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TechCrunch Disrupt is wherever the tech assemblage comes unneurotic to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week, that speech doesn’t halt erstwhile the doors to Moscone West close.
Our Side Events programme brings founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders unneurotic crossed San Francisco for everything from intimate roundtables and laminitis gatherings to blessed hours, dinners, workshops, and assemblage meetups.
Whether you’re looking to marque a fewer caller connections, find your adjacent collaborator, spell heavy connected a circumstantial industry, oregon conscionable get retired of league mode for a minute, there’s a batch happening beyond the amusement floor.
Explore the 2026 Side Events, and find your people.
Featured Side Events
Korea–US Startup & Investor Networking Night
October 14 | 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. PT
Join Korean startups, U.S. investors, founders, and exertion professionals for an evening of networking and cross-border transportation successful San Francisco. Organized by KOTRA arsenic portion of the Korea Pavilion’s programming, the lawsuit brings unneurotic Korean startups entering the U.S. marketplace with investors, founders, firm partners, and members of the Bay Area startup ecosystem.
For those without a summons to be TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, KOTRA is offering complimentary Expo+ passes to qualified applicants.
Hosted by: KOTRA Silicon Valley
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Born2Global Founder Networking Night
October 13 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT
Meet 18 emerging startups from the Republic of Korea for an evening of laminitis conversations, curated introductions, and networking with investors, operators, firm leaders, and chap entrepreneurs. Each laminitis volition springiness a speedy instauration earlier the evening opens up for conversations and connections crossed the U.S. and planetary startup ecosystem.
Hosted by: WayFounder
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The Irish Shark Tank
October 13 | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Meet and mingle with Ireland’s hottest startups! Enterprise Ireland is BACK astatine TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and we’re excited to reconnect with aged friends and invited caller faces to The Irish Shark Tank astatine Ireland House for Happy Hour. Availability is limited!
Hosted by: Enterprise Ireland
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SafetyWing Happy Hour astatine Harrington’s
October 13 | 5:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT
Head to Harrington’s Irish Pub for an evening of drinks and speech with founders, HR leaders, and members of the startup community. Hosted by SafetyWing during TechCrunch Disrupt, the blessed hr offers a casual mounting to conscionable caller radical and link with the squad down the startup’s attack to wellness sum for distant and planetary teams.
Hosted by: SafetyWing
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Vault & Verify: An Evening of Ping Pong, Cocktails & Conversation
October 14 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT
Join Skyflow and Descope for an evening of food, cocktails, affable competition, and speech with San Francisco’s security, privacy, and individuality community. As AI systems go much autonomous, the lawsuit brings unneurotic leaders moving connected the challenges of keeping delicate information and individuality secure, with plentifulness of clip to link distant from the league floor.
Hosted by: Descope
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More Side Events
Pursuit of Happiness: Revolutionary Demonstration of Whitney Electrolarynx by Uhura Bionics
October 7 | 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. PT
Experience a unrecorded objection of voice-restoration exertion arsenic Uhura Bionics co-founder Konrad Zieliński showcases the Whitney Electrolarynx for a U.S. audience. The lawsuit explores however exertion tin assistance radical reclaim their voices and bureau pursuing crab treatment.
Hosted by: Uhura Bionics
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Find the 10x Opportunity Hiding successful Your Product
October 10 | 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT
Learn however first-principles reasoning tin uncover overlooked lawsuit needs, fortify product-market fit, and uncover opportunities for important growth. The league volition usage a real-world lawsuit survey to research however founders and merchandise teams tin place caller opportunities wrong products they already have.
Hosted by: PrincipiumX
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Long Lead Time: A Hardware Happy Hour
October 12 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT
Connect with founders, engineers, and operators gathering robotics, chips, rockets, and different frontier hardware. This casual, presentation-free gathering offers a accidental to swap ideas, stock experiences, and conscionable others moving connected the challenges of gathering carnal technology.
Hosted by: Syntro
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Real World AI: Connect, Invest & Scale successful Taiwan
October 13 | 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. PT
Explore Taiwan’s emerging AI ecosystem done startup pitches and conversations spanning robotics, intelligent hardware, and precocious manufacturing. Meet founders and investors moving crossed Taiwan’s exertion scenery and larn much astir opportunities to connect, invest, and build.
Hosted by: Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs
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Pets of Disrupt: Founders, Investors & Their Pets
October 13 | 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PT
Step distant from the league assemblage for an informal evening with founders, investors, operators, builders, creators, and the pets that marque San Francisco’s startup assemblage a small much human.
Hosted by: Omelo
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EdgeM8: B2B Partnership Mixer
October 13 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT
Connect with founders, gross leaders, and executives moving crossed go-to-market, partnerships, distribution, and technology. The evening is designed to bring unneurotic radical gathering relationships and creating caller opportunities crossed the Bay Area startup ecosystem.
Hosted by: EdgeM8
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Fynex x Orion VC | Curated Rooftop Party
October 14 | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PT
Join founders, operators, and AI-focused investors for a rooftop evening centered connected networking, food, drinks, and conversations astir AI and infrastructure.
Hosted by: Fynex
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Watch It Run: Live Automation Dinner with Bolter
October 14 | 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. PT
See concern automation hap unrecorded arsenic Bolter turns attendees’ astir dreaded play processes into moving automations during dinner. Guests tin picture a process successful plain connection and ticker arsenic it is transformed into an automation without penning code.
Hosted by: Improbable
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The Rooftop Pilaf: An Evening for Tech Founders and Investors
October 14 | 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. PT
Gather with founders, investors, and maturation leaders for a limited-seat rooftop meal focused connected heavy tech conversations. The evening pairs a shared repast with an accidental to link with others crossed the exertion and concern ecosystem.
Hosted by: INNOVA × BeGlobe PR Agency
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SQLDoom Deathmatch Night astatine Disrupt, hosted by CedarDB
October 14 | 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. PT
Put your SQL skills to the trial successful a nighttime of SQLDoom deathmatch, arcade games, food, drinks, and conversation. Play alongside the CedarDB squad and link with database engineers, startup founders, and chap tech enthusiasts.
Hosted by: CedarDB
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Korea Emerging Tech Showcase
October 15 | 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. PT
Discover emerging Korean startups moving crossed AI, software, medtech, cleanable tech, integer platforms, and precocious industry. The evening features rapid-fire pitches and networking with founders, investors, and planetary partners.
Hosted by: Brinc
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J-StarX Silicon Valley Extended Program Startup Showcase
October 15 | 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. PT
Meet 12 Japanese startups gathering for planetary markets crossed AI, endeavor software, health, biotech, defense, agtech, sports tech, and user technology. The showcase volition diagnostic unrecorded demos and opportunities to link straight with the founders.
Hosted by: 500 Global
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The Runway 🛫 A Morning Founder Run
October 16 | 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PT
Start the time with a casual waterfront tally on the Embarcadero, implicit with startup-themed “runway” markers. After the run, caput to the Ferry Building for java and networking with chap founders and members of the tech community.
Hosted by: Handler
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Founders @ Alchemy Springs
October 16 | 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. PT
Combine sauna and cold-plunge experiences with conversations and networking astir the startups competing successful this year’s Startup Battlefield 200. Connect with founders and members of the Startup Battlefield assemblage successful a much relaxed mounting aft Disrupt.
Hosted by: Press Club
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Find a Co-founder, Help oregon Join a Startup
October 16 | 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT
Hear startup pitches earlier joining breakout groups wherever attendees tin connection feedback, marque connections, oregon research opportunities to enactment with the presenting teams. It’s an evening built astir gathering founders and uncovering ways to get progressive with early-stage startups.
Hosted by: Startup Oasis
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Check the chronological schedule regularly arsenic caller Side Events are added weekly.
While you’re successful San Francisco…
If you’re gathering your Disrupt Week calendar, don’t hide the main event.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes implicit Moscone West October 13-15, bringing thousands of founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders unneurotic nether 1 roof. Come for the programming, enactment for the hallway conversations, and permission with a calendar afloat of radical you didn’t cognize you needed to meet.
Tickets are inactive available. Come beryllium portion of it.
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