The Death of Shopping as Usual
Laura Heller
Director of External Communications
Performics
Michael Suswal
Founder & COO
Standard Cognition
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Shopping as a Virtual Adventure
Shopping using AR and VR lets you try before you buy in so many ways, both at home and in public spaces.
Moderator:
Tom Emrich
Partner
Super Ventures
Speakers:
Jenna Blaha
Technology Editor and Strategic Projects
ELLE
Joanna Popper
Global Head of VR for Location Based Entertainment
HP
Alan Smithson
CEO
MetaVRse
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My Personal Shopper
One size does not fit all, in taste, size or style. See how technology offers you the ability to personalize your purchases to the nth degree.
Speakers:
Heidi Forbes Öste
CEO
2BalanceU
Andrey Golub
CEO & Founder
ELSE Corp
Sebastien Guillon
President Global Beauty
J&J Consumer
Larry Schwartz
CEO
Aetrex Worldwide
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Robots in Aisle 5
Robots are the shoppers new BFF, whether they’re navigating the store, engaging customers, or serving up some chow.
Moderator:
Manolo Almagro
Managing Partner
Q Division
Speakers:
Brad Bogolea
Co-founder & CEO
Simbe Robotics
Steve Carlin
Chief Strategy Officer
SoftBank Robotics America
Randall Wilkinson
CEO
Wilkinson Baking Company
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Beauty and the Tech
One of the fastest growing categories in high tech retail is beauty, makeup, and skincare. Technology makes the search for the ultimate beauty product, personal, hygienic, prescriptive and yes, even magical.
Moderator:
Adam Gam
Vice President of Marketing
Perfect Corporation
Speakers:
Prama Bhatt
Senior Vice President, Digital & eCommerce
Ulta Beauty
Alice H. Chang
Founder and CEO
Perfect Corporation
Jessica Pels
Editor-in-Chief
Cosmopolitan
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Modeling Shopping Experiences Before They Happen
Drywall and nails are so yesterday. VR let’s you build a store and test it out before you ever lift a finger.
Moderator:
Robin Raskin
Founder
Living In Digital Times
Speakers:
Tony Bevilacqua
Founder & CEO
Cognitive3D
Jason Welsh
Managing Director Accenture Extended Reality (XR)
Accenture
Tracey Wiedmeyer
Chief Technology Officer
InContext Solutions
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Play with Your Clothes
It’s a shirt. It’s a game. It’s a loyalty program. Awear Solutions’s brilliant retail adventure.
Moderator:
Gwen Morrison
CEO, The Americas
The Store - WPP
Speakers:
Aliza Licht
Strategic Advisor
Awear Solutions & Author of LEAVE YOUR MARK
Liron Slonimsky
CEO and Co-Founder
Awear Solutions
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Fireside Chat – The 5 Great Technologies Transforming Retail
The Internet was built as an information platform but it’s commerce that drives it. Joe Jensen explains how tech makes for a better shopping experience.
Speakers:
Laura Heller
Director of External Communications
Performics
Joe Jensen
VP and General Manager Retail Solutions Division
Intel
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Enhancing Engagement
Understanding behavior, rewarding loyalty and keeping customers top of mind is an art form that’s being sharpened by technology. Here’s the lowdown on how customers are spending their retail dollars and how you can take advantage.
Moderator:
Kelly Stickel
Founder & CEO
Remodista
Speakers:
Dani Cushion
CMO
Cardlytics
Ernest Naylor
President
Karrot
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The Experiences They Want, The Data You Need
While consumers are having magical shopping interactions with AR, VR, voice, IoT devices and the like, savvy retailers are studying their every move, click, and voice requests, iterating better shopping experiences. Turning experiential shopping into actionable data is the ticket.
Moderator:
Brendan Witcher
VP, Principal Analyst
Forrester Research
Speakers:
Fang Cheng
CEO and Co-Founder
Linc Global
Michael Childers
Chief Consultant, Content & Media Strategy
Lufthansa Systems
Martin Gilliard
Head of Industry, Retail Superstores & Groceries
Facebook
Scott Shamberg
CEO
Performics
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Understanding the Asian Retail Market
Companies like JD.com, Tencent, Alibaba and Sunning have evolved their retail markets very differently than in the U.S.. Deborah Weinswig has made a study of the trends. She’ll share her findings and invite some of the most innovative to join her on stage in a conversation about how China’s retail initiatives are state of the art.
Introduction:
Deborah Weinswig
CEO & Founder
Coresight Research
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Deborah Weinswig in a Chat with Cecelia Tian
Moderator:
Deborah Weinswig
CEO & Founder
Coresight Research
Speakers:
Cecilia Tian
Vice General Manager, Smart Retail Strategic Partnership Department
Tencent
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Deborah Weinswig in a Chat with Chen Zhang
Moderator:
Deborah Weinswig
CEO & Founder
Coresight Research
Speakers:
Chen Zhang
Chief Technology Officer
JD.com
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Can Big Companies and Startups Get Along?
You betcha. We invite Target and METRO executives to discuss how their efforts to embrace startups and accelerators grow healthier, more responsive retail.
Moderator:
Dan Tynan
Journalist
Improbable Ventures
Speakers:
Gene Han
VP, Innovation
Target
Andreas Wuerfel
Director Innovation Community
METRO Accelerator powered by Techstars
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From Clicks to Bricks
Online stores find themselves in an increasingly competitive and low margin rat race. Simultaneously, shoppers are flocking to stores to touch, feel and experience. Learn from the success of online stores who found their new homes in the brick and mortar and omnichannel worlds.
Moderator:
Joanne Healy
EVP and Chief Strategy Officer
JGA
Speakers:
Ken Barnett
Global CEO
The MARS Agency
Kevin Brown
SVP, Chief Marketing Officer
Sleep Number
Anuradha Sachdev
Group Design Director
Fjord
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Is Your Smart Home Ready to Shop?
In the new world of IoT, your connected appliances can keep track of and re-order while you sleep, eat, work or play.
Moderator:
Michelle Grant
Head of Retailing
Euromonitor International
Speakers:
Dr. Charis Christopolous, PhD
Senior Vice President & CTO, EMEA
GlobalLogic
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What 5G Means to Retail
The introduction of 5G will create a host of new experiences for both online and physical shopping. From data and analytics to virtual reality to personalized digital signage, we’ll explore these new experiences.
Moderator:
Dan Tynan
Journalist
Improbable Ventures
Speakers:
Justin Blair
Executive Director, Business Products Global Products and Solutions
Verizon Wireless
Caitlin Clark-Zigmond
Director, B2B Product Marketing
Verizon Wireless
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Building the Retail Ecosystem
A store that inventories itself. A know-it-all shipping container. Programmable tags that track a product as it’s built. Drone delivery systems. Robots stacking shelves. Some of the thorniest problems in the retail ecosystem are getting a tech makeover.
Moderator:
Maureen Conners
CEO
Conners Consulting
Speakers:
Bimal Gandhi
CEO
Uniken
Derrick Khoo
Director, Product Marketing
Rubikloud Technologies Inc
Max Winograd
Director, Open Innovation & Venture Investments
Avery Dennison
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Solving for Consumer Technology
Solving for Consumer Technology
Technology is helping retailers, but what about retailers who sell consumer technology? Are they keeping pace with the change? We’ll look at three that on the cutting edge.
Moderator:
Gabrielle Kessler
VP Experiential
Future PLC
Speakers:
Jon Abt
Co-President
Abt Electronics
Tom DeVito
Senior Vice President, Retail Sales and Service
Comcast Cable
John Kennelly
General Manager, Partnerships
b8ta
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