Watch Disney's SXSW Panel Live: 'The Future of World-Building' Starts Soon

Mar 08, 2025 in "The Walt Disney Company"

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Disney's SXSW Panel Live: 'The Future of World-Building'

Posted: Saturday March 8, 2025 12:11pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D'Amaro and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Alan Bergman are set to take the stage at SXSW 2025 today to discuss the future of Disney Parks and entertainment.

Disney's SXSW Panel Live: 'The Future of World-Building'

Their panel, titled "The Future of World-Building at Disney," begins at 12:30 p.m. ET and will cover Disney's latest innovations in storytelling, technology, and immersive experiences.

Watch the presentation live via the official Disney livestream embedded below:

Be sure to follow our updates as we cover any major announcements and reveals from the session. Disney has teased some exciting news, so stay tuned for the latest developments.

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GringrinngghostMar 11, 2025

Iger was a member of Apple's Board. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/bob-iger-resigns-from-apple-board.html

Scenario one didn’t happen overnight, it was built over time. You’re expecting an overnight replacement for a system that took many decades to build, even Wall St has realized it’s not gonna happen over night. We’re only a little over 5 years into an industry wide change to media. Yes there have been and will be bumps in the road, it has happened industry wide. That doesn’t mean however you throw the baby out with the bath water, you continue to help it grow to maturity. And last I checked it’s only two companies that are really driving the conversation on the change to steaming, Disney and Netflix, with everyone else following their lead. So for someone who supposedly has no control over the competition they are driving them to change based on their own moves. Also I think you’re losing the point of your argument here as now you’re back to talking about the system of streaming rather than the content of streaming. So maybe pick a point and stick with it.

SirwalterraleighMar 11, 2025

Which outcome do you tbink is “preferred”? 1. A company is flooded with high value advertising revenue - 85% from their sports entity that had a monopoly hold over the market - and financed over 50% of the operation…which they built their physical assets, programming, etc with 2. Giving away the “successor” with no control over competition and trying to gin up the same scenario…generating what adjusted for inflation amounts to NOTHING and has to be funded by the other stuff? Oh and already cheaping on content…which could kill it? …hmmmm…🤔

Cmdr_CrimsonMar 11, 2025

DisDude33Mar 10, 2025

What does it say about me as a person that I’d actually enjoy that as a ride element?

Cmdr_CrimsonMar 10, 2025

Better yet...Make it go......Backwards. Just as you splash down you hear Simba's Nooooo!!

Disney IrishMar 10, 2025

Different scenario leads to different outcomes.

lazyboy97oMar 10, 2025

Because Walt Disney Imagineering’s workflows ultimately centers around getting information into Autodesk software and AutoCAD for Mac doesn’t cut it.

SirwalterraleighMar 10, 2025

…you need to read you Disney history on that one

Disney IrishMar 10, 2025

That remains to be seen. As far as Wall St, they don’t care about content they care about profits. And as long as DTC continues to be profitable that is all that matters.

SirwalterraleighMar 10, 2025

Content is going to be a problem for some time…don’t believe me…believe Wall Street.

MisterPenguinMar 10, 2025

Indeed. Outside the U.S., Hulu is "Star" and "Star" is part of Disney+. It's only in the U.S. that Hulu and D+ were considered separate. But then there was the bundling. Then Hulu 'basic' showed up inside of Disney+. And the problem of Hulu Live is going to be solved by spinning it off of Hulu and merging and being called "Fubo." Nielsen no longer tracks Hulu separate from Disney+ on its "total content" graph. In the same way, ESPN will eventually fully merge into D+. It's already started.

Disney IrishMar 09, 2025

And as always you continue to miss the point. You still see them as separate services. D+ and Hulu are basically one at this point, with the latter feeding content into the former. So you really can't say "Hulu works as it stands and D+ doesn't", because Hulu is part of D+. So if Hulu works, so does D+. So the issue you have is not with the services themselves, its with the whole content engine for DTC. To you, if I can sum up what I gather from what you've said, it seems they make good general audience content (Hulu) but not so much family friendly content (D+). And while I disagree for the most part, I can see a point there, but its really a matter of preference more than anything. As time goes on I expect this to be sorted out as they fine tune the content engine and getting it firing on all cylinders. As for ESPN+, that is a whole other conversation which I didn't even touch upon in my other post so I won't even get into that here.