As business leaders, among the most important investments we can

make are the ones we make in ourselves. Even in the world of

eCommerce, where transactions take place without the need for face

to face human contact, attending conferences and trade shows is a

great way for me and the OCR team to network with peers and learn

about the latest developments and trends.

26 of the Top eCommerce Conferences for 2017By Nathan Rigby, VP Sales & Marketing at One Click Retail

If you’re like me and most professionals I know, your time and

budget are increasingly stretched. So, here is a quick overview

of some of next year’s top conferences. While this list is by no

means exhaustive, I hope it helps you narrow down those that

are best suited for you and your business objectives.

Next Year’s Top Conferences

Top eCommerce events coming up in 2017…

January 15-17, 2017 – New York, NY

This event brings together professionals from all aspects of the retail industry to share their stories,

struggles, and successes. Learn from the industry leaders.

Speakers include:

Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Group

Kip Tindell, Co-Founder and Chairman of The Container Store

Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel

Lars Petersson, CEO of IKEA US

National Retail Federation: Retail’s Big Show

February 2, 2017 – Berlin, Germany

This event is part of a network of events hosted in capital cities around the CEE market. The

exhibition is dedicated to circuit eCommerce, online marketing, hosting & cloud computing, social

media and mobile services for eComm sector.

Speakers include:

Moritz Corbelin, Head of E-Commerce Strategy at Otto Group

Laurence Kozera (Foucault), Global Product Partnerships at Google

Annegret Mayer, Head of Legal Department

eCommerce Berlin Expo

February 14-15, 2017 – Tokyo, Japan

The first B2B trade exhibition focusing on eCommerce solutions in Japan, the

eCommerce Expo provides leading companies the opportunity to introduce the

latest solutions and services for eEommerce and online shopping.

eCommerce Expo 2017

February 27 – March 2, 2017 – Barcelona, Spain

Mobile World Congress is the world’s largest gathering for the mobile industry. The 2017 event will

provide an essential, in-depth coverage of the contemporary and future mobile industry,

highlighting specific areas of growth and opportunity for businesses and innovators.

Speakers include:

John Stankey, CEO, AT&T Entertainment Group, AT&T Services Inc.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman, Bharti Enterprises, GSMA

Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA

Mobile World Congress

February 27 – March 2, 2017 – Palm Springs

Presenters at eTail West share new industry innovations, provide tips to help businesses increase

their profits, and help professionals develop new connections within the retail industry.

Speakers include:

Mark Walker, CEO of JackThreads

Jerry Hum, Co-Founder & CEO of Touch of Modern

Chris Thorne, CMO of The Honest Company

Eduardo Frias, CIO of Beachbody

eTail West

March 7-8, 2012 – St. Albans, UK

eTail Connect bills itself as a “one-stop shop” for senior eCommerce executives from the top 250 UK retailers. An

event unlike any other, conference organizers use in-depth profiling to ensure that attendees’ needs closely match

with the business solutions presented. A great place to network with business decision makers and leads.

Confirmed attendees include:

Chairman, ASOS (Top 25 IRUK)

CIO, House of Fraser (Top 10 IRUK)

COO, Tesco (Top 25 IRUK)

Head of Technology – Digital Experience, ASOS.com (Top 25 IRUK)

Online Director, Sainsbury’s

eTail Connect

March 8-10, 2017 Orlando, Florida

Some of the top eCommerce experts will be at the ROI Revolutions Summit to share their most

effective strategies, advice, success stories, and more.

Speakers include:

Ryan Holiday, Author of Growth Hacker Marketing

Neil Wieloch, Director Insight & Strategy, 1800 Contacts

Joe Thompson, Vice President of Marketing, BuildDirect

ROI Revolutions Summit 2017

March 8-9, 2917 – London, UK

Retail Live features speeches, presentations, and interactive workshops with

some of the business world’s most influential leaders and personalities. The

place to network with the top players in the retail industry.

Retail Live

March 19-22, 2017 Aria, Las Vegas

Shoptalk bills itself as the new blockbuster retail and eCommerce event. Topics covered include the

rapid evolution of how consumers discover, shop and buy—from new technologies and business

models to changes in consumer preferences and expectations.

Speakers include:

Peter Faricy, VP Amazon Marketplace, Amazon

Marc Lore, President, CEO, Walmart eCommerce, Us

Suja Chandrasekaran, CIO, Kimberly-Clarke Corp.

Brian Cornell, Chairman & CEO, Target

ShopTalk

March 23, 2017 – Worcestershire, UK

This event is designed for retailers, offering the opportunity to meet industry

peers in a relaxed and informal setting. The conference brings together some of

the biggest names in the convenience and forecourt sector. (By invitation only)

Retail’s Best Forecourt & Convenience Partners

March 27-29, 2017 – Grand Hyatt, New York

Attending the Shopper Marketing Summit provides an essential learning opportunity for senior-level

brand manufacturers, retailers, agency executives and other solution providers who create

successful, collaborative online shopping programs.

Symposiums, general sessions and breakout seminars focus on concrete ideas, insights and

solutions that influence customers along the buyers’ journey.

Shopper Marketing Summit

April 20 – 21, 2017 – Tucson, AZ

This event offers practical information, proven techniques and ground-breaking

ideas that enable individuals and organizations to succeed in the intensely

competitive, global marketplace. This year’s audience will have the opportunity

to listen in on discussions with industry luminaries, moderated by Macy’s CEO

Terry J. Lundgren.

Global Retailing Conference

May 8-10, 2017 – Chicago

This digital and eCommerce conference was established to bring manufacturers and distributors together to discover

new eComm leads and retailers in their marketplaces.

Attendees have the chance to share their ideas, insights, success, and learnings when it comes to digital strategies for

businesses.

Speakers include:

Michelle Fields, Senior Director, Marketing & eCommerce, Brock White

Dale Kendall, VP eCommerce, Wesco Distribution

Akin Tosyali, Director, Digital Marketing, Grainger

Steve Baruch, SVP, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, MSC Industrial

B2B Online

May 8-9, 2017 – London, UK

This conference bills itself as Europe’s best and fastest growing event for retail

and hospitality, drawing tens of thousands of visitors from the UK, Europe, and

around the world.

Retail Business Technology Expo

May 17-18, 2017 – San Francisco

eCommerce Innovation brings 28 speakers together with and interactive audience of 100 senior

level leaders working in eCommerce, marketing, retail sales and digital technology.

Speakers include:

Ashvin Kumar, Co-Founder & CEO TopHatter

Chintan Mehta, VP, Digital Engineering, Walgreens Boots Alliance

Edward Mabanglo, Analytics Principal, Nordstrom

Shea Beck, Head of eCommerce, UrbanDaddy

Brion Hickey, Growth Product, Cisco

eCommerce Innovation Summit

June 6-9, 2017 – Chicago

Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE) offers the chance to mingle

with industry experts and benefit from topnotch agenda content in an exhibit

hall filled with the latest and greatest solution providers. Network with

thousands of your eComm industry peers.

IRCE

June 14-15, 2017 – Chicago

The Big Data & Analytics for Retail Summit brings together analytics executives

and data scientists working in retail, eCommerce and consumer goods, offering

unique insight into the innovations that drive their success.

Big Data & Analytics for Retail Summit

June 14-16, 2017 – Chicago

With over 650 attendees, the 3PL Summit is the largest and most high-level

gathering of logistics executives and their manufacturer and retailer supply

chain counterparts in North America. The Summit allows attendees to network

with industry professionals and connect with new ecom leads in the logistics

sector.

3PL Summit

June 19-22, 2017 – San Jose, CA

This event is about the technologies and professionals that keep the web fast,

resilient, and widely accessible. Presenters will share best practices for

optimizing web pages, specifically the performance of Ajax, CSS JavaScript, and

images, making for improved user experience and a more successful online

businesses.

Velocity Conference

June, 2017 – Copenhagen, Denmark

Money20/20 Europe brings together key stakeholders in the world of commerce, from payments

and financial services providers, banks and non-banks, the mobile ecosystem, the online and brick

and mortar retail industry to marketing and data companies, investors, advisory firms and

government agencies.

The Money 20/20 US conference takes place in Las Vegas in October. See below for details.

Money 20/20 Europe

July 30-August 1, 2017 – New York

The place to be for eCommerce leads. This event draws over 5,500 attendees to

visit three exhibition areas with 300 booths of vendors, merchants, technology

providers, digital agencies, and other affiliate marketing experts.

Affiliate Summit East 2017

August 14-17, 2017 – Boston

A global trade show that is dedicated to providing the latest insights, strategies,

tools and resources for eCommerce and multi-channel retail innovators.

eTail East

September 25-27 – Los Angeles

The event is expected to attract over 5,000 attendees and have over 280 booths sharing the latest

technology solutions, digital tactics, and inspirational new ideas. Due to its large size, this event

offers an excellent opportunity to network and make new connections with eCommerce leads and

retailers.

Speakers include:

Adam Grant, Author of Originals and Professor at The Wharton School of Business

Mariam Naficy, Founder and CEO, Minted

Trevor Hardy, CEO, The Future Laboratory

Shop.org Retail’s Digital Summit

October 22-25, 2017 – Las Vegas

The 2017 Money 20/20 conference is the largest event to specifically focus on payments and

financial services innovation. The conference and exhibition hosts over 10,000 attendees, of which

over 1,000 are CEOs, 500 are speakers, from over 3,000 companies and 75 countries.

Speakers include:

Moira Forbes, Executive Vice President, Forbes Media

Pali Bhat, Global Head of Payment Products, Google

Vicky Bindra, Global Head, Products & Solutions, Visa

Jack Dorsey, CEO & Founder, Square

Money 20/20

November 6-9, 2017 – Las Vegas

An event that offers attendees a multi-track program with speakers who are industry leaders in

social media and search engine optimization.

Speakers include:

Julie Ewald, CEO & Creative Director, Impressa Solutions

Dennis Yu, Chief Technology Officer, BlitzMetrics

Purna Virji, Senior PPC Training Manager, Bing Ads, Microsoft

Carolyn Shelby, Director of SEO, Tribune Publishing

Pubcon Las Vegas

November 6-9, 2017 – Lisbon, Portugal

Because, increasingly, all industries are ‘tech industries.’ This event draws tech CEOs, founders, startups, and

investors as well as media people and political leaders from around the world. Presentations and workshops

tackle the biggest challenges facing a world becoming increasingly technologically advanced and

interconnected.

Speakers include:

John Chambers, Executive Chairman, Cisco Systems

Sean Rad, Co-Founder & CEO, Tinder

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Actor & Founder, HitRECord

Mike Schroepfer, CTO, Facebook

Web Summit

Attending industry events gives you the opportunity to network with the leaders in your

field and learn from their successes and strategies. It’s a great chance to get out of your

own head, meet new people, and share each others’ success stories and key learnings. The

value of these face-to-face interactions should be something to keep in mind when

planning your budget for 2017. The OCR team will be at many of the top eCommerce

events next year. Hopefully we’ll see you there.

To get the latest and most accurate industry insights and reports, check out our weekly articles at

www.oneclickretail.com/insights, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

One Click Retail (OCR) is a market leader in eCommerce data measurement, sales analytics and search optimization for brand manufacturers in North America, Europe and Asia. Thanks to our proprietary sales calculations that are 98.5% accurate down to the SKU level, OCR’s accuracy is unrivaled in the marketplace. The OCR Product Suite provides 1st and 3rd party business intelligence across the 30 largest retailers such as Amazon, Walmart, Target, Staples and Home Depot. The world’s top brands, such as Procter & Gamble, Panasonic, Nestle, Hamilton Beach and HP, rely on OCR insights to drive sales and profitability across eCommerce.

Founded in 2013 by eCommerce experts from Amazon, Walmart, Target, Overstock and other leading retailers, OCR was acquired in 2016 by Ascential plc (LSE: ASCL.L), a UK-based international B2B media company with a focused portfolio of market-leading events and information services products.

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