From Community to the Mic 🎤

Spotlight: Meet our Speakers at Ignite 2026

Before there was a stage, there was a thread in the community. And every great answer in this forum started somewhere. A hard lesson learned the hard way. A workflow rebuilt from scratch after the first one failed. A willingness to say here's what worked for us when someone else was stuck.

Long before anyone handed them a microphone, these five were already showing up for the community, answering questions, sharing what worked, and helping other operators.

This year, their expertise shows up on the Ignite stage:

• Emily Nickel & Keenan Baird team up for Implementing Across Your Teams - SOPs, Training, and Adoption at Scale, tackling how to build Aspire SOPs that hold up in the field and in the office, and how to roll out training across multiple branches without losing consistency.

• Yi Wei breaks down From Reporting to Results - Turning Data Into Decisions, showing how to turn messy data into a weekly review process that actually drives accountability.

• David Gallagher takes on Standardize to Scale - Aligning Systems for Profitable Growth, on why aligning your Aspire setup with your revenue and cost structure is what makes accurate budgeting possible.

• Brent Lemieux brings Retain Clients and Sell More Work with Your Existing Data, using the data already sitting in Aspire to spot churn early and surface upsell opportunities without adding headcount.

Same people you've been learning alongside all year. Now they're leading the room.