Techcrunch Disrupt 2025: Day 2

It’s clip for time 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which intends San Francisco’s Moscone West will beryllium jam-packed pinch different marathon of speakers, workshops, networking opportunities, and afterparties for attendees. Keep successful mind that you tin still registry for tickets to subordinate nan excitement, and since we’re already a time in, you tin get a summons for 50% off nan modular walk-up value here.

Refresh yourself connected our speaker lineup correct here, aliases dive deeper into each of our stages, events, networking opportunities, and much by pursuing nan anchor links below. 

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Get to cognize each nan awesome activations of Disrupt:

Expo Hall

Women of Disrupt Breakfast

Networking

Disrupt Stage

AI Stage

Builders Stage

Breakout Stage

Roundtables

StrictlyVC

Pitch Showcase Stage

Disrupt 2025 Side Events

Expo Hall

Our 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Expo Hall remains a hub for startups looking to spot and beryllium seen, pinch much than 300+ participating successful what could beryllium their adjacent large break — aliases your adjacent large finance opportunity. Get a afloat rundown of our showcasing startups here.

Women of Disrupt Breakfast Reception

We’re continuing nan contented of a greeting opportunity for anyone identifying arsenic a female to meet, study from, and web pinch colleagues crossed nan wide scope of tech startups astatine Disrupt. The meal runs from 8 to 10 a.m. astatine nan Deal Flow Cafe, and operates connected a first-come, first-served basis.

Networking

But if you’re not eligible for nan breakfast, plentifulness of different networking opportunities are disposable done curated meetings connected Braindate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Explore aliases create 1:1 aliases small-group sessions to dive heavy into a wide scope of topics. The Networking Lounge serves arsenic nan gathering constituent for each these sessions and is ever buzzing.

If you’re an investor aliases a founder, past make your measurement to nan Deal Flow Cafe. This exclusive area is designed for investors and founders to talk deals complete coffee.

Or, you tin randomly bump into nan correct relationship while heading to a session, aliases bumping into eager startups successful nan Expo Hall, nan bosom of Disrupt, conscionable astir anyplace other successful nan venue.

Sessions

Industry-focused stages, interactive roundtables, Q&A breakout sessions — these sessions are meant to spark inspiration and insights.

Disrupt Stage

No Filters: Vinod Khosla connected nan Future of Tech – Vinod Khosla (Founder, Khosla Ventures)

The Startup Battlefield – Session 3 – Judges see Jon Chu (Partner, Khosla Ventures), Madison Faulkner (Partner, NEA), Ilya Kirnos (Founding Partner and CTO, SignalFire), Miloni Madan Presler (Partner, Institutional Venture Partners), Rinki Sethi (Founding Partner, Lockstep)

What’s Next for Netflix and Streaming Itself – Elizabeth Stone (CTO, Netflix)

From Mirror to What’s Next – Bryn Putnam Returns to Disrupt – Brynn Putnam (Founder, MIRROR, and CEO Board)

Slate’s Auto Electric Truck – See It Here First: Chris Barman (CEO, Slate Auto)

The Startup Battlefield – Session 4 – Leslie Feinzaig (Founder and GP, Graham & Walker VC), Sara Ittelson (Partner, Accel), Doug Pepper (General Partner, ICONIQ)

Storming nan Gates: Scaling Consumer AI – Phoebe Gates (Co-Founder, Phia), Sophia Kianni (Co-Founder, Phia)

AI Stage

Betting connected nan Next Wave: What VCs Want successful AI Startups – Steve Jang (founder and managing Partner, Kindred Ventures), Aileen Lee (founder and managing partner, Cowboy Ventures), Jon McNeil (CEO & 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 nan Future of Work pinch Mercer’s Brendan Foody – Brendan Foody (CEO, Mercer)

The Post-Training Revolution: How Reinforcement Learning is Upending nan AI Infra Stack – Eric Anderson (Partner, Scale Venture Partners), Kyle Corbitt (Head of OpenPipe Team, CoreWeave)

Why nan Next Frontier is Search – Edo Liberty (Founder and Chief Scientist, Pinecone)

From Web Pages to Autonomous Agents – A Conversation connected Linking Today’s Web to Tomorrow’s Data Layer: Or Lenchner (CEO Bright Data)

Intelligence successful Motion and nan Future of Physical AI – Jeff Cardenas (Co-Founder, 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 nan Frontlines – Sanjay Dhawan (Chief Executive Officer, SymphonyAI), Tamara Pattison (SVP, Chief Digital Officer, The Save Mart Companies)

Building Intelligence for Modern Defense – Ethan Thornton (CEO and Founder, Mach Industries)

Driving Intelligence – Alex Kendall (CEO, Wayve)

Builders Stage 

How to Nail Product Market Fit – Rajat Bhageria (Founder and CEO, Chef Robotics), Ann Bordetsky (Partner, NEA), Murali Joshi (Partner, ICONIQ)

Designing Products for nan AI Age – Andrew Reed (General Partner, Sequoia Capital), Yuhki Yamashita (Chief Product Officer, Figma), Zach Lloyd (CEO and Founder, Warp)

How to Pitch When You’re astatine nan 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 nan Rest), Tawni Nazario-Cranz (Operating Partner, SignalFire)

Building What’s Next pinch nan 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 successful 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 Accelerate Growth – Anjali Mann (Technical Program Manager, Microsoft), Anmol Rastogi (Head of Product Management, AI and ML – Amazon Business, Amazon)

Leading for Impact: Engineering astatine nan 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 pinch AI – Zubair Ahsan (Co-Founder and CEO, Max AI), Varun Krishnamurthy (Co-Founder and CEO, Assured Health), Kanyi Maqubela (Managing Partner, Kindred Ventures)

Inside nan Family Office Playbook: How nan Wealthiest Invest successful Startups and Venture 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 nan Fight for Attention – Jenna Birch (Founder, SISU), Allie Cefalo (Partner, Marketing, Kleiner Perkins), Chantelle Darby (Founder, Darby PR)

Embracing AI for a Better Digital Future – Meghana Dhar (Technology Advisor and Investor), Matt Madrigal (Chief Technology Officer, Pinterest)

Roundtables

Each of these 30-minute sessions is for mini groups to activity done real-world problems.

The Future of Banking and Fintech: nan AI Wave – Nnamdi Okike (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, 645 Ventures)

Scaling Search and AI for Millions: Lessons from Reddit Search – Rachel Miller (Product Manager, Reddit)

Tim Cook Has More Followers Than Apple — Why Founders Need to Be connected Camera – Hanieh Sigari (CEO, EllieMD), Uptin Saiidi (Founder and Creator UP10 Media)

From Tokens to Turbines: The New Economics of AI – Caleb Appleton (Partner, Bison Ventures)

Prototyping, Tuning & Scaling GenAI Applications pinch 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)

From Tokens to Turbines – The New Economics of AI: Caleb Appleton (Partner, Bison Ventures)

How Smart Brands Are Winning With Creator-Led Videos – Peter Sleiman (Creative Director, UP10 Media), Uptin Saiidi (Founder and Creator UP10 Media)

How 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 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 Venture Capital)

Powering nan Future Home: Energy Independence Starts Here – Jenny Zhang (President of North America Residential, Energy Business, EcoFlow)

Prototyping, Tuning & Scaling GenAI Applications pinch Open Models [encore] – Aishwarya Srinivasan (Head of AI Developer Relations, Fireworks AI)

The Winning Formula: Turning Your Business Into a Trusted, Scalable Community To Drive Growth [encore] – Justine Palefsky (Co-Founder, Kindred), Tasneem Amina (Co-Founder, Kindred)

StrictlyVC

Making its 2nd quality astatine Disrupt, this LP convention is only for Investor Pass-holders.

Global High-Tech astatine a Crossroads: Trends, Emerging Technologies, and nan Role of Deep-Tech – Dror Bin (CEO Israel Innovation Authority)

The LP Lens: Liquidity, Selection, and nan Future of Ventures – 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 connected LP Relationships – Kevin Hartz (General Partner, A*)

Pitch Showcase Stage

Witness unrecorded on-stage pitches from immoderate of nan exhibiting startups from each complete nan world successful nan 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 passim San Francisco this week, extending nan Disrupt power good beyond Moscone West. Here’s what’s happening coming — panels, parties, and meetups designed to link founders, investors, and innovators crossed each area of tech. Make judge to RSVP your spot to immoderate of these.

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