SaaS Summit Benelux 2025

Main Stage

Opening of the SaaS Summit Benelux and How the next era of growth is defined by the laws of physics – based on speed and powered by systems
Jacco van der Kooij

How to go global when you’re not from Silicon Valley
Joris van der Gucht, Ravical and Louis Jonckheere, Wintercircus and Matthias Geeroms, Lighthouse

Case study: What MCP means for the future of SaaS software
Joost Diepenmaat, Moneybird

Adapting fast: How Founders and Investors make decisions in the AI race
Thijs Dijkman, Peak and Lennard Kooy, Lleverage

Build or Buy: a sharp take on the future of SaaS stacks
Paul Veugen, Detail and Jeroen van Glabbeek, CM.com

SaaS Awards Benelux 2025 Ceremony (Hosted by Fortino)

CEO Room

Behind the numbers: the emotions of scaling a SaaS business
Jeroen van Velzen

From stuck to scaling: the messy truth about building a high-performance culture
Diederik Benders, Otherside at Work

How to get your team moving (faster) when the world won’t wait
Jelle Visser, ValueBlue

Expanding to Germany: opportunity, complexity, and what founders should know
Wolter Rebergen, WebinarGeek

Scale Room

Turning AI innovation into revenue: how to package & price AI
Ruben de Lange, Simon-Kucher

Selling your SaaS company: from smart preparation to a knock on the door and the earn-out
Jeroen Cremer, Matterhorn and René de Jong, Anno1982

Beyond the hype: what LLMs and SLMs really mean for SaaS
Steven Nelemans, Zapier

From SaaS to Service: the rise of tech-enabled service companies
Jarell Habets,
Shypple

Theater 1

LLMs make hackers 10x faster: here’s how to fight fire with fire
Roeland Delrue, Aikido Security

When channels stop working: The GTM reset you need to generate more pipeline
Koen Stam, Personio

From local to global: lessons from Metricool’s international expansion
Isabel Romero, Metricool

How to evolve from founder-led chaos to a leadership-driven company
Marieke Saeij, Relyon/Fieldbuddy

Theater 2

AI-first engineering: lessons from teams already doing it
Job Nijenhuis, Neople

From horizontal SaaS to vertical AI: how Carv escaped the SaaS commodity trap
Barend Raaff, Carv and Iris Zonneveldt, Treams

Why more companies hire a Chief of Staff (and what that really looks like)
Nadine Fil, HERE Technologies and Romy de Groot, Atlassian

Outbound sales done right: lessons from Bizzy’s growth story
Hendrik Keeris, Bizzy

Office of the CFO

The data-driven CFO: building finance into your company’s revenue engine
Jasper Bergwerff, Foleon

The evolution of the modern scale-up CFO
Helene Ekkers, Trengo

Is your SaaS scaling faster than your finance can keep up?
Ronald Groot, RS Finance

How Channable brought AI into finance: practical AI use cases
Paul Stolk, Channable

Dome

How embedded payments boosts revenue for SaaS companies

Willem van Kralingen, Twelve and Marcus Granström, Mollie
and Sebastian Haenen, Simon-Kucher

Dos and don’ts of an exit process; Insights of the founder and the advisor

Rob Kroezen, Employes and Willem Daris, Clearwater

Ask-me-anything about Fundraising!
Thijs Dijkman, Peak