App Growth Annual 2026 virtual agenda

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    Opening Keynote

    Breaking the rules on purpose: the contrarian bets that built Babbel

    Every subscription app has heard the same advice. Never sell lifetime deals. Don't bother with web checkout. Go freemium to keep the funnel full.

    Speaker

    • Julie HansenCRO & US CEO, Babbel

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    Product Keynote

    RevenueCat product update ahead of 2027

    We won’t spoil too much about our product keynote, but you can expect a retro on the last 12 months, roadmap reveals, and live product launches.

    Speakers

    • Jacob EitingCEO & Co-founder, RevenueCat

    • Miguel CarranzaCTO & Co-founder, RevenueCat

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    Keynote

    Built to burn: how to turn a high-churn product into good subscription economics

    Burner is an app for disposable phone numbers, with a button that destroys the very thing you're paying for… yet it has been growing and profitable for almost a decade.

    Speaker

    • Greg CohnCo-founder & CEO, Burner (Ad Hoc Labs)

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    Keynote

    Speedrunning unit economics in the age of AI

    For a decade, subscription apps ran on one assumption: the marginal cost of a subscriber is roughly zero. AI broke that.

    Speaker

    • Ajay MehtaCo-founder, Tolan

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    Workshop

    From competitor ad to finished creative, in one hour

    Your competitors have already paid to find out what works in your category, and the results are sitting in a public database anyone can open.

    Host

    • Sven JürgensMobile App Growth Consultant, Sven Juergens Consulting

    Workshop

    6+1 AI workflows to scale Meta from your phone

    With AI, small and midsized teams can get much of the operating leverage that used to require a fully staffed marketing and growth team.

    Host

    • Marcus BurkeMeta Ads & App Growth Advisor, Ctrl Shift

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    Virtual Only

    The big app roast

    Julie and Luigi take apart the paywalls and lifecycle comms of apps you already use.

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    Game Show

    Who wants to be a millionARR?

    The live interactive game show where app growth knowledge meets dramatic tie-breaker questions, phone-a-friend lifelines, and (of course) real buzzers.

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    Workshop

    Make AI-generated ads that actually convert

    Generic AI creative tools promise to fix the bottleneck in creative production every UA team is battling — but mostly, the output tanks your ROAS, or gets rejected by the network outright.

    Host

    • Julien DaverHead of User Acquisition, SplitMetrics Growth Services

    Workshop

    Copy that converts: the language-market fit teardown

    AI-written onboarding and paywall copy reads fine but converts flat — because nobody fed it real customer language.

    Host

    • Lisa KennellyGrowth and Product Marketing Strategist, Klarna

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    Workshop

    Building apps people want: the playbook behind 23 million organic downloads

    Most app developers build features nobody talks about.

    Host

    • Bria SullivanCTO & Founder, Honey B Games

    Workshop

    Nothing works until this does: the app marketing sequence

    Most apps don't stall because of bad tactics – they stall because something earlier in the chain was never in place.

    Host

    • Yuliya LennoxGrowth Consultant

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    Closing Keynote

    Confidence engineering: why your app’s activation flow is probably too short

    Every mobile growth team obsesses over friction — fewer screens, fewer fields, fewer taps between install and activation. It's conventional wisdom, and it's incomplete.

    Speaker

    • Ravi Mehtaex-CPO, Tinder

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