May 16 | Day 1

12:00 PM ET

Welcome | Eric Christopher, Co-Founder and CEO, Zylo

12:15 PM ET

Keynote | The Role of IT and Finance in the Era of Responsible Business Growth

With tumultuous market conditions, rising interest rates and general economic uncertainty, organizations are no longer spending with abandon in pursuit of growth. Rather, we’re entering a new era of business - we’re witnessing the rise of responsible growth. Business leaders are going back to business fundamentals, focusing on efficiency and challenging their organizations to accomplish more with less. IT and Finance leaders are optimally positioned to lead their organizations into this next era and make responsible growth a reality.

Sam Chung, Chief Transformation Officer, Salesforce

Casey Santos, Chief Information Officer, Asurion

1:00 PM ET

Keynote | Unlocking Business Value with SaaS Optimization at Scale

Your SaaS portfolio represents one of the biggest risks to your business - but it’s also your greatest opportunity. In this session, Zylo’s Chief Customer Officer Cory Wheeler will share his framework for calming the SaaS chaos. You’ll learn how to manage, measure and maximize your SaaS portfolio to unlock business value through visibility, optimization, saving and governance.

Cory Wheeler, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, Zylo

1:30 PM ET

Desperately Seeking SaaS Visibility: The Reality of Our SaaS Stack

You can’t manage what you don’t know exists - yet the average organization underestimates the size of their SaaS portfolio by 2-3X. If you’re not sure how much SaaS exists in your estate, you’re not alone. Hear from a panel of professionals who, not too long ago, were in your shoes. Hear how they unlocked full visibility into their SaaS footprint and how they are leveraging that visibility to drive organization-wide impact.

Jason Carney, SVP, CRO, CSO and Business & IT Asset Management, FIS

Jason Owens, Senior Director, Asset Management, Salesforce

Moderated by Danielle Bauer, VP, Customer Success, Zylo

2:15 PM ET

Breakout Session | Follow the Money: Why Financial Discovery for SaaS Reigns Supreme

Want to bring shadow IT out of the dark? Or discover ALL the SaaS applications in use throughout your business? While there are many ways to uncover SaaS applications, no method is as comprehensive as financial discovery. In this session, you’ll learn about the downfalls of other discovery approaches and how to best leverage the metadata and forensic detail that’s uncovered in financial discovery.

Jon Alves, Category Manager - Technology, Momentive

2:15 PM ET

Breakout Session | Eliminating SaaS Waste with Laser Precision

Unused software is the number one source of waste in your portfolio. In fact, the average organization is only utilizing 56% of their SaaS licenses. In this session, you’ll learn how to identify unused SaaS licenses and take the proper optimization actions to eliminate waste and maximize adoption. 

Renee Turco, Technology Asset Manager, AbbVie

2:15 PM ET

Breakout Session | Operation Renewals: Our Process for Big Savings

Renewals are your opportunity to realize cost savings from your SaaS optimization efforts. In this session, you’ll learn how to build a repeatable process around your renewals to ensure you never get caught off guard by a renewing application and can squeeze every drop of savings out of every negotiation. 

Adam Carpenter, Sr. Program Manager, Enterprise Applications, Lumio

2:15 PM ET

David Stoicescu, Chief Information Security Officer, Deepwatch

Breakout Session | Assessing and Addressing SaaS Security Risks

Every SaaS application in use at your organization represents a potential gateway into your organization. Learn how a SaaS management program that provides visibility into your entire SaaS portfolio helps mitigate security risks and protect your organization from potential harm.

2:35 PM ET

Ash Rai, Director, Software Asset Management and Vendor Relations, Adobe Technology Services, Adobe

Cory Wheeler, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, Zylo

Keynote | Ask Me Anything: Q&A with the Architect of Adobe's Software Management Program

Looking for insights and best practices from a successful software management team? You don’t want to miss this session with Ash Rai, who helped build the successful software asset management program at Adobe. In this live Q&A he’ll share his lessons learned and open the floor to your burning software management questions. 

3:00 PM ET

Russ Eicholtz, ITAM Principal Consultant, SHI

Sponsor Breakout Session | Areas to Action Against

When it comes to managing your software estate, there is so much data available to you that it can be overwhelming to know where and how to start. This session with SHI Principal Consultant Russ Eicholtz will show you how to translate insights and data into meaningful, prioritized action that will help you realize your desired business outcomes.

3:00 PM ET

Panel | Why Now? How SaaS Management Became a Priority

You think you need SaaS management, but how do you get your business bought in? Hear from a panel of leaders who led the charge to bring SaaS management into their organization and successfully evangelized the impact. 

Steve Gentry, Chief Security Officer, Clari

Partha Ray, Director, Business Applications, Nintex

Tassilo Festetics, Chief Financial Officer, Curology

Moderated by D. Wayne Poole, Chief Operating Officer, Zylo

3:40 PM ET

Breakout Session | A Day in the Life: Operationalizing SaaS Management

Responsibility for managing SaaS sits across different departments and involves stakeholders at all levels of the organization. So what does SaaS management actually look like in practice? Join Zylo’s Terra Ickes as she explores how different personas can work together to solve common SaaS management challenges. 

Terra Ickes, Senior Solutions Consultant, Zylo

3:40 PM ET

Breakout Session | Need-to-Know SaaS Trends for 2023 and Beyond

SaaS is now woven into the fabric of most organizations – from accounting tools to web conferencing, modern businesses run on SaaS. Yet, the world of SaaS is constantly changing as new vendors, pricing models and more emerge. Join our resident SaaS expert Ben Pippenger as he shares his top SaaS trends to be aware of in the year ahead. 

Ben Pippenger, Co-Founder and Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer, Zylo

3:40 PM ET

Breakout Session | Bringing In Big Savings With SaaS Benchmarks 

Knowledge is power. SaaS benchmarks arm you with critical data you need to tackle every SaaS decision - whether a new purchase or a renewal - with confidence. In this session, you’ll learn how to stop leaving money on the table and start negotiating smarter with the help of SaaS benchmarks. 

Tara Kalkwarf, Manager, Vendor Management Office, SADA

3:40 PM ET

Breakout Session | Reducing Risks by Remediating Shadow IT

On average, Shadow IT represents 6% of SaaS spend, but 37% of application quantity. These unknown and ungoverned SaaS applications pose a risk to security, compliance and your budget! Learn how to bring Shadow IT into the light and reduce associated risks. 

Ali Najeed, Principal Business System Analyst, Intuit

4:00 PM ET

Product Keynote | Empowering the Future of Software

Between rising software costs, security risks and the need to drive greater efficiency, SaaS management is no longer a nice-to-have, it’s a critical business need. Zylo’s VP Product Ian Runyon will explore Zylo’s vision for enterprise SaaS Management and give attendees a sneak preview of what Zylo customers can expect in the coming months. 

Ian Runyon, VP, Product, Zylo

4:40 PM ET

Eric Christopher, Co-Founder and CEO, Zylo

Cory Wheeler, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer, Zylo

2023 SaaSMe Awards

4:55 PM ET

Closing Announcements

May 17 | Day 2

12:00 PM ET

Welcome

12:20 PM ET

Product Keynote | Diving Deeper into Zylo's Product Roadmap

In this session, Zylo’s product team will provide a deeper look into the innovations coming in the year ahead. We’ll share what we’re seeing as the biggest areas of opportunity to uplevel your SaaS management program and the ways Zylo will make that a reality. 

Ian Runyon, VP, Product, Zylo

Joan Schrenkel, Integrations Director, Zylo

Chase Thompson, Director of Product Management, Zylo

12:50 PM ET

Panel | More Savings, More Time, More Peace of Mind with Managed Services

Many of us are getting pushed to accomplish more with fewer resources. Hear from smart leaders who have turned to managed services to unlock additional bandwidth and resources for their team with driving cost savings for their organization. 

Karen Hodson, Global Procurement & Real Estate Officer, Marigold
David Cano, IT Director, Techstars

1:20 PM ET

Breakout Session | Zylo 101: Usage Insights & Workflows

Ready to uplevel your license optimization game? This session will explore how to leverage Zylo’s usage insights and workflows to translate data into insights and then action! Learn how to measure and drive utilization across your SaaS stack, deprovision and downgrade in real-time and manage licenses across multiple organizations. 

Derek McCauley, Senior SaaS Consultant, Zylo

1:20 PM ET

Breakout Session | Sharpening Your SaaS Optimization Strategy with Benchmarks

As the saying goes, “the essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.” Yet deciding when and how to offload important tasks like SaaS renewals to a third-party can be a difficult choice to make. Learn how the team at Redis leverage Zylo’s Managed Services alongside Zylo Benchmarks to take a strategic approach to optimizing their SaaS.

Chris Asing, VP and Head of Information Technology, Redis

1:40 PM ET

Breakout Session | Zylo 101: Reporting & Saved Filters

Communicating the progress and wins of your SaaS management program is critical to driving success. This session will explore how to use Zylo’s saved filters and reporting to evangelize both the scale of the problem and the impact you’re delivering with your SaaS management program. 

Casey Feliciano, Senior SaaS Consultant, Zylo

1:40 PM ET

Breakout Session | Assigning Ownership Across the Enterprise

Understanding and assigning application ownership within your organization is a crucial part of managing SaaS subscriptions. Visibility into who is responsible for which applications is key to the success of your SaaS management program. In this session, we’ll walk through best practices related to assigning ownership of applications and explore how some of our customers are leveraging this function within their organizations. 

Rina Steinberg, Senior SaaS Consultant, Zylo

2:00 PM ET

Joan Schrenkel, Integrations Director, Zylo
Mark Bailey, Product Manager, Zylo

Conquer the Chaos of SaaS Contracts

Ready to streamline your SaaS contract management? Contracts hold valuable SaaS data that impacts your ability to operationalize renewals and realize cost savings. Yet, managing all the data in these contracts can be a pain in your SaaS. Join Zylo’s Integrations Director Joan Schrenkel as she explores Zylo’s new Contract Center and how leverage this new contract data management experience to fuel cost savings and faster renewals. 

2:30 PM ET

Closing Announcements