Welcome to day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024! We’re past excited to have you ever right here with us as we kick off this unbelievable occasion.
Prepare for 3 action-packed days of immersive tech experiences! Study from business leaders onstage and in hands-on periods, community with fellow innovators, meet the startups shaping the way forward for expertise, take pleasure in receptions, and a lot extra.
Need to attend however don’t have a ticket? There’s nonetheless time! Register right here and be a part of the motion.
With out additional delay, right here’s a have a look at what’s in retailer for you right this moment!
Stage periods
We’ve received an unbelievable lineup of high business leaders able to take the stage. For occasions and extra information, view the total agenda.
Disrupt Stage
Assaf Rappaport: From Zero-Day to Hero: Assaf Rappaport, Wiz
Startup Battlefield 200: Decide panel consists of Morgan Beller, NFX; Alice Brooks, Khosla Ventures; Rohan Ganesh, Apparent Ventures; Galym Imanbayev, Lightspeed Enterprise Companions; Corinne Riley, Greylock; Christine Esserman, Accel; Eylul Kayin, Gradient Ventures; Lisa Morales-Hellebo, Refashiond Ventures; Jonathan Rosenbaum, Perception Companions; and Sharon Winter, Atomic.
Vinod Khosla Appears into the Previous to See the Way forward for AI: Vinod Khosla, Khosla Ventures
Shopper, Tradition, and Creators with Erin and Sara Foster: Erin Foster, Sara Foster, and Phil Schwarz, Oversubscribed Ventures
Builders Stage
Discovered Reside with Kai Kloepfer from Biofire: Kai Kloepfer, Founder and CEO, Biofire
What You Have to Increase a Collection A At this time: Renata Quintini, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Renegade Companions; Corinne Riley, Accomplice, Greylock; and Elizabeth Yin, Co-Founder and Basic Accomplice, Hustle Fund
How AI and XR Will Revolutionize All of Your Gadgets: Qualcomm
The way to Discover, and Preserve, Product-Market Match: Spenser Skates, CEO and Co-Founder, Amplitude; April Underwood, Managing Director, Adverb; and Tamar Yehoshua, President, Product and Expertise, Glean
Why AI Regulation Is Each Startup’s Enterprise: Martin Casado, Basic Accomplice, Andreessen Horowitz
The way to Launch a New Product Towards Entrenched Incumbents: Paul Lambert, Founder and CEO, Quilt; Gurinder Nagra, CEO, Furno Supplies; and Brigid O’Brien, Managing Accomplice, RA Capital
Past the Hype: Constructing AI that Means Enterprise: Iliana Quinonez, Director, Buyer Engineering, North America Startups, Google, and Jia Li, Co-Founder, President and Chief AI Officer, LiveX AI
Household Workplaces Need Startup Publicity, however What Are They Trying For?: Eti Lazarian, Household Workplace Precept, Elle Household Workplace; and Bruce Lee, CEO and Founder, Keebeck Wealth Administration
House Stage powered by Aerospace
Startups in Twin Use: Even Rogers, CEO and Co-Founder, True Anomaly; Tim Solms, CEO Slingshot Aerospace; and Debra Emmons, Aerospace Company
Way forward for House Operations Problem: Judges embrace Justin Krauss, Dr. Debra Emmons, Cody Bronkar, and Tom Cwik
Peter Beck Takes the House Trade by the Fins: Peter Beck, Founder and CEO, Rocket Lab
There and Again Once more: Fixing Orbital Supply: Kelly Hennig, COO, Stoke House; and Justin Fiaschetti, Inversion House
Bridgit Mendler on Shifting from Disney Star to Startup Founder: Bridgit Mendler, Founder and CEO, Northwood House
Cislunar: The Subsequent Frontier: A.C. Charania, Company Chief Technologist, NASA; and Steve Isakowitz, President and CEO, Aerospace Company
Using the Wave: The Way forward for House Investing: Lewis Jones, VP, Seraphim House; Jordan Noone, Co-Founder and Basic Accomplice, Embedded Ventures; and Katelin Holloway, Founding Accomplice, Seven Seven Six
Fintech Stage
Discovering the Consensus of Crypto VC: Morgan Beller, Basic Accomplice, NFX; Will Nuelle, Basic Accomplice, Galaxy Ventures; and Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Accomplice, Dragonfly Capital
How These Neobanks Grew Throughout Difficult Occasions: Colin Walsh, Founder and CEO of Varo Financial institution; and Jason Wilk, CEO, Dave
With Tiptop, Postmates Founder Bastian Lehmann Is Hungry for Extra: Bastian Lehmann, Tiptop
Way forward for Work: Lindsey Martin, Head of Engineering, Examine; Marcelo Lebre, President and Co-Founder, Distant; and Josh Reeves, CEO, Gusto
BaaS in a Put up-Synapse Meltdown World: Itai Damti, Co-Founder and CEO, Unit; Peter Hazlehurst, CEO and Co-Founder, Synctera; and Sheetal Parikh, Basic Counsel and CCO, Treasury Prime
Visa In all places Initiative: The Final Fintech Pitch Competitors
Startup Battlefield 200
Prepare for the thrill of Startup Battlefield 200, that includes 20 hand-picked, outstanding startups in certainly one of Disrupt’s spotlight occasions. Expertise the motion as they pitch on the Disrupt Stage, vying for a $100,000 equity-free prize and the coveted Disrupt Cup, judged by distinguished enterprise capitalists.
First Session: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Second Session: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Interactive, deep-dive periods
Interact in interactive periods that gas in-depth conversations about the important thing points dealing with tech leaders right this moment and learn how to deal with them head-on. Go to the whole agenda for occasions and extra information on every session.
Roundtable Classes
Be a part of these 30-minute collaborative periods, however ensure that to pre-register on the occasion app. Expo+ Passes don’t embrace entry to those Roundtables.
Leverage Information Requirements to Speed up Your Startup: Qi Li, InterSystems; and Nicholai Mitchko, InterSystems
Deal with Each Problem Head-on with Affiliate Advertising and marketing: Adam Weiss, Awin
The way to Construct & Run Your Board: Mike Seckler, Justworks
Shopper Social Community Results with Vently: Gargi Kand, Vently; and Nicolas Meader, Lioncrest Ventures
Berkeley Join: Expertise the World’s #1 Startup Ecosystem: Harsha Gundala, Moonshine; Amy Jain, Swipefund; Jai Williams, OptiGenix; and Kate Sullivan, Uncracked
Shoppertainment 2024: The Way forward for Shopper and Commerce: Khanh Ngo, TikTok
Shopper AI Startups: Sara Deshpande, Maven Ventures
Profitable at Startup PR With out Paying for an Company, with ex-TechCrunch Editor Josh Constine: Josh Constine, SignalFire
Efficiently Elevating Your Seed or Collection A in 2024: Brian Rothenberg and Medha Agarwal, defy.vc
Unlocking Human Intelligence by way of Occasions: Atul Todi, 10Times
Subsequent-Gen Medication: AI Simulation Producing New Information to Speed up Drug Discovery: Marianna Bonanome, SandboxAQ
AI Outlook: The place VCs Are Putting Their Bets in AI At this time — and The place We Go Subsequent: Kevin Dunlap, Calibrate Ventures
Creating Inclusive Hiring Practices in Quick-Rising Firms: Lori Lizotte, WomenTech Community
Breakout Classes
These 50-minute Q&A periods with a panel of business leaders are on a first-come, first-served foundation. All ticket varieties are welcome.
The Way forward for Excessive-Progress Tech: Past the Apple App Retailer: Sofia Dolfe, Index Ventures; James Ding, DraftWise; and Jordan Taylor, Vizcom
How AI Is Supercharging Instruments for Information Employees: Harpinder Singh, Innovation Endeavors; Tanguy Chau, Paxton AI; Luke McGartland, Sequence; and Dion Almaer, Increase Code
Generative AI: Past the Hype — Constructing Actual-World Purposes: Priyanka Vergadia, Microsoft
Past Snowflake and Databricks: Insights from the Frontlines of Information Transformation Disruption: Led by Colin Zima, Omni; Toby Mao, Tobiko Information; Jordan Tigani, MotherDuck; Daniel Svonava, Superlinked; and Tomasz Tunguz, Concept Ventures
Navigating the Funding Panorama for Ladies: Natalie Pan, Mariane Bekker, and Jeni Chang, Ladies Founders Bay; and Aury Cifuentes, How Ladies Make investments
Powering Forward: The Way forward for Power & Infrastructure: Rachel Payne and Troy Helming, EarthGrid; and Nicholas Larson, Silicon Zombies
IPO or Bust? Tactical Approaches for Late-Stage Success: Jai Das, Sapphire Ventures; and Karthik Subramanian, Goldman Sachs
Expo Corridor
The Expo Corridor will host startups from all phases and areas worldwide. Interact with them and discover the groundbreaking improvements they’re thrilled to showcase. Opens at 8:00 a.m.
Pitch Showcase Stage
Make your method to the Expo Corridor and watch as a few of our exhibiting startups ship their pitches.
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.: Korea Pavilion Pitch Session — KOTRA
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Quick Pitches, {Hardware}, Robotics + IoT
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Japan Pavilion Pitch Session — JETRO
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Quick Pitches, Well being Tech + Biotech
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Korea Pavilion Pitch Session — KOTRA
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.: Ukraine Pavilion Pitch Session — USAID Ukraine
Networking galore
Along with casually mingling with fellow Disrupt attendees, elevate your networking expertise utilizing the Braindate app. You possibly can create or discover subjects on the app for deeper conversations. Meet in individual on the Networking Lounge powered by Braindate on stage 2 for 1:1 or small-group discussions anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
Join over espresso with different traders
Investor Move holders are invited to savor their morning espresso with fellow traders on the Deal Move Cafe, opening at 8:00 a.m.
Pre- and after-hour Facet Occasions
Over 60 company-hosted Facet Occasions will happen throughout San Francisco all through the week, permitting you to maintain the Disrupt pleasure going. These are those going down right this moment. Go to the Facet Occasions web page for occasions and extra particulars.
Unlock Your Investor Potential: How Tech Employees Can Grow to be LPs Utilizing Vested Inventory Models: Hosted by Musa Capital
Making Cash within the Power Transition: Hosted by DNV Ventures
『MELT』150+ Founders x Traders Dynamic Community: Hosted by MELT
Semiconductors and AI for Local weather Startup Cup — Finalists Announcement and Reception: Hosted by Excessive Tech Problem (XTC)
Startup Grind Completely satisfied Hour with Microsoft for Startups, Justworks, Withum, Qapita & DuploCloud: Hosted by Startup Grind
Investor Talks by w.tech: Hosted by w.tech
Pitch&Drink with P2S.VC: Hosted by Pre-seed to success (AltaIR Capital, Yellow Rocks, Good Partnership Capital, I2BF International Ventures)
A Properly Tech Terrace Get together!: Hosted by Properly Now! & Love Soul AI
Startup x VC Mixer with Simon Lancaster, Founding father of Omni Ventures: Hosted by NEC X
Privateness and Social Media Completely satisfied Hour with Germ Community x Residents: Hosted by Germ Community
It’s not too late to register for Disrupt
In the event you’re hesitating to register for Disrupt 2024 since you suppose it’s too late, fear not! There are many immersive experiences ready for you, and tickets will stay accessible till the ultimate day. Register for yours right here.
