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SxSW
Extracted from the Wikipedia article South by Southwest.
SXSW is run by the company SXSW, LLC, which organizes conferences, trade shows, festivals, and other events. In addition to SXSW, the company runs the SXSW EDU conference and the SXSW London festival, and co-runs North by Northeast in Toronto, Canada. The company has previously run or co-run the events North by Northwest (1995–2001), West by Southwest (2006–2010), SXSW Eco (2011–2016), SXSW V2V (2013–2015), the me Convention (2017–2019) and SXSW Sydney (2023–2025). A large number of other events, past and present, sometimes collectively referred to as "four-letter festivals", have been inspired by SXSW.