Sanjay Sivam, Director, Inside Sales and Services Sales, Poly Asia Pacific
Ajit Sivadasan, VP/GM Global eCommerce, Lenovo
Riku Vassinen, Head of Digital Transformation, JWT Singapore
As marketing has become more data-driven and technology-driven, facial recognition is definitely an avenue that forward-looking brands should explore.
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.
Dave Fletcher, Founder and Executive Director, The Mechanism
I am a designer who decided to shift gears from traditional advertising and branding to the early days of websites in 1995.
Brandon Schulz, Director, Retail Vertical, Luxoft [NYSE:LXFT]
With the growing customer demands, players in the retail industry are leveraging advanced eCommerce platforms to enhance shopping experience.
Dr. Mark Chrystal, Chief Analytics Officer at rue21 & Co-Founder, MachineCore, Inc.
AI is going to grow up rapidly; Moore’s law may apply for a while, but its development will almost certainly outpace anything we have seen before.
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.
Nick Burton, Vice President Digital Development, Avon
Companies are standing on the precipice of technological revolutions every. Single. Day. Coupled with an increasing need to understand workforces and customers, balancing human connection with convenience is a real corporate conundrum.
Edward Park, SVP, Head of Retail, Digital, Allocations, Wholesale Operations (North America), GUESS? Inc.
The challenge facing retail today is transforming stores to connect that invaluable hub of experience.
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.
Matt Griffiths, CIO, Stanley Black & Decker Industrial
The average lifespan of industrial manufacturing machinery is around 20 years.
Vlad Yakubson, Head of Retail, yd.
There are not many days in the calendar year without some new ground-breaking technology entering and disturbing the retail marketplace. It certainly can not be easy for either the big brands or the few small business retailers left around
Steve Rempel, CIO, Rite Aid
Many will tell you that today’s consumer is more powerful than ever, thanks to the personal mobile computers we have in our pockets, our homes and even our cars.
Jett McCandless, CEO and Founder, project44
The retail industry is steadily shifting from brick and mortar to eCommerce, and customers ordering their goods online expect fast deliveries with updates every step of the way.
Thomas Phelps IV, CIO & VP-Corporate Strategy, Laserfiche
One key metric in realigning IT is the percentage of IT spend focused on “keeping the lights on” versus business innovation.
Chris Homer, Co-founder & CTO, thredUP
To stay ahead of their competitors in the longer run, companies should focus majorly on providing excellent customer experience and finding the right balance between a company’s business growth and monetary profit
Ryan Abood, CEO, Gourmet Gift Baskets
Reporting and analytics are a fundamental necessity of running a business today.