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We received countless submissions to speak at this year’s Disrupt 2024. After carefully sifting through all the applications, we’ve narrowed it down to 19 session finalists. Now we need your help to choose who will actually speak at the conference!

Vote for the sessions you most want to see at Disrupt in October. You can vote for each session only once, but feel free to vote for as many sessions as you’d like.

Only the sessions with the most votes will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda. Don’t forget to enlist your network to help upvote your favorites!

Audience Choice voting ends on May 24 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Vote Here.

And don’t forget, Disrupt early-bird ticket sales end on May 31 — buy your ticket now and save up to $800.

Meet The Finalists

Redefining Success Beyond Growth-At-All-Cost

  • Alyson Watson, Founder & CEO at Modern Health
  • Mamoon Hamid, Venture Capitalist and Partner – Kleiner Perkins

How To Build The Next Phase Of The Internet For Consumers

  • Amber Atherton, Partner at Patron

Bringing The Outside In: Connecting Startups With Large Banks To Power The Future Of Finance

  • Arvind Purushotham, Head of Citi Ventures at Citi

The Age Of Technical, Engineering Founders: How They Are Driving AI Innovation

  • Christine Yen, CEO & Co-Founder at Honeycomb
  • Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, Co-CEO & co-founder – MinIO
  • Prukalpa Sankar, Co-founder – Atlan
  • Tom Carter, CEO & Co-Founder at Ultraleap

Growing A City’s Tech Ecosystem Through Immersive Accelerator Models And Diverse Portfolio Companies

  • Colleen Heidinger, President at 43North

Supercharging Tools For Knowledge Workers

  • Harpinder Singh, Partner at Innovation Endeavors
  • Tanguy Chau, Co-Founder and CEO at Paxton AI
  • Scott Dietzen, CEO at Augment
  • Luke McGartland, Founder and CEO at Sequence

Next-Gen Medicine: AI Simulation Generating New Data To Accelerate Drug Discovery

  • Jack Hidary, CEO at SandboxAQ

Navigating The Regulatory Maze: Pathways To Innovation And Access In Healthcare

  • Jordan Nof, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Tusk Venture Partners

Winning At Startup PR Without Paying For An Agency, With Ex-TechCrunch Editor Josh Constine

  • Josh Constine, Venture Partner at SignalFire

AI Outlook: Where VCs Are Placing Their Bets In AI Today – And Where We Go Next

  • Kevin Dunlap, Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Calibrate Ventures

Shoppertainment 2024: The Future Of Consumer And Commerce

  • Khanh Ngo, Monetization Strategy and Operations, APAC and MEA at TikTok

Building Businesses That Endure: Keys To Long-Term Transformation

  • Nmachi Jidenma, Partner at General Catalyst

Scams And Solutions: Financial Security In The Digital Age

  • Philip Martin, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Coinbase

The Future Is EMFI

  • Philipp Reichardt, VP of Enterprise, North America at Airwallex
  • Nik Milanović, Founder at This Week in Fintech

Is There Such A Thing As ‘Startup Within A Big Company’ ?

  • Prerit Uppal, Group Product Leader at Adobe Inc.

Generative AI: Beyond The Hype – Building Real-World Applications

  • Priyanka Vergadia, Head of Developer Relations North America at Google

How To Stand Out Amongst The AI Wave: Strategies For Success In Enterprise Sales

  • Rudina Seseri, Founder and Managing Partner at Glasswing Ventures
  • Marc Boroditsky, Former President of Revenue at Cloudflare

Enterprise GTM Is Broken – Here’s How To Fix It

  • SC Moatti, Founding Managing Partner at Mighty Capital

Ask Sophie LIVE: Your Startup Immigration Questions Answered!

  • Sophie Alcorn, Founding Attorney and Author at Alcorn Immigration Law

Maad, a B2B e-commerce startup based in Senegal, has secured $3.2 million debt-equity funding to bolster its growth in the western Africa country and to explore fresh opportunities in the…

Maad raises $3.2M seed amid B2B e-commerce sector turbulence in Africa

The fresh funds were raised from two investors who transferred the capital into a special purpose vehicle, a legal entity associated with the OpenAI Startup Fund.

OpenAI Startup Fund raises additional $5M

Accel has invested in more than 200 startups in the region to date, making it one of the more prolific VCs in this market.

Accel has a fresh $650M to back European early-stage startups

Kyle Vogt, the former founder and CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has a new VC-backed robotics startup focused on household chores. Vogt announced Monday that the new startup, called…

Cruise founder Kyle Vogt is back with a robot startup

When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to many in the venture capital ecosystem — and…

From Miles Grimshaw to Eva Ho, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

On the heels of OpenAI announcing the latest iteration of its GPT large language model, its biggest rival in generative AI in the U.S. announced an expansion of its own.…

Anthropic is expanding to Europe and raising more money

If you’re looking for a Starliner mission recap, you’ll have to wait a little longer, because the mission has officially been delayed.

TechCrunch Space: You rock(et) my world, moms

Apple devoted a full event to iPad last Tuesday, roughly a month out from WWDC. From the invite artwork to the polarizing ad spot, Apple was clear — the event…

Apple iPad Pro M4 vs. iPad Air M2: Reviewing which is right for most

Terri Burns, a former partner at GV, is venturing into a new chapter of her career by launching her own venture firm called Type Capital. 

GV’s youngest partner has launched her own firm

The decision to go monochrome was probably a smart one, considering the candy-colored alternatives that seem to want to dazzle and comfort you.

ChatGPT’s new face is a black hole

Apple and Google announced on Monday that iPhone and Android users will start seeing alerts when it’s possible that an unknown Bluetooth device is being used to track them. The…

Apple and Google agree on standard to alert people when unknown Bluetooth devices may be tracking them

The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.”

OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: Watch here

A human safety operator will be behind the wheel during this phase of testing, according to the company.

GM’s Cruise ramps up robotaxi testing in Phoenix

OpenAI announced a new flagship generative AI model on Monday that they call GPT-4o — the “o” stands for “omni,” referring to the model’s ability to handle text, speech, and…

OpenAI debuts GPT-4o ‘omni’ model now powering ChatGPT

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The expansion of Polar Semiconductor’s facility would enable the company to double its U.S. production capacity of sensor and power chips within two years.

White House proposes up to $120M to help fund Polar Semiconductor’s chip facility expansion

In 2021, Google kicked off work on Project Starline, a corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging, cameras and a custom-designed screen to let people converse with someone as if…

Google’s 3D video conferencing platform, Project Starline, is coming in 2025 with help from HP

Over the weekend, Instagram announced that it is expanding its creator marketplace to 10 new countries — this marketplace connects brands with creators to foster collaboration. The new regions include…

Instagram expands its creator marketplace to 10 new countries

You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware.

Google I/O 2024: What to expect

The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.

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Four-year-old Mexican BNPL startup Aplazo facilitates fractionated payments to offline and online merchants even when the buyer doesn’t have a credit card.

Aplazo is using buy now, pay later as a stepping stone to financial ubiquity in Mexico

We received countless submissions to speak at this year’s Disrupt 2024. After carefully sifting through all the applications, we’ve narrowed it down to 19 session finalists. Now we need your…

Vote for your Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice favs

Co-founder and CEO Bowie Cheung, who previously worked at Uber Eats, said the company now has 200 customers.

Healthy growth helps B2B food e-commerce startup Pepper nab $30 million led by ICONIQ Growth

Booking.com has been designated a gatekeeper under the EU’s DMA, meaning the firm will be regulated under the bloc’s market fairness framework.

Booking.com latest to fall under EU market power rules

‘Got that boomer!’: How cybercriminals steal one-time passcodes for SIM swap attacks and raiding bank accounts

Squarespace is being taken private in an all-cash deal that values the company on an equity basis at $6.6 billion.

Permira is taking Squarespace private in a $6.9 billion deal

AI-powered tools like OpenAI’s Whisper have enabled many apps to make transcription an integral part of their feature set for personal note-taking, and the space has quickly flourished as a…

Buy Me a Coffee’s founder has built an AI-powered voice note app

Airtel, India’s second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian businesses.

Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and GenAI products to Indian businesses

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to…

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A reckoning is coming for emerging venture funds, and that, VCs say, is a good thing

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