5 SaaS Business Owners sharing an overview of their journey and the biggest lessons learned from building their dream on Microsoft Azure and the greatest impact gained from working with Microsoft Ecosystem.

Each will deliver a 5min high impact speech - by major growth milestones, then they will be a QnA panel managed by the MC Ryan the Lion and opportunity for questions from the floor. The Question session will be Chatham House rules so we can really open up the learning channels - do not leave with doubts or questions, really get to the kernel of what you need to know to be confident of what the Microsoft Ecosystem can do for your business.

Format

• 3.30 - 4.00pm Arrival & Networking
• 4.00 - 4.10pm MC Ryan Ashton welcomes and introduce the event
• 4.10 - 4.15 Waiata and Karakia - Michael Wheeler
• 4.15 - 5.00pm 5 Kiwi SaaS owners provide Growth Insights

David Burton: Managing Director, asBUILT

Akinyemi Koyi: CTO, Coretex

Ian Randall: Head of Engineering Cin7

Adrian Grant: Founder, 9Spokes

• 5.00 - 5.10 pm Michael Wheeler, Parallo - SaaS Operational Excellence / Microsoft Partnering in Azure.
• 5.10 - 5.20 pm Hamish McNee Share Global GTM Strategies
• 5.20 - 5.30pm Panel QnA managed by Ryan the Lion
• 5.25pm MC Round up
• 5.30 pm Thank you
• 5.30 - 6.00pmNetworking Drinks

Speakers:

Ian Randall (Head of Engineering, Cin7

Ian has been building SaaS products since 2012, on the back of 15 years in Services and Consulting all on the Microsoft stack. He is currently leading the Product and Engineering teams at Cin7, a global SaaS organisation in a high-growth phase.

David Burton, Managing Director, asBUILT:

asBUILT VAULT is Construction software enabling a collaborative common data environment space for the construction value chain to collaborate on a range of digital assets which ultimately can create a Digital Twin, the foundation of Smart Buildings.

Adrian Grant: Founder, 9Spokes

From UNISYS to Microsoft, Adrian has worked his way around the world bringing that knowledge back to CVEO roles for Umbrellar and most recently 9spokes which is the SaaS business he will speak about as SaaSSIVE.

Akinyemi Koyi: CTO, Coretex

A people leader, a pragmatic technology pioneer and experienced Solutions Architect with over 15 years in the I.T. sector in a variety of industries.

I have helped build, managed, and nature teams in various technology companies: Championing technology and architectural roadmaps and strategies, designing and leading complex engineering projects, motivating and promoting innovation in high skilled teams.

At Coretex, I lead a large and talented team of hardware, software, and firmware engineers to develop and integrate world-class telematics solutions to satisfy unique customer requirements.

Before joining Coretex, I was the Head of the Administration and Finance Systems Department for a Government Organization in the Sultanate of Oman and previously worked as a Solution Architect delivering various large-scale SaaS applications.

Empowering and transforming a business’s ability to accelerate growth and operate more efficiently using pragmatic technology is what makes me tick.

Note: This event is for software business owners, no sales, recruiters or networkers please.