NRF Retail’s Big Show 2018 | National Retail Federation (NRF) | 14 January 2018 | Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 W. 34th St, New York, NY 10001, US

NRF 2018 is Retail’s Big Show. It’s retail’s most important three-day conference, which brings together the largest gathering of industry executives for discussions of the latest industry trends and gives attendees an unparalleled view into how retail brands of all sizes are transforming themselves for the digital age. The event offers unique networking opportunities and a glimpse of the latest technologies and solutions for retailers. For more than a century, NRF's annual convention and EXPO has been the annual gathering for industry luminaries and leaders, and it remains the place where big things happen in retail.

Hear from the leaders of retail, technology, finance and business who are shattering the status quo, driving innovation and achieving success.

NRF 2018 is where the entire retail community comes together. Connect with nearly 35,000 attendees and the industry leaders at the cutting-edge of innovation who have faced challenges like yours and can help you achieve your goals.

2018 Speakers:

Sarah Alter
President & CEO, Network for Executive Women

Kate Ancketill
CEO and Founder, GDR Creative Intelligence

Jennifer Bailey
Vice President, Internet Services, Apple Pay, Apple

Martin Barthel
Head of Global Retail & eCommerce Strategy, Facebook

Steven Bertoni
Senior Editor, Forbes Media

Oliver Bogner
CEO and Co-Founder, Brandable

Mary Campbell
Executive Vice President, Commerce Platforms, QVC Inc.

Silvia Campello
President and COO, Cosabella

James Curleigh
President, Levi's; The List of People Shaping Retail’s Future 2018

Flavio Dias
Chief Digital Officer, Via Varejo

Benno Dorer
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Clorox Company

Marvin Ellison
Chairman and CEO, J. C. Penney Company, Inc.

Lisa Feierstein
Digital Content Executive, TrendWatching

Spencer Fung
CEO, Li & Fung

Marcos Gouvêa de Souza
General Director, GS&MD Group

Scott Harrison
CEO & Founder, charity: water

Tommy Hilfiger
Founder & Principal Designer, Tommy Hilfiger

Arianna Huffington
Founder, The Huffington Post, Founder and CEO, Thrive Global

Martin Urrutia Islas
Head Retail Innovation, Retail Experiences, The Lego Group

Hubert Joly
Chairman & CEO, Best Buy Co., Inc.

Ira Kalish
Chief Global Economist, Deloitte

Kevin Keith
Chief Brand Officer, Orangetheory Fitness

Alfred Kelly
CEO, Visa

Richard Kelly
Chief Catalyst, Fung Group

Eric Kinariwala
Founder and CEO, Capsule Pharmacy

Don Kingsborough
President and Board Member, OneMarket, A Westfield Company

Linda Kirkpatrick
Executive Vice President, Market Development, U.S., Mastercard

Jack Kleinhenz
Chief Economist, National Retail Federation

Michael Lastoria
Co-founder & CEO, &pizza

Cricket Lee
Founder & CEO, Fitlogic

Gad Levanon
Chief Economist, North America, The Conference Board

Marne Levine
COO, Instagram

Dan Levitan
Co-Founder and General Partner, Maveron

Terry J. Lundgren
Executive Chairman, Macy's, Inc.

Shan-lyn Ma
CEO and Founder, Zola.com

Lee McCabe
VP, North America, Alibaba Group

Chris McCann
CEO, 1-800-FLOWERS.COM; The List of People Shaping Retail’s Future 2018

Ian McGarrigle
Chairman, World Retail Congress

Jim McIngvale
Owner, Gallery Furniture; The List of People Shaping Retail’s Future 2018

Doug McMillon
President and CEO, Walmart

Kris Miller
Chief Strategy Officer, eBay

Matteo Molon
Head of eCommerce & CRM, Calzedonia Group

Brian Nagel
Managing Director and Senior Analyst, Oppenheimer & Co, Equity Research

Ken Nisch
Chairman, JGA

David Oh
Chief Product Officer & Head of Growth, FabFitFun

Jacques Panis
President, Shinola

Michelle Peluso
Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, IBM

Lee Peterson
EVP, Brand, Strategy and Design, WD Partners

Tiffany Pham
Founder & CEO, Mogul

Phillip Raub
Founder and CMO, b8ta

Corinne Ruff
Editor, Retail Drive

Shannon Schuyler
Chief Purpose Officer, PwC

Alberto Serrentino
Founding Partner, Varese Retail

Tina Sharkey
CEO and Co-Founder, Brandless

Matthew Shay
President and CEO, National Retail Federation

Rachel Shechtman
Founder & CEO, STORY

Govind Shridhar Shrikhande
Customer Care Associate & Managing Director, Shoppers Stop Limited

Rod Sides
Retail, Wholesale and Distribution Leader, Deloitte LLP

Tiago Simões
Head of Marketing, Sonae

Todd Sprinkle
CIO, QVC Inc.

Marie-Helene Straus
Chief Officer Consumer & Innovation Strategies, Chalhoub Group

Christine Sturch
Midwest Design Coordinator, Whole Foods Market

Hamdi Ulukaya
Founder & CEO, Chobani

Massimo Volpe
General Manager, Retail Institute Italy

Manish Vora
Co-Founder, Museum of Ice Cream

Deborah Weinswig
Managing Director, Fung Global Retail and Technology

Henrik Werdelin
Co-Founder, BARK, Makers of BarkBox

Eric Yelsma
Founder, Detroit Denim Co.

Shelley Zalis
CEO, The Female Quotient and Founder, The Girls' Lounge

2018 Innovation Lab Speakers:

Pano Anthos
Founder and Managing Director, XRC Labs

Brandon Avery
Creative Managing Director, FRCH

Jean-Baptiste Branquart
VP, Retail, CGI

Jason Breazeale
Sr. Manager, Innovation, Ahold Delhaize

Jeremy Duimstra
Co-Founder and CEO, MJD

Ray Ehscheid, RDI
Dir., Client Services, Retail and Financial Services Sectors, IA Interior Architects

Marti Eulberg
Dir., Brand Management, Sonic Automotive

Scott Friend
Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures

Anindya Ghose
Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business, NYC Stern School of Business

Karen Harvey
CEO, Karen Harvey Consulting Group

Daniel Hodges
CEO, Consumers in Motion Group

Brian Kavanagh
Sr. Dir., Insights Driven Performance and Retail Evolution, The Hershey Company

Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi
Dir., Ethics Initiative, MIT Media Lab

Gianni Rino
Global Industry Lead, Retail and Consumer Services, CGI

Ashley Sandall
Director of Strategic Parnterships, Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA)

Veronika Sonsev
Partner, Chameleon Collective

Anne Marie Stephen
CEO and Founder, Retail Innovation Lounge and kwolia

Neil Stern
Senior Partner, McMillanDoolittle

Alex Taussig
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Amy Vener
Retail Vertical Strategy, Pinterest

Karen Voelker
Global Lead, Customer Innovation Network, Accenture

Seth Webb
Managing Director, Tusk Ventures

John Xiao
Senior Director, Product Discovery and Evaluation, Nordstrom

Janie Yu
Partner, Fung Capital

2018 Exhibitor Big Ideas Speakers:

Shawn Ahmed
Sr. Dir., Business Analytics

John Andrews
CEO, Celect

Ben Argov
President, IWA Wine Accessories

Hansang Bae
CTO, Riverbed

Ravi Bagal
Head, WW Business Development, Consumer Industries, Amazon Web Services

Jeremy Baker
Co-founder, Retail Zipline

Jim Barnes
CEO, Enspire Commerce

Irad Ben-Gal
Co-Founder & Active Chairman, Stanford University/C-B4

Les Berglass
Founder, Chairman and CEO, Berglass + Associates

Steven Birdsall
Chief Revenue Officer, Radial

Martin Block
Executive Director, Northwestern Retail Analytics Council

Mike Braatz
Chief Product Officer, ACI Worldwide

Kevin Bradshaw
Sales Manager and Business Development, Americas, Denso ADC

Ben Braverman
Chief Revenue Officer, Flexport

Ted Brodheim
VP, Vertical Business, Samsung Electronics America

Anthony Bruce
CEO, Applied Predictive Technologies, Inc.

Jason Burby
Chief Customer Success Officer, Domo

Greg Buzek
President, IHL Group

Andrew Calomino
Sr. Retail Training Manager, Bell Canada

Bob Carver
VP, Cloud Inventory Solutions, DSI

John Cavellini
Former Financial Analyst

John Chancellor
Sr. Professional Service Manager, CDW

Rick Chavie
CEO, Enterworks

John Deane
CIO, Ascena Retail Group

Mark Dickinson
Head of IT Solutions, North America, SSI Schaefer

Tsvetan Dimitrov
Senior Manager, Business Solutions, Adidas Group

Dinesh Dongre
VP, Product Strategy, Softeon

Elsom Eldridge
National Sales and Marketing Director, Boy Scouts of America, Supply Group

Sean Elliott
CTO, HighJump

Diane Ellis
President, Chico's FAS, Inc.

Walter Emma
Planning Solutions Manager, Kering

Tom Erskine
CMO, SVP Product, One Door

Barry Esposito
SVP Store Operations & Loss Prevention, Belk

Vivek Farias
CTO, Celect

Eric Feinberg
VP, Marketing, ForeSee

Jim Ferolo
VP, Digital and Marketing Technologies, Maui Jim

Brian Field
Sr. Director, Advisory Services, Shoppertrak

Julie Filion
CMO, ID.me

Bernie Gessner
VP, Global Customer Care and Retail Operations, Fossil Group

Gerry Gilbert
Head of Product, Merchant Solutions, CashStar

Jeremy Gilman
SVP, Strategy, Brand and CX Innovation, DMI

Dan Gilmore
President and Editor-in-Chief, Supply Chain Digest

Andrea Gonzalez
Global IT Manager, Commerce and Experiences, Treasury Wine Estates

J.P. Gownder
VP, Principal Analyst, Forrester

Greg Griffiths
Vice President, Windstream

Leslie Hand
VP, IDC Retail Insights, IDC

Jan A. Hanussek
Founder & CEO, Strategix

Bill C. Hardgrave Ph.D.
Dean, Harbert College of Business, Auburn University

Guru Hariharan
Founder and CEO, Boomerang Commerce

Jim Holbrook
Chief Executive Officer, Daymon

Travis Hooper
VP, Product and Strategy, ArmorActive

Tracy Issel
GM, WW Retail Industry, Microsoft Corp

Charles Jackson
Deputy CEO, Pricer

John Jordan
SVP, Customer Experience, Total Wine and More

Jon Katzur
VP, Sales Engineering and Customer Success, 1010data

Kathy Kearney
AVP, Payroll and Benefit Accounting, Costco Wholesale

Tom Keiser
COO, Zendesk

Kathy Kimple
Vice President, FitForCommerce

Jon Kuerschner
VP, Supply Chain Consulting & Customer Success, HighJump

Ron Kyslinger
SVP Fulfillment & Automation, Walmart.com

Silvia Lacayo
Product Marketing, Retail and Consumer Brands, 1010data

George Lawrie
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

Carol Leaman
President & CEO, Axonify

Philippe Loeb
VP, CPG-RETAIL, Chez Dassault Systemes

Ed Majors
Principal, Deloitte Consulting, LLP

Michael Martin
Chief Learning Officer, Litmos by CallidusCloud

John McCoy
Digital Giants Host/Industry Value Lead for Digital Transformation, SAP

Chad McIntosh
VP, LP and Risk Management, Bloomingdale's

Francisco Melo
VP and General Manager, Global RFID, Avery Dennison RBIS

Patric Meyer
Learning & Engagement Developer, Festival Foods

Steve Mironov
VP, Store Operations, Dick's Sporting Goods

Evan Neufeld
VP, Intelligence, L2, Inc.

Jeffrey Neville
Vice President, BRP

Sarah Osmer
VP, Retail-Go-to Market & Merchandising, T-Mobile

Zach Overton
VP of Customer Experience and GM of Samsung 837 and Galaxy Studios, Samsung

Tony Palladino
SVP, Global Insights Platform, 1010data

Brandon Panepinto
Sr. Product Manager, Store Experience, Gap, Inc.

Dan Peacock
VP, Product Strategy, FIS Global

Ana Pelucarte
Co-founder & Head of Strategy and Business Development, Pop Up Mob

Greg Petro
Founder and CEO, First Insight

Ben Pivar
Vice President, Retail IT, Carter's Oshkosh B'gosh

David Popler
CRO, ZoomSystems

Bill Quinn
VP, Digital Commerce, Hibbett Sporting Goods

Luke Rauch
Senior Director, U.S. Insights, Walgreens

Jon Reily
VP, Commerce Strategy, SapientRazorfish

Robert Richie
Director, Credit Cards and Gift Cards, Toys “R” Us

Simon Rodrigue
Co-Founder, Instant Teas

Jennifer Sherman
SVP, Product and Strategy, Kibo

Hari Shetty
Global Head of Retail, Wipro Technologies

Glenn Shoosmith
CEO and Founder, BookingBug

Link Simpson
Senior Manager, Connected Solutions, CDW

Gower Smith
Chairman & CEO, Co-Founder, Swyft, Inc.

Nate Smith
Head of Marketing, CashStar

E. Y. Snowden
CEO, One Door

Soeren Stamer
CEO and Co-Founder, CoreMedia AG

Mark Steele
EVP, Sales, Tulip Retail

Jonas Stillman
Dir., Retail Systems and Omni Channel Programs, Office Depot

Chris Storbeck
SVP, Product, FIS Payments, FIS Global

Cheryl Sullivan
Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer, Revionics

Michael Talbott
Global Product Director, BOARD International

Dana Telsey
CEO and Chief Research Officer, Telsey Advisory Group

Mike Tippets
VP, Digital Media, Hughes

Michael Wacht
VP, Operations and Infrastructure, Helm Incorporated

Kevin Walker
Senior Director, Global Field Marketing, Indeed

Doug Waller
Director, Shopper Insights, Coca-Cola

John Weir
Business Development, Strategic Partner Management, Uber

Steve White
VP, Commerce Strategy, SapientRazorfish

Darren Wood
Tech Innovator, Foodstuffs North Island Limited

Adrian Woodrup
Practice Lead, IoT and Analytics, CDW UK

Bernardine C. Wu
CEO, FitForCommerce

Pini Yakuel
Founder and CEO, Optimove

Guy Yehiav
CEO, Profitect

2018 Sponsors:

CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE:
• American Express
• IBM
• Microsoft
• SAP
• Toshiba

PLATINUM:
• Checkpoint
• Deloitte
• Diebold Nixdorf
• Mastercard
• Zoomsystems

GOLD:
• 1010DATA
• Acceo
• Adyen
• Digi
• Google Cloud
• Kibo
• MadMobile
• Magento
• Manhattan
• Revolution Retail Systems
• Sitecore
• Solum
• Visa

SILVER:
• Aerohive
• CDW
• Cisco
• CompuCom
• Displaydata
• DMI
• Enspire
• FIS
• HighJump
• HughesON
• Kronos
• OnE
• Wooqer

BRONZE:
• ACI
• Acrelec
• Smart Shelf
• Agilone
• AWS
• Anaplan
• Applause
• Aptos
• Amore Active
• Atos
• Aurus
• Avalara
• Avery Dennison
• Axonify
• BEA
• BigCommerce
• Bluefox.io
• BOARD
• Boingtech
• Bookingbug
• Boomerang Commerce
• CB4
• Cash Star
• Celcect
• Chargesbacks911
• CIMA
• Columbus Consulting
• Comcast Business Out Manuever
• Coremedia
• D2L
• Daymon
• Denso
• DOMO
• DSI
• ELO
• EnterWorks
• Epson
• Epx
• eShopworld
• ESP
• Fellow Robots
• First Insight
• Fit for Commerce
• FlexPort
• Foresee
• GTT
• Century
• Happy or Not
• Hella Aglaia
• Honeywell Intelligrated
• ID.me
• Indeed
• Infinite Peripherals
• Inkling
• Inspectorio
• Coursa Retail
• Kount
• Lenovo
• Fung Global Retail & tech
• Listrak
• Litmos
• Masterwork
• Mercatus
• Midigator
• Digital Innovation Agency
• MWG
• NEC
• Newstore
• OmNovos
• OneTrust
• Optimove
• Precima
• Pricer
• Profitect
• Radial
• Raygun
• Redhat
• Red Maple
• Zipline
• Revionics
• Riverbed
• RPE
• S2
• Salesforce
• Samsung
• SAS
• SSI Schafer
• SII
• SFD Systems LTD
• Shelf Bucks
• Smart Super System
• Smart Focus
• SML RFID
• Softeon
• Splunk
• Sprinklr
• Stanley
• Stibo Systems
• Stratix
• SUSE
• Suzohapp
• Tableau
• Tango
• Temando
• Thoonsen
• Atlantic
• Tulip
• Twiggle
• Shoppertalk
• V-Count
• Volo-Force
• Walmart Com
• Windstream
• Wipro
• Workjam
• Worldline
• Xactly
• Xovis
• Trade 'em
• Yi Tunnel
• Zendesk
• Zivelo