Partnership opportunities · Built by Willpower
Willpower World of Sports Summit 2026
Put your brand inside the day with the leaders shaping sports and wellness culture.
2026
Across the Willpower ecosystem
Credibility before the pitch.
Consumer brands, teams, athlete-builders and the operators powering their growth.
Past participation and existing relationships shown for context. Logos do not indicate confirmed 2026 participation unless separately announced.
The people who can say yes
A buyer room. Built to move.
A deliberately mixed room of brand builders, sports operators and the people helping both move faster.



Who's in the room
Names, not categories.


Divya Goel
VP, Fan Engagement

Craig Lyon
SVP, Marketing


Megan Lindon
Sr. Director, Brand & Merchandise

Brandon James
SVP, Strategic Growth

John Sullivan
Chief Marketing Officer

Paulie Dery
Chief Brand Officer


Bill Neff
Head of Marketing

Krista Dalton
CMO & CDO


Courtney McHugh
VP, Marketing & Sports Marketing


Joe Cannon
Senior Vice President

Pranitha Patil
Co-Founder & CBO


Seth Hart
SVP, Ads & Integrated Partnerships


Casey Toohill
Former NFL Defensive End · Investor


Ben House
Director, Nutrition Systems & Research

Jerritt Elliott
Director of Volleyball & Head Coach

Antti Kontsas
Performance Director, Motorsport

RC Buford
CEO, Spurs Sports & Entertainment


Miki Agrawal
Founder, TUSHY & THINX


Justin Mares
Co-Founder, Kettle & Fire · Truemed


Jack Savage
Founder & CEO, Everyday Dose


Cody Burkhart
Chief, HumanWorks Lab, NASA


Bryan Cano
Chief Marketing Officer, True Classic


Jason Karp
Founder & CEO, HumanCo · Co-Founder, Hu

Eric Bandholz
Founder, Beardbrand

Greg LaVecchia
Founder & CEO, Bloom

Sam Nebel
Co-Founder, Goodwipes


Gleb Vaguine
Office of the President, Shopify


Albert Matheny
Founder & CEO, Promix Nutrition

Scott Hickle
Co-Founder, Throne

Nicholas Charlier
GM Americas, Vivobarefoot


Steve Tidball
Co-Founder & CEO, Vollebak


Ingrid Milman Cordy
CMO, HigherDOSE

Cheryl Sew Hoy
Founder & CEO, Tiny Health

Hyla Nayeri
Co-Founder, 437

Peter Pham
Co-Founder, Science Inc. · Liquid Death (board)


Kevin Lenau
President & CEO, Backcountry


Alex Frias
CMO, Steve Madden

Jen Young
Co-Founder & CMO, Outdoorsy

Jesse Merrill
Co-Founder & CEO, good culture

Kumkum Pinto
VP Product Management, Estée Lauder

Keith Duncan
CEO, Favor Delivery (H-E-B)

Nick Guillen
Co-Founder, TRUFF


Steve Martocci
Co-Founder & CEO, SuppCo · GroupMe · Splice

Mike Xhaxho
Co-Founder & CEO, Waterboy

Jared LaMantia
Chief Growth Officer, Bare Performance Nutrition


Matt Cauble
Founder, Kin Euphorics · Soylent co-founder

Ben Arneberg
Founder & CEO, Pet Honesty

Erica Tam
SVP Brand, Bloom Nutrition

Joel Contartese
Head of International & TikTok Shop, Bloom


Meghan Shookman
VP Marketing, Purely Elizabeth

Mike Hondorp
VP Marketing, Force of Nature Meats


Haley Morgan
Director, CRO & Ecommerce, Lucchese

Alex Diesbach
VP Marketing, Saatva


Bob Mott
Sr. Director Strategic Finance & GM, Huckberry


Daniel Rabinovich
VP Brand Partnerships, Barry’s


Joah Gonzalez
Director, Digital Product, Constellation Brands
Past Willpower speakers & attendees across Wellness House, Catalyst, World of Sports & the HP Summit · roles reflect the time of each event · not an announced 2026 roster
Why brands belong here
Build something the room will use.
Put the product inside a useful moment. Give the room something worth carrying forward.
A commercial path built into the day
Meet the buyer.
Curated introductions to leaders with real fit and influence.
Prove the use case.
A working session, live demo or customer problem solved in-room.
Give sales evidence.
Capture an operator story your commercial team can keep using.
Proposed for 2026
One headline. Six worlds around it.
Tom Brady × Aescape draws the room. Six distinct environments keep the room moving, trying and talking.

Tom Brady × Aescape
The Brady Protocol revealed live—bringing athletes, teams and consumer brand leaders into the same conversation.

Longevity Lounge
Biometrics, bodywork and reset.

The Paddock
Stage, courts and hospitality.

Athletic Club
The workout before the work.

Anchor Stage
Ideas that travel beyond Austin.

Brand Village
Product trial with real context.

The Lab
Performance technology in-hand.
Proposed partnership concepts. Talent, participating brands, rights and final creative remain subject to written confirmation.
Partnership architecture
Own the role only you can play.
Presenting Partner leads the identity. Every other level owns one clear, commercially useful moment.
Presenting Partner
$125K+Set the identity.
- Full opted-in attendee list
- 12–15 curated executive introductions
- Category exclusivity + headline stage
- Signature content series
- Race-week hosting + 10 VIP passes
Platform
$50K+Own the use case.
- Full opted-in attendee list
- 8–10 curated executive introductions
- Named flagship experience
- Filmed operator story
- 8 partner passes
Growth
$35KLead the track.
- Full opted-in attendee list
- 5–7 curated executive introductions
- Owned working session
- Event content + photo set
- 6 partner passes
Activation
$25KBuild the touchpoint.
- Full opted-in attendee list
- 2–3 curated executive introductions
- Branded activation footprint
- Event capture + recap inclusion
- 4 partner passes


AI Lounge


Padel Zone

Recovery Lab
Illustrative target map · October 22
The Summit Lineup.
The aspirational room, mapped through movement, live ideas, product and play.



Morning Workout



The F1 Playbook

Break + Product Discovery
Owning the Customer



Punching Above Your Budget





Padel with the Pros


Tom Brady × Aescape



From Viral to Reliable




Brand Is the Moat


The Cooldown

Illustrative target lineup for partnership planning. Logos indicate aspiration and category fit—not confirmed 2026 participation unless separately announced.
The Willpower event portfolio · 2025–2026
Three proven formats. One flagship.
World of Sports combines what already works: movement, candid operator conversations, live product discovery and play.

Executive intimacy
80–100 leaders · one focused panel · live brand discovery · close networking
▶ Watch recap

Past-event attendance and programming shown for context. Confirmed 2026 partners appear above; other participation remains subject to written confirmation.
The post-event readout
Meet. Prove. Follow up.
The partnership should leave your commercial team with more than impressions.

Partner readout · within 10 business days
Introductions
Named executive introductions selected against category fit and commercial intent.
Proof
A live operator or product story captured in a format your team can reuse.
Momentum
Opted-in follow-up, an opportunity recap and a clear next-event recommendation.
It compounds
Amazon met a gummy brand in a Willpower room in Feb 2025; two months later it launched on Buy with Prime, and Amazon told the story on our next stage.
The business of brand & sports
Put your brand inside the day.
Tell us the audience, experience or category you want to own. We will build the sharpest version of the partnership around it.
