TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 roundtables: Go deeper on the challenges founders are fixing proper now 

TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 is coming to SoWa Power Station in Boston on November 4, bringing founders, buyers, and operators collectively for a full day of candid conversations, sensible classes, reside pitching, networking, and smaller roundtables constructed for deeper dialogue. 

The roundtables are the place attendees can get particularly particular. Bring your questions, share what you might be seeing in your personal firm, and be a part of consultants and fellow founders tackling lots of the identical challenges, from enterprise gross sales and vertical technique to AI, lean groups, and constructing a class that doesn’t exist but. 

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Six roundtables to look ahead to at Founder Summit

How to Build Events Strategy Before You Can Afford a Full-Time Events Team 

10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | Roundtable 2 

Alexandra Ames, founder and chief occasion strategist at Blueprint Lab, appears at how early-stage corporations can use occasions strategically earlier than they’ve the funds or headcount for a devoted occasions staff. Expect a sensible dialog about choosing the proper alternatives, defining what success appears like, and making restricted assets work tougher. 

Your First Vertical, and It Happens to Be the Hardest One 

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Roundtable 1 

Chirag Shah, companion at Define Ventures, explores what occurs when the market with the largest potential can also be one of many hardest to enter. Founders navigating regulated industries, advanced consumers, or specialised prospects can examine notes on making that first main vertical guess. 

GraphRAG in Action: Stop Hallucinations with Knowledge Graphs 

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Roundtable 2 

Shishir Tewari, head of enterprise information engineering at Procore Technologies, will get into considered one of enterprise AI’s most persistent challenges: belief. The dialogue will study how information graphs and GraphRAG may give AI techniques stronger context and assist founders construct merchandise that work extra reliably in real-world organizations. 

The Enterprise AI Playbook: How to Close L’Oreal and Vodafone Before You Raise a Series A 

1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Roundtable 2 

Merve Kitapci, managing companion and CGO of ADIN.AI, breaks down what it takes to win main enterprise prospects early. From lengthy shopping for cycles and a number of stakeholders to the credibility that comes with touchdown the suitable brand, this can be a tactical dialog for founders promoting into giant organizations earlier than they’ve a big gross sales staff behind them. 

Build Something We Don’t Have a Word for Yet 

1:55 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. | Roundtable 2 

Andy Tang, companion at Draper Associates, leads a dialog for founders constructing one thing that doesn’t match neatly into an current class. How do you clarify it, promote it, and get buyers to know the chance when the market nonetheless wants vocabulary for what you might be creating? 

Small however Mighty: How AI Lets Lean Teams Outship the Giants 

2:35 p.m. – 3:05 p.m. | Roundtable 1 

Linden Tibbets, CEO and founding father of IFTTT, explores how smaller groups can use AI to extend their velocity and output with out merely including headcount. For founders fascinated by hiring, effectivity, and easy methods to construction an AI-enabled firm, the dialogue will get immediately into what lean groups might be able to do in another way now. 

Roundtables are the place the agenda turns into a dialog 

The worth of those classes isn’t just listening to how another person approached an issue. It is the possibility to ask the query that issues to your organization, examine experiences with the individuals across the desk, and depart with concepts you possibly can put to work. 

And the roundtables are just one a part of the day. Across the Build and Impact Stages, Founder Summit may even sort out product-market match, hiring, founder management, fundraising, pitching, and what it takes to construct and scale corporations exterior the Bay Area. 

Attendees can hear founder perspectives from leaders, reminiscent of Toast co-founder Steve Fredette, then see founders put their tales to the take a look at in the course of the reside “So You Think You Can Pitch?” competitors. A Networking Lounge with Braindate and a closing reception introduced by Fidelity Private Shares create extra time to attach all through the day. 

Take your seat at Founder Summit 

Remember, our occasion’s simply across the nook on November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston. 

For a restricted time, save 25% on your Founder Summit ticket and spend the day within the room with founders, buyers, and operators tackling the identical questions you might be. 

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