Discover What’s Next for AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: From SaaS to Agent Security
Join industry leaders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13-15 to explore AI business models, enterprise security gaps, and more.
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- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place from October 13–15 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
- The AI Stage, presented by Google for Startups, dives into pricing strategies, security gaps, and new business models.
- Featured speakers include Arsalan Tavakoli of Databricks, Dean Leitersdorf of Decart, and Amit Jain of Luma AI.
- Attendees will connect with over 10,000 startup, tech, and VC leaders alongside the Startup Battlefield exhibition.
Artificial intelligence has completely transformed how startups build, sell, secure data, and scale at unprecedented speeds. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage returns—presented by Google for Startups—to tackle the community's hottest topics from recent years. Taking place from October 13 to 15 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, the event will explore how AI is rewriting business models, exposing unsolved security gaps, and birthing brand-new job categories from scratch.
Founders and industry leaders will gather to address critical questions currently facing the tech ecosystem, including how to price AI products when underlying models commoditize, why agent security requires rebuilding from the infrastructure up, and how to execute a go-to-market strategy in an AI-native world.
As autonomous AI agents make decisions inside highly sensitive enterprise systems at speeds traditional frameworks cannot match, modern security requires a complete paradigm shift. Observability, governance, and trustworthy deployment architectures have become baseline necessities for corporate tech stacks in 2026.
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The conference will break down enterprise AI security requirements for 2026, featuring Arsalan Tavakoli, Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering at Databricks, who will discuss governance, observability, and the architectural divide between trustworthy deployments and high-risk setups.
Furthermore, as Visual AI moves past flashy demos into real-time inference and physical reasoning, frontier builders such as Dean Leitersdorf (Co-founder and CEO of Decart), Amit Jain (Co-founder and CEO of Luma AI), and Kareem Amin (Co-founder and CEO of Clay) will discuss the implications of generation crossing into genuine intelligence.
Beyond the AI Stage, participants will gain access to over 10,000 startup, tech, and venture capital leaders, plus the exhibition floor and Startup Battlefield. Attendees can register today to save up to $330 on tickets for the October event.
Source: TechCrunch
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