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Scroll down for the complete lineup of roundtable sessions. These sessions are spread across three separate rooms during Disrupt 2025. You can learn more about each session and the leaders on the Disrupt agenda page.
Here is the complete Disrupt 2025 roundtable agenda.
Future of Construction: The Role of AI and Data in the Field and the Office. This session is led by Austin Yount, partner at Brick & Mortar Ventures. AI and data are streamlining workflows both in the field and back office. Learn where investors see the biggest potential for disruption in one of the world’s oldest industries.
From Data to Disruption: Redesigning Startup and VC Ecosystems. This session is led by Brit Fitzpatrick, data and impact at All Raise. It is a look at how data-driven insights can help redesign startup and VC ecosystems for greater equity, opportunity, and impact.
Real Economy Automation: Vertical Software and Vertical AI. This session is led by Caroline Broder, partner at Base10 Partners. Hear why vertical AI and software are the next wave of opportunity and what founders should prioritize when building in this space.
Leading a Series A Round in 2025 and Sustaining Momentum. This session is led by Gabriel Kra, managing director at Prelude Ventures. It offers practical insights on what it takes to raise a Series A in today’s climate and sustain momentum after the round.
How to Train Your Model: Taming AI Agents Without Breaking Them. This session is led by Kyla Guru, head of model cyber safety at Anthropic. It covers best practices for keeping AI agents powerful and safe. Kyla Guru leads model safety initiatives at Anthropic, ensuring alignment and reliability in frontier systems. This session has an encore. Check the agenda for days and times.
Future of Space Economy in the Low Earth Orbit. This session is led by Abhi Kumar, lecturer, investor, and adviser at UC Berkeley. It is a discussion on the commercialization of LEO and what it means for startups and investors. Abhi is an investor and UC Berkeley lecturer focused on space, defense, and frontier tech. He advises early-stage startups in the space economy. This session has an encore. Check the agenda for days and times.
The Future of Banking and Fintech: The AI Wave. This session is led by Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing partner at 645 Ventures. AI is transforming fintech. This session unpacks where startups can gain a competitive edge and what risks investors are tracking.
The Winning Formula: Turning Your Business into a Trusted, Scalable Community to Drive Growth. This session is led by Tasneem Amina, co-founder and president, and Justine Palefsky, co-founder and CEO of Kindred. Building trust and community at scale is the new growth engine. The Kindred co-founders share lessons from creating a rapidly scaling community-driven business. This session has an encore. Check the agenda for days and times.
AI Evaluation 101: Addressing Challenges to Real-World AI Applications. This session is led by Rohit Patel, director at Meta Superintelligence Labs. It covers how to evaluate and deploy AI safely at scale. Rohit Patel leads teams at Meta focused on evaluating and advancing AI models toward safer real-world applications.
Scaling Search and AI for Millions: Lessons from Reddit Search. This session is led by Rachel Miller, product manager at Reddit. This conversation dives into Reddit’s approach to scaling Search and ML systems for millions globally, balancing relevance, safety, and bias mitigation. This session has an encore. Check the agenda for days and times.
IPO Success: Charting the Course from Private to Public. This session is led by Charly Kevers, CFO of Carta, and Daniel Tay, managing director of Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley. Hear what it really takes for startups to successfully navigate the journey from private to public markets.
Building in the Line of Fire: What It Takes to Win in Public Sector AI. This session is led by Ross Fubini, founder and managing partner at XYZ Venture Capital, and Ben Van Roo, co-founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence. It discusses how governments are adopting AI and what this means for startups and procurement cycles.
Berkeley Connect: Experience the World’s Number One Startup Ecosystem. This session is led by Siwen Deng, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Evergreen Saponins, and Keith McAleer, chief marketing officer of the UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. Explore the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship, a holistic approach to teaching and learning, and witness a live pitch from a UC Berkeley SCET-founded company.
Why Trust Before Capital. This session is led by Mabel Chan, founder and CEO of Superconnected, and Ella Shukho, flagship accelerator program manager at 500 Global. Founders and investors can explore how trust and generosity form the foundation of lasting partnerships in venture capital.
Prototyping, Tuning and Scaling GenAI Applications with Open Models. This session is led by Aishwarya Srinivasan, head of AI developer relations at Fireworks AI. This session will be an open conversation with builders about what is working and what is not when creating generative AI applications powered by open models.
From Inception to Enterprise: Selling AI Agents That Scale. This session is led by Allison Baum Gates, general partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital. Founders will learn how they can sharpen their go-to-market strategy, target the right buyers, and build scalable enterprise sales engines.
Relentless Progress: Building Products That Never Stall. This session is led by Papi Menon, VP and chief product officer at Outshift by Cisco. Papi Menon will share how to foster relentless progress, balancing speed with discipline, encouraging innovation within large organizations, and keeping teams motivated when working at the edge of what is next.
Community Is the Product. This session is led by Brian Hamacheck, CTO, Gargi Kand, co-founder and CPO, and Nick Khonaysser, CEO of Vently. The next wave of consumer is not built on content. It is rooted in hyper-local connection, where people can share, discover, and belong. This session unpacks how personalization, proximity, and a new social layer are creating connection at scale.
Physical AI: Designing, Funding, and Scaling the Future. This session is led by Kahini Shah, partner at Obvious Ventures. This session will explore both the breakthroughs and the persistent challenges of physical AI, from limited data and costly deployments to operating in unpredictable environments.
Investor Insights. This session is led by Brian Sparkes, CEO of Silicon Valley Venture and host of Silicon Valley Impact, and Itamar Novick, founder and general partner at Recursive Ventures. What makes a startup truly fundable? These two VC experts go inside the mind of a venture capitalist to uncover how investors evaluate opportunities, make decisions, and determine which founders to back.
The Invisible AI Revolution. This session is led by Brad Cordova, founder and CPTO, and Benjamin Kwon, CEO of SuperAI. Agentic workflows are spreading through sectors most investors overlook, creating new leverage points and destroying old advantages. The disruption is invisible until it hits balance sheets. Learn more in this insightful session.
Turning Global Talent into Startup Founders at Scale. This session is led by Alice Bentinck, co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneurs First. Turning global talent into startup founders at scale, see how Entrepreneurs First repeatedly turns strangers into co-founders at scale.
Building AI-Ready Data Infrastructure with a Lean Team. This session is led by Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte. Michel Tricot will lead a discussion on how early startups can overcome this readiness gap and build AI-ready data infrastructure that goes beyond ingestion and access to generate real context.
Your EQ Is Your AI. This session is led by Alex Malebranche, head of startups and venture capital at Cloudflare. Mastering and prioritizing mental health for an entrepreneur leads to more effectiveness, creative innovation, and sustainable success in a challenging landscape.
Tim Cook Has More Followers Than Apple: Why Founders Need to Be on Camera. This session is led by Hanieh Sigari, CEO of EllieMD, and Uptin Saiidi, founder and creator of UP10Media. In 2025, your audience does not want another brand video. They want you. You will learn how to turn your ideas, mission, and even everyday moments into videos that drive trust, visibility, and business growth.
From Tokens to Turbines: The New Economics of AI. This session is led by Caleb Appleton, partner at Bison Ventures. This conversation explores how AI is rewriting the startup playbook for commercialization. Caleb Appleton will look at how funding, go-to-market, and defensibility are shifting from software speed to scientific endurance.
Consumer AI and Gen Z Tech. This session is led by Piyush Shah, co-founder of InMobi. Hear how Gen Z is shaping the future of consumer AI. Industry leaders and innovators will discuss emerging trends, adoption patterns, and the unique ways this generation interacts with AI-powered technologies.
Beyond the Model: Building the Infrastructure of Intelligence. This session is led by Ben Braverman, co-founder and managing partner at Saga Ventures. Founders, learn how to seize opportunities in the second-order AI era, where infrastructure, workflows, and intelligence systems shape the next wave of scalable, defensible startups.
How Smart Brands Are Winning with Creator-Led Videos. This session is led by Uptin Saiidi, founder and creator, and Peter Sleiman, creative director at UP10Media. Uptin breaks down how founders and companies can create videos that actually connect, without big budgets or complicated setups. Whether you are a startup founder, solo operator, or thought leader, this session will help you think like a creator and communicate like a brand.
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