The First 44 Speakers for SaaStr AI Annual 2026: The Founders and Operators Actually Shipping AI at Scale

Here’s a look at 44+ of the founders, CXOs, and operators taking the stage, grouped by what they’re actually going to talk about.

🚀 The AI-Native Headliners (Founders Who Scaled to $100M-$5B with AI at the Core)

Adam Guild, CEO & Founder, Owner.com. How he went AI-native across an entire $1B vertical B2B company instead of just bolting AI onto the product.
Anton Osika, CEO & Co-Founder, Lovable. From zero to $200M ARR in under a year, and what happens when 8M people can build their own software from a sentence.
Grant Lee, CEO & Founder, Gamma. How Gamma hit $100M ARR profitably with no traditional sales team, in a fireside with SaaStr’s CAIO Amelia Lerutte.
Alex Mashrabov, CEO & Co-Founder, Higgsfield. $0 to $300M ARR producing 4.5M videos a day, without ever training a foundation model.
Zachary Lipton, Co-Founder & CTO, Abridge. How Abridge went from $200M to $5.3B in valuation in 24 months while deploying enterprise AI to 150+ health systems.
Keith Peiris, CEO & Founder, Lightfield. Building an AI-native CRM from scratch.
Adam Alfano, EVP Global SMB, Salesforce. 29,000 Agentforce deals in 15 months and $500M+ in AI Agent ARR. What SMBs do differently when they get the same agents as the Fortune 500.

Jason Lemkin (SaaStr) + Amjad Masad (Replit). One built the platform where millions of devs ship AI agents; the other replaced his sales team with them. An unfiltered conversation on where agents actually are.
Arsalan Tavakoli, Co-Founder & SVP Field Engineering, Databricks. Why every AI agent is only as good as the data layer underneath it, from a $5B+ ARR co-founder.
Eleanor Dorfman, Head of Industries, Anthropic. How the world’s leading enterprises are actually deploying Claude in production today.
Tom Occhino, CPO, Vercel. Kickoff for the SaaStr Deploy Summit: what’s actually working with AI agents in production, not what’s possible.
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, COO, Vercel. The operational realities of running a hyper-growth AI infrastructure company.
Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, CEO & Co-Founder, Artisan. The next chapter for autonomous AI BDRs.

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Anneka Gupta (Rubrik), Rachel Wolan (Webflow), Emrecan Doga (Glean), Anique Drumright (Harvey). The CPO panel: 4 companies, same hard problem. How to take an agentic demo and turn it into a product enterprises actually trust with real work.
Andrew Bialecki, CEO & Co-Founder, Klaviyo. A candid walkthrough of writing a single prompt and turning it into Composer, Klaviyo’s AI agent now serving 200K customers.
Anwar Haneef, GM & Head of Ecosystem, Canva. Why Canva built an MCP server instead of a proprietary AI feature, and how to be the tool agents pick.
Sherif Mansour, Head of AI, Atlassian. Real lessons from deploying AI to 3.5M users: AI isn’t magic, it’s plumbing.
Venkat Thiruvengadam, CEO & Founder, DuploCloud. Why 67% of eng leaders raised AI investment, and 30% of engineers are still stuck on repetitive infra work anyway.
Russ Fradin, CEO & Co-Founder, Larridin. Findings from 100 Global 2000 CIO conversations on shadow AI, unused licenses, and measuring real impact.
John Huehn, Chief Executive, Launchpad.io. Scaling AI-driven customer engagement.

Ali Ghotbi, CRO, Reevo. Live demo: replacing your CRM, outbound, and pipeline tools with one AI-native platform.
Anis Bennaceur, CEO & Founder, Attention. Deploying AI RevOps agents that turn every sales call into pipeline.
Sarah McConnell, VP Demand Gen, Qualified. How to 3x inbound meetings by deploying an AI SDR agent on your event leads.
Matt Darrow, CEO & Co-Founder, Vivun. New research showing why “world model” AI sales agents drive 50% larger deals and 33% shorter cycles.
Jason Eubanks, CEO & Co-Founder, Aurasell. The next-gen AI sales platform.
Scott Metcalf, VP AI Innovation, People.ai. How they cut agent oversight from 30% of an IC’s week to under 5%.
Shalin Jain, CEO & Founder, HappyFox. Live walkthrough: how an AI agent surfaced $1M in expansion revenue hidden in unstructured support data.
James McArthur, VP Product Advocacy, Nue.io. Modern revenue lifecycle management for AI-native businesses.

Denise Persson, CMO, Snowflake. How a top enterprise CMO is rebuilding marketing for the AI era.
Alex London, CMO, G2. How AI is compressing the buyer journey and what B2B teams must do to win AI-driven recommendations.
Devang Agrawal, CTO & Co-Founder, Glyphic. AI-native customer intelligence for revenue teams.

Stephanie Cohen, CSO, Cloudflare. Bot or buyer? OpenAI scrapes 1,700 pages for every referral; Anthropic 73,000-to-1. A tactical playbook for protecting B2B revenue from AI crawlers.
Benjamin Wagner, CEO, Firebolt. Data warehousing built for the speed AI demands.
Chris Clark, Co-Founder & COO, OpenRouter. The unified gateway powering thousands of AI apps across hundreds of models.
Daniel Vassilev, Co-CEO & Co-Founder, Relevance.AI. Building and orchestrating the AI workforce.
Paige Bailey (Google DeepMind) + Scott Barneson (Google). Why 60%+ of GenAI startups build on Google Cloud, and what AI-native founders are doing differently with Gemini, Vertex, and $350K in credits.
Robert Cothran, Group Product Leader, Worldpay for Platforms. Live demo: how SaaS platforms add lending, banking, and embedded finance revenue streams.
Joshua Wood, Director, Booking.com for Business. Rebuilding business travel for the AI age.

Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO, SaaStr AI. Your host across all three days.
Amelia Lerutte, Chief AI Officer, SaaStr AI. Hosting the Gamma fireside and our AI Networking experience. And building an AI VP of Marketing for you, with you — live! Bring your laptop!!

This is just the first wave. More speakers, workshops, and deep dives are being announced weekly.

🎟️ Tickets jump $400 per tier on May 1. Last Chance pricing ends April 30. Lock in: saastrannual.com/buy-tickets-2026

📅 May 12-14, 2026 · 40+ Indoor / Outdoor Acres at San Mateo County Events Center · SF Bay Area