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Learn ways to build a brand, web presence, and online store that customers recognize and trust, and see how AI can help.
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Tuesday, Nov 102026
9am PT | 12pm ET
Virtual & In-Person Watch Parties
Free to Attend
Get inspired. Learn what's possible. Take your next step.
Join us for ELEVATE, Bluehost’s inaugural growth summit for small businesses. Hear from industry experts, small business leaders and leading voices on entrepreneurship in the AI era. Gain ideas and real-world strategies to help you use the latest tech and AI to build your online presence, grow your business, and run it with the power of a bigger company.
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Experience ELEVATE.
02Grow
Find out how customers discover businesses through search, AI answers and social platforms and how to reach them authentically.
03Run
Discover AI apps, agents and workflows that can take on routine work, support customers and create capacity for growth.
04Dream Bigger
Walk away with inspiration to pursue opportunities previously out of reach for small businesses.
2026 Speakers
Featured speaker
VaynerX
Gary Vaynerchuk
Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia, CEO & Creator of VeeFriends
VaynerXFeatured speaker
Contrarian Thinking
Codie Sanchez
Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking; Bestselling Author, Main Street Millionaire & Own or Be Owned
Contrarian ThinkingSachin Puri
CEO
Brendan Jacobson
Global Head of Channel Sales
Farhaz Karmali
Product Director, Agent Platform and Ecosystem
Google
Loren Baker
Founder
Aleyda Solis
Founder
Alex Moss
Principal SEOYoast
Salim Ali
CMO
Satish Hemachandran
CPO
Vishwa Shroff
Senior Director Product Management
Bill Schneider
Head of Product Marketing
Monica Cravotta
Head of Brand
Farhaz Karmali
Product Director, Agent Platform and Ecosystem · Google
Farhaz leads the Agent Platform and Ecosystem team, focusing on end user and developer experiences with Gemini. The team is responsible for the platform with a focus on GenAI, which enables capabilities like Gemini Extensions, Agentic Workflows, Vertex integrations, UI Kit, Smart Chips, Agents, Chat Apps, Add-Ons, and APIs for Google Workspace apps.
Monica Cravotta
Head of Brand · Bluehost
Monica Cravotta is head of brand at Bluehost, where she leads brand strategy, communications, and programs designed to grow awareness and connection with small businesses. A brand and product marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience, Monica has helped companies grow through major shifts in technology, from the rise of user-generated content and social media to digital experience and today’s AI era. Her career includes contributing to the pivotal growth chapters of Bazaarvoice, Mass Relevance, Spredfast, WP Engine, and others, working with companies from early stage through rapid growth, M&A, and IPOs. She has led teams and strategic initiatives across brand, product marketing, communications, advertising, events, and other strategic initiatives that help companies tell their stories and scale through periods of significant transformation.
Sachin Puri
CEO · Newfold Digital
Sachin Puri brings an unmatched passion for growth and success, accompanied by decades of deep industry expertise and a distinguished career history of leading strategy for major enterprises in the tech space. Sachin Puri is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Newfold Digital, where he leads a powerhouse portfolio of brands with approximately 6 million customers across 200 countries globally combined across Bluehost, Network Solutions, Yoast, and more. With Yoast’s SEO platform active on 13 million sites having recently surpassed 1 billion downloads. Sachin has led the company’s accelerated reinvention from helping small businesses get online with web hosting, to building and running their business with AI.
From creating websites, online stores and marketing campaigns to building AI agents, Bluehost offers purpose-built AI, fast and reliable performance, and 24/7 human expert support. With over 20 years of experience, Sachin has built his career at the intersection of SaaS, hosting, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and digital commerce, helping companies accelerate innovation and deliver customer-centric digital experiences. He has held senior leadership roles at globally recognized companies such as WP Engine, McAfee, eBay, StubHub, HP, and Liquid Web. Across these roles, Sachin has led initiatives that accelerated growth, transformed customer experience, drove product innovation and elevated brand impact.
Salim Ali
CMO · Bluehost
Salim Ali is Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) at Bluehost, where he leads global marketing strategy and programs to drive growth, market expansion and brand evolution. At Bluehost, he is transforming how millions of small and medium-sized businesses discover and engage with the company as the single platform they need to grow and thrive in the AI era. He drives growth across marketing, sales and partner routes to market. Salim has more than 25 years of experience scaling high-growth businesses to billion-dollar scale at large public companies and unicorns. His marketing experience spans the full value chain, from brand to demand. He has supported product-led growth, direct sales and partner and channel routes to market, and has led large global teams accountable for up to $8 billion in pipeline. Before Bluehost, Salim was CMO at Gupshup AI and CMO of WordPress VIP. Earlier, he held leadership roles at Avalara and SAP. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and an MS in Computer Science.
Satish Hemachandran
CPO · Bluehost
Satish Hemachandran is the Chief Producer Officer (CPO) at Bluehost. In this role, he is responsible for strategy, planning, and operational execution to achieve overall brand portfolio growth by leveraging a purpose-built AI product suite for small businesses so that they can build, grow and run easier. At the core of his leadership initiatives is a focus on ease of use for non-technical business owners. Prior to joining Newfold Digital and Bluehost, Satish led product development, operations, and commercial growth for several SaaS, Cloud, and Hosting companies serving SMB and Enterprise customers. He began his career at Netscape and Sun Microsystems where he served in progressive technical and leadership positions managing enterprise software.
Brendan Jacobson
Global Head of Channel Sales · TikTok
Brendan Jacobson is the Global Head of Channel Sales at TikTok, where he built the global partner organization driving SMB growth worldwide. With 25+ years leading expansion across TikTok, Google, Zagat, and X (the Moonshot Factory), he focuses on building repeatable commercial models, driving team execution, and creating long-term ecosystem value.
His industry experience includes commercializing life sciences ventures at X, launching Google’s Healthcare partner business, and leading large channel partner strategies. Today, he drives channel partner network growth by connecting small businesses to next-generation platforms, partner ecosystems, and emerging AI commercial technology.
Loren Baker
Founder · Search Engine Journal
Loren Baker is the founder of Search Engine Journal (SEJ), a leading publication covering search engine optimization and digital marketing. He is also an advisor at Alpha Brand Media and leads Foundation Digital, a digital marketing strategy and development agency. With more than 25 years of experience in SEO, content marketing, and digital strategy, Loren brings extensive expertise in helping businesses navigate the evolving search landscape, including the growing impact of AI on online visibility.
Alex Moss
Principal SEO · Yoast
Alex Moss is Principal SEO at Yoast and co-founder of FireCask, with over 20 years in Search across in-house, freelance and agency roles. He has audited and built hundreds of sites, from popular WordPress plugins to complex platforms for global brands. His focus now is how AI and agentic developments are changing Search, and what brands need to do to stay visible as it happens.
Vishwa Shroff
Senior Director Product Management · Bluehost
Vishwa is a product and experience leader with more than 14 years of experience building AI-native platforms across enterprise SaaS. At Bluehost, she owns the AI and agentic product portfolio across the Bluehost Group brands, including Bluehost and HostGator, serving more than 5 million small businesses. She is currently launching a portfolio of agents that help SMBs manage their digital presence and run their operations. Previously, she built Intuit’s first unified demo infrastructure for QuickBooks and spent six years at ServiceNow, where she scaled the ServiceNow Store to multi-million-dollar revenue. Vishwa speaks regularly on product, AI, and women in tech.
Bill Schneider
Head of Product Marketing · Bluehost
Bill Schneider is head of product marketing at Bluehost, where he leads positioning, packaging, and go-to-market strategy for Bluehost’s portfolio of products. Bill is a marketing executive who has spent 20 years bringing new ideas to market at companies like Airship, SheerID, and CommerceIQ. He has built go-to-market strategies for several major digital shifts, from the early days of web analytics and mobile engagement to identity verification and today’s agentic commerce. Along the way, he has helped scale companies, led communications through a major acquisition, and built programs that increase customer value.
Aleyda Solis
Founder · Orainti
Aleyda Solis is an SEO and AI Search consultant and the founder of Orainti, a boutique consultancy advising some of the world's leading brands on organic growth. One of the most followed organic search specialists and most sought-after SEO and AI Search Optimization speakers, she's the maker behind SEOFOMO, the weekly newsletter read across the SEO industry, and its sister publications AI Marketers and MarketingFOMO, plus the free Learning SEO and Learning AI Search roadmaps that have helped thousands break into the field. She also runs SEOFOMO News, the SEOFOMO Meetups, and the Crawling Mondays video series and is the co-founder of Finchling, a PR story opportunities platform.
- 12:00 – 12:05 PMELEVATE Welcome
Monica Cravotta, Head of Brand, Bluehost
- 12:05 – 12:25 PMDream Bigger. Now You Can! The Small Business Advantage in the AI Era
Salim Ali, Chief Marketing Officer, Bluehost
- 12:25 – 12:55 PMBuilding a Business that Stands Out with AI
Codie Sanchez, Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking; Bestselling Author, Main Street Millionaire & Own or Be Owned
- 12:55 – 1:25 PMThe Small Business AI Workspace
Farhaz Karmali, Product Director, Google
- 1:25 – 1:40 PMBreak
- 1:40 – 2:10 PMAuthenticity Builds Demand: New Lessons from TikTok
Brendan Jacobson, Global Head of Channel Sales, TikTok
- 2:10 – 2:40 PMSEO in the Age of AI: How to Get Discovered, Cited & Chosen
Loren Baker, Founder, Search Engine Journal
Aleyda Solis, Founder, Orainti
Alex Moss, Principal SEO, Yoast - 2:40 – 3:10 PMAuthenticity in the Age of AI
Monica Cravotta, Head of Brand, Bluehost
- 3:10 – 3:30 PMBreak
- 3:30 – 4:00 PMBuild, Grow, Run with AI: What's New & What's Next at Bluehost
Satish Hemachandran, Chief Product Officer, Bluehost
- 4:00 – 4:30 PMGrow Without Adding Headcount. AI Apps and Agents That Work 24x7
Vishwa Shroff, Senior Director of Product Management & Bill Schneider, Head of Product Marketing, Bluehost
- 4:30 – 4:45 PMCelebrating Small Business Heroes
Salim Ali, Chief Marketing Officer, Bluehost
- 4:45 – 5:45 PMFireside Chat with GaryVee
Gary Vaynerchuk, Chairman of VaynerX, CEO of VaynerMedia, CEO & Creator of VeeFriends
Sachin Puri, CEO, Newfold Digital - 5:45 – 6:00 PMClosing Remarks
Salim Ali, Chief Marketing Officer, Bluehost
In person
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San Francisco
Tuesday, November 10
12:30 PM – 4:00 PM PT
The Producer’s Loft