Hugh Forrest serves as the director of the South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi) Festival. This event brings more than 25,000 digital creatives from across the United States and around the world to Austin for five days of panels, brainstorming, networking, deal-making and fun. Forrest graduated from Austin High School in 1980, and then majored in English at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Before joining the SXSW team, he founded/managed a small alternative publication called The Austin Challenger.
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