TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 adds five AI safety sessions

As AI moves out of demos and into businesses, vehicles, robots, and autonomous agents, safety and security become part of the product. The five sessions at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 reflect this shift, covering topics from securing AI agents at the infrastructure level to deploying AI in physical systems where failure has real-world consequences. The event brings together speakers from Anthropic, Okta, AWS, Shield AI, General Motors, Waabi, and NVIDIA to share practical experience.

The sessions highlight a common challenge: getting customers to trust AI enough to deploy it may be one of the hardest parts of bringing it to market. For founders, the conversations offer a chance to learn what separates successful enterprise deployments from pilots that stall, and how to approach testing, validation, and regulatory hurdles when failure is not an option.

Whether these discussions lead to actionable strategies will depend on how openly speakers share specific deployment lessons. The stakes are high for AI founders and enterprise teams, as trust and reliability increasingly determine which AI products move beyond the lab.