SXSW Texas is about to get some Hummus flavor

Howdy y’all, YallaStartup is heading to Austin Texas to represent the Middle Eastern startup community at SXSW!

SXSW is one of the hottest, and biggest conferences in the US around Film, Music and Interactive Media. For the first time this year there will be panel on Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and YallaStartup will be taking part of it. The panel will take place on March 14 at 9:30am and will discuss the state of digital entrepreneurship, obstacles, opportunities and success stories.

If you happen to be at SXSW, pass by say “howdy y’all” and make sure to cheer us. If you are not around, feel free to give us ideas and thoughts to talk about by commenting below, tweeting, emailing, texting, buzzing, yamlifying, foursquaring or even pigeon posting (unless the pigeon gets shot down by our Texan hosts).


UPDATE: We are also be cross posting this panel with our friends at HyperLinkPodcast.


UPDATE: Watch the SXSW panel below.

PRESENTERS

Habib Haddad – Yamli.com/YallaStartup
Katherine Maher – sharek961.org
Sacha Tueni – Facebook
Moeed Ahmad – Al-Jazeera
Joi Ito – Creative Commons

SXSW 2010 Panel – Right-to-Left: Entrepreneurship & the Middle East from YallaStartup on Vimeo.

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