App Growth Summit Austin 2026

About the event

App Growth Summit Austin is the Texas edition of the App Growth Summit conference series, which runs invite-only, one-day events for mobile app growth specialists in cities across Europe and North America. Each city edition is a separate event with its own speakers, agenda and sponsors.

The 2026 edition is billed as an App Growth Festival and moves the format outdoors to Zilker Lodge, a campground-style venue in Austin. The organizers expect around 200 attendees, more than 25 speakers and a dozen sessions covering user acquisition, retention, engagement, onboarding and lifecycle marketing, with panels, expert talks and presentations from app publishers and brands. The day includes a catered barbecue lunch, networking breaks and an evening after party. Vendor participation is limited, so most of the room consists of people who run or market apps rather than service providers.

Who should attend

Best suited to app founders, growth and user acquisition managers, product leads and marketers at app publishers and consumer brands, especially in the US South and Central regions. Attendees get practical sessions on acquisition, retention and onboarding from working practitioners, plus a relatively small, invite-only setting where it is easy to meet peers, partners and potential buyers or sellers of apps.