SaaSpocalypse Now - Wellington
Presentations

Keynote: Winning strategies and winning operating models

David Clearwater, Executive Director, KiwiSaaS

Serge van Dam, Director & Investor, Re-Leased, Tapi, Cogo

Stream:
Marketing, Sales & GTM

Sales, Marketing & GTM introduction

Charlie Marsh, Sales & Growth Leader
Serge van Dam, Director & Investor, Re-Leased, Tapi, Cogo

Content marketing & winning GEO/LLM search

Serge van Dam, Director & Investor, Re-Leased, Tapi, Cogo
Kendyl Morris, Content Lead, Starshipit

GTM stacks & workflows

Charlie Marsh, Sales & Growth Leader
Jacques Lourens, RevOps Consultant, Oxygen

Humans vs agents for marketing

Nick Whitehead, Chief Marketing Officer, Serko
Serge van Dam, Director & Investor, Re-Leased, Tapi, Cogo

Humans vs agents for sales

Charlie Marsh, Sales & Growth Leader
Rob Borland, Head of Sales, NZ, Xero

Stream:
Product/Engineering

AI cost vs value

Brian Wang, Enterprise Architect, Trade Me
Simon Young, Chief Technology Officer, Serko

The AI PDLC supercharging the product role with AI

Iryna Melnyk, Product Coach
Tasneem Gould, Director of Product, Caterpillar Trimble

Where are we at with agentic development?

Mick Clarke, Chief Technology Officer, Crepuscular
Simon Young, Chief Technology Officer, Serko

You can build anything with AI now - so how do you choose what?

Tasneem Gould, Director of Product, Caterpillar Trimble
Suhel Mangera, Principal Product Manager, Envato

Stream:
People/Ops/Leadership

How are we redesigning our orgs and roles?

David Clearwater, Executive Director, KiwiSaaS

How do we accelerate AI transformations?

David Clearwater, Executive Director, KiwiSaaS
Matt Gerrie, Chief Operating Officer, Serko

Nobody’s been here before: leading without a map

Jenae Turner, Head of People, Ideally
Charlotte Brochoire, Head of HR, Projectworks

Stop automating your empathy: hiring humans in an AI world

Jenae Turner, Head of People, Ideally
Vanessa Radich, Head of People & Culture, Appetise

These presentations were delivered at
SaaSpocalypse Now - Wellington, Thursday 24 September, 2026.