Disrupt 2026 AI Stage Covers Security, GTM, Video AI
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- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs October 13–15 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, with the AI Stage presented by Google for Startups and focused on AI business models, security gaps, and new job categories.
- Databricks co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering Arsalan Tavakoli will lead an enterprise AI security session covering governance, observability, and the architecture separating trustworthy deployments from risky ones.
- Decart CEO Dean Leitersdorf and Luma AI CEO Amit Jain will discuss video AI's shift from demos to real-time inference and physical reasoning.
- Clay CEO Kareem Amin will frame GTM engineering — a role the article says didn't exist two years ago — as one of tech's fastest-growing categories, now including independent practitioners running million-dollar businesses.
- Ticket pricing is in a closing window with up to $300 in savings available before the deadline, and the event expects 10,000+ startup, tech, and VC leaders across all stages.
Why it matters: By handing the AI Stage to Google for Startups and booking Databricks, Decart, Luma AI, and Clay, TechCrunch is signaling that pricing commoditized models, rebuilding agent security from the infrastructure up, and defining AI-native GTM are the three problems separating surviving AI startups from the rest in 2026.
