Bettina Thorkelin, Regional Director Nordic, Omni-channel, Valitor
April Butterfield, Senior Director of Technology, Jabil And Gary Cantrell, CIO & SVP Information Technology, Jabil
Matt Meier, VP & CIO, Whirlpool Corporation
The dawn of Cloud Computing, Big Data, Machine Learning, Mobile, IoT and myriad other over-used buzzwords have forever changed the opportunity.
Rosemary Smith, Director, Supply Chain Development, LEGO Group
The sudden, unexpected shift to eCommerce put retailer technology and solution development in the spotlight
Nick East, CEO, Zynstra
To deploy at scale, management and operational processes need to be automated to reduce cost and risk.
Klemen Drole, CIO, Lazada Group
Big data is the new oil, powering the e-commerce ecosystem.
Mark Digman, CMO, ROI Revolution
Of all the digital marketing avenues available to the modern retailer, paid search provides opportunity for scalable, ROI-driven campaigns like few others.
Alistair Venn, Managing Director, Menulog Group
Technology innovation is not only driving a better customer experience, but is making it easier for retailers to manage business operations.
Hui Wu-Curtis, Sr. Director, Customer Care Strategy-Global, Choice Hotels International
The role of contact centers are often diminished due to the volume of interaction it handles in comparison to websites.
Advait Kulkarni, IT Director, Cetera Financial Group
By 2020, it is estimated that the value of e-commerce sales will have topped $4 Trillion.
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.
James Keller, Executive Partner, Bulger Partners
It is shaping up to be another great year for Amazon and one that represents some big milestones for the company.
Michael Koch, Sr. Director, Samsung Electronics America
While the products and technology have advanced exponentially, the retail environments are very much the same stagnant displacement of products in place since the 1950s.
Reid Greenberg, SVP, Kantar Retail
The good news is, there are a lot of shiny things to ignore and focus on the leading trends that seem to be valid for commanding attention for the foreseeable future.
Melissa Greenwell, EVP & COO, The Finish Line, Inc
According to a National Science Foundation 2016 report, in 2013 women were fifty percent of the college-educated workforce.
Dr. Mark Chrystal, Chief Analytics Officer, rue21
We are in the midst of an industrial revolution that will impact the world economy and humankind every bit as much as the first industrial revolution did.
Ian Pattison, Head of Retail Architecture, Google Cloud UK
Cloud can help unite and analyse various datasets to help brands evaluate sourcing decisions quickly and easily, with meaningful real-time inputs.
David Thompson, EVP, Global Operations and Technology, CTO & CIO, Western Union
There are a few core trends that I see resonating across the industry; all have to do with providing ease and convenience for the customer and the capability to move money in minutes.