{"id":53274,"date":"2026-08-06T14:13:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=53274"},"modified":"2026-08-06T14:13:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T19:13:29","slug":"help-bring-accs-workforce-innovation-to-sxsw-edu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/06\/help-bring-accs-workforce-innovation-to-sxsw-edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Bring ACC&#8217;s Workforce Innovation to SXSW EDU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin Community College District (ACC) has been selected to participate in the 2027 SXSW EDU Panel Picker, and the community can help bring ACC&#8217;s workforce innovation story to one of the nation&#8217;s leading education conferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACC&#8217;s proposed session, Building America&#8217;s Future Workforce Through Partnerships, highlights how the college collaborates with K-12 education, employers, and regional partners to create education-to-career pathways that address the evolving workforce needs of Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel will explore how:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Education and industry can co-design workforce programs in real time.<\/li>\n<li>Regional partnerships can help close workforce gaps.<\/li>\n<li>Communities can create scalable models that benefit students, employers, and local economies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Public voting is open now through Sunday, August 23, and every vote helps.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Three Easy Steps to Vote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sign In: Visit the SXSW EDU PanelPicker and sign in with your free SXSW ID or create a new account.<\/li>\n<li>Find Our Session: Select the SXSW EDU category and search for &#8220;Building America&#8217;s Future Workforce Through Partnerships.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Cast Your Vote: Click the heart icon next to the session title.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vote here: <a href=\"https:\/\/participate.sxsw.com\/flow\/sxsw\/sxsw27\/community-voting-edu\/page\/community-voting\/session\/1785013988383001y9UA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/participate.sxsw.com\/flow\/sxsw\/sxsw27\/community-voting-edu\/page\/community-voting\/session\/1785013988383001y9UA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College District (ACC) has been selected to participate in the 2027 SXSW EDU Panel Picker, and the community can help bring ACC&#8217;s workforce innovation story to one of the nation&#8217;s leading education conferences. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/08\/06\/help-bring-accs-workforce-innovation-to-sxsw-edu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":52790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[138,2735,494,336],"class_list":["post-53274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-announcements","tag-sxsw","tag-sxsw-edu","tag-vote","tag-workforce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53275,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53274\/revisions\/53275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}