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Retail Trend Driven Principles- Streamlining Consumer-Retailer Relationships

Joseph Biffar, Director, Loss Prevention & Security, Chico's FAS

Point-of-Sale Adaptability Key to Winning in Rapidly Changing Retail

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

Digital Strategy around Technology and Customer Experience

Hui Wu-Curtis, Sr. Director, Customer Care Strategy-Global, Choice Hotels International

Digital Strategy around Technology and Customer Experience

In today’s environment, the contact center is viewed as one of many channels for customers to reach organizations.

How Becoming Truly Omni- Channel Supports the Customer

Joe Megibow, CEO, Purple

How Becoming Truly Omni- Channel Supports the Customer

Cloud is similar to a data center. However, not many understand what it actually consists of.

Redesigning Supply Chain and Logistics with Simulation

Benoit Montreuil, Professor in ISYE School, Coca- Cola Chair in Material Handling and Distribution

Simulation assists organizations in assessing the state, performance, anomalies, opportunities and risks of current and proposed supply chains and logistic systems.

Breaking Down the Key Programmatic Advertising Challenges Faced by Brands

Stanley Lim, Head of Google Marketing Platforms Malaysia, Google

Breaking Down the Key Programmatic Advertising Challenges Faced by Brands

The impetus for advance in programmatic maturity is perhaps as exciting as it is necessary because of an increasingly privacy-first and cookie less world.

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

Shekhar Chhajer, CIO, Southeast Asia, India and CoC Sales Overseas, Mercedes Benz

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality

Real estate is another industry which can immensely benefit as investments made by home buyers are huge.

Lessons from the Grocery Industry and the State of Retail Today

Richard Heyman, Principal, Retail Digital Strategy and Former CIO, Gordmans Stores

Lessons from the Grocery Industry and the State of Retail Today

In the late 1980s, I was leading the technology efforts at a regional grocery chain when the alarms sounded.

Comparison between MEAN and RNG Stack

Advait Kulkarni, Former IT Director, Cetera Financial Group & CTO, Digistic LLC

Comparison between MEAN and RNG Stack

In recent days, there has been a lot of discussion around comparison of MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node) and RNG (ReactJS, NextJS and GraphQL) stacks.

Retail and the Consumer

Steve Rempel, CIO, Rite Aid

Retail and the Consumer

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.

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.

Five Signs It's Time to Rethink Your Social Strategy

Andrew Wilson, CIO, Accenture

Five Signs It's Time to Rethink Your Social Strategy

Only a few decades ago, it would have been inconceivable for employees to collaborate in real time across continents.

Driving Consumer Experience through Intuitive Technology

Charlie Cole, Chief Digital Officer, VP, TUMI

It’s easy to overcomplicate. Ultimately retail is divided by two lowest common denominators of data–at the product level and at the customer level.

Apparel Development and Technology: Making the Digital Connection

David Grant, Vice President, PLM, Design and Supply Chain Systems, Fast Retailing [TYO: 9983]

Apparel Development and Technology: Making the Digital Connection

It’s no secret that the apparel manufacturing industry has a history of slow adoption rate of new technology.

The Benefits of Tinkering over Reinvention

Andy Mulcahy, Strategy and Insight Director, IMRG

The Benefits of Tinkering over Reinvention

We have all had occasions where we’ve felt that a lack of cutting-edge technology is holding us back. ‘If only this system could talk to this one’; ‘if we put an AI solution in there, it would improve our efficiency exponentially’ etc.

The 360-Degree View Must Be Definitive

Lauren Freedman, SVP Digital Strategy/Chief Merchant, Astound Commerce

The 360-Degree View Must Be Definitive

The competitive landscape is challenging and knowing one’s customer may be more important than ever before.

The Post- Office Generation

Ryan Byrd, CIO & VP Engineering, Entrata

The Post- Office Generation

Google Apps is the new office software leader, particularly for younger, faster-moving, web-centric companies.

Retail's Opportunity is Not in Technology It's in Removing Friction for Customers

Maureen McDonagh, Head of Industry, Retail, Facebook

Retail's Opportunity is Not in Technology It's in Removing Friction for Customers

A study by Ipsos identified that 42 percent of UK online shoppers expect their brands to provide an option to chat with a live agent or representative if they have any questions or follow-ups