The Ultimate Guide to Attending SaaStr Europa

Amelia and Taylor walk you through SaaStr Europa 2024 in London on June 4-5. They cover venue logistics, ticket transfers, badge pickup, how to build your schedule on the app, and how to use Brain Dates for one-on-one meetings. Networking spaces include the Founders Lounge, VC Lounge, and IBM-sponsored Pub.
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webinar and feature is going to be the Ultimate SaaStr Attendee Guide to SaaStr Europa. So we're super excited that you guys could all join us today for this webinar. As you have any questions, please just drop them into either the Q&A or the chat and we will answer them either as we go or at the end. So either way, just drop your questions if you have any. And with that, let me share my screen. We are also recording and live streaming. Oh, Taylor's got a Europa background. Hi guys.
Morning, afternoon.
So cute. We are also recording and live streaming. So yeah, if you have other team members who wanna watch this or you miss something later 'cause you gotta drop off, no worries there. So with that, let me share my screen. Let's see. Here we go. Here we go. Sweet. OK, sweet. Let me go full screen in a second here. OK. All righty, cool. So SAS Europa, hopefully you guys are pumped. I know this is in just a few weeks. It's our 5th SAS Europa. Taylor, how many have you gone to? Have you gone to all of them?
I didn't go to the very first one. I started in Paris 2019.
Oh, now I can hear you.
OK. Paris was my first one.
Paris is the first one. Okay, cool. So yeah, we did Paris 2 years, Barcelona 1 year, and then yeah, now London. This will be the second year in London. So yeah, 5th SaaStrEuropa. So super exciting there. So yeah, this is gonna be our ultimate attendee guide, whether it's your first time or you're a veteran or you're a super fan reattending the SaaStrE Annual. I think it's always good just to get a refresher on what we're doing new and kind of different this year. With Europa. So yeah, I think with that, let me see if my— I think my mic is not connected. Hold on. Let's try and fix this.
I can hear you great though.
Okay, good. That might be better. Okay. So event venue, I think as you guys hopefully know by now as you're making your travel plans, it's Tuesday the 4th and then Wednesday the 5th of June. We are at Tobacco Docks. If you were there last year, it's the same venue. Last time. It is in central London. I know about a third of our audience comes from North America. So it's fairly easy to get to. You know, you can take the tube, you can take the rail, you can take the cab. It's really easy. Just tell them you're going to Tabacodoc. They know where it is. We are expecting, you know, between 2,000 to 3,000 folks coming across the few days. So that's super exciting. There's hundreds of workshops which we'll get into. Yeah, it is a— I will say this for all attendees. It is an indoor-outdoor venue. So if you've been to SACHRA Annual, you know we do indoor-outdoor. But very similarly in London, as you can see here, you know, it is open air in some areas of the venue. Things like stages and stuff are covered. But yeah, I think it's further along in the deck. But you know, with anything being indoor-outdoor, always wear layers, you know, bring hats, sunglasses, that kind of thing. Just because, yeah, it's kind of open in some areas. I think last time it was kind of like chillier in the afternoons and then warmer— or sorry, chillier in the mornings and then warmer in the afternoons. But yeah, as mentioned, it's pretty easy to get to. You can follow this guide. Yeah, really easy to get. There is a car park if you are local and you plan to drive. The gates do close at 7:00, so just bear that in mind if you're staying late for any, like, you know, after parties, etc. You may want to have to move your car. But yeah, that is an option for how to get there. But I think most people take a cab or the, you know, take the tube. It's a fairly easy walk. If you get off on Wapping, it's just a 0.3-mile walk. It's like literally along the dockside. So fairly easy to get to. If you haven't booked your accommodations, there's a ton in the area, right? Just because it is central London. So tons are super handy and fairly walkable as well. Okay, just a quick reminder here on registration details. If you're coming in a team, which I know a lot of you are, just a reminder that you should start to assign each individual person to their own ticket. So like if I bought a bunch of tickets and, you know, Taylor's coming, but I haven't assigned her ticket yet, you do need to do that now, preferably before you get to the event so that we have everything in the system and ready. So there's a few ways you can do this. One, you can click this link once we share out the slides. That'll take you to your registration portal. I'll actually click it now so you can see what it looks like. There's actually a few things in here that I'll call out, which is why I clicked it. It may ask me to log in, which I think is typically the first step here. But once you log in, you'll be able to transfer any tickets if you did the full order. So that is something to note of, you know, you can go in there and choose to transfer a ticket. The other thing you can do if it's like, if you have a restricted ticket type, which there's a few, or it's just like, you know, kind of complicated to get into the portal. No worries. You can also just email events@sasstraining.com. And we will be able to transfer your ticket for you. It can also carry over all the registration details. So, like, if you're already signed up for sessions and stuff, it will carry all that over to the new person so that they're set. So that's something to bear in mind if you have a team back. I know we get this question a lot, so I'm gonna hit it first before some of you have to drop off. Is, you know, where do you go when you're getting there, especially if this is your first time? I'm sure some of you, like me, the first time you're going anywhere, you look it up on Google Maps and you're like, What's the lay of the land? Basically, there's two entrances to Tobacco Docks, and you can enter on either side when you're coming for Zestri Europa. So there's what we call the Paddington Street entrance, which is literally on Paddington Street. And then there's the Wapping Lane entrance, which is literally on Wapping Lane. Sometimes that is like the default kind of like Uber drop-off address. It will like show up as, you know, this address is the docks. Again, either way is fine. Sometimes too, if you try to tell your cab like, one location or another, they may ignore you. So you could just tell them the docks. Basically, just walk in, you'll see the like registration and entrance signs, and the first thing you're gonna hit when you walk in is registration and badge pickup. So either way you come in is fine, just note that it's one of these two entrances. Um, Huntington Street is slightly easier because it's not a busy street, um, as, you know, as Wapping Lane is. That's like very— it's a very busy intersection. Um, so just if you, if you think you need a little more time or accessibility I would, I would default to Pennington, especially if you have, you know, you need a little more time to run out of the cab and the Uber. So things you'll need to bring with you. Have your ticket QR code. So we'll go over this later, but if you haven't already, you can download the SAS for Events mobile app. That's how you get your QR code, or you can print out your ticket confirmation. It's also on there too. That just means when you walk up, we can scan it and it makes it really easy to check you in. There is a daily ID check. So I like to preface this with folks. It's not just like the first time you pick up your badge. Every time you walk back in via the express lanes, they will just do a quick ID check to make sure your badge matches your name. So do be sure you have your ID on you at all times, even on subsequent days. You know, for most folks, if you're coming internationally, that could be a passport, that could be a driver's license, as long as you match the photo and you are you. And then, yeah, obviously with the ID checks, badge swapping is prohibited. So everybody on your team will need to have their own, you know, badge and and, and named badge registration details. So the other thing you're gonna wanna do in that portal that we just showed you guys is make sure your details are correct, because that's what's gonna print on the badge. So I tell folks that a lot. It will pop up on the screen when you check in. So you can also just do this when you're checking in on site. But it will, you know, print your first name, last name, email, job title, company, and country. So obviously, if you want those to be accurate, then just check your details now. You could also change it on site if you're fairly confident that it's right. And then as you're coming back, as we mentioned, we do these things called express lanes so that you don't have to go through the whole, like, crazy queue for checking back in and picking up your badge. There's just an express lane where we'll do a quick ID check. But you do need to bring your badge back with you and wear it at all times. Again, this is just for overall safety of all attendees. As always, you know, you can, you can ask us questions in the chat as we go or Q&A. You can also email us at events@staffbridge.com. On site, if you need help, there's usually a help desk at each of the registrations. So again, no matter where you're entering, either one will have a dedicated registration area, and each of those has its own dedicated help desk. So ask the help desk, you know, if you're not sure, ask somebody in like the SAS for Staff shirts, they'll direct you to the right place if they don't know the answer. But, you know, we will get you to the right place and answer sorted there. So these are on the website, so we'll just, you know, breeze through these. But a quick registration schedule, there is a day 0 registration. So we call day 0 the day before because it's It's not officially the first day of SaaStr Europa yet, but we do the fun, like, you know, come to the venue, have a drink, opening reception kind of thing for folks to hang out and grab their badge and network a little bit if you happen to be in town already. So that's just a great way to pick up your badge already too on Monday if you're gonna be there. Otherwise, you know, Tuesday, Wednesday, basically from 8:00 or 8:30 through the end of the day, you can kind of get your badge at any time. Okay, so if you haven't been to Tabacodocs, I think a few tips and tricks here. And Caitlin, or Taylor, tell me if I miss any. So, so yeah, as we mentioned, there's kind of two entrances to the campus. So either way you enter is great. There is the coat check. So I think there's a few questions we've been getting in via email, like, is there somewhere I can leave my bags if I'm coming, you know, on Tuesday and then I'm going to the airport, if I'm coming Wednesday and then I'm going to the airport or I'm taking the train after. There is a coat check where you can, like, you know, You can leave your bag if you need to and check it in. I also recommend to folks again, because it is an indoor-outdoor venue and weather can be a little bit unpredictable in London, like if you are bringing extra coats and jackets or backpacks, they can also take those at the coat check. So it's not just, it's not just coats. So just keep that in mind, you know, make it for yourself so that you're not like just wandering around all day. The other thing that I think was called out on one of the earlier slides is Tobacco Docks is a historic venue. So Not only is a good tip and trick to like wear comfortable shoes, but like obviously you're not gonna wanna wheel your luggage around on that too much. So yeah, definitely utilize the coat checks. They're pretty much right by the registration entrances when you come in each day, you can leave your stuff there versus trying to wheel it around, which may not be good for your wheels depending on your luggage. We do have 3 stages here. Taylor, any insights for folks on like, you know, which stages they should go to first and brain gates and all that stuff? Should they plan their day at the stages?
Yeah, I mean, first of all, go to the website and check out the agenda and like see what sessions you're most interested in and sign up for them. The best way for us to know who's going to which session and, and to decide which session goes on which stage is by those advanced signups. So make sure you build your agenda before you come and then you can get there and kind of have the lay of the land of like, okay, at 11:00 AM, I'm gonna go check out Jason's session on Stage A and then at 12:30, I'm gonna go grab a bite to eat and catch up with some brain dates just next door in the little gallery. So the best thing is, is to check out that schedule before and then be able to plop around. We really do choose your own adventure. Like Amelia said, we have 3 stages that are going on and also brain dates and mentoring sessions that are happening every single day, all day. So there is so much content for you to jump in and out of and for you to be able to pick and, and choose where you wanna go and kind of take advantage of the entire campus.
Yeah. No, I love that. I think that's a good tip, right? We'll, we'll pop into the agenda in a minute here. I think the other things, you know, content is the core of a lot of what we do. To do as well as the networking. So to Taylor's point, you know, it is— I do recommend building out your schedule. Like, even if you're not going to go to every single session, I would save your seat and register for the sessions that you think you want to go to or you might have an interest in, just because it will help you plan the rest of your day of, you know, time that you can also be in things like, you know, the Founder's Lounge if you're a founder, or doing Brain Dates if you want to do Brain Dates and networking and meet other attendees if you're doing Meetup BC. Like, there's just a lot of other things also going on concurrently. You know, there's lunches, there's happy hours, there's a lot of activities, coworking space to hang out in. So yeah, I would definitely recommend building out your schedule either way. A few of like the ancillary spaces as we call them and such on. So if, if you're ever like zombieing around looking for coffee, go to the pub. That is the best place to go. It is sponsored by our friends at IBM. It does have the group brain dates in here. So you'll also, you know, you'll stumble upon this place if you have a group brain date. So that's that's part of the architecture and the magic there. It's like you will also discover the pub if you have a group braid date. But yeah, basically the pub is like, you know, part braid dates and then part pub. So in the mornings it's got, you know, like breakfasty items and coffee. There's iced coffee in there throughout the day. And then it's got like lunch and then it flips to happy hour. So really it's a great place to hang out. A lot of people hang out, hung out, hung out in the pub last year. It was really a bombin' place to be. So if you're looking somewhere like default, you're like, I don't know what to do right now. I've got a break in content. Usually the pub is like my default of where to go. 'Cause it's a good vibe in there. So definitely recommend the pub. Check it out. Obviously we've mentioned the Brain Meets. There's two lounges that are gated. So there's the Founders Lounge and the VC Lounge. If you went to Annual, you're probably familiar with these. These are, you know, for the, for the Founders Lounge is for founders and CEOs. The VC Lounge is for investors and then those that they're meeting with. So it's kinda like for founders, and investors in the VC lounge. They are, you know, access control. They'll just look at your badge and your title. So again, to that point, if you don't make sure your title's up to date and your registration details either now or when you check in so that if you are in one of those categories, then, you know, they'll check your badge and see that you're a founder and let you into the founders lounge. The founders lounge is presented by Rome. They did this at Annual. It was a hit. It was a smash. Again, there were founders in there literally all day. Good place to go if you're a founder and you wanna meet with other founders. Same thing with the VC lounge. If you were a VC and you wanna meet founders, you can go to either lounge. And then yeah, go, and then if you, if you have a meeting and you're a VC, you could take it in the VC lounge. Other things you can do, like there is a cantina up here. So you'll see there's like the Brain Dates where the rest of the Brain Dates are. So the one-on-ones and the supers are in East Mall 1. There's a cantina here. So this is basically more food and beverage and snack throughout the day. Just in case the pub gets too crowded, you can, you can try the cantina too. And then we do what we call like the coworking space. So this is really like a mini WeWork, if you will. So like a hangout area if you need to take a call during the day, if you want to take a meeting with someone, there's the coworking space. There's also the outside. So again, not to be remiss of missing out on this gorgeous indoor-outdoor venue. We call it the Dockside because it's literally by the ships. So we put a ton, a ton of seating in there. Literally, I put too much and they were like, you can't have this much. So I had to put less. But there's so much. There's literally the max capacity of seating out there that we can have. This was another great place people were hanging out last year. It's a really great, you know, even in the early mornings, it's a little cooler. You know, there's umbrellas and stuff for when it gets, whatever, sunny. But yeah, it's a great place to hang out, be outside, you know, grab a coffee, grab lunch out there. It's a great place to hang out and chill. That's also another great meeting spot if you're looking to meet somebody on site. So again, we touched on this a little bit, but the overall dress code for the event, which I know we get asked a lot, is just business casual, right? Again, the venue is spread across kind of like 2 floors. Most of it is on the ground floor. So you won't have to go up and downstairs too, too much, but there are stairs. So keep that in mind if you, if you need kind of accessible access. Again, wear comfortable shoes if you can, because there's a lot of like flagstone around the venue. There is carpet and things like the stages, but it's a mix. So again, I wouldn't recommend doing like huge heels, you know, or anything like that. Comfortable shoes, like definitely be comfortable. It is a lot of walking even on one floor, like it's a quite expansive floor. So keep that in mind as well. And then yeah, we already chatted about coat check. So to Taylor's point for the agenda, if you haven't done so yet, you can come into here and choose your session at a glance. Everything here is choosable from the registration page, so you can come to Europas2024.com and choose your session, right? So how this works is like, I am already logged in, but if you're not, you'll just log in in this purple button here and it'll basically start to save your seat for all of these sessions that you want to register to. So that's a great way to do it there. The other way you can do it is on the mobile app. So there's a lot of really great sessions you can pick there. And then I know Wednesday we're going to, we're going to, we're going to do like 3 like mini tracks. Tracks, if you will. So you'll get a separate email on picking your mini track for Wednesday, like sales, marketing, or investing. So that will help too as you kind of build out your day. You could also, you know, you don't have to do any of this if you just wanna see what's most popular, kind of see where people are going and follow the flow of the crowd. You don't necessarily have to do all this. It's just sometimes it, you know, it is a little better to know what your schedule is kind of tentatively for the day versus trying to cram it all in at once. So yeah, that's something we've, we've seen too. Okay. So yeah, as we mentioned, registering for sessions, there's just kind of some detailed instructions there. You know, you click the icon and then you're pretty much in. You can have, I think the agenda will let you do like overlapping session, but obviously just bear in mind, you know, if there's two things you want to see at once, I know people will sign up for kind of two things and then they'll make like a game plan decision on what they want to go see. That's totally fine. Again, as you're on site, you can, you can make a game day call of what you're choosing to see or what you don't wanna see. We do record everything and then drip it out post-event. Sometimes it does take a while because there's a lot of sessions. So just bear that in mind. If you have that, if you have one you really wanna go to in real time, then I would go to that one. If there's one you kinda wanna go to and you know we're gonna, you know, write it up later on saster.com, then maybe save that one for a later time. Okay. Networking. So for those who are new to how we do networking at many of our SAAS events, the primary way we do it is Brain Dates. So we wanna make sure we touch on this today because it's very important to try and plan your Brain Dates before you arrive. You can do it on site, you know, just go to either of those Brain Date lounges. The team there will help you log in and set up your Brain Dates and get some of your Brain Dates on the topic marketplace or help you join a Brain Date. But anyways, this is where you will go to network. So if you click, you know, SaaStr Europa's Braindate URL, which I just did— sorry, my internet is a little slow this morning, so everything's taking a little bit— but this is where it will dump you in at a default. So I'm already logged in. Again, you may hit a login screen if you're not logged in already. But basically, this is where you come in through the marketplace. And these are topics that have been approved. and they are on the marketplace for other people to join. So if this is your first time doing networking this way at a SaaStr event, I definitely recommend joining Brain Dates, maybe versus hosting one your first time. There is some pressure around hosting, right? You are literally hosting another person for a networking session, and like a mini topic, if you will. So yeah, I would say too, like a lot of our Super Brain Dates, and our group Brain Dates actually do slides. So again, if you are planning to host a, a super or small group format, a lot of those folks will do slides. It's just like a, it just helps keep the group together and on track. And even in like a roundtable type setting, it's really helpful when folks do this. So again, there is a little bit of pressure if you are gonna host. So yeah, if you're new to it and, and you, we maybe don't want that pressure, you just wanna enjoy, then I would say come and join a topic. So there's already a bunch of topics on here for you guys. There's a bunch of different like categories, right? There's marketing, there's sales, there's— with Nathan is full, so we'll probably have to upgrade that one. But, you know, growth tactics, things like, you know, there's a bunch of investors in here and VCs who are doing meetings. This one's also full, you know, sales tactics. So yeah, there's a lot in here. And then that point of like, you know, when you see BrainAid start to fill up, that is something that our team monitors as well. So if we have the capabilities to, we will try and increase the capacities as much as we can. But yeah, that's kind of how we do it is literally based on the data. Of who's attending what. But yeah, so if you, if you do want to host though, because this is basically how you join, you can literally like, if I wanted to join this Mongo one, you would just book a spot here and then you would be booked for this Brain Date here. So yeah, so I have joined this Brain Date now. I'll get out of it later so that I don't take up a spot. Basically now it'll say to you like when you're back in the marketplace, if you forget, for instance, that like what Brain Dates you booked, it does say this nice like, you know, you joined with this green checkmark. So that's a handy way to like, it'll kind of show if you're like, oh, that sounds interesting. You're like, oh wait, I'm already in the group. So helpful reminder there. If you do want to host, the way you would do that is hit this new topic button. You could choose the type of conversation. So a lot of folks will do things like, you know, either an AMA, an open discussion, or a deep dive. So if you wanted to do something like, you know, AI in marketing, let's just say as an example, you would put in your details. What inspired this topic, right? Lots of conversation on this currently. And then you would pick the type of Braindate that you want. So I'll explain the differences briefly. So one-on-one is basically like if I post this topic and it gets approved by our moderators, it will go into that marketplace that you just saw. And anyone, so Taylor can come onto the marketplace, she'll see it's a one-on-one section and say, oh, I actually do wanna talk about AI and marketing. And then they would pick a time to meet with me on this topic. So that's how the one-on-one works. Basically, you post it, you set your schedule, and then, you know, other attendees can join at that time when you, when you have your schedule open. It will do a proposal first. So if Taylor's like, okay, I wanna do it at 3, and then you're like, oh, actually, I see the session I wanna go to, you can propose a new time. So they're like, there's just a little bit of meeting calendar functionality there. The other way you can do it is as we've set a group Again, do this if you wanted, if you wanted to host like kind of a thought leadership micro session. A lot of people we recommend and almost require them to do slides if you're gonna do a group brain date. Again, it's just a great way to guide the conversation. Probably not for the faint of heart or first timers, but yeah, if you wanna do, or if you're used to, you know, hosting webinars or sessions or whatever, like then do a group brain date. Yeah, we do. It is 45 minutes. So like if you, again, if you're not prepared, like it is a lot of time to fill if you're like, Okay, I'll just do like an open AMA, like do that as a one-on-one. It works a lot better. Groups are really meant to be like kind of micro presentations at their core. So yeah, that's how a group works. Basically, you can add some keywords if I wanted to do groups, I'd say like marketing, AI, things like that. And then I would pick a time to host my group. So again, you can do this based on like your calendar, etc. You know, you'd have to pick the date first and then it'll show you the time. So you can pick, you know, Tuesday or Wednesday. Right now there are some open spots, but these will start to dissipate as more and more people start to host group brain dates. So keep that in mind if you, if you're really keen on hosting a group brain date there. So I'm gonna back out of that. But so the other thing I'll just say—
go ahead, Amira.
Go ahead, Taylor.
No, no, I was gonna say a question I feel like we've been getting a lot is people like, oh, I can't quite get into the platform. So a couple things to make sure you can get into the platform. One, you have to be a registered attendee. Which is you have to have an active Europa ticket and you need to use that same email that you use for registration for the platform. So if maybe someone on your team registered and all the tickets are under their email, to Amelia's point, yeah, making sure those tickets are assigned, that could be something that's preventing you from getting on the platform. Of course, we don't want people on our platform and spamming who may not even be attending the event. So just make sure that you have an active registration and that your email is the one that you're using to sign up for the Brain Date.
Yep. Great call out there. We do get that question a lot. The other thing we'll get is like, once you do assign those tickets, like, I know a lot of people will instantly try and go to the Braindate platform. It does take a few minutes. So give it a few minutes once you transfer your tickets, you know, let one system talk to another and then try your Braindates again. It usually, I mean, it's like usually 15 minutes max. So, you know, come back later after your next meeting and then do it. You'll probably be fine. But yeah, do give it a few minutes in between if you do need to transfer tickets. Or, you know, you can reach out to events if you're like, I'm not sure what you know, I'm registered under, which I know some people are like, you know, my boss registered me because I'm on a team pack. Like, I actually don't know what they use to register me. That's the best way to do this. So there's a great question in the chat, which we'll actually touch on as just like a last reminder for Brain Dates. How do you know if your topic is confirmed, etc.? You do get a message, right? So once you post a topic, which I didn't fully do, but once you push that button to post your topic and submit it, It goes to Taylor, the speaker team, into their moderation queue. Basically, this is just to help everyone so that we don't get a bunch of, you know, spammy product pitches, stuff like that. Again, this is meant to be networking, right? Every topic you see on here that's been approved is from a thought leadership perspective. None of them are like, this is why my product's great, or, you know, I'm gonna help you do XYZ thing, and then you're like, well, that's what their product does, right? They're all meant to be thought leadership. So again, if you try and sneak in a, what we call a commercial, it's not gonna approve. It'll send you a nice note that says, please try again, or something like that. But yeah, just so it won't get approved. But when it does get approved, they do monitor these every day. So it's a fairly quick, I would say within 24-hour turnaround to get your topic either approved or have them, you know, they will also make a suggestion if you're like super close to a good topic. You know, they'll say like, hey, would you mind tweaking it to XYZ and then reposting it and then we'll approve it. So yeah, there's a little bit of a messaging system there. It's not just like a black and white, like you were rejected or you were approved, but you do get a message either way. So Great question there. And then I'll just wrap on, you know, Meet a VC and then any other final questions there. So Meet a VC, we do this every year. It's our yearly Meet a VC program. We do it at Annual, we do it at Europa. Basically, if you go to meetavc.com, which is a thick URL, you can apply whether you are on the founder side or if you are an attending investor. So Literally, if you fall into one of those two categories and you want to meet the other, you know, just click on the one that is for you. So I'm going to click the founders one, scroll down. The forms are very similar, just slightly different. If you are a founder or if you're an investor, if you're a founder, you know, it's going to ask you for some of your company details here. If you're an investor, it's going to ask you for the type of companies that you're looking to invest in. So kind of the reverse. Either way, at the bottom, because it's on both forms, you just click that, you know, you're attending SAF Europa. Um, and then you submit your details. And then how this works is like, for all the founders that submit, we give, um, the investors usually like a week and a half before the event, um, a list of all the qualifying companies, which is, you know, again, usually all of everyone who applies qualifies. Um, we just try and clean up the data a little bit. We give them the data, and then basically they reach out to you if they want to meet with you, like let's say in the VC Lounge on-site or in the Founders Lounge, and host a meeting with you during the event. So So that's how Meet a VC works. If that is something that you're like really wanting to meet with investors, again, highly recommend you do this. You can do both Braindates and Meet a VC. Like if that's something that you really wanna do, I actually recommend you do both. We've, we've known folks who've literally done both to like rack up a bunch of meetings with investors. Like they've done it on the Meet a VC side of the platform, which is like, you know, a little bit more of a gauntlet. And then they've done it on the Braindate side too, where you can have a little bit more control on, on the VCs that you're meeting. With that, Lastly, again, we've said it, but, you know, download the Software Events mobile app. You do need to log in with the ticket. So again, to Taylor's point, you need that email that you've signed up for the event for, and everybody does need to have their own, right? So if you have a— it will also show you if you have a bunch of tickets. So you'll be like, oh, shoot. I need to transfer them. But yeah, download the mobile app. It's really handy for sessions. I think kind of like last tips and tricks. There is a lot of really great content. So we do recommend, you know, you pace yourself. There are absolutely sessions that overlap. So again, just, just pick the ones as best you can. You know, again, pace yourself. It's, it's a lot throughout the 2 days plus day 0. If you need a great space, you know, to work in, as we mentioned, there's a coworking space and a pub on site. Definitely recommend getting yourself familiar with the Braindate platform as you dive in now. Free event. You know, the happy hours are really great. I know there's some after parties too that will pollate into a blog post as we get closer to the event. There are some after parties that we'll promote to you guys, but I know there's, there's a few that have been popping up already as after parties. And then, yeah, I think, you know, if you, if you're thinking about maybe bringing some more team members, a lot of people do come in teams now to this, and we do get some of the highest feedback from folks who bring their team with them. It's just a great way to learn together, and also if you're, you know, remote as many of us are now, then it's a great way to meet your team. So with that, if you have any other questions on things we might have missed, I know we covered a lot in our half hour, but I'm sure there's still things we could have gone through. Email us at any time or events@sastrade.com. There's also an Intercom chat on the website that our events team manages. Once we get closer, you'll probably see that some of the events questions are, are, are easier for you to answer at things like the help desk, etc. You will get your bearings again. Sashirobo will be a really great event. It's a lot of networking and content. So highly recommend building it or schedule, but either way, it's gonna be a ton of fun. A lot of really great speakers are coming, which we can't even get through the list, but a lot of really good ones are coming to learn from. And so, yeah, you know, we hope you guys are excited to come to London in a few weeks. If you have any more questions, please reach out. And then, yes, I know there's the last question here. Do we send this deck? Yeah. We're gonna send this deck to everyone. We are live streaming right now on our SaaS First YouTube page. So if you go to YouTube, you can already go back through the content. And with that, we hope to see you guys very soon in London. Ask us any questions at our email and we will see you guys soon. So see you there.
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