On 17 November Digital Future hosted SaaS Nation, the first conference for SaaS business in Ukraine. The conference was organized by the digital marketing agency Netpeak in partnership with Digital Future. The founders of SaaS companies and top investors gathered to share their knowledge, insights and learn from the experiences of colleagues and experts from other companies. There were 202 participants from Ukraine, the USA, Germany, Estonia, Finland, Moldova, Belarus and the Netherlands.
52% of the conference audience was made up of business founders, 48% of the participants were C-level and B-level managers.
Presentations included a variety of case studies dedicated to product development and scaling as well as building up effective sales channels. For instance, Oleg Bilozor, CEO, and Founder of Reply.io delivered a speech on the effective lifehacks to grow SaaS business. Artem Borodatyuk from Serpstat shared his experience on creating an effective content marketing strategy suitable for SaaS companies. The participants could also find out why Oleksii Vitchenko, Founding Partner of Digital Future was attracted to SaaS business and invested in five SaaS companies.
The conference served as a great opportunity for the entire market and the industry to consolidate business founders of cloud-based companies. Consolidation of SaaS community in one place makes it possible to provide participants with valuable information exchange and useful networking within a brief period of time. The organizers believe that the event has a huge impact on the further development of technology products in Ukraine.
Oleksii Vitchenko gave an interview for “Europe Plus” radio channel on the issues of the Ukrainian IT industry.
Digital Future team attended Web Summit, one of the biggest international tech conference in Europe. This year the event relocated to Lisbon after Dublin, where the conference took place five years in a row. This year 53,056 tech CEOs, founders, startups, investors and political leaders driving change across the world came together in Lisbon for Web Summit. Over 2,000 of the world’s leading media attended. Together they discussed the answers to the questions posed by the tech progress we’re living through.
According to the Web Summit official webpage, this year the conference hosted 21 independent events under one roof gathering people from 166 countries. Lisbon offered the Web Summit not just a new venue but also better infrastructure and enhanced security. Oleksii Vitchenko, Founding Partner of Digital Future, assumes that one of the possible reasons for this situation is that the government’s main objective in Portugal is to create an investment-friendly eco-system.
“A lot of well-known investors from Index, Accel, Microsoft, Salesforce Ventures were spotted at Web Summit. All of them were highly open and receptive to a networking with a range of startups.” – Oleksii Vitchenko said. “I am glad for our portfolio companies being in a game and having the opportunity to feature their valuable products because the real power of the event is the opportunity to expose your concept to a large number of people, getting feedback, exploring partnership opportunities, get funding, maybe even close several deals. Web Summit is the perfect opportunity to make contacts in a positive and memorable atmosphere. And we also got some important business stuff done this year.“