Thousands descend on Austin for first day of SXSW

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Thousands of people descended onto Austin Friday for the first day of the film and interactive portions of South by Southwest.
“You get to see the trends that are kind of coming, you get to see kind of what people are starting to think,” Mark Stephan, who was attending the conference, said. “They’re futurists.”
The endless panels and sessions are also attracting international attention.
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