Amy Wanke

Amy is the Director of Global Sales and Exhibitions at South By Southwest, a music, film, technology and cultural event held annually in Austin, TX. She leads a team of 30 domestic and international sales executives, account managers and fulfillment experts who help organizations successfully leverage the SXSW platform. Amy believes in thoughtful engagements from client organizations that add to attendee experience while achieving the best possible ROI outcomes. Based on her personal passions, she has created many of the most successful and talked-about platforms of the event in the past few years including the SXSW Podcast Stage, the Wellness Expo, and the official SXSW International Women’s Day Celebration. Amy has been at SXSW since 2003, starting in the Registration Department and then working her way through the ranks of the Sales Department. Through that process she has turned a three-member team selling limited products into a dynamic and robust staff with more than one thousand ways for organizations to successfully engage the international audience at SXSW.

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