The final Disrupt Stage lineup: Three days of conversations you won’t hear anywhere outside of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The biggest signifier astatine TechCrunch Disrupt is wherever the radical gathering the aboriginal travel to speech astir what happens adjacent successful the tech ecosystem.

Across 3 days, from October 13 to 15, astatine Moscone West successful San Francisco, the Disrupt Stage volition bring unneurotic immoderate of the biggest game-changing founders, CEOs, and investors shaping everything from AI and robotics to transportation, societal media, biotech, and task capital, alongside the adjacent procreation of founders competing unrecorded successful Startup Battlefield 200.

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Meet the full Disrupt Stage lineup

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe volition unpack what it takes to physique the seemingly impossible: turning an ambitious thought into a institution susceptible of designing, manufacturing, and scaling analyzable carnal products.

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman volition tackle 1 of the biggest questions hanging implicit the AI boom: Can AI support scaling? As models request ever much compute, energy, and capital, Feldman volition research wherever the existent trajectory leads and what could interruption it.

Science Corporation laminitis Max Hodak looks beyond screens astatine a aboriginal successful which exertion progressively interacts straight with the quality body, portion Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley joins america for a candid speech astir AI, surveillance, and the aboriginal of nationalist safety.

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And successful a uncommon appearance, each 5 partners of Benchmark — Jack Altman, Peter Fenton, Chetan Puttagunta, Everett Randle, and Eric Vishria — volition instrumentality the signifier together, sharing what 1 of Silicon Valley’s astir intimately watched task firms sees coming next.

Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini volition instrumentality america wrong an adjacent much extremist possibility: AI systems that tin plan the hardware they tally on, perchance collapsing the accepted disagreement betwixt bundle and silicon.

On Thursday, Amazon’s Panos Panay asks what comes aft the smartphone. And he’ll bring immoderate caller tech with him. Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider and COO Rose Wang volition research whether societal media tin commencement over, portion Replit CEO Amjad Masad tackles what happens to software, and the radical who physique it, erstwhile AI makes creating bundle accessible to astir anyone.

Finally, Hollywood star, entrepreneur, and capitalist Mark Wahlberg takes the Disrupt Stage alongside Keebeck’s Bruce K. Lee to uncover however 1 of the world’s astir recognizable celebrities is turning decades of influence, relationships, and business-building into his adjacent act: becoming a superior investor.

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And past there’s Startup Battlefield

Throughout Disrupt, founders volition vie unrecorded crossed abstraction and carnal AI, vigor and manufacturing, wellness tech and beingness sciences, and endeavor and information — facing questions from immoderate of the world’s starring investors arsenic they combat for a spot successful the Startup Battlefield final.

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Before this year’s finalists instrumentality the stage, Cellino co-founder and CEO Nabiha Saklayen, who won Startup Battlefield successful 2021, returns to unveil her caller merchandise and inquire a provocative question: Can you slope your biology?

Then 3 much Battlefield alumni — Molecule.one’s Piotr Byrski, Nephrogen’s Demetri Maxim, and Glīd’s Kevin Damoa — instrumentality to speech candidly astir what happens aft the pitch: the bets that paid off, the plans that changed, and what they privation they’d known erstwhile they were lasting wherever this year’s finalists are now.

Finally, the 2026 finalists instrumentality implicit the Disrupt Stage, and 1 institution walks distant arsenic the adjacent Startup Battlefield winner, taking location $100,000 successful equity-free backing and the coveted Disrupt cup.

Grab your walk and perceive straight from today’s tech leaders astatine Disrupt

The Disrupt Stage isn’t lone astir proceeding from the radical who built today’s defining companies. It’s wherever you’ll conscionable and perceive from immoderate of the tech leaders gathering the adjacent ones.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is wherever 10,000+ founders, VCs, operators, and tech enthusiasts from astir the globe travel unneurotic to summation invaluable insights, marque impactful connections, and get a archetypal look astatine next-gen breakthroughs shaping the tech industry. Explore 200+ sessions led by 250+ tech leaders crossed six manufacture stages, positive roundtables and breakouts. Meet 300+ exhibiting startups and get hands-on with their latest products. This is wherever large ideas instrumentality signifier and deals get sparked.

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