Midwest Ecommerce Summit: Built to Grow (STL TechWeek 2026)

The Midwest Ecommerce Summit returns to St. Louis on April 15th at T-REX, as part of the 4th Annual STL TechWeek

This year’s theme — Built to Grow — challenges ecommerce leaders to take a hard look at the technology powering their business.

Growth changes everything.

Will the technology you have today get you to tomorrow?

The systems that helped you launch and scale may not be ready for what comes next. As revenue increases and operations become more complex, cracks begin to surface. What once powered growth can begin to slow it down.

The Midwest Ecommerce Summit is a leading ecommerce conference in St. Louis focused on modernizing the ecommerce tech stack for growing Midwest brands. MES brings together manufacturers, retailers, and distributors to evaluate and strengthen the systems behind their ecommerce operations — without adding unnecessary complexity.

Throughout the afternoon, speakers and merchants will explore what it takes to modernize an ecommerce operation at scale. We’ll examine how the layers of a modern tech stack connect across the business. Platform decisions influence marketing performance. ERP alignment shapes reporting accuracy. Inventory visibility impacts customer experience. Payments, tax compliance, AI, and automation operate within the same ecosystem.

Understanding how those systems work together is essential to sustaining growth.