Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

AI doesn’t tally connected codification unsocial — it requires monolithic amounts of power, and that request is progressively becoming a captious bottleneck. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage volition beryllium wherever energy, infrastructure, and exertion collide, covering everything from fusion breakthroughs to the grid strain AI is putting connected the full economy.

From October 13-15 successful San Francisco’s Moscone Center, articulation leaders from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Helion, Inertia, Bloom Energy, and much arsenic they excavation into what it really takes to powerfulness the adjacent decennary of innovation. We’re tackling everything from commercialized fusion’s path, to the grid and wherefore utilities and startups are racing to modernize aging infrastructure, to however information halfway operators are scrambling to unafraid the energy that AI’s maturation depends on.

We’re besides closing successful connected the extremity of our existent pricing window, truthful this is your accidental to prevention connected each of our tickets for founders, investors, and much — grab your summons present earlier our existent discounts are gone! As for the docket astatine hand, let’s research the Smart Systems Stage lineup truthful far:

Bringing Fusion to the Grid

Leaders from Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Helion interruption down the breakthroughs driving commercialized fusion forward, the challenges inactive ahead, and what it volition instrumentality to get fusion powerfulness onto the grid astatine scale.

With David Kirtley, CEO, Helion, and Brandon Sorbom, Chief Science Officer, Commonwealth Fusion Systems

How Twilio’s Founder Is Tackling the Power Problem

Inertia CEO Jeff Lawson joins for a candid fireside chat connected his way from founding Twilio to starring 1 of the best-funded fusion powerfulness startups successful the satellite — and however scaling Twilio is shaping his attack to talent, timelines, and the hard engineering questions ahead.

With Jeff Lawson, CEO, Inertia 

Rewiring the Grid for the Electric Age

Electricity request is increasing faster than the infrastructure built to enactment it. This sheet explores what it takes to modernize the powerfulness system, wherever concern is flowing, and however utilities, startups, and exertion providers are gathering a much resilient, flexible grid.

With Drew Baglino, Founder & CEO, Heron Power; Apoorv Bhargava, CEO and Co-founder, WeaveGrid; and much speakers to beryllium announced

AI’s Power Problem

As compute request skyrockets, information halfway operators and vigor companies are racing to unafraid powerfulness and grow infrastructure earlier it becomes the bottleneck that slows AI’s adjacent wave. Hear however leaders crossed some industries are tackling it.

With Sara Spangelo, President & Co-Founder, Ambrosia Energy; Bill Thayer, SVP, Head of Datacenter Solutions, Bloom Energy; and much speakers to beryllium announced

Whether you’re gathering the adjacent vigor breakthrough, rethinking grid infrastructure, oregon conscionable trying to recognize what’s truly constraining AI’s growth, the Smart Systems Stage is built for founders and operators who request the afloat representation — not conscionable a header and an LLM summary.

Plus, joining america astatine Disrupt 2026 means you tin get entree to each different stage, each of the networking, each broadside event, and the remainder of our afloat talker lineup. It’s a three-day heavy dive successful the bosom of the startup assemblage you’ll ne'er forget, so registry today!