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TechCrunch has published the complete speaker roster for the Disrupt Stage at its Disrupt 2026 conference, running October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. Confirmed speakers include Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman, Science Corporation founder Max Hodak, Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley, and all five partners of venture firm Benchmark appearing together.
Blackstone N1 global head Jas Khaira will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on a panel titled 'Building the Next Generation of AI Giants,' discussing how the firm evaluates AI startups and how founders should approach capital decisions. The announcement highlights recent Blackstone deals, including up to $600 million in equity for Indian AI infrastructure firm Neysa and a $1.5 billion joint venture backing Anthropic's Ode implementation unit.
Clay co-founder and CEO Kareem Amin will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about the emergence of the 'GTM engineer,' a role Clay says it coined in 2023 for people who build automated, AI-driven revenue workflows instead of manually performing sales and marketing tasks. Clay says roughly 100 such job listings now appear monthly, including at companies like Cursor and Lovable.
TechCrunch is closing exhibit table bookings for Disrupt 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT on October 2, or sooner if tables sell out. The event runs October 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West and is expected to draw over 10,000 founders, investors, operators and tech leaders. Exhibit packages include five Exhibitor-Partner passes and five Expo+ passes, plus access to lead capture through the Disrupt mobile app.
Cerebras Systems co-founder and CEO Andrew Feldman is scheduled to appear at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for a session titled 'Can AI Keep Scaling?', addressing rising demand for compute, energy and infrastructure. Cerebras builds wafer-scale AI chips as an alternative to conventional chip architectures, raised $5.5 billion in its May IPO, signed a multiyear deal with OpenAI for 750 megawatts of systems through 2026-2028, and launched its CS-4 hardware in August.
TechCrunch is closing exhibit bookings for Disrupt 2026 this Friday, October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The conference runs October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and exhibitors get a $12,500 package including a table, 10 team passes, lead-generation tools, and sponsor branding.
Konrad Zieliński, who lost his voice to cancer and later completed a PhD on bionic systems for laryngectomees, founded Uhura Bionics in 2023. The startup makes two non-surgical wearable devices, including a premium model called Whitney, designed to let users speak with emotional inflection rather than a flat robotic tone. Uhura will present at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Battlefield 200 next month.
Anthropic's Cat de Jong will join Gamma's Grant Lee and a Clay representative on the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 for a session on how enterprises deploy AI in practice. De Jong, who works directly with enterprise Claude deployments, will discuss where implementations succeed or stall after the initial rollout.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Helion, two companies racing to commercialize fusion energy, will have their leaders speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. CFS co-founder Brandon Sorbom and Helion CEO David Kirtley will discuss progress on their respective projects: CFS's SPARC demonstration machine leading to its ARC power plant, and Helion's Orion plant, which aims to deliver 50 megawatts of electricity to Microsoft starting in 2028. CFS has also applied to join the PJM Interconnection wholesale electricity market and raised $1 billion in July, bringing its total funding to $4 billion.
TechCrunch announced five additional judges for its Startup Battlefield 200 competition at Disrupt 2026, bringing the total revealed so far to 20. The 200 selected startups will exhibit and pitch at the event, with judges narrowing the field toward finalists who compete for a $100,000 equity-free prize and the Disrupt Cup.
TechCrunch is closing exhibit table bookings for its Disrupt 2026 conference on Friday, October 2, at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which no further reservations will be accepted. The event runs October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco and is expected to draw more than 10,000 founders, investors and tech leaders. Exhibit packages include a branded table, ten team passes, lead-generation tools, and app and website branding.
Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 about their startup's AI system for designing computer chips. The company aims to cut chip design time from two to three years down to weeks, building on the pair's earlier work co-leading Google's AlphaChip project, which helped design several generations of Google's Tensor Processing Units.