Where SaaS Meets AI
What’s Real. What Isn’t. And What … Will Be.
Sep 10-12, 2024 / SF Bay Area / 40 Acre Campus
The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal
AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000. How did they get here?
OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal shares how far AI has come since the launch of ChatGPT, how it can change the way we work for the better, and what the future holds.
SaaStr AI Summit 2024. Where SaaS Meets AI.
✨ AI is a force of nature in B2B now. But what’s real in SaaS? And what isn’t? What’s working — and what isn’t … yet? What are customers really buying? And being promised? An all-day deep dive with the Best of The Best:
☁️ 2,500+ Cloud Founders, Execs, CXOs, VCs and More
💻 100+ Demos of the Best Apps in B2B AI
🗣️ Leaders from Cohere, GitHub, Writer, nVidia, Zapier, Glean, Synthesia, DeepL, Open AI and much more!!
🤝 300+ Braindates, 1-on-1s, and Pitches with The Best in AI
🗺️ 40 Acre Campus to Explore, Play and Learn
Learn From
Andew Bialecki, CEO Founder, Klaviyo
Tim Zheng, CEO Apollo
Janie Lee, Head Product, Loom
Rajan Sheth, VP. Marketing, Cohere
Alison Harmon, Head of Growth, Open AI
Jen Taylor President, Plaid
And so many more to be announced soon …
What to Expect at SaaStr AI Summit:
SaaStr AI Summit is an all-day and night deep dive inside SaaStr Annual 2024 with what really matters in SaaS and AI.
We’ll have 4 deep dive tracks and 100s and 100s of roundtables, braindates, mentorship sessions and more. Meet with top execs. Last year we had incredible leaders from AWS, Google Cloud, OpenAI, Anthropic and much more. Meet with the top VCs in AI from Lightspeed to Accel and more. Meet with the top founders and execs.
SaaStr AI Summit is about what really matters in AI today. Not hype. Not one phone talking to another. It’s how AI is dramatically changing the world of SaaS. And how you can take advantage of that trend. And not be left behind by it.
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What The Future Holds for SaaS and AI: David Sacks, Craft Ventures + Jason Lemkin, SaaStr
80% of VC funding in Cloud and SaaS is going into AI now. What does that mean for founders? And what operating metrics are critical to getting funded now?
The Chat GPT Growth Story: How AI is Changing the Way We Work with OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal
AI is rapidly changing the way we work. It’s only been ten months since ChatGPT launched, and since then, we’ve seen a huge increase in AI applications being created and used globally. After the launch of ChatGPT, they went from 30 leads a week to 10,000. How did they get here?
OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal shares how far AI has come since the launch of ChatGPT, how it can change the way we work for the better, and what the future holds.
How Enterprise Companies are Buying AI (or Not) with ContextualAI, Anthropic, and Glean
Speakers:
Douwe Kiela, CEO of ContextualAI
Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic
Arvind Jain, CEO of Glean
Sandhya Hedge, General Partner at Unusual VC
Who Will Win the GTM AI Race — Startups vs. Incumbents? With Stage 2 Capital Co-founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge
We’re on the brink of one of the biggest technological advancements of our lifetime — AI. For the first time in twenty years, we have a blank canvas, complete artistic freedom to reimagine everything in B2B software.
At SaaStr Annual’s AI Day, Mark Roberge, co-founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital, takes the stage to have a bake-off between startups and incumbents when it comes to who will win the AI Go-to-Market race.
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
VC Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures Theory Ventures , joined by Jordan Tigani, Founder and CEO of Mother Duck Maggie Hott, GTM at @OpenAI , and Sharon Zhou ,Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini.
How IBM Sees AI Changing the Game for Companies of All Sizes with IBM’s VP of Technology and Director of Startups
AI adoption has grown exponentially over the past year and it has likely doubled from its more than 2.5x growth in the last few months alone. At SaaStr Annual’s AI Day, IBM’s VP of Software and Technology Raj Datta and Director of Startups Kylie Rutherford shared how AI is changing the game for companies of all sizes.
How Generative AI Will Turn Traditional SaaS Models On Their Head with AWS VP of Generative Builders Adam Seligman
Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS.
What does that mean? That many of the standard assumptions and ways of doing SaaS will change a lot. Adam has one core belief above all else — “You don’t have to be *this tall* to ride the rides. Anyone should be able to build any Cloud solutions they want. You don’t have to be an expert to be able to build things.”
He believes we’re rapidly approaching that new world where anyone can build a great SaaS product. Keep reading to learn what the four most common SaaS assumptions are, and watch Adam knock each one down with the power of generative AI
6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners
Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned.
TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI.
The Where, When, and How of AI with Theory Ventures, Open AI, MotherDuck and Lamini
The latest insights on AI from leading VC Tomasz Tunguz of Theory Ventures Theory Ventures , joined by Jordan Tigani, Founder and CEO of Mother Duck Maggie Hott, GTM at @OpenAI , and Sharon Zhou ,Co-Founder and CEO of Lamini. Together they discuss the new architecture for building Software as a Service (SaaS) applications with data & machine learning at their core. The discussion centers around the transformative role of data, which has become an integral part of the production stack.
The speakers also delve into the implications of this shift and explore how leveraging data within the architecture empowers developers to create more robust, intelligent, and scalable SaaS solutions.