📸 Pro headshots + photographer stations
🎁 Creator goodie bag from local brands
📆 May 14, 2026 open: 5:00 PM
Paula Hlavacek is a Vancouver-based UGC creator, marketing strategist, personal brand builder, and co-founder of Wovvo.
Over the past several years, Paula has worked with brands including Ricola, Magic Spoon, and Sown, producing high-performing social-first content as a creator while also helping brands behind the scenes build stronger systems for working with creators and scaling UGC campaigns.
Through this experience, Paula has developed a unique perspective on the creator economy from both sides. She understands what creators need to succeed and what brands look for when hiring talent.
After seeing how fragmented the UGC job market was for creators, she co-founded Wovvo, a platform designed to help creators discover paid opportunities faster and build sustainable careers through UGC.
Paula is also one of the hosts of the event, where she shares insights on what brands are really looking for when hiring creators.
Creator positioning and authority building
Personal brand development
Social growth strategy
influencer monetization
Long-term brand deal strategy
How to make brands want to hire you
Michaela is a full-time content creator and entrepreneur known for building her dream life in public and inspiring others to do the same. Over the past three years, she's grown a highly engaged audience of 284K subscribers by sharing honest content about productivity, personal growth, and navigating life transitions with intention.
Through her YouTube channel and creator consulting work, Michaela helps others build content strategies and personal brands that create lasting impact. Her approach focuses on sustainable growth, authentic monetization, and creating a life you're genuinely excited about.
Grew to 284K Youtube subscribers by sharing real-life content about productivity, routines, and personal growth that inspires others to build lives they're excited about
Helps creators launch and grow their personal brands through consulting focused on content strategy and audience building
Teaches creators how to monetize authentically through brand partnerships, negotiations, and diversifying income across multiple platforms
Submit your questions for Michaela about Monetization and brand partnerships, negotiations, turning your life into content, behind the scenes of creator income, and diversifying revenue across YouTube and other platforms.
Mia is a social media strategist, talent manager, and creator positioning specialist known for helping creators and brands build authority through intentional digital strategy. She works with creators to develop unique angles that make them indispensable to brands, and has helped clients secure partnerships with Claude, Wikipedia, Sony, Arrae, and Parívie.
Through her work at Social Axis Agency, brand consulting, and one-on-one creator strategy sessions, Mia focuses on long-term career building—not chasing short-term virality. Her approach combines creator positioning, content ecosystem development, and monetization strategy to help creators become known for something specific.
Helps creators land deals with top brands like Claude, Wikipedia, and Sony by teaching them how to position themselves so brands come to them
Manages creators who've built viral content and secure consistent brand partnerships not by chasing trends, but by becoming known for something specific
Writes a Substack breaking down exactly how the creator economy works so you can build a career that lasts, not just go viral once
Submit your questions for Mia Creator positioning and authority building, personal brand development, social growth strategy, influencer monetization, long-term brand deal strategy, and how to make brands want to hire you.
Ebony Jepson is a Vancouver-based content creator and entrepreneur who has built an engaged audience of over 180K followers across social media by sharing authentic, relatable moments from everyday life. Through years of working with brands and producing digital content, she has developed a strong ability to capture meaningful moments through social-first storytelling.
Her experience as a creator led her to launch Amour Content, a wedding content creation business focused on capturing candid, behind-the-scenes moments from couples’ wedding days designed specifically for social media and real-time sharing.
She later expanded her work with Social Capture Co., where she produces behind-the-scenes and event content for brands, campaigns, and local businesses. By combining her experience as a creator with her work behind the camera, Ebony now works across multiple sides of the content industry—from influencing and brand partnerships to creating social-first content for events and campaigns.
● Built a 180K+ audience across social media platforms, worked with brandlike Apple, Poshmark, H&M, Tinder
● Founded Amour Content, a wedding content creation business capturing candid wedding moments for couples to relive the very next day featurd in magazines like rockymoutain bride
● Founder of Social Capture Co., producing behind-the-scenes content for events and campaign shoots for brands like Huha
Amour Content: @amourcontent
Social Capture Co.: @socialcaptureco
Brendon Jorssen is one of the most uniquely positioned voices in the creator economy today. As the founder of Daily Ecom, a certified Shopify Partner agency, Brendon has accumulated a depth of experience that most in this industry spend years trying to piece together. He has operated as a working creator with brand partnerships across AG1, MUD/WTR, Minea,
Zendrop, Debutify, and Omnisend. He has operated as a brand owner who has personally hired, briefed, and evaluated over 300 UGC creators. And he has operated as an agency, coordinating creator strategy across multiple brands simultaneously. That breadth of experience gives Brendon something rare: a genuine, ground-level understanding of what brands are actually thinking when they decide who to hire, what to pay, and who earns a long-term partnership. Not in theory. From having made those decisions himself. The result is a perspective that tends to shift the way people think about the creator economy entirely.
● Brand partnerships with AG1, MUD/WTR, Minea, Zendrop, Debutify, and Omnisend
● Has personally hired and briefed hundreds of UGC creators as a brand owner
● Deep firsthand insight into how brands evaluate, select, and retain creators
● Founder of Daily Ecom, a certified Shopify Partner agency
Submit your questions for Brendon about what brands are actually looking for in UGC creators, how to create content that converts as a paid ad so brands keep coming back and pay you more, how to land and keep long-term partnerships, how to get paid more than creators with bigger followings, and what separates creators brands return to from those they don't.
Your ticket comes with real perks
Stop chasing brands. Learn how to set up your profiles so decision-makers find YOU instead.
Get insider intel from someone who's hired 300+ creators. No more guessing what they want.
Learn the strategy behind building a 300K audience and making $10K+/month.
See how one creator built 188K followers AND two profitable businesses from content.
Stop posting randomly. Learn what content gets you booked and re-booked by brands.
Meet 15+ brands and agencies actively looking to hire creators. Walk out with actual leads.
Understand the backend systems brands use so you know how to fit into their hiring process.
Leave with portfolio-ready photos and sponsor products worth $150+.
Meet full-time creators, talent managers, and brand owners who've figured out this industry.
Creators, operators, and brand reps in one room
A pro upgrade to your portfolio + socials
Real value in your ticket
We partner with brands you’ll genuinely want to work with and products you’ll actually use. Every attendee receives one at check-in.
Expect creator-friendly lighting zones, photo moments, and space to network comfortably.
Event Location
Downtown Vancouver Venue
Easy to access, close to transit, and built for a high-energy creator day.
📍 475 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2T8
🕒 Doors open:5:00 PM
🎫 Check-in: Ticket linked to your email
🚇 Nearby transit + parking options
Event Agenda
5:00 PM
Doors Open + Check-in
Arrival, creator check-in, goodie bags, brand booths, and headshots open.
5:30 PM
Welcome
Opening remarks and quick overview of the evening.
5:40 PM
Creator Sessions
Short talks and mini panels from creators.
7:15 PM
Content + Networking
Capture content, take headshots, and connect with creators and brands.
8:00 PM
Event Wrap Up
Main event concludes.
8:00–11:00 PM
VIP Dinner
Private three-course dinner for speakers and VIP guests at WestOak.
Grab your tickets!
Ready to level up your UGC career?
Do I need content experience?
No - all levels of UGC creators are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Are tickets refundable?
Transferable only.
What should I bring?
Nothing specific is required — just bring yourself. We recommend coming ready to introduce who you are, what type of content you create, and what your UGC goals are so you can make the most of the networking opportunities.
Is there a recommended dress code?
We encourage attendees to focus on comfort since it’s a full day of networking and learning! Feel free to dress casually. The only recommendation is to bring an outfit you might want to wear for a professional headshot, as we will have photographers on site offering free headshots throughout the day.
How long is the event? What's the schedule?
The event is from 5pm-8pm a 3 hour event to get your headshots and to listen to the speakers leave with new connections and knowledge.
Where is the event located?
The event will be held at J-Lounge, located at 475 Granville St, Vancouver, BC V6C 2T8, right in the heart of downtown Vancouver. It’s easily accessible by transit and surrounded by some of the city’s best restaurants, cafés, and networking spots, making it the perfect central location for connection and community.