The full lineup of interactive roundtables at Disrupt 2025

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Scroll down for the full lineup of roundtable sessions, spread across three separate rooms during Disrupt 2025. Learn more about each session and the best voices they lead on Disable agenda page.

The full Disrupt 2025 Roundtable agenda

The future of construction: The role of artificial intelligence and data in the field and the office

Austin Yount, Partner, Brick & Mortar Ventures

AI and data streamline workflows in both the field and the back office. Find out where investors see the greatest potential for change in one of the world’s oldest industries.

From data to disruption: Redesigning startup and venture capital ecosystems

Brett Fitzpatrick, Data and Impact, All Raise

A look at how data-driven insights can help redesign startup and venture capital ecosystems to achieve greater equity, opportunity and impact.

Automating the real economy: Vertical software and vertical AI

Carolyn Broder, Partner at Base10 Partners

Learn why vertical AI and software are the next wave of opportunity — and what founders should prioritize when building in this space.

Leading a Series A round in 2025 and maintaining momentum

Gabriel Cra, Managing Director, Prelude Ventures

Practical insights into what it takes to raise a Series A in today’s climate – and maintain momentum post-round.

How to Train Your Model: Tame AI Agents Without Breaking Them

Kayla Guru, Cyber ​​Safety Model Lead, Anthropic

Best practices for keeping AI agents robust and secure. Kyla Guru leads exemplary safety initiatives at Anthropic, ensuring compliance and reliability in border systems.

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The future of the space economy in low Earth orbit

Abhi Kumar, Lecturer, Investor and Advisor, UC Berkeley

A discussion about LEO commercialization and what it means for startups and investors. Abhi is an investor and lecturer at UC Berkeley focusing on aerospace, defense, and frontier technology. He advises early-stage startups in the space economy.

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The future of banking and fintech: The wave of artificial intelligence

Nnamdi Okeke, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of 645 Ventures

Artificial Intelligence is transforming financial technology. This session highlights areas where startups can gain a competitive advantage and the risks investors are tracking.

Tasnim Amina, Co-Founder and President, W Justin Palevsky, Co-founder and CEO, Kindred

Building trust and community at scale is the new growth engine. Kindred’s founders share lessons learned from building an agile, community-based business.

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AI Evaluation 101: Addressing the challenges facing real-world AI applications

Rohit Patel, Director, Meta Superintelligence Labs

How to safely evaluate and deploy AI at scale. Rohit Patel leads teams at Meta focused on evaluating and advancing AI models toward safer, real-world applications.

Scaling search and artificial intelligence to millions: Lessons from Reddit research

Rachel Miller, product manager at Reddit

This conversation delves into Reddit’s approach to scaling its search and machine learning systems to millions globally — balancing relevance, safety, and mitigating bias.

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IPO Success: Charting the Path from Private to Public

Charlie Keifers, CFO, Carta; and Daniel Tai, Managing Director, Global Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley

Learn what it really takes for startups to successfully navigate the journey from private to public markets.

Building in the line of fire: What it takes to win at AI in the public sector

Ross Fubini, Founder and Managing Partner of XYZ Venture Capital; and Ben Van Roo, co-founder and CEO of Legion Intelligence

Discuss how governments are embracing AI – and what it means for startups and procurement cycles.

Berkeley Connect: Experience the world’s #1 startup ecosystem

Siwen Ding, Co-Founder and Scientific Director of Evergreen Saponins; and Keith McAleer, chief marketing officer, UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology

Explore the Berkeley Entrepreneurship Way – a comprehensive, journey-based approach to teaching and learning, and watch a live presentation from a company founded by UC Berkeley SCET.

Why trust before capital?

Mabel Chan, founder and CEO of Superconnected; and Ella Shokhu, Lead Accelerator Program Director, Global Investment Team, Global 500

Founders and investors can explore how trust and generosity form the foundation of lasting venture capital partnerships.

Prototype, fine-tune, and scale GenAI applications using open models

Aishwarya Srinivasan, Head of AI Developer Relations at Fireworks AI

This session will be an open conversation with creators about what works and what doesn’t when creating generative AI applications powered by open models.

From seed to enterprise: selling AI agents at this scale

Alison Baum Gates, General Partner, SemperVirens Venture Capital

Founders will learn how they can improve their go-to-market strategy, target the right buyers, and build scalable enterprise sales engines.

Relentless progress: Building products that never stop

Bappi Menon, Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Outshift by Cisco

Bappi Menon will share how to foster “continuous progress” – balancing speed and discipline, encouraging innovation within large organizations, and keeping teams motivated when working on the edge of what’s next.

Brian Hamacek, Technology Manager, Gargi Kand, Co-Founder and CPO, and Nick Khneisser, CEO of Vently

The next wave of consumers isn’t content-driven, it’s rooted in hyper-local connection, where people can share, discover and belong. This session explains how personalization, proximity, and new social class are creating connectivity at scale.

Physical artificial intelligence: designing, financing, and scaling the future

Kahini Shah, Partner at Obvious Ventures

This session will explore both the ongoing achievements and challenges of physical AI, from limited data and expensive deployments to operating in unpredictable environments.

Investor insights

Brian Sparks, CEO of Silicon Valley Venture, and host of Silicon Valley Impact; and Itamar Novick, founder and general partner of Recursive Ventures

What makes a startup truly bankable? These two venture capital experts get into the mind of a venture capitalist to reveal how investors evaluate opportunities, make decisions, and decide which founders to back.

The invisible AI revolution

Brad Cordova, Founder and CIO, and Benjamin Kwon, CEO of SuperAI

Proxy courses of action are spreading across sectors that most investors ignore, creating new points of leverage and destroying old moats. Disruption is invisible until it reaches balance sheets. Learn more in this insightful session.

Transforming global talent into startup founders at scale

Alice Bentinck, Co-Founder and CEO of Entrepreneurs First

Turning global talent into startup founders at scale See how first-time entrepreneurs repeatedly turn strangers into co-founders at scale.

Build an AI-ready data infrastructure with a simple team

Michel Tricot, co-founder and CEO of Airbyte

Michel Tricot will lead a discussion on how early stage startups can overcome this readiness gap and build an AI-ready data infrastructure that goes beyond mere ingestion and access to real context generation.

Your equalizer is your own artificial intelligence

Alex Malebranche, Head of Startups and Venture Capital at Cloudflare

Mastering mental health and prioritizing it as an entrepreneur leads to greater effectiveness, creative innovation, and sustainable success in a challenging environment.

Tim Cook has more followers than Apple – why should the founders be in front of the camera?

Hania Sejari, CEO of EllieMD; and Optin Saeedi, founder and creator of UP10Media

In 2025, your audience won’t want another video of your brand, they want you. You’ll learn how to turn your ideas, mission, and even everyday moments into videos that boost confidence, vision, and business growth.

From Codes to Turbines: The New Economy of Artificial Intelligence

Caleb Appleton, Partner, Bison Ventures

This talk explores how AI is rewriting the rules of operation for startups to market. Caleb Appleton will look at how finance, market access, and defensibility have transformed—from software speed to scientific endurance.

Consumer AI and Gen Z Tech

Piyush Shah, Co-Founder, InMobi

Find out how Generation Z is shaping the future of consumer AI. Industry leaders and innovators will discuss emerging trends, adoption patterns, and the unique ways this generation is interacting with AI-powered technologies.

Beyond the Model: Building Intelligence Infrastructure

Ben Braverman, co-founder and managing partner of Saga Ventures

Founders are learning how to seize opportunities in the age of “second-order AI” — where infrastructure, workflows, and intelligence systems shape the next wave of scalable and defensible startups.

How smart brands achieve great success with creator-driven videos

Abtin Saidi, founder and creator, and Peter Suleiman, creative director of UP10Media

Uptin shows how founders and businesses can create videos that truly communicate, without big budgets or complicated setups. Whether you’re a startup founder, a solopreneur, or a thought leader, this session will help you think like a creative and communicate like a brand.

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