We are excited by the overwhelming response to the TechCrunch speakers’ appeal to October 27-29 in Moscone West, San Francisco.
After a careful selection process, we narrowed down to 20 impressive finalists, 10 breakout sessions and 10 roundtable discussions.
Now it’s your turn to help shape the agenda. Viewer choice voting is open until 11:59pm tonight. This is your final opportunity – vote for your favorite session and help you decide which one will take the stage. You can vote for as many sessions as you wish – only one vote per session.
The top five in each category will be participating in the official 2025 lineup.
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, Partners, Index Ventures
How to Train Your Model: Tame AI Agents Without Breaking them
Kyla Guru, head of model cyber policy, humanity
Alex Moix, investigation lead, safeguards, 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