From building stronger teams and finding new traffic sources to working out where AI can genuinely make a difference, Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026 will provide a practical playbook for enhancing modern affiliate businesses through its dedicated ‘Conversion Conf’ stage.
Curated in partnership with Conversion Conf, a global affiliate and performance marketing event organiser, the stage will bring together affiliate founders, media buyers, marketers, commercial leaders and technology specialists for a hands-on, practitioner-led programme focused on tackling everyday affiliate challenges.
Across the event, the Conversion Conf stage will focus on three key pillars: Scale (Tuesday, 29 September), Growth (Wednesday, 30 September) and AI (Thursday, 1 October).
“As the bridge between operators, platforms and players, affiliates are often among the first to feel the impact of change, and the speed of this change is increasing,” said Rasmus Sojmark, CEO and Founder of SBC.
“That is why our partnership with Conversion Conf is so important. They understand the challenges affiliate businesses are dealing with every day, and together we’ve built a programme that gets to the heart of how to solve them.”
Scale: Building stronger teams and systems
Opening the event, the Scale track will focus on building the internal structures, systems and processes needed for affiliates to grow their businesses sustainably.
Across the day, sessions will explore how successful affiliates are streamlining operations, building more effective sales functions and using automation to reduce manual workloads. Attendees will also hear how affiliate partnerships are evolving beyond lead generation and what founders need to consider when taking their businesses to the next stage of growth.
Sessions include:
- From Small Team to Scalable Company: Building Systems That Work
- Beyond Leads: Building a Scalable B2B Marketing Strategy for 2026
- Scaling in 2026: What Every Founder Needs to Know
Growth: Finding the traffic that converts
The Growth track will shift focus to how affiliates can find new audiences, identify new traffic sources and scale acquisition in an increasingly competitive digital landscape.
Sessions will explore how affiliates can deliver results across TikTok, Telegram and influencer marketing, alongside the creative systems and internal processes media buying teams are using to scale spend and improve performance.
Sessions include:
- Influencer Marketing Strategy at Scale: In-house vs External Partnerships
- Unlocking High-Profit iGaming Traffic: How Affiliates Discover & Scale the Best Markets
- From Meme to Millions: How Gen Z Is Rewriting the Rules of iGaming
AI: Finding the balance between automation and human advantage
On the final day, the AI track will outline how affiliates can use AI to work faster, operate more efficiently and improve performance without losing the creativity and human expertise that give their businesses an edge.
Throughout the day, sessions will explore how AI is reshaping team structures and creative production, as well as its growing impact on SEO and organic traffic. Discussions will also tackle where human judgement remains essential and how marketers can balance AI-generated content with original creative work.
Sessions include:
- Creative Strategy in 2026: Professional Production vs AI-Generated Creatives
- Building a Brand That Affiliates Trust
- Can We Trust AI 100%? Top 5 Things AI Still Can't Do for Your Business
Leading voices taking the stage across the three days include Aleksandr Flint (Founder, Flint Group), Dmitriy Belianin (Founder, Blask), Nikolay Nice (Founder, Sinners Media Buying), Mike Waizman (CMO, NGM GAME), Angelina Miko (Founder, Miko TikTok Traffic), Manish Chhabra (Senior Product Manager, Tinder), Ashley Wright (Founder & CEO, Social Tale) and Nefeli Papadopoulou (Senior Acquisitions Manager, Google EMEA), amongst many more.
Lana Rossi, CEO of Conversion Conf, commented: “Affiliate businesses don’t need more conversations about what might matter in two or three years; they need practical answers to the problems they are dealing with today. That’s what this stage is all about, allowing attendees to leave with strategies and approaches they can put into practice straight away.”
Taking place from 29 September to 1 October 2026, the Affiliate Leaders Summit will welcome 10,000 industry professionals to the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL) and MEO Arena for three days of networking, exhibition and education.
Attendance at the Conversion Conf stage is reserved exclusively for attendees with an Affiliate Leaders Summit VIP Pass. Affiliates may be eligible for a free pass. Find more information on the summit here.
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