Last week, we announced the winners of our breakout sessions. Now, it's time to introduce the roundtable sessions that truly “closed out” the competition for this year's Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice Program. With thousands of votes from around the world and five incredible sessions earning finalist spots, these finalists proved they have what it takes to make things happen. You can take that same can-do attitude and know-how with you when you join us for our roundtable sessions this October. Now, meet the winners!
Your Enterprise GTM is broken—here's how to fix it
Speaker: SC Moatti, Founding Managing Partner, Mighty Capital
Traditional tactics no longer work. In an era when machines flood your inbox thousands of times a week, how do you cut through the noise and get your message to the right decision makers at your target enterprise companies? Drawing on his expertise and knowledge from helping over 500,000 product leaders power their GTM strategies, SC Moatti will lead a co-hosted session exploring the challenges and opportunities in the enterprise GTM space. Founders and operators will leave with the tools they need to really move forward towards their enterprise ambitions.
Is there such thing as a “startup within a large company”?
Speaker: Prerit Uppal, Group Product Leader, Adobe Inc.
What if more business leaders embraced the same entrepreneurial spirit that made Tesla's Elon Musk and Amazon's Jeff Bezos successful? Large companies are often overlooked for innovation, but they're actually fertile ground for it. Look at products like 3M's Post-it Notes and Sony's PlayStation, which started as internal projects and grew into independent success stories as new business units. The best innovators create new business within large companies.
The key is to understand the nuts and bolts of setting up a business within a larger corporation and the actionable steps you need to take to make it a success.
Next-generation medicine: Generate new data with AI simulation to accelerate drug discovery
Speaker: Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ
AI models require vast amounts of data to complete certain tasks, but what happens when this data doesn't exist? SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary and Breyer Capital's Jim Breyer discuss how AI and quantum simulations can generate the missing data AI models need to accelerate drug discovery, leading to breakthroughs for challenging disease conditions like Alzheimer's and reducing the time, cost, and risk of drug development. Jack and Jim will share how biopharmaceutical researchers at UCSF, Riboscience, and elsewhere are using simulations to turn molecules into medicines, and recent findings that show simulated data is performing better than we ever imagined.
Shoppertainment 2024: The Future of Consumers and Commerce
Speaker: Khanh Ngo, Monetization Strategy and Operations, APAC and MEA – TikTok
Discover new insights into consumer behavior: what it means for your business and how you can succeed in this trillion-dollar shopping entertainment sector.
Former TechCrunch editor Josh Konstin on how to succeed in PR for your startup without paying an agency
Speaker: Josh Constine, Venture Partner, SignalFire
Tired of emailing reporters and not getting a response, and don't want to pay $15,000 a month to a PR agency? Lesson 1: It's not about what you want to say, it's about what your audience wants to hear. With the right mix of succinct storytelling and data-driven content, you can learn to pitch to the press yourself. In this roundtable session led by former TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief and now venture capitalist Josh Constine, you'll get a playbook for getting your point across to your readers while driving funding, recruiting, and sales. Ask your biggest questions about how PR works and hear about the red flags that get your pitch dropped.
That's an impressive lineup! We'll have dozens more roundtables at this year's event, so grab your tickets here!