TechCrunch has revealed the full Disrupt Stage lineup for Disrupt 2026, which runs from 13 to 15 October at Moscone West in San Francisco. The stage will feature founders, CEOs and investors across AI, robotics, transportation, social media, biotech and venture capital, alongside founders competing in Startup Battlefield 200.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe will discuss building a company capable of designing, manufacturing and scaling complex physical products. Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman will address whether AI can keep scaling as models demand more compute, energy and capital. Science Corporation founder Max Hodak will look at technology that interacts directly with the human body, while Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley will speak about AI, surveillance and public safety.
In a rare appearance, all five Benchmark partners — Jack Altman, Peter Fenton, Chetan Puttagunta, Everett Randle and Eric Vishria — will take the stage together. Ricursive Intelligence co-founders Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini will explore AI systems that can design the hardware they run on.
On Thursday, Amazon's Panos Panay will ask what comes after the smartphone and bring new tech with him. Bluesky CEO Toni Schneider and COO Rose Wang will examine whether social media can start over, while Replit CEO Amjad Masad will discuss what happens to software and its builders when AI makes creating software accessible to almost anyone. Mark Wahlberg will appear alongside Keebeck's Bruce K. Lee to discuss his move into investing.
Startup Battlefield will see founders compete live across space and physical AI, energy and manufacturing, health tech and life sciences, and enterprise and security. Cellino co-founder and CEO Nabiha Saklayen, who won Startup Battlefield in 2021, will return to unveil a new product. Three more Battlefield alumni — Molecule.one's Piotr Byrski, Nephrogen's Demetri Maxim and Glīd's Kevin Damoa — will discuss what happens after the pitch. The 2026 finalists will compete for $100,000 in equity-free funding and the Disrupt cup.