Techcrunch Disrupt 2025: Day 3

Welcome to nan 3rd and last time of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 astatine Moscone West successful San Francisco! The excitement present is still successful afloat swing, and there’s nary slowing down.

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Today’s schedule features immoderate of nan astir anticipated shape sessions, spotlighting insights from trailblazers specified arsenic Rohit Patel, Director astatine Meta Superintelligence Labs; Kirsten Green, Founding Partner of Forerunner; and Tristan Thompson, NBA Champion and Fintech Entrepreneur — among others. Excitement builds passim nan time arsenic we await nan long-awaited announcement of nan Startup Battlefield 200 winner. Be judge to research groundbreaking innovations successful nan Expo Hall, summation invaluable knowledge from manufacture leaders successful hands-on sessions, and forge meaningful connections that could style your adjacent large move.

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Get fresh for an action-packed time — here’s what’s successful shop for time 3 of Disrupt 2025.

Today’s sessions

We’re closing retired Disrupt 2025 pinch a powerful lineup of manufacture leaders hitting nan stage. Visit nan afloat schedule for timing and convention info.

AI Stage

From Ads to Films: Creating pinch Code: Alejandro Matamala Ortiz (co-founder and main creation officer, Runway)

The $1M AI Trust Bet: Can we genuinely spot an AI supplier to tally influencer marketing?: Francis nan (co-founder and main merchandise officer, Head AI)

How Google is building for nan Agentic Cloud: Will Grannis (CTO, Google Cloud)

AI successful nan Dust: Building Trustworthy Models for nan Physical World: Fahad Khan (senior director, merchandise management, Platform, Blue River Technology, [John Deere]) and Jeff Mills (president and main of gross operations, iMerit Technology)

Shaping nan AI Stack pinch Hugging Face: Thomas Wolf (co-founder and main subject officer, Hugging Face)

Love, Lies & Algorithms: The Truth About AI successful Matters of nan Heart: Dr. Amanda Gesselman (research scientist, Kinsey Institute), Mark Kantor (head of Product, Tinder), and Eugenia Kuyda (founder, Replika)

Smarter Streets: How AI Is Driving nan Future of Transportation: Dave Ferguson (co-founder and co-CEO, Nuro) and Sachin Kansal (chief merchandise officer, Uber Technologies)

AI and National Security successful nan High-Stakes Race to Innovate: Justin Fanelli (chief exertion officer, US Dept of Navy), Kathleen Fisher (director, AI and Cybersecurity Initiative, RAND Corporation), and Chris Morales (partner, Point72 Ventures)

AI That Talks Back: Character.AI successful nan Spotlight: Karandeep Anand (CEO, Character.AI)

Builders Stage

Seed Money Secrets Every Founder Should Know: Gabby Cazeau (partner, Harlem Capital), Marlon Nichols (co-founder and managing wide partner, MaC Venture Capital), Maria Palma (general partner, Freestyle Capital)

Rethinking Startup Capital Without VCs: Erik Allebest (CEO, Chess.com, Louwee Shibata (founder and partner – Next Gen, KALDOS Capital), and Gale Wilkinson (managing partner, VITALIZE Venture Capital)

Global Hiring Isn’t Spooky! And Paying successful Crypto Shouldn’t beryllium Either: Francoise Brougher (chief executive officer, Pebl)

With Vibe Coding, Do Early Stage Startups Still Need to Hire 10x Engineers?: David Cramer (co-founder and CPO, Sentry), Zach Lloyd (CEO and founder, Warp), and Laurie Moore (partner, Bessemer Venture Partners)

Preparing Now for Your Later Stage Raise: Lila Preston (head of maturation equity, Generation Investment Management), Andrea Thomaz (CEO and co-founder, Diligent Robotic), Zeya nan (partner, IVP)

The Pros and Cons of Hiring AI Agents arsenic Early Employees: Jaspar Carmichael-Jack (co-founder and CEO, Artisan), Sarah Franklin (CEO, Lattice), Caleb Peffer (co-founder and CEO, Firecrawl)

Creating Communities and Companies That Last: Tade Oyerinde (founder and chancellor, Campus) and Teddy Solomon (co-founder and CEO, Fizz)

Disrupt Stage

Rebuilding nan City that Builds Startups: Daniel Lurie (Mayor of San Francisco, City and County of San Francisco)

A Conversation pinch Investor Extraordinaire: Elad Gil (Gil & Co.)

Survive, Scale, Reinvent: Lessons from a Cloud OG: Aaron Levie (co-founder and CEO, Box)

Startup Battlefield Alumni Update: Dr. Capella Kerst (CEO and founder, geCKo Materials)

The Startup Battlefield Final: Kirsten Green (founding partner, Forerunner, Kevin Hartz (general partner, A*), Aileen Lee (founder and managing partner, Cowboy Ventures), Kevin Rose (founder, Digg)

Crypto’s Next Chapter pinch Solana’s Anatoly Yakovenko: Anatoly Yakovenko  (co-founder, Solana, and CEO, Solana Labs)

From Digg to Deals-Kevin Rose connected Reinvention and Investing: Kevin Rose (founder, Digg)

Cluely’s Roy Lee: Building, Breaking, and Betting Big: Roy Lee (co-founder and CEO, Cluely)

From Courtside to Code-Tristan Thompson connected AI, Sports, and Startups: Tristan Thompson (NBA Champion and Fintech Entrepreneur)

Announcing nan Winner of Startup Battlefield 200

Roundtable sessions

Participate successful these 30-minute collaborative sessions. Note that Expo+ Passes do not assistance entree to these roundtables.

AI Evaluation 101: Addressing Challenges to Real-World AI Applications: Rohit Patel (Director, Meta Superintelligence Labs, Meta)

Consumer AI and Gen Z Tech: Piyush Shah (co-founder, InMobi)

Scaling Search and AI for Millions: Lessons from Reddit Search [encore]: Rachel Miller (product manager, Reddit)

Relentless Progress: Building Products That Never Stall: Papi Menon (VP and main merchandise officer, Outshift by Cisco)

Raising a Seed Round successful San Francisco arsenic an Outsider: Alice Bentinck (CEO and co-founder, Entrepreneurs First)

Beyond nan Model: Building nan Infrastructure of Intelligence: Ben Braverman  (co-founder and managing partner, Saga Ventures)

AI Evaluation 101: Addressing Challenges to Real-World AI Applications [encore]: Rohit Patel (director, Meta Superintelligence Labs, Meta)

Expo Hall

The buzzing Expo Hall will host 300+ startups from each stages, industries, and regions worldwide. Engage pinch them and research nan groundbreaking innovations they’re thrilled to showcase. Opens astatine 8:00 a.m.

Breakout Stage

These 50-minute first-come, first-served sessions are meant to supply insights and to get your burning questions answered. Located correct adjacent to nan Expo Hall and accessible to each summons types.

Being Heard successful nan Age of AI: Qianwen Chen (CEO, EchoHer), Fay Kallel (chief merchandise and creation officer, Headspace), and Chenxi Wang (general partner, Rain Capital)

Powering AI: The Race to Scale Gigawatts of New Energy: Mike Schroepfer (founder and partner, Gigascale Capital) and Garth Sheldon-Coulson (co-founder and CEO, Panthalassa)

AI & Agents: Shaping How We Build, Live & Connect: Thomas Foley (revenue leader, Composio), Patrick Murphy (CEO and co-founder, Maket), Jeremiah Owyang (general partner, Blitzscaling Ventures), and Alyx van der Vorm (founder and CEO, Clyx)

Discovery to Disruption: Turning Research into Venture-Backable Companies: Pratik Nimbalkar (CEO, Plaid Semiconductors), Jared O (co-founder and CEO, SirenOpt Inc.), Chon Tang (managing partner, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund), and Asad Tirmizi (CEO, T-robotics)

SOSV: Where Deep Tech is Headed (It’s Not JUST AI): Sierra Brooks (senior intelligence and analyst, SOSV), Po Bronson (general Partner, SOSV, and managing director, IndieBio SF), Westley Dang (principal, SOSV), Philipp Sander (investment analyst, SOSV)

Pitch Showcase Stage

Catch exhibitors’ accelerated pitches connected nan Pitch Showcase Stage, located successful nan Expo Hall.

9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Health Pitches

1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.: Startup Battlefield 200 Policy + Protection Pitches

Unmatched networking: Where conversations spark innovation

In summation to casually mingling pinch chap Disrupt attendees, elevate your networking acquisition via Braindate. You tin create aliases research topics connected nan app for deeper conversations and make nan correct connections to thief you scope your goals. Meet successful personification astatine nan Networking Lounge powered by Braindate for 1:1 aliases small-group discussions anytime betwixt 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Side Events

More than 80 company-hosted Side Events are group to hap passim San Francisco this week, extending nan Disrupt excitement. Here’s what’s happening today. To RSVP and for much details, caput to nan Side Events page.

Last telephone for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 magic — Don’t miss nan finale

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