TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 wraps up

The final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is here, capping off a powerful week. With over 10,000 founders, investors, and tech leaders converging at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Day 3 delivers some of the event’s most actionable and forward-looking sessions.

Dive into discussions on the next generation of AI, startup scaling, fundraising tactics, and emerging tech, featuring insights from the founders and investors shaping tomorrow’s landscape. Between Startup Battlefield intensity, peer networking, and spontaneous connections, this is your last chance to get the most out of Disrupt.

Don’t miss the conversations that will define the post-Disrupt landscape. Secure your pass today at 75% off the regular price and join us for Day 3.

Day 3 highlights

Registration hours: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Visit the registration desk in the Level 1 lobby of Moscone West to check in or collect your scannable event badge. Equipped with Klik technology, the badge simplifies exchanging contact details with anyone you scan. Use the event app to store and access these connections long after the conference ends.

Expo Hall: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Discover 320+ exhibiting startups showcasing breakthrough technologies across diverse sectors. As the heart of Disrupt, this is where 10,000+ attendees meet to uncover innovations and forge meaningful partnerships.

Not yet registered? You can still join — but act fast to avoid missing out. Grab your ticket now and dive 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 energizing the Bay Area tech scene all week long.

Image Credits:Eric Slomonson, The Photo Group

Pitch Showcase Stage

Head to the Pitch Showcase Stage at the back of the Expo Hall to experience one of the conference’s most thrilling formats: rapid-fire, one-minute lightning pitches from some of the most promising startups representing their home countries and regions.

Pitch Showcase Stage

Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Health

Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Consumer

On-stage programming

Review 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: Puneet Agarwal (True Ventures), 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)

Disrudpt 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 – AI

The Agent Security Problem Nobody Is Talking About: Gavriel Cohen (NanoCo), Ric Smith (Okta)

Rewriting SaaS: Why AI Breaks the Old Business Model: Cathy Gao (Sapphire Ventures), Aaron Jacobson (NEA), Barr Moses (Monte Carlo)

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)

What Comes After the Chatbot: Alexander Embiricos (OpenAI)

The GTM Engineer: How AI Created Tech’s Next Big Job Category: Kareem Amin (Clay)

Model Behavior: How Top Startups Get Real Value From AI Adoption: Kareem Amin (Clay), David Hershey (Anthropic), Grant Lee (Gamma)

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

You still have time to register for your pass and explore all these activations. Get your ticket now at 75% off the original prices. Tickets are available through this final day. Secure yours now and be part of the future of tech. Do not wait, or you’ll have to wait until next year.