In case you haven’t already heard the extremely good news, the South by Southwest (SXSW) organization has now included a “Health Track” as part of it’s mainstream events. I’ve copied and pasted the “full story” of how this came about below (originally posted on the SXSH blog).
While it may appear to be a little too late to have a blog post about submitting your “Health Track” proposals in time for the original deadline of July 9th, the good news is that the SXSW organizing committee has extended the deadline over the weekend, so you have at least 1 more full day (till July 11th) to submit your proposals, so if you haven’t already done so, you still have a day’s reprieve — GOOD LUCK!
DISCLOSURE: I have been invited to sit on the advisory board of the SXSWi “Health Track”.
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Here’s the original post from the SXSH blog:
SXSW Health Track – Now a Mainstream Event!
In case you haven’t heard the great news, the SXSW organizing committee will be including a “Health Track” as part of the mainstream events of the wider South by Southwest festivities conference 
! If you haven’t already done so, please submit your proposals for a health-related session by JULY 9th — below is a picture of the “Health” category which you can select as an option: 
A big part of the goal for Social Health 2010 was to try to get more health topics into the SXSW mainstream event and, to that end, we have definitely succeeded with the inclusion of “Health” as a distinct category for the SXSW sessions. Exactly how the presentations/sessions will be planned and organized for 2011 is still somewhat unclear, but there is a possibility that the health sessions will take place during the first 1-2 days of the week-long event.
The HUGE success and conversation surrounding Social Health 2010 was a big part of the reason that the SXSW organization decided to run with the “Health Track” as part of the
mainstream event in 2011. And much of the initial and follow-up discussions that led to their interest, stemmed from conversations and discussions between the Social Health 2010′s organizing committee (Shwen Gwee, Dana Lewis, Reed Smith, and Tom Stitt) and the SXSWi organizer. So it is with great pride and delight that they have now recognized the
importance of health topics as part of the event and we are fully supportive of the “health track” within SXSWi.
Having said all that, we — the organizing committee — also acknowledge that Social Health was an UN-CONFERENCE and therefore different from a traditional conference event (if you can even call SXSW that), so we are thinking about the possibility of moving the un-conference to a different date and location/event — otherwise they would be competing with each other at SXSW; plus we already achieved our goal with getting it into mainstream there.
Thank you to everyone who supported Social Health 2010, whether as a participant, speaker, sponsor, or even just via “social conversation” — you were a big part of the success and this wonderful outcome!
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