TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's AI Stage, presented by Google for Startups, will run October 13–15 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. The event will explore AI's impact on business models, security challenges, and new job categories, with sessions addressing topics including AI product pricing, agent security, and go-to-market strategies in an AI-native world.
Anthropic's Cat de Jong, Head of Applied AI, will discuss what the company observes when enterprises actually deploy Claude, examining patterns in where deployments succeed and stall. The session aims to reveal what applied AI looks like inside the company and where enterprise AI is headed.
OpenAI's Tara Seshan, Head of Productivity, will examine how AI has created entirely new job categories, including the go-to-market engineering role, which she notes did not exist two years ago but now has practitioners building million-dollar businesses. She will explain what AI-native GTM looks like in practice.
Databricks Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering Arsalan Tavakoli will also present on enterprise AI security, addressing how AI is making autonomous decisions in sensitive systems and what observability, governance, and architecture are required for trusted deployments.