Get hands-on: The full lineup of interactive roundtables at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is scheduled for October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, bringing more than 10,000 founders, investors, operators and tech leaders together, according to the event listing. Passes are currently discounted by up to $100, with a second pass available at 50% off.
The program includes a series of interactive roundtables across two dedicated spaces, letting attendees join founders, investors, operators and industry experts on topics spanning fundraising and AI to hiring, enterprise software, physical AI and scaling companies.
Among the announced sessions: Radha Basu, founder and CEO of iMerit, on data challenges behind robotics and autonomous systems; Rajeev Singh, CEO of Smartsheet, on whether AI is exposing what enterprise software got wrong; and Eléonore Crespo, co-founder and co-CEO of Pigment, with Sofia Fatakhova, senior vice president of finance and capital markets at Chime, on IPO-ready finance.
Other listed speakers include Dani London of Base10 Partners on specialty post-training data; Kevin Bai, member of technical staff at Anthropic, on forward-deployed engineers; Ankita Mehta, senior product manager at Databricks, on agentic AI in the enterprise; Dr. Maha Achour of Kodamai with Pankaj Kedia of 2468 Ventures on scaling trusted agentic AI; and Jack Hidary, CEO of SandboxAQ, with Stacie Calad-Thomson, global BD lead for life science labs and manufacturing at Nvidia, on AI grounded in physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics.
Additional sessions cover investing in open-weight models with Mercedes Bent and Vanessa Larco of Premise; capital concentration in frontier AI with Harrison Rolfes of PitchBook; venture fundraising with Neil Sequeira of Defy.vc; and a quantum computing session with speaker details to be announced. Several roundtables are sponsored, including sessions from the New York Stock Exchange, Wells Fargo and UC Berkeley's Sutardja Center.
Registration discounts are available until doors open.
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From Nvidia and Chime to Obvious Ventures and Anthropic, explore the entire roundtable agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $100 on your pass and get a second pass at 50% off.