Get all your questions answered at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: The full breakout session agenda revealed
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 just dropped its breakout agenda, with sessions on AI agents, physical AI, fundraising, and growth. The twist: these are Q&A rooms, not stage talks, and seats are first come, first served.
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is heading to Moscone West in San Francisco on October 13-15, and the breakout sessions are now on the board. The conference says more than 10,000 founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders will be there for three days of meetings and talk that goes beyond the main stage.
That’s the point of the breakout rooms. Each one runs 50 minutes and mixes a short expert-led discussion with audience Q&A, so attendees can press for details instead of nodding along politely from the back. Capacity is limited, and entry is first come, first served. In other words: if a session matters to you, don’t wander in late.
This year’s agenda leans hard into the problems people are actually trying to solve right now. There are sessions on building with AI agents, deciding where value goes as the industry moves from training to inference, and figuring out what “physical AI” really means once software has to act in the real world. Anthropic staff members Steve Androulakis and Sachin Malhotra will talk about how they use multiple Claude agents in parallel. Susan Schofer and Duncan Turner of SOSV HAX will tackle physical AI from the investor and builder side. Robbie Goldfarb of Forum AI will focus on how to build AI people can trust.
The money side gets plenty of attention too. One session is built around the mechanics of running a better fundraise, from outreach and cap tables to data rooms and due diligence. Another looks at fundraising mistakes that can sink a round, while a separate panel asks what happens after a founder becomes an investor. There’s also a talk on how AI is changing growth, using Hostinger as the example, plus a session on how high-performance teams keep working when AI changes the rhythm of the job.
And the agenda does not stop at software. The lineup includes space, industrial AI, and what the organizers are calling the execution layer for physical AI — the part between perception, decision, action, and verification. TechCrunch is clearly betting that the most interesting conversations at Disrupt won’t be polished keynote material. They’ll be the ones where someone in the room asks the uncomfortable follow-up.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is exactly where AI conferences should go: less stage fog, more practical mess. The industry has had enough grand claims about agents and autonomy; now it needs rooms where builders have to explain what breaks, what scales, and what people should stop pretending is solved.
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