We have been thrilled by the exceptional curiosity in talking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. After an in-depth evaluation course of, we’ve chosen 20 distinctive finalists—10 for breakout periods and 10 for roundtables.
Now, we’re placing the ultimate choice in your fingers. Viewers Alternative voting is open by means of Might 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT. You’ll be able to vote for as many periods as you’d like — one vote per session.
The highest 5 breakout periods and prime 5 roundtable periods can be chosen to take the stage.
Meet the finalists
Breakout Periods
The way to Get Acquired in Tech (With out Promoting Out): M&A Ideas for Founders and Builders
Aklil Ibssa, Head of Company Improvement and M&A, Coinbase
Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Speed up Progress
Anmol Rastogi, Head of Product, Amazon Enterprise – AI & ML, Amazon
Automation with Brokers: From Work Enablement to Work Completion
Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax
AI on the Brink: Strategic Playbook for Nationwide Safety
Dan Hendrycks, Government and Analysis Director, Heart for AI Security (CAIS)
Main a Collection A Spherical in 2025 and Sustaining Momentum
Gabriel Kra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures
The Agentic Apocalypse: Securing the Enterprise within the Age of 1 Billion AI Brokers
Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ
Jim Breyer, Founder and CEO, Breyer Capital
Embracing AI for a Higher Digital Future
Matt Madrigal, Chief Know-how Officer, Pinterest
Mining for Tens of millions with GenAI’s 4 Ds: Hanging Belief, Delight, and Dividends
Michael Stewart, Managing Companion, M12
From Knowledge to Brokers: Constructing the AI-Native Enterprise
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Chief Government Officer, Snowflake
From Vibes to Velocity: How AI Instruments Can Assist You Obtain Your Improvement Objectives
Tim Rogers, Employees Product Supervisor, GitHub Copilot, GitHub
Roundtable Periods
Way forward for House Financial system within the Low Earth Orbit
Abhijeet Kumar, Invited Lecturer – New House Financial system, UC Berkeley | Tech and Technique Lead, Archer
From Startup to Scale-Up: A GTM Blueprint
Anjai Lal, Head of Technique and Enablement, Google Cloud
From Code to Capital: How VCs Spot the Subsequent AI Powerhouses
Avi Bharadwaj, Funding Director, Intel Capital
The Successful Method: Turning Your Enterprise Right into a Trusted, Scalable Group To Drive Progress
Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina, Co-founders, Kindred
Vlad Loktev, Companion, Index Ventures
The way to Practice Your Mannequin: Taming AI Brokers With out Breaking Them
Kyla Guru, Head of Mannequin Cyber Coverage, Anthropic
Alex Moix, Investigations Lead, Safeguards, Anthropic
Going a Layer Deeper: Why the way forward for AI investments lies with infrastructure and purposes
Paul Drews, Managing Companion, Salesforce Ventures
Scaling Search and AI for Tens of millions: Classes from Reddit Search
Rachel Miller, Product Supervisor, Reddit
AI Analysis 101: Addressing Challenges to Actual-World AI Purposes
Rohit Patel, Director, Generative AI, Meta
From Workarounds to Breakthroughs: How UpLink Lets Customers Join Any App—No Integration Wanted
Scott Weinert, CTO and Co-founder, Atomic
Whose Firm Is It, Anyway?: What You Lose When You Settle for Outdoors Capital
Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist, Zoho
