TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is happening in less than three days. We are loading up Moscone West with over two hundred sessions you will not want to miss, including breakout sessions led by top leaders across the tech and startup ecosystem. Breakout sessions are tailored for hands-on learning and tactical takeaways. These first come, first served rooms put you shoulder to shoulder with operators, founders, and investors who are building what is next.
Do not miss your chance to save on tickets and join these breakouts. Register now to save up to four hundred forty four dollars on your pass and get sixty percent off a second pass before prices increase when event doors open on October twenty seventh.
Here is the complete Disrupt 2025 breakout session agenda.
The Untapped Opportunity Hidden in Business Workflows features Umair Javed, CEO of Tkxel; Marcus Torres, CPO of Quickbase; and Umair Bashir, fractional CTO of Signal. The biggest growth levers often hide in plain sight inside everyday processes. Learn how to spot and productize boring workflow pain points into sticky software that drives ROI and fast payback periods. This is perfect for founders hunting for wedge use cases in large, legacy categories.
From Vibes to Velocity: How AI Tools Can Help You Achieve Your Development Goals features Tim Rogers, staff product manager at GitHub Copilot. Go beyond demos and put AI to work in your software development life cycle. We will dig into real patterns for using agents and copilots to reduce toil, speed reviews, and unblock teams without sacrificing code quality or security.
Build First, Fund Later: The Founder’s Guide to Bootstrapping Breakout Startups features Tarun Raisoni, co-founder and CEO of Gruve. Capital efficiency is a superpower. Learn pragmatic tactics for finding your first ideal customer profile, landing lighthouse customers, and funding early growth from revenue so you can raise on your terms.
How to Get Acquired in Tech Without Selling Out: M&A Tips for Founders and Builders features Aklil Ibssa, head of corporate development and M&A at Coinbase; and Yonas Beshawred, co-founder and CEO of StarSling. Get the inside view on readiness, outreach, and deal mechanics from packaging financials to integration planning so your company commands premium outcomes without losing the mission.
Fundraising Mistakes That Will Kill Your Round and How to Avoid Them features Kamila Khasanova, founder and CEO of On Top Strategy; Sam Li, co-founder and CEO of Thoropass; Ashley Paston, partner at General Catalyst; and Dr. Richard Munassi, Managing Director of Tampa Bay Wave. Four vantage points including communications, founder, venture capital, and accelerator break down deal killers like muddy narrative, wrong metrics, and mismatched targets and the fix it habits that get to a yes.
Fundraising Process Workshop with TC Editor Turned VC Josh Constine features Josh Constine, venture partner at SignalFire. This is a hands on teardown of your fundraise covering story arc, proof points, data room, and outreach sequencing direct from a former TechCrunch editor who has seen thousands of pitches.
AI at the Brink: Strategic Playbook for National Security features Daniel Hendrycks, executive director of the Center for AI Safety. This session covers where frontier model risk meets real world stakes. Learn practical frameworks for evaluating, red teaming, and governing high impact systems when failure is not an option.
Startup Lessons You Won’t Find in a Playbook features Santi Subotovsky, general partner at Emergence Capital; and Melissa Wong, co-founder and CEO of Zipline. Hear unvarnished lessons from scaling enterprise software and consumer operations. Expect real talk on hiring executives, navigating slow sales cycles, and staying alive when the plan meets reality.
Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Accelerate Growth features Anmol Rastogi, head of product management for AI and ML at Amazon Business; and Anjali Mann, technical program manager at Microsoft. Learn where agents shine today and where they break. Discover patterns to deploy agents in operations, support, and sales while keeping humans in the loop for quality.
Leading for Impact: Engineering at the Speed of AI features Eno Reyes, CTO of Factory; Andrew Berman, CEO of Runlayer; Suraj Patel, VP of ventures and corporate development at MongoDB; and Dima Dzhulgakov, co-founder of Fireworks AI. Explore how engineering founders are redefining startup leadership, shaping product driven growth, and building the skills to steer their companies to long term success.
Rewriting Healthcare Workflows with AI features Zubair Ahsan, co-founder and CEO of MaxAI; Kanyi Maqubela, managing partner at Kindred Ventures; and Varun Krishnamurthy, co-founder and CEO of Assured Health. This panel will explore how healthcare organizations are reinventing workflows post scribes and AI documentation, transforming intake, billing, credentialing, and patient care.
Inside the Family Office Playbook: How the Wealthiest Invest in Startups and Venture Funds features Mariane Bekker, managing partner at Founders Bay; Amanda Daniels, founder, vice president, and investor at 5840 Holdings; Brett Horton, chief investment officer at Paris Roubaix Group; and Daniel Idzkowski, CIO at I D I T Family Office. Decode mandates, diligence, and pacing inside family offices so founders and emerging managers know how and when to engage this growing capital source.
CVC: What is Different? What is Their Superpower? features Nicolas Sauvage, president of TDK Ventures. TDK Ventures president Nicolas Sauvage demystifies modern corporate venture capitals, revealing how to identify the twenty percent that deliver strategic and financial value, move with speed, and accelerate founder success.
Startups, Stories, and the Fight for Attention features Jenna Birch, founder of SISU; Allie Cefalo, partner of marketing at Kleiner Perkins; and Chantelle Darby, founder of Darby PR. Learn about cutting through noise with earned, owned, and partner channels. Build a narrative that compounds across public relations, social media, and community without burning cycles.
Embracing AI for a Better Digital Future features Meghana Dhar, tech advisor and investor; and Matt Madrigal, CTO of Pinterest. Discover pragmatic paths to deploy AI that users actually love including measurement, safety, and what changes when AI touches every surface area from discovery to commerce.
Being Heard in the Age of AI features Qianwen Chen, CEO of EchoHer; Fay Kallel, chief product and design officer at Headspace; and Chenxi Wang, general partner at Rain Capital. In a feed saturated by AI generated content, how do brands, creators, and products still feel human? Learn tactics for signal, trust, and measurable lift.
Powering AI: The Race to Scale Gigawatts of New Energy features Mike Schroepfer, founder and partner at Gigascale Capital; and Garth Sheldon Coulson, co founder and CEO of Panthalassa. This panel will reveal how the world’s largest new energy platform can power AI and share lessons on scaling breakthrough clean tech from research and development to market.
AI and Agents: Shaping How We Build, Live and Connect features Patrick Murphy, co founder and CEO of Maket; Alyx van der Vorm, founder and CEO of Clyx; and Jeremiah Owyang, general partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, and Thomas Foley, revenue leader at Composio. Explore real agent use cases spanning build tools, real estate, and social plus the infrastructure and product decisions that turn novelty into daily utility.
Discovery to Disruption: Turning Research into Venture Backable Companies features Pratik Nimbalkar, CEO of Plaid Semiconductors; Jared O, co founder and CEO of Siren Opt; Chon Tang, managing partner at Berkeley SkyDeck Fund; and Asad Tirmizi, CEO of T robotics. Learn the translational playbook for validating markets, securing non dilutive capital, and sequencing milestones so deep tech passes venture capital filters without losing scientific edge.
SOSV: Where Deep Tech is Headed It is Not Just AI features Westley Dang, principal; Philipp Sander, investment analyst; Po Bronson, general partner; and Sierra Brooks, senior scientist and analyst from SOSV. Indie Bio SF investors reveal how deep tech founders can turn breakthrough science into scalable, world changing companies in biomanufacturing, materials, energy, and health.
Speakers from Google Cloud, Netflix, Microsoft, Box, Phia, A16z, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Hugging Face, Elad Gil, and Vinod Khosla are just some of the over two hundred fifty heavy hitters leading more than two hundred sessions designed to deliver the 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 twenty seventh to save up to four hundred forty four dollars.
Break into the rooms where startups level up. Disrupt’s exclusive breakout sessions are first come, first served and open to every pass holder. Lock in your spot now, save up to four hundred forty four dollars before prices jump on October twenty seventh, and score sixty percent off a second pass while you can.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place in San Francisco from October twenty seventh to twenty ninth, 2025.