The Top 10 Best Reasons to Come Last Minute to SaaStr AI Annual 2026 NEXT WEEK!

We are 7 days out. May 12-14. San Mateo County Event Center. The final late bird tix are now available for SaaStr AI 2026.

Here is the actual list of Top 10 Reasons you should already be booking the flight, with specific sessions, specific speakers, and specific outcomes.

1. Watch Amelia build an AI VP of Marketing from scratch, live on stage

Tuesday, May 12, 4:15 PM. Main stage, Deploy ’26.

Our Chief AI Officer Amelia Lerutte walks on stage with a laptop, a microphone, and 45 minutes. No slides. No pre-recorded demo. She builds a working AI VP of Marketing from zero to functional, in front of the audience.

Amelia is the one who built 10K, the AI VP of Marketing running SaaStr’s entire marketing org today. 14,230 lines of code. Plans every day’s marketing activity, executes campaigns, crunches 5+ years of historical data against real-time inputs, runs Monday standups, integrates with Salesforce. Costs us $95/month to run.

The session shows every decision live. The first prompt that does not work. The iteration that does. Where the agent breaks on stage, and how she fixes it in real time.

If you sit in on one session at Annual this year, this is it. The 10,000 polished YouTube demos cannot replicate this.

2. Then go build your own AI VP of Customer Success (“Build Your Own QBee”)

Wednesday, May 13, 5:00 PM. 45 minutes. Bring a laptop.

QBee is our AI VP of Customer Success. Manages 100+ paying SaaStr AI Annual sponsors. Hyper-personalized weekly emails to every sponsor based on their tier, deliverables, completion status, and contract specifics. Sends 100 personalized emails in 10 minutes. Result: 70% reduction in human hours on sponsor ops. The TikTok account that historically completed nothing on time finished 11 of 13 tasks in a single day after QBee shipped.

I built QBee on Replit. CS leaders will build their own version of it in this session.

This is the class I am most excited about, because Customer Success is the most under-tooled function in B2B and the one that benefits most from vibe coding. You walk in with a CS problem. You walk out with a working agent.

3. Build your first AI agent. Period.

Tuesday, May 12, 3:00 PM. Vibe Coding 101: Build Your First AI App in 30 Minutes.

If you have never opened Replit, Lovable, Vercel vO, etc, this is the entry point. You leave with a working agent you built yourself. No coding experience required. Bring a laptop.

For founders specifically, there is also a Thursday, May 14, 1:00 PM session: “Founders Who Ship: Build Your Own AI-Powered MVP in 30 Minutes.” Same idea, founder lens, faster pace.

If you walk into 2026 still saying “I am not technical enough to build an agent,” you are wrong. 30 minutes of structured class time and you have one. The cost of not learning this is going up every month.

4. The entire May 12 is Deploy ’26, the AI GTM Agent Summit

Most AI conferences talk about agents in the abstract. Deploy ’26 is structured entirely around operators who have shipped agents in production.

Tom Occhino (CPO, Vercel) kicks off the Deploy Summit. Jaspar Carmichael-Jack (CEO, Artisan) on the next chapter for autonomous AI BDRs. Sarah McConnell (VP Demand Gen, Qualified) on 3x’ing inbound meetings with an AI SDR on event leads. Scott Metcalf (People.ai) on cutting agent oversight from 30% of an IC’s week to under 5%. Shalin Jain (HappyFox) doing a live walkthrough of an AI agent that surfaced $1M in expansion revenue hidden in unstructured support data.

These are operators. They have shipped. They have metrics. They will tell you what broke.

5. The CRO + CEO Summit (closed, $40M ARR minimum)

Tuesday, May 12. 100 CROs + 100 CEOs. Invite-only. No vendors. No pitching.

Last year’s room averaged $100M in revenue. The conversation is the questions that do not make it into keynotes: What is your actual win rate right now? How much has AI changed your quota attainment? Are reps genuinely using it or working around it? Why did so many CROs turn over in 2024 and 2025 against AI revenue expectations that did not land?

Apply at saastrannual2026.com/networking/cro-summit. If accepted, you also get full all-access to the rest of SaaStr AI Annual May 12-14. One application, three days.

6. The CMO Summit with Snowflake’s Denise Persson

May 12. 4th annual. 150+ CMOs, VPs of Marketing, and Heads of Growth.

Denise has been Snowflake’s CMO since 2016, when it was 100 people and $3M in revenue. She built one of the tightest sales-marketing partnerships in B2B history scaling Snowflake from $3M to $3B+. She is now openly running an internal AI Council at Snowflake, holding quarterly AI marketing days, and is candid that no one (including her) knows exactly what marketing looks like in 5 years.

That candor, combined with the scale she operates at, is exactly the room you want to be in if you run B2B marketing right now. Half-day, peer-to-peer, no vendor pitches, no agencies.

7. The AI-native CEO lineup is the strongest ever assembled at one event

Pulled from the agenda:

Amjad Masad (Replit) + Jason Lemkin. What is actually working with AI agents today, what is still vaporware, and what lands in the next 6-12 months. Anton Osika (Lovable). $0 to $200M ARR in under a year. What happens when 8M people can build their own software from a sentence. Grant Lee (Gamma). $100M ARR, profitable, no traditional sales team. Fireside with Amelia. Adam Alfano (EVP Global SMB, Salesforce). 29,000 Agentforce deals in 15 months. $500M+ in AI Agent ARR. What SMBs do differently when they get the same agents as the Fortune 500. Eleanor Dorfman (Head of Industries, Anthropic). How leading enterprises actually deploy Claude in production today. Tom Occhino (CPO, Vercel). Operator realities of agents in production at infrastructure scale. 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. Zachary Lipton (CTO, Abridge). $200M to $5.3B in 24 months while deploying enterprise AI to 150+ health systems. Alex Mashrabov (Higgsfield). $0 to $300M ARR producing 4.5M videos a day, without ever training a foundation model. Sherif Mansour (Head of AI, Atlassian). “AI Isn’t Magic. It’s Plumbing. Lessons from Deploying AI Into Our Workflows for 3.5M Users.”

200+ speakers in total. The first 44 alone are doing more interesting work than most conferences put on stage in a year.

8. 10+ Live Vibe Coding Classes with Replit, organized by function

If you have ever said “engineering is the bottleneck on what I can ship,” this track is the answer.

Every class is hands-on. You bring a laptop, you leave with a working app.

Tuesday, 3:00 PM. Vibe Coding 101: Build Your First AI App in 30 Minutes Tuesday, 5:00 PM. Vibe Coding Fundamentals for GTM Leaders Wednesday, 9:00 AM. Vibe Coding for PMMs (the function with the most surface area and least eng support in B2B) Wednesday, 11:30 AM. Designers: Figma to Functional App in Minutes Wednesday, 2:00 PM. GTM Leaders Who Ship: Build AI-Powered Sales and Marketing Tools in 30 Minutes Wednesday, 5:00 PM. Build Your Own QBee (CS leaders) Thursday, 9:00 AM. RevOps Who Ship: Build Your Own Pipeline Tools Thursday, 11:30 AM. No More Waiting for Dev: Vibe Coding Workshop for PMM Teams Thursday, 1:00 PM. Founders Who Ship: Build Your Own AI-Powered MVP in 30 Minutes

There is also a Vibe Lab open during conference hours where Replit engineers sit with you, you bring a problem from your company, and you walk out with a working version of it.

9. The audience density is unmatched in B2B + AI

Latest numbers:

12,500+ attendees registered 143% of prior year attendance 68% VP-level and above 36% CEOs and founders 25% AI-first professionals 3,000+ scheduled 1-on-1 meetings via the “Who Do You Want to Meet” matchmaking app

There is no other event in 2026 that puts this density of