Short promotional speaker montage for SaaStr Annual + AI Summit (May 12–14, 2026) where multiple speakers praise in-person collaboration, networking, and mentorship. Speakers repeat the "We are SaaStr/Saster" tagline, note the energizing nature of being together vs. on Zoom, and cite structured networking opportunities including extensive mentorship/brain-date sessions (stated as 1,700 with an aspiration for 2,500).
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1,700 mentorship and brain-date sessions
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There's something really magical when you get people together in a room to brainstorm, as opposed to just like being a little box on a screen. Also, it's so fun to figure out how tall people are after only hanging out with them on Zoom for the last couple of years. We are Saster.
Let's do it.
We are saster. I just met all these cool founders that are really excited to learn more, and I love that community.
What other conference has literally this amount of great minds in one place?
SaaS companies are, I believe, powering the future of innovation on the Internet, and nowhere is that more evidence than in the world of SaaS. And I think when I look around here at Saster, I just see innovation and I see the best that the tech world has to offer. This is tech, this is SaaS. Right? And I love just being here and the energy.
Most of the best playbooks are inside the minds of the leaders who've gone from IPO to IPO or founding company to founding company. And because they're busy, that's not public.
Right?
And how can you accelerate everyone's learnings to create better experiences? You bring them together to a great forum like this, where you can have events with people much smarter than me on stage, and deep workshops and networking. And this is like the heartbeat of SaaS. We'll have 1700 mentorship and brain date sessions where everyone's sharing. This mentorship and brain dates was nascent for us before the world changed. Now it's our hub. Maybe next year we'll have 2,500.
It's amazing. I came to SAASTR six years ago and I was blown away. I learned so much, and I was like, one day I'm gonna speak here. So here I am. We have a lot of customers in the US I think that we're meeting all at the same time at Saastor. It's the collaboration, it's the conversation, and it's even more important now than before.
