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The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
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TechCrunch has published a founder's guide for its Disrupt 2026 conference at San Francisco's Moscone West on October 13-15, with programming organized around building enduring companies in the AI era.
This is a single-feed item and the source is TechCrunch promoting its own event, so the value here is mostly as a scheduling and programming signal rather than independent reporting. For founders deciding whether to plan for the 2026 instance or apply to Startup Battlefield for 2027, the guide indicates the thematic direction (practical AI-era company building) and the conference's structural levers, investor matchmaking, the Deal Flow Café, the Builders Stage, and Side Events tied to industry tracks.
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Disrupt 2026 runs October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco and is built around six editorially curated stages with more than 200 sessions.
Startup Battlefield 2026 applications are closed; 200 startups were selected on August 20 to compete for a $100,000 prize, and the program is expanding to more international markets for 2027.
The guide segments the founder experience into three tracks, pre-seed/idea, early-revenue/raising, and scaling/hiring, each mapped to specific stages, networking tools, and side events.
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