In this high‑energy promotional video, Jason M. Lemkin announces SaaStr Annual 2023, taking place September 6‑8 at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds—midway between Palo Alto and San Francisco. The event will span 40 indoor and outdoor acres and host roughly 12,000 SaaS and cloud professionals. Lemkin outlines a packed three‑day schedule: seven main stages featuring top CEOs, CROs, CMOs, CCOs, and CPOs from companies such as Monday, Mailchimp, Asana, PagerDuty, and Freshworks; a massive AI track; 55 AMAs; over 500 “brain dates” and workshops in Hangar East; a new container park with a zipline and two smaller workshop stages; a Fun Plaza Stage with a night‑time party and “cheat codes”; a first‑ever wine and food festival in Hangar West; and a dedicated “money day” on September 8 with more than 600 leading SaaS and cloud VCs (Bessemer, Sequoia, Lightspeed, etc.). The video emphasizes the breadth of networking opportunities—from one‑on‑one to one‑on‑sixteen sessions—and the festival‑style atmosphere, urging viewers to attend and experience the event.
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Hey everybody, get excited. We're almost there. It's SaaSter Annual 2023, September 6th through 8th in the SF Bay Area. We're actually at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds, which is right in between Palo Alto and San Francisco. It's just 10 to 15 minutes north of Palo Alto, 15 to 20 minutes south of SoMa in San Francisco. And it's epic because we have 40 indoor and outdoor acres for a big festival-style event for 12,000 of the best in SaaS and cloud. If you haven't been before, even if you have, It's new, it's different this year. We've got 7 stages running the best in SaaS and cloud, the best CEOs, CROs, CMOs, CCOs, CPOs. They'll all be there from leaders like Monday and Mailchimp and Asana and PagerDuty, to Freshworks and on and on. The best of the best will be there sharing it with you. If you like to learn in smaller sessions, more intimate sessions, we'll have over 500 brain dates and workshops in Hangar East, which is just above my head. We'll have over 100 tables and mini workshops for brain dates where you can meet with tons of top revenue leaders and founders in one-on-one, one-on-four, one-on-eight, one-on-sixteen sessions to do really meet people. Some folks stay in these Brain Dates, in fact, all three days. And also we'll have a new container park with a zipline flying above with two smaller workshop stages where you can get really close to top revenue leaders and CEOs and ask in-depth AMAs. And in fact, we'll have 55 AMAs this year across the stages in addition to these workshops and Brain Dates. So you will meet, interact with, and get to know the best of the best here. It's pretty crazy. Again, we've got 40 acres of So much fun stuff going on. We've got Saster Square Park. We've got the Fun Plaza Stage where we will have our incredible big party the second night. And there, we will have the cheat codes, which is going to be pretty fun. In the huge Hangar West above my head, the first night, we'll have the first ever wine and food festival. We will go and we'll have tons of stations where you can meet friends. You can have some of the best wines from Napa, some of the best snacks. And anyhow, there'll be fun stuff to do all day again, from the zipline to the brain dates to the wine and food festival to cheat codes to brain dates to workshops. There's almost too much. And then day 3, don't forget, 6, 7, 8, day 3 is money day. In addition to having a massive AI track, we'll have over 600 of the top VCs in SaaS and cloud there on Friday the 8th. We'll have tons of ways to meet VCs, pitch VCs, get in front of VCs, and all those stages will be lit up with many of the best VCs from many of the best funds, from Bessemer to Sequoia to to Peak15, to Lightspeed, and on and on. They'll all be there. Almost all the best investors in SaaS and cloud will be there. So it's, it's almost 3 full days. It's a lot to take in, but boy, it's fun. I really hope you can enjoy us for the whole time or as much of it as you can. September 6th to 8th in the SF Bay Area. It's SaaStr Annual 2023. It's going to rock.
