50+ Conversations with Legends

1,000+ Leaders

10,000+ 1:1 Meetings

40+ Curated Dinners

275+ Tear Downs & Tabletalks

3 Days

June 9 to 11

New York City

What is Beanstalk?

Beanstalk (formerly known as Commerce Summit) is the largest and most important retail event that unites the entire Disruptor Brands ecosystem. Disruptor Brands, also known as direct-to-consumer or digitally native brands, typically generate annual revenues ranging from a few million 💰 dollars to $1 billion 💰💰💰, and are a critical part of the retail landscape today and the defining brands of tomorrow.

Beanstalk attendees focus on Brand Founders & Leaders (e.g. CEO, CMO, CFO and COO), Commerce Enablement Companies, Social Media & Marketplace Platforms, Sales & Distribution Channels (including traditional retailers and wholesalers), Lenders & Investors, Influencers & Creators, and Key End Consumers. Attending companies span all retail verticals, including 🥗 Food & 🧃Beverage, 🪒 Personal Care, 🐶 Pets, 👕 Apparel, Accessories & Footwear, 📺 Electronics & Appliances, 🏋🏻 Health & Wellness, 🪑 Home Furnishings & Decor, 🧸 Toys & Games, and ⚽️ Sports & Outdoors.

What to expect?

Beanstalk is designed to help you build meaningful relationships with the business leaders who matter to you. This isn’t your grandpa’s 👴🏼 conference. Here are a few things you can expect:

10,000+ Meetings that put you in front of the right people you want to meet (powered by real tech)
200+ useful and carefully curated Tabletalks (in groups of 5-6 each) across a variety of discussion topics that are relevant to your industry with leaders who you can relate to.
100+ 🍽 Private Dinners and 🎳 fun activities (really) that makes relationship building and doing business easier, more productive and far less awkward. Also designed for introverts in mind. 👌🏻
75+ Teardowns (in groups of 15-25) from people who are really good at what they do (experts) on how they successfully executed (or failed at) something.
50+ private conversations with Legends of the Industry in a more intimate, conversational setting (e.g. 200 people seated around smaller tables). Not large (and cold) keynotes on massive stages where most people tune out and just go on their phones.
40+ private dinners with other leaders in your space in an intimate setting. We believe that breaking bread 🥖 is one of the best ways to get to know each other.

And just to remind you again, it’s the leaders 🎖 who show up to Beanstalk.

Who’s Coming?

🎟️ Apply to Attend

LEGENDS OF BEANSTALK

Harley Finkelstein / President @ Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) /

Danny Meyer / Founder of Shake Shack & 7 Michelin Star Winner @ Union Square Hospitality Group /

Ju Rhyu / Sold Hero Cosmetics for $630 Million /

Eric Hutchinson / Sold Resident Home for $1 Billion / Eric Hutchinson / Sold Resident Home for $1 Billion /

Nate Phillips / Sold Nom Nom to Mars for $1 Billion / Nate Phillips / Sold Nom Nom to Mars for $1 Billion /

Mickey "F***'ing" Drexler / Legendary CEO of Gap Inc. /

What is the Beanstalk Meetings Program?

At Beanstalk, we make it easy for everyone to meet everyone else for any reason.

Our Meetings Program is the world’s largest meetings program for the Disruptor Brands ecosystem, and will facilitate 10,000+ onsite meetings.

With the Beanstalk Meetings Program, you’ll get to join up to twenty (20) pre-scheduled, highly productive 13-minute onsite meetings to ensure you meet new people, discover new organizations, and create incredible new opportunities.

The program is open to all Beanstalk attendees and all Hosted are double opt-in (both parties want to meet each other). That means you’ll only meet with others you’re interested in meeting.

To bring you the Meetings Program, we’ve partnered with Personatech–the event tech company created by the founders of Shoptalk and Groceryshop, which also utilize the same technology and programs.

Personatech has powered hundreds of thousands of meetings, with meeting satisfaction rates consistently exceeding 90%.

Are you a Brand?

You’re eligible for some free stuff…

We offer C-Suite individuals from Disruptor Brands free tickets (up to a $2,950 value) plus up to $750 in travel and hotel reimbursement as a Hosted Brands.

To qualify as a Hosted Brand, all you have to do is complete up to eight (8) 13-minute onsite Hosted Meetings with participating sponsors (that’s only 1 hour and 44 minutes of meetings). All meetings are double opt in, and sponsors have been thoroughly vetted and are bringing their senior teams as well to participate.

Hosted Meetings are held as part of our Hosted Meetings Program and as a Hosted Brand, you can choose to do just your required Hosted Meetings or participate in additional non-Hosted Meetings to get the most out of Beanstalk.

What are Teardowns & Tabletalks?

We take peer networking and learning to a whole new level and scale with Teardowns and Tabletalks.

Teardowns are hosted in groups of 15-25, where you will hear from people who are really good at what they do (true experts), breaking down on how they successfully executed (or failed at) something.

Tabletalks are intimate, interactive peer-led sessions aimed at generating actionable takeaways. You’re not just listening to a speaker or panel; you’re actively discussing topics with other Disruptor Brands in groups of 5 to 6 individuals, with each discussion led by a facilitator who’s an expert on the topics you are working through together.

To participate, you will complete a short profile, select the topics you’re interested in, and provide your availability. Our algorithm will create your preliminary schedule, which you simply accept to confirm