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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Here's what we talked about

  • 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

Pattern

Pattern is the category leader for global ecommerce and marketplace acceleration. Hundreds of global brands depend on Pattern’s ecommerce acceleration platform every day to drive profitable revenue growth on D2C websites and across 60+ global marketplaces—including Amazon, Walmart.com, Target.com, eBay, Tmall, JD, and Mercado Libre.

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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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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. 

Eric Smith LinkedIn

Senior Director of Alliances at Pattern

Eric Smith is the Sr. Director of Alliances at Pattern, where he leads global partnership strategy to drive scalable growth for leading ecommerce brands. He connects brands with the right opportunities at the right time by working across a broad ecosystem of agencies, tech platforms, consultants, and investors. Eric brings over a decade of experience in revenue leadership and ecosystem development, focusing on building partnerships that accelerate marketplace and digital growth.

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. 

Eric Smith LinkedIn

Senior Director of Alliances at Pattern

Eric Smith is the Sr. Director of Alliances at Pattern, where he leads global partnership strategy to drive scalable growth for leading ecommerce brands. He connects brands with the right opportunities at the right time by working across a broad ecosystem of agencies, tech platforms, consultants, and investors. Eric brings over a decade of experience in revenue leadership and ecosystem development, focusing on building partnerships that accelerate marketplace and digital growth.

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