ecommerce conferences.

K:LDN 2024 is Klaviyo's second annual London ecommerce summit, a free one-day gathering at the QEII Centre bringing together DTC brands, marketers and agency partners. The event pairs hands-on workshops on customer data and personalisation with keynotes exploring how AI, technology and human creativity shape the next era of marketing, capped off with an 80s-themed afterparty.

Shoptalk Luxe brings together leaders from luxury retail and lifestyle brands to explore growth strategies, data-driven personalization, and elevated customer experiences. The Abu Dhabi gathering pairs global keynote conversations with networking sessions that connect premium brands to solution providers and collaborators. It's aimed at executives operating in high-end, competitive consumer markets.

The DTC Wine Symposium is a U.S. conference focused on direct-to-consumer sales and marketing for wineries, featuring workshops, keynote sessions, and a trade show. Attendees explore consumer behavior, wine club management, and DTC marketing tactics designed to grow winery profitability. Proceeds benefit the advocacy nonprofit Free the Grapes!.

NRF 2026: Retail's Big Show is a major retail and ecommerce gathering in New York City, bringing together thousands of brands from around the world with a mix of interactive sessions, an expo floor, innovation showcases, and retail store tours. It targets retailers, technology providers, and commerce decision-makers looking to explore emerging tools and strategies shaping the industry.

ABA Marketplace is the American Bus Association's annual gathering for motorcoach operators, tour operators, tourism organizations, and industry suppliers. The 2026 edition convenes at the Reno Sparks Convention Center for several days of prescheduled buyer-seller appointments, networking, and education serving the group travel and ground transportation industry.

A half-day summit hosted by Rice Business Executive Education at the Ion in Houston, bringing together corporate leaders, founders and academics to examine how AI is reshaping finance, digital transformation and workforce strategy. The complimentary program features three moderated panels with executives from Dell, Microsoft, HPE, EY and others, aimed at professionals seeking practical insights and networking.

The Lake Norman AI Summit is a one-day regional gathering hosted by the Lake Norman Chamber of Commerce at the Cain Center for the Arts in Cornelius, NC. It convenes local business leaders, innovators, and professionals for conversations on how artificial intelligence is reshaping business strategy and operations. The 2026 edition continues the Chamber's focus on practical, forward-looking AI dialogue for the regional business community.

eTail West gathers retail and ecommerce leaders in Palm Springs to swap tactics on AI personalization, customer retention, and unified commerce. The agenda leans into payments optimization, fraud prevention, and API-first scaling, making it a useful stop for digital teams refining their checkout and loyalty playbooks.

E-commerce Berlin Expo 2026 is a major B2B gathering for online retail professionals, attracting brands, marketplaces, and technology vendors from across Europe and beyond. Over two days at Messe Berlin, attendees explore practical sessions on digital marketing, omnichannel strategy, logistics, payments, and customer experience. The 2026 edition places notable emphasis on AI and automation as drivers of next-generation commerce.

Charter's Leading with AI Summit is a future-of-work gathering for senior people, technology, and transformation leaders tackling AI adoption across their organizations. The 2026 edition runs as two city events (NYC and San Francisco) offering practitioner case studies, leadership frameworks, and practical guidance for moving beyond experimentation to AI-driven transformation. Attendees include CHROs, CPOs, CTOs, CIOs, COOs, and VPs from startups to enterprises.

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EEE Miami is an invite-only ecommerce conference hosted by Absolute Web at The Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, capping attendance at around 500 with a deliberate 70% brand-side audience. The 2026 edition spans a welcome reception and a full day of keynotes, panels, and fireside chats aimed at DTC operators, with headline guest Lori Greiner of Shark Tank. Programming emphasizes retention, performance marketing, unified commerce, and the role of human creativity alongside AI.

Hosted by the Retail Industry Leaders Association, this annual conference convenes supply chain executives from leading retailers to address logistics, fulfillment, and operational challenges facing the industry. Attendees network with peers and solution providers while exploring strategies for resilience, efficiency, and innovation across the retail supply chain.

Hosted by the Pennsylvania Bus Association at The Liberty Arena in Williamsport, PA, this one-day Marketplace connects motorcoach operators, tour planners, and group leaders with destinations, attractions, hotels, and CVBs. The event includes FAM tours, networking receptions, and a best-practices roundtable aimed at building group travel itineraries for 2026 and beyond.

Hosted by Cleveland Research Company at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront, this invitation-oriented two-day summit gathers branded manufacturers, suppliers, and service providers alongside CRC analysts to unpack "next gen" eCommerce. Attendees can expect panels and one-on-one conversations spanning digital strategy, marketing, operations, supply chain, and social, with a strong focus on Amazon and omnichannel benchmarks. It's tailored to eCommerce Council members and brand leaders seeking candid, data-backed perspectives rather than a broad trade-show experience.

Forrester's flagship B2B event gathers marketing, sales, customer success, and product leaders in Phoenix to confront what the firm calls the "GTM Singularity" — the collapse of legacy go-to-market models under AI-driven buyer autonomy. Attendees get research-backed frameworks, analyst one-on-ones, and tracks spanning GTM transformation, buyer experience, measurement, and AI agents, with an immersive simulated B2B buying environment as a differentiator.

The UK & Europe edition of the B2B eCommerce World conference series gathers manufacturers, distributors, and digital commerce leaders in London for two days of workshops, strategy sessions, and peer networking. Produced by the B2B eCommerce Association, it targets executives steering B2B digital transformation across the region, with practitioner case studies from brands like Schneider Electric, ABB, and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.

Retail Technology Show 2026 gathers forward-thinking retailers and technology innovators at ExCeL London for two days of exhibits, networking, and sessions on the future of commerce. The event serves as a UK/European hub for retail tech buyers evaluating store systems, ecommerce, and customer experience solutions. Digi International will be exhibiting at booth X58.

The DTC National Conference is the largest annual gathering focused exclusively on direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical marketing, drawing hundreds of healthcare marketers for its 26th edition. Attendees get case studies from leading Rx brands, creative and ROI analyses, roundtables, and breakout tracks, plus four industry awards ceremonies including the DTC Ad Awards and DTC Hall of Fame.

Sellers Summit 2026 is a capped, workshop-style conference in Fort Lauderdale for physical-product ecommerce founders selling on Amazon, Shopify, and emerging channels like TikTok Shop. With attendance limited to 200 sellers and speakers who actively run their own 7- and 8-figure brands, the event emphasizes hands-on tactics across sourcing, paid ads, AI tooling, SEO/AEO, and live content. Optional mastermind tracks provide small-group hot seats for higher-revenue sellers and content-focused brand builders.

Keynotes: Steve ChouSponsors:LG OptapexRPC LogisticsBuchalterBullseye Sellers

A one-day summit at The Waldorf Hilton in London bringing together retail executives, CX leaders, and technology innovators to examine how AI, data analytics, biometrics, and blockchain are reshaping retail operations. The program emphasizes practical use cases—personalization, agentic commerce, fraud prevention, marketplaces, and omnichannel transformation—with speakers from L'Oréal, River Island, Amazon, B&Q, and Tesco. Aimed at retail and e-commerce CXOs, directors, and specialists looking to benchmark AI strategies.

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Connect Spring Marketplace is a hosted-buyer event for the MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions) industry, pairing qualified planners with suppliers through pre-scheduled one-on-one appointments. The 2026 edition at the Kentucky International Convention Center features tracks across corporate, association, citywide, business travel, diversity, and international segments, alongside educational sessions and networking experiences.

A closed-door, practitioner-led forum in London focused on agentic and conversational commerce, aimed at retail, CPG, marketing, payments, and CX leaders navigating the shift to AI-agent-driven shopping. Attendees exchange playbooks on making products discoverable inside LLMs and assistants, measurement frameworks for agent channels, and new trust and identity models. Ticket also grants access to the co-located Generative AI Summit.

ChargeX is Recharge's annual gathering for subscription commerce operators, retention and renewal teams, and the agencies that support them. The two-day Los Angeles event focuses on recurring-revenue strategies, churn reduction, and partner ecosystem collaboration for DTC brands scaling subscription programs.

The Balkan eCommerce Summit gathers founders, retailers, marketplace operators, and solution providers from across Southeast Europe for two days of cross-border growth conversations in Sofia. Having grown from a small Bulgaria-Romania meetup into a 2,000+ attendee regional flagship, the 2026 edition emphasizes practical playbooks on logistics, payments, marketplaces, and AI-driven commerce tailored to Balkan and CEE market realities. It's especially relevant for brands looking to expand into fragmented Southeast European markets with trusted local partners.

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Rebranded from the Billion Dollar Sellers Summit, this Nashville gathering brings together 40+ presenters for tactical, omni-channel sessions aimed at marketplace sellers ranging from new founders to nine-figure operators. Programming spans Amazon, TikTok Shop, Shopify, and Walmart.com, with a strong emphasis on how AI is reshaping ecommerce execution. A dedicated startup founder track sits alongside advanced content for established sellers.

Shopify Meetup CEE 2026 is the second edition of the region's official Shopify gathering, bringing together merchants, agencies, app developers and ecosystem partners at Grand Hotel Bucharest for a single-day program of main-stage talks, parallel workshops and networking. It caters to Shopify store operators and builders across Central and Eastern Europe looking for practical growth tactics and community connections.

The DTC Symposium 2026 is a focused one-day programming track for direct-to-consumer brand leaders, co-located with The Lead Summit at Pier 36 in New York City. Included with Lead Summit registration, it gathers 750+ DTC operators to discuss customer acquisition, retention, wholesale expansion, and omnichannel growth. Sessions feature founders and executives from brands like Mid-Day Squares, Whisker, Beekman 1802, and Rainbow Shops.

Pulse eCommerce Summit is a two-day London gathering for ambitious high-growth retailers and brands, with a strong skew toward fashion, beauty and lifestyle. Hosted by consultancy Vervaunt at The Brewery, it pairs retailer-heavy attendance (free for retailers) with sessions on internationalisation, performance marketing, loyalty, omnichannel and AI. The event is known for its brand-led speaker line-up and fringe entertainment programme.

SubSummit is the flagship gathering of the Subscription Trade Association (SUBTA), convening 2,000+ executives and operators building subscription, membership, and recurring-revenue businesses. Attendees span DTC startups, enterprise brands like Netflix and Porsche, SaaS, media, streaming, and investor communities focused on consumer retention and product experience.

The Marketplace Risk Management Conference (MRMC26) gathers founders, operators, and trust & safety leaders from marketplaces, fintechs, and digital platforms for three days in San Francisco focused on risk management, compliance, fraud prevention, and evolving platform regulations. The event blends a hands-on pre-conference bootcamp with keynotes, working sessions, and networking receptions hosted by companies like LinkedIn and J.P. Morgan Chase. It's positioned as the leading dedicated forum for digital platform risk practitioners.

Hosted by Invenco at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, the Retail Technology Conference USA 2026 brings together retail leaders, technologists, and solution providers to explore emerging tools and strategies shaping the sector. The four-day program features discussions, demos, and networking aimed at decision-makers navigating retail transformation.

Gorgias Connect New York 2026 kicks off Gorgias's ecommerce roadshow with a one-day gathering of CX and ecommerce leaders in Manhattan. Attendees dig into customer experience strategy, automation, and the tactics actually moving the needle for DTC brands. The event frames itself as part of Gorgias's "Intelligence Factory" series bridging operators, tooling, and AI-driven support.

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Retail Fest 2026 is Australia's retailer-led gathering on the Gold Coast, focused on cutting waste, embracing AI, and building efficient, scalable commerce operations. The three-day program blends keynotes, panels, deep-dive workshops, curated 1:1 hosted meetings, and an exhibition hall connecting retailers with solution providers and investors. Expect 110+ speakers, 70+ sponsors, and roughly 1,500+ participants from the ANZ retail and ecommerce community.

Shop! MarketPlace 2026 is a retail-focused trade show and conference in New Orleans bringing together suppliers, manufacturers and service providers behind in-store consumer experiences. The program blends keynote sessions, SmartStation presentations, an exhibit floor, retail inspiration tours of NOLA, and the Shop! Awards Reception honoring OMA, Global and Design Award winners.

Gladly Connect Live gathers customer experience, support, and service teams to explore how AI is reshaping CX operations, with particular relevance for ecommerce and Shopify-based brands. The multi-day Atlanta event emphasizes practical implementation — AI in support workflows, conversation design, and performance measurement — through breakouts, panels, and informal networking rather than high-level overviews.

B2B Online Chicago 2026 gathers digital, ecommerce, and marketing leaders from manufacturers and distributors to trade playbooks on omnichannel growth, customer experience, and data-driven buyer journeys. The three-day program moves from foundational strategy and internal buy-in to omnichannel scaling and forward-looking topics like AI and CRM adoption. It's geared toward CMOs, ecommerce heads, and digital transformation leaders who want candid peer conversations rather than vendor pitches.

Savant – The B2B eCommerce Congress is a boutique, invite-driven gathering at The Shard in London for senior digital and commerce leaders from manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and brands. The 2026 edition centers on AI-powered transformation across pricing, forecasting, content, and autonomous operations, with a curated 3:1 brand-to-vendor ratio and structured 1-2-1 meetings. It's designed for practitioners rethinking the B2B buyer journey around digital-first, margin-focused growth.

CommerceNext Growth Show is an annual gathering in New York City for digital, marketing, and technology leaders from retail and DTC brands. The two-day event emphasizes peer-to-peer connection, actionable insights on growth strategy, and matchmaking between retailers and technology partners across AI, personalization, and ecommerce. Attendees include executives from brands like Tapestry, Estée Lauder, J. Crew, Home Depot, Walmart, Sephora, and Gap.

An invitation-only executive assembly hosted by Millennium Alliance at The Line in Austin, bringing together retail COOs, CIOs, and merchandising leaders from Fortune 1000 brands. The two-day program centers on digital transformation, merchandising innovation, and applied automation, with curated peer-to-peer sessions rather than open-registration keynotes. Past attendees have included senior leaders from Abercrombie & Fitch, Dollar General, Lululemon, Foot Locker, and PetSmart.

Shopware Community Day is the vendor's flagship annual gathering in Cologne, bringing together merchants, developers, agency partners, and ecommerce leaders from its global ecosystem. The event pairs roadmap reveals and product news with community networking, making it a focal point for anyone building on the Shopware platform.

Shoptalk Europe gathers retail and e-commerce leaders in Barcelona for three days focused on the continent's retail transformation agenda. The event convenes brands, retailers, and technology providers around emerging commerce models, digital experience, and operational innovation. It serves as the European counterpart to Shoptalk's flagship US show, with a community-oriented format combining keynotes and an exhibition floor.

Commerce AI Summit 2026 is a one-day, in-person forum at London's Minster Building organized by RetailX for retail and brand leaders looking to move AI from theory into measurable commercial outcomes. The invite-verified format blends keynotes, expert panels, closed-door roundtables, and 1-to-1 meetings, with vendor seats excluded to keep discussions focused on retailer priorities.

Co-located with The Lead Summit at Pier 36 in New York, The DTC Symposium gathers more than 750 direct-to-consumer leaders across marketing, ecommerce, retail, and operations to exchange growth strategies. The program features founder stories, benchmarking roundtables, 1-on-1 case studies, and a pitch competition spotlighting eight emerging brands. It's tailored for DTC operators looking to benchmark tactics with peers from high-growth and scaled brands alike.

Online Retailer is Australia's largest ecommerce conference and expo, drawing 3,500+ retail, digital, marketing and technology professionals to Sydney's ICC for two days of content and solution discovery. The 2026 edition brings together 200+ speakers and 150+ solution providers spanning fashion, electronics, grocery, marketplaces and more, giving Australian retailers a hub for benchmarking strategy and evaluating new tech.

DotDev 2026 is Shopify's two-day developer conference in Toronto, built for partners, agencies, and developers building on the Shopify platform. Attendees get hands-on time with new APIs and extensions, direct access to the product teams shipping them, and technical talks alongside go-to-market sessions. The event blends product demos, workshops, lightning talks, and after-hours networking including a closing block party.

Connect Marketplace is an annual meetings and events industry gathering hosted by Informa Connect, bringing planners and suppliers together at the Tampa Convention Center for keynotes, panels, and structured networking. The 2026 edition offers curated appointments alongside educational sessions focused on creating impactful live experiences.

eTail East gathers senior retail and ecommerce leaders from major North American brands for several days of peer-driven sessions, roundtables, and hands-on workshops. Programming spans digital marketing, omnichannel strategy, store innovation, and emerging tech, with dedicated tracks like the C-Suite Retreat, Women in eTail, and a Visionary Awards ceremony. The 2026 edition continues WBR's 25-year run, leaning into a year-round community model alongside the live event.