Lena Dunham Will Keynote SXSW Next Year

Lena Dunham, the creator and star of HBO's Girls, will be a keynote speaker at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, in March 2014

Her talk will be the one of the 500 sessions that feature innovative musicians, filmmakers, and tech moguls.

Other notable speakers include Adam Savage from MythBusters, Mashable's own founder Pete Cashmore, Ben Horowitz of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and Jason Blum, the mind behind Paranormal Activity.

The conference added a sports element this year, where Grantland founder and editor Bill Simmons will take the stage alongside FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver, who recently moved his blog from the New York Times to ESPN Read more...