With all of this on the agenda, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is sure to be a transformative experience. These breakthrough ideas will address some of the toughest challenges facing advancing technology and national security. This year’s convening is scheduled for October 27-29, 2025, in San Francisco. It will draw more than 10,000 of the most influential leaders in startups and venture capital. There’s great interest in our AI Defense panel so attendees can look forward to that. More importantly, it will look at the strong relationship between innovation and our national security.
A Gathering of Leaders
The TechCrunch Disrupt has grown into a both a launching pad for innovators and an attracting stage for investors. It serves as a convening place for some of the sharpest tech minds. Here, they roll up their sleeves and go deep on cutting edge ideas and collaborative problem solving. This year’s event is building a particularly exhilarating buzz. It will highlight leading voices from government, industry, and academia – including defense and intelligence communities.
It’s the convergence of over 10,000 of them that makes this event so vital. That’s when entrepreneurs, investors, and industry experts would come together. Together, they will meet to redefine the future of technology in support of national security. This collaborative environment encourages the exchange of ideas needed for creating adaptive technologies that respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
Insights from Industry Experts
One of the speakers we’re most excited about is Justin Fanelli, the Chief Technology Officer for the Department of the Navy. Discover Fanelli’s experience with cybersecurity, innovation, and adoption. He’ll help everyone there understand how we can use these new, innovative, and exciting technologies to better inform our defense strategies. His vision to blend innovative solutions directly into military functions speaks to the need of a heightened imperative of evolving to face new threats.
Dr. Kathleen Fisher, Director of the Information Innovation Office at DARPA, who has been an important keynoter at many such events, will be a featured participant. She is at the forefront of exploring technologies that provide the U.S. and its allies with an edge in information warfare. She made those efforts in recognition of an urgent need for progress in the development and deployment of autonomous systems. Innovations like these are critical to sustaining our national security in an ever more challenging global environment.
The High-Stakes AI Defense Panel
Perhaps one of the most topical conversations happening at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, there’s going to be a wildly popular AI Defense panel. The nascent but high-stakes collision between innovation and national security is the focus of this session. Other industry leaders such as Chandrasekar will serve as panelists. They’ll learn how frontier technologies can help solve today’s most pressing challenges confronting defense agencies.
Chandrasekar’s experience in building investment frameworks tailored to support the intelligence community’s toughest missions makes him a vital voice in this conversation. What you might not know about him is how adept he is at spotting the right technologies and the innovative technologies. The ones that will most improve our national security enterprise.
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