Tech Festival 2019 | Retail Week | 2 October 2019 | Printworks, Surrey Quays Rd, Rotherhithe, London SE16 7PJ

The digital revolution has seen the most challenging time in the history of global commerce destroying traditional business models as we know them.

As consumers’ appetite to adopt new innovations at an extraordinary rate of change continues, retailers are struggling to keep up. Only those brave and agile enough to adapt will survive. Those that don’t are not likely to trade past 2020.

2019 Featured Speakers

Ben Blake
VP & Global Head of Consumer Marketing, Hotels.com

Brad Klingenberg
Chief Algorithms Officer, Stitch Fix

Brooks Clemens
Senior Manager, Adidas

Caroline Chan
Vice President & General Manager , Intel

Chenkai Ling
Vice President of JD.com and General Manager of JD Retail Solutions, JD.com

Chris Homer
CTO, thredUP

Clodagh Moriarty
Chief Digital Officer, Sainsbury's

Daniel Gebler
CTO, Picnic

Debbie Bond
Chief Commercial Officer, Lovehoney

Dina Sidani
Head of Greenhouse Accelerator/ Innovation Lab, Chalhoub Group

Elle Edwards
Global Head of Communications & Culture, Kodak Alaris

Josh Bottomley
Global Head of Digital, Data & Development, HSBC

Josh Builder
CTO & Head of Product, Rent The Runway

Marcela Sapone
CEO, Hello Alfred

Masahiro Hisayama
Head of Innovation Centre Europe, Panasonic

Nancy Cruikshank
SVP Digital Business Transformation, Carlsberg

Nihan Sahan Eren
Head of Refreshment Consumer and Market Insight, Unilever

Sara Wood
EVP, Product, Farfetch

Scott Crawford
Head of Enable the Science , 84.51/Kroger

Tomi Siren
Head of Digital, Arla

Zak Normandin
Founder & CEO, iris nova

Speakers

Abhy Thomas Joseph
CIO, Pentland Brands

Alex Hamilton
Head of Innovation, Isobar

Alex Jones
Group Director, Fjord (Accenture)

Alice Sandelson
Strategic Partnerships Lead, Founders Factory

Alison Wiltshire
Retail & Brand Expert

Alla Foht
Partner and Chief Innovation Manager, Re:Tech

Almudena Cardenas
Chief Project & Innovation Officer, Tendam

Amy Chao
Design, Digital and Innovation Strategist, Chao Consulting

Amy Vener
Retail Vertical Strategy Lead, Pinterest

Anastasia Leng
CEO, Picasso Labs

Andi Hadisutjipto
Founder & CEO, Riviter

Andrew Carlisle
Managing Director of Retail UK & Ireland, Accenture

Andrew Curran
Director, Retain.me

Andrew Vorster
Innovation Catalyst

Andy Burton
Group Chief Technology Officer , Shop Direct

Andy Cowley
FiveAi

Andy Hill
Commercial Director, Sorted

Andy Rudd
Director of Customer Experience, Kingfisher PLC

Archie Campbell
Co-Founder, Vidsy

Assaf Baciu
Co-founder, Persado

Ben Blake
VP & Global Head of Consumer Marketing, Hotels.com

Beth Horn
Industry Head, Retail & Restaurants, Facebook

Binesh Lad
Head of Retail, Google Cloud

Brad Klingenberg
Chief Algorithms Officer, Stitch Fix

Brian McCarthy
Former Supply Chain Director

Brooks Clemens
Senior Manager, Adidas

Cally Russell
CEO, Mallzee

Caroline Chan
Vice President & General Manager , Intel

Caroline Crosswell
Director of Retail and Development, Rapha Racing Ltd

Carrie Gofron
Partnerships, Shopify Plus

Cassandra Stevens
Global Commerce Director, Zenith

Catriona Ferriss
Global HC CMI Director, Unilever

Chenkai Ling
Vice President of JD.com and General Manager of JD Retail Solutions, JD.com

Chris Brook-Carter
SVP, Retail Week

Chris Homer
CTO, thredUP

Christine Bailey
CMO, Valitor

Cindy Wei
Head Of China, Yext'

Clare Jones
CCO, what3words

Clodagh Moriarty
Chief Digital Officer, Sainsbury's

Dan Goldstein
Chief Marketing Officer, AVIXA

Daniel Domínguez Vázquez
Head of Data, Geoblink

Daniel Gebler
CTO, Picnic

Daniel Hulme
CEO, Satalia

Darren Ward
Executive Partner, Reply

David Coombs
Head of Strategic Services, Cheil UK

David Gordon
Research Director, Edge by Ascential

David Gore
Head of Retail Consulting, BJSS

David Martin
European Marketing Director, Coca Cola

David Palmer
Strategy and Innovation Director, Kingfisher

David Robinson
COO, Pets at Home

Debbie Bond
Chief Commercial Officer, Lovehoney

Dhruv Kumar
VP of Engineering, Photobox

Dimas Gimeno
Expert in Omnichannel retail & digital transformation

Dina Sidani
Head of Greenhouse Accelerator/ Innovation Lab, Chalhoub Group

Dmitri Lerko
Head of DevOps , loveholidays

Doug Gardner
CIO, River Island

Eamonn Carey
MD, Techstars

Ed Connolly
Strategy Director & Director of JLP Ventures, JLP

Eda Ocak
Partner, ThinkNeuro

Elle Edwards
Global Head of Communications & Culture, Kodak Alaris

Elsa Bernadotte
Co-Founder and COO , Karma

Emilie Maunoury
Digital, Ecommerce & CRM Director, Clarins

Emma Mead
Digital Director , Halfords

Erin Booth
Investor, Founders Factory

Fabian Wong
Head of Experience and Design, Capita

Faye Roth
Head of Delivery & Transformation at River Island, River Island

Felix Winckler
CCO, Co-founder , reflaunt.com

Flo Wright
Retail Analyst, Edge by Ascential

Franky Athill
Head of Marketing, Patch

Gavin Shetly
VP, Product Engineering , IKEA Group

Gideon Hoffman
Technology Investor

Giuseppe Guillot
Logistics & Infrastructure Director, Kurt Geiger

Glen Koskela
CTO Retail & Hospitality EMEIA, Fujitsu

Grace Bowden
Head of Content, Retail Week

Graham Johnston
Head of Omnichannel and Digital First, Three

Grant Duncan
Leader of Spencer Stuart UK Technology, Media, & Telecommunications Practice, Spencer Stuart

Hannah St Paul
Snapchat

Henry Rose Lee
Inter-Generational Expert

Ian McGarrigle
Chairman, World Retail Congress

Ian Pattison
Head of Engineering for Retail, Manufacturing & Travel , Google Cloud

Ioli Macridi
Retail Analyst, Edge, Ascential

Isabela Chick
MD Retail and Beauty, Founders Factory

Isobel Chillman
Head of Creative Partnerships, Retail Week

Jackie Mulligan
CEO & Founder, ShopAppy

Jacob Aqraou
VC

James Hammersley
CEO of ecommerce consultancy, Good Growth, Good Growth

James Knowles
Head of Commercial Content, Retail Week

James Patterson
VP Manufacturing & Consumer Services, CGI

Jason Forbes
Chief Digital Officer, COTY

Jason Stanard
Partner, Reply

Jat Sahi
Digital Lead Retail & Hospitality EMEIA, Fujitsu

Jeroen Vanderhaeghen
Senior Consultant, Retail , Reply

Jesse Collins
Retail Analyst, Edge, Ascential

Jo Hickson
Head of Labs, Tesco

Joe Jensen
VP General Manager, Intel

Joe Till
National Sales Manager, Sorted

John Atcheson
Co-Founder/CEO, Stuffstr

John Auckland
Founder , TribeFirst

Jon Buss
Managing director, Yext

Jonathan Petrides
Founder, allplants

Josh Bottomley
Global Head of Digital, Data & Development, HSBC

Josh Builder
CTO & Head of Product, Rent The Runway

Josh Scotton
Co-Founder & COO, Personify

Julian Burnett
VP, Global Markets – Distribution, IBM Services - IBM

Karina Pyne
Marketing Acceleration Director, GSK

Karolina Lewandowska
Head of Change, Transformation and Culture, Google Cloud

Kathleen Gambarelli
Global Product Strategist, Snapchat

Kellam Mattie
CMO Venturing & Emerging Brands, VP Marketing & Innovation , Coca-Cola

Keng Ng
Digital Commerce Director, Mars

Kostas Koukoravas
Founder & CEO, Intelistyle

Lara Lewington
Presenter & Technology Journalist

Lisa Byfield-Green
head of insight, Retail Week

Liz Bacelar
Presenter

Louisa Nicholls
Senior Manager, Trade Marketing & Digital Trading, John Lewis

Lucas Johnston
Founder, Umber

Madeleine Melin
E-Commerce Marketing Manager, Europe, Electrolux Europe

Marcela Sapone
CEO, Hello Alfred

Mark Slade
CEO, Location Sciences

Markus Zimmermann
Head of Interaction Design, Starship Technologies

Marta Skassa
Product Manager, Zalando

Masahiro Hisayama
Head of Innovation Centre Europe, Panasonic

Matthew Furneaux
Global Commercial Director, Loqate - a GBG Solution

May Al-Karooni
CEO, Globechain

Megan Dunsby
Commercial Content Editor , Retail Week

Mehdi Fehri
Group Head of Data Strategy & Data science, L'Oreal

Melissa Chapman
Chief Content Officer, Jungle Creations

Michael Feindt
Founder & Chief Scientist , Blue Yonder, a JDA company

Michael Green
senior area vice president, Salesforce

Michael Levin
Chief Data Scientist, Yandex Market

Mike Green
Senior Area Vice President, Salesforce

Mike Hines
Developer Evangelist, Amazon

Miriam Lahage
Former CEO, Figleaves

Nancy Cruikshank
SVP Digital Business Transformation, Carlsberg

Nandus Du Plessis
Director at ABI and Global Head of Content Excellence, ABI

Nick Everitt
Director of Advisory, Edge by Ascential

Nihan Sahan Eren
Head of Refreshment Consumer and Market Insight, Unilever

Nina Shariati
Transparency & Sustainability Expert

Nivindya Sharma
Director of Retail Strategy and Insight, WGSN Analytics

Parag Parekh
vice president of global sales, adidas Group

Paul Hemmingsley
Manager, Reply

Paul Markham
Red Bee Media

Paul Martin
IT Director, Footasylum

Phil Thompson
Worldwide Tech Leader, AWS

Poppie Mickleburgh
Event Director, Tech.

Red McKay
European MD, Bossa Nova Robotics (UK)

Rhonda Textor
Head of Data Science, True Fit

Richard Meeus
Security Technology & Strategy Director, Akamai

Richard Zubrik
CTO, Not On The High Street

Robert Gregory
Director of Advisory, Edge, Ascential

Robin H. Smith
CEO& Co-Founder, VL OMNI

Roland Palmer
Head of Europe, Alipay

Ronan Bardet
Founder & CEO, EGI

Ronny Mikalsen
CEO, Carlings

Sally Minto
Digital Director, Revolution Beauty

Sam Stamp
COO, Freeformers

Samantha Hornsby
Head of Food Online, Marks & Spencers

Sandeep Verma
MD, Europe , Allbirds

Sara Wood
EVP, Product, Farfetch

Scott Crawford
Head of Enable the Science , 84.51/Kroger

Sean McKee
Director of Ecommerce and Customer Experience, Schuh

Shelley Bransten
Corporate Vice President, Retail & CPG, Microsoft

Simon Dean
VP of Brand, DNA Fit

Simon Hall
Head of Industry, Retail, Google Cloud

Sophia Matveeva
Founder & CEO, Enty

Sophie Leang
Head of Marketing and Communications, Shepper

Steve Lidbury
Principal, Eight Inc.

Stuart Ramage
Ecommerce Director, Dixons Carphone

Sunir Gohil
Clinical Artificial Intelligence Lead, Babylon Health

Susan Lin
Principal, Felix Capital

Tambo Silavwe
Senior Digital Coach, Freeformers

Tatiana Lopes
Head of Supply Chain Products, Farfetch

Tatiana Ohnyeva
Strategy Director, Fashion Concierge (Farfetch)

Ted Charalambides
Head of Commerce, Pact

Ted Harrison
Head of Content Optimisation, Twitter

Tina Daheley
Presenter & Journalist

Tom Hipwell
Bulb

Tomi Siren
Head of Digital, Arla

Weldon Whitener
Chief Analytics Officer, Pricesearcher

Whitney Myrus
Start-up & Growth Strategist, ITICO F+B Limited

Xian Wang
Global Content Director, Edge by Ascential

Yael Kochman
Partner & CEO, Re:Tech

Yeming Wang
General Manager, EMEA , Alibaba Cloud

Yulia O’Mahony
Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing, John Lewis

Zak Normandin
Founder & CEO, iris nova

2019 Partner

PLATINUM RETAIL & COMMERCE PARTNERS:
• Dixons Carphone

GOLD RETAIL & COMMERCE PARTNERS:
• grazelabs
• John Lewis Partnership

SILVER RETAIL & COMMERCE PARTNERS:
• ao.com
• Invicible Brands
• Kingfisher
• PicNic
• Primark
• RedBull
• Sainsbury's
• Shop Direct

FIVE STARS SPONSORS:
• edge
• Google Cloud
• Sorted
• WGSN

FOUR STAR SPONSORS:
• propeller
• rackspace
• reply

THREE STAR SPONSORS:
• brightcove
• YEXT

TWO STAR SPONSORS:
• BluJay
• Capita
• CGI
• checkout.com
• DataRobot
• Hypervsn
• isobar
• jamf
• jda.
• jisp
• O2 business
• salesforce
• ShootMedia
• velocloud

ONE STAR SPONSORS:
• Cappasity
• Cart
• commercetools
• confluent
• jrni
• Linux Recruit Doxlon
• openpay
• piksel retail
• StudentBeans
• Vaimo
• Wunderman Commerce
• wynd
• zencargo

UNIVERSITY PARTNERS:
• Bath University
• Cardiff University
• Coventry University
• Essex University
• Kingston University
• Liverpool University
• London Metropolitan University
• Loughborough University
• Manchester University
• Middlesex University
• Oxford Brookes University
• Pathway CTM
• University of Portsmouth
• Queen Mary University
• Westminster University

SUPPORTERS:
• Andus
• Attraqt
• Catapult
• Cloud Technology Solutions
• Co:cubed
• Equinix
• HMY
• red ant
• riskified
• vaimo

CX PARTNERS:
• Lola's Cupcakes
• Plant Designs
• Scriberia
• Secret Spa