Welcome to SXSWedu 2013! We're so excited to announce our new conference season with today's release of our refreshed website and the opening of PanelPicker, our session proposal environment. PanelPicker will remain open through September 7, so lend your voice and perspective to SXSWedu by submitting your session proposal today.

For all the attendees that provided feedback from last season's SXSWedu, thank you sincerely. Your input helps us design and host an event that will resonate with our diverse and growing SXSWedu community. We've paid heed to your fantastic suggestions and recommendations, and are implementing a number of new initiatives that are certain to engage and inspire.

We enjoyed tremendous growth at this year's event, and are working hard to invent an even better SXSWedu in 2013. Please stay abreast of new developments here at sxswedu.com and join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter.

We look forward to seeing you at SXSWedu, March 4-7, 2013 in Austin!

Ron Reed
Executive Producer

1. Photo by Jessica MacCall. 2. Photo by Otto Helweg.