Speakers

David Schröder

Co-CEO Zalando

As Co-CEO David is co-responsible for the company’s strategy and for the B2B growth vector. David focuses on building and scaling Zalando’s unique capabilities to enable the company’s growth. David has been part of Zalando’s senior management team since 2010, working as CFO until 2022 and as SVP Convenience until 2019. Before joining Zalando, he worked at McKinsey & Company. David holds a diploma in business administration from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. Founded in Berlin in 2008, Zalando is building the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce around two growth vectors: Business-to-Consumer (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B). In B2C, we offer an inspiring and quality multi-brand shopping experience for fashion and lifestyle products to about 50 million active customers in 25 markets. In B2B, we are using our logistic infrastructure, software and service capabilities to help brands and retailers run and scale their entire e-commerce business, on or off Zalando. As an ecosystem, Zalando aims to enable positive change for the fashion and lifestyle industry.

Bernard Osta

CEO Vestiaire Collective

Bernard Osta is the Chief Executive Officer of Vestiaire Collective, the leading global platform for pre-loved luxury fashion. He joined Vestiaire Collective in May 2021 as Chief Strategy Officer. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer in September 2023 and Chief Executive Officer in October 2025. Before joining Vestiaire Collective, he spent 15 years in investment banking at Lazard and Goldman Sachs, in New York and Paris, working on some of the largest and most complex transactions involving corporations from all over the world. Bernard graduated with an MSc in Management from HEC Paris. He also serves as an independent member of the Supervisory Board of Vivendi.

Peter Ruis

Managing Director John Lewis & Partners

Nadine Graf

President, EMEA, UK&I & Emerging Markets The Estée Lauder Companies

Nadine is the president of EMEA, UK & Ireland and emerging markets at The Estée Lauder Companies. She leads the regional strategy for the business across 16 affiliates and over 80 countries and territories – looking after brands including Estee Lauder, Clinique, Mac, Bobbi Brown and more. With over 20 years of experience in the beauty industry, Nadine is passionate about fostering creativity and innovation to implement future-facing, high-growth business models.
 

Stuart Haselden

CEO Arc'teryx

Stuart Haselden serves as Chief Executive Officer at Arc’teryx. Since taking the helm at Arc’teryx in 2021, Stuart has led the company on a transformative growth path, invested in leadership across all levels of the enterprise, and driven a systematic and authentic path to quality growth across the globe, earning brand fans and loyalists from mountain towns to major cities.

Prior to joining Arc’teryx, Stuart served as CEO at Away Travel, and held executive roles at lululemon, J.Crew and Saks Fifth Avenue department stores. He brings over 25 years of global experience in retail and vertical premium brands, with knowledge gained from working in countries spanning North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Stuart began his own personal leadership journey as a young cavalry officer in the United States Army, which proved to be a life-shaping experience for him. During this time, he formed deeply ingrained beliefs in the human experience of leadership.

It was also the beginning of a lifelong love of mountain and alpine sports. He’s passed on this passion for the mountains to his three children and at the weekend you’re most likely to find him enjoying nature with his family—be it skiing, biking, hiking or swimming.

Alexis Mourot

CEO Christian Louboutin

Peter Wood

CEO AllSaints

Peter Wood is the Chief Executive Officer of AllSaints, the global contemporary fashion brand, and John Varvatos, the modern American luxury menswear brand. He joined AllSaints in 2010 as Chief Financial Officer and became Chief Executive Officer in 2018, assuming leadership of John Varvatos when the brand was acquired in 2020. Under his tenure, both AllSaints and John Varvatos have delivered sustained record results, most recently reporting a new record group profit performance for the year to February 2025. With annual revenues in excess of £400 million the combined AllSaints/John Varvatos group has approximately 250 directly managed stores, concessions and outlets across 16 countries, supported by a significant online presence, a strong international network of leading wholesale and franchise partners, and a global team of more than 2,000 employees. Peter’s leadership has been widely recognised. He was named Leader of the Year at the 2025 Drapers Awards, while AllSaints was crowned Fashion Retailer of the Year at the Retail Week Awards 2025 and Retailer of the Year at the 2023 Drapers Awards. Peter qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1997, specialising in corporate finance with Arthur Andersen in Scotland and London. His early career saw him work with private equity firms and leading UK entrepreneurs in the consumer sector to support their growth ambitions. In 2000, he was appointed Chief Financial Officer of USC, the muti-brand casualwear retailer that was Diesel's largest European wholesale customer at the time. In 2022, Peter joined the Board of the British Retail Consortium as a Non-Executive Director and Chairman of its Audit and Risk Committee. He lives in Hampshire with his wife and two children.

Ashley Kechter

Global President Vuori

As Vuori’s Global President, Ashley Kechter is responsible for overseeing the brand’s global business strategy, driving the financial process, and overseeing retail, eCommerce, planning and wholesale internationally and domestically. With two decades of brand experience in omni-channel leadership across strategy, planning, inventory management, allocation, operations, supply chain and logistics for multi-billion-dollar retailers, Kechter brings a wealth of knowledge to her role as global president. Prior to joining Vuori, Kechter served as global president of eComm, retail, wholesale and International for Fabletics since 2023, where she delivered the brand’s P&L through overseeing marketing, product creation, inventory and financial management, and strategic operations across all business units and channels. Before her time at Fabletics, she served as Chief Business Officer and GM for Banana Republic, and Chief Merchandising Officer and GM of Merch, Planning, eCommerce, Sourcing, Inventory Management, and Product Development at Restoration Hardware. Early in her career, she held leadership roles across various disciplines including planning and logistics and inventory management at GAP Inc., Old Navy, and Banana Republic. Kechter holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Economics & International Business Management from the California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo.

Olin Novák

CEO, International Rohlik Group

Olin Novák is an experienced Retail CEO with extensive experience across retail, e-commerce, and FMCG, specializing in commercial and growth strategy, marketing, market expansion, and the management of complex operations. He joined Rohlik Group in 2018, where he progressively led key commercial and marketing initiatives that supported the company’s rapid scaling. Since 2022, he has been responsible for the Group’s international development while also overseeing retail operations across five European markets under the brands Rohlik.cz, Knuspr.de, Gurkerl.at, Kifli.hu, and Sezamo.ro. During his tenure, he has been among the key leaders contributing to the company’s growth from approximately €250 million in revenue to more than €1.5 billion, while sustaining annual growth above 25% YoY.   

Sebastian Picardo

CEO Monica Vinader

Thor Skov Jørgensen

CEO Coop Danmark

Thor Skov Jørgensen, 44 years old, has been the Managing Director/CEO of Coop Danmark A/S since June 19, 2024.

Prior to that, he came from the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at the energy company OK.

Before joining OK in 2023, he was part of the executive management team at Salling Group, where he held several roles, including Chief Operating Officer of Netto International, Director of Føtex, and overall head of the company’s e-commerce and digital business.

In addition, he has a background as a consultant, where over several years he specialized in and worked with multiple disciplines within retail, both domestically and internationally.

Bastian Siebers

CEO flaconi

Bastian Siebers is an experienced e-commerce expert and the CEO of flaconi, Germany's leading online shop for beauty and perfume. He took on the role of CEO at the end of 2022 and has steered the Berlin-based company onto a successful course in less than two years.

Siebers successfully drove a significant growth trajectory, built on a strategy focused on Internationalization, Retail Media, Retention, and Engagement. This approach delivered break-even and double-digit profitable growth that has continued to the present day. He also spearheaded rapid international expansion, successfully launching flaconi in 8 new European countries and targeting seven more by 2026, with the goal of becoming the leading online pure-player in European e-commerce. The motto #WEcommerce is lived and breathed at flaconi: Siebers focuses on building long-term, trusting relationships with flaconi's customers, brand partners and, above all, with all flaconi employees.

With more than 20 years of experience in retail, marketing, and strategy, Siebers previously served as the CEO of babymarkt.de. Throughout his career, he also acquired deep retail and e-commerce expertise at the Tengelmann Group and within the KarstadtQuelle Group.

Jo Dancey

Global Brand President, Jo Malone London & Lifestyle Fragrances The Estée Lauder Companies

Andreas Hoerning

CEO Westwing

Andreas Hoerning is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Westwing Group SE. He was appointed as Chief Commercial Officer in February 2022 and became CEO in July 2022, leading the company's operations and strategy.

Andreas has been with Westwing since 2015, where he built and served as Managing Director of the Westwing Collection.

Prior to Westwing, Andreas worked at Boston Consulting Group where he supported industrial and consumer goods clients moving ahead in strategy, operating model and performance. Andreas holds a PhD in commercial law from Humboldt University Berlin.

Thomas Métivier

CEO Cdiscount

Julia Bösch

Executive Chair & Founder Lookiero Outfittery Group

Julia Bösch is the executive chair of the Lookiero Outfittery Group, Europe’s leading online personal shopping platform. A pioneer in curated fashion services, she co-founded Outfittery and has scaled the business through more than €50 million in funding, shaping the future of personalised retail in Europe.

Daniel Gomez

CEO PANGAIA

Ted Boman

CEO Gina Tricot

Scaling omnichannel retail with speed and precision. Gina Tricot has doubled its turnover in the last 3 years.

Great fashion with support of AI-driven inventory optimization, RFID precision and structured data has created a customer first approach that has enabled Gina Tricot to enter new international markets, generate improved customer satisfaction scores and grow profitability.

Alexis Rollier

Global Chief Operating Officer SEPHORA

Katie Reeves

Chief Commercial Officer COS

Katie is the global chief commercial officer at COS. In this role, she is responsible for driving the brand's global growth, in-store and online, via D2C and wholesale. Prior to the role, Katie served as Managing Director for North America for 4 years.

Dimas Gimeno

Founding Partner & President WOW Concept

Dimas is the president of WOW Concept, a multibrand retailer with two flagship stores in Madrid. He is also the president of Kapita, an investment firm that focuses on technology and innovation in retail. Previously, Dimas was the president & CEO of Spanish retail giant El Corte Inglés.

Nanna Anderson

Chief of New Growth & Ventures H&M Group

Nanna Andersen is the Managing Director of New Growth & Ventures at H&M Group, where she has spent the past decade shaping the company’s strategic investment agenda. She is a key force behind the establishment of H&M Group’s investment arm and New Growth business area, and she leads a team with a broad mandate: investing in high-potential start-ups, building joint ventures, and exploring potential acquisitions.
Under her leadership, the New Growth & Ventures team acts as a hands-on and long-term strategic partner offering not only capital, but also deep industry expertise, operational know-how, and access to H&M Group’s global scale. With a focus on innovative solutions across the fashion industry, Nanna and her team are driving what comes next for H&M Group, for the customers, and for the future of fashion.

Jamie Kristow

CEO Cotswold Outdoor Group

Jamie Kristow is CEO of the Cotswold Outdoor Group, leading strategy and operations across its specialist retail brands within the UK’s premium outdoor market. With more than 25 years of international retail experience across the UK, Canada, South Africa and Australia, he has held leadership roles with Hudson’s Bay Company, Target Australia and Woolworths Holdings. Jamie focuses on retail innovation, customer experience and the growing role of retail media in shaping the future of global retail.

Geoff van Sonsbeeck

Founder & CEO House of Baukjen

Marlies Hersbach

Chief Online & Customer Officer MANGO

Marlies Hersbach is the Chief online and Customer Officer at Mango and a member of the company's Steering Committee. From her position, she leads the brand's digital strategy, including the development of the e-commerce channel, customer experience, and loyalty programmes at a global level. With a degree in French Language and Culture and a master's degree in Intercultural Communication from Utrecht University, Hersbach has over 15 years of international experience in omnichannel retail and e-commerce. In 2020, the executive joined Mango as International Retail Director, following a solid career in the retail sector. During this period, she successfully led the commercial strategy in some of Mango's key European markets. In 2024, Hersbach was appointed Executive Director of e-commerce to continue driving the growth of the online channel and advancing the continuous improvement of the customer experience. Before joining Mango, Marlies Hersbach developed her professional career in fashion companies such as Pimkie and Kiabi, where she was in charge of the e-marketing and e-commerce areas.

David Wilkinson

Executive Director Steen & Strøm

An experienced retail executive with a track record of successful leadership and turnaround in blue-chip retail groups in the UK, Europe, MENA, Russia. David has served Harrods, Selfridges & Co, Kurt Geiger Ltd, Salam Studio & Stores (MENA ) and Au Pont Rouge (RU) in various board capacities. For the past 6 years David has created and implemented the strategy for the reimagination of Steen & Strøm department store Oslo.

Henry Chen Weinstein

CEO Avolta NEXT

Rahul Shah

Global Chief Digital & Information Officer Mars Pet Nutrition

Fiona Tan

Chief Technology Officer Wayfair

Przemek Czarnecki

Chief Technology Officer ASOS

Przemek joined ASOS in February 2025 and is responsible for driving the technology strategy, delivery, and operations globally, encompassing all customer online experiences, data platforms, supply chain, operational, and business systems.

Przemek brings 30 years of experience in digital engineering and engineering management, with a strong focus on digital technology and e-commerce. He’s worked across Europe and the US, most recently as VP of Software Engineering at Zalando. He’s also held prominent roles at companies such as T-Mobile, IBM, Motorola, iHeartMedia, and has a master’s degree in engineering, as well as an executive MBA.

Marcel Uphues

Chief Ecommerce Officer DOUGLAS Group

Marcel Uphues is Chief E-Commerce Officer and has been a member of the Management Committee of the DOUGLAS Group since March 2026.

Since April 2025, he has been responsible for the Group-wide E-Commerce business as well as the Partner Program of Europe’s leading premium beauty retailer. Prior to this, he headed the Group Controlling, Real Estate, and Risk & ICS functions within the DOUGLAS Group. Before joining DOUGLAS, Marcel Uphues held different international management positions at the food wholesaler Metro and the hypermarket chain Real, where he was a member of the operating board, responsible for finance functions as well as for customer insights, big data & pricing, and omnichannel & E-Com.

He holds a degree in Business Administration with a focus on Retail Management and has completed several international executive programs.

Lydia Kind

Chief Marketing Officer Westwing

Mark Blundell

Chief Retail Officer Harrods

Mark is the Chief Retail Officer for Harrods, responsible for all Mark Blundell Chief Retail Officer Harrods' physical retail channels. His focus is on driving sales performance, service experience and operational standards in the Knightsbridge store and is also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Airports and H Beauty stores across the country. Mark is also accountable for Private Shopping at The Penthouse and led the transformation of this service over the past 4 years, making it the elite service for our most discerning Harrods clients. Mark joined Harrods seven years ago as Head of Retail Transformation and in 2022, was promoted to Retail Director. He has held multiple senior leadership positions at the John Lewis Partnership and began his career in financial services working for Barclays. With over twenty-five years’ experience in Retail Management, Mark is a dynamic leader with a proven track record in managing teams to deliver outstanding retail operations and achieve strong commercial results. By combining leadership qualities, strategic capability, and operational expertise to modernise retail businesses; enhance customer experiences and drive profitability. In his role as Chief Retail Officer, Mark is a member of the Harrods Management Executive Committee, driving direction and leadership of the business.        

Aparna Sundaresh

Global Chief Marketing Officer De'Longhi Group

Pedro Esquivias

Chief Customer Officer Tendam

Karen Owen

Chief Growth Officer, European & Pacific Developed Markets Kraft Heinz

A marketeer at heart, Karen’s journey to brand building began almost three decades ago when a deep curiosity for consumer behavior took root. This desire to connect with people through moments that matter, teamed with strong business acumen, has led Karen to a number of senior sales and marketing roles in locations across Europe and Asia.

Today, Karen oversees innovation, marketing and brand strategy for Kraft Heinz’ European and Pacific Developed Markets, united by the company’s crown jewel, Heinz - a global brand icon with roots in Karen’s hometown of Wigan, where her love for the billion-dollar brand began.

A seasoned CPG executive with a passion for building high performing teams, Karen has a track record of spearheading innovation and creativity to drive top and bottom-line growth for global brands like LIPTON Teas and Infusions, where she served as Chief Marketing Officer prior to joining Kraft Heinz. Karen has also held leadership roles at Diageo, Coty Beauty and P&G.

Based in Amsterdam, Karen is the proud parent of two daughters and enjoys exploring new cultures and countries through food. But when it comes to her favorite; French Fries – it has to be Heinz.

Rachel McShane

Chief Financial & Operating Officer Depop

Rachel McShane is Depop’s Chief Financial Officer, and joined the business in 2023. She is responsible for Depop’s global Finance, Insights and Operations functions, and works alongside our CEO and leadership team to set the strategic direction of the company. Rachel joined Depop from Paysafe, where she was CFO of the Digital Walets division. Prior to this she spent over a decade at Barclays, across a number of central finance and then commercial remits, lastly as Head of Finance for the Corporate Bank and FD for Transaction Banking, folowing four years at Barclaycard in leadership roles. Rachel is passionate about Diversity and Inclusion, and throughout her career has led several initiatives to drive change in the culture of organisations.

Jose Gomez

Chief Development Officer ETAM

Vineta Bajaj

Group Chief Financial Officer Holland & Barrett

Thibault Hennion

Chief Operations Officer Unlimitail (Carrefour & Publicis Groupe)

Thibault is the chief operating officer for Unlimitail – the joint retail media venture between Carrefour and Publicis Groupe. In this role, he is responsible for accelerating capabilities and expansion, and strengthening brand partnerships. Prior to joining Unlimitail, Thibault led international operations at Epsilon and was chief of staff to the CEO of Publicis Groupe – bringing a unique agency and technology background to retail.

David Carey

Chief Technology Officer - UK Popeyes

David Carey serves as Chief Technology Officer at Popeyes UK, where he is responsible for driving the company's digital, technology, and data strategies. Previously he was Digital Director at The Restaurant Group and Wagamama, and prior, held UK and international senior marketing roles at Papa John’s.

Jordi Bosch

Global Head of Sales & Customers Nestlé

Years with Nestlé: 24

Position history: Jordi began his Nestlé career in Spain in 2001 in the Sales function.

Moved to France in 2009 taking up the position of Global Customer Development Director.

In 2013, returned to Spain as Business Executive Officer Nestlé Purina.

In 2018, Jordi was appointed Head of Sales and Customers Zone EMENA defining and establishing customer strategy and managing the negotiations with international alliances and customers.

Since 2020, Global Head of Sales & Customers Unit.

Prior to Nestlé, Jordi worked in Georgia Pacific in various Marketing and Sales roles, as well as in Accenture.

Romain Roulleau

Group Digital & Ecommerce Director Kingfisher

As Group Digital & E-Commerce Director at Kingfisher, Romain is responsible for leading all marketplace, retail media, e-commerce and innovation activity within the Group and its banner brands. Prior to his current role, Romain spent five years as Chief Marketing, Digital & Customer Officer at Castorama, one of the leading home improvement retailers in France, driving the brand’s digital strategy and e-commerce growth. He has also previously held a number of senior digital and e-commerce roles within the travel industry globally, over the course of more than a decade, including as Senior Vice President Digital & E-Commerce at AccorHotels, one of the world's largest hotel groups.

Dido Schmidt

Director, Global Partnerships - Commerce Google

Mark Elkins

General Manager, Global Ecommerce L'Oreal

Mark is a transformative commercial leader with a 25+ year track record of accelerating growth and innovation in major consumer companies. He currently spearheads L'Oréal's €12B+ e-commerce business, representing 28% of the company's total revenue. His expertise spans strategic vision, commercial partnerships, executional excellence and operating model transformation.

Since joining L'Oréal three years ago, Mark has propelled its e-commerce growth by deepening shopper insights, building strategic partnerships, and developing cutting-edge technologies to drive performance. This has resulted in share gains and solidification of its #1 position in an increasingly competitive industry.

Prior to L'Oréal, Mark served as a Partner at McKinsey & Company for five years, where he worked with leading retail and consumer goods companies to accelerate omnichannel growth and launch new business, including D2C, B2B, quick commerce, and third-party marketplaces. He also brings extensive experience from his eleven-year tenure at Coca-Cola Enterprises/European Partners, where he led portfolio expansion and built the digital commerce team from scratch to become the leader in e-commerce, digital marketing, and business model innovation.

Mark holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Masters in Engineering from Imperial College. He is a founding member of the Digital 50 and is recognised as a thought leader in digital commerce space. His passion is in combining design, technology and commerce to improve daily lives. His creativity extends beyond his professional life; with a background in architectural design, Mark’s creative pursuits include jazz music, art and photography.

Bianca Sing

General Manager, Global Head of Ecommerce Strategic Partnerships TikTok Shop

Bianca Sing leads Global Strategic Brand Partnerships at TikTok Shop, where she collaborates with some of the world’s most influential enterprise brands to scale their businesses through discovery commerce. Her team partners with global leaders including L’Oréal, adidas, Apple, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, LVMH, SharkNinja - helping them unlock long-term growth and connect with customers where they are: on TikTok.

Bianca focuses on enabling brands to harness TikTok Shop’s discovery-first model, where engaging, shoppable videos and live streams inspire communities to discover and instantly purchase trending products. Her work involves close cross-functional collaboration to co-create solutions for complex global organisations, guiding them through the unique opportunities presented by discovery commerce.

Having lived and worked across Asia, Europe, and the United States, Bianca brings a truly global perspective to brand building and succeeding in digital commerce.

Greg Javor

SVP, Global Supply Chain Operations Mattel

Sarah Clark

SVP, EMEA lululemon

Sarah is senior vice president of EMEA at lululemon. In this role, she is responsible for the brand’s strategic growth and development in the region, online, in-store and through franchise partners. Sarah plays a key role in the rollout of new and revamped store formats across Europe, Middle East and Asia, ensuring local community connection blended with global brand familiarity.

Claire Terry

SVP, EMEA - Consumer Products The Walt Disney Company

Marlies Gebetsberger

SVP, Head of Personal Health - Western Europe Philips

Farzin Saber

Global VP, Digital Project Office IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)

Farzin is the global vice president for IKEA’s digital project office. In this role, Farzin and his team are responsible for a global project portfolio of both business and IT transformation programs. Previously Farzin served as a management consultant at Deloitte, EY and Accenture in the Nordics, published multiple articles on supply chain digitisation and delivered a TEDx talk at Lund University.

Mirjam Schuele

SVP, Marketing KARL LAGERFELD

Danson Huang

Global VP, Omnichannel & Digital Commerce Diageo

Danson Huang is the Global Vice President of Omnichannel & Digital Commerce at Diageo, where he leads the transformation of the company’s global B2C digital landscape across pure-play, e-grocery, quick-commerce and e-specialist channels, as well as D2C platforms, brand websites, and broader digital ecosystems. His remit contributes to a business target of over $600m in net sales value, with more than 45% digital influence across Diageo’s portfolio.

With over 20 years of experience in digital transformation and connected commerce, Danson brings a rare blend of entrepreneurial and corporate leadership. He spent a decade as an entrepreneur in China’s digital sector before joining Mars Petcare, where he held senior digital commerce and innovation roles across China, Singapore, the United States and France. His work included building regional digital hubs, scaling e-commerce capabilities across multiple markets, and leading global D2C and new business initiatives.

Danson is recognised for his strategic approach to omnichannel growth, MACH-enabled transformation, and the integration of technology, data and consumer experience to unlock sustainable commercial impact.

Andrew Lederman

VP, Global Digital Commerce Mondelēz International

Andrew Lederman is a seasoned digital commerce executive with deep experience driving global transformation across the consumer-goods industry. He is Vice President of Global Digital Commerce at Mondelēz International, where he leads a $3B+ business focused on accelerating growth through data-driven strategy, emerging commerce platforms, and operational excellence. Earlier, Andrew was part of the founding team at OpenSky, later acquired by Alibaba, and helped launch and scale BEES at AB InBev, one of the world’s largest B2B commerce platforms. Known for bringing startup agility into large-scale organizations, he is recognized for his strategic vision, disciplined execution, and ability to build high-performing, future-ready teams.

Shweta Munshi

VP, Retail Experience & Marketing the LEGO® Group

Shweta is a Marketing & Business leader with 23+ years’ track record of managing brands, embedding transformations and delivering net-new growth in consumer goods sector, across B2B and B2C.

Shweta has held various Global and Regional leadership roles in multi-national organisations such as Whirlpool, Hewlett Packard and Nestle. She built her formative career in Asia for first decade, before moving to Europe and spending the next decade driving marketing transformations in global organisations.

Currently, Shweta is in a senior leadership role at The LEGO group, leading Global Marketing and Retail Experiences for LEGO Retail, the D2C business for the company. This includes making sure LEGO.com and our Brand stores, globally.

Shweta is an architect, has 2 MBA's from MDI Gurgaon India and IMD Lausanne Switzerland.

She has a passion for all topics linked to Brand marketing, D2C models and marketing transformation, especially with advent of Gen AI and is keen to keep the virtuous loop of learning and sharing, on.

Beth Horn

VP, Southern Europe & UK&I Pinterest

Beth Horn is VP of Southern Europe, UK & Ireland, where she leads the platform's advertising partnerships for five markets. She was previously UK Managing Director. Since joining Pinterest in June 2024, Beth has overseen record business results, first-of-their-kind brand partnerships, and the rollout of innovative performance products. She has also fronted events including Pinvision - Pinterest’s largest annual advertiser event and spoken at numerous external industry events. Before joining Pinterest, Beth was Director of Sales at Spotify, and spent 12 years at Meta, where she was Director and Head of Industry for Retail & Ecommerce, overseeing Meta's relationships with retail and ecommerce companies in the US and UK. Prior to Meta, Beth led global paid search for Expedia, Microsoft, and Intuit at Efficient Frontier, and began her career in the creative department of Macys.com. She is a Non-Executive Director of NiX by Nicola Harding and a Trustee of Crouch End Festival Chorus. A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Beth is a dual US / UK citizen and an honours graduate of Stanford University. She lives in North London with her golden retriever, Bridget. www.beth-horn.com
 

Leona De Graft

VP, Ecommerce - Europe Levi Strauss & Co.

Rob Manhoudt

VP, Digital Commerce - Europe Procter & Gamble

Amy Bi

Global VP, Brand DECIEM (The Ordinary, NIOD & Avestan)

Susie Donaldson

VP, Marketing - EMEA SharkNinja

Susie Donaldson is Vice-President of Marketing for EMEA at SharkNinja, the US product design and technology company behind the Shark and Ninja brands. Brought in at the start of 2024 to accelerate the company's European growth, she leads brand strategy, market share expansion and consumer marketing across the region — drawing on a strong track record in tech to drive SharkNinja's growing global ambitions.

Since joining, Susie has overseen a significant wave of product innovation for European consumers, disrupting existing categories and creating new ones with a social-first approach that meets consumers where they are — whether on the shop floor or on TikTok Shop. She has also spearheaded the brand's investment in influencer marketing, building partnerships with celebrity ambassadors and expanding SharkNinja's presence across social platforms.

The results speak for themselves. Europe is now recognised as a key growth driver for SharkNinja, with 2025 marked as the brand's strongest year on record.

Helena Bukowski

SVP, Marketing KICKS

Helena Bukowski is Senior Vice President Marketing at KICKS, one of the Nordics’ leading beauty retailers, where she leads marketing across Sweden, Norway, and Finland. Her remit spans brand, media, campaigns, social media, influencer marketing, and in-house creative.

Her work centers on how consumer behavior is shifting—from planned purchases to constant discovery—driven by social feeds, creators, and communities. At KICKS, this has meant building more customer-centric and content-driven ways of working, with social media playing a central role in how the brand connects with younger audiences.

Helena is particularly interested in how fast-moving trends, often born on platforms like TikTok, can be translated into meaningful retail experiences. She advocates for connecting insights from social and digital channels with campaigns, content, and physical stores—making relevance something that shows up consistently across the full customer journey, not just in isolated channels.

She believes that winning the attention of new generations requires more than visibility; it requires credibility, cultural understanding, and the ability to move at the pace of the consumer. With a strong focus on long-term brand building, she emphasizes authenticity, inclusivity, and an integrated omnichannel approach.

Helena has a deep interest in consumer behavior and how beauty continues to sit at the intersection of culture, identity, and commerce.

Thea Mathias

VP, General Manager - International Our Place

Thea Mathias is VP International at Our Place, the California-born cookware and lifestyle brand on a mission to bring people together through the joy of a home cooked meal. Our Place creates beautiful, non-toxic, high performance cookware which has been a viral sensation since it launched in 2019. It has been seen in the kitchens of major celebrities including David Beckham, Lizzo, Cameron Diaz, Selena Gomez, Gwyneth Paltrow and many more. In this role, she leads the company's global expansion, overseeing market entry strategy, localization, and commercial operations across multiple international markets. Our Place is currently available in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and recently launched in France.

Before joining Our Place, Thea built a career that bridges strategy, public policy, and high-growth technology. She began at McKinsey & Co., before moving to the UK Cabinet Office, where she worked on the Mission-led Business review, a policy programme aimed at supporting the growth of businesses in the UK that are both commercially driven and generating positive social or environmental impact. Most recently, she held a senior role at Rover.com, a peer-to-peer marketplace that listed on the NASDAQ in 2021.

She is based in London, United Kingdom.

Justyna Torres

Executive Director, Ecommerce Carrefour España

Niccolò Francalanci

Managing Director, EMEA & Americas Ludovico Martelli (Marvis)

Niccolò is currently General Manager at Ludovico Martelli SpA, an Italian CPG company specialized in the Personal Care segment, where he is responsible for developing the EMEA and Americas markets, both in the ecommerce and retail channels. The most viral and famous brands of the company are Marvis (oral care) and Proraso (#1 men’s shaving brand in Italy). Prior to that, Niccolò worked in the last-mile delivery industry as Head of Marketing & Growth at Glovo Italy during the transformation of the company from start-up to scale-up. Before returning to Italy, Niccolò worked 7 years in the US at Reckitt Benckiser with progressive roles and responsibilities in brand management (innovation, activation, equity), leading global cross-functional teams across multiple categories such as Consumer Healthcare and Personal Care. Niccolò started his career in consulting at Accenture Italy serving clients from the Public Sector. He holds a BSc and MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Florence and an MBA (Majors: Marketing, Strategy) from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Finally, Niccolò was nominated by Forbes as Top 100 Marketing Directors in Italy (2020) and is a keynote speaker at prominent Italian Universities & Industry events.    

Tash Whitmey

Managing Director, Tesco Media & Insight Platform Tesco

With a track record of impressive achievements across three decades, Tash Whitmey is a media industry leader whose vision and stewardship turned Tesco Media into the ultimate media partner, transforming it from a retailer with data to a media owner with soul, scale and storytelling power.

Appointed in 2023 to create and lead a new media and insights organisation within Tesco, Tash’s vision to be the ultimate media partner for clients and agencies has been instrumental in Tesco Media’s success. In two years, Tash has turned it into a trusted and multi-award-winning retail media network that continues to set the pace for retailer-owned advertising today.

In 2025, under Tash’s leadership, Tesco Media was recognised across the industry with more than 23 award nominations and multiple major wins. Most notably, being named Media Brand of the Year at the Media Week Awards and Retail Media Network of the Year at Retail X, where Tash was also shortlisted for Retail Media Person of the Year.

Tash began her career at Tesco overseeing a major transformation of Clubcard, seeing Clubcard membership grow to more than 23m and app users to 16m. She subsequently spent almost two decades in senior leadership roles at Havas, including as UK CEO for Havas Helia, developing successful strategies for brands including Pets at Home, adidas, easyJet and Diageo. Returning to Tesco Group in 2023 perfectly married her external media and loyalty experience, with prior Tesco experience.

Tash is a Fellow and former non-exec director of the Marketing Society, featured in Data IQ’s 100 Most Influential People in Data and was included in Campaign magazine’s A-list for three successive years.

Kirsten Andersson

Managing Director, Platform & Marketplaces IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)

Managing Director for Platform & Marketplaces at IKEA Retail (Ingka Group)

Kirsten Andersson is the Managing Director for Platform & Marketplaces at IKEA Retail (Ingka Group), effective July 1, 2025. She has been part of IKEA since 2010, holding a range of global leadership roles across the company. Her career journey includes positions such as Global Competence Development Leader and Global Transformation Office Manager, where she played a pivotal role in driving large-scale organizational change and future-proofing IKEA’s capabilities.

Kirsten brings a strong international perspective to her leadership. She studied at Maastricht University (2001–2005) and later at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (2005).

With over 15 years at IKEA, Kirsten is passionate about innovation, transformation, and building marketplaces that create value for both customers and the business. In her new role, she leads the development of IKEA’s global platform and marketplace strategy, further strengthening Ingka Group’s commitment to affordability, accessibility, and sustainability in the digital era.

Charina Lumley

Managing Director, Marketing Solutions DOUGLAS Group

Charina is the Managing Director of Retail Media for the European Retail Media Business at DOUGLAS, which operates under the name DOUGLAS Marketing Solutions. She operates at the intersection of beauty, health, wellness, and digital commerce, helping brands grow in modern retail environments through the combination of storytelling, community, and data-driven marketing.

She began her career in digital publishing with female-forward media brands founded by Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, where she developed a passion for empowering women through content and community. This mission led her to co-found the Movemeant Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to building confidence in girls and women through fitness.

Her career has since spanned retail innovation and product development across the US and Europe, from creating wellness and hard goods for leading eCommerce brands to building retail media solutions that drive measurable growth for retailers and brand partners.

Amir Rasekh

Managing Director, Nectar360 Sainsbury's

A commercial and strategic business leader with over two decades of experience, Amir Rasekh is Managing Director of Nectar360 - a loyalty, insight, and retail media agency. He has great expertise in building successful insight and media businesses and delivering market-leading data-driven marketing to clients. Having worked at Nectar360 for a decade, Amir also spent many years at Sainsbury’s, across a myriad of functions, including the entrepreneurial Business Development division, successfully launching a new insight and media agency to the market called Insight to Communication (i2C), now known as Nectar360. Amir leads over 200 colleagues as the Nectar360 team provides services to over 900 clients every year. Clients span multiple industries and include many of the biggest brands globally, including British Airways, Esso, and AMEX through to Unilever, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Samsung, Microsoft, and Google. Passionate about putting the customer at the centre of decision-making, Amir is also energised by building, leading and empowering high-performing teams to deliver great client work and commercial performance.
 

Sebastian Hylving

Managing Director Ingka Centres

Sebastian Hylving is Ingka Centres Managing Director at Ingka Centres. Originally from Sweden, he brings extensive international experience in real estate and retail expansion, having held strategic leadership roles across Europe, Asia, and North America.

Sebastian began his career at the real estate arm of the Swedish national pension funds before joining one of Sweden’s leading meeting place consultancy firms. He later moved into senior development roles at Inter-IKEA Centres, serving as Group Development Manager for Europe and subsequently as Deputy Managing Director in China, where he played a key role in establishing the first three Livat Meeting Places in the market. Sebastian joined Ingka Centres in 2022 as Global Expansion & Development Manager and has played a vital role in the growth, development and strengthening of Ingka Centers’ portfolio across Europe, China, India and North America.

Before joining Ingka Centres, Sebastian was based in Singapore as Property & Expansion Manager for Ikano Retail. There, he was responsible for driving new market entries and developing the expansion pipeline for Meeting Places and IKEA stores across Southeast Asia and Mexico.

Deann Evans

Managing Director, EMEA Shopify

Deann oversees the European expansion of Shopify, the global commerce platform powering millions of modern, high-growth brands including Gymshark, Huel, War Paint for Men and Ooni. She leads Shopify’s strategy to help European merchants sell on every surface and drive retail innovation hand in hand with Europe’s most exciting businesses. In her role, she also drives the expansion of Shopify’s European ecosystem, with the objective to empower merchants to deliver the experiences they want for their customers, and drive forward innovation through its partners and developer community.
An experienced technology executive, Deann’s career spans over two decades in a range of leadership and C-level roles for ecommerce and SaaS businesses, such as eBay, Mettr and Sizmek.
 

Filippo Zuffada

Head of International & Global Hardlines, Consumer Products Netflix

Filippo is the head of international, consumer products at Netflix, as well as the global hardlines verticals. In this role, he leads the international expansion of Netflix’s consumer products business – driving fandom, deepening consumer engagement, and unlocking new revenue streams through strategic brand extensions and global partnerships. He previously ran the EMEA business for consumer products, where he scaled to 131 countries and defined the strategic roadmap for the region.

Dan Rubel

Brand & Marketing Director Currys

Dan is the Brand & Marketing Director at Currys – responsible for brand, advertising, social, CRM, PR, promo planning, store innovation and omnichannel creative & content. Dan has been at Currys since September 2018 and previously had held a variety of marketing, strategy, customer experience and general management roles – mainly at the Very Group and Procter & Gamble. Outside of work, he’s a dad, a keen tennis player, a reluctant gym goer and an emotional Manchester United fan.
 

Jade Sharpe

Head of Loyalty Marks & Spencer

Jade Sharpe is Head of Loyalty at Marks & Spencer, where she leads the transformation of Sparks, M&S’s loyalty programme with more than 24 million members. Jade kicked off the loyalty transformation while serving as M&S’s Head of Company Strategy, and moved to lead the programme driven by a strong belief in putting customers first and creating meaningful, rewarding experiences that truly matter to everyday life. Before joining M&S, Jade was a Partner at Boston Consulting Group, specialising in large scale digital and data transformations across the consumer sector.

Xavier Rebés

Digital, Innovation & Transformation Executive Director TOUS Jewelry

Xavier Rebés joined TOUS in 2022. As Transformation & Innovation Director, he leads cross-functional transformation projects within the company and is a member of the Executive Committee.

He joined TOUS from Caixabank, where he headed the innovation and digital strategy division. Additionally, he brings extensive experience from companies such as Oliver Wyman, ValueClick, and PwC, specialising in innovation, transformation, and digitalisation.

Emma Lindahl

Head of ICAx ICA Gruppen

Emma Lindahl leads ICA Gruppen’s innovation unit ICAx. With a diverse background that includes a PhD from Karolinska Institutet, roles in business development, design, product management, and teaching, Emma excels in integrating creative research strategies with cutting-edge technology. She emphasizes an experimental approach to strategy, new technology, business and human wants, so that innovation consistently can be translated into real-world impact.

Marta Mateu Vilalta

Director, Open Innovation & Corporate Venture Capital MANGO

Christina Fontana

Senior Director, Brand Operations - EMEA SHEIN

Diego Baronchelli

Director, DTC - EMEA Salomon

Diego Baronchelli is a DTC visionary obsessed with elevating brands and creating consumer experiences that genuinely move people. As DTC Leader for Salomon EMEA & Global, he is reshaping how sport, culture, and retail collide—designing the Salomon Retail Playbook and defining the next generation of immersive brand experiences.

Previously VP DTC at Vans EMEA, Diego drove one of the brand’s most energizing accelerations, and earlier contributed to major growth cycles at The North Face. His passion for storytelling and experience design comes from a career spent building iconic, immersive brand environments that turn consumers into communities and brands into cultural forces.

Relentlessly consumer-obsessed, Diego blends creativity, data, and bold experimentation to push the boundaries of what retail can be. At Shoptalk, he brings an electrifying perspective on how emotion-led experiences, AI-driven retail, and sport-inspired culture will shape the next era of brand elevation.

Swiss-Italian by origin and a world citizen at heart, Diego lives in Switzerland with his wife and two children. A passionate runner, skier, and outdoor enthusiast, he brings the same energy and love for movement into the brands and teams he leads.

Ana Afán

Global Retail Media Director The Coca-Cola Company

Melda Hamarat

Global Head of Digital Commerce Strategy The Magnum Ice Cream Company

With 12 years of digital commerce experience at Unilever, Melda Hamarat now leads global digital commerce strategy at The Magnum Ice Cream Company, the world’s largest ice cream business. Driven by a passion for future proofing commerce, she is currently exploring how Agentic Commerce will transform discoverability and consumer journeys.

Tom Langley

Head of Personalisation & Retail Media The John Lewis Partnership

Tom is the head of retail media at the John Lewis Partnership, in a role which spans across Waitrose and John Lewis, with a focus on evolving & growing the insight & media capabilities to deliver engaging customer experiences, advertiser brand growth and Partnership growth. Prior to joining the Partnership, Tom spent 15 years at dunnhumby, working with Tesco and other retailers around the world to design and build their retail media businesses.

Joanna Mittnacht

Head of Retail Media, Germany Amazon

Baz Saidieh

Managing Partner, Ibex & Global Partner Antler VC

Baz is a global partner at Antler, a venture capital firm and one of the world’s most active early-stage investors and managing partner for Ibex – the firm’s innovation hub. Based in London, Baz focuses on building impactful innovation models to drive corporate-startup relationships.

Sarah Iglesias

Co-Founder & CEO Artiso

Maryam Ghahremani

Co-Founder & CEO Bambuser

Amaryllis Liampoti

Managing Director & Partner, Global Head of Growth BCG X

Amaryllis Liampoti is a global leader in loyalty strategy and customer driven growth. She helps organizations reimagine loyalty as a core business capability, moving beyond points and rewards to build data powered ecosystems that drive lifetime value, retention, and sustainable growth.

As the Global Growth Leader for BCG X, Boston Consulting Groups tech build and design unit, Amaryllis works with senior executives across industries to design and scale modern loyalty models enabled by AI, advanced personalization, and marketing technology.

With a background spanning high growth technology companies and advisory, Amaryllis brings a unique operator and builder perspective. Prior to BCG, she held senior marketing leadership roles at Rocket Internet and eDreams, and co founded the travel company Campsy, where she scaled growth through differentiated loyalty and engagement strategies.

Amaryllis is a frequent speaker on loyalty transformation, customer lifetime value, AI driven personalization, and the future of customer engagement.

Abbey Mills

Chief Client Officer Born Social

Angela Farrugia

Founder Brand x Society

Angela is the founder of Brand x Society, advising businesses in strategic growth. She works closely with leading designers and the British Fashion Council in the development of partnerships and collaborations, and was awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours List 2024 for services to international business development and licensing.

Michael Ivanov

Partner Carlsquare

Michael Ivanov is a Partner at Carlsquare in London, where he leads the firm's commerce technology M&A practice across Europe and the US. With 15 years focused exclusively on software transactions, he has developed deep domain expertise in the technologies reshaping how brands and retailers sell, market, and operate — spanning commerce enablement, vertical SaaS, MarTech, order management, payments, and data/AI.

Michael advises founders, management teams, and financial sponsors on mergers, acquisitions, and growth financings within the retail technology ecosystem. He brings a practitioner's understanding of buyer strategies, valuation dynamics, and competitive positioning across the sector, informed by years of tracking acquisition activity from both strategic acquirers and private equity investors on both sides of the Atlantic.

A close observer of how AI is transforming the commerce software stack, Michael is particularly focused on how embedded intelligence is shifting product expectations, customer retention, and exit readiness for software businesses serving retail and consumer brands. He works with companies at every stage of the growth and transaction lifecycle, helping them navigate an increasingly consolidated and fast-moving market.

Carlsquare is a partner-led global technology investment bank, advising high-growth companies, mid-market leaders, and private equity investors on M&A, growth equity, and debt financing. The firm spans 12 locations across 8 countries and 2 continents, combining international reach with deep local expertise across its core sectors including software, consumer, and business services.

Mark Ruston

VP, Global Retail Lead Capgemini

As Global Retail Lead at Capgemini, Mark Ruston partners with leading retailers worldwide to translate ambition into action by aligning business strategy, technology innovation, and operational delivery to drive sustainable growth. With 20+ years of global consulting experience, he has led complex, high-impact transformations for Tier 1 retail and consumer packaged goods companies across the UK, US, Australia, Latin America, and Europe.

His work centers on elevating operations from a back-office function to a strategic catalyst for value creation. He collaborates with leadership teams to modernize supply chains, redesign end-to-end processes, and integrate digital and AI-enabled capabilities that make organizations more customer-centric and future-ready. He emphasizes that meaningful transformation requires more than advanced technology, it demands clarity of vision, strong leadership alignment, and a people-first approach.

In a retail landscape shaped by unprecedented disruption, from evolving consumer expectations to margin pressures and the acceleration of convenience and speed, Mark helps clients navigate complexity with confidence. He brings a deep belief in the power of execution, focusing on closing the gap between strategic intent and tangible, measurable results.

He champions the thoughtful adoption of AI and digital tools, ensuring technology is embedded in ways that enhance productivity and customer value while supporting a more resilient industry.

Josh Payne

Co-Founder & CEO Coframe

Josh Payne the founder and CEO of Coframe. He previously co-founded Autograph with NFL legend Tom Brady, a $2B+ unicorn backed by a16z, and AccessBell, which was acquired by Tata Group, a $400B conglomerate. He created GPT-Migrate, the first major autonomous AI agent for code generation, and has authored over 20 peer-reviewed papers and patents. Josh attended Stanford University for BS, MS, and MBA, where he guest lectures for its course on generative AI. In his free time, Josh plays timpani with the SF Philharmonic.

Adgild Hop

Partner, European Retail Market Lead Deloitte

Adgild Hop is the (North-South) European Retail Market Leader for Deloitte, the Consumer Consulting leader for the Netherlands, and also the co-lead of Deloitte's Grocery subsector globally. He has committed almost 20 years of his career to consumers and retail. He is a regular keynote speaker, commonly on the themes transformational themes that are impacting retail.

His expertise and passion is around helping today’s retailers evolve into tomorrow’s leading retailers, covering the big required shifts in Consumer Engagement, Omnichannel Experience, Fulfilment / Supply Chain and Emerging Business Models. He is also very passionate about the dichotomy of Consumerism and Citizenship.

Working on these kinds of challenges with clients is his professional purpose, and he has enjoyed doing that with my clients across Europe. Examples of my clients include Ahold Delhaize, Albert Heijn, bol.com, Tesco, IKEA, John Lewis Partnership, Burberry, Dunnhumby, Morrisons, Clarks, Volkswagen, Audi, KLM, British Airways.

Ira Kalish

Global Chief & US Economist Deloitte

Dr. Ira Kalish is the Chief Global and US Economist of Deloitte.  He is a specialist in global economic issues as well as the effects of economic, demographic, and social trends on the global business environment.  He has written about the economies of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Mexico and South America, and has also written extensively on global consumer markets.  He is the principal author and editor of Deloitte’s Weekly Global Economic Update.  
 
Dr. Kalish provides thought leadership and perspectives on economic issues, including their expected impact on business operations and trends, to Deloitte clients as well as Deloitte leadership. He has given numerous presentations to corporations and trade organizations on topics related to the global economy.  Dr. Kalish also serves on the Business at OECD Economic Policy Committee which advises the OECD on macroeconomic policy issues.  In addition, he serves on the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists.  He is widely traveled and has given presentations in 47 countries on six continents. 

Dr. Kalish has been widely quoted in the news media; his remarks have been published by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, Reuters, and The Washington Post.  He has appeared on CNN, CBS News, CNBC, PBS and BBC World Service.
 
Prior to his work at Deloitte, Dr. Kalish was chief economist at Retail Forward, a director at PwC, vice president at Bankers Trust, corporate economist at the Eastman Kodak Company, and researcher at the Institute for International Economics.

Dr. Kalish holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vassar College and a PhD in international economics from Johns Hopkins University.  He lives in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and has two adult children.
 

Alex Baker

Founder Disrupt Retail

Mariah Chase

Co-Founder & CEO Ekyam AI

Vladimir Hanzlik

Chief Content Officer EMARKETER

Michelle Evans

Global Lead, Retail Insights Euromonitor International

Michelle Evans drives Euromonitor’s retail and digital insights and engagements, providing actionable insights into where and how consumers shop, as well as the evolving path to purchase. Based in Chicago, she has 15 years of experience covering retail.

Clients across a range of industries tap into her in-depth knowledge of digital transformation, e-commerce, and tech innovation to accelerate growth strategies. Recognised as a retail thought leader, she was named a top retail influencer by RETHINK Retail (2021-2065). She leads the NRF’s Industry Partner Council as a member of the steering committee.

She has shared her expertise across industry events, including NRF: Retail’s Big Show, Shoptalk, Groceryshop, World Retail Congress, Money20/20, Finovate and eTail. Leveraging her master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, she has a reoccurring column in Forbes and is regularly quoted in publications globally.

Achim Berg

Founder & Managing Director FashionSIGHTS

Antoine Nussenbaum

Co-Founder & Investor Felix Capital

Antoine Nussenbaum is a co-founder and partner at Felix Capital, a venture firm investing at the intersection of creativity and technology with a focus on digital lifestyle. Since founding Felix in 2015, he has backed companies such as Farfetch, Oatly, Peloton and Mirakl, and sits on the boards of TravelPerk, Papier, Lick, Unmind and others. He previously worked in M&A and private equity at ABN AMRO and Atlas Global, and lectures on venture capital at ESCP and Paris Dauphine.

Phoebe Gormley

Co-Founder & CEO Fit Collective

Zia Daniell Wigder

Global President, Connected Commerce Hyve Group

Chris Kilin

Co-Founder & CEO Glara AI

Chris is an entrepreneur with a background in technology and e-commerce. After beginning his career at J.P. Morgan and BCG, he joined Razor as an early employee, helping scale the e-commerce technology company during a period of rapid growth that saw it surpass a $1 billion valuation within 18 months of its founding.

Working closely with ecommerce brands at Razor group gave Chris a front-row seat to how quickly digital commerce was changing and where new bottlenecks were starting to emerge. One of those shifts was generative search. As tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini began shaping how consumers discover products, it became clear that visibility in these environments was turning into a real problem for ecommerce brands. Based on that insight, the team went on to build Glara, a platform that helps brands understand how visible their products are in AI-driven search and what they need to do to improve that visibility. Across both companies, his work has focused on helping retailers adapt early to structural changes in ecommerce.

Rhian Thomas

Director of Shopper Insight IGD

Rhian leads IGD’s shopper and consumer insight function working with clients across the supply chain. She brings nearly 20 years of research and insight expertise to help companies stay close to the needs of their shoppers and consumers. Having worked in market research for all of her career, her work has translated shopper and market insights into actionable plans for multiple brands.

Gaurav Pant

Chief Insights Officer Incisiv

Gaurav Pant, Co-Founder & Chief Insights Officer at Incisiv, is a leading digital transformation expert primarily focused on the consumer industries of retail, consumer products, lodging and restaurants. He is a frequent speaker and various global industry conferences and events.

Gaurav’s prior experience includes founding EKN Research and driving transformation programs at large global retailers during his time leading Retail & Consumer Goods products and services for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Gaurav is based in New York and is an active advisor and investor in early-stage consumer industry start-ups. He is a fan of FC Barcelona.

Jack Stratten

Managing Director Insider Trends

Jack Stratten is an in-demand retail trends speaker, writer and researcher, delivering presentations and keynotes to audiences worldwide for over 15 years.

Known for his engaging style, Jack is able to cut to the core of emerging retail trends, sharing clear, jargon-free insights that inspire and generate new ideas. His deep understanding of retail, consumer behaviours and business strategy is trusted and sought after by clients across the entire retail ecosystem including:

- Retailers and brands (incl. Converse, M&S, Nespresso, LVMH, Jaguar Land Rover, Coca-Cola, Diebold Nixdorf, BIC)

- Tech companies (incl. Fujitsu, Cegid, Microsoft)

- Property companies (incl. CBRE, Savills, Cadogan)

- Shopping centre operators (incl. Westfield, McArthur Glen, NEPI Rockcastle)

- Retailer’s associations (incl. NCSC, Advantage Austria)

Jack is also a regular speaker at industry conferences and events, including D Congress, RICE and Source Fashion/Home & Gift. He is consistently recognised as a leading retail voice, including being named a RETHINK Retail Top Retail Expert for three consecutive years and one of NRF’s Retail Voices for 2025 and 2026.

He's also a regular contributor to Retail Week and Retail Gazette.

David Mannheim

Founder & CEO Made With Intent

Tanzil Uddin

SVP, Content & Partnerships Manifest

Tanzil is SVP of Content & Partnership at Manifest, a Hyve Event. In this role he spearheads content and audience development, particularly by working with CSCOs/COO/CPOs and other supply chain leadership personas that take the stage and attend with their teams. In his day to day, Tanzil spends most of his time brainstorming with the supply chain ecosystem to translate their needs into what ends up being the Manifest program as well as other shipper-specific offerings throughout the week. Prior to joining Manifest in 2021, Tanzil has led programming and shipper-related efforts for numerous events in the last mile, urban logistics and cold chain spaces respectively.

Darren Keen

CEO, International Markets Mars United Commerce

Darren is the CEO of International Markets at Mars United Commerce. In this role, Darren and his team are focused on expanding the agency’s operations and opportunities across Europe, Canada, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Darren founded the London office in 2010, growing it to become a market leader in retail media consulting across the U.K. and then Europe.

Carlos Sanchez Altable

Partner McKinsey & Company

Carlos Sánchez Altable is a Partner in McKinsey & Company‘s Madrid office. Carlos works with consumer companies to build the next level of competitive advantage. He helps retail, apparel, and fashion clients transform their digital and analytics capabilities at scale to support the acceleration of current business models and the development of new businesses. In his work, he helps clients transform their data-and-analytics strategies, undergo core IT system modernization, and implement agile at scale to address clients’ most pressing initiatives, such as e-commerce acceleration and personalization as a driver of customer experience.

Holden Bale

Global Chief Strategy Officer Merkle

Holden Bale leads strategy for Merkle, dentsu’s global transformation consultancy.

He has partnered with businesses including Ulta Beauty, McDonald’s, Arrow Electronics, Enterprise Mobility, Spotify, Nordstrom, Starbucks, Bain Capital, Target, and Nestle on some of their most ambitious initiatives – from new business models and digital business transformation to innovation in experience, CRM and loyalty, and commerce.

Prior to Merkle, Holden directed the omnichannel retail group at Accenture Strategy; was a management consultant at Kurt Salmon, a boutique consultancy focused on retail, CPG, healthcare, and M&A; led the global commerce division of IPG design firms Huge and Elephant; and was the principal strategist for ThoughtWorks, an agile transformation and engineering firm, leading their consumer practices in the Americas. He regularly contributes to publications including Forbes, Fast Company, Business of Fashion, Adweek, and Modern Retail, and sits on the Advisory Board of the global Buy Nothing movement, founded in 2013 with the mission to build community through the circular economy.

At Merkle, Holden leads 16,000+ talented global professionals across strategy and operations consulting; design; technology development and implementation;

engagement, CRM, and loyalty; market research and insights; and data engineering, data management, and advanced analytics.

Recognized as global leaders in Digital Experience by Gartner and IDC; in Digital Commerce, Loyalty, Marketing Services, and Content Supply Chain by Everest Group; and in Data Strategy and Customer Engagement by Forrester, every year Merkle partners with the world’s leading brands to drive over $35B in revenue through customer experiences and platforms, deliver over 25,000+ CRM and promotional campaigns, optimize 150,000+ media campaigns with advanced analytics, manage loyalty programs comprising 650M+ active members, and optimize $20B+ in global commerce sales with digital shelf and merchandising analytics, competitive intelligence, and business management services.

A Webby award winner for experience innovation and a Cannes Lion winner for Creative Commerce, Merkle are the #1 global Salesforce agency partner, the #1 global Google Analytics partner, a global platinum Adobe partner, and a founding Figma partner for digital design.

Daniel Ducrocq

VP, Western European Retail NIQ

Chris Walton

Co-CEO Omni Talk

Chris is the co-CEO at Omni Talk, one of the fastest-growing media outlets covering retail. Chris is also a senior contributor for Forbes and a former vice president of innovation at Target.

Giles Smith

Founder Project Orange

Giles works at the intersection of tech, strategy, and creativity. He helps turn digital complexity into growth for some of the world's most recognised retail and consumer brands like Burberry, Selfridges, Stihl, Woolworths, Molton Brown, Bonhams, and Crystal Palace FC. Sitting between the brands/retailers, future technologies, and best SI's and Agencies he has a unique yet impartial perspective formed from all three corners of our industry. He has also had a substantial and successful career in-house as the Head of Technology for Selfridges, responsible for the strategy, engineering and delivery of their Digital, physical retail, loyalty and omnichannel technology. Prior to that he was the Digital Director for Burberry and has also delivered technology innovation and transformation at John Lewis, Arcadia, Matalan, Unilever, Diageo and more. He is a MACH Alliance founding board member and a judge at on The People in Retail Awards 2024. He is currently advising, CTO, CPO, and CDO’s in various world-famous brands on broad aspects of Digital product, technology strategy and leadership whilst also supporting the industry's most global events and forums in speaking and chairing engagements.

Stephanie Crespin

Co-Founder & CEO Reflaunt

Anne Mezzenga

Founder & CEO Retail Field Report

Anne Mezzenga is the founder of Retail Field Report, a media outlet dedicated to telling the human stories behind some of retail's biggest brands. Most recently, Anne served as Co-CEO of Omni Talk Retail, a media company she co-built into one of the most successful and fastest-growing trade publications in the retail industry — earning her recognition as a top retail influencer and NRF Top Retail Voice, where she is known for her expert commentary on the future of retail and emerging industry trends.
Anne serves on boards for Simbe, Firework, Buncha, Broadhead, Scrollmark, and Delivery Solutions (acquired by UPS), bringing both strategic perspective and deep industry expertise to each organization.
Before co-founding Omni Talk, Anne was an executive at Target, where she led the company's Store of the Future project. Her career has spanned advertising, media, and retail — including leadership roles at agencies Martin Williams and Fallon, and time as a producer and reporter at NBC Universal in New York and Minneapolis FOX affiliate KMSP. A University of Minnesota journalism graduate, Anne's roots in storytelling have shaped every chapter of her career.
From 2014 to 2022, Anne also owned and operated three boutique fitness facilities in the Twin Cities, managing everything from marketing to day-to-day operations — a testament to the entrepreneurial drive that has defined her professional journey.
 

Adam Plom

VP, Content - Europe Shoptalk

Ben Miller

VP, Original Content & Strategy Shoptalk

Hannah Redfern

SVP, Shoptalk Europe & Shoptalk Luxe Shoptalk

Joe Laszlo

Head of Content & Insights, U.S. Shoptalk

Rebecca Bemhena

VP, Content Shoptalk Luxe

Tobias Maria Günter

Partner, Head of Retail Simon-Kucher & Partners

Dr. Tobias Maria Guenter is a Partner and Head of Simon-Kucher’s global Retail Practice, based in Bonn, specializing in retail and quick-service restaurants. Drawing on extensive experience from numerous national and international projects, he develops retail-specific solutions in pricing, assortment, category management, marketing, promotions, analytics, and software-based automation.

Amrita Bhasin

Co-Founder & CEO  Sotira

Amrita Bhasin is the co-founder and CEO of Sotira, an award-winning company helping leading global manufacturers, retailers and brands recover value from excess inventory by redirecting overstock into controlled secondary markets and nonprofit distribution. Sotira has rerouted millions of pounds of unsold inventory, enabling enterprise brands to unlock working capital, access tax deductions and maintain brand-safe control over distribution, transforming excess inventory from a cost center into a controlled revenue and recovery channel.

She has been recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30, the San Francisco Business Times 40 Under 40, and the Mayfield AI List, and has won first place at leading industry competitions including South by Southwest, Shoptalk and the Reverse Logistics Conference and Expo.

Amrita is a widely cited expert on retail infrastructure, supply chains and secondary markets. She has appeared on national and international broadcast networks including CBS, Fox, ABC, Scripps, and CGTN, and has been profiled in Forbes, TechCrunch, and Business Insider. Her insights are regularly featured in Reuters, Bloomberg, Wired, Fortune, CNBC, Glossy, Sourcing Journal, Modern Retail, Inside Retail, AP, Yahoo Finance, and FreightWaves.

She has spoken on the retail industry at leading global conferences including TechCrunch Disrupt, South by Southwest, Home Delivery World, HumanX, Groceryshop and Manifest. She is an upcoming speaker at Web Summit, Retail AI Club, Parcel Forum and the Food Waste Summit. She was selected as a delegate speaker at the One Young World Summit and has participated in the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting.

Jordan Berke

Founder & CEO TOMORROW

Jordan Berke, Founder and CEO of TOMORROW, is one the world’s pre-eminent digital retail advisors. Renowned for his transformative omnichannel leadership, Jordan spearheaded Sam's Club and Walmart’s e-commerce endeavors in China, pioneering Walmart’s innovative alliances with JD and Tencent. His vision led Walmart's eCommerce business in China to reach the highest level of growth and penetration among Walmart's 20+ countries.

Recognized with Walmart’s esteemed Sam Walton Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2018, Jordan also served as Chairman of the company’s Global Omnichannel Forum, shaping Walmart’s digital priorities worldwide.

At TOMORROW, Jordan and his team advise global retailers on accelerating digital growth and profitability. His insights are sought after by industry leaders and regularly featured in the Wall Street Journal and on CNBC, NPR, and Bloomberg.

Gemma Spence

CEO, VML Marketplace WPP Group

Gemma Spence is a recognised global commerce leader with over 15 years’ experience operating at the intersection of sales, marketing, technology, and retail. Her career spans client-side, retail, and agency leadership roles, with a consistent focus on building growth models that reflect how commerce actually works today — across platforms, algorithms, and consumer decision-making.

Gemma is CEO of VML / WPP’s Luxembourg business and leads WPP’s Amazon and Marketplace Centre of Excellence, supporting brands and teams across EMEA and globally. She works with over 1,800 commerce specialists to deliver integrated, performance-led commerce strategies — from discovery and consideration through to conversion and lifetime value. She is also a driving force behind the evolution of WPP’s commerce capabilities, including Commerce Studio and next-generation AI-led tools designed to optimise content performance, visibility, and operational efficiency at scale.

Previously, Gemma was Chief Commerce Officer at PHD (Omnicom Media Group), where she founded Transact, a global eCommerce consultancy. Her work has spanned FMCG, beauty, automotive, and consumer electronics, including hands-on leadership of in-house eCommerce operations for some of the world’s largest brands.

Gemma is widely recognised for shaping how the industry thinks about modern commerce. She has been named one of CIO Magazine’s 20 Businesswomen to Watch, Management Today’s 35 Women Under 35, Mediatel’s Future Media Leader, and was honoured by Aviva’s Women of the Future. As a contributing editor to WARC and Econsultancy, she regularly writes on the future of digital commerce, visibility, AI-driven discovery, and the changing role of marketing in automated environments.

She holds an Executive MBA with Distinction from the University of Oxford and is currently pursuing a PhD in Marketing Science, focused on how AI, recommendation systems, and signal-based decisioning are reshaping brand growth.

Ian Goldberg

Partner Venrex

Kirsty McGregor

Journalist & Fashion Industry Advisor

Marcella Wartenbergh

Former CEO AWWG

Marcella is the CEO of AWWG, which includes brands such as Pepe Jeans, Hackett and Façonnable. Since joining in 2019, AWWG has embarked on a new era, with a new product and consumer strategy which has led to improved sales and performance across the brands’ key global markets. Before joining AWWG, Marcella held various senior positions within PVH Group, including president of brand management, Calvin Klein Europe, and chief merchandising and global licensing officer for Calvin Klein.