Final day arrives at Disrupt

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 reaches its last day on October 15 at San Francisco's Moscone West. More than ten thousand founders, investors and technology leaders gather for Day 3 programming.

Day 3 focuses on practical tech talks

The final day features sessions covering AI innovation, startup growth strategies, fundraising, emerging technologies and lessons from entrepreneurs and investors defining the future of tech.

Registration and expo hours

Registration runs from eight am to three thirty pm at the Level one lobby of Moscone West. The expo hall features three hundred twenty plus exhibiting startups showcasing cutting-edge technologies across industries.

Badge technology enables networking

Event badges feature Klik technology, making it easy to exchange contact information with people you scan your badge with. The event app lets you access and keep those contacts after the event ends.

Six stages and multiple formats

Disrupt offers six industry stages, interactive roundtables, Q and A breakouts, hundreds of exhibiting startups, investor-founder meetings, AI-powered matchmaking networking and side events across the Bay Area.

Pitch Showcase Stage highlights

The Pitch Showcase Stage at the back of the Expo Hall features rapid-fire one-minute lightning pitches from promising startups representing their home countries and regions.

Builders Stage programming

Sessions include Yes, It's Hard to Be a Founder with Nell Daly, David H.Rosmarin and Jack Withinshaw.Other topics cover M and A strategy, viral growth, building toward ten million ARR and winning pre-seed funding.

Disrupt Stage features major speakers

Panos Panay from Amazon discusses what comes after the smartphone. Toni Schneider and Rose Wang from Bluesky Social explore whether social can start over. Dr. Nabiha Saklayen from Cellino asks can you bank your biology.

AI-focused breakout sessions

Breakout Stage covers building AI products in the age of agents, growth engines in the AI era from bootstrapped unicorns, physical AI execution problems and high-performance teams scaling in the AI era.

Industry Stage AI programming

The AI Industry Stage explores agent security, why AI breaks the old SaaS business model, AI capability verification, storage optimization for AI stacks, what comes after chatbots and the GTM engineer job category.

Roundtable discussions on AI and startups

Roundtables cover building before the internet versus AI differences, AI-native enterprise challenges, agent sandboxes, Berkeley's startup ecosystem, logistics autonomy, autonomous intelligence investing and co-founder relationships.

Tickets available at seventy five percent off

Passes remain available through the final day at seventy five percent off original prices. Attendees can still register and access all conference activations, sessions and networking opportunities before Disrupt ends.

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