The last day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 has arrived, and the week ended 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 most practical and future-focused discussions of the conference.
Discover sessions on the next wave of AI innovation, startup growth strategies, fundraising, emerging technologies, and lessons from the entrepreneurs and investors who are defining the future of tech. Add Startup Battlefield excitement, peer networking, and countless opportunities for serendipitous connections, and it’s one last opportunity to maximize your Disrupt experience.
Don’t miss your chance to be part of the conversations everyone will be talking about after Disrupt. Take your passport now at 75% off the original ticket price and join us for the 3rd day.
Day 3 highlights
Registration hours: 8:00 – 15:30
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 has Klik technology, which makes it easy to exchange contact information with people you scan your badge with. With the event app, you can keep access to these contacts even after the event is over.
Expo Hall: 8:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m
Discover 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 develop new connections.
Haven’t registered yet? You still can – but don’t wait, or you’ll miss out. Get your ticket now and get right into the action: six industry stages, interactive roundtables, Q&A breakouts, hundreds of exhibiting startups, investor-founder meetings, AI-powered matchmaking networks, and side events that illuminate the Bay Area tech scene all week.
Pitch Showcase Stage
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.
Pitch Showcase Stage
Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Health
Startup Battlefield 200 Fast Pitches – Consumer
Programming on stage
Check out the full Disrupt Agenda for all of today’s sessions.
Builders Internship
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 and Capitalize on Viral Growth: Zach Yadegari, Cal AI
The First 90 Days: How Startups Build Towards $10M ARR: Luke Arno, Dear; Ben Broca, Poland; Tomasz Tunguz, Theory Ventures
Pre-seed win without product: 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 internship
What comes after the smartphone?: Panos Panay, Amazon
Can the social start?: 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 Finale: Karl Alomar, M13; Stacy Brown-Philpot, Cherryrock Capital; Chi-Hua Chien, Goodwater Capital; Dayna Grayson, Construct Capital; Alexa von Tobel, Inspired Capital
Anyone 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
The winner of the Startup Battlefield 2026 announced
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 is not a model problem. It is an execution problem: Ethan Batraski, Venrock; Ivan Poupyrev, Archetype AI; Ian Rountree, Cantos
Talent as an operating system: How high-performance teams scale in the AI era: Nomi Khedawala, Reddit
Industry Internship – AI
The agent security problem no one talks about: Gavriel Cohen, NanoCo; Ric Smith, Okta
Rewriting SaaS: Why AI is breaking the old business model: Cathy Gao, Sapphire Ventures; Aaron Jacobson, NEA; Barr Moses, Monte Carlo
Before you let AI do the work, how do you know it can actually do it: 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 Much More Complicated: Rudy Mitra, Amazon Web Services; Katie Moussouris, Luta Security; Wendy Nather
The company is not broken. Your assumptions about it: Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Databricks
Round tables
I built before the Internet. AI is different: James Joaquin, Obvious Ventures
AI-Native will not work for the enterprise: Naren Krishna, Balerion; Travis Skelly, Pruven Capital
Sandboxes are dead, give your agent a private cloud: Praveen Akkiraju, Insight Partner; 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: Invest in the companies that redefine 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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