Ecommerce Camp Manchester 2026
About this Event
Join us on November 13th at Ecommerce Camp in Manchester:
A one-day event for ecommerce founders and brand owners.
No agency pitches on stage. Every speaker runs a brand that has scaled to between £1M and £10M in annual revenue, including BedKingdom, A&E Leisure and Luxury Flooring. They'll share what worked, what failed, and what they'd do differently.
The day
- 10 talks from founders across different niches
- 6-7 roundtable sessions with small-group discussions, so you can go deep on the topic most relevant to your brand
- Time to meet other founders dealing with the same challenges
Full speaker line-up and roundtable topics below.
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Don’t miss this chance to learn, grow, and connect with the best in the ecommerce industry.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 09:50 AM
Registration and Morning Coffee
Info: Enjoy your morning talking to other business owners. Grab a coffee and relax.
🕑: 09:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction to EcommerceCamp
🕑: 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Not Another Chatbot: Wiring AI Into Magento, HubSpot and Klaviyo
Host: Andrew Afonin | UK Trade Furnishings Limited
Info: Everyone’s demoing AI. Fewer people have it plugged into live orders, CRM, and email data. I’ll walk through the integration stack we built at Luxury Flooring, what it actually does day-to-day across departments, where it saved real hours — and the failures, including a prompt-injection incident we discovered on our own checkout while an AI agent was browsing it.
🕑: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
How We Automated Our Company Processes with AI
Host: Roger Firth | Managing Director, A & E Leisure
🕑: 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Where Profit Leaks in Google Ads Accounts That Look Healthy
Host: Igor Ivitskiy | Founder, Ivitskiy Ads Lab
Info: An ecommerce account can pass every health check Google offers and still quietly lose a serious share of its budget — I’ll show where that money actually goes, with numbers from real accounts. Including the leaks that turned out to be deliberate, correct decisions, and why the person running the account is never the one who finds the leak.
🕑: 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break & Expert Tables
🕑: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
How We Set Up Self-learning AI Agents to Drive Our Business
Host: Eugene Ole | Founder, DroiX
🕑: 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
How We Refined a 15K+ SKU Catalog with a Smart Parts Finder and AI
Host: James Robinson | Owner, Driftworks
🕑: 01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
AI Content for Social Media
Host: Vita Shafinska | Founder, GCreators / Star Creative
🕑: 01:30 PM - 02:30 PM
Lunch & Round Tables
Info: Enjoy the amazing catering menu from The Lowry, Manchester. Join our interactive roundtable during lunch – 7 focused discussions with industry-leading speakers and experts.
You’ll rotate between different topics: ⚡ UI/UX Design; ⚡SEO; ⚡Web Development; ⚡Google Ads; ⚡ Social Ads; ⚡ Email Marketing; ⚡ Amazon & eBay. Bring your laptop, ask questions, take notes, and share your business details for tailored advice.
🕑: 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM
AI Adoption in Ecommerce: How BedKingdom Became an AI-first Furniture Retailer
Host: Ashley Hainsworth | Chairman, Flair Furniture LTD
Info: Ashley started the business behind BedKingdom in 2011 as a university project with £400. Today he's chairman of the group, leading long-term strategy as it works towards £100 million in sales and expansion into international markets. In this session, he'll share how BedKingdom became an AI-first furniture retailer and what that shift looked like inside the business.
🕑: 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM
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🕑: 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM
Coffee Break & Expert Tables
🕑: 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM
TBD
🕑: 04:30 PM - 05:00 PM
25 A/B Tests Every Store Should Run
Host: Adam Forshaw | UI/UX Designer, CRO Expert
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00 to GBP 150.00
