About this site

A personalised lens on the 1,541-session SXSW London 2026 programme, tuned for Alex at Gocertify. The intent is to cut a six-day, fourteen-venue programme down to the sessions most likely to be worth your time as a technical attendee.

How the match score works

Each session gets a 0-100 score combining two signals: SXSW's own category tags (with strong positive weights on For Techies, Technology & AI, Venture, and Society Rewired, and small negative weights on pure-entertainment tracks like music sets, film screenings, and morning Zumba classes), and a keyword pass over the session title, subtitle and description. The keyword pass rewards mentions of AI, LLMs, agentic systems, ML, infrastructure, developer tooling, security, identity/verification (Gocertify's home turf), and core startup/venture language.

75-100 — Top pick. Don't miss it.
55-74 — Strong. Probably worth showing up for.
35-54 — Maybe. Useful if you've got a gap.
0-34 — Skip unless something else pulls you in.

What's here

A day-by-day timeline grouped by hour; full-text search across titles, descriptions, venues, and categories; category and venue filters; sort by time or match score; and a saved-only filter so you can revisit your shortlist from any view. The My Picks page detects scheduling conflicts and exports your agenda as a calendar file.

Data & hosting

The schedule is loaded from a slimmed, pre-scored JSON snapshot of the official programme, statically generated at build time. The site is plain Next.js (App Router) and is built to deploy to Vercel with no configuration: connect the repo, set the project root to sxsw-london, and it ships.

Caveats

Keyword scoring is fast but blunt - a description that mentions AI in passing scores the same as one where AI is the topic. Sessions with missing or thin descriptions will look worse than they are. If you spot mis-scoring, the weights in preprocess.py are easy to tune.