Disruption has been the theme for healthcare at South by Southwest with everyone looking to disrupt the status quo. Other than the cold and rain, the Health track may have been the real disruptor of SXSW 2017, which was exciting for those passionate about the healthcare disruption movement. The health track sessions moved from the JW Marriott to the Austin Convention Center, and saw significant wait times at sessions.
It was great to be reunited with the supportive and collaborative SXSW community not viewing innovation as a transactional, zero-sum game, but inspired by a group of people working on the same problems and supporting the success of each other. Shawna Butler of Singularity University, an Austinite, referenced the city in a way I loved saying, “Austin is full of pathologically helpful people”. I could not agree more about Austin or the SXSW community.
