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2025 Summit Program

You come to expand your network, learn and exchange ideas with like-minded people on SaaS topics.

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Activities

Master classes

Hands-on knowledge transfer for practitioners. After the master class, you will know how to tackle a specific topic in a very practical way and what you have to pay attention to when implementing it.

Round tables

In this mastermind session, a moderator structures and leads the exchange in a small group. Joint problem-solving and exchange of experiences.

Tech Talks

Each speaker, an experienced CTO or CPO, will give a 3-10 minute intro to a tech topic of their interest. A select group consisting of other CTOs / CPOs / tech founders will then discuss solution approaches and perspectives in a hands-on manner.

After Hours

The Speakers' After Hours is a Q&A on steroids. Instead of asking a few questions on stage, speakers take their most engaged listeners to a separate table where they can take follow-up questions and discuss ideas in a more intimate and actionable way than a stage would allow. We believe that value-creation starts when a potential solution can be discussed with additional context and in depth.

Panels

Smart people discuss their perspectives on B2B SaaS including Q&A.

Roasting

Test your customer sales pitch or software demo with our Sales Roasting Experts.

Learn which common mistakes to avoid and what techniques to use when pitching your product. Leave this session with a new & improved sales pitch to maximise your closing rate with new clients.

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Master Class

SaaS Marketing in the AI Era: Rethinking Strategies

The enterprise SaaS market is saturated with AI claims – making it harder than ever to stand out, build trust, and win enterprise buyers. In this session, you’ll discover how to rethink proven marketing strategies for this new reality, covering brand, content, and in-person tactics you can add to your marketing playbook. You’ll also see practical examples from successful AI-first companies to help inspire and sharpen your approach – whether you sell AI, compete with it, or operate alongside it.

Julia Goelles

VP Marketing @ Parloa

SaaS Marketing in the AI Era: Rethinking Strategies

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The enterprise SaaS market is saturated with AI claims – making it harder than ever to stand out, build trust, and win enterprise buyers. In this session, you’ll discover how to rethink proven marketing strategies for this new reality, covering brand, content, and in-person tactics you can add to your marketing playbook. You’ll also see practical examples from successful AI-first companies to help inspire and sharpen your approach – whether you sell AI, compete with it, or operate alongside it.

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Round table

The business athlete: attaining and maintaining high performance in fast paced environments

This session will guide you in building a high-performance culture, identifying your business champions, and leveraging High-Performance Sports Psychology techniques to accelerate your company's success.

Isabel Delgado

EVP Strategy & Inv. at Sport Biz

The business athlete: attaining and maintaining high performance in fast paced environments

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This session will guide you in building a high-performance culture, identifying your business champions, and leveraging High-Performance Sports Psychology techniques to accelerate your company's success.

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Round table

How to acquire customers with outbound emails in 2025?

In this talk I will explain why outbound emails are effective as a customer acquisition channel. I will compare how outbound emails perform against other acquisition channels like paid ads or SEO. And I will show what are are the elements of a successful outbound email campaign in 2025 (spoiler alert: what worked for outbound emails in 2020 does not work in 2025)

Margaret Sikora

CEO at Woodpecker.co

How to acquire customers with outbound emails in 2025?

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In this talk I will explain why outbound emails are effective as a customer acquisition channel. I will compare how outbound emails perform against other acquisition channels like paid ads or SEO. And I will show what are are the elements of a successful outbound email campaign in 2025 (spoiler alert: what worked for outbound emails in 2020 does not work in 2025)

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Master Class

The Future of GTM: How AI, Automation & Allbound are reshaping Marketing, Sales & RevOps

Growth at all costs by "throwing more people at more GTM problems"  is dead. But what is next? Is AI replacing GTM professionals? And is automation the answer for scaling efficiently? Is outbound dead and "nothing works anymore for lead gen"? Learn more how to 3-5x ARR in 1-2 years despite funding, the ongoing trust crisis and all the LinkedIn myths with hands-on case studies from 400+ B2B software clients in 6+ years.

Manuel Hartmann

Founder @ SalesPlaybook

The Future of GTM: How AI, Automation & Allbound are reshaping Marketing, Sales & RevOps

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Growth at all costs by "throwing more people at more GTM problems"  is dead. But what is next? Is AI replacing GTM professionals? And is automation the answer for scaling efficiently? Is outbound dead and "nothing works anymore for lead gen"? Learn more how to 3-5x ARR in 1-2 years despite funding, the ongoing trust crisis and all the LinkedIn myths with hands-on case studies from 400+ B2B software clients in 6+ years.

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Master Class

Fast Forever: How to Keep Shipping at Speed as Your SaaS Company Grows

Every SaaS company wants to move fast, until tech debt, bloated teams, poor technology choices, and unclear product direction slow them down. In this talk, Nick Franklin shares ChartMogul’s journey from tech debt hell to hyper-speed innovation, and the hard-won strategies that helped their team regain product development velocity 10 years in. You’ll learn what to fix early, what to avoid entirely, and why founders must always stay deeply involved in product and engineering.

Nick Franklin

Founder & CEO at ChartMogul

Fast Forever: How to Keep Shipping at Speed as Your SaaS Company Grows

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Every SaaS company wants to move fast, until tech debt, bloated teams, poor technology choices, and unclear product direction slow them down. In this talk, Nick Franklin shares ChartMogul’s journey from tech debt hell to hyper-speed innovation, and the hard-won strategies that helped their team regain product development velocity 10 years in. You’ll learn what to fix early, what to avoid entirely, and why founders must always stay deeply involved in product and engineering.

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Master Class

How worldclass revenue teams build their AI-native tool stacks

What tools do world-class revenue teams actually use? All-in-one or best-in-breed? What part of the funnel is still manual, what has been replaced by AI? Join us for a deep dive discovering toolstacks generating real ROI.

Mohamed Chahin

Founder & CEO at Twain

How worldclass revenue teams build their AI-native tool stacks

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What tools do world-class revenue teams actually use? All-in-one or best-in-breed? What part of the funnel is still manual, what has been replaced by AI? Join us for a deep dive discovering toolstacks generating real ROI.

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Tech Talk

Success with AI Agents: How to get the most out of your AI assistants

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Viktoria Ruubel

Chief Product Officer at Pipedrive

Success with AI Agents: How to get the most out of your AI assistants

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Round table

GTM: How to build a repetitive sales cycle for API-based business

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Sauraj Gambhir

Co-Founder at Prior Labs

GTM: How to build a repetitive sales cycle for API-based business

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Panel

GTM

When Product isn't the Problem: Cracking B2B Sales in a Noisy Market

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Lisa Gradow

Founder & CEO of Fides

Dr. Kilian Schmidt

Co-Founder & CEO @ Kertos

When Product isn't the Problem: Cracking B2B Sales in a Noisy Market

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Round table

How to create high-performing Fundraising-FOMO

Iskender has developed the Triple-P Framework for Fundraising Performance: Psychology, Pitching, Process. He is teaching it in his FundraisingCOUP program that has helped founders like Malte Kosub (Parloa) to raise >20m € (and then another $66m). In this workshop, Iskender will provide tech founders with actionable fundraising hacks, enabling them to create healthy FOMO and become investor magnets.

Iskender Dirik

Partner @ Delin Ventures

How to create high-performing Fundraising-FOMO

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Iskender has developed the Triple-P Framework for Fundraising Performance: Psychology, Pitching, Process. He is teaching it in his FundraisingCOUP program that has helped founders like Malte Kosub (Parloa) to raise >20m € (and then another $66m). In this workshop, Iskender will provide tech founders with actionable fundraising hacks, enabling them to create healthy FOMO and become investor magnets.

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Master Class

Learnings from 10 years of pricing iterations

Gaetan will give you a VP Sales perspective on some key aspects of the art of pricing and how those have impacted the growth of his revenue engine at Algolia. Amongst other topics, we will talk about:
How and why pricing and packaging should reflect your company’s North Star and vision.
The unicorn packaging: the one that will optimise market adoption, drive customer expansion and maximise feature monetisation.
Why updating your pricing shouldn’t be scary.
Join this session to bring your pricing strategy to the next level.

Gaëtan Gachet

Executive in Residence at Singular

Learnings from 10 years of pricing iterations

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Gaetan will give you a VP Sales perspective on some key aspects of the art of pricing and how those have impacted the growth of his revenue engine at Algolia. Amongst other topics, we will talk about:
How and why pricing and packaging should reflect your company’s North Star and vision.
The unicorn packaging: the one that will optimise market adoption, drive customer expansion and maximise feature monetisation.
Why updating your pricing shouldn’t be scary.
Join this session to bring your pricing strategy to the next level.

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Round table

How to Sell AI Without the Hype

Leonie shares her hard-earned lessons from over 150 AI customer projects in the German Mittelstand – from the first webinars and conversations all the way to final buying decisions.
Learn how to position AI in pitch decks, demos, and first meetings in a way that builds real trust – and even wins over skeptics like Herbert and Sybille. 😉

Leonie Althaus

Co-Founder & CEO at traide AI

How to Sell AI Without the Hype

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Leonie shares her hard-earned lessons from over 150 AI customer projects in the German Mittelstand – from the first webinars and conversations all the way to final buying decisions.
Learn how to position AI in pitch decks, demos, and first meetings in a way that builds real trust – and even wins over skeptics like Herbert and Sybille. 😉

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Master Class

The Multiplier Effect: How Partnerships Drive Scalable Go-To-Market Wins

Using multipliers to enter a market sounds like an intriguing strategy due to scalable economics. Malte shares what it took to build a scalable partnership model to target SME and enterprise customers in a highly competitive environment.

Malte Rau

CEO & Co-Founder @ Pliant

The Multiplier Effect: How Partnerships Drive Scalable Go-To-Market Wins

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Using multipliers to enter a market sounds like an intriguing strategy due to scalable economics. Malte shares what it took to build a scalable partnership model to target SME and enterprise customers in a highly competitive environment.

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Round table

From FOMO to Frameworks: Launching AI Responsibly Without Getting Fined

Every SaaS founder wants to integrate AI, but very few know how to stay compliant — especially with things like LLMs, automated decision-making, or user-facing AI tools - irrelevant if it is tools which are used or actually the core of either new products or the whole business model. These unanswered questions can quickly become a real threat to the business. On the other hand covering it helps them move fast and stay compliant.
What we will cover during the roundtable:
- Top 5 AI features that accidentally trigger regulatory obligations
- Common traps: automated CV screening, chatbots, scoring tools, AI-powered CRMs
- How to integrate AI compliance in dev sprints and GTM
- “Red flag” checklist: what to ask your product/legal team before any AI rollout

Miloš Djurdjević

Co-Founder @ heyData

From FOMO to Frameworks: Launching AI Responsibly Without Getting Fined

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Every SaaS founder wants to integrate AI, but very few know how to stay compliant — especially with things like LLMs, automated decision-making, or user-facing AI tools - irrelevant if it is tools which are used or actually the core of either new products or the whole business model. These unanswered questions can quickly become a real threat to the business. On the other hand covering it helps them move fast and stay compliant.
What we will cover during the roundtable:
- Top 5 AI features that accidentally trigger regulatory obligations
- Common traps: automated CV screening, chatbots, scoring tools, AI-powered CRMs
- How to integrate AI compliance in dev sprints and GTM
- “Red flag” checklist: what to ask your product/legal team before any AI rollout

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Round table

All In on Partnerships: Why Betting Big Pays Off (If You Play It Right)

Going all in on partnerships can unlock massive growth—but only if you choose the right partners, stay focused, and execute with a clear strategy. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to avoid the common traps of scattered efforts, how to define a partner strategy that aligns with your business goals, and how to turn collaboration into consistent revenue. Expect battle-tested insights and practical tools you can start using immediately.

Niklas Hanitsch

Founder & CEO at SECJUR

All In on Partnerships: Why Betting Big Pays Off (If You Play It Right)

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Going all in on partnerships can unlock massive growth—but only if you choose the right partners, stay focused, and execute with a clear strategy. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to avoid the common traps of scattered efforts, how to define a partner strategy that aligns with your business goals, and how to turn collaboration into consistent revenue. Expect battle-tested insights and practical tools you can start using immediately.

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Master Class

Data-Driven GTM Diagnostic: How to Read the Right Data to Uncover What’s Broken in Your Go-To-Market Engine

Ready to ignite your growth engine? This masterclass, "Data-Driven GTM Diagnostic," will equip you with the foundational theory you need to understand the essential prerequisites for building a data-optimized go-to-market machine. But I won't stop there! I'll dive into a real-world case study, which data I actually analyzed and why, pinpoint the challenges I uncovered, and reveal the concrete steps I took to fix them and what were the results. Learn how to read the right signals and transform data into actionable insights that drive tangible growth.

Michael J. Jaeger

Founder @ Cremanski & Co

Data-Driven GTM Diagnostic: How to Read the Right Data to Uncover What’s Broken in Your Go-To-Market Engine

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Ready to ignite your growth engine? This masterclass, "Data-Driven GTM Diagnostic," will equip you with the foundational theory you need to understand the essential prerequisites for building a data-optimized go-to-market machine. But I won't stop there! I'll dive into a real-world case study, which data I actually analyzed and why, pinpoint the challenges I uncovered, and reveal the concrete steps I took to fix them and what were the results. Learn how to read the right signals and transform data into actionable insights that drive tangible growth.

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Round table

GTM hiring and sales concepts many start-ups get wrong

In this session, Elvin shares a perspective on what actually works when building your first sales team—and what doesn’t. Expect a candid, interactive walkthrough of common hiring and GTM traps that many companies fall into. If you're navigating the complexities of early-stage growth or advising startups on commercial hiring, this session offers practical frameworks and real-world lessons to take back to your team or portfolio.
Elvin has hands-on experience building and operating GTM teams in early-stage SaaS companies. For the past 5 years he's been working closely with founders and VCs of SaaS companies supporting GTM hiring and organisational strategy through Bluebird in DACH.

Elvin Kingma

Country Manager Germany at Bluebird

GTM hiring and sales concepts many start-ups get wrong

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In this session, Elvin shares a perspective on what actually works when building your first sales team—and what doesn’t. Expect a candid, interactive walkthrough of common hiring and GTM traps that many companies fall into. If you're navigating the complexities of early-stage growth or advising startups on commercial hiring, this session offers practical frameworks and real-world lessons to take back to your team or portfolio.
Elvin has hands-on experience building and operating GTM teams in early-stage SaaS companies. For the past 5 years he's been working closely with founders and VCs of SaaS companies supporting GTM hiring and organisational strategy through Bluebird in DACH.

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Tech Talk

AI as a Teammate? What We’re Learning in Product

AI is already changing how product teams work — from research and ideation to communication and planning. In this workshop, I’ll share how we’ve started using AI as a practical teammate in our product process: where it’s added real value, where it hasn’t, and what we’ve learned along the way. You’ll get actionable examples, honest insights, and space to exchange ideas with others exploring similar paths.

Philipp Masekowitz

Chief Product Officer @ Hero Software

AI as a Teammate? What We’re Learning in Product

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AI is already changing how product teams work — from research and ideation to communication and planning. In this workshop, I’ll share how we’ve started using AI as a practical teammate in our product process: where it’s added real value, where it hasn’t, and what we’ve learned along the way. You’ll get actionable examples, honest insights, and space to exchange ideas with others exploring similar paths.

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Round table

The AI-Driven Marketing Story: Human Creativity & Machine Intelligence

Join us for an interactive roundtable where we’ll co-create the marketing journey of a fictional SaaS brand—exploring how AI and human creativity combine to drive growth. Through live storytelling and group decisions, you’ll uncover fresh strategies for launch, personalization, and brand voice. Walk away with actionable insights and a practical framework to apply to your own marketing efforts.

Jan-Willem Blom

Creative Director at WebinarGeek

The AI-Driven Marketing Story: Human Creativity & Machine Intelligence

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Join us for an interactive roundtable where we’ll co-create the marketing journey of a fictional SaaS brand—exploring how AI and human creativity combine to drive growth. Through live storytelling and group decisions, you’ll uncover fresh strategies for launch, personalization, and brand voice. Walk away with actionable insights and a practical framework to apply to your own marketing efforts.

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Tech Talk

Growth vs. Gravity: Mastering Technical Debt in the Scale-Up Journey

In a scale-up, the pressure to deliver new features can feel relentless. But what happens when the cracks in your foundation – your technical debt – widen? This talk explores building a culture that effectively manages technical debt in a high-growth environment so you can keep shipping quickly.

John Shiles

CPO at talentsconnect

Growth vs. Gravity: Mastering Technical Debt in the Scale-Up Journey

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In a scale-up, the pressure to deliver new features can feel relentless. But what happens when the cracks in your foundation – your technical debt – widen? This talk explores building a culture that effectively manages technical debt in a high-growth environment so you can keep shipping quickly.

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Tech Talk

AI Product Management – From Gut Feeling to Product Machine

AI is transforming how produ"ct teams think, build, and make decisions. In this session, we’ll discuss how CPOs and their teams can work faster, better, and more data-driven by strategically leveraging AI tools in both strategic and operational workflows. Together, we’ll sketch out the vision of an "AI-native" product team – beyond the hype, grounded in real-world practice.

Malte Scholz

Co-Founder @ airfocus

AI Product Management – From Gut Feeling to Product Machine

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AI is transforming how produ"ct teams think, build, and make decisions. In this session, we’ll discuss how CPOs and their teams can work faster, better, and more data-driven by strategically leveraging AI tools in both strategic and operational workflows. Together, we’ll sketch out the vision of an "AI-native" product team – beyond the hype, grounded in real-world practice.

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Round table

How to Make SMB SaaS Sales Work with €2K ACVs and 35 Sales Managers

Everyone says it’s impossible to scale a sales team with low ACVs. We didn’t listen. At Superchat, we’ve built a high-performance sales engine with over 35 reps, 6,000+ customers, and an average ACV of just €2,000.In this talk, I’ll share how we made it work: the systems, metrics, and mindset behind scaling SMB SaaS sales and why speed and sales cycle time matter more than deal size.

Yilmaz Köknar

Co-Founder & CEO at Superchat

How to Make SMB SaaS Sales Work with €2K ACVs and 35 Sales Managers

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Everyone says it’s impossible to scale a sales team with low ACVs. We didn’t listen. At Superchat, we’ve built a high-performance sales engine with over 35 reps, 6,000+ customers, and an average ACV of just €2,000.In this talk, I’ll share how we made it work: the systems, metrics, and mindset behind scaling SMB SaaS sales and why speed and sales cycle time matter more than deal size.

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Tech Talk

Architecting for Scale: Building AI-Native Enterprise SaaS Applications

In this session, I’ll share the technical decisions, trade-offs, and challenges encountered while scaling an AI-native enterprise SaaS platform for demanding, real-world environments. You’ll hear practical insights on model hosting, load balancing, cost management, and integration—what worked, what didn’t, and how to navigate the evolving landscape of LLM-driven infrastructure.

Niklas Hoelterhoff

Founding Engineer at Langdock

Architecting for Scale: Building AI-Native Enterprise SaaS Applications

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In this session, I’ll share the technical decisions, trade-offs, and challenges encountered while scaling an AI-native enterprise SaaS platform for demanding, real-world environments. You’ll hear practical insights on model hosting, load balancing, cost management, and integration—what worked, what didn’t, and how to navigate the evolving landscape of LLM-driven infrastructure.

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