Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

2 weeks ago 31

AI hasn’t conscionable changed however startups build; it’s breached however they sell, unafraid their information and customers, and standard it much rapidly than ever before. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is backmost to excavation into the azygous hottest taxable successful the assemblage for the past fewer years, presented by Google for Startups. This clip around, we’re exploring the concern models AI is rewriting, the wealthiness of unsolved information gaps, and the wholly caller occupation categories AI has created from scratch.

From October 13–15 successful San Francisco astatine Moscone Center, articulation leaders from crossed the AI manufacture arsenic they get into the existent questions founders are facing close now. We’re talking astir the substance of however to terms AI products erstwhile models go commoditized, wherefore cause information has to beryllium rebuilt from the infrastructure up, and what it really means to person a go-to-market program successful an AI-native world.

We’re besides closing successful connected the extremity of our existent pricing window, truthful your accidental to prevention up to $200 is ending soon, truthful grab your summons present earlier it’s gone. Without further ado, let’s spot what’s connected platform for the AI Stage, with much announcements to come:

What Anthropic Sees When Enterprises Actually Deploy Claude

Most endeavor AI conversations hap earlier deployment. This 1 starts after. As Head of Applied AI astatine Anthropic, Cat de Jong works straight with the enterprises putting Claude to enactment crossed their astir captious workflows — and sees patterns that ne'er marque it into property releases. Where deployments win immediately. Where they stall. What separates the organizations extracting existent worth from the ones inactive moving pilots eighteen months in. This league pulls backmost the curtain connected what applied AI really looks similar wrong the world’s astir intimately watched AI institution — and what it reveals astir wherever endeavor AI is truly headed.

With Cat de Jong, Head of Applied AI, Anthropic

What Building AI Native Actually Means. Join the Conversation with OpenAI’s Head of Productivity

Two years ago, GTM engineering did not exist. Today, it is 1 of the fastest increasing roles successful the industry, with autarkic practitioners gathering million-dollar businesses. This league traces however AI collapsed the accepted go-to-market stack and created an wholly caller subject successful its place. Walk distant knowing what AI-native GTM looks similar successful signifier and however it’s changing the mode companies grow.

With Tara Seshan, Head of Productivity, OpenAI

The Enterprise Isn’t Broken. Your Assumptions About It Are.

AI is present making autonomous decisions wrong the astir delicate endeavor systems successful the world, astatine a velocity accepted information frameworks weren’t built for. This league breaks down what endeavor AI information really requires successful 2026 — from observability and governance to the architecture that separates deployments enterprises tin spot from ones they can’t spend to touch.

With Arsalan Tavakoli, Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering, Databricks

The Agent Security Problem Nobody Is Talking About

Agentic AI is powerful, but it was ne'er built to beryllium secure. Now, enterprises trying to harness that are learning to rebuild the basal elements of cybersecurity from scratch. This league is simply a candid method speech astir what cause information really requires astatine the infrastructure level, wherefore application-level support models are fundamentally flawed, and the architectural decisions that truly substance erstwhile deploying agentic AI.

With Ric Smith, President of Product & Technology astatine Okta

The Video Intelligence Race: Real-Time, Reasoning, and What Comes Next

Visual AI has moved past attention-getting demos into real-time inference and carnal reasoning. Founders gathering astatine the frontier sermon what happens erstwhile procreation crosses into genuine intelligence.

With Dean Leitersdorf, Co-founder and CEO, Decart, and Amit Jain, Co-founder and CEO, Luma AI

Rewriting SaaS: Why AI Breaks the Old Business Model

Is the SaaS playook dead, oregon is it conscionable evolving? This league brings unneurotic founders and level leaders who are grappling with that question successful existent clip – and coming distant with existent answers. Walk distant with a sharper knowing of however to terms AI products sustainably, however to physique defensible moats erstwhile models are commoditizing, and however to marque SaaS enactment successful the AI era.

With Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO, Glean, Barr Moses, Co-founder & CEO, Monte Carlo, Cathy Gao, Partner astatine Sapphire Ventures, and Aaron Jacobson, Partner, NEA

The GTM Engineer: How AI Created Tech’s Next Big Job Category

GTM engineering didn’t beryllium 2 years agone — present it’s 1 of the fastest-growing roles successful tech, with autarkic practitioners gathering million-dollar businesses. Walk distant knowing what AI-native GTM looks similar successful signifier and however it’s reshaping growth.

With Kareem Amin, Co-founder and CEO, Clay

Securing the AI Enterprise: Why the Cloud Just Got a Lot More Complicated

AI is moving wrong the astir delicate endeavor systems successful the world, making autonomous decisions astatine a velocity and standard that accepted information frameworks were ne'er designed to handle. This league delivers the infrastructure-level presumption of what endeavor AI information really requires successful 2026, from observability and governance to the architectural principles that abstracted deployments enterprises tin spot from ones they cannot spend to touch.

With Chet Kapoor, VP, Security Services & Observability, AWS, Katie Moussouris, Luta Security, Wendy Nather, 1Password

Whether you’re rethinking your pricing model, closing the information gaps successful your AI stack, oregon gathering the go-to-market playbook that doesn’t beryllium yet, the AI Stage is wherever the builders shaping this adjacent question get specific.

Plus, you’ll beryllium doing each this alongside 10,000+ startup, tech, and VC leaders, with entree to each different stage, Startup Battlefield, a wealthiness of networking opportunities, and the accumulation floor. Register today!