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Benoit Montreuil, Professor in ISYE School, Coca- Cola Chair in Material Handling and Distribution
Dan Adam, CIO, Extreme Networks [NasdaqGS-EXTR] And Todd Nicholson, VP-Vertical Market Business Units, Extreme Networks [NasdaqGS-EXTR]
Paul Scorza, Executive Vice President, IT and Chief Information Officer And Thomas Blackburn, Vice President, Solution Development for Retail Business Services, the services company of Ahold Delhaize USA
Shelagh Stoneham, SVP of Chico’s FAS, International branding/marketing executive and keynote speaker
Technology is neither the cause of retail’s downfall nor the silver bullet to save it.
Jackson Fernandez, Head of Ecommerce, PUMA Group [ETR: PUM]
The world around us is rapidly evolving. Fuelled by the ubiquity of digital devices and high speed internet, the technologies and modalities of doing business are getting obsolete by the
Colin Boyd, VP and CIO, Joy Global [NYSE-JOY]
If we look back over the past two or three decades, the growth in digital data has been driven by the spread of transactional IT systems.
Jonathan Low, Ex-Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, honestbee
E-commerce has been cited as the “most dynamic sector” of Southeast Asia’s online economy.
Vish Ganapathy, VP, Partner, IBM Industry Academy Member for Consumer Industries
Retailers are facing increased pressure from competitors abroad, traditional manufacturer brands going direct, and new business models from digitally native startups.
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.
Julia Ricci, VP, Information Technology - Retail Shared Services & Solutions, Total Wine & More
Simple integration, continuous learning, low cost and accuracy of face detection and analysis would potentially make face recognition a commodity service for retail software applications.
Rohan Penman, Global Head of Technology, T2 Tea
Often solutions are not customer facing, but should aim to provide a seamless experience to ultimately benefit both the efficiency of the business and ultimately the customer.
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.
Anna Cole, Director of E-Commerce Operations, User Experience and Merchandising, Carhartt
It was hard to believe that a machine could out-think a genius like Kasparov.
Alice Sesay Pope, Sr. VP, Head of Contact Center & Customer Experience Officer, First Horizon National Corporation [NYSE: FHN]
Business Wire estimates that the digital transformation market will grow from $148.04 billion in 2015 to $392.15 billion by 2021.
Perry Kramer, SVP & Practice Lead, Boston Retail Partners
Retailers that are thriving—and there are lots of them— anticipate and react to consumers’ demand for an enhanced and continuously changing retail experience.
Armin Roeseler, CIO, Swanson Health Products
Requirements regarding site performance, reliability, scalability, and flexibility, etc., provide new challenges for IT organizations.
Charlie Cole, Chief Digital Officer, VP, TUMI
It’s easy to over complicate. Ultimately retail is divided by two lowest common denominators of data–at the product level and at the customer level.
Gael DE Talhouet, Vice President Brand Building, Essity GMBH
Contrarily to most legacy IT solutions and platforms, AI is not a tech tool that runs in the background. It is not an enabler that business and customer-facing people can ignore.
Jim McCann, Founder and CEO, 1-800-Flowers.com
As a leading destination for floral and gourmet gifts, we have worked hard to build trust with our 30 million customers today.
