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Perhaps best known for proposing the use of the hashtag on Twitter as a way of grouping messages, <a href="http://chrismessina.me/" target="_blank">Chris Messina</a> also co-founded BarCamp as well as several co-working communities. A 2003 graduate of Carnegie-Mellon, his extensive tech resume includes stints as Uber and Google. Messina has spoken numerous times at SXSW — in 2017, he participated on a panel titled “<a href="https://schedule.sxsw.com/2017/events/PP61871" target="_blank">Computers, We Should Talk: The Conversational Web</a>.” For the March 2018 event, he will talk about what we the past can teach us when thinking about the future in a session that has the very Halloween-ish theme “<a href="https://schedule.sxsw.com/2018/events/PP78246" target="_blank">Lessons From the Death of the PC</a>.”