TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: How to watch Astro Teller, Startup Battlefield, and more live

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is here! If you’re inactive connected the obstruction astir attending successful person, dive into the extended docket of speakers, networking opportunities, workshops, afterparties, and much that’s disposable here. There’s inactive plentifulness of clip to get a ticket! 

But if you’re not capable to be successful person, the adjacent champion happening is to cheque retired our livestream of the Disrupt Stage, which features immoderate of our astir salient speakers and the highly anticipated Startup Battlefield 200 transportation competition. We’re streaming via YouTube, truthful you tin drawback the embed below, oregon just travel this nexus to ticker live. 

Here’s a rundown of what you tin expect from the Disrupt Stage connected Monday to physique your docket around: 

Opening remarks, Startup Battlefield Session One: 10-11:45 a.m. 

Our archetypal circular of Battlefield finalists volition present their pitches unrecorded connected signifier successful beforehand of a lineup of judges featuring Allison Baum Gates of SemperVirens, Cathy Friedman from GV, Seven Seven Six’s Katelin Holloway, Precursor’s Charles Hudson, and Nicolas Sauvage of TDK Ventures. 

The Self-Driving Reality Check: 11:15-11:45 a.m. 

Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO of Waymo, takes the signifier to speech astir wherever AVs really stand, what it’s taken to get to existent deployments, and wherefore the contention isn’t conscionable astir tech — it’s astir trust. 

Startup Battlefield Session Two: 1:30-2:45 p.m. 

The 2nd lineup of Battlefield competitors instrumentality to the stage, wherever they’ll beryllium vetted by our sheet of judges featuring Eryk Dobrushkin of Index Ventures, Nvidia’s Jen Hoskins, Insight Ventures’ Thomas Krane, DXV’s Jon McNeil, and Katie Stanton of Moxie Ventures. 

What Sequoia Sees Coming Next: 2:45-3:15 p.m. 

Roelof Botha is among the astir influential VCs of the modern era, and this is your accidental to perceive however today’s astir ambitious founders are navigating AI, geopolitics, and a shifting superior landscape.  

Moonshots, AI, and the Future of Alphabet: 3:15-3:45 p.m. 

Astro Teller leads the laboratory wherever Alphabet incubates the astir impossible, and he’s going to supply a uncommon look into what’s succeeding wrong X, however the company’s “fail fast” mantra is faring, and his position on, you guessed it, AI. 

And that’s conscionable the lineup for the archetypal day. On Tuesday perceive from renowned capitalist Vinod Khosla and his thoughts connected the aboriginal of tech; Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone connected what’s adjacent for the streaming giant; and Slate Auto CEO Chris Barman volition bring 1 of her electrical trucks to the stage.