Ned Desmond

Ned Desmond is COO of TechCrunch. He was also responsible for Crunchbase from April 2012 until September 2015, when Crunchbase spun out of AOL/Verizon to become a standalone, venture-backed company.

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Biotech & Health

VoiceOver on the iPhone was a miracle for people who can’t see, and it keeps getting better — learn how at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Dec 7, 2022
Biotech & Health

Explore accessibility via Amazon Alexa at Sight Tech Global 2022
Ned Desmond

Dec 1, 2022

Biotech & Health

Sight Tech Global 2022 agenda announced
Ned Desmond

Nov 11, 2022
Biotech & Health

Sight Tech Global 2022 announced
Ned Desmond

Oct 21, 2022
Final call for Sight Tech Global Dec. 1-2
Ned Desmond

Nov 29, 2021
Sight Tech Global agenda announced
Ned Desmond

Nov 10, 2021

Apple and Amazon ML/AI leads to speak on accessibility at Sight Tech Global 2021
Ned Desmond

Nov 5, 2021
Mike Shebanek and Matt King share W3C accessibility project at Sight Tech Global 2021
Ned Desmond

Oct 15, 2021
Microsoft’s Saqib Shaikh, lead on Seeing AI, is returning to Sight Tech Global, Dec. 1-2
Ned Desmond

Sep 30, 2021
Featured

Announcing Sight Tech Global 2021
Ned Desmond

Jul 15, 2021

Imagine being blind and trying to attend a virtual event. Try that next time you stage one.
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Dmitry Paperny

Dec 30, 2020
AI

Sight Tech Global day 2 is live! Hear from Apple, Waymo, Microsoft, Sara Hendren and Haben Girma
Ned Desmond

Dec 3, 2020
AI

Sight Tech Global is live! Join top AI technologists and accessibility innovators to discuss the future of assistive tech
Ned Desmond

Dec 2, 2020
Hardware

Perkins, ACB, Benetech, Salesforce and more announce breakout sessions at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Nov 17, 2020

Privacy

Treviranus, Butler and Fruchterman to speak at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Nov 10, 2020
AI

Apple’s Jeff Bigham, disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, author Sara Hendren and more to join Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Oct 28, 2020
Privacy

Here’s the curtain raise on the Sight Tech Global agenda
Ned Desmond

Oct 7, 2020
AI

Amazon’s Josh Miele and Anne Toth talk Alexa and the future of accessibility at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Oct 6, 2020

AI

Hailing a self-driving taxi when blind. Learn how Waymo answers that challenge at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Sep 21, 2020
AI

JAWS architect Glen Gordon is joining Sight Tech Global, a virtual event Dec. 2-3
Ned Desmond

Sep 16, 2020
Hardware

OrCam Technologies co-founder Amnon Shashua to speak at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Sep 3, 2020
Microsoft researcher Dr. Cecily Morrison will discuss keeping AI ‘personal’ at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Aug 26, 2020

Enterprise

Microsoft’s Seeing AI founder Saqib Shaikh is speaking at Sight Tech Global
Ned Desmond

Aug 20, 2020
AI

Announcing Sight Tech Global, an event on the future of AI and accessibility for people who are blind or visually impaired
Ned Desmond

Aug 3, 2020
So long, TechCrunch
Ned Desmond

Jul 20, 2020
Startups

Jim Fruchterman raises $1.7M for Tech Matters, a new effort to help nonprofits do tech better
Ned Desmond

Apr 2, 2020

Disrupt 2020

Experience Disrupt SF online with the Disrupt Digital Pro Pass
Ned Desmond

Mar 30, 2020
TC Sessions: Space 2020

Hear from Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck at TechCrunch’s space show December 17 in LA
Ned Desmond

Mar 9, 2020
Disrupt 2020

Registration is now open for Disrupt SF 2020
Ned Desmond

Feb 6, 2020
TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2020

Five reasons you (really) don’t want to miss TechCrunch’s AI and Robotics show on March 3
Ned Desmond

Jan 28, 2020