Luke Bream
Founder & CEO, Valentte
Growth, Hypergrowth, and Nearly Losing Everything
15:05 – 15:25
Marketing Stage
Solving eCom’s greatest challenges. Together.
Friday 2nd October
Hosted at the Science and Industry Museum, Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4FP
A one-day summit in Manchester for the brands, agencies and platform teams building eCommerce. Two tracks, marketing and technical, with talks and panels from people who do this every day.
Where strategy meets technology.
Digital Clubhouse Summit is where senior practitioners and founders get together to work through what’s really happening in eCommerce.
Two focused tracks, marketing and technical, each with its own talks and panels from people who work in this every day.
One day.
Two tracks.
Track 1
Marketing
Growth, retention, brand and the experiments behind programmes that actually convert. For the people responsible for the number.
- CRO & the psychology of the funnel
- Retention & lifecycle that compounds
- Performance marketing in a privacy-first world
- Brand building for DTC
Track 2
Technical
Architecture, performance, payments and AI in production. For the teams building and running the platforms underneath it all.
- AI in action - practical, hands-on deployments
- Platform performance & stability
- Payments & the evolving checkout
- Composable & headless architecture
Agenda.
More speakers and talk titles announced soon.
9:00 – 9:30
Registration and Networking
Main Stage
9:30 – 9:40
Introduction, Actuate, Brave & The Digital Facilitators
Mat O’Connor
Founder, Actuate
Tony Conte
Founder, Brave
Alan Pilkington
CEO, The Digital Facilitators
9:40 – 10:10
The Blind Spot Problem
Amy Lee
Director, The Wonder Agency
10:15 – 10:45
When AI Does the Shopping: Why Product Data Decides Who Gets Found
Magnus Bruun
Co-Founder & CCO, Cernel
10:45 – 11:00
Break and Networking
Marketing Stage
Technical Stage
11:00 – 11:20
Death by a Thousand Accurate Numbers
Steve Lee
Director, The Wonder Agency
Under the Sink: Ecommerce plumbing for people who’d rather not think about it
Dylan Fernandez
Head of Growth, MRE Digital
Ritesh Mistry
Founder, MRE Digital
11:25 – 11:45
Q4 Full Funnel Performance Creative: Discovery to Post-Click
Ed Weston
CMO, Prospa
How to deal with attacks and bot traffic
Dion van de Griend
Partnership Manager, Hypernode
11:50 – 12:20
Why they didn’t buy: CRO and the psychology of the funnel
HOST
John Hughes
VP Product, Hyvä
GUESTS
Mat O’Connor
Founder, Actuate
Rich Himsworth
CEO, Salesfire
Nadine Killoran
Aromatherapy Associates
Steve Lee
Director, The Wonder Agency
From first click to payment: speed, experience and checkout
HOST
Tony Conte
Founder, Brave
GUESTS
Gemma Mander
Head of Account Management (UK), Order Editing
Anugrah Pundir
Marketing and Partnerships Lead, Loxa
Daniel Corner
Mollie
James Pitkin
Agency Account Manager, TrackBee
12:20 – 13:05
Lunch
13:05 – 13:25
One catalogue, many feeds: what every marketplace, Google and AI assistant wants from your products
Julius Kauffeld
Founding Expansion Lead, Cernel
Stop Counting Visits. Start Understanding Visitors.
Russell Westgarth
Business Development Manager, Salesfire
13:30 – 13:50
From size guide to shopping assistant: Helping customers find their Dryrobe
Sophie Hawkins
Ecommerce Manager, Dryrobe
Your biggest competitor hasn’t launched yet: How story, trust and technology are giving the next generation of ecommerce founders a head start
Simon Green
Sprintr
13:55 – 14:25
Someone else’s shop floor: marketplaces and retail media
HOST
Alan Pilkington
CEO, The Digital Facilitators
GUESTS
Tash Jones
Channel Builders
Ian Rabbidge
Founder & Commercial Director, Alvio
Laura James
Fruugo
Black Friday isn’t lost yet: a four-week plan
Mat O’Connor
Founder, Actuate
Tony Conte
Founder, Brave
14:25 – 14:40
Break and Networking
14:40 – 15:00
How to Win at AI Search
Drew Brigham
MD, Lantra
The 14-Day Shift: Migrating a Major Vape Brand from Shopify to Magento Open Source
HOST
Rebecca Brocton
Community Manager, Hyvä
GUESTS
Ollie Hunt
CEO, Dev Team
Dean Bowes
Head of Ecommerce, NextGEN360
15:05 – 15:25
Growth, Hypergrowth, and Nearly Losing Everything
Luke Bream
Founder & CEO, Valentte
We all went broad on Meta and Google. What if you didn’t have to?
Oli Bello
Head of GTM, Outra
15:30 – 16:00
Founders, unfiltered: what building a brand actually took
HOST
Lucie Macleod
Hair Syrup
GUESTS
Ryan Murray
Mimi Holliday
Liam Browne
Full Power Cacao
Megan Jones
Founder & CEO, By Babes
Fran Gresswell
Founder, Riviera Iced Tea
Past the demo: AI in production
HOST
David Wiltshire
Founder, Cogent2
GUESTS
Chris Perkins
Ex Wedgwood / Hays Travel
Drew Brigham
MD, Lantra
Magnus Bruun
Co-Founder & CCO, Cernel
Beth Norton
Founder & Strategic Brand Advisor, True Meridian
16:00 – 16:15
Break and Networking
Main Stage
16:15 – 16:45
Will moving actually fix it? Migrating platforms, honestly
HOST
Naomi Davies
Founder, NMD Marketing
GUESTS
Ollie Hunt
CEO, Dev Team
Luke Bream
Founder & CEO, Valentte
Brad Houldsworth
Director of Sales & Strategy, Remarkable Commerce
Steve Webster
Barking Cat Advisory
16:50 – 17:20
Your Invisible Audience: Unlocking the Value of Suppressed Emails
Rich Himsworth
CEO, Salesfire
17:20 – 17:30
Thank you
17:30 – Late
Networking and After Party
Speakers.
Founders and senior eCommerce teams sharing what’s actually working across our marketing and technical tracks. More speakers announced soon.
Sophie Hawkins
Ecommerce Manager, Dryrobe
From size guide to shopping assistant: Helping customers find their Dryrobe
13:30 – 13:50
Marketing Stage
Megan Jones
Founder & CEO, By Babes
Founders, unfiltered: what building a brand actually took
15:30 – 16:00
Marketing Stage
Amy Lee
Director, The Wonder Agency
Steve Lee
Director, The Wonder Agency
Ed Weston
CMO, Prospa
Magnus Bruun
Co-Founder & CCO, Cernel
Dylan Fernandez
Head of Growth, MRE Digital
Ritesh Mistry
Founder, MRE Digital
Drew Brigham
MD, Lantra
Dion van de Griend
Partnership Manager, Hypernode
Rich Himsworth
CEO, Salesfire
Julius Kauffeld
Founding Expansion Lead, Cernel
Ollie Hunt
CEO, Dev Team
Gemma Mander
Head of Account Management (UK), Order Editing
David Wiltshire
Founder, Cogent2
Lucie Macleod
Hair Syrup
Ryan Murray
Mimi Holliday
Liam Browne
Full Power Cacao
Chris Perkins
Ex Wedgwood / Hays Travel
Naomi Davies
Founder, NMD Marketing
Anugrah Pundir
Marketing and Partnerships Lead, Loxa
Russell Westgarth
Business Development Manager, Salesfire
Daniel Corner
Mollie
Brad Houldsworth
Director of Sales & Strategy, Remarkable Commerce
Ian Rabbidge
Founder & Commercial Director, Alvio
Fran Gresswell
Founder, Riviera Iced Tea
Simon Green
Sprintr
Nadine Killoran
Aromatherapy Associates
James Pitkin
Agency Account Manager, TrackBee
Laura James
Fruugo
Beth Norton
Founder & Strategic Brand Advisor, True Meridian
Oli Bello
Head of GTM, Outra
Steve Webster
Barking Cat Advisory
John Hughes
VP Product, Hyvä
Rebecca Brocton
Community Manager, Hyvä
Dean Bowes
Head of Ecommerce, NextGEN360
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Open in mapsThe Summit is hosted at the Science and Industry Museum on Liverpool Road, a ten minute walk from Deansgate and fifteen from Manchester Piccadilly. Nearest tram is Deansgate-Castlefield. There’s no on-site parking, so if you’re driving the Great Northern and First Street car parks are both close by.
Where
Science and Industry Museum
Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4FP
Liverpool Road, Manchester M3 4FP
When
Friday 2 October 2026 · 9am – 5:30pm, networking and drinks after
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Marketplace & swag bag
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