Welcome to the third and final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 at Moscone West in San Francisco. The excitement here is still in full swing, and there is no slowing down. If you thought it was too late to join, think again. There is still time to register with a fifty percent discount and be part of the action. Do not wait a whole year to be a part of the tech epicenter of the year.
Today’s agenda features some of the most anticipated stage sessions, spotlighting insights from trailblazers such as Rohit Patel, Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs; Kirsten Green, Founding Partner of Forerunner; and Tristan Thompson, NBA Champion and Fintech Entrepreneur, among others. Excitement builds throughout the day as we await the long-awaited announcement of the Startup Battlefield 200 winner. Be sure to explore groundbreaking innovations in the Expo Hall, gain invaluable knowledge from industry leaders in hands-on sessions, and forge meaningful connections that could shape your next big move.
Here are important reminders for today at Disrupt. Register and grab your scannable badge at the Registration Desk anytime from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Do not forget your ticket and a government-issued photo ID. The name on your badge or ticket must match the name on your ID. You cannot pick up a badge for another attendee. There is an Investors Breakfast Fireside Chat on Innovation in the next decade, covering the next growth engines and funding models. This is located at the Deal Flow Cafe and is for Investor pass-holders only.
Get ready for an action-packed day. TechCrunch Disrupt is live with leaders from Google Cloud, Netflix, Microsoft, Box, Phia, A16Z, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Hugging Face, Elad Gil, and Vinod Khosla. These are some of the over two hundred and fifty heavy hitters leading more than two hundred sessions designed to deliver insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Do not miss over three hundred showcasing startups in all sectors. You can register now and save fifty percent on your pass. There is also a two-for-one discount where you can bring a plus one and save sixty percent. The event is in San Francisco from October 27 to 29, 2025.
We are closing out Disrupt 2025 with a powerful lineup of industry leaders hitting the stage. Visit the full agenda for timing and session information.
On the AI Stage, sessions include From Ads to Films: Creating with Code with Alejandro Matamala Ortiz, co-founder and chief design officer of Runway; The One Million Dollar AI Trust Bet: Can we truly trust an AI agent to run influencer marketing with Francis Yang, co-founder and chief product officer of Head AI; How Google is building for the Agentic Cloud with Will Grannis, CTO of Google Cloud; AI in the Dust: Building Trustworthy Models for the Physical World with Fahad Khan, senior director of product management for Platform at Blue River Technology, John Deere, and Jeff Mills, president and chief of revenue operations at iMerit Technology; Shaping the AI Stack with Hugging Face with Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face; Love, Lies and Algorithms: The Truth About AI in Matters of the Heart with Dr. Amanda Gesselman, research scientist at the Kinsey Institute, Mark Kantor, head of Product at Tinder, and Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika; Smarter Streets: How AI Is Driving the Future of Transportation with Dave Ferguson, co-founder and co-CEO of Nuro, and Sachin Kansal, chief product officer of Uber Technologies; AI and National Security in the High-Stakes Race to Innovate with Justin Fanelli, chief technology officer of the US Dept of Navy, Kathleen Fisher, director of the AI and Cybersecurity Initiative at RAND Corporation, and Chris Morales, partner at Point72 Ventures; and AI That Talks Back: Character.AI in the Spotlight with Karandeep Anand, CEO of Character.AI.
On the Builders Stage, sessions include Seed Money Secrets Every Founder Should Know with Gabby Cazeau, partner at Harlem Capital, Marlon Nichols, co-founder and managing general partner at MaC Venture Capital, and Maria Palma, general partner at Freestyle Capital; Rethinking Startup Capital Without VCs with Erik Allebest, CEO of Chess.com, Louwee Shibata, founder and partner at Next Gen, KALDOS Capital, and Gale Wilkinson, managing partner at VITALIZE Venture Capital; Global Hiring Is Not Spooky, And Paying in Crypto Should Not be Either with Francoise Brougher, chief executive officer of Pebl; With Vibe Coding, Do Early Stage Startups Still Need to Hire 10x Engineers with David Cramer, co-founder and CPO of Sentry, Zach Lloyd, CEO and founder of Warp, and Laurie Moore, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners; Preparing Now for Your Later Stage Raise with Lila Preston, head of growth equity at Generation Investment Management, Andrea Thomaz, CEO and co-founder of Diligent Robotic, and Zeya Yang, partner at IVP; The Pros and Cons of Hiring AI Agents as Early Employees with Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, co-founder and CEO of Artisan, Sarah Franklin, CEO of Lattice, and Caleb Peffer, co-founder and CEO of Firecrawl; and Creating Communities and Companies That Last with Tade Oyerinde, founder and chancellor of Campus, and Teddy Solomon, co-founder and CEO of Fizz.
On the Disrupt Stage, sessions include Rebuilding the City that Builds Startups with Daniel Lurie, Mayor of San Francisco, City and County of San Francisco; A Conversation with Investor Extraordinaire with Elad Gil of Gil and Company; Survive, Scale, Reinvent: Lessons from a Cloud OG with Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box; a Startup Battlefield Alumni Update with Dr. Capella Kerst, CEO and founder of geCKo Materials; The Startup Battlefield Final with Kirsten Green, founding partner of Forerunner, Kevin Hartz, general partner at A Star, Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner at Cowboy Ventures, and Kevin Rose, founder of Digg; Crypto’s Next Chapter with Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko with Anatoly Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana and CEO of Solana Labs; From Digg to Deals, Kevin Rose on Reinvention and Investing with Kevin Rose, founder of Digg; Cluely’s Roy Lee: Building, Breaking, and Betting Big with Roy Lee, co-founder and CEO of Cluely; From Courtside to Code, Tristan Thompson on AI, Sports, and Startups with Tristan Thompson, NBA Champion and Fintech Entrepreneur; and the announcement of the Winner of Startup Battlefield 200.
You can participate in thirty-minute collaborative Roundtable Sessions. Note that Expo Plus Passes do not grant access to these roundtables. Sessions include AI Evaluation 101: Addressing Challenges to Real-World AI Applications with Rohit Patel, Director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, Meta; Consumer AI and Gen Z Tech with Piyush Shah, co-founder of InMobi; Scaling Search and AI for Millions: Lessons from Reddit Search, an encore session with Rachel Miller, product manager at Reddit; Relentless Progress: Building Products That Never Stall with Papi Menon, VP and chief product officer at Outshift by Cisco; Raising a Seed Round in San Francisco as an Outsider with Alice Bentinck, CEO and co-founder of Entrepreneurs First; Beyond the Model: Building the Infrastructure of Intelligence with Ben Braverman, co-founder and managing partner at Saga Ventures; and an encore session of AI Evaluation 101: Addressing Challenges to Real-World AI Applications with Rohit Patel, director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, Meta.
The buzzing Expo Hall will host over three hundred startups from all stages, industries, and regions worldwide. Engage with them and explore the groundbreaking innovations they are thrilled to showcase. It opens at 8:00 a.m.
On the Breakout Stage, these fifty-minute first-come, first-served sessions are meant to provide insights and to get your burning questions answered. They are located right next to the Expo Hall and accessible to all ticket types. Sessions include Being Heard in the Age of AI with Qianwen Chen, CEO of EchoHer, Fay Kallel, chief product and design officer of Headspace, and Chenxi Wang, general partner of Rain Capital; Powering AI: The Race to Scale Gigawatts of New Energy with Mike Schroepfer, founder and partner of Gigascale Capital, and Garth Sheldon-Coulson, co-founder and CEO of Panthalassa; AI and Agents: Shaping How We Build, Live and Connect with Thomas Foley, revenue leader at Composio, Patrick Murphy, CEO and co-founder of Maket, Jeremiah Owyang, general partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, and Alyx van der Vorm, founder and CEO of Clyx; Discovery to Disruption: Turning Research into Venture-Backable Companies with Pratik Nimbalkar, CEO of Plaid Semiconductors, Jared O, co-founder and CEO of SirenOpt Inc., Chon Tang, managing partner of Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, and Asad Tirmizi, CEO of T-robotics; and SOSV: Where Deep Tech is Headed, It is Not JUST AI with Sierra Brooks, senior scientist and analyst at SOSV, Po Bronson, general Partner at SOSV and managing director of IndieBio SF, Westley Dang, principal at SOSV, and Philipp Sander, investment analyst at SOSV.
Catch exhibitors’ fast pitches on the Pitch Showcase Stage, located in the Expo Hall. From 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., see Startup Battlefield 200 Health Pitches. From 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., see Startup Battlefield 200 Policy and Protection Pitches.
For unmatched networking where conversations spark innovation, in addition to casually mingling with fellow Disrupt attendees, elevate your networking experience via Braindate. You can create or explore topics on the app for deeper conversations and make the right connections to help you reach your goals. Meet in person at the Networking Lounge powered by Braindate for one-on-one or small-group discussions anytime between 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
More than eighty company-hosted Side Events are set to happen throughout San Francisco this week, extending the Disrupt excitement. To RSVP and for more details, head to the Side Events page.
This is the last call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 magic. Do not miss the finale. Today is the final day of the conference. Right now, startups are pitching breakthrough ideas, connections are sparking across the Expo Hall, and industry giants are dropping game-changing insights onstage. We really do not want you to have to wait another three hundred and sixty-five days for next year’s conference. Do not miss the energy, the innovation, and the opportunity. Register to get a fifty percent discount on your pass and head to Moscone West for your ticket.