This Week in Innovation
Jeff Roster (Gartner & IHL retail sector analyst) and Brian Sathianathan (the VC) explore the retail sector startup community on This Week in Innovation podcast. We discuss the trends driving the retail industry and examine the emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), artificial Intelligence (AI), blockchain, machine learning, low code, cloud computing, SaaS, data, robots, augmented reality, virtual reality, livestreaming, personalization, recommendations and QR codes being built to take advantage of them. We interview founders, VC’s, entrepreneurs, retail executives and CIO’s to better understand the digital transformation and innovation happening in the retail sector.
Episodes
#VIPAwards #VendorsinPartnership #vendorawards #partnership
On today’s pod I catch up with Vicki Cantrell, Chief Executive Officer
Vendors in Partnership LLC.
The Vendors in Partnership (VIP) Awards are an industry celebration for the solution providers that power the retail ecosystem, and the new ways that partnerships w...
On today’s episode of This Week in Innovation I had a fantastic discussion with my old friend Greg Buzek of IHL Services. Greg has two full time jobs. One is running IHL Services and the other is Retail Orphan Initiative. Greg shared some of the history of @RetailROI and the theme for Retail Orphan Initiative Super Saturday 2024.
Ricardo Belmar, cohost of Retail Razor joined...
Ricardo Belmar, of Retail Razor, and I had a crazy idea of dragging our microphones around #nrf2023 and interviewing very interesting people. We weren't sure what to expect or even how to prepare. Turns out it was an amazing experience. This is the first of 4 separate episodes.
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Podcast Hosts
Brian and I caught up with the Iterate.ai team to hear what they found at both CES and NRF.
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Podcast Hosts
Jeff Roster
Twitter https://twitter.com/JeffPR
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/i...
This episode is my appearance on Casey Cheshire's Creating The Greatest Show podcast. I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation.
Casey Cheshire is a marketer, serial entrepreneur, and adventurer. He has been in EO for close to 10 years and counts his relationships as a key reason for his continued success.
Casey’s passion for podcasting led to him founding Ringmaster Conversational Marketing. Ringmaster helps B2B businesses launch pod...
Gabriella Bock and Natalie Arana of RETHINK Retail drop by the pod to give advice to startups on how to more effectively engage with the press at conferences and day to day operations. Give it a listen and let us know what you think?
Podcast Guest
Gabriella Bock
Head of Content & Production
R...
Jeff Ketner, CEO of Ketner Group stopped by to discuss public relations strategies for startups.
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Podcast Guest
Jeff Ketner
Chief Executive Officer
Ketner Group Communications
Email jeff@ketnergroup.com
On today’s episode I talk consumer survey data with Roshan Jhunja, General Manager, Square. TWiINN will always be an audio first pod but today’s discussion is data heavy. The below link will take you to a blog post of each of the data slides.
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On today’s episode Michael Zakkour, Founder, 5 New Digital stops by to talk about his view of Immersive Commerce. What is Immersive Commerce? I believe it's a far more intelligent way to talk about the collection of technologies that make up the metaverse. All these technologies are on different adoption profiles. They really need to be analyzed independently while being collected in one technology b...
Ricardo Belmar joins me to discuss marketing strategies startups can use at conferences like #NRF23. Ricardo is also a cohost of Retail Razor, https://redcircle.com/shows/retailrazorshow. I highly recommend that pod.
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Podcast Guest
Ricardo Belmar
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On today's This Week in Innovation Brian and I discuss the state of the retail sector startup community. This is the first time we are incorporating video. TWiINN will always be an audio first pod but we do want to take advantage of the growing interest in video. Today's discussion is very data centric. The slides we discuss are below. I will also be publishing the actual video to my YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/ch...
Sandeep Casi is an experienced Chief Executive Officer with experience in the Automotive & Media industries where he led Product for Automotive workflow, Visual Effects workflow, Post Production workflow, Online Video, Advertising, #AI, #ML, & #Blockchain. He joins up today to discuss his work at the RoninX foundation and opportunities and challenges of the #Metaverse.
RoninX...
Gwen Morrison, Partner, Candezent Advisory joined Brian and I for a discussion on the rapid evolutiuon of retail, the buildout of the metaverse and the state of voice technology.
Gwen has an extensive retail agency and consulting background in shopper insights and retail innovation. Over 15 years at WPP leading their Global Retail Practice commerce initiatives across the group...
Brandon Rael, Business Transformation Leader, Capgemini Invent joins us to talk about innovation in retail.
- Capgemini Invent is Capgemini Group’s innovation, design, and transformation powerhouse, accelerating ideas into prototypes and scalable real-world solutions that help our clients get the future they want.
- By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative de...
On today's edition of This Week in Innovation Brian and I talk about the attention economy.
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Podcast Hosts
Jeff Roster
Twitter https://twitter.com/JeffPR
Joey founded Supplyve in May of 2021 after seeing firsthand the rampant issues in Small Retail. He's a graduate of University of Maryland's Supply Chain program, and today sits on the technology council of the National Small Business Association.
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Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Pathr.ai delivers a retail spatial intelligence solution that understands customer and staff movement using AI with existing cameras and data sources. This empowers retailers with rich and real-time insights that reduce labor costs, improve the customer experience, and optimize merchandise and marketing displays - driving growth and reducing cost across their entire fl...
I'm starting a new series called #Advice4Entrepreneurs. I ask the same two questions to close out the interview: 1. What advice can you offer budding entrepreneurs? 2. What skills that you use now do you wish you would have paid more more attention to back in college or the early part of your career?
This series are those last two questions.
Transcript
Jeff: One last question. What skills that you use today? W ...
Fang Cheng is the Founder and CEO of Linc, a conversational CX Automation platform built for retail that is focused on the conversation in commerce. Her focus is to create extraordinary customer experiences through conversation that span the customer lifecycle to grow revenue, reduce support costs, and increase sales conversions.
Linc is a CX Automation platform delivering pr...
Manil Uppal is Co-Founder of Delivery Solutions. Delivery Solutions is a SAAS based B2B white label solution that enables retailers to have Same Day Delivery, BOPIS, Curbside, Shipping & Post Purchase with a single API and global multi-provider network.
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Manil ...
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