Dragon’s Den investor and CEO of Social Chain, Steven Bartlett, is confirmed as a keynote speaker at Retail Technology Show, the new flagship event for retail that brings together Europe’s most forward-thinking retailers and leading tech innovators. Bartlett joins over 70 retail visionaries, including New Look, Fat Face, The Body Shop, Coty, Curry’s and Amazon, who are also confirmed to speak at retail’s premier event, taking place at London’s Olympia on 26-27 April 2022.
Bartlett – famed not only as a BBC ‘Dragon’ but also for his straight-talking podcast series, Diary of a CEO – will join Andrew Busby, Founder & CEO of Retail Reflections, on the Headline Stage for his keynote session. The fire-side chat will demystify the Metaverse, one of the hottest topics driving next dimension retail innovation, and explores how this new frontier, and the growing trend for NFTs, will change the retail landscape and redefine consumer behaviour. The future-gazing session will outline what the Metaverse will look like by 2025, with practical strategies on how retailers can prepare – from an infrastructural to a technology partner perspective – and pitfalls to avoid.
Bartlett follows another Day 1 keynote delivered by New Look chairman and Ex-Sainsbury’s CEO, Mike Coupe, who joins the Leadership & Culture track to explore new leadership strategies that retailers need to embrace to drive market share in 2022 and beyond. Bringing the brightest minds in retail to the stage, Retail Technology Show’s conference programme extends to six key tracks, tackling the most pressing issues and industry trends, with three feature stages covering every aspect of retailers’ operations, showcasing best practice inspiration and the cutting-edge innovation driving change at pace and scale within the industry.
Matt Bradley, Event Director for the Retail Technology Show, commented: “Retail Technology Show is all about reuniting retail and helping retailers unlock the innovations that will power future business performance. We’re not just talking next-generation tech, we’re talking the next dimension of retailing – and that means bringing the brightest minds covering the hottest topics, with an event format that makes those disruptive discussions accessible to the entire industry.”
The leading retailers and brands speaking on Retail Technology Show’s conference programme will join 170+ innovators exhibiting at the event, showcasing the latest cutting-edge technologies to digitally transform retailers’ businesses. With innovation from technology providers spanning new ecommerce capabilities to new solutions to power payments, future-proof supply chains, optimise operations and empower the retail workforce, retailers can explore the full spectrum of retail technology for every part of their business, all under one roof.
Registration to the event that brings together Europe’s leading tech innovators and most forward-thinking retailers and brands is open.
