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Hugh Forrest serves as the Director of the annual South by Southwest Interactive Festival (http://sxswcom/interactive) scheduled yearly in March in Austin, Texas, USA This event brings together more than 30,000 digital creatives from across the United States and around the world These digital creatives are inspired by five days of panels, presentations, brainstorming, networking, deal-making, socializing, creating, innovating, and fun Forrest was named “Austinite of the Year” in February 2012 by the Austin Chamber of Commerce (along with fellow SXSW Directors Roland Swenson, Louis Black and Nick Barbaro) In June 2014, Forrest and these other SXSW Directors were named Austin Entrepreneurs of the Year by Ernst & Young