Tammy Lynn Gilmore is a live events producer, community builder, creator of the SXSW community grant program and Executive Producer of the first-ever Texas Women Songwriters Festival. She helped build SXSW Interactive and has programmed innovation Summits with Singularity University partners in countries from Greece to Sweden to South Africa.

She was recently the Program Lead for Canva Create, their branded annual design event. She produced immersive, experiential event activations for gaming companies at DICE and GDC. She was the community lead at the location-based social app Gowalla. She executive produced a campaign launch for the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance. She oversaw the first-ever exhibition for the 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA) led by the Africa CDC.

Hi, I’m Tammy Lynn! After years of programming and producing global experiential events for SXSW and Singularity University, I consult on projects ranging from event launches to large-scale conferences and intimate, curated experiences. See more about that below:

Career Highlights

Canva Create: Program Lead at Public School creative agency for the 2026 edition of this event. Includes: speaker & session development, audience strategy & format innovation and collaboration & client partnership.

Texas Women Songwriters Festival: Executive Producer alongside festival co-founder (and genius) Mandy Rowden! This is the first-ever festival focusing on women songwriters in Texas.

SXSW: Created and curated the Social Impact programming, Community Service Awards show and the SXSW Grants Program. Co-founded and developed programming for SXAméricas, the part of the festival dedicated to Latino culture.

Singularity University: Led content strategy, production and operations for 28 Singularity University International Summits as well as designing and executing intimate welcome retreats. This included organizing all onsite needs for speakers, sponsors and staff for international destination events.

Cannes XR: Produced content for this three-day event dedicated to international digital creation including sessions Preventing Pandemics and Protecting Pangolins from Wildlife Trafficking and Virtual Diving with 21st Century Mermaids.

Cannes Lions: Consulted on fresh, outside-the-box ideas for networking events for Chicago and Texas based agencies. Liaised between Cannes Lions and SXSW on charitable efforts.

House of Beautiful Business: Designed, curated and hosted an intimate jazz-themed welcome dinner for festival participants at a traditional riad in Tangier, Morocco.

Gowalla: Developed and executed a comprehensive community outreach strategy for Gowalla, a seed-stage startup, including the launch event at SXSW 2023.

Conference for Public Health in Africa (CPHIA): Consulted for Africa CDC on their first-ever exhibition in Lusaka, Zambia.

Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA): Consulted on the 50-in-5 campaign launch and produced video content for “DPI Impact Stories” for the website.

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