SaaStr Annual 2021: Tech Leaders, Unicorns, and Top-Rate Discussions

SaaStr Annual 2021: Tech Leaders, Unicorns, and Top-Rate Discussions

Just over 18 months ago, in March 2020—only three days before the start of the event—SaaStr Annual was canceled in lieu of the public health regulations emerging as the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Last week, from Monday, September 27 through Wednesday, September 29, the largest SaaS community event in the world finally came back to fruition—and it was well worth the wait.

Ascending into the Future of Work with Oyster

Ascending into the Future of Work with Oyster

We were thrilled to work with new event client Oyster to bring their two-day Future of Work conference to life July 14-15, 2021. Ascent by Oyster brought together more than 350 attendees from—60+ countries (!!)—that lead distributed work and open the door to higher levels of organizational performance.

Recapping Q2 2021: Where Has Our Event Management Team Been?

Recapping Q2 2021: Where Has Our Event Management Team Been?

Our event management team was busy in Q2! We helped to host five virtual events—all while growing our team and preparing for several Q3 and Q4 events. We are also happy to report that all of our events this quarter (with the exception of new event client Cisco Meraki) are returning clients!

Lightspeed Leading Lights 2021: An Up-Close Look at the Startup Journey

Lightspeed Leading Lights 2021: An Up-Close Look at the Startup Journey

Closing out June, Lightspeed Venture Partners hosted their Leading Lights 2021 event, an insightful conference with a top-notch lineup of impressive speakers.

For this year's iteration of Leading Lights, the lineup featured three amazing founders: Jessica Alba of The Honest Company, Howard Akumiah of Betty Labs and Max Levchin of Affirm. In casual conversation, they each expressed their candid experience from the start of their journey to IPOs and acquisition.

Leaning into Change with Cisco Meraki

Leaning into Change with Cisco Meraki

Cisco Meraki hosted their first-ever user conference on the virtual MeetingPlay stage last week—June 16, 2021—and I think we can all agree with the event’s theme: the time to Lean into Change has arrived.

Our event management team worked with over 30 speakers to bring this event to life, including those from enterprise companies such as Wells Fargo, Comcast, and Verizon, as well as top industry analysts and experts.

Recapping Q1 2021: Where Has Our Event Management Team Been?

Recapping Q1 2021: Where Has Our Event Management Team Been?

The first quarter of 2021 was busy for our event management team here at cred. We helped bring seven virtual events to life through our contributions on speaker management & sourcing, attendee comms, virtual platform management, and more! With every event, we become more efficient and effective with our processes, and learn new ways to engage in the virtual world.

Let’s recap where cred’s event management team has been in Q1.

Building a Webinar Series with Datavant

Building a Webinar Series with Datavant

Over the past several months, cred has had the opportunity and pleasure to work with Datavant to launch their webinar program. Through their webinar series, Datavant has been able to build client and partner relationships and zero in on 1:1 conversations to spotlight how they partner with each, and showcase how they operate across different industries and areas of focus.