Affiliate Grand Slam takes place 2–5 November 2026 at Fiera Roma, Italy. The event is a multi-vertical affiliate and performance marketing conference, running during SiGMA World Summit week.

A ticket also gets you into SiGMA World, FXWorld, and AIBC, so affiliates, media buyers, brands, networks, and operators will all be in the same place for the same four days. I’ll be there as a media partner covering the event, even though CMS Conf in Gdynia is about ten days away, where I will be speaking.

Why I’m Going to Affiliate Grand Slam

Affiliate marketing is being reshaped faster than at any point in my 20 years in it. AI Visibility is absorbing the traffic that built most affiliate businesses, ranking in Google and capturing the click. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews now decide which brands get recommended, often before a user ever sees a link.

That changes how affiliate sites earn, how programs recruit partners, and how digital assets are valued when they change hands.

At Affiliate World Budapest this summer, I ran “The Great SEO Reset,” a workshop speaking about this exact shift. I want to take that conversation further in Rome, with the people who live or die by performance numbers.

What I’ll Be Focused On

  • AI Visibility for affiliates and brands. What it takes to get cited and recommended by AI search systems, and why being cited is replacing being ranked as the metric that matters.
  • Digital asset deal flow. Buying, selling, and valuing affiliate and content businesses as traffic multiples are being rewritten.
  • Multi-vertical partnerships. Where iGaming, fintech, Web3, and eCommerce affiliates overlap, and where new opportunities sit between those verticals.

Why Affiliate Grand Slam

As founder of Competico, a boutique advisory focused on AI Visibility and Competitive Intelligence, I spend most of my time helping digital businesses get discovered when search engines stop sending clicks.

Most affiliate businesses are still optimizing for a traffic model that’s eroding underneath them. Almost no one has a plan for LLM discoverability. AGS puts thousands of the people most exposed to that shift in one venue, and that’s the room where this conversation needs to happen.

If any of the following is on your roadmap, Rome is where we should talk:

  • Protecting or rebuilding affiliate revenue as AI answers replace organic clicks
  • Getting your brand or affiliate program recommended by AI search systems
  • Buying, selling or valuing an affiliate or content business
  • Building a partner acquisition strategy that doesn’t depend only on paid traffic

Affiliate Grand Slam Event Details

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Affiliate Grand Slam is Europe's newest Affiliate Event

Scale & Format 

AGS will have a dedicated space at Fiera Roma for its 2026 edition where you will be able to meet:

  • 250+ exhibitors 
  • 5,000+ verified affiliates 
  • 50+ speakers 
  • Attendees from 40+ countries 
  • A dedicated AGS hall (for affiliate marketers) within Fiera Roma 
  • Access to four events with one ticket (AGS, SiGMA, AIBC, and FX.World) 

Verticals 

The event takes a multi-vertical approach, covering a range of affiliate and performance marketing sectors: 

  • Nutra (Supplements) 
  • Lead Generation 
  • Dating / Chatting  
  • Search / Content Arbitrage 
  • Pay Per Call 
  • Ecommerce / Dropshipping  
  • Apps / Utilities 
  • Finance / Fintech  
  • SAAS / Software 
  • Performance Marketing 
  • AI and Automation  
  • Content Distribution 
  • Peptides / Telehealth 

Speakers 

There are already some strong names confirmed for the 2026 lineup, including: 

  • Niv Shaked, Sales Director at TikTok 
  • Nick Shackleford, Co-Founder at BREZ 
  • Oliver Kenyon, Founder and CEO at ConversionWise 
  • Joshua Chin, Founder at Chronos Agency 
  • Jordan Rolband, Founder and CEO at DFO Global Performance 
  • Caoimhe Nugent, Senior Strategist at Google 
  • Gabe Piacentini, Head of Business Development & Lead Generation at Snapchat 
  • Marisha Lakhiani, Chief Growth Officer at Mindvalley 

Exhibitors 

AGS will also feature companies working across different areas of affiliate and performance marketing. 

Confirmed exhibitors include: 

  • Google  
  • Meta  
  • TikTok  
  • YouTube 
  • SnapChat 
  • TrafficStars  
  • MGID  
  • Clickbank 

With 250+ exhibitors expected, you'll have plenty of opportunities to discover new traffic sources, technologies, services, and potential business partners. 

Let’s Meet in Rome

I keep conference schedules deliberately loose so the best conversations happen between sessions.

If you’re attending Affiliate Grand Slam or SiGMA World and you work in affiliate marketing, performance media, iGaming, fintech, or digital assets, reach out.

Drop a comment or message me, and I’ll make time.

See you in Rome, 2–5 November 2026.