We were shocked by the incredible interest in speaking TechCrunch Disrupt 2025took place from October 27 to 29 in the west of Mostin in San Francisco.
After a thorough review, we narrowed it down to 20 outstanding finalists, including 10 breakthrough meetings and 10 roundtables.
Now it's your turn to decide. Audience choice votes will be open at 11:59 pm on May 30. You can vote once per meeting and vote as many as you want!
Top five breakthroughs and top five roundtables will win a place Interrupt the agenda.
Meet the finalists
Breakthrough Conference
How to get it in technology (not sold out): Founders and builders’ M&A Tips
Aklil IBSSA, Head of Corporate Development and M&A, Coinbase
Agent AI for startups: Automation, adaptation and accelerate growth
Anmol Rastogi, head of Amazon's business products - AI&ML, Amazon
Automation with agents: From job activation to job completion
Chet Kapoor, Chairman and CEO of DataStax
AI in Brink: National Security Strategy Script
Dan Hendrycks (CAI), Executive and Research Director, Center for AI Security
Lead the A Series in 2025 and stay motivated
Gabriel Kra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures
Agent Revelation: Ensure 1 billion AI agents ensure businesses
Jack Hidary, CEO of Sandboxaq; Jim Breyer, Founder and CEO of Breyer Capital
Embrace AI for a better digital future
Matt Madrigal, Chief Technology Officer, Pinterest
Genai's 4 ds: eye-catching trust, joy and dividends for millions of mining
Michael Stewart, Managing Partner, M12
From data to proxy: Establishing AI-Native Enterprise
Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy
From vibe to speed: How AI tools can help you achieve your development goals
Tim Rogers, employee product manager at Github Github Copilot
Roundtable
The future of space economy in low-Earth orbit
Abhijeet Kumar, Invited Lecturer – New Space Economy, UC Berkeley | Leader of Technology and Strategy, Archer
From boot to extension: GTM blueprint
Anjai Lal, Director of Strategy and Support, Google Cloud
From code to capital: How VCS discovers the next AI power
Avi Bharadwaj, Investment Director, Intel Capital
Winning formula: Turn your business into a trusted and scalable community to drive growth
Justine Palefsky and Tasneem Amina, co-founder, Kindred; and index risk partner Vlad Loktev
How to train your models: Tame AI agents without breaking them
Kyla Guru, Head of Human Model Network Policy; and Alex Moix, Head of Investigation, Safeguards, Human
A deeper level: Why the future of AI investment lies in infrastructure and applications
Paul Drews, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures
Zoom Search and Millions of AI: Courses for Reddit Search
Rachel Miller, Product Manager, Reddit
AI Evaluation 101: Solving Challenges to Real-World AI Applications
Rohit Patel, Director of Meta Generative AI
From solution to breakthrough: How uplinks allow users to connect to any application without integration
Scott Weinert, CTO and co-founder, Atom
Anyway, whose company is this?
Sridhar Vembu, Chief Scientist at Zoho