

GTM Week Berlin Opening: The Rise of the GTM Era
What does it actually take to grow a tech company in 2026 - and what are the people who've done it at scale actually saying?
Where does GTM end and product begin?
When do you stop selling features and start engineering the market?
How Forward Deployed Engineers & Deployment Strategists help with growth?
GTM Tech Week kicks off with a banger!!
That's the kind of perspective you don't get at a local meetup.
Leaders from the most commercially successful tech companies on the market, in one room at Merantix AI Campus! 🔥
Two Panels, One Keynote, and Demo.
Shared Goal - Your Growth!
18:00 Doors Open
18:15 Opening Keynote – The Rise of the GTM Era: why the next generation of winning tech companies will win on go-to-market. (Krzysztof Pawlak & Artur Wala, GTM Tech Week)
18:45 Skyrocketing value: Achieve multi-million dollars worth
What are the growth levers that still work? 10x growth lessons.
- Florian Heinemann Founding Partner @ Project A, active Board Member, ex Co-CMO at Zalando
- Kaythlin Das Head of HubSpot for Startups EMEA & JAPAC
- Luca Jonas Moormann GTM Account Director @ OpenAI
- Alan Poensgen Partner @ Antler, Co-founder & MD at Westwing
Moderated by Chris Pawlak - founder
ex-CSO behind growth of Callstack (EUR +100M valuation)
19:30 Forward Deployed: Engineering as a GTM advantage
Forward deployed engineers, devrels - what actually moves revenue.
OpenAI invested $4B in "The Deployment Company" - what it means for startups?
- Simon Wimmer - Co-Founder & CTO @ Augustus, Berlin-based unicorn
- Elisabeth Reitmayr Director of Engineering @ dltHub, ex Head of Engineering @ Parloa
- Rasmus Schults Co-Founder & CTO @ Nelly
- Lukas Jakubowski - ex-Palantir FDE, Founder @ FDE Agents
Moderated by Artur Wala - founder & Codex Ambassador
20:15 Networking
21:00 Doors close
Who is this for?
Founders, CEOs, CROs, CMOs, GTM leaders and engineers who build or run go-to-market at tech companies. If you own revenue, growth or the tech behind them, this evening is for you.
Hosted at Merantix AI Campus
Europe’s largest AI hub and home to 1,000+ AI founders, researchers and investors. The natural place to open a week about how tech companies go to market.
Access
Free. Accept only, strictly limited to 150 seats. We review each application for fit.
Full Week Pass holders get guaranteed access.
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This event happens during GTM Tech Week Berlin.
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