Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will take place October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, bringing together more than 10,000 founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders. The published breakout session agenda lists 50-minute sessions that combine expert insight with audience Q&A; capacity is limited and attendance is first come, first served.
The lineup includes "What Is Physical AI, Anyway?" with Susan Schofer and Duncan Turner of SOSV HAX, sponsored by SOSV, and "Physical AI Isn't a Model Problem. It's an Execution Problem." with Ethan Batraski of Venrock, Ivan Poupyrev of Archetype AI, and Ian Rountree of Cantos.
Anthropic members of technical staff Steve Androulakis and Sachin Malhotra will present "Outnumbered Either Way: How an Engineer and an Architect Run Their Jobs on Agents." Robbie Goldfarb, co-founder of Forum AI, leads "How to build AI we can trust."
"The Inference Economy: Why AI's Next Trillion Dollars Won't Look Like Its First" features Hagay Lupesko of Cerebras Systems and Rudina Seseri of Glasswing Ventures.
Other sessions include "Building Then vs Now" with Dr. Rumman Chowdhury of Humane Intelligence, Payal Kadakia of ClassPass, Cassie Kozyrkov of Kozyr, and Holly Ransom of Emergent, sponsored by Signify Business Cash World Elite Mastercard by Wells Fargo; a fundraiser best-practices session sponsored by Fidelity Private Shares with speakers to be announced; "From Founder to Investor: The Next Act" with Bruce K Lee of Keebeck Wealth Management and Abhi Tiwari of Blank Ventures; and "Breaking Into Space: The AI Builder's Opportunity" with Dr. Brian Cameron and Shawn Sloan of The Aerospace Corporation and Bosco Lai of Little Place Labs, sponsored by The Aerospace Corporation.
Additional sessions cover fundraising mistakes, sponsored by Tampa Bay Wave; a growth engine talk by Patrick Burke of Hostinger, sponsored by Hostinger; and "Talent as the Operating System" with Nomi Khedawala of Reddit.
Registration offers up to $100 off a pass, 50% off a second pass, and a $75 Expo+ Pass for those recently laid off.
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Get all of your scaling and tech questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Here's the full breakout session agenda, happening October 13-15 in San Francisco. Register now to join and save up to $100, and get a second pass at 50% off.