Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda — SkimNews
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- TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 runs October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, with the source noting 200+ sessions across six industry stages, 250+ speakers, 300+ exhibiting startups, and 10,000+ attendees expected
- Anthropic Head of Applied AI Cat de Jong will speak on why some enterprise Claude deployments deliver real value while others remain stuck in pilot mode 18 months later
- Okta President of Products and Technology Ric Smith and NanoCo Co-Founder and CEO Gavriel Cohen will address agent security at the infrastructure level, including weaknesses in application-level permission models
- AWS VP of Security Services Rudy Mitra, Luta Security CEO Katie Moussouris, and cybersecurity veteran Wendy Nather will examine why security, governance, and observability make the cloud more complicated as AI takes on autonomous roles
- Shield AI CTO Nathan Michael, GM Director of Robotics Strategy Mikell Taylor, and Waabi Founder and CEO Raquel Urtasun will tackle how autonomous systems earn deployment trust when failures affect vehicles, aircraft, and industrial systems
- NVIDIA Inception Global Head of Physical AI Les Karpas will explore what's blocking robotics from having a 'ChatGPT moment,' citing the lack of the massive training-data pools that accelerated language models
- Disrupt 2026 passes are discounted up to $200 through September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT, with a second pass available at 50% off
Why it matters: All five sessions converge on the question the source calls 'one of the hardest parts of bringing it to market': converting AI capability into the customer trust required for deployment. For AI founders selling to enterprises or operating in the physical world, the lineup offers a structured look at where pilots stall and which security gates must clear before contracts close.
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