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Join various esteemed business executives to discuss
What Can AI Really Do for Retailers, Brands, and Consumers?
Invite-only VIP Dinner Event
Monday, Jan 15th 2024
The year 2023 will go down in the history of technology as the transformational year of AI. As with any technology trigger, there is a lot of noise in the market that goes hand in hand with a lot of real impact that can be made. So what will be the true impact of AI for Retailers, Brands, and Consumers? During this evening, we will be getting together with various esteemed business executives and AI experts to discuss the true power of AI for retailers and consumers, helping demystify the AI landscape. The evening is kicked off with a cocktail reception and continued into curated fireside chats and panel discussions from redefining AI as Augmented Intelligence to Board Governance for AI.
Featured Speakers
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Karenann Terrell
Former CIO of Walmart
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Susie Gharib
Senior Special Correspondent at Fortune (Moderator)
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Kathy Waller
Former CFO of Coca-cola, Board Director at Beyond Meat
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Nasrin Mostafazadeh
AI Scientist, Co-Founder Verneek AI
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Erwan Rambourg
Global Head of Consumer & Retail Research at HSBC
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Steve Barr
Former Global Consumer Market Partner at PwC
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Omid Bakhshandeh
AI Scientist, Co-Founder Verneek AI
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Kimberly Chin
Retail Journalist at Axios (Moderator)
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Andy Cunningham
Founder & President at Cunningham Collective (Moderator)
Event Highlights
Fireside Chat
Nasrin Mostafazadeh & Susie Gharib
Panel: The Trifecta Impact of AI on the Consumer Retail Market
Karenann Terrel, Kathy Waller, Erwan Rambourg and Kimberly Chin (Moderator)
Key Takeaways from the Panel
Karenann Terrell, drawing from her extensive CIO career specially at Walmart, emphasized the critical role of AI as a productivity tool to systematically drive down costs at Big Box retailers. She discussed the importance of unifying organizational data across various business functions as a step toward developing an efficacious AI strategy. She noted that enterprises should go into production quickly by starting with a tangible business use-case first, and then rolling out new use-cases gradually.
Kathy Waller, given her decades of experience as an executive in the consumer space, spoke about the significance of actually understanding consumers intimately as the key focus of the organization. She highlighted the opportunity for brands to leverage AI to better understand their own consumers, to both make informed business decisions and also create personalized consumer experiences. She noted that business executives should educate themselves on the topic of AI, to make sure that AI strategies are set up for success by serving concrete business values from the beginning.
Erwan Rambourg, as the thought leader of the luxury retail space, shed light on the different driving forces of the luxury retail industry compared to the rest of the retail market. He discussed the priority of luxury brands in enhancing and differentiating their brands, as opposed to saving costs. This highlighted the role of AI as a way of augmenting the humans serving the luxury customers, to make for better and more engaging customer experiences. He touched upon the role of AI in better managing inventory to tune for scarcity, a crucial goal of a luxury brand where exclusivity is paramount.
Agenda
5:30 PM
Reception
Cocktails and Hors d'oeuvre
6:15 PM
Welcome
David Farber
Omid Bakhshandeh
6:25 -6:50 PM
6:50-7:30 PM
7:30-8:30 PM
Fireside Chat
Nasrin Mostafazadeh and Susie Gharib
Panel: The Trifecta Impact of AI on the Consumer Retail Market
Karenann Terrel, Kathy Waller, Erwan Rambourg and Kimberly Chin (Moderator)
Three-course Dinner and Networking
The dress code is business casual.
We kindly ask you to please arrive by 5:30 pm.
Manhatta
Note: The entrance is right on the Liberty St., you’ll see the Manhatta sign on the glass door entrance.
28 Liberty St 60th floor, New York, NY 10005
For any issues on the day of the event, please call/text
917-605-0389
You may be also interested in the following interview
Retail Gets Real episode 311: Verneek co-founder Nasrin Mostafazadeh on AI and its trifecta positive impact in the retail industry.
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