is now available

After New York-based The Cru acquired the Mentor Method in September of 2022, Joseph Kopser suggested that Janice Omadeke write a book about mentorship. Omadeke founded the Mentor Method in 2015 in Washington, D.C. The business created mentorship software to engage, retain and develop talented and d...

29/03/2024

The latest episode of Ideas to Invoices features Aaron Thweatt of Respark Coaching

Aaron Thweatt, a former employee of AECOM, Activision Blizzard, SpaceX, and DoorDash, founded Respark Coaching to empower individuals to manage conversations effectively. In the latest episode of Ideas to Invoices, Thweatt discusses his belief that managing conversations is the most powerful skill s...

29/03/2024

Futurist Amy Webb at SXSW 2024 Discusses Major Tech Trends Affecting Us

At SXSW, Amy Webb’s talk emphasized the significance of identifying and responding to fundamental technological trends, especially those related to AI, the interconnectedness of devices, and biotech.

19/03/2024

Colossal Makes a Key Hire

Colossal Biosciences announced Tuesday that it has hired a key executive, Ancient DNA Expert Beth Shapiro, as its Chief Science Officer. Shapiro’s joining Colossal full-time will help the company meet its de-extinction and species preservation goals. Shapiro, an internationally renowned evolutiona...

17/03/2024

Austin-made robots to help make Mercedes-Benz cars

Apollo, a humanoid robot designed and made in Austin, will soon assist in Mercedes-Benz’s manufacturing line. Apptronik, which makes Apollo, signed a deal with Mercedes-Benz to provide its Apollo humanoid robots in logistics to bring parts to the production line for workers to assemble, according ...

17/03/2024

A few more SXSW snapshots

17/03/2024

Michael Dell at SXSW

17/03/2024

More snapshots

15/03/2024

SXSW - wrote 8 significant stories in 7 days and still 5 more to go. Here's the latest -

Michael Dell sold stamps at auctions to make extra money as a kid. At 16, he started driving his parents’ old station wagon to the Harris County courthouse to collect data on marriage licenses to target newlyweds and sell newspaper subscriptions. He then hired some of his high school buddies to ch...

14/03/2024

Creative industries Expo at

14/03/2024

12/03/2024

Uber has big plans for Austin

Ridesharing companies have had a difficult time historically in Austin. 2015, Uber and Lyft didn’t operate during South by Southwest because of regulatory hurdles. Ridesharing companies shut down operations the following year after Austin voters passed a proposition requiring driver background che...