Welcome to day two of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. San Francisco’s Moscone West is once again filled with a full schedule of speakers, workshops, networking, and afterparties. If you have not yet registered, you can still get a ticket for fifty percent off the standard walk-up price.
Refresh your memory on our speaker lineup or explore the detailed agenda for each stage to plan your day. Most importantly, have fun. If you want to join the conversation around Disrupt, share your experiences, photos, and recommendations on social media using the hashtag TechCrunchDisrupt2025. We will also be sharing our own on-the-ground coverage.
Here are the major activations of Disrupt.
The Expo Hall is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It remains a central hub for startups looking to connect, with more than three hundred participants showcasing what could be their next big break or your next investment opportunity.
The Women of Disrupt Breakfast Reception continues our tradition. This morning event from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Deal Flow Cafe is an opportunity for anyone identifying as female to meet, learn from, and network with colleagues across the tech startup landscape. It operates on a first-come, first-served basis.
For networking, there are many other opportunities available. Curated meetings through Braindate run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., allowing for one-on-one or small-group sessions on a wide range of topics. The Networking Lounge serves as the meeting point. Investors and founders can connect at the exclusive Deal Flow Cafe, designed for conversations over coffee. You can also make spontaneous connections anywhere in the venue, especially in the bustling Expo Hall.
Our sessions are designed to spark inspiration and insights. They include industry-focused stages, interactive roundtables, and Q&A breakout sessions.
On the Disrupt Stage, key sessions include No Filters with Vinod Khosla, The Startup Battlefield sessions, a talk on the future of Netflix with CTO Elizabeth Stone, a return by Brynn Putnam of MIRROR, a first look at Slate’s Auto Electric Truck with CEO Chris Barman, and a discussion on scaling consumer AI with Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni of Phia.
The AI Stage features discussions on what VCs want in AI startups, the intersection of AI and creativity, the future of work with Mercer’s CEO Brendan Foody, the role of reinforcement learning, the next frontier of search, autonomous agents, physical AI, enterprise software development, synthetic voices with ElevenLabs, scaling AI, AI for defense, and driving intelligence with Wayve.
The Builders Stage covers topics like nailing product-market fit, designing products for the AI age, pitching at the inception stage, whether startups still need Silicon Valley, insights from the minds behind Twitter and Meta, and where VCs are placing their bets in 2026.
The Breakout Stage includes sessions on agentic AI for startups, engineering at the speed of AI, rewriting healthcare workflows with AI, inside the family office playbook, corporate venture capital, the fight for attention in marketing, and embracing AI for a better digital future.
Roundtables are thirty-minute sessions for small groups to work through real-world problems. Topics range from the future of fintech and AI, scaling search, the importance of founders being on camera, the new economics of AI, prototyping GenAI applications, the invisible AI revolution, creator-led video strategies, training AI models safely, building scalable communities, selling AI agents that scale, and powering the future home with energy independence. Some sessions are repeated.
StrictlyVC makes its second appearance at Disrupt. This limited partner session is exclusively for Investor Pass-holders. It features discussions on global high-tech trends and the LP perspective on liquidity and the future of ventures.
On the Pitch Showcase Stage, you can witness live on-stage pitches from exhibiting startups from around the world. The schedule includes Startup Battlefield 200 consumer pitches, a pavilion pitch session for Catalonia, a pavilion pitch session for Poland, Startup Battlefield 200 enterprise pitches, and a pavilion pitch session for SilkRoad.
Disrupt 2025 side events are company-hosted gatherings happening throughout San Francisco this week. These panels, parties, and meetups extend the Disrupt energy beyond the main venue and are designed to connect founders, investors, and innovators across the tech industry. Be sure to RSVP for any that interest you.
There are just two days left to join thousands of founders, investors, operators, and visionaries at Moscone West in San Francisco. You can still get your pass at a fifty percent discount and be part of the premier tech event of the year.