The Modern Commerce Playbook: UGC, Digital Assets & Growth

VIP Dinner - Palm Springs, CA (eTail West)

Feb 25, 2026 6:00 PM8:30 PM PDT

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Event Description

Modern commerce teams aren’t short on content. They’re short on time, alignment, and the ability to get the right assets live fast enough to impact revenue. As content volume grows across UGC, product pages, marketplaces, and retail partners, many brands are discovering that production isn’t the bottleneck. Activation is. Assets sit unused, teams duplicate work, and performance suffers.

This private dinner at eTail West brings together senior ecommerce and marketing leaders to share how they’re tightening workflows, organizing digital assets, and turning creator and UGC content into measurable growth. We’ll trade practical approaches to scaling content operations, improving collaboration across teams, and proving ROI across Amazon, DTC, and retail channels.

Expect an open, peer-driven conversation with real examples you can apply immediately.

BWG Connect, Canto & Cohley invite you to join us for an interactive discussion over drinks and dinner with your peers! We'll explore the latest trends in the space and get your questions answered.

As always, there will be no sales pitches and dinner is complimentary.

Seating is limited, and RSVP is required.

Discussion Topics

  • Teams are producing more content than ever, yet launches still stall and performance lags
    • Where workflows break between creators, marketing, and ecommerce
    • How leading brands are reducing friction and moving faster
  • User generated and creator content is driving trust and conversion, but scaling it operationally is messy
    • How brands are sourcing, approving, and activating UGC without bottlenecks
    • Turning creator content into repeatable performance assets
  • Digital assets are scattered across tools, making it hard to reuse what already exists
    • Building a single source of truth that creative, retail, and marketplace teams can actually use
    • Getting content live faster across Amazon, DTC, and retail partners
  • Content budgets are growing, but leadership still struggles to prove ROI
    • Measuring what actually drives revenue and what doesn’t
    • Treating content like a performance channel, not a sunk cost
  • AI is changing how teams tag, personalize, and optimize assets, but only when the foundation is right
    • Practical use cases that save time today
    • Where automation helps and where it just adds noise

Event Partners

Cohley

Cohley is a content generation and testing platform that helps brands create content for social ads, email marketing, websites, and more.

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Canto

Canto’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform is an AI-powered central hub that helps teams organize, search, and manage their digital content in one place including images, videos, and documents. It makes it easier for organizations to find and share approved assets, streamline collaboration, and maintain brand consistency across channels.

Guest Speakers

Aaron Conant LinkedIn

Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect

Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.

Tom Logan LinkedIn

Co-Founder & CEO at Cohley

Tom Logan is the Co-founder and CEO of Cohley, a content generation and testing platform that helps brands create content for social ads, email marketing, websites, and more. Tom is also a member of Founders Pledge, an initiative enabling philanthropy among founders and investors. Before founding Cohley, Tom was the Director of Customer Development at Piqora and a Client Success Manager for Wildfire by Google. 

Adam Semien LinkedIn

Strategic Channel Account Manager at Canto

Event Moderator

Aaron Conant LinkedIn

Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect

Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.

Tom Logan LinkedIn

Co-Founder & CEO at Cohley

Tom Logan is the Co-founder and CEO of Cohley, a content generation and testing platform that helps brands create content for social ads, email marketing, websites, and more. Tom is also a member of Founders Pledge, an initiative enabling philanthropy among founders and investors. Before founding Cohley, Tom was the Director of Customer Development at Piqora and a Client Success Manager for Wildfire by Google. 

Adam Semien LinkedIn

Strategic Channel Account Manager at Canto

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Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect


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