In about a week, Disrupt NYC will begin. First, will be the Hackathon over the weekend, which is a mini-event unto itself. We expect more than 500 hackers to show up and create new products in 24 hours.
Then the main event begins on Monday, May 23. For the next three days, we will launch over two dozen new startups in our Startup Battlefield and bring together the smartest people in tech to discuss how the Internet is disrupting industry after industry—from media (print, TV, music, gaming) and social commerce to payments and transportation. We’ve already announced many of the speakers, but the full agenda is below.
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We’ve steered away from unwieldy panels, and instead tried to pair up interesting speakers to foster deeper conversations. Fred Wilson, Dennis Crowley, Arianna Huffington, and Ron Conway will kick things off in a series of talks on Monday morning. Gilt Groupe CEO Kevin Ryan and Kleiner Perkins VC Aileen Lee will delve into the shifting world of social commerce. Charlie Rose will interview Paul Graham on Tuesday. Betaworks CEO John Borthwick (who recently launched News.me) will debate tablet publishing with Greg Clayman, publisher of The Daily.
We’ll also be diving deep into the bowels of disruption with founders shaking things up at Tumblr, Instagram, AirBnB, Quora, Uber, and Path. We’ve added a session on social music with the founders of SoundCloud and SoundTracking. David Karp of Tumblr and kevin Systrom will share notes on how to deal with hockey-stick growth.
As if all of these great speakers each morning weren’t enough, then we’ll have the main event in the afternoons: the Startup Battlefield. Heather and I have been going through rehearsals with the finalists, and this may be the most impressive bunch yet. That’s all I can say for now.
Agenda
Monday, May 23rd
9:00am
Opening Remarks
Fireside Chat with Fred Wilson, Union Square Ventures
Fireside Chat with Dennis Crowley, Foursquare
Fireside Chat with acclaimed essayist, novelist, screenwriter and director, Nora Ephron; NYU journalism professor, Jay Rosen; and Arianna Huffington, Editor and President Huffington Post Media Group
10:45am
BREAK
11:00am
What Makes Great Entrepreneurs Great? Ron Conway, SV Angel
Founder Stories: Chris Dixon interviews Charlie Cheever, Quora
Power Play: Dave Morin, Path
Disrupting Music With Social: Alexander Ljung, SoundCloud and Steve Jang, SoundTracking
Power Play: Michael Raneri, Zecco
Social Commerce: Kevin Ryan, Gilt Groupe and Aileen Lee, KPCB
12:30pm-2:00pm
LUNCH
2:00pm
Fireside Chat with Tim Armstrong, AOL
Fireside Chat with Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?
2:30pm
Startup Battlefield Session 1
3:30pm
BREAK
3:45pm
Startup Battlefield Session 2
4:45pm
BREAK
5:00pm
Startup Battlefield Session 3
6:00pm
Conference Concludes
9:00pm-Midnight
After Party hosted by Media Temple
Good Units (Hudson Hotel)
356 W 58th Street
Conference badge required for admission
Tuesday, May 24th
9:00am
Opening Remarks
Charlie Rose interviews Paul Graham, YCombinator
Charlie Rose interviews Ashton Kutcher, Katalyst Media
Disrupting Display Advertising With Social, Mobile, And Beyond: Mike Walrath (Moat), Carolyn Everson(Facebook), Eric Litman (Medialets), and Gurbaksh Chahal (RadiumOne)
10:30am
BREAK
10:45am
Disrupting Gaming: Bing Gordon, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Disrupting Publishing: From Links To Tablets: John Borthwick, betaworks and Greg Clayman, publisher, The Daily
Managing Hockey-Stick Growth: Kevin Systrom, Instagram and David Karp, Tumblr
Special Product Announcement: Julia Hu, Lark
Special Product Announcement: Liam Casey, PCH International
New York Startup Scene. What’s Different Now?: Chris Dixon (Hunch), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Eric Hippeau (Lerer Ventures), Shana Fisher (High Line Venture Partners), and John Borthwick (betaworks)
12:30pm-2:00pm
LUNCH
2:00pm
Fireside chat with Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital
2:15pm
Startup Battlefield Session 4
3:15pm
BREAK
3:30pm
Startup Battlefield Session 5
4:30pm
BREAK
4:45pm
Startup Battlefield Session 6
5:45pm
Conference Concludes
9:00pm-Midnight
After Party hosted by MailChimp
Hudson Terrace
621 W 46th Street
Conference badge required for admission
Wednesday, May 25th
9:00am
Opening Remarks
O2O: Online to Offline Mobile Commerce: Alex Rampell, TrialPay, Stephanie Tilenius, Google Commerce and Payments, and Lewis Gersh, Metamorphic Partners
Success by the Numbers: Chris Farmer, General Catalyst Partners
Disrupting Offline Businesses: Brian Chesky, Airbnb and Travis Kalanick, Uber
Kickstarter Economy: John Biggs (CrunchGear), with Yancey Stickler (Kickstarter), Rafael Atijas (Loog), Dan Provost (Glif, Cosmonaut), and Sean Bonner (RDTN.org)
10:30am
BREAK
10:45am
Special Product Announcement: Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare
Disrupting Transportation: Electric vs. Efficiency: Craig Bramscher, Brammo and Donald Runkle, Ecomotors
Fireside Chat with Keith Rabois, Square
Power Play: Dom Leca, Sparrow
Office Hours with Paul Graham, Y Combinator
12:45pm-2:15pm
LUNCH
2:15pm
TechCrunch Disrupt Alumni Updates: Tomer Dvir, Soluto and Doug Imbruce, Qwiki
Fireside Chat with Christopher Poole, Canvas Networks
NYC 2011 Disrupt Hackathon Winner Highlights
Fireside Chat with Marissa Mayer, Google
3:15pm
BREAK
3:30pm
Startup Battlefield Final Round
Expert Judges:
Roelof Botha, Sequoia Capital
Ron Conway, SV Angel
Josh Kopelman, First Round Capital
Marissa Mayer, Google
Fred Wilson, USV
5:30pm-7:00pm
Closing Cocktails, Pier 94
7:00pm
Closing Awards Ceremony
Multiple Sponsor Awards
Audience Choice Award
The Passing of the Disrupt Cup and $50,000 Grand Prize from TechCrunch
7:30pm
Ceremony Concludes
9:00pm-Midnight
After Party Hosted by General Electric
Greenhouse
150 Varick Street
Conference badge required for admission