Marketplaces are becoming more specialised and more competitive at the same time. Sellers are no longer choosing whether to expand, but where and how to do it effectively.
LOUISVILLE, KY | April 9, 2026 — Retailers aiming to scale across the industry’s most influential marketplaces can connect directly with the experts behind them at Linnworks‘ free half-day virtual event, Meet the Marketplace 2026, taking place on April 23 at 9:00 AM EST.
Most marketplace advice comes from sellers who figured it out the hard way or from consultants summarising what they read elsewhere. This event is different: the sessions are delivered by the marketplace teams themselves. That distinction matters because the gap between what a platform publicly promotes and what its own growth team actually recommends to sellers can be significant. Getting both in the same room is genuinely rare.
Meet the Marketplace 2026 structures its sessions around retail verticals rather than platforms, which is the right call. A Home and Garden seller and a Consumer Electronics seller face entirely different dynamics on the same marketplace. Lumping them into a single “how to sell on Amazon” session wastes everyone’s time. The four verticals covered are Home and Garden, Health, Beauty and Fashion, and Consumer Electronics.
Attendees will hear directly from marketplace representatives at TikTok Shop, SHEIN, Amazon, eBay, Temu, B&Q, Tesco, Debenhams, Newegg and more. With more than 20 sessions across the half-day format, the event is built for attendees who want clear takeaways they can immediately apply to the specific channels they are looking to grow.
Sessions include:
The event opens with a keynote titled “The Marketplace Shift: What Sellers Must Do to Win in 2026”, delivered by Sarah Znideric, VP of Partnerships at Linnworks. The session addresses how marketplace dynamics are changing and what that means for retailers building their growth strategies this year.
Znideric frames the core challenge clearly: “Sellers are no longer choosing whether to expand, but where and how to do it effectively.” That is an honest read of where the market is. The question for most multi-channel operators in 2026 is not whether to add a new marketplace. It is which one fits their category, their margin structure, and their operational capacity. Whether you are entering new channels or scaling existing ones, the keynote is designed to give you a framework for that decision, not a generic argument for expansion.
The virtual format means no travel, no scheduling conflicts with warehouse operations, and no cost to attend. On-demand access is available after the event for all registered participants, which matters if your team is spread across time zones or you want to share specific sessions with category managers or ops leads who could not attend live.
Registration is free. RSVP here to secure your spot before April 23.
Linnworks is a Connected CommerceOps platform that gives online retailers the power to connect, automate, and scale their ecommerce operations from a single source of truth. The platform brings three core capabilities to retailers: connectivity across a broad range of marketplaces, automation of traditionally time-consuming ecommerce processes, and a centralised hub to manage listings, inventory, orders, and shipments.
