The South by Southwest Interactive Festival wrapped up Tuesday after five days . Space , the next entrepreneurial frontier . Festival director : ` ` We ' ve had a much more hardware and software focus than ... before '' Other topics : 3-D printing , private networks , mining big data . The attendance swelled to an all - time high of 30,621 , up some 50 % from last year .
The South by Southwest Interactive Festival wrapped up Tuesday after five days . Festival director : ` ` We ' ve had a much more hardware and software focus than ... before '' Other topics : 3-D printing , private networks , mining big data . The attendance swelled to an all - time high of 30,621 , up some 50 % from last year .