“This Pandemic Life”, a post-apocalyptic series featuring billionaire founders, prominent investors and the Canadian prime minister in their respective bunkers, may have been called seamlessly, talking to the audience about the final times.
But collision from home, one of the first primary generation occasions to go online after SXSW canceled this year due to coronavirus problems. June 23-25, 32,000 participants, 634 high-level speakers, 850 investors, 1008 startups and 1,143 newshounds. from 140 countries accumulated to enjoy five channels of action-packed content with a dozen subcommittee rooms offering robot demonstrations, master starter classes and whiskey mixers.
Dozens of investors with big AI bets were presented, as well as Vinod Khosla’s Wes Chan and Felicis Ventures, as well as featured investors Paris Hilton, Shaq, LL Cool J and Steve Aoki. A hotbed of shared valuable concepts and a few weeks after talking. At the conference, Uber Eats acquired Postmates, Amazon acquired Zoox and Microsoft became a white knight for TikTok.
According to vital weather information, CO2 grades fell by 17% during the covid-19 global blockade, as reported by Kate Brandt, Google’s director of sustainable development. Chess legend and human rights activist Garry Kasparov spoke of the promise and danger of AI, better Sales Writer Margaret Atwood (The Story of the Maid) warned of the risks of bipartisan democracy, and Justin Trudeau announced that Canada would implement a contract tracking app without an identifier.
At a fast, interactive, close and personal pace, the programming was so compelling that it almost came off the screen. As a first outing, it serves as a style for what virtual meetings can become. An immersive visual delight that competes with the most productive of the top visualization.
Now that the fall season is underway, almost every major technology gathering has become virtual. Web Summit, the manufacturers of Collision From Home, will air from December 2-4 with a list of stars. The first 150 speakers have just been announced and come with in frequent appearances by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, the mythical environmentalist Jane Goodall, Andrew Ross Sorkin (HBO Billions), Eric Yuan of Zoom and the Portuguese president. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
CES, which follows January 6-9, 2021, has also started delivering keynote speakers to be delivered via Verizon’s Hans Vestberg on the launch of 5G.
Apple, Facebook and Disrupt will release things next week with primary product announcements, breaking news and a cast of famous investors Kevin Hart, Kerry Washington, Conan O’Brien, Ron Howard, The Chainsmokers and dozens of venture capitalists, Cyan Banister, Aileen Lee, Charles Hudson, Lo Toney, Peter Fenton, Hunter Walk and Niko Bonatsos give founders recommendations on how to provoke a pandemic.
The interruption begins on Sunday, September 13 at 12:00 p. m. PT with full schedule and display functions here. Apple starts on Tuesday, September 15 at 10 a. m. PT and can be accessed free of charge here. Facebook starts on Wednesday, September 16 at 10 a. m. M. Pacific Time and you can watch it for free with the full schedule here.
Here are some of the highlights of the week:
Sunday, September 13
12:20 p. m. until 12:30 p. m. PT Disrupt 2020: CAA founder Michael Ovitz with Human Capital co-founder Baris Akis on the rock stars of technological talent (disruption stage).
Monday, September 14
9:05-9:25am PT Disrupt 2020: Whitney Wolf Herd of Bumble at the stroke of one hundred million users and the $6 billion IPO (Disrupt Stage) deposit
9:05-9:45am PT Disrupt 2020: Garry Tan from Initialized Capital, Anu Hariharan from Y Combinator and Hans Tung from GGV on how fundraising works (Extra Crunch step)
10: 30-10: 50 am PT Disrupt 2020: Speed Networking (sidebar)
10:50 a. m. -11:30 a. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures, Susan Lyne of BBG Ventures with Tone Peaks (Disrupt Stage)
11. 45am-12. 30pm PT Disrupt 2020: Michael Seibel of YC/Reddit Tactical Fundraising Actions for Black Founders (Extra Crunch Stage)
Tuesday, September 15
9:25-9:45 am PT Disrupt 2020: Mike Lu de Triller at TikTok (Disrupt Stage)
9:45-10:05 am PT Disrupt 2020: Sequoia Capital Roelof Botha COVID Perspectives (Disrupt Stage)
9:45 a. m. -10: 30 p. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Lo Toney of Plexo Capital, Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate and Rajan Anandan of Sequoia on the Bridges of Passage (Extra Crunch Stage)
10am PT Apple Event Time Passes Quickly: Watch the 6 Watch Series Here
10:30 a. m. -10: 50 a. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Diversity with Pam Kostka of All Raise, Christie Pitts of Backstage Capital and Sarah Kunst of Cleo Capital (Extra Crunch Stage)
10:50-11:30 PM PT Disrupt 2020: Roelof Botha of Sequoia Capital and Megan Quinn of Niantic with peaks on the launch pad (Extra Crunch Stage)
11:35-11:55 p. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Dropbox’s Drew Houston talks about cloud innovation (Disrupt Stage)
11: 50-12pm PT Disrupt 2020: Speed Networking (sidebar)
11: 55-12: 25pm PT Disrupt 2020: Catch up with The Chainsmokers (Disrupt stage)
12 pm-12. 30pm PT Disrupt 2020: Taiwan AI display (Breakout Taiwan Tech Arena)
12 pm-12. 45 pm PT Disrupt 2020: Homebrew’s Hunter Walk, Alexa von Tobel by Inspired Capital, Ted Wang of Cowboy Ventures (Extra Crunch Stage)
12:25-12:45pm PT Disrupt 2020: Facebook’s Stan Chudnovsky on Sending a Billion Messenger Messages Consistent with the Day (Disrupt Stage)
Wednesday, September 16
9:05-9:25 am PT Disrupt 2020: Actress Kerry Washington on Investing in Diversity (Disrupt Stage)
9. 45 a. m. -10. 30 a. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Greylock’s Sarah Guo, GV’s Dave Munichiello and Index Ventures’ Sarah Cannon talk about commercial methods based on the house’s AI (Crunch Extra)
10 am PT Facebook Connect: Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote address with an update on Facebook Reality Lab AI projects here (more highlights in my OC6 summary)
10: 10-10: 30 am PT Disrupt 2020: UC Berkeley at CRISPR (Disrupt Stage)
10: 30-10: 50 am PT Disrupt 2020: Speed Networking (sidebar)
10:50 a. m. -11: 30 p. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Precursor Cyan Banister and Kirsten Green on platform (Extra Crunch stage)
11:35 a. m. -12 p. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Amazon Alexa Rohit Prasad and Toni Reid on the future of Voice AI (Disrupt Stage)
12-12: 45pm PT Disrupt 2020: Andy Fang by DoorDash and Yony Feng of Peloton on creating a service market (Extra Crunch stage)
5. 30 p. m. PT Facebook Connect: John Carmack of un nameless Oculus, see here
7 p. m. PT Facebook Connect: Jaden Smith After Party, see here
Thursday, September 17
9. 05 a. m. -9. 30 a. m. PT Disrupt 2020: comic and technology investor Kevin Hart with Adam Goldenberg of Fabletics on Brand Partnerships (Disrupt Stage)
9:30-10am PT Disrupt 2020: Director Ron Howard, founders of Imagine Impact, with Brian Grazer and Tyler Mitchell on their accelerator for writers to create a story channel for streaming platforms (Disrupt Stage)
10am-10. 20am PT Disrupt 2020: Boston Robotics CEO Robert Playter on his Pivot Stage
10:50 a. m. -11: 30 p. m. PT Disrupt 2020: The Catalyst for General Niko Bonatsos and Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures in Platform Manufacturing (Extra Crunch Stage)
11:45-12:05pm PT Disrupt 2020: Peter Fenton of Benchmark on the Future of Venture Capital (Disrupt Stage)
12:05-12:35pm PT Disrupt 2020: David Sanger of The New York Times in HBO’s The Perfect Weapon (Disrupt Stage)
Friday, September 18
9:55 a. m. -10: 25 p. m. PT Disrupt 2020: Lo Toney from Plexo Capital, Renata Quintini from Renegade and Dayna Grayson from Construct Capital on how to be an investor (Disrupt Stage)
12 pm-12. 20pm PT Disrupt 2020: Conan O’Brien on the podcast (Disrupt Stage)
12: 20-12: 40pm PT Disrupt 2020: Representative Zoe Lofgren in Big Tech Repair (Disruption Stage)
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