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More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope

TechCrunch Disrupt is where the tech community comes together to build, debate, and connect. And during Disrupt Week, that conversation doesn’t stop when the doors to Moscone West close.

Our Side Events program brings founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders together across San Francisco for everything from intimate roundtables and founder gatherings to happy hours, dinners, workshops, and community meetups.

Whether you’re looking to make a few new connections, find your next collaborator, go deep on a specific industry, or just get out of conference mode for a minute, there’s a lot happening beyond the show 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 technology professionals for an evening of networking and cross-border connection in San Francisco. Organized by KOTRA as part of...

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Bring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock | Amazon Web Services

Artificial Intelligence GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently. For an AI agent to complete a task, it may need to gather information, use tools, test different approaches, recover from errors, and verify its

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Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern

OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. “A few weeks ago

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GM will spend $1B making the first manganese-rich cells in mass production

GM and LG Energy Solution will spend $1B turning their Spring Hill plant into the first factory to mass-produce prismatic lithium manganese-rich cells. Europe’s carmakers are spending comparable sums on lithium iron phosphate, the chemistry GM’s battery chief says may never earn its way into its cars. General

ASML says AI's effect on chipmaking will unfold over the next 10 to 15 years, not overnight

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Crystal ball: ASML is the only company that makes the EUV lithography machines needed to produce the world's most advanced chips. Its CEO, Christophe Fouquet, says the AI boom will play out