TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Audience Choice


We have been thrilled by the exceptional curiosity in talking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, going down October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. After an in-depth evaluate course of, we’ve chosen 20 distinctive finalists—10 for breakout periods and 10 for roundtables.

Now, we’re placing the ultimate determination in your palms. Viewers Selection voting is open via Could 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT. You’ll be able to vote for as many periods as you’d like — one vote per session.

The highest 5 breakout periods and prime 5 roundtable periods shall be chosen to take the stage.

Meet the finalists

Breakout Periods

Get Acquired in Tech (With out Promoting Out): M&A Suggestions for Founders and Builders
Aklil Ibssa, Head of Company Improvement and M&A, Coinbase

Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Speed up Progress
Anmol Rastogi, Head of Product, Amazon Enterprise – AI & ML, Amazon

Automation with Brokers: From Work Enablement to Work Completion
Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO, DataStax

AI on the Brink: Strategic Playbook for Nationwide Safety
Dan Hendrycks, Government and Analysis Director, Middle for AI Security (CAIS)

Main a Collection A Spherical in 2025 and Sustaining Momentum
Gabriel Kra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures

The Agentic Apocalypse: Securing the Enterprise within the Age of 1 Billion AI Brokers
Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ
Jim Breyer, Founder and CEO, Breyer Capital 

Embracing AI for a Higher Digital Future
Matt Madrigal, Chief Know-how Officer, Pinterest

Mining for Tens of millions with GenAI’s 4 Ds: Putting Belief, Delight, and Dividends
Michael Stewart, Managing Associate, M12

From Information to Brokers: Constructing the AI-Native Enterprise
Sridhar Ramaswamy, Chief Government Officer, Snowflake

From Vibes to Velocity: How AI Instruments Can Assist You Obtain Your Improvement Objectives
Tim Rogers, Employees Product Supervisor, GitHub Copilot, GitHub

Roundtable Periods

Way forward for House Economic system within the Low Earth Orbit
Abhijeet Kumar, Invited Lecturer – New House Economic system, UC Berkeley | Tech and Technique Lead, Archer

From Startup to Scale-Up: A GTM Blueprint
Anjai Lal, Head of Technique and Enablement, Google Cloud

From Code to Capital: How VCs Spot the Subsequent AI Powerhouses
Avi Bharadwaj, Funding Director, Intel Capital

The Successful Method: Turning Your Enterprise Right into a Trusted, Scalable Group To Drive Progress
Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina, Co-founders, Kindred
Vlad Loktev, Associate, Index Ventures

Prepare Your Mannequin: Taming AI Brokers With out Breaking Them
Kyla Guru, Head of Mannequin Cyber Coverage, Anthropic
Alex Moix, Investigations Lead, Safeguards, Anthropic

Going a Layer Deeper: Why the way forward for AI investments lies with infrastructure and purposes
Paul Drews, Managing Associate, Salesforce Ventures

Scaling Search and AI for Tens of millions: Classes from Reddit Search
Rachel Miller, Product Supervisor, Reddit

AI Analysis 101: Addressing Challenges to Actual-World AI Purposes
Rohit Patel, Director, Generative AI, Meta

From Workarounds to Breakthroughs: How UpLink Lets Customers Join Any App—No Integration Wanted
Scott Weinert, CTO and Co-founder, Atomic

Whose Firm Is It, Anyway?: What You Lose When You Settle for Exterior Capital
Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist, Zoho