The time has arrived. Following much anticipation, we just released the full speaker lineup and agenda for SaaStr Annual at Home, taking place very soon on Sept 2-3.
I’m super proud of the team for putting together this gathering for 50,000 community members next month so that we could bring you the best in class speakers of leading SaaS experts. Plus, we’re doing, even more, to bring you virtual networking to make sure you can meet your fellow community members.
PS — if you already have a ticket, use this link to save your seat for sessions.
What to expect from Annual at Home:
- If you’ve ever attended a SaaStr event (digitally or in-person), you know that the key difference between SaaStr and other events is the caliber of speakers and content. We’re giving our community access to the very best speakers, who are all committed to sharing tactical, actionable advice that you can use now.
- If you haven’t had the chance to attend a SaaStr event yet, now’s your chance. No plane tickets, or carry-on luggage required. Grab a free keynote pass here while there are some left.
- From Analytics to UX design, we’ve been working hard to put together sessions for everyone in your SaaS organization
- 20-minute workshops will keep the content hyper tactical. After successfully hosting 30,000 attendees to our previous digital events, we’ve learned that 20-minute sessions perform the best in 2020. Longer “keynote” sessions will follow the same format of 20 minutes of content, but use the extra time for audience Q&A so that you can ask the top leaders in SaaS your burning questions directly.
- We’ve added digital Roundtables and VC office hours to kick-off networking on the pre-day, Tuesday, Sept 1st. Roundtables and VC Office Hours are purposely smaller sessions with limited capacities to facilitate maximum interaction between the attendees and speakers. In these sessions, attendees will be able to turn on their video to interact directly with the speaker.
- Our uber-popular Meet a VC Program has gone completely digital for Annual at Home. This program is exclusive to VIP Annual at Home attendees and gives founders the chance to have 1:1, virtual meetings with a hand-picked group of VCs. We have some great firms participating in the program this year such as Goldman Sachs, WestBridge Capital, Capital One Ventures, PwC New Ventures, Craft Ventures, and many more. More on that here.
- We’re facilitating 5,000 1:1 attendee meetings. In addition to our digital roundtables, VC office hours, and our dedicated Meet a VC meetings; we’re facilitating 1:1 meetings between attendees. Our dedicated speed networking app through Brella will allow attendees to book meetings from Sept 1 – 4.
- We start most days at 7 AM PT or earlier to accommodate our international community. We’ll also be recording everything to send to VIP attendees.
And, here’s a breakdown of the amazing content you’ll see during Annual at Home:
Tuesday, Sept 1
A pre-networking day dedicated to Roundtables, VC Office Hours, 1:1 Meetings and Networking with Sponsors:
7 AM Networking and Virtual Sponsor Hall Opens; 1:1 Meetings Begin
7 AM – 4 PM Roundtables and VC Office Hours are taking place every half hour. Here’s a few highlights
- Roundtable: Hustle in Comfort: How to Build Amazing Software Teams with Dory Weiss, VP of Engineering at nCino
- Roundtable: Why SDRs Can’t Juggle ‘Inbound’ and ‘Outbound’ and How to Fix It with Predictable Revenue CEO Aaron Ross
- Roundtable: UX for Cloud Applications with Shanae Ullman, Senior UX Designer at Boeing
- Roundtable: Using the 3E’s – Empowerment, Engagement, and Expectations to grow your customers profitably with Pinterest Global Head of Customer Success and Operations, Dutta Satadip
- VC Office Hours with Mainsail Partners
- VC Office Hours with Craft Ventures
- VC Office Hours with Westbridge Capital
Wednesday, Sept 2nd
Our first full day of networking, workshops, and meeting with sponsors.
7 AM Networking and Virtual Sponsor Hall Opens; 1:1 Meetings Begin
7 AM – 4 PM Workshops, Keynotes, and Tactical Sessions. Here are a few highlights
- Leading and Evolving a Company Through Uncertainty with Mailchimp CEO Ben Chestnut
- State of the Cloud 2020: The COVID Beneficiaries Edition with Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson @ Bessemer Venture Partners
- 3 Mistakes Product Teams Tend to Make (And How to Avoid Them) with Zendesk SVP, Shawna Wolverton
- The Secrets To Evolving from Self-Service to Sales with Twilio CMO, Sara Varni
- Almost Screwed: Bootstrapping From $0 to $20M ARR in 2 Years with ClickUp Founder & CEO, Zeb Evans
- Navigating the Million Dollar Question: What’s Next For Events? with Amelia Ibarra, GM & SVP @ SaaStr and Alon Alroy, Chief of Customers and Strategy @ Bizzabo
- How Do I Develop Allies in my Company and What Does That Really Mean with Serilda Summers-McGee, Founder & CEO @ Workplace Change
Thursday, Sept 3rd
Our second full day of networking, workshops, and meeting with sponsors.
7 AM Networking and Virtual Sponsor Hall Opens; 1:1 Meetings Begin
7 AM – 4 PM Keynotes, VC Track, and Workshops. Here are a few highlights:
- The 5 things that Kill Startups after Their Seed Rounds and the Secrets to Avoiding Them with Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel
- Four Steps to Scaling to $250M, While Keeping Community at Your Center with Prashanth Chandrasekar, CEO @ Stack Overflow
- What Being a Founder Taught Me About Leadership – Lessons from GitHub’s COO, Erica Brescia
- Imposters Syndrome in the C-Suite with ZoomInfo CEO & Founder, Henry Schuck
- How to Win When There are 1000 Players in Your Market with Salesforce Marketing Cloud’s Adam Blitzer, EVP & GM
- How to pitch Sequoia and the Most Sought After Angels with Stephanie Zhan, Partner @ Sequioa, Brianne Kimmel, Early Stage Investor @ WorkLife.VC, Harry Stebbings, Founder @ Stride. VC, Jeff Morris Jr, Founder @ Chapter One Ventures
- How To Really Disrupt the Big Guys — With Free with Unsplash Mikael Cho, CEO @ Unsplash Kelsey Grant, Host @ Business Casual, Morning Brew
Annual at Home will be unlike any other event you’ve attended. Sign up now as a VIP and start choosing your sessions.
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