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Driving Innovation and Leveraging Stores as a Competitive Advantage

Edward Park, SVP, Head of Retail, Digital, Allocations, Wholesale Operations (North America), GUESS? Inc.

How Cloud Technologies Help Retailers Stay Ahead of the Competition

Ian Pattison, Head of Retail Architecture, Google Cloud UK

More than Just a Cash Register: Disruptive Technology for Retailers

Jason Richelson, Founder and CSO, ShopKeep

More than Just a Cash Register: Disruptive Technology for Retailers

Over the next few years, Main Street is poised to witness a dramatic increase in the health of small businesses across the retail sector.

Beyond the Sales Cycle: Building a Customer-Centric Enterprise with CRM

Michelle Rydman, Senior Product Manager, Infor

Beyond the Sales Cycle: Building a Customer-Centric Enterprise with CRM

Somewhere along the way, CRM lost its focus. The systems originally named after the customer relationship gradually morphed into management reporting tools.

Texting Your Way to Online - Retail Store Connections

Angela Hsu, SVP of Marketing and eCommerce, Lamps Plus

With the growing success of text chat on LampsPlus.com, we recently began to look for ways to build better connections between our online customers and our brick and mortar lighting

Bringing the Power of Lithium-Ion for IoT and Edge Computing Applications through APC Smart-UPS

Pankaj Sharma, Senior Vice President, Home & Business Networks, Schneider Electric

Bringing the Power of Lithium-Ion for IoT and Edge Computing Applications through APC Smart-UPS

With a wide array of products that provide reliable power and availability solutions for IT and communications technologies, APC delivers certainty in a connected world.

The Changing Nature of Retail Ecosystem

Jason Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content Practice, SapientRazorfis

The Changing Nature of Retail Ecosystem

I came to retail at a time when the retail landscape was dramatically changing. At the time, computer city superstore was the first big box concept for technology.

Enabling Technology Driven Business Transformation

Paul Scorza, CIO, Ahold USA, Inc.

Enabling Technology Driven Business Transformation

Over the past couple of years, there has been a shift in the role of the CIO at Ahold USA. Until recently, the role of the CIO, and IT in general, had been viewed as a support function.

Harnessing the Power of Big Data: A Crucial Competitive Advantage for Brick-and-Mortar Retail

Alex Bordei, Director of Product and Development, Bigstep

Harnessing the Power of Big Data: A Crucial Competitive Advantage for Brick-and-Mortar Retail

More data speeds up the business decision by analyzing a multitude of key performance indicators and partly solves one of the core issues of offline retailers.

Autonomy with Constraints Empowers Teams to Deliver Results

David Jensen, Director of Ecommerce Engineering, Photobox

Autonomy with Constraints Empowers Teams to Deliver Results

Technology has grown from an ignored support function to a position of leadership, setting an example for the rest of the business.

Mobisoft: Streamlining B2B E-Commerce at Fingertips

Matan Holander, VP Business Development

Mobisoft: Streamlining B2B E-Commerce at Fingertips

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.

How to Stay Connected With Customers After the First Purchase

Curt Hilliard, CMO, DirectBuy

How to Stay Connected With Customers After the First Purchase

Effective digital marketing does not end when a customer purchases a product. In fact, for power brands and industry innovators, that’s when the real work begins.

Marketing Disruption: Role of the CIO

Shirish Lal, COO & CTO, Harte Hanks [NYSE:HHS]

The last five years has seen a dramatic change in CMO’s engagement in technology decisions. From Gartner declaring the CMO will make more IT purchasing decisions.

Why Gamification for Retail is a Powerful Tool for Connecting with Millennials

Anand Shaw, Cofounder, Inventrik Pte Ltd

Why Gamification for Retail is a Powerful Tool for Connecting with Millennials

In the age of smart-phones, social media and connected devices; keeping millennials engaged has become more difficult than ever before, especially for retailers.

Augmenting POS with New, Innovative Digital Technologies

Steve Methvin, VP of Ecommerce and Retail Technology, Bozzuto’s

Augmenting POS with New, Innovative Digital Technologies

Today, customers have the choice to either visit brick-and-mortar stores to purchase products or can shop online, or use a combination of both to buy a product of their choice.

State of Marketing in Existing Times: An Insight

Katie Newman, CMO, Leo Burnett

State of Marketing in Existing Times: An Insight

Marketing is all about giving people a compelling reason to care about your brand.

Growing Pains for Amazon

James Keller, Executive Partner, Bulger Partners

Growing Pains for Amazon

It is shaping up to be another great year for Amazon and one that represents some big milestones for the company.

The Digital Makeover of Retail

Jennifer Sherman, SVP, Product and Strategy, Kibo

The Digital Makeover of Retail

Today’s retail software has become very good at providing detailed online order history that can provide merchandising suggestions for the customer’s next visit.