Software as a service (SaaS) is an ever-evolving business, particularly now with AI altering the software program panorama but once more. It’s why we devoted a day and a stage to the subject at Ztoog Disrupt 2023.
We teased a few of the programming just a few weeks again, and at present we’re excited to announce that the SaaS Stage agenda is complete!
We’ll discuss to a few of the sharpest minds and professionals in the business — executives from early- and late-stage SaaS corporations, leaders from the infrastructure corporations that energy the business and the enterprise capitalists who fund them. Explore and revel in, and we hope you’ll be part of us at the SaaS Stage!
The complete SaaS Stage agenda at Ztoog Disrupt 2023
Selling Your SaaS Startup: The VC View
There are many causes to promote your SaaS startup, however what’s the investor perspective? This panel seems to be at why VCs would possibly assist your transfer to promote, and once they would possibly encourage you to maintain going.
With Whit Bouck, managing director, Insight Partners; Cathy Gao, associate, Sapphire Ventures; and Megan Reynolds, principal, Vertex Ventures.
What’s Next for GitHub?
GitHub has lengthy been at the core of developer workflows, however over the course of the previous couple of years, the firm began going nicely past being a code repository and collaboration service. To a big diploma, that’s due to its Copilot code completion service. In this session, we’ll speak about what’s subsequent for GitHub because it expands past its core service underneath the possession of Microsoft.
With Thomas Dohmke, CEO, GitHub.
The Workplace of the Future Is Here
How are you able to construct a simpler and productive distant work tradition? Katmai affords a breakthrough manner for distant groups to work. The firm’s 3D digital workplace brings folks collectively in a single area to offer extra pure communication, unlock real-time collaboration and cut back assembly fatigue. Katmai combines video conferencing with immersive, photo-realistic environments for corporations to fulfill, work and really feel like a group — not a Brady Bunch field the place everybody disappears when the name ends. Join Erik Braund for a digital go to to Katmai HQ and the future of labor. PS: We’re in personal beta with a ready checklist. TC Disrupt attendees get to move the velvet rope.
With Erik Braund, founder and CEO, Katmai Tech. Presented by Katmai.
Cloudflare’s Journey from Ztoog Disrupt Battlefield to Public Company
Cloudflare launched onstage at Ztoog Disrupt in 2010. Today it’s a public firm. We will chat with the co-founders about their journey and the challenges they face in at present’s funding local weather.
With Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO, Cloudflare; and Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder, president and COO, Cloudflare.
AI for SaaS
The use circumstances for generative AI are infinite, so it’s no shock that just about each new and present SaaS startup now needs to make it a part of their core product. In this session, we’ll speak about find out how to greatest do this, irrespective of whether or not you have got a longtime product or simply beginning out — all whereas doing so responsibly.
Ines Chami, chief scientist, Numbers Station; David DeSanto, chief product officer, GitLab; and Navrina Singh, founder and CEO, Credo AI.
What’s Next for Atlassian?
In some ways, Atlassian pioneered the trendy method to SaaS advertising and marketing and monetization. After careers at Microsoft and Meta, Rajan joined Atlassian as its CTO final 12 months. The firm spent the previous couple of years transferring lots of its prospects to the cloud. We’ll discuss to him about the present state of this undertaking and his modernizing Atlassian’s personal infrastructure and transferring its personal merchandise to the cloud.
With Rajeev Rajan, CTO, Atlassian
The State of Quantum
Quantum computing is rapidly transferring from a science-fiction idea to a know-how that has the potential to vary the state of computing. In this session, we’ll speak about the state of the business, the challenges forward and the potential dangers concerned.
With Joe Fitzsimons, founder and CEO, Horizon Quantum Computing; Itamar Sivan, co-founder and CEO, Quantum Machines; and Faye Wattleton, co-founder and EVP, EeroQ.
Certified SaaS
To promote your SaaS product to regulated industries, you have to to get licensed. At a minimal, most enterprises now count on you to have a SOC 2 certification, however there are additionally the ever-present GDPR, ISO/IEC 27001 and HIPAA, amongst many others. In this session, we’ll discuss to Vanta, which helps startups acquire these certifications, and HR SaaS resolution Remote, which resulting from its international nature must adjust to a plethora of native guidelines.
With Christina Cacioppo, co-founder and CEO, Vanta; and Job van der Voort, co-founder and CEO, Remote.
Scale at All Cost?
What are the greatest methods to scale a SaaS startup in 2023? With the markets altering and potential SaaS patrons reevaluating how they allocate their spend, it’s clear that we’re not in 2021 anymore. We’ll discuss to VCs and skilled founders about the ways they suppose SaaS startups ought to use at present to continue to grow — and the ones they need to keep away from.
With Jill Chase, associate, CapitalG; and Guillermo Rauch, creator of Next.js and founder and CEO, Vercel.
Ztoog Disrupt 2023 runs September 19–21 in San Francisco. Buy your move earlier than September 15 at 11:59 p.m. PDT and save as much as $400.
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