It’s time for day two of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which implies San Francisco’s Moscone West shall be jam-packed with one other marathon of speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and after-parties for attendees. Take note which you could still register for tickets to affix the thrill, and since we’re already a day in, you’ll be able to get a ticket for 50% off the usual walk-up price.
Refresh yourself on our speaker lineup right here, or dive deeper into each of our stages, events, networking opportunities, and more by following the anchor links below.
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Get to know all the key activations of Disrupt:
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October 13-15, 2026
Expo Hall
Our 8 a.m. to five p.m. Expo Hall stays a hub for startups trying to see and be seen, with greater than 300+ participating in what could possibly be their next big break — or your next big investment opportunity. Get a full rundown of our showcasing startups here.
Women of Disrupt Breakfast Reception
We’re continuing the tradition of a morning opportunity for anyone identifying as a female to fulfill, learn from, and network with colleagues across the big selection of tech startups at Disrupt. The breakfast runs from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on the Deal Flow Cafe and operates on a first-come, first-served basis.
Networking
When you’re not eligible for the breakfast, loads of other networking opportunities can be found through curated meetings on Braindate from 9 a.m. to five p.m. Explore or create 1:1 or small-group sessions to dive deep right into a big selection of topics. The Networking Lounge serves because the meeting point for all these sessions and is all the time buzzing.
When you’re an investor or a founder, then make your option to the Deal Flow Cafe. This exclusive area is designed for investors and founders to speak deals over coffee.
Or you’ll be able to randomly bump into the correct connection while heading to a session, or bump into eager startups within the Expo Hall, the center of Disrupt, nearly anywhere else within the venue.
Sessions
Industry-focused stages, interactive roundtables, Q&A breakout sessions — these sessions are supposed to spark inspiration and insights.
Disrupt Stage
No Filters: Vinod Khosla on the Way forward for Tech: Vinod Khosla (Founder, Khosla Ventures)
The Startup Battlefield — Session 3: Judges include Jon Chu (Partner, Khosla Ventures), Madison Faulkner (Partner, NEA), Ilya Kirnos (Founding Partner and CTO, SignalFire), Miloni Madan Presler (Partner, Institutional Enterprise Partners), Rinki Sethi (Founding Partner, Lockstep)
What’s Next for Netflix and for Streaming Itself: Elizabeth Stone (CTO, Netflix)
From Mirror to What’s Next: Brynn Putnam Returns to Disrupt: Brynn Putnam (Founder, MIRROR, and CEO Board)
Slate Auto’s Electric Truck: See It Here First: Chris Barman (CEO, Slate Auto)
The Startup Battlefield — Session 4: Leslie Feinzaig (Founder and GP, Graham & Walker VC), Ross Fubini (Founder and Managing Partner, XYZ Enterprise Capital), Ben Quazzo (Partner, Accel), Doug Pepper (General Partner, ICONIQ), Santi Subotovsky (General Partner, Emergence Capital)
Storming the Gates: Scaling Consumer AI: Phoebe Gates (Co-Founder, Phia), Sophia Kianni (Co-Founder, Phia)
AI Stage
Betting on the Next Wave: What VCs Want in AI Startups: Steve Jang (founder and Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures), Aileen Lee (Founder and Managing Partner, Cowboy Ventures), Jon McNeill (CEO and Co-Founder, DVx Ventures)
Creative Machines and Where AI Meets Imagination: Prateek Dixit (Co-Founder, Pocket Entertainment), Soyoung Lee (Co-Founder and Head of GTM, TwelveLabs), Nikola Todorovic (Co-Founder, Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk company)
AI Meets the Way forward for Work with Mercor’s Brendan Foody: Brendan Foody (CEO, Mercer)
The Post-Training Revolution: How Reinforcement Learning Is Upending the AI Infra Stack: Eric Anderson (Partner, Scale Enterprise Partners), Kyle Corbitt (Head of OpenPipe Team, CoreWeave)
Why the Next Frontier Is Search: Edo Liberty (Founder and Chief Scientist, Pinecone)
From Web Pages to Autonomous Agents: A Conversation on Linking Today’s Web to Tomorrow’s Data Layer: Or Lenchner (CEO, Shiny Data)
Intelligence in Motion and the Way forward for Physical AI: Jeff Cardenas (Co-Founder and CEO, Apptronik), Raquel Urtasun (Founder and CEO, Waabi)
Can You Vibe Code Enterprise Software?: Arun Gupta (VP of Developer Experience, JetBrains), Mark Pollack (OSS Contributor, Spring OSS Contributor)
Synthetic Voices and Real Impact: Mati Staniszewski (Co-Founder, ElevenLabs)
AI That Scales: Lessons From the Frontlines: Sanjay Dhawan (CEO, SymphonyAI), Tamara Pattison (SVP, Chief Digital Officer, The Save Mart Firms)
Constructing Intelligence for Modern Defense: Ethan Thornton (CEO and Founder, Mach Industries)
Driving Intelligence: Alex Kendall (CEO, Wayve)
Builders Stage
The best way to Nail Product Market Fit: Rajat Bhageria (Founder and CEO, Chef Robotics), Ann Bordetsky (Partner, NEA), Murali Joshi (Partner, ICONIQ)
Designing Products for the AI Age: Andrew Reed (General Partner, Sequoia Capital), Yuhki Yamashita (Chief Product Officer, Figma), Zach Lloyd (CEO and Founder, Warp)
The best way to Pitch When You’re on the Inception Stage: Wesley Chan (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, FPV Ventures), Charles Hudson (Managing Partner, Precursor Ventures)
Do Startups Still Need Silicon Valley?: Anh-Tho Chuong (CEO and Co-Founder, Lago), David Hall (Managing Partner, Revolution/Rise of the Rest), Tawni Nazario-Cranz (Operating Partner, SignalFire)
Constructing What’s Next with the Minds Behind Twitter and Meta: Adam Bain (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 01 Advisors), Dick Costolo (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 01 Advisors), David Fischer (General Partner, 01 Advisors)
Where VCs Are Placing Their Bets in 2026: Nina Achadjian (Partner, Index Ventures), Jerry Chen (General Partner, Greylock), Peter Deng (General Partner, Felicis)
Breakout Stage
Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Speed up Growth: Anjali Mann (Technical Program Manager, Microsoft), Anmol Rastogi (Head of Product Management, AI and ML, Amazon Business, Amazon)
Leading for Impact: Engineering on the Speed of AI: Andrew Berman (CEO, Runlayer), Dima Dzhulgakov (Co-Founder, Fireworks AI), Suraj Patel (VP Ventures and Corporate Development, MongoDB), Eno Reyes (CTO, Factory)
Rewriting Healthcare Workflows with AI: Zubair Ahsan (Co-Founder and CEO, Max AI), Varun Krishnamurthy (Co-Founder and CEO, Assured Health), Kanyi Maqubela (Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures)
Contained in the Family Office Playbook: How the Wealthiest Spend money on Startups and Enterprise Funds: Mariane Bekker (Managing Partner, Founders Bay), Brett Horton (Chief Investment Officer, Paris-Roubaix Group), Daniel Idzkowski (CIO, I.D.I.T. Family Office)
CVC: What’s Different? What’s Their Superpower?: Nicolas Sauvage (President, TDK Ventures)
Startups, Stories, and the Fight for Attention: Jenna Birch (Founder, SISU), Allie Cefalo (Partner, Marketing, Kleiner Perkins), Chantelle Darby (Founder, Darby PR)
Embracing AI for a Higher Digital Future: Meghana Dhar (Technology Advisor and Investor), Matt Madrigal (Chief Technology Officer, Pinterest)
Roundtables
Each of those 30-minute sessions is for small groups to work through real-world problems.
The Way forward for Banking and Fintech: The AI Wave: Nnamdi Okike (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 645 Ventures)
Scaling Search and AI for Thousands and thousands: Lessons from Reddit Search: Rachel Miller (Product Manager, Reddit)
Tim Cook Has More Followers Than Apple — Why Founders Have to Be on Camera: Hanieh Sigari (CEO, EllieMD), Uptin Saiidi (Founder and Creator, UP10 Media)
From Tokens to Turbines: The Latest Economics of AI: Caleb Appleton (Partner, Bison Ventures)
Prototyping, Tuning & Scaling GenAI Applications with Open Models: Aishwarya Srinivasan (Head of AI Developer Relations, Fireworks AI)
The Invisible AI Revolution: Brad Cordova (Founder and CPTO, Super.AI), Benjamin Kwon (CEO, Super.AI)
How Smart Brands Are Winning with Creator-Led Videos: Peter Sleiman (Creative Director, UP10 Media), Uptin Saiidi (Founder and Creator, UP10 Media)
The best way to Train Your Model: Taming AI Agents Without Breaking Them [Encore]: Kyla Guru (Head of Model Cyber Safety, Anthropic)
The Winning Formula: Turning Your Business right into a Trusted, Scalable Community to Drive Growth: Tasneem Amina (Co-Founder and President, Kindred), Justine Palefsky (Co-Founder and CEO, Kindred)
From Inception to Enterprise: Selling AI Agents that Scale: Allison Baum Gates (General Partner, SemperVirens Enterprise Capital)
Powering the Future Home: Energy Independence Starts Here: Jenny Zhang (President of North America Residential, Energy Business, EcoFlow)
StrictlyVC
Making its second appearance at Disrupt, this LP session is simply for Investor Pass holders.
Global High-Tech at a Crossroads: Trends, Emerging Technologies, and the Role of Deep-Tech: Dror Bin (CEO, Israel Innovation Authority)
The LP Lens: Liquidity, Selection, and the Way forward for Enterprise: Lara Banks (Managing Director and Head of Private Equity, Makena Capital), Kelli Fontaine (Partner, Cendana Capital), Adam Grosher (Director, The J. Paul Getty Trust), Matt Hodan (Partner, Lexington Partners), Michael Kim (Founder and Partner, Cendana Capital)
GP Perspectives on LP Relationships: Kevin Hartz (General Partner, A*)
Pitch Showcase Stage
Witness live onstage pitches from a number of the exhibiting startups from all around the world within the Expo Hall.
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Consumer Pitches
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Pavilion Pitch Session — Catalonia
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Pavilion Pitch Session — Poland
1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Enterprise Pitches
3:30 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.: Pavilion Pitch Session — SilkRoad
Disrupt 2025 Side Events
Company-hosted Side Events are happening throughout San Francisco this week, extending the Disrupt energy well beyond Moscone West. Here’s what’s happening tonight — panels, parties, and meetups designed to attach founders, investors, and innovators across every corner of tech. Be sure to RSVP your spot to any of those.
You may still join Disrupt
Just two days left to affix 1000’s of founders, investors, operators, and visionaries at Moscone West in San Francisco. Snag your pass at 50% off and be a part of the tech event of the yr.