INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Welcome to the third annual TechCrunch Include Progress Report
Our editorial and events teams work hard throughout the year to ensure that we bring you the most dynamic and diverse group of speakers and
judges to our event stages
And finally, at the tail end of 2019, we bring you … 2018 data
(You can see 2017 data here.)
In 2018, TechCrunch produced Disrupts in San Francisco and Berlin, as well as regional Battlefield events in
Zug, Switzerland; Lagos, Nigeria; São Paulo, Brazil and Berlin, Germany
We also produced a number of Sessions events, including the increasingly popular Robotics edition, as well as Blockchain and AR/VR.
It is
important to us that we foster an environment that reflects the increasingly diverse tech industry
We are pleased to report that we saw an overall increase across the board with regard to inclusion, while still acknowledging that we
weren&t yet where we needed to be when it comes to women and people of color across our stages
Happily, 2019 has been even better, and we&ll bring you those numbers soon.
Below we have compiled data from our 2018 events about the
makeup of people who appeared as panelists, judges and founders of the Battlefield competitors.
Disrupt
Our flagship conference attracts
speakers, judges and Battlefield contestants from all over the world
It serves as a global arena for startups in all stages of development, as well as investors interested in finding their next big
investment.
At Disrupt SF in 2018, of the 153 total speakers and judges, 33% were women and 27% were people of color
On the Battlefield stage, of the 22 teams, 36% had female founders
This is up from 29% the year before.
At Disrupt Berlin, of the 56 speakers and judges, 39% were women and 18% were people of color
Of the 12 teams that competed on the Battlefield stage, half the founders were women.
Regional Battlefield
Our Battlefield competition
We take it on the road in order to give as many startups an opportunity to compete
In addition, these events include panels designed around region-specific topics
In 2018, we hosted Battlefield competitions in the Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and Africa regions.
Battlefield MENA
showcased 15 teams; of those, 53% were founded by women
Of the 28 speakers and judges, 35% were women and 75% were people of color.
Fifteen teams competed in Battlefield LatAm, 20% of which were
Out of the 28 speakers and judges, 32% were women and 68% were people of color.
And finally, in Battlefield Africa, a total of 15 teams
Of those, 33% were founded by women
Of the 28 speakers and judges, 14% were women and 75% were people of color.
Sessions
Our daylong Sessions events are targeted at specific
In 2018, we held events about Blockchain, robotics and AR/VR
TechCrunch Sessions events attract to the stage specialists in their industries speaking to rapt audiences.
Of the 28 speakers who appeared
onstage in Berkeley for Sessions: Robotics, 25% were women and 21% were people of color
In Zug, Switzerland for Sessions: Blockchain, of the 29 speakers, 17% were women and 21% were people of color
And in Los Angeles at Sessions: AR/VR, 34% of the 29 speakers were women and 24% were people of color.
Miscellaneous
Tel Aviv
Our event
in Tel Aviv leaned heavily toward mobility, and served as a preview of what would become Sessions: Mobility in 2019
Of the 38 speakers in our programming, 21% were women and 63% were people of color.
VivaTech
In 2018, TechCrunch also hosted a hackathon at
VivaTech in Paris, as well as presented editorial programming
Of the 20 speakers, 45% were women and 30% were people of color.
