TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place in San Francisco on October 27-29, 2025. This event will bring together some of the top leaders and innovators in the tech and start up industries. This year’s event promises to be a hub of knowledge and networking, featuring over 200 sessions that cover a broad range of topics essential for entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts alike.
The agenda includes breakout sessions from some of the biggest names in tech. Attendees will walk away with never-heard-before insights and practical lessons from these visionaries in the industry. Perhaps the most anticipated of those sessions will be conducted by Josh Constine, venture partner at SignalFire. He’ll provide frank lessons learned from his successes and failures in scaling enterprise software and consumer-facing operations. This provides critical lessons learned for those that aim to scale their own innovations.
At our second intensive session, an even larger specialized group of advanced veterans will lead an interactive deep dive teardown of cutting-edge fundraising tactics. Don’t miss this fun and informative session with luminaries from the industry! Listen to Pratik Nimbalkar, CEO, Plaid Semiconductors, Jared O., Co-Founder and CEO, SirenOpt, Chon Tang, Managing Partner, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, Asad Tirmizi, CEO, T-robotics. Participants will come away with a clearer understanding of smart fundraising strategies that will power their innovation.
We’re excited to have Tarun Raisoni, co-founder and CEO of Gruve, lead this interactive session. He’ll highlight actual agent use cases that span construction tech, the Realtor industry and TikTok. Through this session, we hope you will get inspired to leverage technology to improve your industry.
Jenna Birch, the founder of SISU, will join forces with Allie Cefalo from Kleiner Perkins and Chantelle Darby, the founder of Darby PR. Collectively, they’ll conduct an engaging workshop on capital efficiency as your new secret sauce superhero power. This panel will cover how startups can make the most impactful use of limited resources and fuel startup growth with strategic financial management.
Santi Subotovsky, general partner at Emergence Capital, and Melissa Wong, co-founder and CEO of Zipline, are prepared to take on the new realities of communication in a complex media world. These two folks will be leading a really fun and interactive session — Cutting Through The Noise. This panel discussion will address how to maximize earned, owned and partner channels to amplify your messages in the most effective and impactful way.
One discussion will focus on how the world’s largest new energy platform could fuel artificial intelligence (AI). This new program will have participants sharing major lessons about scaling up these types of breakthrough clean-tech solutions from R&D stages into widespread market implementation.
Come along with Patrick Murphy, co-founder and CEO of Maket, and Alyx van der Vorm, founder and CEO of Clyx. They’ll be joined by Jeremiah Owyang, general partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, and Thomas Foley, revenue leader at Composio, for an engaging discussion-packed session, leading you to big ideas on emerging tech trends.
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, head of corporate development and M&A at Coinbase, and Yonas Beshawred, co-founder and CEO of StarSling, will lead a session titled “Pragmatic Paths to Deploy AI That Users Actually Love.” This roundtable will address practical ways to implement AI technologies more in line with what end-users want.Qianwen Chen, CEO of EchoHer, will be facilitating one of the sessions with Fay Kallel, chief product and design officer at Headspace and Chenxi Wang, a general partner at Rain Capital. Get ready as they explore a range of cool tech topics. Their perspective is sure to help inform and inspire the broader conversation about innovation and technology.
Mike Schroepfer, Founder and Partner at Gigascale Capital Decoding mandates and diligence. Best practices in family offices. Speaking on why pacing matters will be Garth Sheldon-Coulson, co-founder and CEO, Panthalassa. This session is intended to help demystify the sometimes mysterious family office investment landscape.
IndieBioSF investors share proven playbooks for deep-tech founders. They will show us how to make the leap from cutting-edge scientific discovery to scalable enterprise companies in biomanufacturing, materials science, energy solutions, and health care. This is a must-attend session for entrepreneurs who want to know how to harness scientific discovery for financial reward.
The event offers numerous opportunities for attendees to learn practical tactics for identifying their ideal customer profile (ICP), landing key customers, and securing funding for early-stage growth. These sessions are designed to give every participant actionable insights that will help make navigating the new competitive tech landscape a little bit easier.