We’re thrilled by the overwhelming response to our name for audio system at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, going down October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
After a cautious choice course of, we’ve narrowed it down to twenty spectacular finalists—10 breakout periods and 10 roundtables.
Now it’s your flip to assist form the agenda. Viewers Selection voting is open till 11:59 p.m. PT tonight. That is your closing alternative to weigh in—vote to your favourite periods and assist resolve which can take the stage. You’ll be able to vote for as many periods as you’d like—only one vote per session.
The highest 5 in every class will be part of the official Disrupt 2025 lineup.
Meet the finalists
Breakout Classes
Learn how to Get Acquired in Tech (With out Promoting Out): M&A Ideas for Founders and Builders
Aklil Ibssa, Head of Company Growth 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, Middle for AI Security (CAIS)
Main a Sequence 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 Thousands and thousands with GenAI’s 4 Ds: Hanging Belief, Delight, and Dividends
Michael Stewart, Managing Companion, M12
From Information 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 Growth Targets
Tim Rogers, Workers Product Supervisor, GitHub Copilot, GitHub
Roundtable Classes
Way forward for Area Economic system within the Low Earth Orbit
Abhijeet Kumar, Invited Lecturer – New Area Economic 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
Learn how 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 Thousands and thousands: 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 Exterior Capital
Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist, Zoho