We just announced the session winners last week. Now meet the roundtable sessions that truly “made” the competition for this year’s Disrupt 2024 audience choice program. With five amazing sessions securing their place among thousands of votes from around the world, these finalists proved they’ve got what it takes to make things happen. You’ll take away the same attitude and expertise by attending their roundtable sessions this October. Let’s meet the winners!
Enterprise GTM is broken — see how to fix it
Speaker: SC Moatti, Founding Managing Partner, Mighty Capital
The old tactics don’t work anymore. In an age where machines bombard your inbox with emails thousands of times a week, how do you cut through the noise to make sure the right decision makers get the message at a target business? Drawing on expertise and lessons learned from helping over half a million product leaders improve their GTM strategy, SC Moatti will lead this breakout session exploring the challenges and opportunities of the GTM business space. Founders and operators will walk away with the tools they need to start making real progress toward their business ambitions.
Is there such a thing as a “startup inside a big company”?
Speaker: Prerit Uppal, Group Product Leader, Adobe Inc.
What if more corporate executives used the same entrepreneurial spirit that propelled Tesla’s Elon Musk and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to success? Big companies, often overlooked for innovation, are actually fertile ground for it. Just look at products like Post-it Notes from 3M or the Sony PlayStation, which started as internal projects and grew into separate success stories as new business units. The best innovators create new businesses within large companies.
The package revolves around understanding the basics of starting a business in a larger company and the active steps required to do so successfully.
Next-Gen Medicine: Artificial Intelligence Simulation Generating New Data to Accelerate Drug Discovery
Speaker: Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ
AI models require vast amounts of data to complete a given task — but what if that data doesn’t exist? SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary and Breyer Capital’s Jim Breyer will discuss how artificial intelligence and quantum simulation are generating the missing data that AI models need to accelerate drug discovery — leading to breakthroughs for difficult conditions like disease of Alzheimer’s, while reducing the time, cost and risk of developing new drugs. Jack and Jim will present how UCSF, Riboscience and other biopharma researchers are using simulation to turn molecules into medicine and recent findings showing how simulation data is performing beyond our wildest expectations.
Shoppertainment 2024: The future of consumer and commerce
Speaker: Khanh Ngo, Monetization Strategy and Operations, APAC and MEA – TikTok
Discover new insights that decode consumer behavior. What does this mean for business and how can you thrive in this $1 trillion entertainment retail space?
Winning at startup PR without paying for an agency, with former TechCrunch editor Josh Constine
Speaker: Josh Constine, Venture Partner, SignalFire
Tired of emailing journalists with no response and don’t want to cough up $15,000 a month for a PR agency? Lesson One: It’s about what the audience wants to hear, not what you want to say. With the right combination of concise storytelling and data-driven content, you can learn to express type yourself. In this roundtable session led by former TechCrunch editor-turned-VC Josh Constine, you’ll get the book on how to teach readers something while boosting your fundraising, recruiting, and sales. Ask your biggest questions about how PR works and hear what red flags your pitches are clearing.
Isn’t it a composition?! And we’ll have dozens of other roundtables for you at this year’s event. Make sure you get your ticket here.
