Tuesday
July 16
11:00 am–12:00 pm
Expert-Led Think Tanks
Join our handpicked group of subject matter experts to discuss future-forward ideas. With four separate opportunities to engage, NRF’s Expert-Led Think Tanks allow attendees to dive deep into a single topic or explore three different topics for a broader perspective. Join your peers and be inspired during these insightful share-and-learn “group thinks” held on Terranea’s gorgeous lawn. Topics include:
- Customer engagement and marketing using AI/ML
- Content creation + product creation using AI/ML
- Code + app dev; democratizing low-code/no code using AI/ML
- Consumer trends 2025 and beyond
- Customer data platforms and CRM capabilities
- Applications for retail media networks
- Social commerce as digital storefront
- Marketplace platforms: Strategies and opportunities
- Mobile and ecommerce technologies
- Optimizing your zero/first-party data strategy
- Privacy impacts: Retail tech and marketing
- Robotics and automation technology
- Unified commerce/seamless commerce optimization: Enabling unified commerce experiences and data
- Composable tech stack field guide
- Predictive analytics in pricing strategy
- Customer journey mapping: Measuring performance of key segments
- Understanding the rapidly evolving AI regulatory landscape
- Navigating new AR/VR capabilities
- Holiday marketing: Campaigns and new strategies
- Brand storytelling: How to craft compelling brand narratives
- Brand storytelling: Protecting brand reputation in age of deep fakes
- Hybrid and remote team management for tech
Ananda "Andy" Chakravarty
VP Research, IDC Retail Insights
IDC
Alex Genov
Head of Marketing Insights and Customer Research
Zappos
Martin Gilliard
CEO
Arteli Inc.
Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg
Chief Commerce Strategy Officer
Publicis Groupe
Poonam Goyal
Sr Ecommerce & Retail Analyst
Bloomberg Intelligence
James Hammersley
CEO
Good Growth Ltd.
Amit Kumar
CEO
Dragonfruit AI