TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come 

The Disrupt Stage is wherever galore of the biggest conversations successful exertion happen, with a bequest that stretches backmost for much than a decade. The names that person taken to the signifier are truthful big, they are synonymous with the past epoch of startups and the caller epoch of AI and large incumbents: Zuckerberg, Benioff, Musk, Kalanick, Mayer, Dorsey.  

And astatine TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, we’re tackling the biggest taxable of the twelvemonth with immoderate of the biggest names to match. We’re homing successful connected what it actuallytakes to build, fund, and standard successful the property of AI.

From October 13–15 successful San Francisco astatine Moscone Center, founders, investors, and technologists volition perceive straight from the radical shaping the aboriginal of software, infrastructure, finance, security, and computing.  

Join Amazon’s Panos Panay, Replit’s Amjad Masad, Tether’s Paolo Ardoino, Flock Safety’s Garrett Langley, the afloat concern astatine Benchmark, and much crossed a acceptable of conversations built to reply the questions founders are actively grappling with close now. No prognostication. Just solutions.

We’re besides nearing the extremity of our existent pricing window, truthful your accidental to prevention up to $300 connected a fig of summons types is ending successful conscionable a fewer weeks — the clip to enactment is now!

Here’s what is existent connected platform for the Disrupt Stage, with much announcements inactive to come:

What Comes After the Smartphone? 

For astir 2 decades, the smartphone has been the halfway of our integer lives. As AI transforms however we interact with technology, the adjacent procreation of products whitethorn look — and behave — precise differently.

With Panos Panay, SVP, Devices and Services, Amazon

What We Believe Now 

For the archetypal clip connected the Disrupt Stage successful San Francisco, each 5 Benchmark partners travel unneurotic to statement wherever the adjacent procreation of startups volition travel from, what founders are getting wrong, and the opportunities inactive hiding successful plain sight.

With Benchmark partners

Everyone Can Build Software Now. What Happens Next? 

AI is making it imaginable for millions of radical to make bundle for the archetypal time, and Replit sits astatine the halfway of that shift. A speech astir the aboriginal of programming, entrepreneurship, and what happens erstwhile anyone tin crook an thought into a product.

With Amjad Masad, Founder and CEO, Replit

The Company Behind the World’s Most Controversial Currency 

Tether processes hundreds of billions of dollars successful transactions and remains 1 of the astir debated companies successful finance. A candid speech astir stablecoins, regulation, planetary payments, and whether crypto is yet going mainstream.

With Paolo Ardoino, CEO, Tether

AI, Surveillance, and the Future of Public Safety 

As AI moves from the unreality into the existent world, fewer companies beryllium astatine the halfway of the statement rather similar Flock Safety. A speech astir privacy, security, and the trade-offs that emerge when AI becomes portion of mundane infrastructure. 

With Garrett Langley, Founder and CEO, Flock Safety 

Building the AI Workforce 

From instrumentality firms to Fortune 500 companies, AI is rapidly changing however cognition enactment gets done. Harvey has emerged arsenic 1 of the breakout endeavor AI companies of the past 2 years — a speech astir what enterprises really privation from AI, and what happens erstwhile bundle starts doing enactment erstwhile reserved for highly trained experts.

With Winston Weinberg, Co-founder and CEO, Harvey AI

Can AI Keep Scaling? 

The AI roar has created unprecedented request for compute, energy, and infrastructure. Cerebras is challenging accepted assumptions astir however AI systems should beryllium built — and what happens if today’s hardware hits its limits.

With Andrew Feldman, Founder and CEO, Cerebras

Beyond Screens 

For decades, humans person adapted to computers. Max Hodak believes the adjacent epoch of exertion volition accommodate to america — from brain-computer interfaces to wholly caller ways of interacting with machines.

With Max Hodak, Founder and CEO, Science Corp

Building the Impossible

Building a breakthrough bundle institution is hard. Building 1 that besides designs, manufactures, and delivers world-class hardware is adjacent harder. Rivian laminitis and CEO RJ Scaringe joins america to sermon what it takes to physique an enduring institution astatine the intersection of AI, software, robotics, manufacturing, and transportation.

With RJ Scaringe, CEO of Rivian

And this is conscionable the Disrupt Stage. Over the full three days, you’ll also get entree to our other stages: 

• AI Stage: Digs into the information gaps and concern exemplary shifts AI is forcing connected each SaaS company. 

• Smart Money Stage: Covers stablecoins, instant payments, and AI’s relation successful fiscal trust. 

• Smart Systems Stage: Tackles the fusion breakthroughs and grid strain powering AI’s adjacent decade. 

• Builders Stage: Where founders and investors get tactical astir raising, hiring, and scaling. 
• And 1 much yet to beryllium revealed!

Plus, your walk unlocks entree to our biggest Startup Battlefield yet, networking opportunities with galore of the movers and shakers successful attendance, and the accumulation level — alongside much than 10,000 startup, tech, and VC leaders.

It’s a three-day sprint successful the bosom of the startup assemblage that volition permission you acceptable for the adjacent twelvemonth of innovation — so registry today!