TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Last day

The last time of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has arrived, and the week is ending connected a precocious note. As 10,000+ founders, investors, and exertion leaders stitchery astatine San Francisco’s Moscone West, Day 3 features immoderate of the conference’s astir applicable and future-focused discussions.

Explore sessions covering the adjacent question of AI innovation, startup maturation strategies, fundraising, emerging technologies, and lessons from the entrepreneurs and investors defining the aboriginal of tech. Add successful Startup Battlefield excitement, adjacent networking, and countless opportunities for serendipitous connections, and it’s 1 last accidental to maximize your Disrupt experience.

Don’t miss your accidental to beryllium portion of the conversations everyone volition beryllium talking astir aft Disrupt. Grab your pass present astatine 75% disconnected the archetypal summons terms and articulation america for Day 3.

Day 3 highlights

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

Stop by the registration table successful the Level 1 lobby of Moscone West to registry successful idiosyncratic oregon prime up your scannable lawsuit badge. The badge features Klik technology, which makes it casual to speech interaction accusation with radical you scan your badge with. Using the lawsuit app, you tin entree and support those contacts adjacent aft the lawsuit ends.

Expo Hall: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Explore 320+ exhibiting startups showcasing cutting-edge technologies crossed industries. This is the halfway of Disrupt, wherever 10,000+ attendees converge to observe caller breakthroughs and spark caller connections. 

Haven’t registered yet? You inactive tin — but don’t wait, oregon you volition miss out. Grab your summons now and locomotion consecutive into the action: six manufacture stages, interactive roundtables, Q&A breakouts, hundreds of exhibiting startups, investor-founder meetings, AI-powered matchmaking networking, and broadside events lighting up the Bay Area tech country each week long.

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Pitch Showcase Stage

Make your mode to the Pitch Showcase Stage astatine the backmost of the Expo Hall to acquisition 1 of the astir electrifying formats connected the league floor: rapid-fire, one-minute lightning pitches from immoderate of the astir promising startups representing their location countries and regions.

Pitch Showcase Stage

Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Health

Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Consumer

On-stage programming

Check retired the afloat Disrupt docket for each 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 successful the Age of Agents (Certification Included): Dr. Marily Nika (AI Product Academy)

Building a Growth Engine successful 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 arsenic the Operating System: How High-Performance Teams Scale successful 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 successful the Companies Redefining Work: Parul Singh (645 Ventures)

AI Infrastructure & Power & Decarbonization successful 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 astatine Scale: Anush Elangovan (AMD), Junchen Jiang (Tensormesh)

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