The Miami Super Summit is a two-day agency leadership experience full of impactful talks, curated conversations, and unforgettable connections.
With huge agency speakers and a fantastic delegate list, it’s your best chance to rub shoulders with other successful agency owners from across the US and beyond.
👀 More speakers coming soon. Line-up subject to change.
We’re excited to welcome Rory Sutherland to the Miami Super Summit – one of the most original minds in marketing, and a true agency icon.
Blair Enns is one of the most influential voices in the agency world – we’re thrilled to have him speak at the Miami Super Summit.
Daniel Gilbert built Brainlabs from a one-man operation into one of the world’s most admired digital agencies, with 1,000+ people and offices across the globe.
Carrie Rose is the co-founder of Rise at Seven, one of the fastest-growing creative agencies in the world. Carrie brings a fresh, unfiltered perspective on what it really takes to scale an agency in today’s landscape.
Peter Kang is the founder of Barrel Holdings. After 15 years as a hands-on operator, Peter has shifted from busy agency owner to an investor in agencies, not their bottleneck. He’ll share how treating agency profits like an investment fund unlocks long-term wealth without the daily grind.
Karl Sakas helps agency owners fire themselves from the day-to-day. He shares how to build real succession, cure the “insomnia factor,” and create the option to exit without breaking the agency.
Michael King reveals how forward-thinking agencies are using AI and automation to deliver more value with fewer resources – streamlining everything from reporting to SEO audits without sacrificing quality.
In his talk,E2M’s BrentWeaver shares how agencies are embedding AI across their organizations – from delivery to decision-making – and what it really takes to build an AI-first culture that drives efficiency, consistency, and long-term growth.
Hannah Springett shares how a dream $300k pitch turned into a disappointing $9k “consolation” project – but how saying yes turned Hilton Grand Vacations into a $500k annual retainer client. Great lesson in growth and attitude.
Carl Smith is in Miami with a wake-up call for agency leaders: your most significant asset is no longer your service offering or “unique” process but your ability to think, adapt, and build systems that learn. Find out what this important shift means for your agnecy.
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Event Manifesto
Building The World’s Best Leadership Conference for Independent Agencies
Event curated by:
Ian Harris
Agency Hackers
The Miami Super Summit is a two-day agency leadership experience full of impactful talks, curated conversations, and unforgettable connections.
We know that too many agency conferences are bloated, boring, or stuck in the past. They’re either geared toward holding company giants or micro-agencies trying to get off the ground.
But what about the serious, growing, independently owned agencies – the ones in
the messy middle?
The Miami Super Summit is for ambitious founders who want to trade stories, get inspired, and meet others building real businesses with heart, hustle and humour.
It’s an excuse to get out of the office, buy something linen, and head down to Miami – where you can mix business with sunshine, ambition with Aperols, and come home with ideas (and a tan) that actually last.
why come?
Why Attend Miami Super Summit?
👍 Two days of practical thinking, honest conversations, and proven strategies to help you grow a stronger, more profitable agency.
1. For Agency Growth
This is a working summit for agency leaders who want momentum, not motivation. You’ll leave with proven growth strategies, pricing insights, and delivery frameworks you can apply immediately – shared by founders who’ve already solved the problems you’re facing right
2. For Better Leadership
Running an agency gets harder as you grow. Miami Super Summit is designed to help you become a calmer, more confident leader – improving decision-making, team performance, and resilience. Expect honest conversations about people, culture, and the realities of leading an agency at scale.
3. For High-Quality Connections
This isn’t a trade show or a room full of vendors. You’ll spend two days alongside agency owners at a similar stage, in structured discussions and relaxed settings. The relationships you build here are long-term, commercially valuable, and often extend well beyond the event itself.
⏰ Schedule
Over two days and three nights in Miami, we bring together some of the sharpest minds in agency growth from both sides of the Atlantic.
Miami Beach Sunset Reception
Tuesday 21st April 2026
We begin our Miami experience with an exclusive welcome cocktail reception.
Set atop a stylish rooftop bar with panoramic views of the Atlantic Ocean and the glowing city skyline. Guests will enjoy expertly crafted cocktails, relaxed luxury, and the unmistakable energy of a South Beach evening.
As the sun sets and the city lights rise, it’s a golden opportunity for sponsors to connect with agency leaders in a high-end, low-pressure environment before the main event begins.
Conference Day 1 🐬
Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Day One of the conference kicks off with headline talks from icons like Rory Sutherland and Daniel Gilbert – as well as insights from trailblazing US agencies making waves globally.
The morning keynotes spark ideas, while the afternoons shift into curated breakouts and workshops with more inspiring stories, deeper collaboration, and practical sessions tailored to agency growth.
Throughout it all, founders and leaders get to know each other not just through business, but through shared experiences, honest conversation – and possibly even a bit of British humour.
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Conference Day 2 🌴
Thursday 23rd April 2026
Carrie Rose – Founder of Rise at Seven, known for reshaping how brands approach earned media with a fierce creative edge. Blair Enns – Author of The Win Without Pitching Manifesto, returning to challenge how you sell, position, and price your expertise.
The second half of the day shifts into focused workshops and strategic planning sessions. This is where you’ll go deeper – mapping real actions based on everything you’ve soaked up.
You’ll collaborate with other agency leaders, guided by facilitators who’ll help you clarify growth priorities, shape strategies tailored to your agency’s stage, and build out 90-day action plans to bring your momentum home.
Itinerary
Draft itinerary
Here’s the current conference schedule. (All timings subject to change.)
Day 1 – Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Welcome and introduction
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9.30am
🎤 Keynote
Welcome to Miami Super Summit! In this opening session, we’ll set the tone for the days ahead, explore who’s in the room, and uncover the experience, ambitions, and challenges you’ve brought with you. You’ll meet your fellow attendees and get a clear preview of what’s coming up over two days.
How Brainlabs Built a Global Growth Machine
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10am
🎤 Keynote
Brainlabs started as a small, performance-focused agency with a big ambition – and turned into one of the most respected and fastest-growing digital agencies in the world.
At Miami Super Summit, founder Daniel Gilbert will take us behind the scenes of that journey. He’ll share the strategic bets, cultural decisions, acquisitions, mistakes, and turning points that shaped Brainlabs’ growth – and what he’d do differently if he were starting again today.
This isn’t a glossy success story. It’s a candid look at what it really takes to scale an agency internationally without losing momentum, culture, or your edge.
If you’re serious about building an agency that outgrows you – and maybe even outlives you – this is a session you won’t want to miss.
We’ll kick off Miami Super Summit with structured speed networking – a fast, focused way to meet the right people from the very start.
You’ll have a structured, fast-paced way to meet other agency leaders from the outset. A series of short, focused conversations will help you quickly understand who’s in the room, what they’re building, and where you might have shared challenges – or opportunities to help each other.
How Small Projects Turn Into $500k Accounts
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12pm
🎤 Keynote
After pitching for a $300k global campaign with a major hotel brand, Hannah Springett was told the plans had changed – and offered a $9k project instead. It would have been easy to walk away. Instead, HLabs said yes and delivered the work in just 10 days, exceeding expectations on speed, quality and execution.
Weeks later, the client returned with a $500k campaign. Today, they’re a long-term account. In this session, Hannah shares how to earn trust early, prove value fast and grow serious revenue from small beginnings.
Lunch is another chance to connect. Sit with someone new, pick up where you left off, or dive deeper into a challenge with people who understand your world.
How Agencies Are Rebuilding Delivery with AI
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1.30pm
🎤 Keynote
Michael King of iPullRank has rebuilt some of the most time-consuming parts of agency life – reporting, audits, diagnostics and pre-qualification – into semi-automated workflows that eliminate heavy lifting without sacrificing human judgement. Nothing ships without review, but hundreds of hours have been saved.
In this session, Michael shares what’s safe to automate, how to protect quality, and why agencies that ignore AI-driven operations will struggle to maintain margin in the years ahead.
Why Your Agency Won’t Scale With the Same Leadership
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2.15pm
🎤 Keynote
Carrie Rose will join us in Miami to talk candidly about scaling Rise at Seven across the UK and US – and the leadership shifts required at each stage of growth
She’ll share why she separated her US and UK operations to unlock faster growth, how she rebuilt sales into a senior “solutions” function (without a traditional sales team), and what it really takes to pass ownership and responsibility down to a high-performing leadership team.
This is a candid look at succession, accountability, and building a team capable of carrying the business into its next stage.
In his talk, E2M’s BrentWeaver shares how agencies are embedding AI across their organisations – from delivery to decision-making – and what it really takes to build an AI-first culture that drives efficiency, consistency, and long-term growth.
Take a well-earned pause and refuel with coffee, conversation, and a bit of Florida sunshine. Use this time to reconnect, meet someone new, and continue the discussions sparked this morning. The best insights often happen between sessions – so grab a cup, make an introduction, and we’ll see you back shortly.
Why Agencies Shouldn’t Compete on Efficiency
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3.00pm
🎤 Keynote
In a world obsessed with optimisation, automation, and AI-driven productivity, agencies are under relentless pressure to become faster, leaner, and more measurable. But what if the pursuit of efficiency is quietly undermining effectiveness?
In this provocative session, Rory Sutherland explores why the most commercially powerful ideas are rarely the most logical or scalable.
Drawing on behavioural science and real-world examples, he’ll argue that agencies win not by being more efficient than their clients, but by being more imaginative, more psychological, and occasionally unreasonable.
As AI accelerates execution and clients gain more options than ever, agencies face a stark question: where does real value now sit? In this incisive session, Blair Enns will challenge leaders to rethink how they position, price, and sell their expertise.
Drawing on decades of advising creative and marketing firms, he’ll argue that the future belongs to agencies that stop behaving like vendors and start leading the sale with authority.
From commanding premium fees to eliminating spec work and resisting commoditisation, Blair will outline what it takes to build an expertise-led firm in an increasingly efficient world. If you want stronger margins and more control, this session is essential.
Take a well-earned pause and refuel with coffee, conversation, and a bit of Florida sunshine. Use this time to reconnect, meet someone new, and continue the discussions sparked this morning. The best insights often happen between sessions – so grab a cup, make an introduction, and we’ll see you back shortly.
Building Agency Wealth Without the Daily Grind
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11.30am
🎤 Keynote
After 15 years in the trenches at Barrel, Peter Kang believed growth depended on his constant involvement. Then he spun out a group of legacy clients, handed over control – and watched it grow faster without him.
In this candid session, Peter shares his shift from operator to capital allocator, revealing the messy lessons behind his acquisitions, including a painful distressed purchase, and how he uses SBA loans to buy agencies with just 10% down. If you want to build real wealth – not just a job – this session will change how you think about profit, ownership, and scale.
Lunch is another chance to connect. Sit with someone new, pick up where you left off, or dive deeper into a challenge with people who understand your world.
Built To Change: Designing The Agency of Tomorrow
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1.30pm
🎤 Keynote
The creative industry is running on muscle memory. Tactics that once worked, roles that once made sense, and models that once delivered real value are slowly failing.
Why? The world has changed. Clients are smarter. AI is everywhere. And the biggest threat to your agency isn’t irrelevance; it’s inertia.
In this wake-up call for agency leaders, Carl Smith unpacks the forces reshaping what it means to run a creative company in the Intelligence Age.
We’ll explore why your most significant asset is no longer your service offering or “unique” process but your ability to think, adapt, and build systems that learn. We’ll look at what tomorrow’s clients value, why full-service isn’t the problem (but outdated thinking is), and how to shift from effort-based work to insight-based impact.
The paid media landscape is changing fast. In this session, the team from Diginius will unpack the biggest shifts shaping performance marketing today, from programmatic alternatives and cross-platform targeting across Microsoft, TikTok and LinkedIn, to emerging channels like Reddit, Snap and Pinterest.
They’ll also explore the bleeding edge: what advertising on LLMs could mean for agencies.
Fire Yourself – Without Burning the Agency Down
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3pm
🎤 Keynote
“Why can’t my team do this? I can do it easily.”
“That’s exactly why you’re stuck,” says Karl Sakas.
Most agency owners believe they have one role. In reality, they’re carrying five or six. And until you systematically fire yourself from each of them, you don’t truly have the option to step back – or sell.
In this session, Karl unpacks the messy, multi-year process of making yourself less essential without destabilising the business. He’ll share how one founder transitioned an Account Manager all the way to CEO, avoided the “double job” trap, and rebuilt the leadership structure properly – not with a quick fix hire, but with deliberate succession.
The result? A business that runs without the owner in the weeds.
If you want freedom without chaos – and optionality without regret – this session will show you how to get there.
We’ll close Miami Super Summit with 90 minutes of structured table talks focused on one thing: your next three years.
This isn’t theory. It’s working time. You’ll sit with a small group of peers and map out where you want your agency to be in 36 months – revenue, structure, leadership, exit options, market position – and what has to change to get there.
With guided prompts and honest discussion, you’ll pressure-test your thinking, spot blind spots and commit to the moves you’ve been avoiding.
You’ll leave with more than notes. You’ll leave with a clearer direction – and people who’ll hold you to it.
Here are some of the other delegates you’ll meet in Miami
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FAQ
Event FAQs
Do I need to be an Agency Hackers member to attend?
No – anyone running or leading an agency is welcome. Members usually get discounted tickets, but you don’t have to be a member to join us.
Can I transfer my ticket to someone else?
Yes! If you can’t make it, you can transfer your ticket to another person in your agency – or another agency leader – at any time. Just let us know who’s coming in your place.
What’s your refund policy?
We don’t offer refunds, but you can transfer your ticket to another event or colleague if you give us notice.
Do you offer group discounts?
Sometimes – especially if you’re bringing your team. Drop us a message and we’ll see what we can do.
Are the sessions recorded?
Currently, we don’t record the content. The reason is, people often share confidential matters they don’t want to leave the room.
Is there a dress code?
We’re a relaxed crowd. Think “smart casual” or “agency chic”. Just wear whatever you feel comfortable in when you meet new people.
