SAAS Conference for Scaling Up 2018 | SAAS NORTH Conference | 27 November 2018 | Shaw Centre, 55 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1N 9J2, Canada

Saas North Is Canada’s Saas Conference for Companies Scaling Up. 2018 Marks the Third Year of This Premier Event in Partnership With L-spark and Bringing the Best in Saas Back to the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, November 28-29th, 2018. This Year’s Lineup of Speakers, Programming and Networking Opportunities Promises to Connect Founders, Investors and Executives Like Never Before. Come and Hang Out With 1500 Entrepreneurs From 500 Companies From Around the World. Get the Tactical Tools You Need to Scale Up, Continue to Innovate and Find Your Next Customer.

Who Should Attend?
Saas Entrepreneurs and Their Teams, the Investor Community and Service Professionals That Help Power the Ecosystem

2018 Speakers

Aaron Zifkin
Managing Director - Canada, Lyft

Allan Wille
CEO, Klipfolio

Alexander Theuma
Founder & CEO, SaaStock

Amy Konary
VP Customer Business Innovation, Zuora

Andrea Corey
VP, Product Development at Nudge.ai

Andrew Lindsay
VP, Corporate Development and Business Development, HubSpot

Annika Reinhardt
Co-Founder, Negotiation & Compensation professional, Talent Collective

Anuj Madan
National Industry Leader, Technology, Media & Telecommunications, KPMG

Anusha Srijeyanathan
Vice President, Client Success, Benevity

Ariel Winton
Associate, OpenView Venture Partners

Atlee Clark
Director, App & Partner Platform, Shopify

Aydin Y Mirzaee
CEO, Stealth Startup

Barbara Dirks
Head of Canada, Silicon Valley Bank

Ben Morris
Vice President of Corporate Development and Technology Strategies, Wesley Clover

Bram Sugarman
Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships, Shopify

Briehan Burke
Associate, Catalyst Investors

Carol Leaman
CEO, Axonify Inc.

Chase Irwin
Partner, Dentons Canada LLP

Danielle Smith
Director of Partnerships & Community, TWG

David Little
Managing Partner, Dentons Canada LLP

David Ossip
Chairman and CEO, Ceridian

David Rozin
Associate Vice President, National Bank of Canada

Dax Dasilva
CEO, Lightspeed

Ed Bryant
CEO, Sampford

Erin Blaskie
Director of Marketing, L-SPARK

Erin Crowe
CFO, Martello Technologies

Gelu Ticala
Vice President Product Development, Kinaxis

Hannah Chaplin
CEO & Co-founder at Receptive.io

Hugues Lalancette
Head of Growth, iNovia Capital

Igor Faletski
CEO, Mobify

Izabella Gabowicz
Chief Operating Officer at Sensibill Inc

Jack Newton
CEO and Founder, Clio

James Thomas
Chief Marketing Officer, Solium

Jamie McDonald
Co-Founder, Co-CEO, Hubdoc

Jamie Neuwirth
Sales & Growth, Stripe

Jaxson Khan
Head of Marketing, Nudge.ai

Jeana Jorgensen
General Manager, Microsoft

Jeff Wartman
Manager, Sales Development, Intercom

Jennifer Couldrey
Executive Director, Upside Foundation of Canada

Jeremy Bailey
Creative Director, FreshBooks

Jesse Cressman-Dickinson
Community Development Manager, Shopify

Jill Earthy
Head of Growth at Female Funders & Founders, powered by Highline Beta, Female Funders

Joanne Fedeyko
CEO, Connection Silicon Valley

Jonathan Seeber
General Partner, Updata Partners Growth Equity

Karan Mehandru
General Partner, Trinity Ventures

Katherine Regnier
CEO & Founder, Coconut Software

Katie Womersley
Director of Engineering, Buffer

Kerri Golden
Partner/CFO, Information Venture Partners

Kerry Liu
CEO, Rubikloud

Kim Morouney
Managing Director, Lazaridis Institute

Larissa K. Holmes
VP, Talent, Borrowell

Laurence Bret-Stern
CRO, Pipedrive

Leanne Gibson
Head of Revenue, Twitter

Leo Lax
Executive Managing Director, L-SPARK

Liam McIvor Martin
Co-Founder, Staff.com

Lianne Vineberg
Technical Talent Lead, Wealthsimple

Marie Chevrier
CEO & Founder, Sampler

Mark Organ
CEO and Founder, Influitive

Mark MacLeod
Founder, SurePath Capital Partners

Mary Jane Leslie
Vice President, Sales & Channel Development, Navigator

Meena Sandhu
VP Marketing & Growth, Predictable Revenue

Michael Litt
Co-Founder and CEO, Vidyard

Mike Weider
CEO, Clearwater Clinical Limited

Michelle Scarborough
Managing Director, Strategic Investments and Women in Tech, BDC Capital

Mona Elesseily
Vice President Online Marketing Strategy, Page Zero Media

Mychelle Mollot
Chief Marketing Officer, Solace

Naomi Goldapple
Director of Industry Solutions, Element AI

Narjes Boufaden
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Keatext

Neha Khera
Partner, 500 Startups

Nicole Kelly
Community Director, OMERS Ventures

Owen Matthews
Chairman, The Alacrity Foundation

Pablo Srugo
Venture Capital Associate, Mistral VP

Patrick Campbell
Co-Founder & CEO, Price Intelligently

Patrick White
Managing Director, L-Spark

Robert Percival
Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Robert Rosen
Managing Director, Innovation banking, CIBC

Robin Grosset
Chief Technology Officer, MindBridge Ai

Russell Samuels
Partner, Whitecap Venture Partners

Sabrina Leblanc
Director of Sales, SurveyMonkey

Sacha Gera
SVP of Cloud, Ribbon Communications

Sam Haffar
Partner, Real Ventures

Sasa Nijemcevic
VP&GM Network and Service Management BU , Nokia

Satish Kanwar
VP & GM of Channels, Shopify

Sean Tyson
Co-Founder, Chief Strategy Officer, Quietly

Stephan Jou
Chief Technology Officer, Interset

Steve Neville
Director, Corporate Marketing, Trend Micro

Susan Liu
Principal, Scale Venture Partners

Susan Richards
VirtualCFO, numbercrunch inc.

Terry Matthews
Chairman, Wesley Clover

Tope Awotona
CEO + Founder, Calendly

Tuba Yamac
Senior Patent Agent, BCF Ventures

Will Richman
Co-founder, CEO, GrowthGenius

Yevgeniy Vahlis
Director of Applied Machine Learning, Borealis AI

Zeynep Zorlu
Partner, TRPE Venture Partners

ZJ Hadley
Employee Success Business Partner, Tulip Retail

2018 Sponsors & Partners

IGNITED BY:
• L-SPARK

LEAD SPONSOR:
• shopify

GOLD SPONSORS:
• CIBC
• FRESHBOOKS CLOUD ACCOUNTING
• KLIPFOLIO
• RBC Royal Bank
• redstamp.co
• TIMIA CAPITAL

SILVER SPOPNSORS:
• BCF
• bdc
• chime
• GrowthGenius
• KPMG
• Microsoft
• PAGEZERO MEDIA
• pwc
• rainforest

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• AUTOKLOSE
• CTA
• CARBON 60
• Chargebee
• EY
• LAZARIDIS INSTITUTE
• NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT
• numbercrunch
• ribbon
• svb Silicon Valley Bank
• OTTAWA

INDIVIDUAL SPONSORS:
• LABARGE WEINSTEIN
• NATIONAL BANK
• TIMIA CAPITAL
• bdc
• pwc
• TMX
• LAZARDIS INSTITUTE
• FIRMA Foreign Exchange
• DENTONS
• rainforest
• Microsoft
• brella
• ORACLE NETSUITE

CUSTOM FURNITURE SPONSOR:
• NUA Office

STARTUP SPONSOR:
• airvm

GROWTH PARTNERS:
• DMZ
• Invest Ottawa
• L-SPARK
• LAZARDIS INSTITUTE

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• BC TECH
• betakit
• CAPITAL ANGEL
• CVCA
• Invest Ottawa
• Kanata North Business Association
• NACO
• Product Hunt
• TECH TORONTO
• OTTAWA
• TMX
• VANCOUVER

PARTNER EVENTS:
• CIX
• ELEVATE TORONTO FESTIVAL
• STARTUPFEST
• TRACTION