Retail Technology Spotlight Series

Amazon VP AWS Applications, Dilip Kumar, is back for his regular annual appearance to discuss how Amazon continues to think about the evolution of checkout and personal identification. In this podcast, Chris and Anne go deep with Dilip on: - The latest Amazon Just Walk Out innovations, including the two new recently opened Seattle Seahawks and Texas Rangers Fan Shops. - The evolution of Amazon One...

Dematic  Market Development Director, Kim Baudry, joins Chris and Anne for the second time in 2023 to discuss the major trends she is seeing as retailers try to bring their fulfillment closer to their end consumers.

In our latest Spotlight Series Podcast, Anne and Chris learn all they can about generative AI from Amanda Saunders, the Senior Manager for Enterprise and Edge AI Product Marketing at NVIDIA.

Lucky Co-Founders Sneh Parmar and Nafis Azad discuss the new way DTC brands are “going direct” through social media with leading companies like Sephora and Walgreens.

Vyrill’s Ajay Bam joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga live from CommerceNext to discuss the growing importance of in-video search for both retailers and brands.

Jason Del Rey joins Chris and Anne to discuss his new book,  Winner Sells All: Amazon, Walmart And The Battle For Our Wallets.

A first-of-its-kind Unified Commerce Benchmark Index for Specialty Retail has just been released!

Avalara’s Meg Higgins and BigCommerce’s Sharon Gee join Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss all the pressures the omnichannel evolution has placed on retailers’ abilities to collect tax accurately at a local level.

Openforce CEO Wendy Greenland joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss all the hidden and messy truths that come with doing last-mile delivery well at scale.

In the latest episode of our Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, 1010data’s Chief Product Officer Jonah Ellin joined Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss why dedicating data and AI resources to improve promotional effectiveness may be the smartest decision retailers and CPGs can make right now.

In this latest episode of our Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series,  Buncha  Co-Founder and CEO Bharat Pulgam joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss a smarter way to think about last-mile delivery, i.e. giving customers scheduled weekly neighborhood deliveries at a fraction of the cost.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Shoptalk’s Krystina Gustafson and Ben Miller join Chris and Anne to discuss what they believe are the five trends most shaping retail right now and how they plan to cover them at Shoptalk 2023.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series,  Treasure Data  Industry Principals Irene Sibaja and Danica Konetski join Chris and Anne to discuss how retailers and CPGs can best leverage a CDP (Customer Data Platform) in this new era of omnichannel retailing.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, SAP’s SVP and Head of Solution & Innovation Experience Andre Bechtold joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss what it takes to open up a bona fide retail innovation lab right in the heart of SAP’s NYC headquarters.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series,  Dematic  Market Development Director, Kim Baudry, joins Chris and Anne to discuss the lessons learned from those who invested in microfulfillment early on and what we should expect the big bets to be as retailers shift to new closer-to-consumer strategies that deliver across all channels.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series,  Celebrus  CEO Bill Bruno joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss identity resolution and how integral it is to real-time personalization.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Shopreme Chief Customer Officer Nico Müller joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss what it takes to make a scan-and-go checkout system really work.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, ToolsGroup CEO Inna Kuznetzova joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss how retailers can better align their inventory forecasting and allocation in record time.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, Volumental’s Chief Marketing Officer Brent Hollowell returns to the show to discuss Chris and Anne’s experience trying out Volumental’s new foot scanner technology at the Fleet Feet store in Chicago.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series,  Silk’s  Chief Technology Officer Derek Swanson joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss why the idea of just “taking your retail operation to the cloud” is much easier said than done.

In this latest episode of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series,  SES-imagotag’s  CEO North America Philippe Bottine joins Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga to discuss all the key ingredients that go into building a smart store and why the idea itself is so important to the future of retail.

In this special OmniStars edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight Series, brought to you in partnership with  Quorso,  Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga sit down with Raghu Mahadevan, the Chief Digital Officer at 7-Eleven, to discuss how he and his team continue to set the bar for convenience store innovation.

Microsoft’s Lisa Griego and Ricardo Belmar join Chris and Anne to kickoff Omni Talk Retail’s special Groceryshop Spotlight Podcast Series and to highlight the key trends they see shaping grocery over the next year.

In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Amperity’s Head of Product Solutions Matt Hallett and Microsoft’s Sr. Director of Business Strategy for Worldwide Retail & Consumer Goods Mike Edmonds join Chris and Anne to discuss how technology can help to clean every grocer’s messy consumer data and thereby bring even more power to one’s retail media network.

In this special Groceryshop edition of the Omni Talk Retail Spotlight series, Blue Yonder’s Senior Director of Solutions Strategy Erin Halka and Microsoft’s Director of Retail and Consumer Goods Paula Beckel join Chris and Anne to discuss the next generation order management capabilities required to succeed in this new era of omnichannel retailing.