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SaaSiest 2021 - A learning and networking experience unlike any other!

SaaSiest 2021 is presented by SaaS Nordic and provides a forum for SaaS Founders and professionals to share and discuss trends, best practices, and deep dive into relevant topics! We have the pleasure to present to you a lineup of speakers with high impact, no-fluff content and a diverse range of voices and perspectives that will generate engaging discussions, challenge attendees to think differently, and give participants takeaways they can implement immediately

Some of the themes that will be addressed:

• B2B SaaS Marketing in the era of the buyer – how to break through the noise and become a buying enablement engine
• The transition from startup to scaleup – the evolution of organization, culture, and process to make the transition
• Unit economics and pricing strategy management – SaaS is all about maximizing those subscription margins down the road
• Internationalization, particularly going west – the key elements to get right when expanding outside of the Nordics
• Financing and Bootstrapping – the good the bad and the ugly of the different financing alternatives to scale your business
• PLG and Customer Success is the new growth engine – learn the ins and outs from the best in class on how to make the transition
• Networking and Roundtable – sessions dedicated for you to directly interact with your peers and the speakers in the different session rooms
• Award ceremony – join us to celebrate the SaaSiest companies and people of the Nordics

Join us for these two knowledge-packed days and take part in all the great presentations, panel discussions, and roundtable chats. This will truly leave you inspired and send you back home with some new ideas for your own business!

Welcome to the SaaSiest 2021 – we cant wait to see you all there!

WHERE
Online

WHEN
Thursday to Friday
September 16 to 17, 2021


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Why you must attend SaaSiest 2021

  • Learn from the best: 40+ thought leaders from the hottest SaaS organizations are sharing their insights on all things SaaS.
  • Ability to network with your peers in the space – exchange ideas, best practices, find new collaborative partners via our networking and professional speed dating sessions.
  • Keep up with the existing trends and more importantly learn about the upcoming ones that define our space.

 

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Conference Schedule

The schedule is just a draft at this point. Will be updated continuously. Stay tuned!

  • Day 1

    September 16, 2021

  • Welcome and opening of SaaSiest 2021 - the largest peer-to-peer SaaS community event in the Nordics!

  • What does it take to change the future? Emil Eifrem Founder & CEO, Neo4j shares his view as to how he decided to take on Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle, on their home turf, with a concept that completely disrupted an established space! Neo4j recently raised $325 million at a more than $2 billion valuation and is one of the latest SaaS unicorns out of the Nordics.

  • Marketing is all about "Buyer enablement"! Fireside chat with Sussane Rönnqvist Ahmadi , VP International Marketing at Hubspot and our own Thomas & Daniel to discuss the state of B2B SaaS marketing. The main focus will be the role of Marketing as the engine to support "Buying enablement"!

  • Making your SaaS business stand out in a crowded market can be tough. The following discussion will focus on how you can boost your visibility, engage with your customers, and ultimately, grow your business in a noisy market!

  • Join us for the roundtable discussions that are live and active in the lounge area!

  • What the heck is unit economics and why is it more important than ever for SaaS companies? Erik Bakstad CEO Ardoq presents his view on this critical element of understanding the revenue and cost of a business on a per-unit basis!

  • As Nordic businesses we have one thing in common - our domestic market is too small and we need to go global early on! This panel discussion will focus on how we best scale our Sales organization to meet global demand! Moderated by: Sascha E.H. Skydsgaard, CSO, Timelog

  • Join us for the roundtable discussions that are live and active in the lounge area!

  • Do you want to see the stars of tomorrow coming out of the Nordic SaaS scene? Join us as the finalists pitch their businesses and receive live feedback! Jury: Josef Fallesen CEO & Founder at Vaam (Moderator), Magnus B. Willumsen Investment Manager at Viking Venture, Ingrid Bonde Akerlind Investment Professional at Oxx and Sami Ahvenniemi General Partner at Vendep Capital and

  • How do you design Go To Market fit, and why is it so important? Hear from one of the experts in the area, Mikael Johnsson Partner at Oxx, how you validate Go To Market fit and the critical elements to get it right!

  • This discussion will address the good, bad and the ugly of bootstrapping - learn from 3 founders that created multimillion Euro companies before taking in any external cash! Moderated by serial entrepreneur Taina Sipilä.

  • Join us for the roundtable discussions that are live and active in the lounge area!

  • SaaS businesses are all about managing and develop your customer subscriptions! But what are the real key drivers for growth and how do you prepare your organization for further scale? Younium and their customer Kognity will share practical examples of making sure opportunities for increased MRR are captured, scaling effects through automation, and how they enabled their customers to self-service.

  • This panel discussion will address the role of customer success in hypergrowth SaaS companies. The panelist will discuss the importance of Customer Success and how you set up the organization to make sure your customers are successful! Moderated by Jennifer Rose Cramer, Planhat

  • How does Revenue Intelligence enable organizations to shift from making decisions based on opinion to reality? Learn how you as a Sales leader can up-level the skills of your people, better execute deals and retain customers, and measure the impact of strategic initiatives with Revenue Intelligence!

  • It is not always the best product that wins! However, the company with the strongest Positioning strategy always wins! Bob Wright, Partner at Firebrick out of San Francisco shares his 7 golden rules for Positioning when going to the States!

  • Join us on a virtual Reality meet-up for some drinks - best suited for Oculus users :)!

  • Day 2

    September 17, 2021

  • So you took your business to 10m ARR - congrats! Now what? Fredrik Skantze, CEO and Co-Founder of fast-growing Funnel.io shares the opportunities and challenges that come with being a 10+m ARR business.

  • Magnus Willumsen, Investment Manager at Viking Venture, helps us demystify SaaS pricing. The session focuses on how you could grow your ARR through value based pricing and takes you through some key learnings from price changes across several SaaS companies.

  • Are we all going back to the office? Or is the new reality some kind of a hybrid approach? The panelists will discuss what this means for building culture, enabling old and new colleagues, and for collaboration among teams!

  • Join us for the roundtable discussions that are live and active in the lounge area!

  • Fireside chat with Ola Sars, CEO & Co-Founder Soundtrack Your Brand, and Despina Exadaktylou, Founder Product-Led Growth Hub, about the challenging and sometimes dangerous path to transform a well-performing Sales and Marketing Led organization into a pure Product Led Growth organization!

  • In an ever-changing world, we've seen buying interactions and the way we meet with our customers change! In this session, Mathias Thulin, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer shares his view on how to master selling SaaS in a remote world!

  • Join us for the roundtable discussions that are live and active in the lounge area!

  • Never before in history have the current record levels of both private and public equity market liquidity been seen, especially for digital/SaaS companies. All doors are therefore open at the same time for tech entrepreneurs and investors looking to transact – M&A, capital raising, IPO, and now also SPAC’s. This is of course very good news but navigating this complex landscape can be a challenge and it is therefore important to ask the right questions before deciding on which door to take. This session will discuss the Nordic market development and factors to consider when deciding, including pitfalls to avoid.

  • We're all about automation, but at what cost to the personal approach? In this session, Ollie Sharpe, VP of Revenue, and Natasha Evans, Head of Customer Success EMEA help us understand where to invest in personalization and when to focus on automation across your customer touchpoints!

  • Panel discussion on when to consider a channel strategy, why, and how to get it airborne successfully. Learn from this group of panelists with successful channels programs to support their growth! Moderated by: Jesper Larsen, inRiver

  • Join us for the roundtable discussions that are live and active in the lounge area!

  • Learn how to level up your user onboarding experience, get more users to experience those "Eureka!" moments of their own, and turn them into raving fans of your product with Product-Led Onboarding

  • Christian Lund, CPO & Co-Founder at hypergrowth Templafy shares with us, an alternative path, on how to go global from day 1 which has helped their business grow multiple times year over year!

  • Awards Session! Add to calendar Join us for this last session as we will announce the following category winners: 1)SaaSiest Pitch competition winner 2)SaaSiest Company of the year 3)SaaSiest Person of the year

Our Speakers

SaaS Nordic

SaaS Nordic

Emil Eifrem

Emil Eifrem

Founder & CEO, Neo4j
Susanne Rönnqvist Ahmadi

Susanne Rönnqvist Ahmadi

VP International Marketing, Hubspot
Jennifer Rose Cramer

Jennifer Rose Cramer

Vice President of Customer Success, Planhat
Mikael Johnsson

Mikael Johnsson

Co-Founder and General Partner, Oxx VC

Johanna Fagerstedt

Johanna Fagerstedt

CMO, Quinyx
Daniel Lilliehöök

Daniel Lilliehöök

Partner at GP Bullhound
Sigrun Dora Saevinsdottir

Sigrun Dora Saevinsdottir

COO, LS Retail
Mathias Thulin

Mathias Thulin

Co-Founder, GetAccept
Johanna Nyhill

Johanna Nyhill

People and Culture Director, Sinch

Roosa-Maria Manninen

Roosa-Maria Manninen

Large Accounts Sales Lead, Vainu
Christian Lund

Christian Lund

Co-Founder & CPO, Templafy
Taina Sipilä

Taina Sipilä

CEO & Founder, Dear Lucy
Oliver Quittek

Oliver Quittek

VP Sales EMEA & APAC, Falcon
Gwen Lafage

Gwen Lafage

VP Brand, Sinch

Niclas Mollin

Niclas Mollin

Co-Founder and CEO, Occtoo
Mayra Dos Santos Marques

Mayra Dos Santos Marques

People and Culture Partne, Dixa
Jesper Larsen

Jesper Larsen

VP Customer Accounts
Jessica Dannemann

Jessica Dannemann

SVP and Head of Worldwide Partner Ecosystem at Optimizely
Nicholas Johansson

Nicholas Johansson

Co-Founder, Kognity

Niclas Lilja

Niclas Lilja

Founder & CEO, Younium
Pamela Alvarez

Pamela Alvarez

VP Customer Success , Dixa
Magnus Willumsen

Magnus Willumsen

Investment Manager , Viking Venture
Wendy Harris

Wendy Harris

Head of EMEA, Gong
Charlotte Ekelund

Charlotte Ekelund

CEO & Co-Founder, Teemyco

Natasha Evans

Natasha Evans

Head of Customer Success EMEA, SalesLoft
Erik Bakstad

Erik Bakstad

Co-Founder & CEO, Ardoq
Katrine Rasmussen

Katrine Rasmussen

CMO, Pixelz
James Ireson

James Ireson

CRO, Funnel
Wilma Eriksson

Wilma Eriksson

Co-Founder, vloxq

Ramli John

Ramli John

Managing Director, ProductLed
Sascha E.H. Skydsgaard

Sascha E.H. Skydsgaard

CSO, Timelog
Ollie Sharpe

Ollie Sharpe

VP of Revenue, SalesLoft
Niilo Fredrikson

Niilo Fredrikson

CEO, Efecte
Bob Wright

Bob Wright

Partner, Firebrick Consulting

Mikael Thuneberg

Mikael Thuneberg

CEO & Founder, Supermetrics
Ola Sars

Ola Sars

Founder & CEO, Soundtrack Your Brand
Despina Exadaktylou

Despina Exadaktylou

Founder, Product-Led Growth Hub
Fredrik Skantze

Fredrik Skantze

CEO & Co-Founder, Funnel
Martin Jensen

Martin Jensen

CEO, Centra

Emma Wallin

Emma Wallin

Country Manager Norway, Monta AS
Charlotte Blicher

Charlotte Blicher

CMO, Digizuite
Niclas Ramon Staberg

Niclas Ramon Staberg

Chief Customer Officer, Hive Streaming
Josef Fallesen

Josef Fallesen

CEO & Founder, Vaam
Alex Farmer

Alex Farmer

VP of Customer Success, Cognite

Marcus Carloni

Marcus Carloni

Founder & CEO, Flowbox
Nico Blier-Silvestri

Nico Blier-Silvestri

Co-Founder & CEO, Platypus
Daniel Nackovski

Daniel Nackovski

Co-Founder, SaaS Nordic
Thomas Sjöberg

Thomas Sjöberg

Co-Founder, SaaS Nordic

Event Partners – be part of creating the SaaSiest event of the Nordics

As a member of our community, we wanted to inform you that we’re now welcoming a selected amount of event partners to join us in making this a great event!

Are you interested in learning how your organization can participate, support this initiative, and get exposure in this great community?

Let us know if you’d like to grab a seat at the table – at the SaaSiest event in the Nordics!

For partner inquiries please contact us at [email protected]

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