TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is less than four days away, and we’re gearing up for an amazing three-day event filled with interactive sessions at Moscone West in San Francisco. Roundtable sessions will be held again this year, featuring dynamic conversations led by top founders, investors, and executives, and providing rare opportunities to interact directly with experts and participants in small group settings.
Don’t miss your chance to save on tickets and join the roundtable. Register now to save up to $444 on passes, plus 60% off guest tickets before same-day prices increase. These discounts are valid only until Disrupt’s doors open on October 27th.
Scroll down to see the full lineup of roundtable sessions spread across three separate rooms during Disrupt 2025. For more information about each session and the key voices leading them, visit the Disrupt Agenda page.
Disrupt 2025 Roundtable Complete Agenda
The future of construction: The role of AI and data in the field and office
Austin Yount, Partner, Brick & Mortar Ventures
AI and data are streamlining workflows both in the field and in the back office. Learn where investors see the most disruptive potential in one of the world’s oldest industries.
From data to disruption: Redesigning the startup and VC ecosystem
Britt Fitzpatrick, Data and Influence, All Raise
See how data-driven insights can help redesign the startup and VC ecosystem to increase equity, opportunity, and impact.
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Automating the real economy: vertical software and vertical AI
Caroline Broder, Partner, Base10 Partners
Hear why vertical AI and software is the next wave of opportunity and what founders should prioritize when building in this space.
Leading Series A round in 2025 and maintaining momentum
Gabriel Kra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures
Practical insights into what it takes to make the Series A in today’s climate and maintain post-round momentum.
How to train a model: Tame an AI agent without breaking it
Kyla Guru, Anthropic Model Cyber Safety Director
Best practices for keeping your AI agents strong and secure. Kyla Guru leads model safety efforts at Anthropic, ensuring coordination and reliability of Frontier systems.
There is an encore here. Please check dates and times.
The future of the space economy in low Earth orbit
Abhi Kumar, Lecturer, Investor, Advisor, University of California, Berkeley
A discussion of the commercialization of LEO and what it means for startups and investors. Abi is an investor and lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in space, defense, and frontier technologies. He advises early stage startups in the space economy.
There is an encore here. Please check dates and times.
The future of banking and fintech: The AI wave
Nnamdi Okuke, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 645 Ventures
AI is transforming fintech. This session reveals where startups can gain a competitive edge and what risks investors are tracking.
Co-founder and President Tasneem Amina Justin Palewski, Co-founder and CEO of Kindred
Building trust and community at scale is the new growth engine. Kindred’s co-founders share lessons learned from building a rapidly expanding community-driven business.
There is an encore here. Please check dates and times.
AI Assessment 101: Addressing challenges to real-world AI applications
Rohit Patel, Director, Meta Superintelligence Institute
How to safely evaluate and deploy AI at scale. Rohit Patel leads Meta’s team focused on evaluating and advancing AI models for safer real-world applications.
Scaling search and AI for millions: Lessons from Reddit search
Rachel Miller, Reddit Product Manager
This conversation details Reddit’s approach to scaling its search and ML systems to millions of people around the world, while balancing relevancy, safety, and bias mitigation.
There is an encore here. Please check dates and times.
IPO success: Charting your path from private to public
Charlie Kevers, CFO of Carta. Daniel Tay, Managing Director, Global Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley
Hear what it really takes for a startup to successfully transition from private to public markets.
Building in the line of fire: What it takes to win with public sector AI
Ross Fubini, founder and managing partner of XYZ Venture Capital. Ben Van Roo, Co-Founder and CEO, Legion Intelligence
We discuss how governments are implementing AI and what this means for startups and procurement cycles.
Berkeley Connect: Experience the world’s #1 startup ecosystem
Siwen Deng, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Evergreen Saponins; Keith McAleer, Chief Marketing Officer, Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, University of California, Berkeley
Explore Berkeley’s Entrepreneurship Method, a holistic, journey-based approach to teaching and learning, and witness live pitches from UC Berkeley SCET-founded companies.
Why put trust before capital?
Mabel Chan, Founder and CEO of SuperConnected. and Ella Shukho, Flagship Accelerator Program Manager, Global Investment Team, 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 using open models
Aishwarya Srinivasan, Head of AI Developer Relations, Fireworks AI
This session will be an open conversation with builders about what works and what doesn’t when creating generative AI applications that leverage open models.
From Deployment to Enterprise: Selling Scalable AI Agents
Alison Baum Gates, General Partner, SemperVirens Venture Capital
Founders will learn how to enhance their go-to-market strategy, target the right buyers, and build a scalable enterprise sales engine.
Continuous progress: building products that never stall
Papi Menon, Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Outshift by Cisco
Papi Menon shares how to foster “constant progress” – balancing speed and discipline, fostering innovation within large organizations, and keeping your team motivated as you work on the next cutting edge.
CTO Brian Hamacek, Co-Founder and CPO Gargi Khand, and Vently CEO Nick Honaisser.
The next wave of consumers will not be built on content, but on hyperlocal connections where people can share, discover, and belong. This session reveals how personalization, proximity, and new social layers are creating connections at scale.
Physical AI: Designing, funding, and scaling the future
Kahini Shah, Partner at Obvious Ventures
This session explores both the breakthrough advances and enduring challenges of physical AI, from limited data and expensive deployments to operating in unpredictable environments.
Investor Insights
Brian Sparks, CEO of Silicon Valley Ventures and organizer of Silicon Valley Impact. Itamar Novick, Founder and General Partner of Recursive Ventures
What makes a startup truly fundable? These two VC experts go inside the minds of venture capitalists and reveal how investors evaluate opportunities, make decisions, and decide which founders to back.
The invisible AI revolution
Brad Cordova (Founder and CPTO) and Benjamin Kwon (SuperAI CEO)
Agent workflows are expanding into sectors overlooked by most investors, creating new leverage points and tearing down old moats. Disruptions are invisible until they impact the balance sheet. Learn more in this insightful session.
Transforming global talent into startup founders at scale
Alice Bentinck, Entrepreneurs First Co-Founder and CEO
See how Entrepreneurs First, which turns people around the world into startup founders at scale, turns strangers into co-founders at scale.
Build an AI-enabled data infrastructure with lean teams
Michelle Torico, Airbyte Co-Founder and CEO
Michel Tricot will lead a discussion on how early-stage startups can overcome this readiness gap and build AI-enabled data infrastructures that go beyond ingestion and access to generate real-world context.
Your EQ is your AI
Alex Malebranche, Head of Startups and Venture Capital, Cloudflare
Mastering and prioritizing mental health for entrepreneurs can help them be more effective in difficult situations, lead to creative innovation, and lead to sustainable success.
Tim Cook has more followers than Apple — why founders need to be on camera
Hanye Sigali, CEO of EllieMD. Uptin Saiidi, Founder and Creator of UP10Media
In 2025, viewers don’t want another branded video. What they want is you. Learn how to transform ideas, missions, and even everyday moments into videos that drive trust, visibility, and business growth.
From tokens to turbines: the new economics of AI
Caleb Appleton, Partner, Bison Ventures
In this conversation, we explore how AI is rewriting startup strategies for commercialization. From software speed to scientific durability, Caleb Appleton looks at how funding, go-to-market, and defense are changing.
Consumer AI and Gen Z technology
Piyush Shah, Co-Founder, InMobi
Hear how Gen Z is shaping the future of consumer AI. Industry leaders and innovators discuss emerging trends, adoption patterns, and the unique ways this generation is interacting with AI-powered technology.
Beyond the Model: Building an Intelligence Infrastructure
Ben Braverman, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Saga Ventures
Founders, learn how to seize opportunities in the “secondary AI” era, where infrastructure, workflows, and intelligence systems will shape the next wave of scalable and defensible startups.
How smart brands are winning with creator-led video
UP10Media founder and creator Uptin Saiidi and creative director Peter Sleiman
Uptin details how founders and businesses can create videos that actually connect without big budgets or complicated setups. Whether you’re a startup founder, sole proprietor, or thought leader, this session will help you think like a creator and communicate like a brand.
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The only way to participate in these special roundtable sessions is to register for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. All passes except the Expo+ pass allow full access to these interactive sessions. Register now to save up to $444 and get an extra 60% off your second pass before the price increases on October 27th.
