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Kick off Disrupt with a live recording of your favorite ZebethMedia podcasts • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 12, 2022Posted in Chain Reaction podcast, Disrupt, Disrupt 2022, Equity podcast, found-podcast, StartupsNo Comments

ZebethMedia Disrupt 2022 starts next week, which means we’re busy putting the final touches on what is shaping up to be a massive and pretty damn fun event. And this year, we’re doing something entirely new: live podcasts. Each day of Disrupt will kick off on the ZebethMedia+ stage with a live recording of a ZebethMedia podcast. Equity, Found and Chain Reaction will record their week’s episodes onstage in front of a live audience. That’s you! Each day of the event, a different show will welcome everyone back to the venue with news, analysis and jokes. There will even be breakfast, so make sure to come early — do not party too much! — for some eats and some chats. ZebethMedia’s podcasting efforts have grown from a small side project into a material plank in our larger output, so come hang out with us and have some fun. Here’s the agenda, which kicks off at 9:00 a.m. PDT: Tuesday: Equity Live with Mary Ann Azevedo, Natasha Mascarenhas and Alex Wilhelm Wednesday: Chain Reaction Live with Anita Ramaswamy, Jacquelyn Melinek and Lucas Matney Thursday: Found Live with Jordan Crook and Darrell Etherington And then buckle in for the rest of Disrupt to catch Serena Williams, Chris Dixon, Kevin Hart, Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe and OnlyFans CEO Ami Gan on the Disrupt stage and Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras, Kleiner Perkins partner Annie Case and Bessemer Venture partner Tess Hatch on the ZebethMedia+ stage. And of course you can catch Startup Battlefield 200, our startup pitch-off that comes with a $100,000 equity-free check. The full schedule’s here, and if you still need a ticket, head here. We’re also providing free access to the Expo area for anyone who has been laid off recently, in case you are looking for a new gig and have a startup role high on your list.

Don’t miss our partner breakouts and Discovery stage sessions at Disrupt • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 11, 2022Posted in Disrupt, Startups, TechCrunch Disrupt 2022No Comments

ZebethMedia Disrupt — taking place October 18–20 in San Francisco — is the world-class tech conference where startups go to grow. Building a startup is no easy task — not exactly a newsflash, we know. And it’s why we want to direct your attention to the companies we partner with to make it happen. One of the things our partners do best is provide their expertise and educational resources. They present sessions on a range of topics that help new founders gain the confidence they need to move forward and build a solid business foundation. Partners dispense valuable insight from our stages, and they’re always interested in engaging with interesting startups and looking for potential opportunities. Here’s a grateful shout-out to the partners you’ll find sharing essential information and connection in breakout sessions and on the Discovery stage. Check ’em out — you’ll be glad you did. How to Supercharge Growth, Utilize Cloud, and Reduce Burn with Martin Mao, CEO and co-founder of Chronosphere, and Ash Shehryar, founder and chief design officer of Pronto Media Group. Sponsored by Google Cloud. The Great Expectations of Crypto and Blockchain with Denelle Dixon, CEO and executive director at Stellar Development Foundation, and Alex Holmes, chairman and CEO at Moneygram. Sponsored by Moneygram. Turning Start-Up Acquisitions into Success for Legacy Business with Dave Latham, VP of product CDK Roadster at CDK Global, and Mahesh Shah EVP and chief product and technology officer at CDK Global. Sponsored by CDK Global. Building the Visual Economy Through Developer-Led Innovation with Saranya Babu, chief marketing officer at Cloudinary. Sponsored by Cloudinary. What Happens When We Don’t Have Diverse Voices in the Room to Help Shape the Future with Wemimo Abbey, CEO and founder at Esusu Financial Inc., and Leyonna Barba, managing director of middle market banking and specialized industries business at J.P. Morgan. Sponsored by J.P. Morgan. Finding True Love in Tech Partnerships: The Dos and Don’ts with Kevin Issadore, head of business development, North America, at Marqeta; Brandon Krieg, CEO and co-founder at Stash; Tim Montgomery, SVP, North America digital partnerships at Mastercard; Chelsea Puckett SVP, strategic payments systems at Stride Bank; Parilee Wang, head of product at Alloy; and Ted Westhelle, senior manager at North American Digital Sales at Mambu. Sponsored by Mambu. From Capital and Counsel, to Partnerships and Profits: How to Maximize Your Investor Relationships with Daniel Jacker, CEO and co-founder at ZaiNar; Emily Koster, director of communications at Samsung Next; Gloria Lau, CEO and co-founder at Alpha Medical; Rebecca Liao, CEO and co-founder at Saga. Sponsored by Samsung Next. The Secrets of Managing Data for 5,000 Companies with George Fraser, CEO at Fivetran and Mark Kidwell, chief data architect, analytics data platform, at Autodesk. Sponsored by Fivetran. How to Evolve Your Business Through Recurring Revenue with Dan Hardman, managing director, co-head of technology and disruptive commerce group, at JPMorgan Chase; Adam Tesan, chief revenue officer, Chargeebee; and Dmitriy Yakubov, head of partnerships at Checkout. Sponsored by Chargebee. Getting to Yes and What Happens Next: An Unfiltered Chat with a Top VC with Navin Chaddha, managing director at Mayfield. Sponsored by Mayfield. Famously Overlooked: How Underestimated Founders Survive and Thrive in a Competitive Market with Maëlle Gavet, CEO at Techstars, and Tashi Nakanishi, managing partner at HartBeat Ventures and CEO at XPV Group. Sponsored by Capital Connect by J.P. Morgan. How Banks and Fintech Startups Can Effectively Co-Thrive with Chintan Mehta, CIO and head of digital technology and innovation at Wells Fargo and Madhu Narasimhan, EVP, head of innovation at Wells Fargo. Sponsored by Wells Fargo. Don’t miss out on your last chance to save $700. Buy your Disrupt pass before October 14 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT) and join us in San Francisco! Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at ZebethMedia Disrupt 2022? Contact our sponsorship sales team by filling out this form.

It’s your last week to save on passes to ZebethMedia Disrupt • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 10, 2022Posted in Disrupt, Startups, TechCrunch Disrupt 2022No Comments

We’re on the home stretch, startup fans. ZebethMedia Disrupt kicks off in less than 10 days and runs from October 18–20. This message goes out to all the last-minute decision-makers. It’s the final week you can save serious cheddar on a Disrupt pass. It’s go time. Buy your pass before October 14 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT), and you’ll save $700. Disrupt is where the early-startup community — founders, investors, engineers, tech leaders, icons, makers and shakers — come to launch, learn, connect, invest and grow. You simply won’t find a better opportunity incubator. We’re not the only folks who think so (even if we are a bit biased). Check out what your colleagues had to say about the benefits of going to Disrupt. “The top three benefits I got out of going to Disrupt were introducing my product to people who would not have seen it otherwise; networking with investors, mentors, advisors and potential customers and, finally, talking to other entrepreneurs and founders and learning what it took to get their companies off the ground.” — Felicia Jackson, inventor and founder of CPR Wrap. “I loved seeing so many women co-founders, CEOs and engineers at Disrupt. ZebethMedia embraces diversity, which you don’t see a lot of in the startup world.” — Jessica McLean, director of marketing and communications, Infinite-Compute. “I wanted to get the most out of my time at Disrupt. I learned a lot by splitting my time between the Startup Battlefield, the Disrupt stage speakers and the how-to presentations for founders on the ZebethMedia+ stage.” — JC Bodson, founder and CEO of Arbitrage Technologies. Reminder: Don’t miss the Startup Battlefield 200, more than 50 roundtable discussions and game-changing speakers like Serena Williams (Serena Ventures), Marc Lore (Wonder Group), Johanna Faries (Activision Blizzard), RJ Scaringe (Rivian) and so many more. And don’t miss out on your last chance to save $700. Buy your Disrupt pass before October 14 at 11:59 p.m. (PDT), and join us in San Francisco! Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at ZebethMedia Disrupt 2022? Contact our sponsorship sales team by filling out this form.

ACLU’s Jennifer Stisa Granick and Google’s Maddie Stone talk security and surveillance at Disrupt • ZebethMedia

By zebethcontrolPosted on October 9, 2022Posted in Disrupt, Privacy, Security, TechCrunch Disrupt 2022No Comments

In a world filled with bad actors and snooping governments, surveillance is the one factor that affects almost every business across the globe. While companies like Apple, Signal and LastPass fight against surveillance using end-to-end encryption and by shunning mass data collection — you can’t hand over data you don’t have — too many companies, big and small, remain unaware and deeply vulnerable to prying eyes. The fast-changing surveillance landscape is why we’re thrilled that Jennifer Stisa Granick, ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, and Maddie Stone, a security researcher on Google’s Project Zero team, will join us onstage at ZebethMedia Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco. In a panel discussion called “Surveillance in Startup Land,” Granick and Stone will join ZebethMedia security editor Zack Whittaker to present a crash course on the surveillance state to inform, educate and inspire early-stage founders to think about how to protect their users and customers from threats they haven’t even thought of yet. We’ll discuss the emerging threats today, like how spyware makers, like NSO Group, Cytrox and Candiru, which let governments secretly wiretap phones in real time, and data brokers — the companies that trade in people’s personal information and granular location — represent an ever increasing threat to privacy and civil liberties. Surveillance isn’t just in the United States — it’s everywhere — and change can happen quickly and unexpectedly. Case in point: Fear over healthcare data tracking and privacy became a reality after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark legal case that guaranteed a person’s constitutional right to abortion. The decisions that founders and investors make today can and will affect millions tomorrow. We can’t wait to hear our panelists weigh in on how companies should think about what they’re building now — and in the future — so they don’t inadvertently become extensions of the surveillance state. Jennifer Stisa Granick fights for civil liberties in an age of massive surveillance and powerful digital technology. As the surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the ACLU Speech, Privacy and Technology Project, she litigates, speaks and writes about privacy, security, technology and constitutional rights. Granick is the author of the book “American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What to Do About It,” published by Cambridge University Press and winner of the 2016 Palmer Civil Liberties Prize. Maddie Stone is a security researcher on Google Project Zero team, where she focuses on zero-day exploits actively used in the wild. Previously, she served as reverse engineer and team lead on the Android security team, focusing predominantly on preinstalled and off-Google Play malware. Stone holds a Bachelor of Science, with a double major in computer science and Russian, and a Master of Science in computer science from Johns Hopkins University. ZebethMedia Disrupt takes place on October 18–20 in San Francisco. Buy your pass today and find out why Disrupt is the place where startups go to grow. Is your company interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at ZebethMedia Disrupt 2022? Contact our sponsorship sales team by filling out this form.