Retail Executive Meet-up: Innovating The Multi-channel Retail Experience

VIP Dinner - New York City, NY

Sep 19, 2022 6:00 PM9:00 PM EDT

Event Description

What role does technology play in creating customer journeys that delight? How do brands narrow in on a community of loyal shoppers by creating innovative experiences? We’re bringing together a group of ambitious digital executives to share ideas and discuss common challenges in the industry such as: the complexities of scaling, experimentation, technology requirements and new business models.

Join us for cocktails & dinner with other business leaders from the retail industry to discuss common challenges faced in this multi-channel era. Omniretail is here to stay and brands are tasked with delivering differentiating brand experiences across various channels to increase brand loyalty and meet customer expectations.

Discussion Topics

  • How to innovate customer experiences in a multi-channel era
  • Overcoming challenges in retail complexity (e.g. touch points, delivery methods, speed to market, data centralization)
  • What levers can be pulled to differentiate brand experiences from competitors (channels, catalogs, technologies)
  • Leader’s behaviors/mindset that scale innovation: experimentation, technology adoption, new business models, etc

Event Partners

Myplanet

Myplanet specializes in composable commerce, customer data, and retail platforms using best-in-class technology to support seamless, data-informed journeys.

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Contentstack

Contentstack is a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP). It allows organizations to manage content across all digital channels and create amazing digital experiences.

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commercetools

commercetools is a cloud-based headless commerce platform that provides APIs to power e-commerce sales and similar functions for large businesses.

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Guest Speakers

Jason Cottrell LinkedIn

CEO & Founder at Myplanet

Jason works closely with the world’s leading enterprise companies to create compelling, technology-driven solutions that address real user needs. He brings a comprehensive, long-term vision for handling business challenges to client engagements, ensuring that the solutions created today will be successful tomorrow and in the future. Jason holds an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Aaron Conant LinkedIn

Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect

Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.

Matt Dunphy LinkedIn

Lead Sales Engineer at commercetools

With over a decade and a half of development experience in the ecommerce space, Lead Sales Engineer Matt Dunphy works with commercial and enterprise companies as they explore using commercetools in their digital transformations toward a MACH based modern commerce organization.

Todd Rathje LinkedIn

CRO at Contentstack

Todd Rathje leads Contentstack’s Global Sales Organization including direct sales, alliances, pre-sales, field enablement and customer success to deliver an integrated customer journey. Todd has extensive experience in the enterprise software sector and was most recently the CRO of WorkFusion and the CCO and SVP Americas at Aprimo Inc.

Event Moderator

Jason Cottrell LinkedIn

CEO & Founder at Myplanet

Jason works closely with the world’s leading enterprise companies to create compelling, technology-driven solutions that address real user needs. He brings a comprehensive, long-term vision for handling business challenges to client engagements, ensuring that the solutions created today will be successful tomorrow and in the future. Jason holds an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University.

Aaron Conant LinkedIn

Co-Founder & Managing Director at BWG Connect

Aaron Conant is Co-Founder and Chief Digital Strategist at BWG Connect, a networking and knowledge sharing group of thousands of brands who collectively grow their digital knowledge base and collaborate on partner selection. Speaking 1x1 with over 1200 brands a year and hosting over 250 in-person and virtual events, he has a real time pulse on the newest trends, strategies and partners shaping growth in the digital space.

Matt Dunphy LinkedIn

Lead Sales Engineer at commercetools

With over a decade and a half of development experience in the ecommerce space, Lead Sales Engineer Matt Dunphy works with commercial and enterprise companies as they explore using commercetools in their digital transformations toward a MACH based modern commerce organization.

Todd Rathje LinkedIn

CRO at Contentstack

Todd Rathje leads Contentstack’s Global Sales Organization including direct sales, alliances, pre-sales, field enablement and customer success to deliver an integrated customer journey. Todd has extensive experience in the enterprise software sector and was most recently the CRO of WorkFusion and the CCO and SVP Americas at Aprimo Inc.

What is BWG Connect?

BWG Connect provides executive strategy & networking sessions that help brands from any industry with their overall business planning and execution. BWG has built an exclusive network of 125,000+ senior professionals and hosts over 2,000 virtual and in-person networking events on an annual basis.
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