The concluding day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is here, bringing the week to a thrilling conclusion. With over 10,000 founders, investors, and tech innovators assembled at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Day 3 is packed with essential discussions centered on practical insights and future developments in technology.
Dive into informative sessions that address the forthcoming trends in AI, strategies for startup expansion, investment opportunities, and insights from the key figures shaping the technological landscape. The day also includes the captivating Startup Battlefield, networking among peers, and numerous chances for unexpected collaborations—making it the final chance to enhance your Disrupt experience.
Join the key conversations that will resonate after Disrupt ends. Secure your pass now at a 75% discount off the regular price and be part of Day 3.
Highlights of Day 3
Registration Hours: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Visit the registration desk in the lobby on Level 1 of Moscone West to register on-site or collect your event badge. This badge is equipped with Klik technology, allowing you to easily share contact details with others by scanning your badge. You can also store these contacts via the event app for future reference.
Expo Hall: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Discover over 320 startups exhibiting innovative technologies from various sectors. This is the heartbeat of Disrupt, where thousands of attendees gather to learn about groundbreaking advancements and forge valuable connections.
Still haven’t registered? It’s not too late! Act quickly to avoid missing out. Get your ticket now and step directly into the excitement, which includes six industry-focused stages, interactive discussions, Q&A sessions, numerous exhibitors, meetings between investors and founders, AI-driven networking, and a variety of side events illuminating the Bay Area tech scene all week long.
Pitch Showcase Stage
Head over to the Pitch Showcase Stage located at the rear of the Expo Hall for one of the most thrilling formats of the conference: rapid-fire, one-minute pitches from promising startups representing their nations and regions.
Pitch Showcase Stage
Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Health
Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Consumer
On-Stage Programming
Check out the complete 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)
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 – 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)
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)
Last Chance to Join Disrupt 2026
There’s still time to get your pass and take part in these activities. Get your ticket now at 75% off original prices. Passes will be available through today. Don’t miss your chance to engage with the future of technology—secure your ticket now or wait until next year.
