Brett Thoreson, CEO & Co-Founder, CartStack
Sahal Laher, SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer, Destination XL Group, Inc. [NASDAQ: DXLG]
Retailers have to integrate data across the retail enterprise to have a 360 degree view of the customer, but it’s not an easy thing to do.
Anthony Jones, Head of eCommerce, Mid-Market Sales UKI, Google
What a fascinating space to be in right now. We’ve spent years waiting for technology to come and disrupt and, well, it looks like we’re more or less here.
Vinod Subramanyam, AVP & Head - Digital Experiences at Brillio
AR/VR technology offers a doorway into a new way of shopping. The Solomomo Smart Mirror allows users to try on makeup via an augmented reality layered mirror.
Grant McCormick, CIO, Imperva, Inc
Manual detection is slow, resource-intensive, and human-powered. It is subjective and prone to human error. It bogs down at scale.
Matthew Klyman, Chief Information Officer, Marshall Retail Group
We don't want retail to be a cold and sterile environment and we love the fact that we have a four wall environment that we get to talk to our customers.
Benoit Montreuil, Professor in ISYE School, Coca- Cola Chair in Material Handling and Distribution
Simulation assists organizations in assessing the state, performance, anomalies, opportunities and risks of current and proposed supply chains and logistic systems.
Alan Royal, Head of Technology Innovation and Business Transformation, Strategy CIO
IT project failure rates today still are in excess of 40 percent.
Michelle Peluso, CMO, IBM Corporation And Laurence Haziot, Global Managing Director, Consumer Industries, IBM Corporation [NYSE:IBM]
Retailers must evolve from emphasizing transactions to focusing on building intimate, unique customer relationships.
Matan Holander, VP Business Development
Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce has evolved at multiple levels. Evidently, understanding the unique purchasing preferences of the modern day buyers have become increasingly critical to the long-term growth of B2B merchants.
Britt Dayton, Director, Deloitte
The rise in omni-channel retailing is the industry’s response to consumer expectations for a consistent experience across physical stores and digital shopping platforms.
Guy R. Berg, Vice President Payments, Standards and Outreach Group at Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Banks, corporations and their supporting payment processors are at a crossroad for enabling the mass connectivity necessary to support Business to Business (B2B) electronic payments, invoicing and remittance information exchange.
Nick Burton, Vice President Digital Development, Avon
Companies are standing on the precipice of technological revolutions every. Single. Day. Coupled with an increasing need to understand workforces and customers, balancing human connection with convenience is a real corporate conundrum.
Lockie Andrews, CIO/CDO, UNTUCKit
The retail industry has been slow to unite physical and digital (“phygital”) channels. COVID-19 accelerated digital and eCommerce adoption by at least ten years, causing supply chain, delivery, and operational issues at most retailers.
Ferhat Hatay, Senior Manager of Strategy and Innovation, Fujitsu And Victoria Livschitz, Founder & CTO, Grid Dynamics
Moving e-commerce operations to the cloud offers a host of business benefits for retailers.
Michael Jaconi, CEO & Co-Founder, Button
People continue to spend more time on mobile, requesting, purchasing, and booking the exact products they want, at the exact time they want them.
Rod Sides, Vice Chairman, US Retail, Wholesale and Distribution leader, Deloitte LLP
Global market forces combined with an increasing proliferation of retail channels, along with commoditization of products and pricing, have resulted in elevated expectations on the part of many consumers.