AWSummit Thailand

AWSummit Thailand is a business retreat for the people who run affiliate companies, held from 12 to 15 December 2026 at KC Grande Resort & Spa on White Sand Beach, Koh Chang. The organiser limits it to 150 seats and leaves out the usual conference furniture: there is no expo hall, no stage and no diary of back-to-back meetings.

The programme fills three days. Guests arrive on Saturday 12 December on the organiser's transfer from Trat Airport and meet at a welcome dinner by the sea. Sunday 13 December is the working day, with speed networking, a beach day and a closed-door mastermind. Monday 14 December splits the group between a Thai cooking class and a trip to an elephant camp, then ends with the closing dinner, a party and karaoke. Tuesday 15 December is for transfers back to Trat Airport.

Every activity, three group dinners with an open bar and the airport transfers are part of the ticket. The Elite ticket covers the event alone, and Elite + Hotel adds three nights at the resort.

The organiser describes the retreat as built for decision-makers: executives, founders, top management and top affiliates, the people who can agree a deal at the table.

The guest list is drawn from every side of the industry, with affiliates, advertisers and networks alongside monetisation platforms, traffic sources and service providers such as payment and hosting companies. The companies named on the organiser's sponsors and executives list so far are Vintorix, MojoHost, Paxum, Redads, PlatformPay, MacPaw, Outcraft and Dating Lions.

Sunday starts slowly, with breakfast until 10:30, then speed networking in the hotel's beach area from 12:00 to 14:00. The format is one minute face to face with every other guest: who they are, what they do, then rotate. By the end of the round everyone knows who is in the room, from networks looking for new offers to advertisers looking for traffic.

Mastermind on the Beach follows from 15:30 to 17:00. Affiliates, advertisers, networks and traffic sources sit down by the sea for closed-door conversations about what is working in their campaigns and what is not. There is no stage, there are no slides and nobody pitches.

Beach Day runs on Sunday afternoon from 14:00 to 17:00 on White Sand Beach, with a buffet lunch, cocktails, soft drinks and fresh coconuts. It is deliberately loose time, with no badges to scan and no next session to reach.

Each evening ends at a shared table. The Welcome Dinner on Saturday and the Sunset Dinner on Sunday are both at the resort's beach restaurant from 19:00 to 22:00, with Thai specialities and an open bar. The Closing Dinner on Monday turns into a party and is followed by Karaoke Night from 22:00 to midnight. The organiser has not yet named the location for those two.

Monday 14 December is the day away from the resort, run in two groups that swap between morning and afternoon. In the cooking class, guests prepare five Thai dishes with local chefs in groups of around 30 people and eat the result for lunch. Group 1 cooks from 10:00 to 13:00 and Group 2 from 14:00 to 17:00.

The other half of the day is a trip to Klong Son Elephant Camp, in the rainforest in the north-west of the island. The camp is supported by the Asian Elephant Foundation and keeps about six elephants, which guests feed, bathe and swim with. Group 2 goes from 11:00 to 12:30 and Group 1 from 15:00 to 16:30. The organiser asks guests to bring a swimsuit, flip-flops and a towel.

AWSummit also runs the Bucharest conference and the Ibiza Elite retreat, and the Thailand edition is its smallest format: a fixed guest list of executives, founders and top affiliates, three days in one resort, and a programme made of shared meals and activities instead of talks. For a team that already knows who it wants to meet, that is a shorter route to a deal than an expo floor.

The timing helps as well. It starts two days after Affiliate World Asia closes in Bangkok, so anyone already in Thailand for that show can add Koh Chang to the same trip.

Two tickets are on sale on awsummit.com, both priced in euros. Elite costs €750 in advance and €950 at the door. Elite + Hotel costs €1,395 in advance and €1,500 at the door, and adds a room for three nights in the resort's Sea View Grande Deluxe Building.

Three or more tickets bought together are 10% cheaper, and five or more are 15% cheaper. Every sale is non-refundable. Card payments go through Segpay, and American Express is not accepted.

Both tickets cover the whole programme:

• Round-trip transfer between Trat Airport and the resort
• Speed networking and the Mastermind on the Beach
• Three group dinners with an open bar
• Beach day with buffet lunch
• Thai cooking class
• Elephant camp trip
• Closing sunset party on the beach
• The buyer's logo on the AWSummit website

KC Grande Resort & Spa is a five-star beachfront resort on White Sand Beach (Haad Sai Khao), with a rooftop infinity pool, a spa and wellness centre, a 24-hour fitness centre and several restaurants and bars. Registration, speed networking, the beach day, the mastermind and the first two dinners all take place on site.

The nearest airport is Trat (TDX), about an hour from the resort. Two flights a day arrive there from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, and on Saturday 12 December the organiser's buses meet them between 09:00 and 17:30, with the ferry crossing included. Minivans leave from the front of the resort for the airport on Tuesday 15 December between 09:00 and 17:00. Guests send their flight times to the AWSummit team to be put on the transfer list.

Guests on the Elite ticket book their own room. The organiser sells resort rooms by the night:

• Deluxe Room Building, 45 sqm: €149 a night
• Sea View Grande Deluxe Building, 50 sqm with a private outdoor bathtub: €215 a night
• Garden View Deluxe Villa, 47 sqm: €230 a night
• Paradise Beach Front Villa, 60 sqm: €350 a night, sold out
• Check-in from 14:00, check-out by 12:00
• December on Koh Chang: 29 to 31°C
• Time zone GMT+7, local currency Thai baht