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Terre Wellington, Senior Vice President of Store Operations, Lamp Plus
Kyu Cho, VP, Nisum
According to recent numbers from the U.S. Department of Commerce, e-commerce sales accounted for 10.6 percent of total retail sales by the end of 2015.
Amit Mangwani, Director of Retail Marketing, Intel Corporation
The increase in online sales generated by traditional companies is a key contributor to the growth of sales in e-commerce.
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.
Todd Simpson, CIO, FDA
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates foods, drugs, biologics, medical devices, cosmetics, dietary supplements, tobacco products, electronic products and more.
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.
Corey Tollefson, SVP & GM, Infor
In today’s competitive marketplace, retailers have faced enormous challenges adapting to sky-high customer expectations and the pressures of digital on brick-and-mortar stores.
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.
David Jensen, Director of Ecommerce Engineering, Photobox
Technology has grown from an ignored support function to a position of leadership, setting an example for the rest of the business.
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.
Tim Collins, President, Aimia's Intelligent Shopper Solutions
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning provide insights at a level of granularity and speed that we would not have dreamed of even five years ago.
Ed McLaughlin, CIO, Mastercard
The line between online and offline is progressively being obliterated–every device can now be intelligently connected.
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.
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.
Michelle Grant, Head of Retailing, Euromonitor International
The arrival of Big Data and the ability to process it have led to improvements in machine learning, creating new use cases for this technology.
Gareth Bridges, Director, Digital Business, Equinix Asia-Pacific
Today’s retailers need to embrace a modernized strategy supported by infrastructure designed for the digital edge.
Vlad Yakubson, Head of Retail, Retail Apparel Group
The key to all the analytics, AI and future technology is the “how” to apply them in a personal way to relate best to the consumer.
