Shoptalk

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I was lucky enough to attend my first Shoptalk this week in sunny Barcelona. It certainly lived up to the hype and I’ve come away with a lot of inspiration - hearing from our retailer customers, fellow industry peers and some truly innovative solution providers! My key takeouts: - The opportunity in Retail Media goes far beyond social offsite (check out Scala‘s awesome aisle theatre). - The recent innovation in retailer search and generative AI is exciting, but brands needs to think about future-proofing product data to help our retailers deliver a quality front end customer experience. - Putting ‘humans’ at the forefront of AI can lead to some powerful innovation (check out Guac’s AI demand forecasting tool)

What an incredible trip to Barcelona for Shoptalk Europe 💃 The Shoptalk team certainly knows how to throw an event! Here's my highlights: 🤝 Once again Shoptalk nailed the networking - matchmaking UNiDAYS with world-leading brands for thought provoking conversations ⏰ Super smooth run time - with allocated time slots & tables to maximise networking opportunities 🎪 Stunning stands with engaging interactions. New headshot? Check. All the swag? Double-check! ⚡️ The energy! Shoptalk crowds hit different! 🌆 Exploring one of Europe's most beautiful cities. Those rooftop views made it tough to leave! 🕺The after party was unforgettable with Sister Sledge getting everyone moving An amazing conference and brilliant to meet so many fantastic people 🙌 Thank you Aoife Royston for being the best travel companion - can't wait to do it all again next year ❤️ #Shoptalk #ShoptalkEurope #networking #GenZ #Students #AffiliateMarketing #BrandPartnerships

Back from Shoptalk Europe in Barcelona I am still glad that I attended. Why? One the best organized events that I experienced with a clear business focus. Yes, there has been a party as well, but that has been on the evening - personal note: Listening to the top act Sister Sledge has been a time journey for me. Anyway, there has been one important key takeaway for me: AI and GenAI is still the talk of the day, and yes there are voices with slogans like "It will change everything completely", but overall the discussion has become more mature: GenAI use cases and applications have to proof that they are profitable, either on the bottom or the top line. And while on the Customer Experience side there are already profitable use cases, those in stores and especially in the supply chain domain remain to be developed. Yes, GenAI will change a lot of things in retail, but not overnight, and there is a lot of work to be done.

Will we return to Shoptalk Europe next year as well? The short answer - absolutely YES 🙌🏼 The long answer: There seems to be a winning formula here: the city and the venue, the date (beginning of June, before Q2 ends), the number of participants, the production, overall CX, even the food... BUT mainly the speed dating meet-ups are what made this event a big deal in the industry. True, the process of choosing the meetings in the months before the event can be exhausting and stressful😅, but in the end it pays off 💯 This year, we got to meet decision makers from brands such as MANGO Boots UK Wolt Landmark Group Just Eat Takeaway.com Geox Pandora Digitec Galaxus AG Fnac Mashbir - משביר and more, in addition to spontaneous meetings that were not coordinated by the production. How do we measure the ROI? We met 3 existing customers that we first encountered at ShopTalk last year (2023), one of them is a well known global fashion brand with HQ in Spain. ❤️ The event is also an excellent platform for maintaining and strengthening relationships with customers or soon the be ones, not just finding new opportunities. As a Managing Sales Director, my focus is to meet as many new and existing customers, current prospects or create win-win collaborations with partners across Europe. Naturally, not much time left to deep dive into the agenda on stage, but from the little I got to hear - the lectures and panels were fascinating! (Kudos Jules Ridley 👏🏼). In conclusion, these are 3 very intensive days that require a lot of energy with a fully charged social battery, but are definitely worth it. Many thanks to all the people I met and especially to the awesome Storyly team and management Gokmen Kavlak K. Soner Sensoy Emre Fadillioglu who supported this event physically and from the office👩🏻💻. Did I trigger your FOMO? 😉 Let’s chat: https://shorturl.at/4huRR See you next year! 🛍️🗣️ #ShopTalkEurope #StorylyOnTheRoad #eCommerce #ShoppableContent #Storyly

Where have I been? 1. Mind control pints 🍻 2. Off the chart swag 🛍 3. Unbeatable quality attendees 🚀 4. 12 x pre-qualified 1-to-1s 📈 5. Surrounded by retail & ecom legends in any queue or bar ⭐ 6. Parties and fringe meetups everywhere you look 🎉 7. Beautiful Barcelona 🇪🇸 8. Basically rented a village for an epic party with Sister Sledge 🕺🏼💃🏼 9. Incredible comms and execution by the organisers 🎤 10. 6 great partnership opportunities to follow up on Shoptalk EU by Hyve Group is where! All of the above in combination has made this one of the best business investments I've made to date. Will certainly be attending EU again and most likely also the US show. My single biggest takeaway from the combo of conversations, talks and tech at the show: Winning in ecom and retail is about building a culture on the pillars of relationship and joined up data. #ecommerce #retail #shoptalk

🌟 It's time to wrap up on an incredible ShopTalk 2024 shared with Adrien Germain-Thomas & Nicolas Forcade from Nfinite! 🌟 ✨ Amazing Organization: Over 4,000 industry players, 175+ speakers, and 25,000+ meetings in just 3 days. Bravo, Karina Goldberg-Jivotovsky, MBA and the all Shoptalk team, you all have done an amazing job! 🎉 💡 Inspiring Keynotes: We heard top-notch insights and experiences. Here are a few highlights that inspired me: - Lars-Johan Jarnheimer Chairman of Ingka Group Holding B.V. (IKEA) "Embracing the Speed of Change: Leadership and Customer-Centric Strategies." Fantastic insights on driving customer-centric strategies with digital capabilities and managing top-level relationships. 🚀 - Daniel Krantz from Otto Group: Case studies on leveraging GenAI for Emotionalization, Individual Applications, and Structural Applications. 🤖 - Henny Steiniger from MediaMarktSaturn: Using a GenAI framework focused on scalability, standardization, and sustainability. 🌍 🤝 Great Connections: So many insightful discussions and experiences sharing! A big thank you to Alex (A3) Baker, Jeremia Elias, Ashlesh W., Tuf Gavaz, Desislava Grigorova, Zynnia Swanepoel, Miha Deu, Elisa Furlanetto, Sean Newmarch, Emma Pugsley for the enriching conversations and sharing your visions. 🙏 🎉 Partner Reunions: Delighted to see and reconnect with our partners. Kudos to greyhairworks! and Alex Meisl! 🤝 🕺 Incredible D.I.S.C.O. Night: An amazing evening with Sister Sledge at the stunning El Poble Espanyol. What a night! 🌟 These three days have been unforgettable, enhancing the #digital acceleration of the global #retail industry and we are already looking forward to ShopTalk Europe 2025. See you next year! 👋 Thanks to Quentin Verriere, Enora Pendezec, Sofien Boufersen, Alexandre de Vigan, Augustin de Narp, Antoine Lejeune, Mark Elfenbein for the preparation, follow up, support +++ #OneTeam

What an amazing experience at Shoptalk in Barcelona 🇪🇸! The last 3 days at Shoptalk have been a blast. Together with my colleagues from Remazing, Giuseppe Peschechera and Filip Egert, I had insightful discussions about retail and e-commerce with many exciting brands and individuals, with a glance at the past, and one obviously towards the future of the industry. A personal highlight for me was meeting up with clients and partners. Meeting face-to-face is always a pleasure and allows us to have open discussions on topics that can be challenging to address in the day-to-day routine. A big “Thank You” goes to everyone who made this event so memorable, from the organizers to the staff, we really felt at home thanks to your smiles and kindness. See you next year Shoptalk, and see you all soon! #shoptalk #retail #ecommerce #remazing

Had an absolute blast speaking at Shoptalk, the most important retail conference in the world, where I shared my perspective on how AI Agents are transforming the customer journey. Today, you interact with only 1 out of every 1000 visitors to your site. In two years, every ecommerce will have an AI agent serving as a personal concierge for every single customer. Engaging with 1000 out of 1000 visitors. Because talking to your customers boosts your conversion rate, AOV, and LTV. No-brainer.

As Shoptalk Europe comes to an end, I want to start off by thanking the organizing team for putting together such a wonderful event. I also want to thank all the speakers for giving us their insights on the retail and retail-tech landscape as well as what the future could look like in this industry. It was a real pleasure to meet Derrick Pereira, Nicholas Nathanson, Matthew Gyeni, Tidiane Thiam, Jukka Tastula, Shaun Perkinson, Ashish Sood, Shailesh Jain, Naveen Gunti, Andrea Cappi, Fabrizio Viacava, Sergio Azzolari, Paco Valiente, Shane Donnelly, Jackson Fernandez, Nicholas McBride, Tani Kopliku, Martin Burton, and many others, along with everyone else that I met on Day 1. On behalf of Project Inika, I am extremely thankful for the learning opportunities we got as a retail technology company. Our efforts to provide a unified generative AI ecosystem of technologies, custom built for the fashion and apparel domain, continues to show in the partnerships we forge with retailers and brands in the industry. None of this would have been possible without the efforts of Tarun Karthic, Rithvik Kesani, Rishi Ganesh Ravichandran, Dnyaneshwar Ghule, Aakash Kothari, and the entire Project Inika team. A special mention to all of our investors, advisors, and supporters for their continued belief and support as well. I'm looking forward to attending Shoptalk Fall in Chicago this year - if you're going to be there and want to see what our technology can do or just connect to chat and catch up, drop me a note and let's connect!