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The whole Disrupt 2025 breakout session agenda

The Untapped Alternative Hidden in Enterprise Workflows

Umair Javed, CEO, tkxel; Marcus Torres, CPO, Quickbase; and Umair Bashir, fractional CTO, Sign

The largest development levers typically disguise in plain sight — inside on a regular basis processes. Discover ways to spot and productize “boring” workflow ache factors into sticky software program that drives ROI and quick payback intervals. Good for founders searching wedge use circumstances in massive, legacy classes.

From Vibes to Velocity: How AI Instruments Can Assist You Obtain Your Growth Objectives

Tim Rogers, workers product supervisor, GitHub Copilot

Transcend demos and put AI to work in your SDLC. We’ll dig into actual patterns for utilizing brokers and copilots to cut back toil, pace evaluations, and unblock groups — with out sacrificing code high quality or safety.

Construct First, Fund Later: The Founder’s Information to Bootstrapping Breakout Startups

Tarun Raisoni, co-founder and CEO, Gruve

Capital effectivity is a superpower. Be taught pragmatic ways for locating your first ICP, touchdown lighthouse clients, and funding early development from income — so that you increase in your phrases.

Methods to Get Acquired in Tech (With out Promoting Out): M&A Ideas for Founders and Builders

Aklil Ibssa, head of company dev and M&A, Coinbase; and Yonas Beshawred, co-founder and CEO, StarSling

The within view on readiness, outreach, and deal mechanics — from packaging financials to integration planning — so your organization instructions premium outcomes with out shedding the mission.

Fundraising Errors That Will Kill Your Spherical, and Methods to Keep away from Them

Kamila Khasanova, founder and CEO, On High Technique; Sam Li, co-founder and CEO, Thoropass; Ashley Paston, companion, Normal Catalyst; and Dr. Richard Munassi, managing director, Tampa Bay Wave

4 vantage factors — comms, founder, VC, and accelerator — break down deal-killers (muddy narrative, fallacious metrics, mismatched targets) and the fix-it habits that get to “sure.”

Fundraising Course of Workshop with TC editor Turned VC Josh Constine

Josh Constine, enterprise companion, SignalFire

Palms-on teardown of your fundraise: story arc, proof factors, information room, and outreach sequencing — direct from a former TC editor who’s seen hundreds of pitches.

AI on the Brink: Strategic Playbook for Nationwide Safety

Daniel Hendrycks, government director, Heart for AI Security

The place frontier-model danger meets real-world stakes. Sensible frameworks for evaluating, red-teaming, and governing high-impact programs when failure isn’t an possibility.

Startup Classes You Received’t Discover in a Playbook

Santi Subotovsky, common companion, Emergence Capital; and Melissa Wong, co-founder and CEO, Zipline

Unvarnished classes from scaling enterprise software program and client ops. Anticipate actual discuss on hiring execs, navigating sluggish gross sales cycles, and staying alive when the plan meets actuality.

Agentic AI for Startups: Automate, Adapt, and Speed up Progress

Anmol Rastogi, head of product administration, AI & ML — Amazon Enterprise; and Anjali Mann, technical program supervisor, Microsoft

The place brokers shine at present (and the place they break). Patterns to deploy brokers in ops, assist, and gross sales whereas protecting people within the loop for high quality.

Main for Impression: Engineering on the Velocity of AI

Eno Reyes, CTO, Manufacturing unit; Andrew Berman, CEO, Runlayer; Suraj Patel, VP ventures and company growth, MongoDB; and Dima Dzhulgakov, co-founder, Fireworks AI

Discover how engineering founders are redefining startup management, shaping product-driven development, and constructing the abilities to steer their corporations to long-term success with insights from leaders at Manufacturing unit, Fireworks, and Runlayer.

Rewriting Healthcare Workflows with AI

Zubair Ahsan, co-founder and CEO, Max AI; Kanyi Maqubela, managing companion, Kindred Ventures; and Varun Krishnamurthy, co-founder and CEO, Assured Well being

This panel will discover how healthcare organizations are reinventing workflows post-scribes and AI documentation, reworking consumption, billing, credentialing, and affected person care.

Contained in the Household Workplace Playbook: How the Wealthiest Put money into Startups and Enterprise Funds

Mariane Bekker, managing companion, Founders Bay; Amanda Daniels, founder, vp, and investor, 5840 Holdings; Brett Horton, chief funding officer, Paris-Roubaix Group; and Daniel Idzkowski, CIO, I.D.I.T. Household Workplace

Decoding mandates, diligence, and pacing inside household places of work — so founders and rising managers know the way (and when) to have interaction this rising capital supply.

CVC: What’s Totally different? What’s Their Superpower?

Nicolas Sauvage, president, TDK Ventures

TDK Ventures president Nicolas Sauvage demystifies fashionable CVCs, revealing determine the 20% that ship strategic and monetary worth, transfer with pace, and speed up founder success.

Startups, Tales, and the Combat for Consideration

Jenna Birch, founder, SISU; Allie Cefalo, companion, advertising, Kleiner Perkins; and Chantelle Darby, founder, Darby PR

Reducing by noise with earned, owned, and companion channels. Construct a story that compounds throughout PR, social, and neighborhood with out burning cycles.

Embracing AI for a Higher Digital Future

Meghana Dhar, tech advisor and investor; and Matt Madrigal, CTO, Pinterest

Pragmatic paths to deploy AI that customers really love: measurement, security, and what modifications when AI touches each floor space — from discovery to commerce.

Being Heard within the Age of AI

Qianwen Chen, CEO, EchoHer; Fay Kallel, chief product and design officer, Headspace; and Chenxi Wang, common companion, Rain Capital

In a feed saturated by AI-generated content material, how do manufacturers, creators, and merchandise nonetheless really feel human? Techniques for sign, belief, and measurable raise.

Powering AI: The Race to Scale Gigawatts of New Vitality

Mike Schroepfer, founder and companion, Gigascale Capital; and Garth Sheldon-Coulson, co-founder and CEO, Panthalassa

This panel will reveal how the world’s largest new power platform can energy AI and share classes on scaling breakthrough clear tech from R&D to market.

AI & Brokers: Shaping How We Construct, Reside & Join

Patrick Murphy, co-founder and CEO, Maket; Alyx van der Vorm, founder and CEO, Clyx; and Jeremiah Owyang, common companion, Blitzscaling Ventures, and Thomas Foley, income chief, Composio

Actual agent use circumstances spanning construct instruments, actual property, and social — plus the infra and product selections that flip novelty into day by day utility.

Discovery to Disruption: Turning Analysis into Enterprise-Backable Firms

Pratik Nimbalkar, CEO, Plaid Semiconductors; Jared O, co-founder and CEO, SirenOpt; Chon Tang, managing companion, Berkeley SkyDeck Fund; Asad Tirmizi, CEO, T-Robotics

The translational playbook: validating markets, securing non-dilutive capital, and sequencing milestones so deep tech passes VC filters with out shedding scientific edge.

SOSV: The place Deep Tech Is Headed (It’s Not JUST AI)

Westley Dang, principal; Philipp Sander, funding analyst; Po Bronson, common companion; and Sierra Brooks, senior scientist and analyst, SOSV

IndieBioSF traders reveal how deep-tech founders can flip breakthrough science into scalable, world-changing corporations in biomanufacturing, supplies, power, and well being.

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