2012 Technology Leadership Summit

1:30 - 2:30 pm

The Future of Retail – What will Retail look like in 2020 and what does the CIO need to do about it?

 In this session, attendees will get a global overview of current retail technology trends, as well as, an idea of US retail trends heading through 2020. Will this be the end of Supercenters and will we see a rise of smaller store formats? How will E-commerce impact the retail business as we know it and what are the implications for retailers & CIO’s?

Speaker – Joachim Pinhammer, Senior Retail Technology Analyst, Planet Retail

4:15 - 5:15 pm

Seeing Around the Corner - Disturbing Trends in Retail

Speaker - Jim McKelvey, Inventor and Co-Founder of Square

8:15 - 9:15 am

Using Social Data to Drive REAL Business Value

The term ‘Big Data’ is often used and rarely understood in meaningful business value terms.  In this session and discussion, participants will gain substantial insight and understanding into the use of unstructured social data in conjunction with structured business data to make important decisions.  These decisions will lead to real business value in terms of new promotional opportunities and capabilities that narrow the focus from Zip Code or Large Customer Segments to precise households or customers.  All of this is accomplished leveraging affordable hardware, software and business analytics platforms and processes.

Speaker:Abhishek Mehta, founder of Tresata

9:30 - 10:30 am

How Mobile Transforms Engagement With Right Time Experiences

Mobile changes what we connect, how we connect and how we transact business. Retail and grocery will transform business processes by using contextual data from various sources, including internal corporate apps, Web-accessible data, and connected device data to build what Lopez Research calls Right Time Experiences (RTE). RTEs are enhanced business processes or services that deliver an employee or customer the proper information at the moment of need.  Leading businesses have already begun to build RTEs today.

In this session, you will learn what are right time experiences, what are some examples and what should you do to prepare for them.

Speaker – Maribel Lopez, Principal Analyst, Lopez Research LLC

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Cloud Computing: A New Delivery Platform for Big Data Analytics in Retail

Retailers have been collecting ALL of their data. The opportunity for analysis and prediction is clear. The mechanism for execution is not. Cloud Computing will be explored as a means of solving the high leverage business issues in every aspect of a retailers business.

Speaker – Afshin Goodarzi, Vice President, Analytics, 1010data