12 November 2024 | Crowne Plaza Riyadh - RCD Hotel & Convention Center, KSA
Fast Company Middle East's Next Big Things in Retail is an enlightening event that offers valuable insights for everyone involved in the retail, digital commerce, retail tech, payments, and customer experience ecosystem.
It will spark discussions, explore technologies, and inspire action in the rapidly evolving retail and digital commerce industry.
As a global first, Fast Company Middle East will host a summit focusing on retail trends, customer experience, retail technologies, and sustainable retail practices. The summit will highlight significant transformations impacting retail businesses and how consumers shop.
More than just a summit, it's a dynamic melting pot of ideas where retail industry leaders and visionaries converge. The summit will host sessions, panels, debates, and workshops, making it an impactful retail summit. Over 300 regional and global retail leaders, international brands, regional groups, innovators, and tech and customer experience experts will attend.
It will spark discussions, explore technologies, and inspire action in the rapidly evolving retail and digital commerce industry.
As a global first, Fast Company Middle East will host a summit focusing on retail trends, customer experience, retail technologies, and sustainable retail practices. The summit will highlight significant transformations impacting retail businesses and how consumers shop.
More than just a summit, it's a dynamic melting pot of ideas where retail industry leaders and visionaries converge. The summit will host sessions, panels, debates, and workshops, making it an impactful retail summit. Over 300 regional and global retail leaders, international brands, regional groups, innovators, and tech and customer experience experts will attend.
SPEAKERS
The foremost, buzziest names in retail, tech, design, and sustainability will join the summit on stage to address today’s most relevant topics.AGENDA
Focusing on the most critical breakthroughs in retail, e-commerce, technology, and sustainability, the summit will inspire the global and regional community of retail leaders with cutting-edge ideas.OVERVIEW OF THE KEY SESSIONS
AI DECODED
Singularity in AI: How close are we?
Will AI singularity be a threat or a promise of a better future? How can the proper guardrails be implemented?
ENERGY IN MOTION
People and objects are in motion – moving greater distances and more quickly than ever. So how can new technologies and strategies improve mobility and energy transition and make it climate-friendly?
SCALING STARTUPS
Does the Middle East have what it takes to be a global hub?
To make the region a global hub for startups, it will require investors, a common regulatory framework, and much more.
SPEAKERS
ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS TO BE ANNOUNCED
Vice President of Customer Experience & Innovation | Majid Al Futtaim | Professor of Luxury Marketing, American University of Sharjah