The CommerceNext Growth Show is an annual two-day conference held in New York City for retail, ecommerce, and marketing executives. The 2026 edition takes place June 23-24 at the New York Hilton Midtown and centers its programming on what organizers describe as the "AI Intelligent Era" — sessions focused on how retail teams are applying artificial intelligence to marketing, merchandising, pricing, and customer experience.
According to the organizer, the 2026 program includes more than 60 sessions across multiple stages, with content tracks covering customer acquisition, retention, ecommerce conversion, retail media, brand marketing, and operations. The agenda combines main-stage keynotes with smaller workshop-style sessions and structured one-on-one meetings between brands and technology partners.
CommerceNext also runs a year-round community for retail and brand executives, with webinars held Wednesdays at 2pm ET, in-market dinners in cities including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and research reports that feed into the annual conference. Qualifying retailers and brand-side attendees can apply for travel credits of up to $1,200 and complimentary passes through the organizer's hosted program, with applications typically closing about a month before the event. The community side of the program is hosted at community.commercenext.com, while the conference itself lives at growthshow.commercenext.com.
The attendee base skews toward digital, ecommerce, marketing, and retail leadership roles at mid-market and enterprise retailers, with a meaningful contingent of digitally native brands. Organizer-listed participating companies in recent years have included Tapestry, Estée Lauder, J. Crew, The Home Depot, Walmart, Sephora, Coach, Under Armour, and Authentic Brands Group, among others. Programming is structured around what the organizer frames as practical, peer-led content rather than vendor pitches on the main stage, with technology partners concentrated in dedicated sponsor sessions, the partner expo, and pre-scheduled one-on-one meetings.
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Retailers and DTC brands attend to benchmark growth strategies against peers, evaluate marketing and ecommerce technology partners in a concentrated two-day window, and meet senior counterparts at companies operating at similar scale. The hosted-buyer program offsets travel costs for qualifying brand-side attendees.
Technology vendors sponsor to access a concentrated audience of retail and DTC decision-makers in marketing, ecommerce, and digital roles, and to run pre-scheduled meetings with prospective customers during the event. Sponsorship packages typically combine branding, content placement, and structured introductions.
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