OTTAWA, CANADA, NOV 4-5 2026 • ROGERS CENTRE
Scaling In The Era Of AI
Where AI-SaaS founders and operators compare flight plans for product, pricing, growth, and trust.
The Playbook Has Changed
CAC is up over 200% in eight years. Sales cycles now take 134 days. Building got cheaper but selling didn’t.
This track is about what actually works in GTM right now.
A Berkeley research team replicated a core AI reasoning technique for $30 in compute. Your feature list isn’t your moat anymore.
This track is about what is.
The 80% software margin is dead. AI compute costs are dragging margins down to 50%. Your competition has ditched pure seat-based pricing.
This track is about making the math work.
55% of companies that cut teams for AI regret it. Meanwhile, AI-native startups hit PMF with 40% smaller teams.
This track is about designing the right team.
Cursor hit $1B ARR with 150 people. Midjourney did $200M with 40.
This track is where incumbents and AI-natives compare notes.
Canada’s Largest Gathering Of AI-SaaS Founders
No awkward LinkedIn pitches. Just real connections with the people building the future of software.
Inside SAAS NORTH
Partner With SAAS NORTH
2,500+ AI-SaaS founders, operators, and investors in one room. Your brand in front of the people making buying decisions.
Real conversations with AI-SaaS operators who are actively evaluating tools. Not a badge-scanning marathon.
Learn From The Leaders Building The Future Of Software
SAAS NORTH brings together the founders and operators shaping the future of SaaS and AI. These are some of the leaders who’ve joined us on stage.
Co-Founder
Neil Patel Digital
Founder & CEO
Tealbook
Chief Operating Officer
FreshBooks
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Jane
CEO & Co-Founder
Klue
Founder and CEO
Growclass
CEO
Headversity
Operating Partner
OpenView Venture Partners
SaaS Advisor + Investor
Don’t Just Take Our Word For It
SAAS NORTH is the best place to learn, scale, and raise capital. If you’re building a SaaS company, there’s no better event to connect with investors and seize funding opportunities.
The best founders in SaaS and AI come together at SAAS NORTH to tackle the industry’s most interesting challenges.
Each year, SAAS NORTH gathers companies, entrepreneurs, and seasoned industry experts to connect and exchange ideas around one of the most vibrant areas in Canada’s tech ecosystem – SaaS.
If you are a founder, investor or interested in SaaS, SAAS NORTH is the conference for you. I was impressed by the caliber of attendees, speakers and ideas presented.
I was very impressed by the quality of the content at SAAS NORTH. This conference is a great learning opportunity for both start-up and scaling companies.
SAAS NORTH brings a lot of value to the SaaS ecosystem. You get not only the companies, but also the mentors, financiers and partners that the companies can leverage.
I was here last year and it worked out really well. Met a lot of really cool companies, and I’m here for more of that this year.
SAAS NORTH was a game-changer. I closed a $3M round and landed $100K in advisory business, all from connections made at the conference. If you attend one tech event in North America, make it this one.
SAAS NORTH has seen tremendous growth…This is a great place for SaaS companies to meet others…
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SAAS NORTH is Canada’s largest in-person conference for SaaS founders and operators navigating the AI transition. Now in its 11th year, it brings together 2,500+ attendees including founders, operators, investors, and ecosystem partners for two days of tactical sessions, operator-led conversations, and networking. November 4-5, 2026 in Ottawa.
Not exactly. SAAS NORTH is a conference about commercializing AI in B2B software. This is not an academic AI conference. There are no research papers. No PhD panels. This is for the people founding, operating, and working in AI-SaaS companies who need to figure out pricing, product, distribution, and trust in real time.
Four groups. (1) SaaS founders, operators, and their teams, (2) AI-native founders and their teams building for enterprise, (3) investors recalibrating from seat-based to outcome-based models, and (4) ecosystem partners helping software companies commercialize AI. If your company is figuring out what AI means for the business, bring the people making those decisions.
Most conferences talk about AI in the abstract. SAAS NORTH is where operators share what’s actually working and what’s not. No vendor keynotes disguised as thought leadership. No “AI will change everything” talk without substance. SAAS NORTH is concentrated: real founders, real numbers, real conversations about the hard parts.
November 4-5, 2026 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa, Canada.
Five programming tracks:
Visit saasnorth.com/get-your-saas-pass-2026 for current pricing.
What We’re Talking About
Stories, insights, and ideas from the SAAS NORTH community.
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