The Power Week for GTM Leaders
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In May 2026, the AI world converges on Silicon Valley.Within a 50-mile radius, founders, engineers, operators, and investors gather to explore what artificial intelligence will change next.But something important is happening beneath the surface. AI isn’t just changing products. It’s changing how companies grow.
The Week the AI Economy Comes Together
From May 12–14, the Bay Area becomes the center of gravity for the AI and SaaS ecosystem. Different communities come together to explore the transformation from their own perspective.
The Community
SaaStr Annual – May 12–14, San Mateo
The largest gathering of the B2B SaaS ecosystem. Founders, operators, and investors share the newest AI-powered playbooks for scaling SaaS.
The Lab
AI and Data events across San Francisco
Technical leaders push the boundaries of machine learning, data infrastructure, and agentic systems. This is where the capabilities of AI are being built.
The Leadership Forum
Impact Summit – May 12, San Francisco
Hosted by Winning by Design, Impact Summit focuses on a different question entirely: How must recurring revenue companies reinvent themselves in the age of AI?
The End of Linear Growth
For two decades, SaaS growth followed a predictable model:
More pipeline.
More reps.
More customer success managers.
Growth was achieved by scaling teams linearly.That model is breaking down.
Markets are tighter. Efficiency expectations are higher. And AI is introducing a new kind of leverage into the system.The companies pulling ahead are doing something fundamentally different.They are not scaling teams. They are designing growth systems.
The Rise of the Growth Engine
The most resilient SaaS companies are building what we call a compounding growth engine.
Instead of isolated improvements across the funnel, they design systems where improvements reinforce each other across the entire revenue bowtie:
- Marketing generates better-fit pipeline
- Sales converts with greater precision
- Customer success expands accounts earlier
- AI amplifies insight and execution across the system
The result is not incremental growth.It is compounding growth.
The Three Levers of Unstoppable Growth
Every growth engine operates on three levers:
Work Harder
Expand reach and market coverage.
Do Better
Improve win rates, retention, and expansion.
Work Smarter
Apply AI to amplify human capability across GTM.
Most companies focus on one lever. The companies leading the next generation of SaaS activate all three simultaneously.
Why Impact Summit Exists
Thousands of people attend conferences to talk about what AI might do. Impact Summit is different.It’s designed for CEOs, CROs, and GTM leaders responsible for making growth happen today.
At the summit we explore:
- How AI is reshaping the revenue bowtie
- How modern companies design compounding growth systems
- How leaders evolve their GTM operating models
- How AI becomes embedded in daily revenue workflows
The goal is simple: Help leaders reinvent their recurring revenue strategy for the next decade.
One Week. Three Perspectives on AI.
During Power Week, you can experience AI from three vantage points:
The Community – where SaaS shares what’s working
The Lab – where engineers build what’s possible
The Leadership Forum – where executives design how companies grow next
Together, they offer a rare view of the future of the industry.
Join Us at Impact Summit
Impact Summit
May 12, 2026
San Francisco
A curated gathering of GTM leaders focused on reinventing recurring revenue in the age of AI.If you’re responsible for revenue growth, this is where the next generation of GTM strategy is being shaped.
View the agenda or request an invitation here.
Key Conferences Coming in 2026
Dates subject to change.
Date |
Event Name |
Location |
Focus & Key Topic |
| Mar 12–18 | SXSW | Austin, TX | Future of tech, AI culture, and ecosystem signals. |
| Mar 16–19 | NVIDIA GTC 2026 | San Jose, CA | AI Infrastructure, Inference, and Agentic AI. |
| Mar 23–26 | RSAC 2026 | San Francisco | AI Security, Trust, and Governance. |
| Apr 6–9 | HumanX 2026 | San Francisco | Enterprise AI for business leaders (practical adoption). |
| Apr 15–16 | SaaStock USA | Austin, TX | SaaS scaling and founder/VC GTM playbooks. |
| Apr 22–24 | Google Cloud Next | Las Vegas, NV | Platform scaling for GenAI in production. |
| Apr 28–30 | ODSC East | Boston, MA | Technical Data Science and RAG orchestration. |
| May 5–6 | SaaSiest | Malmö, Sweden | European B2B SaaS tactics and pricing. |
| May 11–13 | Gartner Events | London, UK | CMO & CDAO leadership strategies (Marketing/Data). |
| May 12 | Impact Summit (WbD) | San Francisco | GTM AI Architecture: Applying AI to the SaaS Bowtie. |
| May 12–14 | SaaStr Annual + AI | SF Bay Area | World’s largest B2B SaaS gathering; tactical AI tracks. |
| May 13 | IDC AI & Data Summit | San Francisco | Scaling AI adoption and agentic AI at scale. |
| May 18–19 | AI & Big Data Expo | Santa Clara, CA | Industry deployment and AI Act compliance. |
| May 19–20 | Demand & Expand | San Francisco | Full-funnel GTM: Demand gen to expansion. |
| Jun 1–4 | Snowflake Summit | San Francisco | Operationalizing AI with modern data stacks. |
| Jun 8–12 | London Tech Week | London, UK | Broad tech innovation and AI partnerships. |
| Jun 10–11 | The AI Summit | London, UK | Implementation and commercial impact of AI. |
| Jun 15–18 | Data + AI Summit | San Francisco | Unified Data/AI (Databricks) and Lakehouse tech. |
| Jun 29–Jul 2 | AI Engineer Fair | San Francisco | Technical “builder” focus on the AI tool stack. |
| Jul 1 | SaaSiest London | London, UK | CEO/Founder growth and exit strategies. |
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