Announcing the Disrupt 2020 agenda

For the past 10 years, Disrupt has been a place for the tech society to come together to connect and learn. And while millions of techies won’t be able to descend on the Moscone Center this year, the Disrupt display will most certainly go on.

On the conference’s 10 th anniversary, we’re coming to you virtually. This attains Disrupt 2020 the most accessible Disrupt ever. But precisely because it’s virtual doesn’t mean that the founding principles of the evidence will change. Disrupt attendees will, of course, have full access to the Disrupt stage and the Extra Crunch stage, as well as virtual networking, interactive Q& A, a digital Startup Alley, and more. We’ll too be delivering times focused on Europe and Asia that are friendly for their respective era zones. More to be announced on that soon!

Some things have changed. For one, the show is running for five days instead of three, and each day will be shorter, passing from 9:00 am PT to approximately 1:30 pm PT. We’ve built networking meter immediately into the agenda, and as with past years, CrunchMatch( our organization for competition investors with financiers and connecting all attendees) will be running throughout the whole show. New this year are periods where venture capitalists assessing and advocate sticks for Disrupt 2020 attendees pitch floors. More information about the Pitch Deck Teardown is attained here.

We have some astounding speakers booked for this year, with more to be announced soon.

Today, we’d like to share with you a first look at the Disrupt 2020 agenda. More talkers will be added to this agenda, but we couldn’t resist giving you a peek under the hood.

Take a gaze!

Monday, September 14

Love In The Time of COVID-1 9 with Whitney Wolfe-Herd( Bumble)

Whitney Wolfe Herd was on the founding squad at Tinder before graphing her own route with Bumble. The dating app, which currently has more than 100 million useds, employs the symbol breast and midst. In the past year, following a gossip at mother companionship Badoo, Wolfe Herd has taken the reigns of the entire Magic Lab corporation, which owns Badoo, Bumble, Lumen and Chappy date apps. Hear from Wolfe Herd about the future of online dating and how she’s bided down to earth during her meteoric rise to the top of the dating industry. Disrupt Stage

How to Raise Money in a Dumpster Fire with Anu Hariharan( Y Combinator ), Garry Tan( Initialized Capital ), and Hans Tung( GGV Capital)

Garry Tan started his first company, Posterous in 2008, so the Initialized Capital co-founder knows a thing or two about fiscal junctures and how they can affect fundraising. Hans Tung, GGV’s Midas-list dealmaker has insured downturns on three continents in his tenure investing in the US, China, and Latin american countries for the globe-spanning investment firm, while Anu Hariharan has invested the last decade putting business through their paces at BCG, A16Z, and quite recently, YC. They’ll be delivering the goods on how to get that gelt during this raging dumpster fire of a year. Extra Crunch Stage

The Business of Quantum with Alan Baratz( D-Wave Systems ), Peter Chapman( IonQ ), and Itamar Sivan( Quantum Machines)

Quantum computing is having a moment. We now have restriction but working hardware available from a number of vendors and there is a growing startup ecosystem that is creating a novel hardware approach and a new class of software tools to run these machines and curriculum them. In this panel, we’ll talk about what’s next for quantum estimating, the new challenges ahead and the capacities startups play in fulfilling the promise of this technology. Disrupt Stage

Planning for Your Startup’s Exit: The How’s and the When’s with Tracy Young( Coyote Family) and Michelle Zatlyn( Cloudflare)

When Cloudflare IPO’d last year it certainly wasn’t the end of its 10 year journey, and nor was it PlanGrid’s when it was acquired by Autodesk in 2018. Cloudflare’s Michelle Zatlyn and PlanGrid’s Tracy Young will guide us through both their respective company’s journey and their own as benefactors. Extra Crunch Stage

Pitch Deck Teardown with Charles Hudson( Precursor Ventures) and Aileen Lee( Cowboy Ventures)

Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great floor( or not) with top investors as they go through your deferred pitches live on stage. Extra Crunch Stage

Startup Battlefield Competition- Session 1

TechCrunch’s iconic startup race is back, as financiers from around the world pitch expert evaluates and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt Stage

Zooming Into the Future with Eric Yuan( Zoom)

Zoom is not simply supplanted the power meeting room, but the family dinner table and neighbourhood rail as well. Hear from Eric Yuan, Zoom’s founder CEO, about how his company has administered historic increment thanks to COVID-1 9, and what’s next for the popular endeavour, and buyer brand. Disrupt Stage

How Things Get Built in the Middle of a Pandemic with Kate Whitcomb( Chrysalis Cloud ), Steven Yang( Anker ), and loudspeaker to be announced

How has COVID-1 9 impacted how and where the stuff we use gets improved? We’ll hear from Anker CEO Steven Yang and Chrysalis Cloud CEO/ onetime HAX Partner Kate Whitcomb to learn more about how the world of manufacturing has had to adapt in 2020 and what might lay onward. Extra Crunch Stage

How to Scale a Tech-Powered Non-Profit with Tiffani Ashley Bell( The Human Utility)

We speak to Tiffani Ashley Bell, founder of The Human Utility, on what it took to build a platform that helps people pay their water statutes and how tech-powered nonprofits should think about scaling for social impact. Extra Crunch Stage

Tuesday, September 15

Getting to $100 M ARR with Vineet Jain( Egnyte ), Sid Sijbrandij( GitLab ), and Michal Tsur( Kaltura)

TechCrunch speaking with three private firms that have reached the $ 100 million ARR( Annual Recurring Revenue) distinguish. We’ll explore what they had to break, and rebuild in their companies as they scaled, and what the hell is learned as they left the early-stages of startup living and built firms that are nearly ready to go public. Extra Crunch Stage

Looking into the Future with Roelof Botha( Sequoia Capital)

Botha is the U.S. head of Sequoia Capital. It’s a powerful slot but it also comes with great responsibility, including to help steer the company’s portfolio corporations through the pandemic and its ripple effects. Hear how Botha is advising founders and why, even in trying times, he expects startup benefactors to reshape all countries of the world. Disrupt Stage

How to Craft your Pitch Deck for 2020 with Ann Miura-Ko( Floodgate ), Lo Toney( Plexo Capital ), and orator to be announced

Today you might be pitching by email, audio, video, VR or IRL to all types of investors across the globe. How do you tell your story in a way that reaches the right people the right way without you diverting too much time from building your fellowship? The traditional deck of powerpoint slithers still has a place, but you need to manage many more opportunities for fundraising, extremely. We’ll talk through the latest tricks that founders are utilize all regions of the world. Extra Crunch Stage

Startup Battlefield Competition- Session 2

TechCrunch’s iconic startup challenger is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert adjudicates and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt Stage

Pitch Deck Teardown with Niko Bonatsos( General Catalyst) and Megan Quinn( Niantic)

Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great deck( or not) with top investors as they go through your deferred degrees live on stage. Extra Crunch Stage

How to Raise Your First Dollars with Alexa von Tobel( Inspired Capital Partners ), Hunter Walk( Homebrew ), and Ted Wang( Cowboy Ventures)

Deciding how to go about getting your initial funding is always a touchy topic, as the wrong move could adversely affect your young corporation. In this session we’ll hear from experts who’ve shepherded numerou corporations from the earliest to the latest fundraises. Extra Crunch Stage

The Next Generation of Media with Morgan DeBaun( Blavity) and Angie Nwandu( The Shade Room)

Blavity and The Shade Room have both demonstrated that Black publics are looking for digital publishers who speak to their experiences and interests. We’ll talk to their founders about how they did it, how they’re building scalable businesses and how other booklets can do a better occupation of contacting diverse publics. Disrupt Stage

How to Find the Right Users as the World Burns with Brian Balfour( Reforge ), Elliot Robinson( Bessemer Venture Partners ), and Susan Su( Sound Ventures)

Users in 2020 are divided across more and more programmes and splintered by geographies. They’re too jaded about commerce and have less fund than before the pandemic. So how do you find the freedom customers and audience members to build a business with your limited time and budget? Hear from the experts on large-scale emergence marketing trends and cutting-edge tactics in key acquisition channels including SEO, social, email and more. Extra Crunch Stage

In the Major league with Delane Parnell( PlayVS)

In a few short years, PlayVS has put eSports tournaments in high schools across the country, partnering with gaming monsters and “schools “. The startup has raised $96 million with benefactor Delane Parnell at the helm , now they’re looking to expand their desires. With traditional “schools ” athletic planneds likely to be deeply impacted by COVID-1 9, will eSports envision even greater adoption? Disrupt Stage

Wednesday, September 16

Making Bank with Mitchell Elegbe( Interswitch)

In 2002 Mitchell Elegbe founded digital finance startup Interswitch to connect Nigeria’s banking system. More than a decade last-minute, his company was estimated at over$ 1 billion and corroborates billions in digital remittance pleasure across Africa. Interswitch is poised to become Africa’s first major fintech conglomerate to roster on a major exchange. Elegbe will discuss the future of digital finance and IPOs coming from Africa. Disrupt Stage

The Changing Landscape of Property Tech with Connie Chan( Andreessen Horowitz ), Merritt Hummer( Bain Capital Ventures ), and Brendan Wallace( Fifth Wall)

Connie Chan, general collaborator at Andreessen Horowitz, Merritt Hummer of Bain Capital Ventures and Brendan Wallace, co-founder and coping spouse at Fifth Wall are at the center of these changes. These investors will discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in property tech as well as opinion for startups in the industry. Extra Crunch Stage

Little Wires Everywhere with Kerry Washington

Kerry Washington is perhaps best known for her work in Hollywood, but she’s been making a name for herself in tech over the last few years. An investor in The Wing, Community and teeth-straightening service Byte, Washington’s portfolio consists of products and services that aim to give people a singer or improve their quality of life. In this fireside chat, Washington will discuss what introduced her into the tech industry, her investment strategy and the rise of streaming pulpits. And, as an organizer and someone who has spoken up about the lack of diversity in Hollywood, Washington will share her positions on diversification, inclusion and equity in tech. Disrupt Stage

Building a Startup During the “Work From Home” Revolution with Sarah Cannon( Index Ventures ), Sarah Guo( Greylock ), and Dave Munichiello( GV)

We’re delighted to bring together a trio of the world’s best expert investors on special topics and explore this critical trend further. Sarah Cannon is a partner at Index Ventures where she has backed such team productivity tools as Notion, focused messaging app Quill, and Pitch. Next we have Sarah Guo, who is a general spouse at Greylock where she has invested in Clubhouse, home benefits platform Cleo and several cybersecurity corporations. Ultimately, Dave Munichiello will join. He is a general spouse at GV who has backed Slack, GitLab, Plaid, and a whole lot of other well-known enterprise startups. Extra Crunch Stage

CRISPR in the Post-COVID Era with Jennifer Doudna( UC Berkeley)

What has the world COVID-1 9 pandemic changed about the biotech manufacture in general, and CRISPR in particular? Dr. Jennifer Doudna, who co-discovered the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 gene revising technique, affiliates us examined the immediate and lasting implications of the novel coronavirus and translations in genetic science. Disrupt Stage

Startup Battlefield Competition- Session 3

TechCrunch’s iconic startup contender is back, as inventors from around the world pitch expert justices and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt Stage

Pitch Deck Teardown with Cyan Banister( Long Journey Ventures)

Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great floor( or not) with top investors as they go through your deferred pitchings live on stage. Extra Crunch Stage

How Voice Computing Conquered the World with Rohit Prasad and Toni Reid( Amazon)

Amazon’s Alexa pioneers and heads Rohit Prasad and Toni Reid will join us to discuss the voice assistant’s rise from curiosity to pervasive computing pulpit. The pair will discuss life beyond the smart-alecky talker and where singer estimating exits from here. Disrupt Stage

How to Build a Service Marketplace with Andy Fang( DoorDash) and speaker to be announced

Building service marketplaces require companies to serve all sides of the ecosystem, or at least have an understanding of the ecosystem as a whole. In this panel, we’ll explore how to deliver on the appreciate hypothesi for your clients, business partners and give spouses, if you have them. DoorDash is a perfect example of operating a service marketplace, and its co-founder and CTO Andy Fang is here to tell you how. Extra Crunch Stage

Daphne Koller’s Push to Marry Big Data to Big Pharma( Insitro)

Drug detection and testing is a difficult, fraught process that modern compute procedures promise to reinvent — but simply with the right data, the right tools, and the right people( and a good deal of money ). Coursera and Calico veteran Daphne Koller recollects she has all the right ingredients in her new company Insitro. Disrupt Stage

The Black Founder Experience: Tactical Advice for Underrepresented Financier with Michael Seibel( Y Combinator) and orators to be announced

How does the startup experience differ for benefactors from underrepresented groups? What are the biggest ongoing challenges, and how can they be tackled? We’ll hear from Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel and two soon-to-be-announced YC benefactors on their experiences starting companies and raising money as Black inventors. Extra Crunch Stage

What’s Next for Atlassian with Mike Cannon-Brookes( Atlassian)

Atlassian’s tools have become ubiquitous for software teams all regions of the world, but in today’s world, its collaboration tools likewise dally a wider role inside of many companies. We’ll talk to the company’s co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes about life after the company’s successful IPO and how he plans to stay ahead of the next set of trends in software development. Disrupt Stage

Thursday, September 17

Greenlighting a New Generation of Storytellers with Ron Howard, Brian Grazer and Tyler Mitchell( Imagine Impact)

Yes, that Ron Howard. One of the world’s most successful performers, directors and producers and legendary producer Brian Grazer have created some of the most iconic movies and television services and facilities shows of the last 35 years( Empire, Arrested Development, and The Da Vinci Code to specify a few ). But presentation — like tech — is all about disturbance. So, to tap into how it will be created and delivered in the future, the pair have teamed up with Tyler Mitchell for Imagine Impact, Silicon Valley-style accelerators where predicting scribes connect with mentors to build their tales and make them to the next step — whatever that it is possible. Imagine Impact signed a deal in June with Netflix to expand that pipeline, so come hear about what else they have strategy, and what the three of them “ve been thinking about” YouTubers, TikTok and the future of the peculiarity. Disrupt Stage

The Future of SaaS with Maha Ibrahim( Canaan Partners ), David Ulevitch( Andreessen Horowitz ), and Mike Volpi( Index Ventures)

In 2020 SaaS corporations have considered their significances fell sharply, and rebound even more quickly. TechCrunch is chit-chat with a few VCs with depth revelation into the SaaS world to talk about which startups are accelerating, lagging, or breaking out. And we’ll explore what’s changed in terms of go apprehensions for SaaS companionships, and what reaches them stand out from their peers when it is necessary to targeting bets. Extra Crunch Stage

How Embedded Finance Represents the Future of Fintech with Hope Cochran( Madrona Venture Group ), Ruth Foxe-Blader( Anthemis Group) and Zach Perret( Plaid)

The fintech manufacture has had a mad couple of years. Customer fintech startups ought to have massively successful and managed to attract millions of patrons. At the same time, enterprise business have created the infrastructure that they are able to determine investment rightfully digital, from fees to API-driven integrations and assessment of risks. In this panel, we’ll talk about what’s next for the fintech industry. Will tech companies all become fintech business at some stage with embedded financial products? Will brand-new tech giants prosper by powering those embedded fiscal makes? Extra Crunch Stage

Putting Robots to Work with Robert Playter( Boston Dynamics)

In his first public speaking engagement since becoming the CEO of Boston Dynamics, Robert Playter will discuss the company’s transition from study robotics adorables to business yield. As an employee for more than 25 times, Playter has unique insight into the company’s growth and plans to help robots become an increasingly important driver of our everyday lives. Disrupt Stage

Pitch Deck Teardown with Roelof Botha( Sequoia Capital) and Susan Lyne( BBG Ventures)

Talk through the nuts and bolts of what makes a great floor( or not) with top investors as they go through your deferred pitchings live on stage. Extra Crunch Stage

Startup Battlefield Competition- Session 4

TechCrunch’s iconic startup race is back, as industrialists from around the world pitch expert adjudicators and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt Stage

How to Iterate Your Product with Oded Gal( Zoom ), Eugene Wei, Tamar Yehoshua( Slack ), and Julie Zhuo( Inspirit)

If coming penetrations on produce development from present and former concoction managers at plazas like Facebook, Zoom, Slack, and Oculus doesn’t sound like something you’re interested in simply get out of tech now. Leave. It’s over. Go work in an insurance company. Get your dealers permission. Exactly do something else. Extra Crunch Stage

Scaling Good Very Well with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins( Promise) and Jessica O. Matthews( Uncharted Power)

You can’t get too far in Silicon Valley without hearing a benefactor breathe the words “we want to change the world.” When it comes to Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, founder of Promise, and Jessica O. Matthews, founder of Uncharted Power, they can actually bring the acknowledgments. Hear from these inventors about how they’ve finagled their businesses not only to scale good, but to scale well. Disrupt Stage

How to Build an Alternative Company with Seth Besmertnik( Conductor ), Aniyia Williams( Zebras Unite ), and Hays Witt( Driver’s Seat Cooperative)

Beyond elevate traditional risk capital and beyond the pursuing-growth-at-all-costs programme, there are beings in the startup ecosystem that are finding success through less mainstream avenues. Conductor CEO Seth Besmertnik, Driver’s Seat CEO Hays Witt and Aniyia Williams of Black& Brown Founders and Zebras Unite, are three of these parties. These founders have all taken alternative comings in their managerial travels, whether that’s been structuring as a cooperative, buying back a startup from a tech heavyweight and then turning it into a majority employee-owned operation or altering into a cooperative store that invests in startups tackling social question. In such discussions, you’ll learn how to build a company that positions earnings and users first, and VCs last-place. Extra Crunch Stage

Friday, September 18

The State of Venture with Dayna Grayson( Construct Capital ), Renata Quintini( Renegade Partners ), and Lo Toney( Plexo Capital)

All three of these VCs hail from among the most powerful investing houses in the country — Lux Capital, GV and NEA. Yet each realized the bold preference to strike out on their own, adding to a originating and diverse landscape of investment vehicles across the globe. Hear about why they did it, and learn lessons from the trends that they’re fund as they build their businesses. Disrupt Stage

Making Cents of EdTech in the Coronavirus Era with Mercedes Bent( Lightspeed Venture Partners ), Jennifer Carolan( Reach Capital ), and Ian Chiu( Owl Ventures)

Edtech has been shed into the spotlight during COVID-1 9. But did a scramble to adopt and flood in practice jolt the sector for better or for worse? In this session, we’ll hear from investors who have gambles in the biggest edtech firms on how the landscape has changed during the pandemic, and what they’re most excited for onward. Extra Crunch Stage

Keeping Big Tech in Check with Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren

Few know Silicon Valley better than one of its longest-serving lawmakers, Rep. Zoe Lofgren. Both as a defender and critic, Lofgren has led the effort to keep Big Tech in check , not just for her electorate but their internet users all regions of the world. We’ll talk programme, privacy, and other hot-button issues affecting Silicon Valley , now and in the future. Disrupt Stage

How to Reinvent Your Sales Team in 2020 with Brian Ascher( Venrock ), Pete Kazanjy( Atrium ), and Jill Rowley( Stage 2 Capital)

We’re bringing together the smartest leaders on sales in the Valley to discuss tactics and more. Brian Ascher is a partner at Venrock where for more than two decades he has invested in B2B sales-driven corporations like 6Sense, Socrates AI, and Dynamic Signal. Next, Pete Kazanjy is one of the leading startup arbiters on sales through his written works like “Founding Sales” and community construct while also founding sales accomplishment platform Atrium HQ. Finally, we have Jill Rowley, who has spent decades cautioning startups on sales and was also an early employee at Salesforce and Eloqua. Extra Crunch Stage

Startup Battlefield Competition- Final

TechCrunch’s iconic startup rivalry is back, as entrepreneurs from around the world pitch expert justices and vie for the Battlefield Cup and $100,000. Disrupt Stage

Building a Low-Code Unicorn with Howie Liu( Airtable)

Low-code/no-code has been a buzzword for years now, but few firms have made this idea to its logical conclusion the way Airtable has with its spreadsheet-like interface. With a its evaluation of over$ 1 billion, the company is now at the forefront of this movement. We’ll talk to Airtable co-founder and CEO Howie Liu about constructing a user-friendly low-code service, enterprise sales in the age of COVID-1 9, and what’s next for the no-code/ low-code opening. Disrupt Stage

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