Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
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Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed TechCrunch Events 7:00 AM PDT · October 6, 2026 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 lands at Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15, bringing together 10,000+ founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders for three days of ideas, connections, and conversations about what’s coming next. Register now, save up to $100 off your pass , and get a second at 50% off.
Some of the most practical conversations won’t happen on any of the industry stages. Disrupt’s breakout sessions are built to go deeper and give you the mic to ask your burning questions to the leaders. Each 50-minute session combines expert insight with audience Q&A, giving you more room to unpack a problem, challenge assumptions, and leave with ideas you can actually put to work. The room capacity is limited, and attendance is first come, first served.
This year’s lineup gets into the questions founders and operators are dealing with right now: How do you build with AI agents? Where will value accrue as AI shifts from training to inference? What does physical AI really mean? How do you run a better fundraiser? And how does AI change the way you grow companies and teams?
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Get to know the sessions and tech leaders shaping the conversation on the Disrupt agenda .
Susan Schofer , Partner and Chief Science Officer, SOSV HAX; and Duncan Turner , General Partner and Managing Director, SOSV HAX
AI is moving beyond software and into machines that need to perceive, reason, and act in unpredictable environments. Schofer and Turner break down what actually qualifies as physical AI, why building it requires a different playbook, and what investors are looking for in companies trying to define the category.
Steve Androulakis and Sachin Malhotra , Members of Technical Staff, Anthropic
What does an AI-agent workflow look like when the people using it build AI for a living? Anthropic’s Androulakis and Malhotra show how they run multiple Claude agents in parallel, delegate real engineering work, review output, recover when agents get things wrong, and make agents part of their everyday jobs.
As AI takes on more consequential work, accuracy alone isn’t enough. Drawing on experience spanning misinformation, online safety, and work with foundation-model labs, Goldfarb explores how expert human judgment can become scalable evaluations — and what it will take to build AI systems people can actually rely on.
Hagay Lupesko , SVP, AI Cloud, Cerebras Systems ; and Rudina Seseri , Founder and Managing Partner, Glasswing Ventures
As frontier models become increasingly commoditized, AI’s economics are shifting from training toward inference. This session looks at where defensibility comes from when the model itself isn’t the moat, why latency is becoming part of the product, and what those changes mean for infrastructure decisions, startup economics, and what investors will look for next.
Dr. Rumman Chowdhury , CEO and Co-founder, Humane Intelligence ; Payal Kadakia , Founder, ClassPass ; Cassie Kozyrkov , Founder, Kozyr ; and Holly Ransom , CEO, Emergent
The fundamentals of building a company may not have changed, but the tools certainly have. Leaders spanning AI, data, entrepreneurship, and strategy examine how founders can use AI to make better decisions and move faster — while understanding where bias, judgment, and the human side of company building still matter.
A successful fundraise starts long before the pitch. This interactive session takes founders through the process from both sides of the table, covering investor targeting, relationship building, outreach, maintaining momentum, cap tables, data rooms, and due diligence. Come away with practical ways to run a more organized and effective raise.
Bruce K Lee , CEO and Founder, Keebeck Wealth Management ; and Abhi Tiwari , Co-founder and General Partner, Blank Ventures
Building and funding a company requires one mindset. Becoming an investor requires another. Lee and Tiwari explore what happens when entrepreneurs move from raising capital to allocating it — and why founders may want to start thinking about their post-exit strategy long before an exit actually happens.
Dr. Brian Cameron , Interim Chief Technology Officer, The Aerospace Corporation; Bosco Lai , CEO, Little Place Labs; and Shawn Sloan , Corporate Fellow for Artificial Intelligence, The Aerospace Corporation
Space may look like a specialist market, but many of its problems will feel familiar to AI builders: huge data streams, autonomous decisions, real-time processing, and complex agent systems. This session maps those capabilities to real space applications and shows founders where new commercial and government opportunities are opening up.
Dr. Irena King , Founder and CEO, Surgicure Technologies ; Dr. Richard Munassi , Accelerator Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer, Tampa Bay Wave ; Ashley Paston , Partner, General Catalyst ; and Emily Zhen , Principal, HealthQuest Capital
Great companies can still run bad fundraising processes. This session gets into the mistakes that derail rounds, from positioning and preparation to investor strategy and execution. Expect practical lessons, real examples, and a clearer framework for taking your next raise from the first pitch through to close.
Patrick Burke , Managing Director, Hostinger
AI is compressing the distance between spotting an opportunity and acting…
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