Ecom Elevated Fall 2026: Dates, Tickets and HighLevel

Ecom Elevated Fall 2026 runs on August 24 and 25, 2026 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is a two day ecommerce marketing conference hosted by Commerce Catalyst, and HighLevel is on the published agenda. Ryan Brown, listed as a field marketing representative at GoHighLevel, runs a workshop called The AI-Powered Flywheel on the Tuesday afternoon.

That last detail is the reason this event is worth a look if you work in the HighLevel world. Ecom Elevated is not a HighLevel event, and nobody there is going to walk you through workflow builder. It is an ecommerce conference for brand founders and operators. But HighLevel has a named session on the schedule, which means there is a straightforward way to meet someone from the company and hear how they are positioning the platform to a room that mostly sells physical products. If you run an agency and you have been wondering whether ecommerce clients are worth chasing, two days in Salt Lake City is a cheap way to find out what those brands actually care about right now.

Here is what is confirmed, what it costs, who it suits, and how it stacks up against the two other events sitting close to it on the calendar.

What Is Ecom Elevated Fall 2026?

Ecom Elevated is a twice yearly ecommerce conference run by Commerce Catalyst, a Utah based ecommerce community. The fall 2026 edition is the first to run as a full two day event, and the theme is digital marketing: influencer and creator marketing, email and retention, paid media, creative strategy, and the channels driving revenue right now. Doors run 8:30am to 5:00pm Mountain Time on both days.

Utah is a genuinely strong ecommerce market, which is the part people outside the state tend to miss. A lot of direct to consumer brands are headquartered there, and the event pulls in everyone from nine figure operations to startups still finding product market fit. There is even a panel with the Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development and a state representative on how Utah is investing in the industry, which tells you something about how seriously the state takes it.

The full detail sits on the official Ecom Elevated Fall 2026 page, and registration runs through a separate Eventtia portal.

Is HighLevel Going to Ecom Elevated 2026?

Yes. HighLevel appears on the official Ecom Elevated agenda through Ryan Brown, listed as a field marketing representative at GoHighLevel, who runs a workshop called The AI-Powered Flywheel on Tuesday August 25 from 1:00pm to 1:45pm. Ecom Elevated also appears on HighLevel's own events calendar as an industry event it attends.

Two caveats worth stating plainly. A session listing confirms that session, not which other HighLevel staff will be in the building, so do not travel on the assumption that a particular person will be there. And no booth number has been published, so if HighLevel is also exhibiting you will most likely find the stand location in the event app or on the printed floor plan rather than anywhere online in advance.

The session description is short: five things winning businesses do differently. Going by the title and the rest of the day's programming, expect a commercial talk about connecting acquisition, follow up and retention into one loop rather than a product demo. You can cross check the listing on the event page and on HighLevel's events hub.

What Is on the Agenda?

The programme is unusually specific for an event this size, and the sessions are named and attributed rather than left as vague track titles. Monday leans into acquisition and psychology, Tuesday into retention, content and retail expansion.

Monday August 24 opens with a run of keynotes. Jordan West of Social Commerce Club covers TikTok Shop, Sarah Levinger of Tether Insights covers purchase psychology, Hamish Gunasekara of Catalog covers showing up inside ChatGPT and other AI assistants, and Jay Myers of Bold Commerce argues the subscribe and save era is over. Afternoon workshops cover post purchase retention email, earned media and AI recommendation, the TikTok Shop flywheel, and subscription offers. From 3:00pm to 5:00pm there is Creator Brand Matchmaking, where hundreds of creators come in to meet brands, followed by a kickoff party at 5:00pm.

Tuesday August 25 opens with Jonathan Lo of Salt Foundry on attention and retention, Trevor Crump of Bestie Media arguing that ROAS is dead and LTV is the number that matters, and Chris Lang of Fresh Chile on running organic content, paid ads and email as a single engine. There is a panel on the future of ecommerce in Utah, then a keynote on moving from ecommerce traction into retail shelves. The afternoon carries the GoHighLevel workshop, a shipping strategy working session, a Women in Ecomm session, and a CRO and marketing intelligence workshop. The day closes with a female founder pitch competition from 3:00pm to 5:00pm.

There are also roundtables, which are restricted to brand attendees and put around twenty operators in a room on topics like acquisition funnels, email tactics and agency partnerships. Worth knowing if you are attending as a service provider, because that format is explicitly not open to you.

How Much Do Tickets Cost?

Pricing is published through the registration portal rather than the main event page. At the time of writing there are four tiers, and the one you qualify for depends on what your business does.

• Ecom Brand Attendee, $199. For brands, meaning founders and operators who sell products. This tier also unlocks the brand-only roundtables.
• SaaS or Service Provider, $399. This is the tier that applies to agencies, consultants and software companies. If you run a HighLevel agency, this is you, not the $199 option.
• Sponsor Attendee, $349. For people attending as part of a sponsoring company.
• Creator Attendee, $25. For creators coming in for the matchmaking session.

Prices are stated as they appeared at the time of writing and events like this often run discounts or move tiers as the date approaches, so check the portal before budgeting. Note that the service provider tier is double the brand tier, which is a deliberate signal about who the organisers want in the room. They say plainly that the majority of attendees are brands and that sponsors are curated. If you are going purely to prospect, go in with your expectations set accordingly.

How Does Ecom Elevated Compare to Contact.io and LevelUp?

This is the practical question, because Ecom Elevated and Contact.io run in the same week in different states, and LevelUp is the one HighLevel actually hosts. They are three different propositions.

If you already have ecommerce clients, or you want them, Ecom Elevated is the one that puts you in front of actual brand operators for two days. If your book of business is service businesses that live on inbound phone calls, Contact.io in Denver is the better use of the same week. And if what you really want is HighLevel product depth and the agency community, that is LevelUp in Dallas in October, which you can also check on the official LevelUp site.

Who Should Actually Go?

Being honest about this matters more than filling a room. Ecom Elevated is built for brands. The organisers say so directly, the cheap ticket is the brand ticket, and the roundtables lock service providers out. That does not make it a bad event for an agency, but it does change what a good outcome looks like.

It is a strong fit if you already run paid media, email or creator campaigns for product businesses, if you are trying to move an agency from generic local services into ecommerce, or if you are based anywhere near Utah and want to know the local ecosystem. The Monday afternoon creator matchmaking session in particular is unusual, and if you handle influencer work for clients it is a lot of relevant conversations in two hours.

It is a weaker fit if you want HighLevel training, if your clients are local service businesses like dentists or roofers, or if you are hoping to sell agency retainers from a booth. The sessions on TikTok Shop, subscription retention and retail expansion assume you are selling physical products. Useful context, but context, not a playbook you can run on Monday for a plumber.

How Do You Get the Most Out of Two Days?

Conference value comes almost entirely from preparation and follow up rather than from the sessions themselves. A few things worth doing.

• Pick your five conversations before you fly. The speaker list is public on the event page. Knowing who you want to talk to beats wandering between sessions hoping something lands.
• Buy the right ticket. If you are an agency or a software company, the service provider tier is the correct one. Turning up on a brand ticket you do not qualify for is an awkward conversation at registration.
• Go to the Tuesday HighLevel workshop early. Workshop rooms are smaller than keynote rooms and it is the one session where you can reasonably introduce yourself afterwards.
• Bring one specific problem. A vague hello goes nowhere. A concrete question about creator attribution or a retention number you cannot move gets you a real answer.
• Decide now how you will follow up. Contacts collected at a conference go cold within a fortnight unless something reaches back out for you.

That final point is where most of the value quietly leaks. If you come home with sixty new contacts and a page of ideas, they need somewhere to land. If you do not already run a CRM that can capture those contacts and automate the follow up, HighLevel is the obvious candidate here given it is on the agenda at the event itself, and the standard trial runs 14 days. There is a bootcamp signup that extends that trial to 30 days and enrols you in a free bootcamp covering the core setup. The longer window is the genuinely useful part, because it means the trial is still live when you get back from Salt Lake City, which is when you actually want to build something. Readers who use that link can also claim onboarding extras from GHLStarboys, including a free account setup, coaching calls, ready-made snapshots, and a block of free virtual assistant hours.

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Frequently Asked Questions

When and where is Ecom Elevated Fall 2026?

Ecom Elevated Fall 2026 runs on August 24 and 25, 2026 at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center, 255 South West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101. Both days run from 8:30am to 5:00pm Mountain Time. It is hosted by Commerce Catalyst, a Utah ecommerce community, and it is the first Ecom Elevated to run as a full two day conference.

Is HighLevel attending Ecom Elevated 2026?

Yes. Ryan Brown, listed on the official agenda as a field marketing representative at GoHighLevel, runs a workshop called The AI-Powered Flywheel on Tuesday August 25 from 1:00pm to 1:45pm. Ecom Elevated also appears on HighLevel's own events calendar. HighLevel is not the host. No booth number was published at the time of writing.

How much does Ecom Elevated cost?

At the time of writing the registration portal lists four tiers: Ecom Brand Attendee at $199, SaaS or Service Provider at $399, Sponsor Attendee at $349, and Creator Attendee at $25. Agencies and consultants fall under the service provider tier. Prices can change, so confirm in the portal before booking travel.

Is Ecom Elevated worth it for a HighLevel agency?

It depends on your clients. If you serve ecommerce brands or want to, it puts you in front of founders and operators for two days and covers creator marketing, retention and paid media in depth. If your clients are local service businesses, LevelUp in Dallas in October is a far better fit for the same travel budget.

Going, and Want the Follow-Up Side Handled?

Events reliably produce two things: a pile of new contacts and a list of things you meant to build. Both tend to decay within a month of getting home, not because the ideas were bad but because client work restarts on the Monday and nothing was set up to catch any of it. Teams like GHLStarboys handle the implementation side of HighLevel for agencies and businesses, covering account setup, snapshots, pipelines and the follow up automations themselves. If you would rather come back from Salt Lake City and find the follow up already running, a free growth call is a sensible place to start.

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