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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Last day TechCrunch Events 7:00 AM PDT · October 15, 2026 The final day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has arrived, and the week is ending on a high note. As 10,000+ founders, investors, and technology leaders gather at San Francisco’s Moscone West, Day 3 features some of the conference’s most practical and future-focused discussions.

Explore sessions covering the next wave of AI innovation, startup growth strategies, fundraising, emerging technologies, and lessons from the entrepreneurs and investors defining the future of tech. Add in Startup Battlefield excitement, peer networking, and countless opportunities for serendipitous connections, and it’s one final opportunity to maximize your Disrupt experience.

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.

Stop by the registration desk in the Level 1 lobby of Moscone West to register in person or pick up your scannable event badge. The badge features Klik technology, which makes it easy to exchange contact information with people you scan your badge with. Using the event app, you can access and keep those contacts even after the event ends.

Explore 320+ exhibiting startups showcasing cutting-edge technologies across industries. This is the center of Disrupt, where 10,000+ attendees converge to discover new breakthroughs and spark new connections.

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.

Make your way to the Pitch Showcase Stage at the back of the Expo Hall to experience one of the most electrifying formats on the conference floor: rapid-fire, one-minute lightning pitches from some of the most promising startups representing their home countries and regions.

Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Health

Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Consumer

Check out the full Disrupt agenda for all of today’s sessions.

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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