Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda

Would you trust an AI agent with access to your company’s systems? Put your employees in an autonomous vehicle? Deploy a robot that has to make sense of an unpredictable physical world?

These aren’t hypothetical questions for AI founders anymore. As AI moves out of demos and into businesses, vehicles, robots, and autonomous agents, safety and security become part of the product.

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage put those challenges front and center. From securing agents to getting enterprise AI into production, here’s where founders can dig into what it takes to build artificial intelligence (AI) people and enterprises will actually trust and use.

Building the next generation of AI? Secure your pass to Disrupt and add these five AI safety sessions to your agenda. Save up to $200 on your pass before September 25, 11:59 p.m. PT. Get a second pass at 50% off.

1. What Anthropic Sees When Enterprises Actually Deploy Claude

Some enterprises are getting measurable value from AI. Others are still running pilots 18 months later. Why?

Anthropic Head of Applied AI Cat de Jong gets a close-up view. She works directly with enterprises putting Claude into critical workflows and sees where deployments succeed, where they stall, and what separates the two.

In “What Anthropic Sees When Enterprises Actually Deploy Claude,” de Jong will take the AI Stage to explore what happens when companies move from experimenting with AI to putting it into production. For founders trying to sell AI into the enterprise, her experience offers a firsthand look at why some deployments deliver real value while others remain stuck in pilot mode.

Want to know what separates AI pilots from deployments that deliver real business value? Hear what Anthropic is seeing firsthand. Register for Disrupt now to save up to $200 before September 25.