TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will take place at Moscone West from October 13 to 15, with a side event programme running across San Francisco during Disrupt week. The schedule is growing, with more events being added weekly in the lead-up to the main conference.
The side events bring together founders, investors, operators, researchers and tech enthusiasts for panels, workshops, networking events and parties. Featured events hosted by TechCrunch partners include a mixer for SaaS leaders scaling into embedded payments hosted by NMI on October 12, and an evening mixer hosted by Backblaze and Flamethrower on October 14.
PeakXV Partners will host an Ecosystem Mixer on October 14, and Augment and Mintz will host a private markets cocktail party the same evening. The chronological schedule begins on Sunday, October 11, with events including a happy hour featuring AI-created drinks by AI Barmen, a demo night for early-stage startups, and an international reception at the European Startup Embassy.
Other scheduled events include a future of work social mixer with demos spanning work tech, robotics and agentic AI on October 12, and a live game show built around the job hunt. On October 13, events include an invite-only gathering for AI founders and accredited investors, a Harvard Griffin GSAS alumni networking mixer, and a happy hour focused on security challenges facing AI.
On October 14, the Israel Economic Mission to the West Coast will host an invitation-only networking evening, and a physical AI after-hours event will explore spatial intelligence, robotics and world models through live 4D capture and reconstruction.