What areas and sectors are ripe for disruption? Which technologies and innovations will power the next upheaval in the business world? Powered by 10 years of CNBC’s groundbreaking Disruptor 50 list, and featuring intelligence and input from a who’s who from our past and present D50 companies, we’ll look what will be the trends that disrupt, enable and power growth and produce amazing returns for the next ten years and beyond.
Stéphane Bancel has served as Moderna's Chief Executive Officer since October 2011 and as a member of Moderna’s board of directors since March 2011. Before joining the company, Mr. Bancel served for five years as Chief Executive Officer of the French diagnostics company bioMérieux SA. From July 2000 to March 2006, he served in various roles at Eli Lilly and Company, including as Managing Director, Belgium and as Executive Director, Global Manufacturing Strategy and Supply Chain. Prior to Lilly, Mr. Bancel served as Asia-Pacific Sales and Marketing Director for bioMérieux.
Mr. Bancel currently serves on the board of directors of Indigo. He is currently a Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering. Mr. Bancel holds a Master of Engineering degree from École Centrale Paris (ECP), a Master of Science in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Jenny Just co-founded PEAK6 in 1997 with $1.5M in seed capital as a proprietary options trading firm. Since then, she has grown it into a multibillion-dollar financial services and technology giant housing the next generation of products and service brands including PEAK6 Capital Management, PEAK6 Strategic Capital, Apex Fintech Solutions, Apex Crypto, PEAK6 InsurTech, Evil Geniuses, and Zogo. Jenny and her co-founder have created or turned around more than 15 operating companies and made 100s of private investments.
Jenny is passionate about finding opportunities for women to succeed at every table. This passion led her to launch Poker Power in 2020, a woman-led company that teaches poker to all who identify as female and by extension, teaches women strategic thinking, capital allocation, and decision-making skills. Additionally, Jenny has created programs to help women and underrepresented professionals advance their careers including the Women’s Trading Experience, Women’s Technology Experience and Fintech In Action.
Jay Parikh is the Co-CEO of Lacework where he leads its innovation engine – including its product, engineering, and infrastructure efforts. In 2013, Jay also joined the Board of Directors at leading enterprise software company Atlassian. Prior to Lacework, Jay served as vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook, where he led the engineering and operations teams responsible for building and maintaining the company’s infrastructure that serves more than one billion users, developers, and partners worldwide. Parikh also served as vice president of engineering at Akamai Technologies, where he helped build the world’s largest and most globally distributed computing platform and where he linked up with the other Lacework Co-CEO, David Hatfield. Parikh is a member of the Advisory Council of Big Data Fund 2 and the Board of Advisors of Ooyala, Inc. He also serves as an advisor of Revinate, Inc., and is a technology advisor to several early-stage companies. He has filed several U.S. patents. Parikh holds a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech University.
Ryan Petersen is the Founder and Co-CEO of Flexport. Prior to starting Flexport to fix the user experience in global trade, Ryan was co-founder and CEO of ImportGenius.com, a data-as-a-service business for global shipping. He holds a degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.
The power of messenger RNA is obvious now, the basis of the Covid vaccines that blunted the force of the pandemic. It wasn’t so obvious in 2015, when Moderna topped CNBC’s annual Disruptor 50 list. The CEO joins us to discuss what became one of the greatest medical races in history and what lies ahead for a now decade-old company that’s fighting to protect its patented technology.
Stéphane Bancel, Moderna CEO
Interviewer: Joe Kernen, “Squawk Box” Co-Anchor
Last year, as the supply chain crisis persisted, Flexport had its own bottleneck: a waiting list. Freight is a trillion-dollar industry that’s failed to move with the speed of the 21st century, so it’s no surprise that the company topped this year’s CNBC Disruptor 50 list. Founder and CEO Ryan Petersen joins us to discuss how a once well-tuned machine has become a disaster that’s fueling some of the worst inflation in decades, as well as the technology capable of bringing things back under control.
Ryan Petersen, Flexport Founder & CEO
Interviewer: Julia Boorstin, CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent
By now, the case for investing in more women and minority-led startups has been well established, but progress remains slow. And in 2022, rising interest rates and recession fears have actually caused a slowdown in venture funding of diverse-led firms, reversing the incremental progress that was starting to be made. CNBC’s Frank Holland leads this important conversation with legendary venture and private equity investor Robert Smith on how to create opportunity for more diverse-led disruptive companies to be formed, financed, counseled and led, regardless and even because of the current state of the economy.
Robert F. Smith, Vista Equity Partners Founder, Chairman and CEO
Interviewer: Frank Holland, CNBC General Assignment Reporter
Disruption in Action: Web3 & Cybersecurity
Crypto enthusiasts say their vision for the web would decentralize it, pushing it closer to its roots. But doing so presents novel security threats we’ve only just begun to confront with the internet in its current form. In this panel, the CEOs of MoonPay and Lacework, both first-time CNBC Disruptor 50 companies, join us to discuss the emerging threats out there and the best ways to protect everyone from token holders to NFT creators and more.
Ivan Soto-Wright, MoonPay Co-Founder & CEO
Jay Parikh, Lacework Co-CEO & Former Facebook VP of Engineering
Moderator: Riley de León, CNBC Producer
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Crafting an ESG Narrative
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Are you ready for the public markets? Investors increasingly consider ESG when they analyze a company’s prospects. Companies entering the public markets are taking the opportunity to craft their message and deliver it not just to investors but to all stakeholders. In this session, learn tips, best practices, and success stories from building a sustainability story from the ground up.
Catherine Buan, Asana Head of Investor Relations
Larry Lawrence, Intercontinental Exchange Sustainable Finance Data Lead
Moderator: Jen Rogers, Financial Reporter
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Managing Risk in Uncertain Times
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Economic uncertainty and ongoing inflation pose an increasing risk to businesses today. Many leaders cite the risk of cyber security breaches as their main concern. Despite this, business leaders see bright spots and are prioritizing what they can control by doubling down on their growth strategy for this year and beyond. This session will focus on ways companies can manage evolving risks in today’s volatile economy without losing sight of long-term goals.
Vikas Agarwal, PwC U.S. Risk Products & Technology Leader
Interviewer: Caroline Woods, Business Reporter
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Even in a record-breaking year like 2021, just a tiny, tiny fraction of companies that go public are led by women. Following years on the annual CNBC Disruptor 50 list, 23andMe is now one of the few female-led publicly traded companies, which now has something in common with many disruptors that have come to market before: the challenge of convincing investors to believe in its next act. Co-Founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki has faced challenges before as she overcame regulatory hurdles to build a strong consumer brand and make knowing one’s genetic traits affordable and even cool. She joins us to discuss what’s next and reflect on lessons learned since her company made the very first CNBC Disruptor 50 list in 2013.
Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe Co-Founder & CEO
Interviewer: Julia Boorstin, CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent
Jenny Just is one of a very few self-made female billionaires in the United States. In 2020, she founded Poker Power, an organization that teaches women to play poker, and thus improve their strategic thinking and decision-making skills. In this closing session, she’ll explain how Poker Power is empowering women to lead, one hand at a time.
Jenny Just, Poker Power Co-Founder and PEAK6 Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Interviewer: Julia Boorstin, CNBC Senior Media & Tech Correspondent
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Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, responsible for the growth and international expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product Management before taking the role of CEO in January 2016. In addition to his work at Databricks, Ali serves as an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and is on the board at UC Berkeley’s RiseLab. Ali was one of the original creators of open source project, Apache Spark, and ideas from his academic research in the areas of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos and Apache Hadoop. Ali received his MBA from Mid-Sweden University in 2003 and PhD from KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden in 2006 in the area of Distributed Computing.