TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature an AI Stage from October 13-15 in San Francisco, presented by Google for Startups. The event aims to explore how AI is reshaping business models, creating new job categories, and presenting security challenges.
Cat de Jong, Head of Applied AI at Anthropic, is slated to share insights on the real-world deployment of Claude within enterprises, focusing on success patterns and common obstacles. Tara Seshan, Head of Productivity at OpenAI, will discuss the concept of building AI-native operations and the emergence of go-to-market (GTM) engineering as a rapidly growing role.
Other sessions on the AI Stage will cover topics such as enterprise AI security requirements in 2026, the agent security problem, and how AI is impacting the Software as a Service (SaaS) business model.