SaaSBoomi Annual 2025: Full Schedule

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9:45am IST

The New World Order

Tuesday March 25, 2025 9:45am - 10:05am IST

Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Speakers

Girish Mathrubootham

Executive Chairman & Founder at Freshworks, Founding Partner at TogetherFund

Between a broken TV and a random comment about helpdesk pricing in Hacker News, Girsh Mathrubootham envisioned and co-founded Freshworks (then Freshdesk) in 2010 to create a better way to service and delight customers. What began as a single product focused on customer service is... Read More →

Session Curator

Krish Subramanian

Co-founder & CEO, Chargebee

Tuesday March 25, 2025 9:45am - 10:05am IST
Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Opening

10:20am IST

The New Operating System for Building Companies

Tuesday March 25, 2025 10:20am - 11:05am IST

Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Speakers

Suresh Sambandam

Founder & CEO, Kissflow

Suresh Sambandam is the CEO of Kissflow, a global SaaS company offering pioneering digitalworkplace products for organizations to manage all of their work on a single platform.Kissflow is used by over 10,000 organizations spread across 160 countries, including morethan fifty Fortune... Read More →

Sanket Shah

CEO, InVideo

Sanket is the founder of invideo, the largest prosumer SaaS company from Asia. invideo has over 20M users from 190 countries. invideo AI is the fastest growing SaaS company India has ever seen. invideo has raised over 55M USD from the likes of Sequoia and Tiger Global. Before invideo... Read More →

Session Curator

Varun Shoor

Founder & x-CEO, Kayako

Tuesday March 25, 2025 10:20am - 11:05am IST
Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Inspirational

11:05am IST

AI-Powered Scale: Driving India’s Startup Revolution Forward

Tuesday March 25, 2025 11:05am - 11:35am IST

Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Speakers

Puneet Chandok

President, Microsoft India & South Asia

Puneet Chandok is President, Microsoft India & South Asia and is responsible for Microsoft’s overall presence and business in the area. He leads the company’s digital transformation in the era of AI and intelligent cloud.At Microsoft, Puneet drives the company’s mission of ‘empowering... Read More →

Session Curator

Aneesh Reddy

Founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies

This is a brief bio

Tuesday March 25, 2025 11:05am - 11:35am IST
Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Inspirational

11:35am IST

10x not 100%

Tuesday March 25, 2025 11:35am - 12:00pm IST

Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Speakers

Rajan Anandan

Managing Director, PeakXV Partners and Surge

As part of the leadership team at Peak XV Partners, Rajan is focusing on developing Surge into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling... Read More →

Session Curator

Shruti Kapoor

Founder & x-CEO, Wingman

Tuesday March 25, 2025 11:35am - 12:00pm IST
Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Inspirational

12:00pm IST

IndAI | World-class AI products built in our own backyard

Tuesday March 25, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm IST

Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Session Curator

Shivangi Sahu

Fellow, SaaSBoomi

Tuesday March 25, 2025 12:00pm - 12:45pm IST
Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Inspirational

12:45pm IST

Monetizing Innovation [Introduction]

Tuesday March 25, 2025 12:45pm - 1:00pm IST

Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Speakers

Madhavan Ramanujam

General Partner, 49 Palms Ventures

Madhavan Ramanujam is the Co-Founder and a General Partner at 49 Palms Ventures, a venture firm focused on investing in early-stage tech companies and helping them monetize and scale innovations. Previously, he was a Managing Partner & Board member at Simon-Kucher & Partners. Madhavan... Read More →

Session Curator

Krish Subramanian

Co-founder & CEO, Chargebee

Tuesday March 25, 2025 12:45pm - 1:00pm IST
Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Inspirational

1:00pm IST

Lunch

Tuesday March 25, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm IST

Rajendra 3+4+5

Tuesday March 25, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm IST
Rajendra 3+4+5

Break

1:00pm IST

Women Leaders' Luncheon + The Story Hat - Share, Inspire, Connect

Tuesday March 25, 2025 1:00pm - 2:45pm IST

Pan Asian Restaurant

Speakers

Ashwini Asokan

Founder & CEO, Vue.ai

Ashwini Asokan is the Founder & CEO of Mad Street Den, a Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence company. At Mad Street Den, Ashwini and her team of 60, give the power of sight and learning to machines, teaching them to see and experience the world like we humans do. Working... Read More →

Session Curator

Shivangi Sahu

Fellow, SaaSBoomi

Suhasini Dudhwewala

Co-founder & CEO, SoftwareSuggest

Tuesday March 25, 2025 1:00pm - 2:45pm IST
Pan Asian Restaurant

Women Leaders

2:00pm IST

Orchestrating Multi-Agent Systems: Advanced AI Patterns in SaaS

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm IST

Rajendra 1

Speakers

Anshu Avinash

Head of AI, DevRev

Session Curator

Vishal

Co-Founder & CEO, DhiWise

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm IST
Rajendra 1

Product & Tech

2:00pm IST

No money? No problem! How to scale your AI startup to millions with a zero dollar marketing budget

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm IST

Rajendra 2

In a world where AI startups are burning millions on customer acquisition, Presentations.AI took a different path—growing from zero to millions in not just topline revenue but bottom line profit with virtually no marketing spend. Join founder and CEO Sumanth Raghavendra as he reveals the counterintuitive growth strategies that helped Presentations.AI reach 6 million users across 112 countries without traditional marketing. You'll discover how to leverage the psychology of product-led growth, and the exact playbook for scaling globally without a marketing department. Whether you're pre-seed or Series A, this talk will challenge everything you think you know about AI startup growth.

Speakers

Sumanth Raghavendra

Co-founder & CEO, Presentations.ai

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 2:45pm IST
Rajendra 2

SaaS to AI

2:00pm IST

Ambitious ideas for a better world - RainMatter opensources their idea catalog

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm IST

Rajendra 7 + 8

Speakers

Dilip Kumar

Investor, Health at Rainmatter by Zerodha

Sameer Shisodia

CEO, Rainmatter Foundation

Session Curator

Sridhar Ranganathan

Co-founder & CEO, B2Brain

Talk to me about generating pipeline from Trade Shows and Events, building and selling for Vertical Markets

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:00pm IST
Rajendra 7 + 8

Vertical AI

2:00pm IST

Mining the Deeps - Vertical AI in Aerospace

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm IST

Kaveri 4

Speakers

Anand Srinivasan

Co-Founder & CIO, Akasa Air

Satya Chakravarthy

Founder, The ePlane Co.

Session Curator

Dhanush

Investor, Speciale Invest

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm IST
Kaveri 4

Vertical AI

2:00pm IST

Mining the Deeps - Vertical AI in Bio/Pharma

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm IST

Kaveri 2

Speakers

Kiran Bettadapur

CEO, FlaskAi

a scientist-entrepreneur with expertise in organic and medicinal chemistry. I hold a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and have over a decade of experience in drug discovery and pharma research. My work has been published in high-impact... Read More →

Parul Ganju

Co-founder & CEO, Ahammune Biosciences Pvt. Ltd.

Vikram Prabhakar

Founder & CEO, Vantage Research

Session Curator

Naganand Doraswamy

Managing Partner & Founder, Ideaspring Capital

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm IST
Kaveri 2

Vertical AI

2:00pm IST

Mining the Deeps - Vertical AI in Manufacturing

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm IST

Kaveri 3

Speakers

Derick Jose

MD, Industrial Intelligence & Co-Founder, Flutura Decision Sciences & Analytics

Session Curator

Prayank Swaroop

Partner, Accel

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:00pm - 3:45pm IST
Kaveri 3

Vertical AI

2:30pm IST

Mindful Leadership

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm IST

Kaveri 1

Speakers

Aneesh Reddy

Founder & CEO, Capillary Technologies

This is a brief bio

Sriram Kalyanaraman

Founder, Amaidhi School for Transformation

Sriram brings a pioneering approach to leadership and transformation that is anchored in our highest consciousness and deepest humanity. His work has impacted thousands of CEOs, senior public servants, top teams, youth and families in 90+ institutions across India and the world. A... Read More →

Session Curator

Sharat Potharaju

Co-founder & CEO, Uniqode

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:30pm - 3:45pm IST
Kaveri 1

Scaled Founders

2:45pm IST

Next-Gen UX in AI: Building Trust, Transparency, and User Retention

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm IST

Rajendra 1

Speakers

Anjeli Singh

Founder, micorza

Anjeli Singh is the founder of Micorza, an AI-driven platform transforming user feedback management by making customer empathy scalable and actionable. With years of experience running Hureo, a leading research agency, she has helped companies design user-centric products that drive... Read More →

Sunit Singh

Venture Partner, Z47

With years of experience in design, product, and scaling teams, I’ve worked with companies like Cleartrip, Ola, and Burrp. I also co-founded Fincent, shaping its vision from the ground up. Currently, I head Product & Design at Krutrim, advise the Z47 portfolio of companies, and... Read More →

Session Curator

Anjeli Singh

Founder, micorza

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm IST
Rajendra 1

Product & Tech

2:45pm IST

From SaaS to AI-aaS: Transforming Your Monetization Strategy for the AI Era

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm IST

Rajendra 2

The world is changing around us, with incumbent SaaS companies rapidly adding AI-enabled capabilities whilst also battling new AI-native competitors that are launching weekly. But with company valuation increasingly a factor of profitability as well as revenue growth, AI poses a real problem: unless monetized carefully, it can significantly erode margins. In this insight-packed session, Andrew Davies, CMO of Paddle, will show detailed data and practical examples of how you must transform your monetisation efforts for a transformed world.

Find out:
- Why monetization now matters more than ever
- How to apply pricing strategy principles to AI
- Monetization best practices from leading AI-first companies

Objectives:
- Learn the principles of pricing strategy
- Find out how packaging can drive better monetization
- Understand how leading companies are tackling AI monetization
- Discover how localization drives outsized results
- Leave with 3 practical steps you can take tomorrow to build a better company

Speakers

Andrew Davies

CMO, Paddle

Andrew serves Paddle.com as Chief Marketing Officer. Paddle runs the payments infrastructure for 5,000 self-serve software companies. By using Paddle’s Merchant of Record, these businesses can sell everywhere in the world, without friction or compliance concerns.Previously Andrew... Read More →

Session Curator

Aastha Sharma

Founder, CMO, Veris

Hi there! I'm Aastha, and I've been fortunate enough to have found success in the world of entrepreneurship not just once, but twice. My first company was acquired, and with my second venture Veris, we've been named as one of the fastest-growing companies in the workplace technology... Read More →

Tuesday March 25, 2025 2:45pm - 3:30pm IST
Rajendra 2

SaaS to AI

3:00pm IST

India's Software Market in 2035: Unlocking Domestic Growth, Innovation, and AI-Driven Leadership

Tuesday March 25, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm IST

Rajendra 7 + 8

Speakers

Avlesh Singh

Co-founder, WebEngage

Avlesh Singh is the Co-founder and CEO at WebEngage. With over eighteen years of experience in product and technology, Avlesh is passionate about building software that spearheads retention marketing as a practice, worldwide and was named Martech Visionary of the Year in 2023.He founded... Read More →

Dr. Rohini (Gupta) Srivathsa

CTO, Microsoft India & South Asia

Dr. Rohini Srivathsa is the National Technology Officer at Microsoft India. In her role, she is responsible for driving innovation and growth through ‘tech-intensity’ – across industry and the government. Rohini began her career in R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and has 25+ technical... Read More →

Session Curator

Gowrishankar Nagarajan

VC, Antler

Tuesday March 25, 2025 3:00pm - 3:45pm IST
Rajendra 7 + 8

India Market

3:45pm IST

Break

Tuesday March 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm IST

Tea/Coffee Counters

Tuesday March 25, 2025 3:45pm - 4:15pm IST
Tea/Coffee Counters

4:00pm IST

The Funding Dialogue: Stories & Strategies to Succeed

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm IST

Kaveri 3, Kaveri 4

Moderators

Deepti Prasad

Co-founder, Spyne

Speakers

Poorvi Vijay

Vice President, Elevation Capital

Priya Ramachandran

Founder & General Partner, Foster Ventures

Session Curator

Shivangi Sahu

Fellow, SaaSBoomi

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:00pm - 4:50pm IST
Kaveri 3, Kaveri 4

Women Leaders

4:00pm IST

Mining the Deeps - Vertical AI in Auto & EV

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:00pm - 5:45pm IST

Kaveri 1

Speakers

Arun Vinayak

Co-Founder, Exponent Energy

Mahalingam Koushik B

Co-Founder & CTO, Chara Technologies

Maha, Co-founder & CTO at Chara Technologies, is a technocratic leader with more than a decade and a half of experience designing and building products. He is a Graduate of IIT Madras and RPI, NY with a focus on Power Electronics. He has worked in multiple startups spanning various... Read More →

Session Curator

Arpit Agarwal

Investment Partner, Blume Ventures

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:00pm - 5:45pm IST
Kaveri 1

Vertical AI

4:00pm IST

Mining the Deeps - Vertical AI in Robotics

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:00pm - 5:45pm IST

Kaveri 2

Speakers

Farid Ahsan

Founder & CEO, General Autonomy

Farid Ahsan is the Founder & CEO of General Autonomy, leading product development and all things business. At age 22, Farid also cofounded ShareChat, India's largest homegrown social media company, and was the Chief Operating Officer till March 2023, before founding General Autonomy... Read More →

Mahek Mody

Co-Founder & CEO, Upliance.ai

Rishi Israni

CTO, Zimplistic (Rotimatic)

Saurabh Chandra

Founder & CEO, Ati Motors

Session Curator

Manish Advani

VP, Elevation Capital

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:00pm - 5:45pm IST
Kaveri 2

Vertical AI

4:15pm IST

Beyond Cursor: Building a Complete AI-Driven Engineering Culture

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm IST

Rajendra 6

Speakers

Anshul Sao

Co-founder, Facets.cloud

Anshul Sao is the Co-founder & CTO of Facets.Cloud. An IIT Kharagpur graduate, he has over 17 years of experience in engineering, spanning frontend, backend, big data, and cloud infrastructure. He has worked at Yahoo, Tejas Networks, and Capillary Technologies, where he was Chief... Read More →

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm IST
Rajendra 6

AI Adoption

4:15pm IST

Data-Driven AI: Managing AI-Ready Datasets & Discovering Advanced Patterns

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm IST

Rajendra 1

Speakers

Gaurav Rawat

Co-founder & CTO, Nudge

Gaurav started his career as a designer 7 years ago. In 2022, he joined Klutchh, an esports fantasy platform, where he led the product—scaling it to 100,000 users in six months. After realizing how effectively the gaming industry had mastered personalization and retention, Klutchh... Read More →

Vikas Gulati

Co-founder & CTO, SquadStack

Session Curator

Chaitanya C

Co-founder & CTO, Ozonetel

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm IST
Rajendra 1

Product & Tech

4:15pm IST

Monetizing Innovation [Deep-Dive]

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm IST

Rajendra 7 + 8

Speakers

Madhavan Ramanujam

General Partner, 49 Palms Ventures

Session Curator

Krish Subramanian

Co-founder & CEO, Chargebee

Tuesday March 25, 2025 4:15pm - 5:00pm IST
Rajendra 7 + 8

SaaS to AI

5:00pm IST

Post-AI business models: Is it SaaS? Is it services? The answer is - Yes

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm IST

Rajendra 1

Speakers

Aakash Dharmadhikari

Co-founder, Realfast

Session Curator

Krishna Mehra

AI Partner, Elevation Capital

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm IST
Rajendra 1

Product & Tech

5:00pm IST

AI & APIs: Lessons from Postman’s Journey

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm IST

Rajendra 6

Speakers

Abhijit Kane

Co-founder, Postman

Abhijit Kane is currently a co-founder at Postman, a collaborative API Platform founded in 2014, used by more than 35 million users all over the world across 500k companies. He's currently working on figuring out ways to leverage AI to get closer to Postman's vision of an API-first... Read More →

Session Curator

Sudheer Bandaru

Founder & CEO, Hivel

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm IST
Rajendra 6

SaaS to AI

5:00pm IST

Justcall's AI Shift. 3M additional ARR and growing

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm IST

Rajendra 2

Speakers

Gaurav Sharma

CEO, Getgabs LLP

Session Curator

Srikrishnan Ganesan

Co-founder & CEO, Rocketlane

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 5:45pm IST
Rajendra 2

SaaS to AI

5:00pm IST

State of the Saas Markets

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST

Kaveri 3

Speakers

Klass Oskam

CEO, DC Advisory

Dheeraj Poddar

Managing Director & Co-Head Asia, TA Associates

Session Curator

Sharat Potharaju

Co-founder & CEO, Uniqode

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
Kaveri 3

Scaled Founders

5:45pm IST

Break

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:45pm - 6:15pm IST

Tea/Coffee Counters

Tuesday March 25, 2025 5:45pm - 6:15pm IST
Tea/Coffee Counters

Break

6:15pm IST

AI, SaaS & the Future: What It Takes to Win

Tuesday March 25, 2025 6:15pm - 7:00pm IST

Rajendra 6 + 7 + 8

Speakers

Gary Survis

Operating Partner, Insight Partners

Gary Survis blends a unique combination of marketing innovation and sustainability strategy. As an Operating Partner at Insight Partners, Gary has been engaged with Insight’s over 500 portfolio companies as leader of Onsite’s Marketing Center of Excellence. Gary focuses on... Read More →

Session Curator