Venue
Olympia London
Olympia London, Hammersmith Rd, London W14 8UX, UK

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Event Date Tue Apr 26 BST - Wed Apr 27 BST (over 2 years ago)
In your timezone (EST): Mon Apr 25 7:00pm - Tue Apr 26 7:00pm
Location Olympia London
Hammersmith Rd, London W14 8UX, UK
Region EMEA
Details

Join the UKs fastest growing, and exciting, retail tech show

This event is the must visit event for retail and hospitality organisations looking for the right tools, solutions and advice on how to enhance customer experience, increase operational effectiveness and drive sales.

It is relevant for all members of the team responsible for taking or influencing purchasing decisions, including IT, eCommerce, payments, marketing, loss prevention, finance, supply chain, profit protection, operations, HR and security.

It’s your chance to let those shaping the industry inspire, inform and energise your growth plans.

Why should you visit?
• Source new solutions
All of the industry’s leading suppliers will showcase the latest tech and digital solutions for in-store, online, and omnichannel retail, helping you design better experiences for customers, increase operational effectiveness and drive sales.

• Learn from industry experts
Our conference programme will feature the latest insights from some of the industry’s sharpest thinkers. Keep up-to-date with fast-moving industry trends and hear from the innovators driving things forward in retail.

• Networking Opportunities
With thousands of retail professionals in attendance, meeting the right people to help improve your retail business has never been easier.

Who will attend?
A variety of senior retail professionals will attend the this show looking for the products and services that will help them increase productivity, reduce costs, attract more customers, improve the customer experience, enhance security and sell more - whether from a small independent retailer or a large group.

We are marketing to all retailers, brands, leisure and hospitality organisations from across the UK and Europe and therefore expect to see a range of visitors such as those below.

Speakers

2022 Speakers

KAL SINGH
Chief Operating Officer, Dreams

Steven Bartlett
Founder, thirdweb, Social Chain & FlightStory, Investor, Dragons' Den,
Board Director, Huel, Podcast Host, The Diary of a CEO & Sunday Times Bestselling Author of ‘Happy Sexy Millionaire’

Mike Coupe
Chairman New Look , Former CEO Sainsburys

Ella Mills
Founder and Brand Director, Deliciously Ella

Mike Logue
Former CEO, Dreams

Jeremy Schwartz
Former Chairman & CEO The Body Shop, MD, L’Oréal UK and CEO, Pandora and current Chair, Global Sustainability Transformation Practice, Kantar

Max Gill
Amazon Physical Retail Technologies - Just Walk Out - EMEA Lead, Amazon

Constanze Freienstein
Managing Director, Lands’ End Europe

Dan Murray-Serter
Co-Founder, Heights & Grabble, Host of UK's #1 business Podcast Secret Leaders and Angel Investor in Consumer & Web3

Richard Wilding OBE
Professor of Supply Chain Strategy, Cranfield School of Management

Ken Daly
CEO, JML

Robin Phillips
CEO, Watch Shop

Chris Brook-Carter
Chief Executive Officer, retailTRUST

Alison Hutchinson CBE
CEO Pennies, NED, LV + Senior Independent Director, Pennies, DFS

Peter Mila
CIO, M & Co

Kash Ghedia
Group CIO, Applegreen

Laura Rosenberger
Co-Founder, Laylo

Florian Westerdahl
Chief Technology Officer, Lindex

John Cooper
Senior Director Merchandising, Supply, Applied Analytics & Transformation, George Clothing (part of Asda Group)

Marni Allen
Director, Consumer Healthcare Futures, Walgreens Boots Alliance

BOBBY AMIRAHMADI
UK Logistics Director, Hello Fresh

Keith Keenan
IT Director, Dobbies Garden Centres

Paul Hornby
Digital Customer Experience Director, The Very Group

Rob George
Group Customer Director, McColl's Retail Group

Guillaume Brocart
eCommerce Director, Montblanc

Najeeb Ahmad
Director of IT Operations, Pizza Express

Michele Di Gangi
VP of Data, Farfetch

Ricky Dematagollage
Global Retail IT Director, GANT

Matthew Price
Retail Director, Sky

Sarah Curran Usher MBE
NED, French Connection, MD EMEA, True Fit, Former MD, Very
Exclusive & Former Founder, my-wardrobe.com

David Kohn
Former Customer and eCommerce Director, Heal's

Thierry Massee
Vice President Global Marketing, Davidoff, Jil Sander, Joop, Coty

Warren Richmond
CEO & Founder, Situ Live

Partha Sinha
Head of Design and Fit, Amazon Fashion

Kate Lavery
Head of Technology, Morrisons

Robert Bates
Head of Decision Sciences, Currys

James Taylor
Head of Central Operations, Nisa Retail

Marcus Oughton
Head of eCommerce, UK & EMEA, Clarks

Richard Jenkins
Head of Loss Prevention Strategy & Projects, Central Store
Operations, Marks & Spencer

Kathryn Malloch
Head of Group Customer Experience, Halfords

LIAM PRICE
Head of Ecommerce, Fat Face

Soraya Fedyk
Head of Customer and Online Marketing, Blackwell's Bookshops

Dave Abbott
Head of Information Technology, Morleys Department Stores

John Lacey
Distribution General Manager, Harrods

Sezin Tumer
Head of Guest, KFC

Richard Surman
Head of IT, Crew Clothing Company

Tim Stevens
UK Head of Logistics, Bulk

Daniel Smith
Head of Analytics & Insights, PANGAIA

Mattias Sjöstedt
Product Owner, In Store Stock Optimization, H&M Group Business Tech

Clive Hudson
Senior Programme Manager Digital Transformation, Marks & Spencer

Camilla Tress
Connected Commerce Lead, Oliver Bonas

Johan Stenström
Supply Chain Developer, Stadium

Helle Frølund Pedersen
Internal Communication Responsible, VERO MODA, BESTSELLER A/S

Hannah Fox
Senior Property Manager - Energy, Morrisons

Jamie Korda
Principal Architect, Marks & Spencer

Therese Blom
Sales Channels Operations Manager, Lindex

Steven Hazeldene
Head Of Commercial Finance – DTC, Samsung Electronics

Alexandra Bloomfield
Payments Industry Specialist, BT Group

Alex Rutter
Director & Head of Retail, Google Cloud

Carl Boutet
Lead Advisor, McGill University Retail Innovation Lab & Course Instructor, Masters in Retail, New Technologies & Business Models

CHRIS FIELD
Managing Editor, Retail Connections

Mark McMurtrie
Director, Payments Consultancy Limited

Nick Lansley
Innovation Insider , Nick Lansley's Innovation Lab and ex Head Open Innovation, Tesco, Innovation Lab

Cathy Liu
Head of Financial Products, Bolt

Andrew Busby
Global Retail Director, Software AG and Founder, Retail Reflections

John Ryan
Managing Director, Newstores

Ganesh Subramanian
Founder & CEO, Stylumia

Richard Blanchard
Director, Transaction Partnership and CEO, Margin Guardian

Samuel Mueller
CEO and Co-Founder, Scandit

Julian Fisher
CEO, Jisp

Paul Rodgers
Chairman, Vendorcom and European Payments Evangelist, World Wide Web Consortium

Julian Burnett
NED & Board Advisor, Sook, Ann Summers, Sigma Sports & Retail Trust; Former Digital & Tech Leader IBM, House of Fraser, John Lewis & Sainsburys

Wulfric Light-Wilkinson
General Manager EMEA, Wunderkind

Judith McCandless
Key Account Manager, Board

Elliott Winskill
Head of Solutions, PMC

Marc Allsop
Chief Commercial Officer, Ecrebo

Santiago Cabeza
Business Development Manager, Nexo Standards

Steve Tonks
SVP EMEA, Workforce Software

Alice Beeby
Senior Client Partner, Appointedd

Alan Holcroft
Country Manager, Northern Europe, Cegid

JULIUS CARRELL
Head of Enterprise, Enactor

Suzanne Homewood
Enterprise Sales Director, Moneyhub

Mark Tailford
Global Retail Solutions Director, OKTIUM

Dean Frew
CTO & SVP RFID Solutions, SML Group

Reshmi Suresh
Director of Enterprise Product Commercialization, Worldpay

Hector Hickmott
Sales Director, HSO

Sponsors & Partners

2022 Sponsors

• Workforce Software
• Mastercard
• Mollie
• Noumi
• Bolt
• Checkout.com
• Toshiba
• Logile
• Schneider Electric