TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Event Preview and Speaker Lineup

The biggest stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is where the people building the future come to talk about what happens next in the tech ecosystem.

Across three days, from October 13 to 15 at Moscone West in San Francisco the Disrupt Stage will bring together some of the biggest game-changing founders CEOs and investors shaping everything from AI and robotics to transportation social media biotech and venture capital alongside the next generation of founders competing live in Startup Battlefield 200.

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Meet the entire Disrupt Stage lineup

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe will unpack what it takes to build the seemingly impossible: turning an ambitious idea into a company capable of designing manufacturing and scaling complex physical products.

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman will tackle one of the biggest questions hanging over the AI boom: Can AI keep scaling? As models demand ever more compute energy and capital Feldman will explore where the current trajectory leads and what could break it.

Science Corporation founder Max Hodak looks beyond screens at a future in which technology increasingly interacts directly with the human body while Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley joins us for a candid conversation about AI surveillance and the future of public safety.

And in a rare appearance all five partners of Benchmark — Jack Altman Peter Fenton Chetan Puttagunta Everett Randle and Eric Vishria — will take the stage together sharing what one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched venture firms sees coming next.

Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will take us inside an even more radical possibility: AI systems that can design the hardware they run on potentially collapsing the traditional divide between software and silicon.

On Thursday Amazon’s Panos Panay asks what comes after the smartphone. And he’ll bring some new tech with him. Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider and COO Rose Wang will explore whether social media can start over while Replit CEO Amjad Masad tackles what happens to software and the people who build it when AI makes creating software accessible to almost anyone.

Finally Hollywood star entrepreneur and investor Mark Wahlberg takes the Disrupt Stage alongside Keebeck’s Bruce K. Lee to reveal how one of the world’s most recognizable celebrities is turning decades of influence relationships and business-building into his next act: becoming a serious investor.

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And then there’s Startup Battlefield

Throughout Disrupt founders will compete live across space and physical AI energy and manufacturing health tech and life sciences and enterprise and security — facing questions from some of the world’s leading investors as they fight for a place in the Startup Battlefield final.

Before this year’s finalists take the stage Cellino co-founder and CEO Nabiha Saklayen who won Startup Battlefield in 2021 returns to unveil her new product and ask a provocative question: Can you bank your biology?

Then three more Battlefield alumni — Molecule.one’s Piotr Byrski Nephrogen’s Demetri Maxim and Glīd’s Kevin Damoa — return to talk candidly about what happens after the pitch: the bets that paid off the plans that changed and what they wish they’d known when they were standing where this year’s finalists are now.

Finally the 2026 finalists take over the Disrupt Stage and one company walks away as the next Startup Battlefield winner taking home $100,000 in equity-free funding and the coveted Disrupt cup.

Grab your pass and hear directly from today’s tech leaders at Disrupt

The Disrupt Stage isn’t only about hearing from the people who built today’s defining companies. It’s where you’ll meet and hear from some of the tech leaders building the next ones.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is where 10,000+ founders VCs operators and tech enthusiasts from around the globe come together to gain valuable insights make impactful connections and get a first look at next-gen breakthroughs shaping the tech industry. Explore 200+ sessions led by 250+ tech leaders across six industry stages plus roundtables and breakouts. Meet 300+ exhibiting startups and get hands-on with their latest products. This is where big ideas take shape and deals get sparked.