Overview
The final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 brings together founders, investors, and technology leaders in San Francisco for practical and future-focused discussions.
Sessions cover the next wave of artificial intelligence innovation, startup growth strategies, fundraising, and emerging technologies shaping the industry.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the conversations everyone will be talking about after Disrupt. Grab your pass now at 75% off the original ticket price and join us for Day 3.
Registration Hours
Attendees can register in person or pick up event badges featuring technology designed to simplify contact exchange during networking sessions.
Expo Hall
The expo floor features hundreds of exhibiting startups showcasing cutting-edge technologies across various industries.
Haven’t registered yet? You still can — but don’t wait, or you will miss out. Grab your ticket now and walk straight into the action: six industry stages, interactive roundtables, Q&A breakouts, hundreds of exhibiting startups, investor-founder meetings, AI-powered matchmaking networking, and Side Events lighting up the Bay Area tech scene all week long.
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Pitch Showcase Stage
The Pitch Showcase Stage hosts rapid-fire, one-minute lightning pitches from promising international startups.
Pitch Showcase Stage
Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Health
Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Consumer
Onstage programming
Check out the full Disrupt agenda for all of today’s sessions.
Builders Stage
Yes, It’s Hard to Be a Founder: An Honest Conversation: Nell Daly, Revenge Capital; David H. Rosmarin, Harvard Medical School; Jack Withinshaw, Airspeeder
M&A Is Now an Early-Stage Strategy: Karl Alomar, M13; Lindsey Mignano, Mignano Law Group; Ryan Yi, Onchain Group
How to Create Viral Growth and Capitalize On It: Zach Yadegari, Cal AI
The First 90 Days: How Startups Build Toward $10M ARR: Luke Arno, Lovable; Ben Broca, Polsia; Tomasz Tunguz, Theory Ventures
Winning Pre-Seed Without a Product: Austin Clements, Slauson & Co.; Sandhya Venkatachalam (Axiom Partners)
Building AI Startups Worth Betting On: Nader Khalil, Nvidia; Sydney Sykes, Nvidia
Ask the Investors: Karl Alomar, M13; Stacy Brown-Philpot, Cherryrock Capital; Dayna Grayson, Construct Capital
Disrupt Stage
What Comes After the Smartphone?: Panos Panay, Amazon
Can Social Start Over?: Toni Schneider, Bluesky Social; Rose Wang, Bluesky Social
Can You Bank Your Biology?: Dr. Nabiha Saklayen, Cellino
After Startup Battlefield: What Happens Next?: Piotr Byrski, Molecule.one; Kevin Damoa, Glīd; Demetri Maxim, Nephrogen
Startup Battlefield Final: Karl Alomar, M13; Stacy Brown-Philpot, Cherryrock Capital; Chi-Hua Chien, Goodwater Capital; Dayna Grayson, Construct Capital; Alexa von Tobel, Inspired Capital
Everyone Can Build Software Now. What Happens Next?: Amjad Masad, Replit
Beyond the Check: The Power of Access: Bruce Lee, Keebeck Wealth Management; Mark Wahlberg, MUNICIPAL
Announcing the Winner of the Startup Battlefield 2026
Breakout Stage
Build an AI Product in the Age of Agents (Certification Included): Dr. Marily Nika, AI Product Academy
Building a Growth Engine in the AI Era: Lessons from a Bootstrapped Unicorn: Patrick Burke, Hostinger
Physical AI Isn’t a Model Problem. It’s an Execution Problem: Ethan Batraski, Venrock; Ivan Poupyrev, Archetype AI; Ian Rountree, Cantos
Talent as the Operating System: How High-Performance Teams Scale in the AI Era: Nomi Khedawala, Reddit
Industry Stage Focused on Artificial Intelligence
Sessions on the AI Industry Stage address critical topics such as autonomous agent security, enterprise SaaS restructuring, and methods for validating AI capabilities before deployment.
Experts discuss how foundational shifts in machine learning models alter traditional software business models and infrastructure demands.
Before You Let AI Do the Job, How Do You Know It Actually Can: Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face
The $63 Billion Case for Storagemaxxing Your AI Stack: Kevin Cochrane, Vultr; Jake Lee, L2 Point Management; Pinaki Mukherjee, Wasabi Technologies; Stephanie Walter, HyperFRAME Research
Representatives from major artificial intelligence laboratories discuss the evolution of conversational models and next-generation agent architectures.
The GTM Engineer: How AI Created Tech’s Next Big Job Category: Kareem Amin, Clay
Panelists explore practical strategies for enterprises to derive measurable value from machine learning deployments rather than experimental rollouts.
Proxy, Host, Operator: Who Can Read Your Agent’s Prompts?: Richard Rizk, Blackbox AI
Securing the AI Enterprise: Why the Cloud Just Got a Lot More Complicated: Rudy Mitra, Amazon Web Services; Katie Moussouris, Luta Security; Wendy Nather
The Enterprise Isn’t Broken. Your Assumptions About It Are: Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Databricks
Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography
Roundtables
I Built Before the Internet. AI Is Different: James Joaquin, Obvious Ventures
AI-Native Won’t Work for the Enterprise: Naren Krishna, Balerion; Travis Skelly, Pruven Capital
Sandboxes Are Dead, Give Your Agent a Private Cloud:Praveen Akkiraju, Insight Partners; Vasek Mlejnsky, E2B
Berkeley Connect: Experience the World’s #1 Startup Ecosystem: Maryanne Alhallak, Lumeria; Anthea Guo, Lumeria; Keith McAleer, UC Berkeley SCET
The Next Logistics Stack: Autonomy, Infrastructure and National Resilience: Kofi Asante, Bluecore Energy; Kevin Damoa, Glīd
Autonomous Intelligence: Investing in the Companies Redefining Work: Parul Singh, 645 Ventures
AI Infrastructure & Power & Decarbonization in Dialogue: Investor + CVC Perspective: Jane Ge, Vectors Capital; Elias Habbar-Baylac, Cisco
How Not to Ruin Your Co-Founder Relationship: Dr. Jessica Gold, Bliss Science; Tevye Krynski, Digital Wisdom
From Silicon to Software: Building Efficient AI Inference at Scale: Anush Elangovan, AMD; Junchen Jiang, Tensormesh
Still time to join Disrupt 2026
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