We were blown away by the incredible interest in speaking Techcrunch Disrupt 2025Coming from 27-29 October in Moscone West in San Francisco.
After a thorough assessment, we limited it to 20 striking finalists – 10 for Breakout sessions and 10 for round tables.
Now it’s your turn to decide. Public choice voices is open until 30 May at 11:59 PM PT. You can cast one vote per session – and vote for as many sessions as you want!
The top 5 breakout and top 5 round table sessions deserve a place on the Disrupt the agenda.
Meet the finalists
Breakout sessions
How to be taken over in technology (without selling): mergers and acquisitions for founders and builders
Aklil IBSSA, head of business development and mergers and acquisitions, Coinbase
Agentic AI for startups: automate, adjust and accelerate growth
Anmol Rastogi, Head of Product, Amazon Business – AI & ML, Amazon
Automation with agents: from work to completion of the work
Chet Kapoor, chairman and CEO, Datastax
Ai at the Brink: Strategic Playbook for National Security
Dan Hendrycks, Executive and Research Director, Center for AI Safety (CAIS)
Leading a series A round in 2025 and keeping Momentum
Gabriel Kra, director of Prelude Ventures
The agent apocalypse: securing the company between the ages of 1 billion AI agents
Jack Hidary, CEO, Sandboxaq; and Jim Breyer, founder and CEO, Breyer Capital
Embrace AI for a better digital future
Matt Madrigal, Chief Technology Officer, Pinterest
Mining for millions with Genai’s 4 DS: striking trust, pleasure and dividends
Michael Stewart, Managing Partner, M12
From data to agents: building the AI-Native Enterprise
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Chief Executive Officer, Snowflake
From vibes to speed: how AI tools can help you achieve your development goals
Tim Rogers, Product Manager of the Staff, Github Copilot, Github
Round table sessions
Future of space -economy in the Lage earth track
Abhijeet Kumar, invited teacher – Nieuwe Space Economy, UC Berkeley | Tech and Strategy Lead, Archer
From startup to upscaling: a GTM blue pressure
Anjai Lal, head of strategy and engaging, Google Cloud
From code to capital: how VCs spot the next AI power patters
AVI Bharadwaj, investment director, Intel Capital
The winning formula: turn your company into a trusted, scalable community to stimulate growth
Justine Palefsky and Tasborn Amina, co-founders, related; and Vlad Loktev, Partner, Index Ventures
How to train your model: Tam ai -agents without breaking them
Kyla Guru, head of the cyber policy of the model, anthropic; and Alex Moix, Leiden research, guarantee, anthropic
Go a low deeper: why the future of AI investments lies with infrastructure and applications
Paul Drews, Managing Partner, Salesforce Ventures
Search Schaing and AI for millions: lessons from Reddit Search
Rachel Miller, Product Manager, Reddit
AI evaluation 101: Tackling challenges for AI applications in practice
Rohit Patel, director, Generative AI, Meta
From solutions to breakthroughs: how Uplinks users can connect each app – no integration required
Scott Weinert, CTO and co-founder, Atomic
Whose company is it actually?: What do you lose if you accept capital
Sridhar Vembu, chief scientist, Zoho
