Agenda

agenda

Monday, September 8, 2014


9:00am – 9:05am
Opening Remarks by TechCrunch

9:05am – 9:25am

Fireside Chat with Travis Kalanick (Uber), Moderated by Michael Arrington

9:25am – 9:45am

Founder Stories with Max Levchin (Affirm, HVF), Moderated by Alex Wilhelm

9:45am – 10:05am

In Conversation with Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks), Moderated by Matt Burns

10:05am – 10:30am

What To Fund: Omar Hamoui (Sequoia Capital), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), James Slavet (Greylock Partners), Danny Rimer (Index Ventures) Moderated by: Matthew Panzarino

10:30am – 10:50am

Fireside Chat with Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) Moderated by Jon Shieber

10:50pm – 11:00am

Special Announcement

11:00am – 11:15am

BREAK

11:15am – 11:25am

In Conversation with Bill Ready (Braintree/Paypal)

11:25am – 11:45am

Fireside Chat with Liam Casey (PCH International) Moderated by John Biggs

11:45am – 12:05pm

Founder Stories with Emmett Shear and Kevin Lin (Twitch) Moderated by Kyle Russell

12:05pm – 12:30pm

Fireside Chat with Ev Williams (Medium) and Walter Isaacson (Aspen Institute) Moderated by Matthew Panzarino

12:30pm – 1:40pm

LUNCH

1:40pm – 2:00pm

In Conversation with Bill Hambrecht (WR Hambrecht + Co) and Clayton Christensen (Harvard Business School) Moderated by Jon Shieber

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Zero to One: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund) Moderated by Alexia Tsotsis

Startup Battlefield with Jason Kincaid

2:30pm – 2:35pm

How the Startup Battlefield Works

2:35pm – 3:35pm

Startup Battlefield Session One – Automate

Judges: Josh Felser (Freestyle), Brady Forrest (Highway1), Bindi Karia (Silicon Valley Bank), Stephen Messer (Collective[i])

3:35pm – 3:45pm

BREAK

3:45pm – 4:45pm

Startup Battlefield Session Two – Accelerate

Judges: Adam Cahan (Yahoo), Tony Conrad (True Ventures), Sarah Leary (Nextdoor), David Prager (The Assembly)

4:45pm – 5:00pm

BREAK

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Startup Battlefield Session Three – Activate

Judges: Cyan Banister (Banister Capital), Cyril Ebersweiler (HAXLR8R), Ryan Sweeney (Accel Partners), David Tisch (Box Group)

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Startup Alley Crawl hosted by UPS CONNECT

9:00pm – midnight

After Party hosted by New Relic at Mighty

119 Utah Street (between Alameda St & 15th St), San Francisco

Tuesday, September 9, 2014


9:00am – 9:10am

Opening Remarks by TechCrunch

9:10am – 9:30am

Fireside Chat with Dan Gilbert (Detroit Venture Partners) Moderated by Matt Burns

9:30am – 9:50am

Founder Stories with Julia and Kevin Hartz (Eventbrite) Moderated by Mike Butcher

9:50am – 10:15am

San Francisco’s Tech Culture Clash Moderated by Kim-Mai Cutler

10:15am – 10:35am

In Conversation with Scott Dietzen (Pure Storage) and Mike Speiser (Sutter Hill Ventures) Moderated by Ron Miller

10:35am – 10:50am

BREAK

10:50am – 11:00am

Special Product Announcement

11:00am – 11:25am

Fireside Chat with Marc Benioff (Salesforce.com) Moderated by: Michael Arrington

11:25am – 11:45am

In Conversation with Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen (Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation) Moderated by: Alexia Tsotsis

11:45am – 12:10pm

Fireside Chat with Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures) Moderated by: Michael Arrington

12:10pm – 12:30pm

Founder Stories with Ryan Hoover (Product Hunt) Moderated by: Josh Constine

12:30pm – 2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00pm – 2:25pm

Fireside Chat with Brian Chesky (Airbnb) Moderated by Ryan Lawler

Startup Battlefield with Jason Kincaid

2:25pm – 2:30pm

How the Startup Battlefield Works

2:30pm – 3:30pm

Startup Battlefield Session Four – Streamline

Judges: Tracy Chou (Pinterest), Josh Elman (Greylock Partners), Markus Spiering (EyeEm), Hunter Walk (Homebrew)

3:30pm – 3:45pm

BREAK

3:45pm – 4:45pm

Startup Battlefield Session Five – Transform

Judges: Robert Brunner (Ammunition), Jessica Livingston (Y Combinator), Matthew Prince (Cloudflare), Steven Sinofsky (Harvard Business School)

4:45pm – 5:00pm

BREAK

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Startup Battlefield Session Six – Extend

Judges: Gina Bianchini (Mightybell), Daniel Burka (Google Ventures), Neil Sequeira (General Catalyst), Tomasz Tunguz (Redpoint)

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Startup Alley Crawl hosted by UPS CONNECT

9:00pm – midnight

After Party at Public Works

161 Erie Street (at Mission St), San Francisco

Wednesday, September 10, 2014


9:30am – 9:40am

Opening Remarks by TechCrunch

9:40am – 10:00am

In Conversation with Daphne Koller (Coursera)Moderated by Frederic Lardinois

10:00am – 10:20am

Fireside Chat with Sean Rad (Tinder) Moderated by Jordan Crook

10:20am – 10:40am

In Conversation with Shervin Pishevar and Scott Stanford (Sherpa Ventures/SherpaFoundry), Tina Sharkey (Sherpa Foundry) Moderated by Ryan Lawler

10:40am – 11:00am

Game of Drones Moderated by Darrell Etherington

11:00am – 11:10am

Special Product Announcement

11:10am – 11:20am

BREAK

11:20am – 11:25am

Hackathon Highlights with Jeffery Bennett and Samantha O’Keefe

11:25am – 11:45am

Fireside Chat with Dave Morin (Path) Moderated by: Matthew Panzarino

11:45am – 12:10pm

Digital Medicine is the New Rx: Matthew Cooper (Carmenta Bioscience), Peter Hames (Big Health), Glen Tullman (7wire Ventures) Moderated by Sarah Buhr

12:10pm – 12:35pm

The Convenience Economy: Matt Salzberg (Blue Apron), Rob Spiro (Good Eggs), Tony Xu (DoorDash) Moderated by Anthony Ha

12:35pm – 2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00pm – 2:25pm

Fireside Chat with Gil Penchina (Fastly) and Naval Ravikant (AngelList) Moderated by Michael Arrington

2:25pm – 2:40pm

Startup Battlefield Alumni

2:40pm – 2:45pm

Passing the Disrupt Cup

2:45pm – 2:55pm

BREAK

Startup Battlefield with Jason Kincaid

2:55pm – 3:00pm

How the Startup Battlefield Works

3:00pm – 5:00pm

Startup Battlefield Finals

Judges: Roelof Botha (Sequoia Capital), David Lee (SV Angel), John Lilly (Greylock Partners), Marissa Mayer (Yahoo), Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Kevin Rose (North, Google Ventures)

5:00pm – 5:30pm

Cocktail Reception hosted by Live Journal

5:30pm – 6:00pm

Closing Awards Ceremony

9:00pm – midnight

After Party at Mezzanine

444 Jessie Street (between Mint St & 6th St), San Francisco