This is usually one of our most exciting moments in conference planning: call for speakers is open! We eagerly await your submissions to roll in & contribute to making the SaaStanak 2026 annual conference a huge success.
SaaStanak conference content has been applauded for its down-to-earth actionable and inspiring tone, and we’re keeping it that way.
What you said about the 2025 edition
Here are some high-level data points from our 2025 feedback survey gathered on a sample of 63 feedback respondents (out of 300 attendees attending):
- Overall conference: 77% gave us 5/5
- Speakers & sessions: 69% 5/5
- Venue: 92% 5/5
- NPS: 9.5/10 average
Needless to say we’re very happy with the results, but we still have room for improvement. That’s where you, the speakers, come in.
Submit your session & see our speaker feedback
Top rated speakers in 2025
We ask our attendees to rate the speakers and sessions. These were the speakers with the most mentions in 2025:
- Vukasin Vukosavljevic (21 mention)
- Emilia Korczynska, Bill Stathopoulos, Jeko Kolev, Matthew Lerner (10 mentions each)
- Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz, Tomislav Car, Nenad Milanović (8 mentions each)
Big congrats to Vukašin, CMO of HeyReach, for delivering a great session “Proven Growth Tactics to Reach $10M ARR (Actionable Stuff Only)“
Vukašin was featured on one of our workshop stages, so unfortunately, we don’t have him on tape. But stay tuned—I’ve recently asked Vuk to deliver his talk for our YouTube channel, so subscribe to stay up to date once we edit & release it!
These results point to two main themes we’re very passionate about:
- SaaStanak is a conference where operators come to listen to cutting-edge playbooks and our audience loves actionable content
- Similarly, founders appreciate honest and straightforward founder talks, and we’ll continue to deliver on that content as well
Stories we want to uncover in 2026
Here’s how I look at it:
SaaS theme of the year in 2024 was combating growth slowdown and a turn to profitability & efficiency.
2025 was the year of AI hype, new playbooks and radical changes in product development, SEO & market positioning.
I see 2026 as the year of:
- AI realism
- Real product innovation
- Community-first company building & marketing (e.g. Clay)
- “Breaking through the noise” & contrarian thinking
We’re all witnessing a shift in demand gen, sales, search trends, and the ways we market our products on social media. The industry is as competitive as ever. We want to help uncover playbooks that are positioned to benefit from this shift.
A painfully obvious lesson of 2025 is that old scaling models just don’t work. Investor focus has shifted to funding emerging AI-native challengers, and products that “stand out” & gain traction are actually born out of founder brands, innovative tech, and clever social media strategies.
Don’t hesitate to leverage communities to get insights
I don’t know about you, but I find myself drowning in the sea of useless information and hype cycles. It’s quite hard to decipher the “truth” and what actually works. That’s where being present, asking for advice, and talking with peers helps me the most.
Whether it’s the SaaStanak community or something else, I advise you to find your tribe and communicate openly. You’ll find a lever to get ahead faster than doing it alone.
If you share this sentiment, come and meet SaaStanak folks at our Annual conference in Šibenik, May 25-27th. Our promise is simple: come as a stranger, leave as a friend.
👉 Apply to speak at SaaStanak 2026
P. S. See you all on our upcoming events in Sarajevo and Kranj – more events are TBA! And of course, grab a blind bird ticket to our main event, this batch will sell out fast 🙂
