Today’s highlights include a demo with Incubus and Pharrell Williams and the Startup Battlefield finals. See the full schedule below.
AM PANELS
9:25 am – 9:45 am | 8.6 million followers can’t be wrong with Angie Nwandu (The Shade Room)
9:45 am – 10:05 am | Humanity’s next move: Garry Kasparov talks AI (author of Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins)
10:05 am – 10:20 am | Startup Battlefield Alumni updates
10:20 am – 10:30 am | Passing the Disrupt Cup with Matthew Panzarino
11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Startup Battlefield Competition Finals
Battlefield Final Round Judges: Stuart Ellman (RRE Ventures), Annie Lamont (Oak HC/FT), Susan Lyne (BBG Ventures), Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch), Deven Parekh (Insight Venture Partners) and Reshma Saujani (Girls Who Code)
PM PANELS
1:40 pm – 2:00 pm | Judah vs. The Machines: The Reveal with Judah Friedlander
2:00 pm – 2:20 pm | The unbundling of VC with Naval Ravikant (AngelList)
2:25 pm – 2:45 pm | Living for the city with Stonly Baptiste (Urban Us), Brad Hargreaves (Common) and Shruti Merchant (HubHaus)
2:45 pm – 3:10 pm | Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) on robots, AI and getting to Commander Data
3:10 pm – 3:25 pm | Hardware Alley Demo
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Dug Song (Duo Security)
Caren Maio (Nestio)
Irving Fain (Bowery Farming)
Zahir Dossa (Function of Beauty)
5:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Incubus guitarist Michael Einziger is set to close the show on Wednesday, May 17th with a special musical presentation, featuring Pharrell Williams and Incubus, that will demonstrate the technology developed by his startup, MIXhalo.
5:30 pm – 5:45 pm |Closing Startup Battlefield Awards Ceremony
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