What if the next industrial revolution does not happen on Earth? William Bruey, founder and CEO of Varda Space Industries, is on a mission to prove it can and will happen in orbit. He is taking the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco, to share how his team is transforming outer space into the ultimate manufacturing frontier.
Late-bird savings are still in flight, but not for long. Save up to four hundred forty-four dollars on your pass before doors open on October 27. You can also grab a plus-one ticket for sixty percent off while you are at it. Teams save even more with fifteen to thirty percent off group passes.
Bruey’s talk focuses on the factory of the future, where microgravity becomes a manufacturing tool, not a setting for science fiction. He will explain how Varda is turning the vacuum of space into a production line for high-value materials. These materials range from new life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables. He will also discuss why orbit may soon be the most profitable real estate in the known universe.
Bruey is just one of the visionaries taking the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. You can explore the two hundred plus session agenda, see who else is speaking among the two hundred fifty plus speakers, and find your perfect ticket price before prices rise.
As a former SpaceX engineer who helped fly Dragon on eight missions to the International Space Station, William Bruey knows what it takes to innovate where gravity does not apply. Now at Varda Space Industries, he is pioneering a new kind of factory. This factory orbits Earth, manufactures breakthrough materials, and then reenters the atmosphere to deliver products that cannot be made anywhere else.
Before launching Varda, Bruey led Global Equities Technology at Bank of America and holds degrees in Applied Physics from Cornell and Systems Engineering. A pilot and engineer at heart, he is equally at home coding algorithms or flying his own Cozy MK4 aircraft. You can learn more about this in his Space Stage session.
This is not just a space story. It is a startup story. Register for TechCrunch Disrupt and see how vision, physics, and venture collide when Bruey takes the Space Stage.
Bring a plus one and save sixty percent on their pass. The event features heavy hitters from companies like Google Cloud, Netflix, Microsoft, Box, Phia, A16Z, ElevenLabs, Wayve, and Hugging Face, as well as individuals like Elad Gil and Vinod Khosla. These are some of the two hundred fifty plus leaders heading over two hundred sessions designed to deliver insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Also, do not miss over three hundred showcasing startups in all sectors.
Bring a plus one and save sixty percent on their pass, or get your pass by October 27 to save up to four hundred forty-four dollars. The event is in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, 2025.
There are only four days before the sixty percent savings on a plus-one ticket leave orbit. Alternatively, save up to four hundred forty-four dollars on your pass. Lock in your savings before late-bird pricing ends when doors open and get ready to witness the next chapter of the space economy live at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025.
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