The full breakout session agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

With TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 successful little than 3 days, we’re loading up Moscone West with 200+ can’t-miss sessions — including breakout sessions led by apical leaders crossed the tech and startup ecosystem. Breakout sessions are tailored for hands-on learning and tactical takeaways. These first-come, first-served rooms enactment you shoulder-to-shoulder with operators, founders, and investors gathering what’s next.

Don’t miss your accidental to pouch summons savings and articulation these breakouts! Register now to prevention up to $444 connected your pass, and get 60% off a 2nd earlier prices summation erstwhile lawsuit doors unfastened connected October 27.

The implicit Disrupt 2025 breakout league agenda

The Untapped Opportunity Hidden successful Business Workflows

Umair Javed, CEO, tkxel; Marcus Torres, CPO, Quickbase; and Umair Bashir, fractional CTO, Signal

The biggest maturation levers often fell successful plain sight—inside mundane processes. Learn however to spot and productize “boring” workflow symptom points into sticky bundle that drives ROI and accelerated payback periods. Perfect for founders hunting wedge usage cases successful large, bequest categories.

From Vibes to Velocity: How AI Tools Can Help You Achieve Your Development Goals

Tim Rogers, unit merchandise manager, GitHub Copilot

Go beyond demos and enactment AI to enactment successful your SDLC. We’ll excavation into existent patterns for utilizing agents and copilots to trim toil, velocity reviews, and unblock teams—without sacrificing codification prime oregon security.

Build First, Fund Later: The Founder’s Guide to Bootstrapping Breakout Startups

Tarun Raisoni, co-founder and CEO, Gruve

Capital ratio is simply a superpower. Learn pragmatic tactics for uncovering your archetypal ICP, landing lighthouse customers, and backing aboriginal maturation from revenue—so you rise connected your terms.

How to Get Acquired successful Tech (Without Selling Out): M&A Tips for Founders and Builders

Aklil Ibssa, caput of firm dev and M&A, Coinbase; and Yonas Beshawred, co-founder and CEO, StarSling

The wrong presumption connected readiness, outreach, and woody mechanics—from packaging financials to integration planning—so your institution commands premium outcomes without losing the mission.

Fundraising Mistakes That Will Kill Your Round (and How to Avoid Them)

Kamila Khasanova, laminitis and CEO, On Top Strategy; Sam Li, co-founder and CEO, Thoropass; Ashley Paston, partner, General Catalyst; and Dr. Richard Munassi, Managing Director, Tampa Bay Wave

Four vantage points — comms, founder, VC, and accelerator — interruption down deal-killers (muddy narrative, incorrect metrics, mismatched targets) and the fix-it habits that get to “yes.”

Fundraising Process Workshop with TC exertion turned VC Josh Constine

Josh Constine, task partner, SignalFire

Hands-on teardown of your fundraise: communicative arc, impervious points, information room, and outreach sequencing—direct from a erstwhile TC exertion who’s seen thousands of pitches.

AI astatine the Brink: Strategic Playbook for National Security

Daniel Hendrycks, enforcement director, Center for AI Safety

Where frontier-model hazard meets real-world stakes. Practical frameworks for evaluating, red-teaming, and governing high-impact systems erstwhile nonaccomplishment isn’t an option.

Startup Lessons You Won’t Find successful a Playbook

Santi Subotovsky, wide partner, Emergence Capital; and Melissa Wong, co-founder and CEO, Zipline

Unvarnished lessons from scaling endeavor bundle and user ops. Expect existent speech connected hiring execs, navigating dilatory income cycles, and staying live erstwhile the program meets reality.

Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Accelerate Growth

Anmol Rastogi, caput of merchandise management, AI & ML – Amazon Business; and Anjali Mann, method programme manager, Microsoft

Where agents radiance contiguous (and wherever they break). Patterns to deploy agents successful ops, support, and income portion keeping humans successful the loop for quality.

Leading for Impact: Engineering astatine the velocity of AI

Eno Reyes, CTO, Factory; and Andrew Berman, CEO, Runlayer; Suraj Patel, vp ventures and firm development, MongoDB, Dima Dzhulgakov, co-founder, Fireworks AI

Explore however engineering founders are redefining startup leadership, shaping product-driven growth, and gathering the skills to steer their companies to semipermanent occurrence with insights from leaders astatine Factory, Fireworks, and Runlayer.

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Rewriting Healthcare Workflows with AI

Zubair Ahsan, co-founder and CEO, Max AI; Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner, Kindred Ventures; and Varun Krishnamurthy, co-founder and CEO, Assured Health

This sheet volition research however healthcare organizations are reinventing workflows post-scribes and AI documentation, transforming intake, billing, credentialing, and diligent care.

Inside the Family Office Playbook: How the Wealthiest Invest successful Startups and Venture Funds

Mariane Bekker, managing partner, Founders Bay; Amanda Daniels, founder, vice president, and investor, 5840 Holdings; Brett Horton, main concern officer, Paris-Roubaix Group; and Daniel Idzkowski, CIO, I.D.I.T. Family Office

Decoding mandates, diligence, and pacing wrong household offices — truthful founders and emerging managers cognize however (and when) to prosecute this increasing superior source.

CVC: What’s Different? What’s Their Superpower?

Nicolas Sauvage, president, TDK Ventures

TDK Ventures president Nicolas Sauvage demystifies modern CVCs, revealing however to place the 20% that present strategical and fiscal value, determination with speed, and accelerate laminitis success.

Startups, Stories, and the Fight for Attention

Jenna Birch, founder, SISU; Allie Cefalo, partner, marketing, Kleiner Perkins; and Chantelle Darby, founder, Darby PR

Cutting done sound with earned, owned, and spouse channels. Build a communicative that compounds crossed PR, social, and assemblage without burning cycles.

Embracing AI for a Better Digital Future

Meghana Dhar, tech advisor and investor; and Matt Madrigal, CTO, Pinterest

Pragmatic paths to deploy AI that users really love: measurement, safety, and what changes erstwhile AI touches each aboveground country — from find to commerce.

Being Heard successful the Age of AI

Qianwen Chen, CEO, EchoHer; Fay Kallel, main merchandise and plan officer, Headspace; and Chenxi Wang, wide partner, Rain Capital

In a provender saturated by AI-generated content, however bash brands, creators, and products inactive consciousness human? Tactics for signal, trust, and measurable lift.

Powering AI: The Race to Scale Gigawatts of New Energy

Mike Schroepfer, laminitis and partner, Gigascale Capital; and Garth Sheldon-Coulson, co-founder and CEO, Panthalassa

This sheet volition uncover however the world’s largest caller vigor level tin powerfulness AI and stock lessons connected scaling breakthrough clean-tech from R&D to market.

AI & Agents: Shaping How We Build, Live & Connect

Patrick Murphy, co-founder and CEO, Maket; Alyx van der Vorm, laminitis and CEO, Clyx; and Jeremiah Owyang, wide partner, Blitzscaling Ventures, and Thomas Foley, gross leader, Composio

Real cause usage cases spanning physique tools, existent estate, and societal — positive the infra and merchandise decisions that crook novelty into regular utility.

Discovery to Disruption: Turning Research into Venture-Backable Companies

Pratik Nimbalkar, CEO, Plaid Semiconductors; Jared O, co-founder and CEO, SirenOpt; Chon Tang, managing partner, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund; Asad Tirmizi, CEO, T-robotics

The translational playbook: validating markets, securing non-dilutive capital, and sequencing milestones truthful heavy tech passes VC filters without losing technological edge.

SOSV: Where Deep Tech is Headed (It’s Not JUST AI)

Westley Dang, principal, Philipp Sander, concern analyst, Po Bronson, wide partner, and Sierra Brooks, elder idiosyncratic and analyst, SOSV

IndieBioSF investors uncover however deep-tech founders tin crook breakthrough subject into scalable, world-changing companies successful biomanufacturing, materials, energy, and health.

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