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6 hours

100% Virtual

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Growth Unlocked: The Summit

Two days with the operators evolving, scaling, and winning in DTC right now.

September 15–16, 2026

Join 2000+ DTC operators

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why join

Two days you'll actually be glad you blocked

Built around the questions DTC operators are actually asking in 2026. Less theory. More of what's working right now in the businesses you wish you could peek inside.

Playbooks from operators ahead of you

Playbooks from operators ahead of you

The brands one or two stages further down the road than yours, walking you through what's working - what they tried, what flopped, what they'd do differently.

The brands one or two stages further down the road than yours, walking you through what's working - what they tried, what flopped, what they'd do differently.

A clearer read on what's changing

A clearer read on what's changing

AI search, social commerce, retention economics, the new trust signals. Two days of signal on where DTC is heading.

AI search, social commerce, retention economics, the new trust signals. Two days of signal on where DTC is heading.

A closer look at what AI can do for your store

A closer look at what AI can do for your store

Real workflows from brands already using AI to scale content, systems and visibility - not the theory, what they're actually running.

Real workflows from brands already using AI to scale content, systems and visibility - not the theory, what they're actually running.

A room full of operators like you

A room full of operators like you

1,500+ peers in the chat. Real conversations, real questions, real answers. The kind of room that's harder to find than the content itself.

1,500+ peers in the chat. Real conversations, real questions, real answers. The kind of room that's harder to find than the content itself.

The Judge.me standard

If we put our name on it, it's built to a standard

If we put our name on it, it's built to a standard

1

Operator focused

Every person on this stage runs, or has built and scaled, a real DTC business. No agency partners pitching frameworks. No analysts reading off slides.

Every person on this stage runs, or has built and scaled, a real DTC business. No agency partners pitching frameworks. No analysts reading off slides.

2

The whole thing, free

Free to register. Free to attend. Free to replay. Judge.me scales by delivering value to operators, not by gating it.

Free to register. Free to attend. Free to replay. Judge.me scales by delivering value to operators, not by gating it.

3

Built around your day

Three-hour days. Replays the next morning. Designed to run alongside your store, not pull you away from it.

Three-hour days. Replays the next morning. Designed to run alongside your store, not pull you away from it.

4

Curated, not crowdsourced

Six sessions across two days. We turn down more than we accept. Every slot on the agenda has been earned.

Six sessions across two days. We turn down more than we accept. Every slot on the agenda has been earned.

By the numbers

By the numbers

6

sessions

sessions

6

hours of live content

hours of live content

2

days

days

100%

operator-focused

operator-focused

NEW THIS YEAR

We go through your store. Live.

Store Clinics: built from what merchants told us they needed last year. Someone from our team gets into your store with you.

1-2-1 session

15 minutes with a Judge.me expert who goes through your store and makes improvements on the spot.


Limited spots, first come. Registration opens during event.

Open session

At the end of each day, watch us work through a real store live, then make the same changes to yours.


Included with every seat. Join on the day from the lobby.

We'll cover the most common topics our support team gets asked, including widget placement, review request timing, and the automations most stores never touch, from coupons that earn a second order to reviews posted straight to social.

Agenda

Two days. Six sessions. Built for the work you're actually doing

Two days. Six sessions. Built for the work you're actually doing

Sep 15

Sep 16

BST

04:00 PM

EDT

11:00 AM

PDT

08:00 AM

10 MIN

Welcome to Day 1: Today's agenda

A quick look at what to expect across the two days - the sessions, the speakers and how to get the most out of your time here.

Neil Bayton

Head of Partnerships

Judge.me

👋 Welcome

BST

04:10 PM

EDT

11:10 AM

PDT

08:10 AM

50 MIN

Judge.me's Vision: What's coming next for our customers

A look at where Judge.me is heading - the features, bets and product direction that will shape how you collect and use reviews over the next 12 months.

Martin Yong

Head of Design

Judge.me

Rory Jeffries

Product Lead

Judge.me

🎤 Talk

BST

05:10 PM

EDT

12:10 PM

PDT

09:10 AM

50 MIN

Become Visible: Why some brands get mentioned everywhere

Search is changing fast. SEO, GEO, LLMs - the brands showing up everywhere have figured out how to earn visibility across all of them. Here's what they're doing differently.

Frankie Jenkins

Content Lead

Judge.me

Kyle Risley

Sr. SEO Lead

Shopify

🎤 Talk

BST

06:10 PM

EDT

01:10 PM

PDT

10:10 AM

50 MIN

Benchmarking: Is your review collection rate actually good?

Most stores have no idea if their review collection rate is strong or leaking. We'll share the benchmarks, show you where stores typically lose reviews, and walk through what good actually looks like.

Fabrizio Assabese

Chief Growth Officer

Judge.me

Cameron Jones

Data Analyst

Judge.me

🎤 Talk

BST

07:00 PM

EDT

02:00 PM

PDT

11:00 AM

10 MIN

Day 1 Wrap Up and Key Takeaways

A summary of the biggest moments from Day 1 - the ideas worth taking back to your store and a preview of what's coming tomorrow.

Neil Bayton

Head of Partnerships

Judge.me

🎬 Wrap-up

Sep 15

Sep 16

BST

04:00 PM

EDT

11:00 AM

PDT

08:00 AM

10 MIN

Welcome to Day 1: Today's agenda

A quick look at what to expect across the two days - the sessions, the speakers and how to get the most out of your time here.

Neil Bayton

Head of Partnerships

Judge.me

👋 Welcome

BST

04:10 PM

EDT

11:10 AM

PDT

08:10 AM

50 MIN

Judge.me's Vision: What's coming next for our customers

A look at where Judge.me is heading - the features, bets and product direction that will shape how you collect and use reviews over the next 12 months.

Martin Yong

Head of Design

Judge.me

Rory Jeffries

Product Lead

Judge.me

🎤 Talk

BST

05:10 PM

EDT

12:10 PM

PDT

09:10 AM

50 MIN

Become Visible: Why some brands get mentioned everywhere

Search is changing fast. SEO, GEO, LLMs - the brands showing up everywhere have figured out how to earn visibility across all of them. Here's what they're doing differently.

Frankie Jenkins

Content Lead

Judge.me

Kyle Risley

Sr. SEO Lead

Shopify

🎤 Talk

BST

06:10 PM

EDT

01:10 PM

PDT

10:10 AM

50 MIN

Benchmarking: Is your review collection rate actually good?

Most stores have no idea if their review collection rate is strong or leaking. We'll share the benchmarks, show you where stores typically lose reviews, and walk through what good actually looks like.

Fabrizio Assabese

Chief Growth Officer

Judge.me

Cameron Jones

Data Analyst

Judge.me

🎤 Talk

BST

07:00 PM

EDT

02:00 PM

PDT

11:00 AM

10 MIN

Day 1 Wrap Up and Key Takeaways

A summary of the biggest moments from Day 1 - the ideas worth taking back to your store and a preview of what's coming tomorrow.

Neil Bayton

Head of Partnerships

Judge.me

🎬 Wrap-up

Sep 15

Sep 16

BST

04:00 PM

EDT

11:00 AM

PDT

08:00 AM

10 MIN

Welcome to Day 1: Today's agenda

A quick look at what to expect across the two days - the sessions, the speakers and how to get the most out of your time here.

Neil Bayton

Head of Partnerships

Judge.me

👋 Welcome

BST

04:10 PM

EDT

11:10 AM

PDT

08:10 AM

50 MIN

Judge.me's Vision: What's coming next for our customers

A look at where Judge.me is heading - the features, bets and product direction that will shape how you collect and use reviews over the next 12 months.

Martin Yong

Head of Design

Judge.me

Rory Jeffries

Product Lead

Judge.me

🎤 Talk

BST

05:10 PM

EDT

12:10 PM

PDT

09:10 AM

50 MIN

Become Visible: Why some brands get mentioned everywhere

Search is changing fast. SEO, GEO, LLMs - the brands showing up everywhere have figured out how to earn visibility across all of them. Here's what they're doing differently.

Frankie Jenkins

Content Lead

Judge.me

Kyle Risley

Sr. SEO Lead

Shopify

🎤 Talk

BST

06:10 PM

EDT

01:10 PM

PDT

10:10 AM

50 MIN

Benchmarking: Is your review collection rate actually good?

Most stores have no idea if their review collection rate is strong or leaking. We'll share the benchmarks, show you where stores typically lose reviews, and walk through what good actually looks like.

Fabrizio Assabese

Chief Growth Officer

Judge.me

Cameron Jones

Data Analyst

Judge.me

🎤 Talk

BST

07:00 PM

EDT

02:00 PM

PDT

11:00 AM

10 MIN

Day 1 Wrap Up and Key Takeaways

A summary of the biggest moments from Day 1 - the ideas worth taking back to your store and a preview of what's coming tomorrow.

Neil Bayton

Head of Partnerships

Judge.me

🎬 Wrap-up

speakers

Industry leaders and operators teaching the playbook they actually run

People who've built, scaled, or rebuilt DTC brands you've heard of. Talking openly about what's working — and what's keeping them up at night — in DTC right now.

Daniel Anderson

Founder at

Carti

Daniel Anderson is the co-founder and CMO of Corinthian's Corner, a faith-based apparel brand he bootstrapped to seven figures. He also founded Carti, an AI shopping assistant built for Shopify. Daniel leads a lean team, and AI is how he feeds the Meta beast: mining reviews for insights, remixing winning concepts, and prototyping new ads in minutes. At Growth Unlocked, he'll share the exact creative system his team uses today.

Ed Lopez

Chief Operations Officer at

Critical Role

Ed Lopez is Chief Operating Officer of Critical Role, where he helps lead the company’s growth, strategy, and operations across entertainment, publishing, games, consumer products, and new ventures. With more than 25 years of experience in digital media and entertainment, he focuses on building businesses that scale while staying true to the communities and creative ideas that made them successful.

Ika Lobjanidze

CEO & Founder at

Megobari

Founder of Megobari, an e-commerce company with a portfolio of 4 brands, having sold more than 1 million units in 20+ countries, managed by 25+ employees.

Kyle Risley

Sr. SEO Lead at

Shopify

Kyle Risley is a senior lead of SEO at Shopify and has worked on search engine optimization for the past 13 years, helping merchants improve their organic search performance.

Matt Hammonds

Co-Founder & CEO at

Full Leaf Tea Co.

Matt and his wife Lisa Hammonds co-founded Full Leaf Tea Company and built it from a negative six-figure net worth into an eight-figure business, with zero outside investment. Because Full Leaf is almost entirely vertically integrated, Matt has worked hands-on across every part of the business, from manufacturing and fulfillment to marketing and tech.

Wendy Toscano

Head of Ecommerce at

GALXBOY

Wendy Toscano is the Head of Ecommerce at GALXBOY with 12+ years' experience in the Ecommerce industry and Shopify. She specialises in conversion optimisation and omnichannel, increasing online sales by over 30%.

a look back

What 2025 looked like from the inside

The first Summit ran in 2025. Here's the receipts.

“The main thing I liked is listening to extremely competent people share what they're actually worried about, right now, in running their businesses. This is real-world knowledge.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

1,500+

DTC operators attended

DTC operators attended

85%

Rated the event 4+ out of 5 stars

Rated the event 4+ out of 5 stars

4.4 / 5

Average attendee satisfaction

Average attendee satisfaction

95%

Asked us to keep it virtual

Asked us to keep it virtual

Hear it from other DTC operators

Hear it from other DTC operators

“I've attended many in-person, multi-day conferences — Amazon and Salesforce to name a couple — and this has by far been the best. Real insights and actionable information without having to leave my house.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

“Typically with events like this they always talk at such a high level, but never dive deeper into the nitty-gritty. The speakers owned or had started small businesses, and I could relate to the strategies, pain points, everything.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

“I used the sessions in front of my store and implemented things as you spoke. A great use of my time.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

“In other conferences you're shown demos from vendors and their customers but you never get real insights of how they achieved results. From the sessions at the Summit, I got all the information I needed, and more.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

“I appreciated the multiple views from different types of companies and company sizes. I learned new apps to look at and was very thankful so many people shared their stories.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

“I learned more in one session than the previous 5 years of selling DTC.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

“Real insights from real merchants. No BS.”

DTC operator, 2025 attendee

Voices from last year

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Dates
Sep 15 – 16, 2026
Time
4:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Format
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FAQs

More information

More information

Here’s everything you need to know before the summit.

How do I attend?

Are the sessions recorded?

Do I have to attend all of the sessions?

Will there be Q&A?

I missed 2025. Can I still watch it?

Do I need any special software or equipment?

Is it actually free?

Yes. Free to register, free to attend, free to access the replays.