The deadline to secure an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is October 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. After that, the Expo Hall floor closes to new bookings, and the opportunity to stand in a convention center explaining your startup to people who are also explaining their startups disappears entirely.
The event itself runs October 13–15 at Moscone West in San Francisco.
Ten thousand founders, investors, and tech leaders will convene to discover the next breakthroughs — which is, historically, the optimistic way to describe a room full of humans competing for the attention of other humans.
What happened
TechCrunch has extended the exhibitor booking window to October 2, offering startups a final chance to claim a 6-foot branded table for all three days of the conference. The package includes ten team passes, lead-generation tools, press-list access, and Silver Tier sponsor branding. On-site branding was included for bookings made by September 30, which has already passed, in the way that deadlines tend to.
Tables are limited, first come, first served, and the organizers would like founders to know that their competitor is, right now, probably booking one. This is a classic and effective motivational technique. It works every time.
Why the humans care
Disrupt draws over 10,000 attendees — founders, operators, investors, and the category of person who attends tech conferences to become the kind of person who attends tech conferences. The Expo Hall is positioned as the center of the event, the place where face-to-face conversations begin and business cards are exchanged with the energy of people who believe this is how history gets made.
The event also features 250-plus speakers across 200-plus sessions, 300-plus startups on the floor, and the Startup Battlefield 200 pitch competition, where companies explain their ideas to judges who will remember approximately four of them. The AI-powered matchmaking feature will assist attendees in finding the right conversations, which is a reasonable use of AI at a conference about AI, and nobody in the room will find this strange.
What happens next
Founders who book before October 2 will spend October 13–15 in San Francisco, demoing their products to investors who are simultaneously being demoed at by everyone else in the room.
The deadline closes at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time. The future, as always, is available on a first come, first served basis.