Recharge + Shopify present:

ChargeX Roadshow

We’re taking ChargeX on the road – meeting brands where they are. Three cities. One mission: connection, collaboration, and growth for Shopify x Recharge brands.

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Apr 8–9, 2026 Regent Santa Monica, LA
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Sept 17, 2026 Convene Broadway, NYC
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Oct 15, 2026 ME London, UK
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Thurs, September 17

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Registration + breakfast

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

From the Operator’s Seat: 3 Subscription Plays That Changed How I Think About Retention

Cherene Aubert (Growth Capital)

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM

Building with AI: A Shopify Session

Dominic Coryell (Shopify)

11:25 AM – 11:55 AM

11:55 AM – 1:00 PM

Networking lunch

1:00 PM – 2:15 PM

Built for Lasting Impact

Partnership: ButcherBox and ehouse
Momentum: POV Beauty
Performance: Arrae

1:00 PM – 4:10 PM

Meet 1:1 with Recharge (Pre-scheduled)

Book a dedicated 1:1 session with a Recharge executive or product expert to dig into your specific questions, challenges, or priorities.

2:15 PM – 2:30 PM

Break

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

JR Garcia (OneSkin)

Arda Bulak (Create Wellness)

3:05 PM – 3:35 PM

Nick Mares (Light Labs), Sydney Weinryb (Recharge)

Richard Sandor (iamota), Andy Iacona (Balance of Nature)

3:40 PM – 4:10 PM

Jordan Narducci (DTCPG)

Alan Lin (Liquid+)

4:10 PM – 5:30 PM

Networking happy hour

Good drinks, better conversations. Come for the happy hour, stay for the activations and conversations that don’t happen in a session room.

5:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Closing celebration

A high-energy sendoff to close out ChargeX in style.

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Redefining ChargeX: From one stage to many

ChargeX is hitting the road and bringing high-impact experiences designed for deeper engagement directly to you.

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Stronger connections

Smaller rooms for more meaningful exchanges.

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Localized content

Market-specific case studies and actionable playbooks.

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Insider access

Limited seats for decision-makers and brand leaders.

Where innovation meets impact

ChargeX brings together the brightest minds in subscription commerce for an experience designed to inspire action and drive results.

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Growth blueprints

Leading brands share the plays, partnerships, and experiments that moved their retention metrics.

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Hands-on collaboration

Workshops that create space to refine subscription strategies and walk away with practical next steps.

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Product insights

Insights into new features and developments designed to help your team unlock new growth opportunities.

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Strategic connections

Network with Shopify and Recharge brands and leaders committed to retention and shared momentum.

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Beyond the Roadshow

ChargeX is just the beginning. Recharge will host community-led events and thought leadership sessions year-round — expanding opportunities to connect, learn, and grow together.

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2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

One Size Fits None: How OneSkin Uses Customer Intelligence to Drive Retention

JR Garcia (OneSkin)

What if the retention playbook you borrowed isn’t failing because of execution, but because it wasn’t built for your customer in the first place?

In this session, JR Garcia, Head of Customer Support and CX at OneSkin, shares how listening closely to customers has shaped a subscription experience that’s tailormade for their customers. From expectation gaps to personalized intervention logic, this conversation is for operators who are ready to move beyond borrowed tactics and build a strategy that fits their brand.

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Hack Your Cancel Flow: Rapid Iteration, Smarter Segments, and AI as Your Testing Partner

Arda Bulak (Create Wellness)

In this session, Arda Bulak, Director of Retention at Create Wellness, breaks down the system behind a 25% improvement in save rate — built not by a big team or a big budget, but on iteration speed. This is a masterclass in how to use AI and your existing tools to turn your cancel flow into a learning engine.

3:05 PM – 3:35 PM

The $200M Founder That Proves Transparency is a Growth Lever

Nick Mares (Light Labs), Sydney Weinryb (Recharge)

What if the best thing you could do for your brand was show people exactly what’s in it, and make your competitors look like they have something to hide?

Nick Mares, founder of Kettle & Fire, shares why he built Light Labs: a platform designed to make product testing accessible, actionable, and a tool that drives brand growth. This is a conversation about transparency as strategy — not a values play, but a lever that lifts acquisition, deepens retention, and produces the stickiest customers in the market.

3:05 PM – 3:35 PM

Membership, Rewards, and Retention: How Balance of Nature and iamota Built Value Without Deeper Discounts

Richard Sandor (iamota), Andy Iacona (Balance of Nature)

As subscription brands expand into retail and marketplaces, the personal customer relationship that drove early growth gets harder to protect, and the pressure to compete on price gets louder. Balance of Nature took a different approach: build additive value that gives customers a reason to buy direct. In this session, hear how Balance of Nature worked with iamota to redesign their membership and rewards programs from the ground up.

3:40 PM – 4:10 PM

How Hypergrowth Brands Win on Lifetime Value

Jordan Narducci (DTCPG)

How are today’s fastest-growing subscription brands getting more value from every customer? Jordan Narducci gets hands-on with the tactics behind stronger retention, higher spend, and repeat purchase. We’ll unpack real brand examples and the specific moves you can take back to your own business.

3:40 PM – 4:10 PM

The Unhinged Content Playbook Behind 200M Organic Impressions

Alan Lin (Liquid+)

Alan Lin, Founder of Liquid+, breaks down the organic content formula that took his brand from a $150K investment to $1.5M in annual sales in under a year with limited ad spend. From testing product-market fit to curiosity loops to conversion, this is a playbook for brands who want to perfect their messaging, maximize their profit and stand out on social media.

9:00 AM – 9:25 AM

ChargeX Kickoff: Product Keynote

Oisin O’Connor (Recharge), Michael McArthur (Recharge)

Retention used to be a feature you configured. Now it’s an operating system you run. In this session, we’re unpacking our big AI bets and how we’ve built a system that gets smarter with every subscriber.

9:25 AM – 9:55 AM

An Act of Trust

Cynthia Savard Saucier (Shopify)

Operationalizing trust as a system helps leaders uncover opportunities, prioritize smarter experiments, and take better risks. By examining the customer journey, teams can better understand how trust shapes decisions and explore new ways to strengthen it.

10:40 AM – 12:00 PM

Built for Lasting Impact

Your category winners—Good Ranchers, Bubs Naturals and Auri Nutrition—share the bold ideas, disciplined execution, and collaboration behind how they’re redefining ecommerce. 

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Designing Brands Investors Want

Jeff Byers (Momentous)

Jeff Byers built Momentous into a 9-figure brand investors wanted to back. He’ll share what he intentionally designed to make the brand fundable, the 2-3 levers that unlocked capital, and what founders should stop optimizing for.

1:30 PM – 2:15 PM

Beyond the Promo Cycle: Driving Demand Without Discounts

Courtney Wallace (Dermalogica), Kimberly Phan (Dermalogica)

Disciplined, value-led strategies that build sustainable growth, protect brand equity, and drive revenue without relying on constant discounts or short-term promotional spikes.

2:25 PM – 3:10 PM

Smarter Retention: I Am Chef Too’s Strategy Behind a 45% Recovery Rate

Amer Grozdanić (Praella), Scott Wallace (I’m The Chef Too)

Walk through the retention transformation that saved 6-figures of MRR in 30 days, drove a massive spike in post-purchase revenue, and turned a fragmented tech stack into a revenue protection engine.

2:25 PM – 3:10 PM

Win the AI Search: Structuring Your Brand for Discovery

David Bradley (Nextime.AI), Brad Savage (Gardencup)

If your brand isn’t structured for AI search, you’re invisible. This session reveals how to win AI-driven discovery: schema markup, content formats, and infrastructure shifts that make your brand findable in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews.

3:20 PM – 4:05 PM

How Breakthrough Brands Use Storytelling to Fuel Growth

Jeff Lin (Flamingo Estate), Liz Ahern (Brand 555)

Creative storytelling and a cohesive brand narratives that shape customer journeys, strengthen subscriber relationships, and drive sustainable growth for today’s breakthrough brands.

3:20 PM – 4:05 PM

Assumptions Are Expensive: How Perelel Scaled Smarter Through Meaningful Testing

Linda Yon (Perelel)

Perelel implemented a rigorous testing framework across acquisition, conversion, and retention. The result: clearer insights, smarter prioritization, and subscriber growth that compounds over time.

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