We were overwhelmed by the incredible interest in talking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, which takes place on October 27-29 in Moscone West, San Francisco.
After a thorough review, we narrowed it down to 20 outstanding finalists – 10 for the breakout session and 10 for the roundtable.
Now it's your turn to decide. Viewer choice voting is open until May 30th at 11:59pm. You can vote one vote per session and vote as many sessions as you like!
Top 5 breakouts and top 5 roundtable sessions win spots on the destruction agenda.
Meet the finalists
Breakout session
How to acquire with technology
Aklil Ibssa, Head of Corporate Development and M&A, Coinbase
Startup Agent AI: Automate, adapt and accelerate growth
Anmol Rastogi, Product Head, Amazon Business – AI & ML, Amazon
Automation with agents: From work to completion
Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO of DataStax
AI at the Brink: A strategic playbook for national security
Dan Hendrycks, Executive and Research Director, AI Safety Center (CAIS)
Leading the Series A round in 2025 and maintaining momentum
Gabriel KRA, Managing Director of Prelude Ventures
Agent Apocalypse: Securing a Business at the Age of 1 Billion AI Agents
Jack Hidary, CEO of Sandboxaq. Jim Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital
Embracing AI for a better digital future
Matt Madrigal, Chief Technology Officer at Pinterest
Millions of Mining on Genai 4ds: Striking Trust, Joy, Dividend
Michael Stewart, Managing Partner, M12
From data to agents: Building an AI-Native company
Sridar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake
From vibes to speed: how AI tools can help you achieve your development goals
Tim Rogers, Staff Product Manager, Github Copilot, Github
Round Table Session
The future of the space economy in low-earth orbit
Abhijeet Kumar, Invited Instructor – New Space Economy, Berkeley, CA | Tech and Strategy Lead, Archer
From startup to scale up: GTM Blueprint
Anjai Lal, Head of Strategy and Enablement at Google Cloud
From Code to Capital: How VCS Finds the Next AI Powerhouses
Avi Bharadwaj, Investment Director at Intel Capital
Win Formula: Transform your business into a trusted, scalable community and drive growth
Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina, co-founder, Kindred; Vlad Loktev, partner at index ventures
How to Train Your Model: Tame AI Agents Without Breaking them
Kyla Guru, head of model cyber policy, humanity. Alex Mox, Research Lead, Safeguard, Humanity
Deepen your layers: Why is the future of AI investment in infrastructure and applications?
Paul Drews, Managing Partner at Salesforce Ventures
Millions of Scaling Searches and AI: Lessons from Reddit Search
Reddit, Product Manager, Rachel Miller
AI Evaluation 101: Addressing challenges for real AI applications
Rohit Patel, Director, Generation AI, Meta
From workarounds to breakthroughs: how Uplink can connect users to apps – no integration required
Scott Weinert, CTO and co-founder, Atomic
Anyway, whose company is that? : What will you lose if you accept an external capital?
Zoho Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu