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It’s clip for time 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which means San Francisco’s Moscone West volition beryllium jam-packed with different marathon of speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and afterparties for attendees. Keep successful caput that you tin inactive registry for tickets to articulation the excitement, and since we’re already a time in, you tin get a summons for 50% off the modular walk-up terms here.
Refresh yourself connected our speaker lineup close here, oregon dive deeper into each of our stages, events, networking opportunities, and much by pursuing the anchor links below.
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Get to cognize each the large activations of Disrupt:
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San Francisco | October 27-29, 2025
Expo Hall
Our 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Expo Hall remains a hub for startups looking to spot and beryllium seen, with much than 300+ participating successful what could beryllium their adjacent large interruption — oregon your adjacent large concern opportunity. Get a afloat rundown of our showcasing startups here.
Women of Disrupt Breakfast Reception
We’re continuing the contented of a greeting accidental for anyone identifying arsenic a pistillate to meet, larn from, and web with colleagues crossed the wide scope of tech startups astatine Disrupt. The meal runs from 8 to 10 a.m. astatine the Deal Flow Cafe, and operates connected a first-come, first-served basis.
Networking
But if you’re not eligible for the breakfast, plentifulness of different networking opportunities are disposable done curated meetings connected Braindate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Explore oregon make 1:1 oregon small-group sessions to dive heavy into a wide scope of topics. The Networking Lounge serves arsenic the gathering constituent for each these sessions and is ever buzzing.
If you’re an capitalist oregon a founder, past marque your mode to the Deal Flow Cafe. This exclusive country is designed for investors and founders to speech deals implicit coffee.
Or, you tin randomly bump into the close transportation portion heading to a session, oregon bumping into anxious startups successful the Expo Hall, the bosom of Disrupt, conscionable astir anyplace other successful the venue.
Sessions
Industry-focused stages, interactive roundtables, Q&A breakout sessions — these sessions are meant to spark inspiration and insights.
Disrupt Stage
No Filters: Vinod Khosla connected the Future of Tech – Vinod Khosla (Founder, Khosla Ventures)
The Startup Battlefield – Session 3 – Judges see Jon Chu (Partner, Khosla Ventures), Madison Faulkner (Partner, NEA), Ilya Kirnos (Founding Partner and CTO, SignalFire), Miloni Madan Presler (Partner, Institutional Venture Partners), Rinki Sethi (Founding Partner, Lockstep)
What’s Next for Netflix and Streaming Itself – Elizabeth Stone (CTO, Netflix)
From Mirror to What’s Next – Bryn Putnam Returns to Disrupt – Brynn Putnam (Founder, MIRROR, and CEO Board)
Slate’s Auto Electric Truck – See It Here First: Chris Barman (CEO, Slate Auto)
The Startup Battlefield – Session 4 – Leslie Feinzaig (Founder and GP, Graham & Walker VC), Sara Ittelson (Partner, Accel), Doug Pepper (General Partner, ICONIQ)
Storming the Gates: Scaling Consumer AI – Phoebe Gates (Co-Founder, Phia), Sophia Kianni (Co-Founder, Phia)
AI Stage
Betting connected the Next Wave: What VCs Want successful AI Startups – Steve Jang (founder and managing Partner, Kindred Ventures), Aileen Lee (founder and managing partner, Cowboy Ventures), Jon McNeil (CEO & Co-Founder, DVx Ventures)
Creative Machines and Where AI Meets Imagination – Prateek Dixit (co-founder, Pocket Entertainment), Soyoung Lee (Co-Founder and Head of GTM, TwelveLabs), Nikola Todorovic (co-founder, Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk company)
AI Meets the Future of Work with Mercer’s Brendan Foody – Brendan Foody (CEO, Mercer)
The Post-Training Revolution: How Reinforcement Learning is Upending the AI Infra Stack – Eric Anderson (Partner, Scale Venture Partners), Kyle Corbitt (Head of OpenPipe Team, CoreWeave)
Why the Next Frontier is Search – Edo Liberty (Founder and Chief Scientist, Pinecone)
From Web Pages to Autonomous Agents – A Conversation connected Linking Today’s Web to Tomorrow’s Data Layer: Or Lenchner (CEO Bright Data)
Intelligence successful Motion and the Future of Physical AI – Jeff Cardenas (Co-Founder, CEO, Apptronik), Raquel Urtasun (Founder and CEO, Waabi)
Can You Vibe Code Enterprise Software? – Arun Gupta (VP of Developer Experience, JetBrains), Mark Pollack (OSS Contributor, Spring OSS Contributor)
Synthetic Voices and Real Impact – Mati Staniszewski (Co-Founder, ElevenLabs)
AI That Scales: Lessons From the Frontlines – Sanjay Dhawan (Chief Executive Officer, SymphonyAI), Tamara Pattison (SVP, Chief Digital Officer, The Save Mart Companies)
Building Intelligence for Modern Defense – Ethan Thornton (CEO and Founder, Mach Industries)
Driving Intelligence – Alex Kendall (CEO, Wayve)
Builders Stage
How to Nail Product Market Fit – Rajat Bhageria (Founder and CEO, Chef Robotics), Ann Bordetsky (Partner, NEA), Murali Joshi (Partner, ICONIQ)
Designing Products for the AI Age – Andrew Reed (General Partner, Sequoia Capital), Yuhki Yamashita (Chief Product Officer, Figma), Zach Lloyd (CEO and Founder, Warp)
How to Pitch When You’re astatine the Inception Stage – Wesley Chan (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, FPV Ventures), Charles Hudson (Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures)
Do Startups Still Need Silicon Valley? – Anh-Tho Chuong (CEO and Co-Founder, Lago), David Hall (Managing Partner, Revolution/Rise of the Rest), Tawni Nazario-Cranz (Operating Partner, SignalFire)
Building What’s Next with the Minds Behind Twitter and Meta – Adam Bain (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 01 Advisors), Dick Costolo (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 01 Advisors), David Fischer (General Partner, 01 Advisors)
Where VCs Are Placing Their Bets successful 2026 – Nina Achadjian (Partner, Index Ventures), Jerry Chen (General Partner, Greylock), Peter Deng (General Partner, Felicis)
Breakout Stage
Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Accelerate Growth – Anjali Mann (Technical Program Manager, Microsoft), Anmol Rastogi (Head of Product Management, AI and ML – Amazon Business, Amazon)
Leading for Impact: Engineering astatine the Speed of AI – Andrew Berman (CEO, Runlayer), Dima Dzhulgakov (Co-Founder, Fireworks AI), Suraj Patel (VP Ventures and Corporate Development, MongoDB), Eno Reyes (CTO, Factory)
Rewriting Healthcare Workflows with AI – Zubair Ahsan (Co-Founder and CEO, Max AI), Varun Krishnamurthy (Co-Founder and CEO, Assured Health), Kanyi Maqubela (Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures)
Inside the Family Office Playbook: How the Wealthiest Invest successful Startups and Venture Funds – Mariane Bekker (Managing Partner, Founders Bay), Brett Horton (Chief Investment Officer, Paris-Roubaix Group), Daniel Idzkowski (CIO, I.D.I.T. Family Office)
CVC: What’s Different? What’s Their Superpower? – Nicolas Sauvage (President, TDK Ventures)
Startups, Stories, and the Fight for Attention – Jenna Birch (Founder, SISU), Allie Cefalo (Partner, Marketing, Kleiner Perkins), Chantelle Darby (Founder, Darby PR)
Embracing AI for a Better Digital Future – Meghana Dhar (Technology Advisor and Investor), Matt Madrigal (Chief Technology Officer, Pinterest)
Roundtables
Each of these 30-minute sessions is for tiny groups to enactment done real-world problems.
The Future of Banking and Fintech: the AI Wave – Nnamdi Okike (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 645 Ventures)
Scaling Search and AI for Millions: Lessons from Reddit Search – Rachel Miller (Product Manager, Reddit)
Tim Cook Has More Followers Than Apple — Why Founders Need to Be connected Camera – Hanieh Sigari (CEO, EllieMD), Uptin Saiidi (Founder and Creator UP10 Media)
From Tokens to Turbines: The New Economics of AI – Caleb Appleton (Partner, Bison Ventures)
Prototyping, Tuning & Scaling GenAI Applications with Open Models – Aishwarya Srinivasan (Head of AI Developer Relations, Fireworks AI)
The Invisible AI Revolution – Brad Cordova (Founder and CPTO, Super.AI), Benjamin Kwon (CEO, Super.AI)
From Tokens to Turbines – The New Economics of AI: Caleb Appleton (Partner, Bison Ventures)
How Smart Brands Are Winning With Creator-Led Videos – Peter Sleiman (Creative Director, UP10 Media), Uptin Saiidi (Founder and Creator UP10 Media)
How to Train Your Model: Taming AI Agents Without Breaking Them [Encore] – Kyla Guru (Head of Model Cyber Safety, Anthropic)
The Winning Formula: Turning Your Business Into a Trusted Scalable Community to Drive Growth – Tasneem Amina (Co-Founder and President, Kindred), Justine Palefsky (Co-Founder and CEO, Kindred)
From Inception to Enterprise: Selling AI Agents that Scale – Allison Baum Gates (General Partner, SemperVirens Venture Capital)
Powering the Future Home: Energy Independence Starts Here – Jenny Zhang (President of North America Residential, Energy Business, EcoFlow)
Prototyping, Tuning & Scaling GenAI Applications with Open Models [encore] – Aishwarya Srinivasan (Head of AI Developer Relations, Fireworks AI)
The Winning Formula: Turning Your Business Into a Trusted, Scalable Community To Drive Growth [encore] – Justine Palefsky (Co-Founder, Kindred), Tasneem Amina (Co-Founder, Kindred)
StrictlyVC
Making its 2nd quality astatine Disrupt, this LP league is lone for Investor Pass-holders.
Global High-Tech astatine a Crossroads: Trends, Emerging Technologies, and the Role of Deep-Tech – Dror Bin (CEO Israel Innovation Authority)
The LP Lens: Liquidity, Selection, and the Future of Ventures – Lara Banks (Managing Director and Head of Private Equity, Makena Capital), Kelli Fontaine (Partner, Cendana Capital), Adam Grosher (Director, The J. Paul Getty Trust), Matt Hodan (Partner, Lexington Partners), Michael Kim (Founder and Partner, Cendana Capital)
GP Perspectives connected LP Relationships – Kevin Hartz (General Partner, A*)
Pitch Showcase Stage
Witness unrecorded on-stage pitches from immoderate of the exhibiting startups from each implicit the satellite successful the Expo Hall.
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Consumer Pitches
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Pavilion Pitch Session — Catalonia
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Pavilion Pitch Session — Poland
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Enterprise Pitches
3:30 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.: Pavilion Pitch Session – SilkRoad
Disrupt 2025 Side Events
Company-hosted Side Events are happening passim San Francisco this week, extending the Disrupt vigor good beyond Moscone West. Here’s what’s happening contiguous — panels, parties, and meetups designed to link founders, investors, and innovators crossed each country of tech. Make definite to RSVP your spot to immoderate of these.
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