With TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 close astir the corner, we’re thrilled to present the companies hosting Side Events that volition widen the buzz and excitement to the thousands of attendees and Silicon Valley locals alike.
Whether it’s a amusive blessed hour, insightful panels, oregon energizing greeting runs, “Disrupt Week” — happening from October 25-31 — offers an breathtaking array of Side Events organized by a divers radical of participating companies.
Scroll down to research 50+ Side Events, built truthful you tin link with 10,000 Disrupt attendees and the remainder of the Bay Area tech scene. Make definite to register for your Disrupt pass truthful you tin beryllium astatine the bosom of the tech country buzz. Save up to $444 connected your walk and get 60% disconnected a 2nd pass.
Side Event guidelines and disclaimers
- Registering/RSVPing to a Side Event does not assistance you access/ticket/badge to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, taking spot October 27-29.
- Each lawsuit is organized and operated solely by a big (not TechCrunch oregon immoderate of its affiliates).
- Attendance is 18+ minimum, and immoderate venues are 21+ only.
- Side Events are unfastened to the nationalist unless specified.
- Please register/RSVP for immoderate of the Side Events you privation to attend.
Featured Side Events
JetBrains Night successful San Francisco
Monday – October 27, 2025
6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Hosted by JetBrains
JetBrains invites you to an exclusive nighttime of amusive and transportation astatine Emporium Arcade Bar during TechCrunch Disrupt successful San Francisco. Get acceptable for an unforgettable evening of networking and arcade games, each successful a relaxed, vibrant setting. Dive into the aboriginal of improvement with our thought enactment sheet connected agentic AI for nonrecreational developers and link with the brightest minds successful tech. This private, invitation-only lawsuit is wherever amusive meets innovation, and ideas crook into opportunities. Let’s code, play, and signifier the aboriginal together!
Central Eurasian Founders and Community Meet up
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Hosted by Silkroad Innovation Hub
Join america for the Central Eurasian Founders & Community Meetup, hosted by Silkroad Innovation Hub arsenic a side-event to TechCrunch. This gathering brings unneurotic startup founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders from crossed Central Eurasia and Silicon Valley. Expect dynamic networking, inspiring laminitis stories, and caller cross-border connections that item the region’s increasing relation successful the planetary innovation landscape.
VIP Penthouse Afterhours with MongoDB & Google Cloud
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by MongoDB
VIP Penthouse Afterhours with MongoDB & Google Cloud was an exclusive, invite-only networking lawsuit that brought unneurotic tech innovators, startup leaders, unreality architects, and information professionals for an evening of high-level conversations and curated experiences. Held successful a luxurious penthouse mounting supra the metropolis skyline, the lawsuit blended blase ambiance with cutting-edge exertion discussions, offering attendees the accidental to link straight with MongoDB and Google Cloud experts.
TechCrunch Disrupt After-Party hosted by Mercury
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Mercury
After a afloat time of large ideas astatine TechCrunch Disrupt, articulation america conscionable minutes from Moscone for Mercury’s after-party: a abstraction to dilatory down, link with chap builders, and observe the details that specify your journey. No panels, nary pitches — conscionable bully food, trade cocktails, and large company.
Didn’t be TechCrunch Disrupt? You’re inactive invited to halt by.
All Aboard the Future: Poland & Silicon Valley Ignite the Next Wave of Innovation
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Hosted by Polish Investment and Trade Agency
Step aboard the Historic Klamath Ship astatine Pier 9 connected October 28 astatine 5 PM for an unforgettable nighttime of bold ideas, breakthrough innovation, and almighty connections. Meet Poland’s apical startups, visionary innovators, and authorities leaders driving the adjacent question of planetary tech. Enjoy delicious European cuisine and authentic Polish drinks and mingle with inspiring founders and investors. Special Highlight: Be determination for an exclusive announcement unveiling a caller epoch of collaboration betwixt Poland and Silicon Valley, a concern acceptable to go the adjacent planetary hub for breakthrough ideas and cutting-edge technologies.
Irish Tech Pitch Night
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Enterprise Ireland
Enterprise Ireland is BACK astatine TechCrunch Disrupt ’25 and we are truthful excited to invited aged friends and conscionable caller ones astatine our Pitch Night successful Ireland House connected Tuesday of TechCrunch Disrupt Week! There we’ll perceive pitches from 10 Irish startups connected the night: Jarvio, Cergenx, Glitch, Magnate, Kayna, Akara, Hyperpath, Oscil, Oraion, CosoAI! Please registry present arsenic availability is limited!
Women Tech Meetup
Thursday – October 30, 2025
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Hosted by Women Tech Meetup
San Francisco! Calling each pistillate founders, allies, friends and partners!
Let’s beryllium existent — fundraising isn’t one-size-fits-all. And for women founders? The rules aren’t conscionable antithetic — they’re nonexistent. That’s wherefore we’re bringing unneurotic a powerhouse country of pistillate founders, funders, and operators to speech astir raising superior your way.
Saturday
Founders Running Club @ TechCrunch Disrupt
Saturday – October 25, 2025
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Hosted by Founders Running Club
We big play runs successful San Francisco and 46 different locations worldwide for founders, their friends and families, investors, creators, tech professionals, and anyone interested. This time, we’re excited to again beryllium portion of TechCrunch Disrupt!
The absorption is connected assemblage and connection, not pushing yourself excessively hard.
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CREATANT AI x Creativity: Real-World Workflows, Demos, and Collaboration
Saturday – October 25, 2025
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by CREATANT, Inc.
Join the CREATANT originative tech speech to larn however creatives successful Japan, Europe, and the U.S. are utilizing AI for design, film, and more. The lawsuit offers unrecorded demos, real-world lawsuit studies, and unfastened discussions connected AI’s strengths and limitations. It’s a hands-on acquisition for originative professionals and marketers to research caller AI workflows, network, and speech ideas with technologists and collaborators.
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Sunday
Rise & Grind SF: Coffee Rave + Live Podcast
Sunday – October 26, 2025
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Hosted by LaunchLink Communications
Consider Rise & Grind SF your Disrupt Week pre-game. Part greeting creation party, portion unrecorded podcast, 100% bully vibes.
Expect caller brews, blistery beats and authentic connections. Whether you’re a founder, capitalist oregon ecosystem partner, this is your regular dose of large ideas to acceptable the code for the week, courtesy of LaunchLink Comms + Humble Brags Podcast. Once you’re boogied out, a large Silicon Valley laminitis (think multibillion-dollar household sanction 👀) takes the mic for a unrecorded Humble Brags recording: unfiltered stories connected building, breaking and reinventing the game. Guest DJs + large marque collabs dropping soon. Come solo oregon with pals for coffee, connection, and a double-shot of wisdom.
The Future of Work Mixer + Open Demos: Worktech, Agentic AI & Robotics
Sunday – October 26, 2025
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Good4work + Ontology of Value
Join america successful the beauteous Minna Gallery, downtown San Francisco, for a societal mixer + unfastened demos, connected the eve of the biggest tech league successful San Francisco, the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025!
We are a assemblage focused connected gathering (and disrupting!) the aboriginal of enactment — sharing and promoting innovation successful enactment tech, agentic AI, and robotics truthful that humans and AI tin happily cohabitate successful the labour marketplace and physique a fantastic system together.
This clip around, we are putting unneurotic a societal mixer — whether you are a builder, operator, oregon investor, articulation america and let’s stock our solutions and our lessons!
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AI SaaS Builder’s Networking Night
Sunday – October 26, 2025
5:30 – 9:30 p.m.
Hosted by askitmore
This lawsuit brings unneurotic aspiring entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts to make nonrecreational slides utilizing Snapdeck and transportation their ideas directly.
Pitch participants volition hole their presumption materials on-site utilizing Snapdeck, past contiguous their ideas for 3 minutes. General attendees tin ticker the presentations and ballot for their apical 1-3 astir awesome teams.
During the networking league that follows, participants tin bask escaped pizza and drinks portion freely connecting with entrepreneurs, aspiring founders from divers backgrounds to research caller opportunities.
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Monday
Future Shock: SOSV & KIAC
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by SOSV
🎬 Back to the Future? Absolutely.
This isn’t different stiff networking panel. Think flux capacitor energy: atom wine, demos glowing, and conversations skipping crossed borders and clip zones. A gathering wherever casual meets geeky, and nerdy meets meaningful.
What to expect
Networking: Casual, high‑energy mixer designed for existent conversations.
Showcases and a fewer tables wherever startups showcase demos to maximize conditions for high‑quality collisions.
Ping Pong After Panels
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Scrut Automation
Scrut Automation is calling each CEOs, CTOs, Founders, and CISO/VP of engineering to our “”Ping Pong After Panels”” After party. This is the authoritative wind-down—a no-pitch, no-pressure portion to observe a hard day’s work.
Connect with chap attendees implicit acold drinks, large food, and a small affable competition. We’re swapping the ceremonial handshakes for high-fives and the buzz of the league level for a overmuch amended soundtrack. Plus, everything’s connected us. Just travel acceptable to unbend and roll. ~This lawsuit has constricted capableness and volition capable up quickly. RSVP present to assertion your spot~
Founders Happy Hour and Fireside Chat: Avoiding Identity and Compliance Scope Creep 👻 Hosted by Descope & Delve
Monday – October 27, 2025
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Descope
High-growth startups person pugnacious decisions to marque arsenic they scale. As overmuch arsenic builders emotion to build, if everything is managed in-house with grit, sweat, and tears, maturation volition stall.
Join america for beer, pizza, networking, and an unfiltered fireside chat with founders from Descope and Delve.
Unlock Your Investor Potential: How Tech Workers Can Become LPs Using Vested Stock Units
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by Musa Capital
Are you a exertion nonrecreational with vested banal units from companies similar Google, Amazon, oregon Apple? Curious astir however you tin leverage those assets to go a Limited Partner (LP) successful a task superior (VC) fund? Join america for an exclusive Office Hours lawsuit wherever we’ll usher you done the process of converting your vested banal units into investments successful VC funds.
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Exclusive Gathering of Founders beyond Seed and Series A and Accredited Investors
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Equity X Investments, Vataseason and Plus Ultra Capital Partners
An exclusive, invite-only gathering for post–Seed and post-Series A founders and accredited investors.
No pitches oregon panels. Just high-value networking and existent conversations implicit curated drinks successful an intimate setting. Expect a vetted impermanent database and large opportunities for highly accomplished founders to conscionable partners of VCs and vice versa.
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Pitch&Drink with P2S.VC
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Pre-seed to succeed (AltaIR Capital, Yellow Rocks!, Smart Partnership Capital, I2BF Global Ventures)
Calling each founders looking for INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES to Pitch&Drink with P2S.vc! Connect with a assemblage of like-minded individuals and VCs and summation insights into your adjacent fundraising task successful a relaxed and amusive environment.
Think of it arsenic task velocity dating. Founders volition person 2–3 minutes to contiguous their elevator transportation (no presentation) straight to investors, followed by a 6-7 infinitesimal Q&A session.
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TechCrunch Disrupt “Unofficial Afterparty” astatine Werqwise SF
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Silicon Valley Venture, LLC
Kick disconnected TechCrunch Day 1 astatine our Afterparty, hosted by Brian Sparkes, CEO of Silicon Valley Venture & big of Silicon Valley Impact Podcast. This is The Day 1 Mixer— wherever founders, investors, and innovators stitchery to celebrate, connect, and unwind. Expect a curated crowd, high-energy vibe, cocktails, and conversations that spark existent opportunities. No panels, nary pitches—just solemnisation and transportation astatine the apical Silicon Valley afterparty.
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South Asian Collective @ TechCrunch Disrupt Week
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:15 – 7:30 p.m.
Hosted by American South Asian Network (ASAN)
South Asian and nether 50? Join america for an engaging evening of networking, insightful discussions, and taste celebration. Connect with South Asian entrepreneurs, creatives, and professionals, and research the vibrant contributions of the South Asian assemblage crossed assorted industries.
What to Expect?
✨ Powerful Networking
🔥 Founder & Investor Spotlights
🥂 Mixer & Social”
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Beyond the Hype: Voices from the Future of Humane AI – Short Film Screening & Panel
Monday – October 27, 2025
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by Building Humane Tech
Join america for an intimate screening of our documentary abbreviated featuring AI researchers, cognitive scientists, and innovative builders who are reimagining however we make artificial intelligence. Followed by an informal sheet and unfastened discussion. This isn’t your emblematic tech panel—it’s a glimpse into a question of interdisciplinary thinkers challenging the ascendant Silicon Valley narrative, with folks like:
Danielle Perszyk @ Amazon’s AI lab
Daniel Bashir @ OpenAI
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Unofficial Welcome Party: Bullish oregon Bust? A Rooftop AI Debate with Baseten, Premji Invest and Treble PR.
Monday – October 27, 2025
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Treble PR and Premji Invest
Join america aft Day 1 of TechCrunch Disrupt for an invite-only nighttime with AI founders & builders. Expect drinks, bites, and a speech that’s adjacent parts existent speech and future-gazing, cohosted by Premji Invest, a starring AI aboriginal signifier investor, and Treble PR, a San Francisco based tech PR bureau moving with emerging leaders successful AI.
Tuhin Srivastava of Baseten and Sandesh Patnamof Premji Invest, volition reply questions from Reuters newsman Krystal Hu connected wherefore they’re inactive bullish connected AI among oculus watering valuations and speech of a bubble.
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Night Zero: Unofficial Opening Party astatine TechCrunch Disrupt Week
Monday – October 27, 2025
8:00 – 10:30 p.m.
Hosted by Fox Rothschild and Silicon Valley Bank
Opening Night afterparty successful the bosom of San Francisco hosted by Fox Rothschild and Silicon Valley Bank, with peculiar spouse UnDavos. Enjoy cocktails, airy bites, and award-winning headliner DJ Samantha Michelle (Plaza Athénée/KitKatClub/SXSW/Soho House) successful a premier venue designed for transportation and celebration.
Bring your squad to link with different starring VCs and founders who are unneurotic shaping the aboriginal of tech. This is wherever partnerships are calved and the nighttime comes alive.
Capacity is limited. Please use to attend.
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Tuesday
Llama Lounge 21: The AI Startup Event Series astatine Capgemini
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Llama Lounge
Hundreds of AI Founders, VCs, and Corporate AI buyers volition assemble to perceive 10 pitches from AI startups and 5 “reverse pitches” from apical corporations who question AI startup partners. This lawsuit is simply a substance of AI leaders, pitches, demo tables, and tons of networking. Food and beverage provided. Led by Jeremiah Owyang, hosted astatine Capgemini.
The AI Renaissance successful Gaming, Film, and VR
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by AIX Ventures
The past 3 years saw monolithic AI adoption for text-based applications. Its adoption successful gaming, film, and VR has been constricted by mediocre outputs and a deficiency of manufacture circumstantial applications. That’s rapidly changing.
Join AIX Ventures for a sheet to sermon however caller models and methods are poised to rapidly democratize the instauration of immersive worlds and films.
Moderated by TechCrunch’s Russel Bandom, the sheet volition see Chris Manning, General Partner astatine AIX Ventures & fmr. Director of SAIL, on with Fan‑Yun Sun and Sharon Lee, Founders of Moonlake AI, an AI probe laboratory that allows anyone to make playable interactive worlds successful minutes.
The After Crunch Party
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Hosted by Salesbricks
Experience the Buzz of Asian Street Markets arsenic we instrumentality TechCrunch Disrupt After Hours to a caller level!
Join america astatine Polkcha, wherever trade cocktails conscionable the vibrant vigor of Asian thoroughfare markets — neon lights, bold flavors, and unforgettable vibes. Hosted by Salesbricks, Intercom, Sprinto, AutonomyAI and Persana.
Black Box Session
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hosted by Israel Foreign Trade Administration
Meet and person aboriginal conversations with immoderate of the astir promising Israeli cyber startups. Black Box Session is an invite-only, off-the-record networking + blessed hr for VCs and information practitioners during TechCrunch Disrupt week. Expect meaningful connections and applicable takeaways—no decks, nary pitches. Tuesday, 4:30–7:30 PM, backstage FiDi venue. Request-to-attend; approved guests person location, QR, and day-of details.
SaaS/AI Founder + Investor Happy Hour
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by NachoNacho + Services Marketplace, Deel, Anchin, and Shopline
Join america for an exclusive evening of networking with apical SaaS & AI founders, investors, and tech leaders. Enjoy curated conversations implicit sponsored drinks and nutrient arsenic we bring unneurotic innovators shaping the adjacent question of tech. Attendance is by support only—no +1s. Space is limited, truthful use aboriginal to unafraid your spot.
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『Shinhan Square Bridge』 (S²Bridge) K-Innovators’ Pitch Night
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by SWITH
K-Innovators’ Night of Pitch & Networking
An exclusive evening of pitches and networking with Korea’s starring innovators. Meet and mingle with 9 standout startups – including TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Battlefield 200 participants!
Build caller connections with K-innovators and observe caller ideas arsenic you spark conversations. Food and drinks connected SWITH. RSVP required – seats are limited.
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Beats & Builds Happy Hour with 219 Design and Beacon Launch Partners
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by 219 Design and Beacon Launch Partners
An exclusive evening astatine our classical San Francisco engineering store – conscionable a 15-minute locomotion from Moscone – savoring section trade beer, cocktails, tasty bites, and a unrecorded DJ.
This is simply a accidental to unwind, get inspired, and spark caller ideas alongside teams who unrecorded and respire merchandise improvement each day. Explore a postulation of cutting-edge prototypes from a assortment of industries and prosecute successful conversations with the engineers, designers, and strategists down breakthrough products. 21+
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Maize & Blue Happy Hour with U-M CFE
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hosted by University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship
Join chap University of Michigan alumni and friends for a casual meetup during TechCrunch Disrupt! Hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurship, this is simply a large accidental to reconnect, grow your network, and observe innovation—with a Michigan twist. Whether you’re a founder, investor, technologist, oregon conscionable emotion maize & blue, travel stock your startup tone with us! Go Blue!
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Founder & Investor Happy Hour During TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hosted by McDermott Will & Schulte, BDO, and Berkeley Angel Network
Join chap TechCrunch Disrupt founders and investors for a caller instrumentality connected networking astatine the Founder and Investor Happy Hour hosted by McDermott Will & Schulte, BDO, and Berkeley Angel Network. Meet cardinal innovators wrong the planetary tech community, speech ideas, and forge caller connections to thrust your concern forward. Don’t miss your accidental to articulation this exclusive nighttime of networking and bask immoderate of the champion rooftop views San Francisco has to connection – registry today!
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Why Most Startups Don’t Scale: The 15 GTM Mistakes Nobody Talks About
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Hosted by Entry Point 1
You’ve nailed the product. You’ve raised the round. The squad is moving afloat speed. But the results don’t adhd up.
Pipeline’s soft. Conversion’s flat. Revenue’s unpredictable. Is it the messaging? The team? The motion? Or is thing much foundational—and systemic—getting successful your way?
This isn’t a hype session. It’s a teardown of the 15 GTM problems that halt large companies from scaling. Each one’s based connected existent data, existent enactment stories from Silicon Valley, and existent pain.
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The Robotics Wave: The New Era of Embodied Intelligence
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by INNOVIT – Italian Innovation & Cultural Hub
Let’s research however AI & hardware are converging to make intelligent carnal systems.
Discover innovative robotics, embodied AI, and astute sensors revolutionizing manufacturing, healthcare, and autonomous systems. Attendees volition be a treatment sheet with speakers connected breakthrough technologies, and networking opportunities with manufacture pioneers shaping the aboriginal of intelligent machines and carnal AI applications.
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PILAF AFTER-PARTY: Visionaries’ Rooftop Gathering
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Hosted by Innova and BeGlobe
When the last league closes, the city’s astir influential minds ascend to the skyline. Join america for the Legendary Pilaf After-Party, a backstage rooftop gathering wherever cutting-edge innovation meets the world’s finest culinary. The Evening Includes:
- Gourmet Pilaf Tasting – Tradition elevated to haute cuisine.
- Visionary Networking – Intimate conversations with the leaders shaping the future.
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How AI is Transforming Biomanufacturing
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by SOSV
Bits successful Bio is thrilled to present, “How AI is Transforming Biomanufacturing”, a one-night lawsuit of candid conversations from experienced executives connected the beforehand lines of Biomanufacturing. Our sheet includes a scope of perspectives cautiously curated to thrust meaningful penetration connected the aboriginal of this breathtaking field.
Global Founders Panel
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Young Professional of San Francisco + Swedish American Chamber of Commerce
During TechCrunch Disrupt week, we’re bringing unneurotic a assemblage of young doers, builders, and dreamers for an evening that blends the champion of Swedish and American entrepreneurship. The Global Founders Panel is designed to spark ideas, observe bold thinking, and make meaningful connections that past good beyond the night.
Program Highlights
• Founder Panel: Entrepreneurs stock existent stories from the startup frontlines.
• Spotlight Sessions: Quickfire showcases of ventures that are pushing boundaries.
• Networking Mixer: Meet founders, investors, and young professionals shaping what’s next.
Disrupt the Piñata: Startup–VC Mixer with a Latin Twist
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Unibaio
Step into a one-of-a-kind networking acquisition wherever Latin American creativity meets startup innovation. In Disrupt the Piñata, attendees driblet their concern cards oregon one-liners into a colorful piñata filled with saccharine surprises. Once it’s broken, everyone grabs a paper astatine random, introduces the startup they picked to the group, and past connects straight with that founder.
This playful icebreaker ensures each subordinate gets visibility, sparks unexpected connections, and sets the signifier for deeper conversations. With a premix of fun, culture, and superior concern opportunities, Disrupt the Piñata is the cleanable broadside lawsuit to showcase Latin startups and foster genuine VC–founder relationships.
Founders, Funders & the Future of Care Mixer
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Morrison & Foerster Law Firm and Vital Audio
This invite-only blessed hr volition bring unneurotic 90–120 curated guests of decision-makers shaping the aboriginal of healthcare, including early-stage investors, infirmary and virtual-care operators, integer wellness founders, and TechCrunch media. Expect a dynamic programme featuring:
- Founders Spotlight: abbreviated sessions highlighting rising founders & merchandise showcase.
- Sponsor Shoutouts: Premium visibility and designation for our partners.
- Curated Networking: 2.5 hours of conversations, connections, and collaboration implicit drinks and airy catering.
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Disrupt Music @ EMPIRE Studios by Nebula
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Nebula sponsored by EMPIRE
Mixer blessed hr with a DJ spinning unrecorded music, snacks and drinks astatine EMPIRE RECORDS Studios hosted by Nebula.
EMPIRE is simply a spouse and capitalist of Nebula (a subordinate of Battlefield 200), and is the largest autarkic grounds statement successful the world. EMPIRE, founded by Ghazi, is simply a San-Francisco-born tech-first grounds statement who pioneered the organisation space.
The lawsuit volition see press, tech entrepreneurs, investors, established artists, arsenic good arsenic apical absorption of EMPIRE, on with the Nebula co-founders. The mixer volition beryllium escaped entry, RSVP-only (via the RSVPify app).
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Silicon Valley x PeakNIL: The Future of Sports, Tech and Start Ups
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by PeakNIL
www.peaknil.com
Kick backmost with PeakNIL astatine our blessed hr wherever athletes, founders, and investors collide. Grab a drink, conscionable PeakNIL CoFounder, Chief Strategy Officer and LA Ram Blake Corum, and observe however NIL is shaking up the concern of sports and culture. Expect networking, caller ideas, and a bully clip with the squad down the fastest increasing NIL company.
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AI-matched Private Dinners with TechTable by Cyber Pop-up
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Cyber Pop-up
TechTable connects professionals done curated, AI-matched backstage eating that sparks authentic conversations. Attendees instrumentality a abbreviated vibe quiz, and our algorithm pairs them with 6 like-minded peers for intimate dinners astatine bully section restaurants. Each array gets curated speech cards connected tech, AI, and much – creating abstraction for meaningful dialog without the chaos of large networking rooms. No awkward tiny talk, conscionable inspiring people, existent connections, and large food.
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SignalFire’s Disrupt Poolside After-Party
Tuesday – October 28, 2025
7:00 p.m. – Midnight
Hosted by SignalFire
The Most Talked-About After-Party astatine TechCrunch Disrupt is Back!
Last year, our Disrupt Penthouse After-Party drew implicit 3,000 registrations, but we could lone accommodate a fraction of attendees. It became the astir exclusive and talked-about lawsuit of the week, bringing unneurotic founders, investors, and apical tech operators for a nighttime of high-energy transportation and celebration.
This year, we’re leveling up and going poolside 🌴💦.
New venue. Bigger capacity. Even amended vibes.
We’re taking implicit an iconic San Francisco determination for 1 unforgettable night. We’ll person immersive experiences, unrecorded philharmonic performances, and amusive surprises that volition marque it the item of your Disrupt week.
Wednesday
Tech Meets Tavern Happy Hour
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by OneSignal
You’ve been pitching, networking, and learning each day, present it’s clip to footwear backmost astatine OneSignal’s exclusive post-Disrupt blessed hour.
Join america astatine the iconic Wayfare Tavern, located little than a mile from the conference. You tin bask premium cocktails, gourmet hors d’oeuvres (bring your appetite!), and large speech with chap founders, marketers, and tech innovators successful a relaxed and upscale mounting that is cleanable for unwinding aft a engaged day.
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HardTech After Party @Whipsaw
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
5:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Hosted by Whipsaw
Are you gathering the aboriginal of hardware? Come link with chap founders, engineers, and investors who are pushing the boundaries of hardtech from robotics and wearables to connected devices, medtech, and beyond.
An evening of conversation, community, and collaboration for hardware enthusiasts consecutive from the TechCrunch Disrupt floor. Enjoy delicious nutrient and drinks, each acceptable to the sounds of a unrecorded DJ. Expect a premix of heavy tech founders, merchandise innovators, and plan leaders who are solving real-world problems with bold hardware solutions.
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UAtech Venture Night @Disrupt – The Ultimate Startup & Investor Experience!
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
6:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Hosted b y UAtech
UAtech Venture Night @TechCrunch is simply a fast-paced transportation contention wherever early-stage founders contiguous crisp 3-minute pitches to an assemblage of progressive investors and tech leaders. Live scoring and accelerated Q&A support the vigor precocious and deal-focused. A sheet treatment with manufacture experts sets the stage, followed by an awards ceremonial and progressive networking—connecting capital, ideas, and innovation to substance the adjacent question of planetary tech.
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Fright Night: Product Failures
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by blok
Halloween is astir the corner, and truthful are the ghosts of failed launches, terrifying drop-offs, and features that should person stayed buried. Join america connected October 29th for Fright Night: Product Failures -an evening of merchandise fearfulness stories, haunted prototypes, and unrecorded simulations that exposure what truly frightened users away. Expect spooky vibes, cathartic laughs, and a caller look astatine however merchandise teams tin crook their worst nightmares into aboriginal wins.
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Incheon Rise-Up IR/ Showcase Day
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Draper Startup House Korea
The Rise-up Pitch Showcase organized by Draper Startup House Korea, Draper University and Nuleep, brings unneurotic 6 of Korea’s astir promising startups for an exclusive transportation lawsuit successful Silicon Valley. Handpicked done a highly selective process, these companies are beyond aboriginal signifier — they’re acceptable to pull concern and unafraid strategical partnerships that volition accelerate their U.S. expansion. This is simply a uncommon accidental to conscionable the adjacent procreation of Korean innovators, each equipped with the technology, resilience, and planetary readiness to standard successfully successful the world’s astir competitory market.
Meet & Match successful Tech: Founders Hiring × Devs Exploring
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Hosted by Beta University
Where builders, backers, and bold ideas collide.
Join america for the must-attend societal of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — an evening designed for high-energy networking, existent conversations, and unexpected collisions.
Whether you’re a laminitis fundraising, a VC sourcing your adjacent breakout bet, oregon an relation looking to plug into the ecosystem, Founderverse is wherever it each comes together.
What to expect:
🚀 founders, VCs, and tech operators
⚡ Lightning pitches from rising startups
🏷️ Color-coded badges (so you cognize who’s who)
🍸 Drinks, music, and no-bullshit networking
No panels. No fluff. Just the close radical successful the close room. Spots are constricted — RSVP required.
Techcrunch event
San Francisco | October 27-29, 2025
SISU x Fund/Build/Scale LIVE Podcast & Mixer
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
6:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Hosted by SISU
SISU & Fund/Build/Scale are joining forces for a LIVE Podcast the week of TechCrunch Disrupt! Walter Thompson volition big a candid speech astir gathering early-stage user AI betwixt Cristian Cibils Bernardes, Founder & CEO of Autograph, and Cyan Bannister, Co-Founder General Partner astatine Long Journey Ventures.
Doors unfastened astatine 6pm. Podcast volition instrumentality spot from 7-8pm, followed by airy bites and networking with a radical of founders, operators, and investors.
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AI Marketing Roundtable – with JustAI
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Hoested by Just AI
Just AI (prev. Just Words) invites you to an intimate meal with 15 of the Bay Area’s apical CMOs and Lifecycle Marketing leaders. This curated gathering volition absorption connected the real-world adoption of AI successful selling — the messy, applicable travel from zero to one. We’ll excavation into what it really takes to spell from investigating a fewer automated workflows to gathering reliable systems that thrust results. Expect candid conversations connected what’s working, what’s not, and however teams are navigating the tradeoffs arsenic AI becomes a portion of mundane selling execution. Expect outstanding food, astute conversation, and a accidental to link with the leaders shaping the adjacent question of endeavor growth.
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IT Executive Dinner
Wednesday – October 29, 2025
6:30 p.m.
Hosted by Unthread
An exclusive meal connected the aboriginal of AI agents successful IT Service Management (ITSM) wherever IT leaders from apical planetary tech companies (some existent customers) and manufacture peers volition stitchery for an intimate speech connected innovation. This meal is designed to beforehand candid, sales-free conversations among manufacture peers successful a relaxed setting. With nary presentations oregon pitches, conscionable meaningful dialog to connect, share, and larn from the brightest minds successful endeavor IT.
This lawsuit volition beryllium astir impactful for Head of IT’s and leaders scaling organizations. We volition beryllium curating the impermanent database precise specifically. Thanks for understanding!
Thursday
Cafecito con Leche | Founders Breakfast
Thursday – October 30, 2025
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Hosted by Mappa Ai
Mappa.ai and JPMorgan are coming unneurotic to big an exclusive meal for Bay Area founders. This isn’t conscionable different networking event—it’s a abstraction to link with chap builders, swap hard-earned lessons, and speech astir what it truly takes to standard successful today’s market.
Expect caller insights connected fundraising, growth, and laminitis well-being—alongside immoderate of the Bay’s astir progressive investors, from Hustle Fund to Draper Associates. This is wherever founders locomotion retired with their adjacent check. Seats are limited, and the vigor volition beryllium precocious 💛
AI Startup Job Fair
Thursday – October 30, 2025
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Founder Social Club
Join america for the AI Startup Job Fair, connecting apical AI and tech endowment with 20+ fast-growing startups hiring crossed engineering, information science, and operations. Hosted by Founder Social Club, the lawsuit features startup booths, abbreviated introductions from sponsors, and curated resume books to assistance occupation seekers basal out. Whether you’re a laminitis looking to prosecute oregon a nonrecreational exploring your adjacent opportunity, this is wherever meaningful connections begin.
Find a Cofounder, Help oregon Join a Startup
Thursday – October 30, 2025
2:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Hosted by Startup Oasis
Welcome to Startup Oasis! If you are a startup founder, investor, developer, marketer, oregon anyone other successful the tech ecosystem looking to start, join, oregon assistance a startup, this lawsuit is for you! Startup founders transportation their startups to the attendees (like connected Shark Tank); then, each laminitis gets a breakout country (that we curate) for you to speech to the founders, inquire questions, and springiness feedback (similar to a hackathon). You are invited to conscionable ticker arsenic well.
If you would similar to pitch, RSVP, and you tin motion up connected the time of the event. We are visiting SF for TechCrunch Disrupt and are hosting this peculiar lawsuit aft the conference! RSVP for much info.
Friday
Scaling Smartly – VC/Founder Panel and Networking
Friday – October 31, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Hosted by Remotesome
Join america for an insightful evening focused connected however startups tin efficiently standard their teams – without compromising connected quality, speed, oregon culture.
Hosted by Remotesome, arsenic an authoritative broadside lawsuit to TechCrunch Disrupt, this lawsuit brings unneurotic apical VCs, founders, engineering leaders, and operators to stock applicable strategies for hiring, structuring, and managing distributed engineering teams.
















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