Techcrunch Disrupt 2025: How To Watch Astro Teller, Startup Battlefield, And More Live

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is here! If you’re still connected nan obstruction astir attending successful person, dive into nan extended schedule of speakers, networking opportunities, workshops, afterparties, and much that’s disposable here. There’s still plentifulness of clip to get a ticket! 

But if you’re not capable to be successful person, nan adjacent champion point is to cheque retired our livestream of nan Disrupt Stage, which features immoderate of our astir salient speakers and nan highly anticipated Startup Battlefield 200 transportation competition. We’re streaming via YouTube, truthful you tin drawback nan embed below, aliases just travel this nexus to watch live. 

Here’s a rundown of what you tin expect from nan Disrupt Stage connected Monday to build your schedule around: 

Opening remarks, Startup Battlefield Session One: 10-11:45 a.m. 

Our first information of Battlefield finalists will present their pitches unrecorded connected shape successful beforehand of a lineup of judges featuring Allison Baum Gates of SemperVirens, Cathy Friedman from GV, Seven Seven Six’s Katelin Holloway, Precursor’s Charles Hudson, and Nicolas Sauvage of TDK Ventures. 

The Self-Driving Reality Check: 11:15-11:45 a.m. 

Tekedra Mawakana, Co-CEO of Waymo, takes nan shape to talk astir wherever AVs really stand, what it’s taken to get to existent deployments, and why nan title isn’t conscionable astir tech — it’s astir trust. 

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San Francisco | October 27-29, 2025

Startup Battlefield Session Two: 1:30-2:45 p.m. 

The 2nd lineup of Battlefield competitors return to nan stage, wherever they’ll beryllium vetted by our sheet of judges featuring Eryk Dobrushkin of Index Ventures, Nvidia’s Jen Hoskins, Insight Ventures’ Thomas Krane, DXV’s Jon McNeil, and Katie Stanton of Moxie Ventures. 

What Sequoia Sees Coming Next: 2:45-3:15 p.m. 

Roelof Botha is among nan astir influential VCs of nan modern era, and this is your chance to perceive really today’s astir eager founders are navigating AI, geopolitics, and a shifting superior landscape.  

Moonshots, AI, and nan Future of Alphabet: 3:15-3:45 p.m. 

Astro Teller leads nan laboratory wherever Alphabet incubates nan astir impossible, and he’s going to supply a uncommon look into what’s succeeding wrong X, really nan company’s “fail fast” mantra is faring, and his position on, you guessed it, AI. 

And that’s conscionable nan lineup for nan first day. On Tuesday perceive from renowned investor Vinod Khosla and his thoughts connected nan early of tech; Netflix CTO Elizabeth Stone connected what’s adjacent for nan streaming giant; and Slate Auto CEO Chris Barman will bring 1 of her electrical trucks to nan stage.  

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