TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Offers $100 Pass Discount Ahead of Oct. 13

A standard pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is discounted $100, and a second pass for the same buyer runs at 50% off, according to the event's registration terms published by TechCrunch. The three-day event opens October 13 at Moscone West in San Francisco and runs through October 15, drawing what organizers describe as more than 10,000 founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders.

The discounting structure is the entry point into a conference built around dozens of 50-minute breakout sessions — smaller-room programming distinct from the main stage, capped by room capacity and filled first come, first served. TechCrunch released the full breakout agenda October 6, giving registered attendees roughly a week to plan which sessions to prioritize before doors open.

How much does a Disrupt 2026 pass cost after the discount?

TechCrunch's registration page lists the standard discount as up to $100 off a single pass, with a second pass for a companion priced at 50% off the base rate, per the event listing. Groups of four or more receive additional savings, according to the same registration terms. Separately, anyone who has been laid off recently can apply for a $75 Expo+ Pass, though TechCrunch notes that allotment is limited and passes have been running out.

What is on the breakout session agenda?

The published agenda organizes sessions around five questions TechCrunch says founders and operators are currently asking: how to build with AI agents, where value accrues as AI shifts from training to inference, what physical AI means in practice, how to run a fundraising process, and how AI is changing company and team growth. Each session pairs a short expert briefing with open audience Q&A, a format TechCrunch frames as giving attendees room to challenge assumptions rather than just absorb a pitch.

Who is speaking in the physical AI and AI-agent sessions?

One confirmed session, "What Is Physical AI, Anyway?", is sponsored by SOSV and features Susan Schofer, partner and chief science officer at SOSV HAX, alongside Duncan Turner, general partner and managing director at SOSV HAX. The pair are billed to break down what qualifies as physical AI — systems that must perceive, reason, and act in unpredictable environments — and what investors look for when evaluating companies in the category, according to the session description TechCrunch published.

A second session, "Outnumbered Either Way," puts two Anthropic staff members in the room: Steve Androulakis and Sachin Malhotra, both members of technical staff at Anthropic. The session description says the two will demonstrate how they run multiple Claude agents in parallel on real engineering work, including how they delegate tasks, review agent output, and recover when an agent makes an error — a workflow TechCrunch frames as coming from people who build AI systems professionally rather than observe them from the outside.

A third listed session, "How to Build AI We Can Trust," features Robbie Goldfarb, co-founder of Forum AI, who TechCrunch says will draw on experience in misinformation research, online safety, and work with foundation-model labs to argue that accuracy alone is insufficient once AI handles more consequential work, and that expert human judgment can be converted into scalable evaluation systems.

Why does the session format matter to attendees?

The financial logic behind the discount structure appears tied to volume: TechCrunch is pricing a second ticket at half the rate of the first and offering steeper per-seat savings to groups of four or more, a common conference tactic to convert individual registrants into team sign-ups. Because breakout rooms are capacity-limited and filled on a first-come basis, TechCrunch's own materials frame early registration as the mechanism that determines which attendees get into specific sessions, rather than ticket tier alone.

Attendees weighing which AI tools to test on-site will find no shortage of agent-based products in the surrounding exhibit floor; outside the event, companion apps such as AlterEgo occupy a similar space in the consumer AI-agent category discussed in several of the listed sessions.

When and where is TechCrunch Disrupt 2026?

The event runs October 13 through October 15 at Moscone West in San Francisco. TechCrunch's listing directs registration and pricing questions to its event page, which also hosts the full breakout schedule and sponsor-session details referenced above.

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